It’s week No. 2 in public hearings on the House impeachment inquiry, and the public gets to hear from witnesses who were listening to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Testifying Tuesday morning were Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s Ukraine expert, and Jennifer Williams, a national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence. Both witnesses — called to testify by Democrats — expressed serious concerns with the phone call, and Trump attacked each as partisan “Never Trumpers.”
They were followed by the Republican’s pick for witnesses – Kurt Volker, Trump’s former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, the outgoing National Security Council official focused on Russia and Europe issues.
Vindman took a patriotic swipe at Trump, says in America ‘right matters’
Wearing his Army dress uniform, Vindman thanked his father for having the courage to flee the Soviet Union some 40 years ago to give his young sons a better life. He also said that he joined the U.S. military to repay the country that took him in. Now a top Ukrainian expert at the White House, Vindman said he was grateful that he could speak up without being fearful for his family.
In Russia, “offering public testimony involving the president would surely cost my life,” he told Congress in his opening statement.
Then, Vindman directed his comments to his father: “Dad, I’m sitting here today in the U.S. Capitol, talking to our elected professionals. Talking to our elected professionals is proof that you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the Soviet Union and come here to the United States of America in search of a better life for our family.”
“Do not worry,” he added. “I will be fine for telling the truth.”
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Damn! Maloney LIT him UP!
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CRAZED
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Say it under oath
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😂😂😂😂
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😂😂😂
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Great thread
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GET HIM, Madam @SpeakerPelosi
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They ALL have to go!
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SH*T got real today. GTFO Pompeo!
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Yes 👏👏👏
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Translation: It’s over. Trump is doomed.
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Uh huh 😒
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Pence has to go. He’s in this too. We can’t get rid of one corrupt thug and replace him with another who was in on the bribery and extortion. No way! @SpeakerPelosi is next in line to be President. #PresidentPelosi #ImpeachmentHearings
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We always knew..
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Headed to Walter Reed for part 2 of taxpayer-funded ‘physical’..
How on earth did we get stuck with funding the grift and excesses of this basic con man and his imported Birther moll turned 3rd wife, and sleazy grifting cohort..
How..?!
Pence a*ss is grass. Impeach and remove him too. #ImpeachmentHearings
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#MeToo..
Probably spasming out..
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There ought to be a series of asterisks right next to these honorifics for the Vlad-installed current impostors..
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LOL..
What’s done in the dark shall all come to light.. it’s only a matter of time.. LOL..
There’s no honor among thieves..
Everyday for the thief, one day for the owner of the house..
Here’s hoping that we citizens as owners of this great house known as America, this is finally our day..
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LOL..
Absolutely loving all these..
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Mann…. reading the tweets so far. Sondland brought his own bus 😂😂🤣
Tossing eerrrrrrrbody under it.
Pompeo a*ss is grass.
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We pray, oh Lord.. Can’t stand that smirk of his.. can’t wait for it to be wiped off..
We’ve waited so long for any sort of reprieve fro this Orwellian nightmare.. And Lordy, I hope this is the start of it..
Sondland name dropping ALL over the place. 😳
I am just getting back online right now.
Sondland is singing?🤨🤨
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Full John Dean 😊😊😊
Devin Nunes tells Sondland some here are going to smear you. Sondland looks like he smirked at Nunes. #ImpeachmentHearings
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Good morning, fam..
That was an incredibly powerful and compelling opening statement by Adam Schiff.. Pretty much sums up the criminality and timeline, perfectly..
Nunes, meanwhile still grasping in the worst, most juvenile, ridiculously tinfoil ways..
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LOL..
You know what they say, there’s no honor among thieves..
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We’ll wait to hear from the horses mouth..
These are not honorable men..
And if he in fact flips.. better him first, because the treasonous buffoon will in short order, throw him under the bus..
They are all crooks.. with zero honor among or between them..
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