Eric Ciaramella: E-ric: "Ain't It Rich?!": CIA-Ramella: "A little animula, (in Russian with the deragotary meaning: "DUSHONKA") of the CIA". This is the signature of the New Abwehr's planners of the Operation Trump. Michael Novakhov
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Ciaramella is a "telling" name:
CIA + Ramella = animula - a little soul.
Eric Ciaramella is the "little soul" - animula of CIA:
"Animula Vagula Blandula..."
Eric Ciaramella: E-ric: "Ain't It Rich?!":
CIA-Ramella: "A little animula,
(in Russian with the deragotary meaning: "DUSHONKA")
of the CIA".
This is the signature of the New Abwehr's planners of the Operation Trump.
"Ramella" can also be interpreted as the little "rama", a frame, for the purposes of "framing" - WHOM?
Michael Novakhov
4:23 AM 11/8/2019
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CIA + Ramella = animula - a little soul.
Eric Ciaramella is the "little soul" - animula of CIA:
"Animula Vagula Blandula..."
Eric Ciaramella: E-ric: "Ain't It Rich?!":
CIA-Ramella: "A little animula,
(in Russian with the deragotary meaning: "DUSHONKA")
of the CIA".
This is the signature of the New Abwehr's planners of the Operation Trump.
"Ramella" can also be interpreted as the little "rama", a frame, for the purposes of "framing" - WHOM?
Michael Novakhov
4:23 AM 11/8/2019
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“Animula vagula blandula
Hospes comesque corporis
Quae nunc abibis? In Loca
Pallidula rigida nudula
nec ut soles dabis Iocos.
Little soul, you charming little wanderer, my body's guest and partner,
where are you off to now?
somewhere without colour, savage and bare;
You'll crack no more of your jokes once you're there.”
― Hadrian
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Ciaramella is a "telling" name:
CIA + Ramella = animula - a little soul. Eric Ciaramella is the "little soul" - animula of CIA: "Animula Vagula Blandula..." Eric Ciaramella: E-ric: "Ain't It Rich?!": CIA-Ramella: "A little animula, (in Russian with the deragotary meaning: "DUSHONKA") of the CIA". This is the signature of the New Abwehr's planners of the Operation Trump. Michael Novakhov 4:23 AM 11/8/2019 ___________________ | ||
| White House publishes transcript of July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky (Text) - news politics | ||
Trump mentioned Biden several times during the call.
The transcript of the July 25 call / Photo from Bloomberg
The transcript is available here.
According to Bloomberg, President Donald Trump asked the president of Ukraine to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and the U.S. attorney general, William Barr, to "look into" his political rival, Joe Biden, according to a rough transcript of a call between the two leaders released Wednesday.
Trump also asked Ukraine President to Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate whether his country could locate a hacked Democratic National Committee computer server that became an issue in Trump's 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton, according to notes from the call.
Trump mentioned Biden several times during the call as he described allegations that, as vice president, Biden had pushed to oust Ukraine's top prosecutor to help a company his son was working for – claims that have been widely discredited.
According to Reuters, the summary of the 30-minute call is based on notes taken in the White House Situation Room and spells the Ukrainian leader’s surname Zelenskyy.
The President: Congratulations on a great victory. We all watched from the United States and you did a terrific job. The way you came from behind, somebody who wasn’t given much of a chance, and you ended up winning easily. It’s a fantastic achievement. Congratulations.
President Zelenskyy: You are absolutely right Mr. President. We did win big and we worked hard for this. We worked a lot but I would like to confess to you that I had an opportunity to learn from you. We used quite a few of your skills and knowledge and were able to use it as an example for our elections and yes it is true that these were unique elections. We were in a unique situation that we were able to achieve a unique success. I’m able to tell you the following; the first time, you called me to congratulate me when I won my presidential election, and the second time you are now calling me when my party won the parliamentary election. I think I should run more often so you can call me more often and we can talk over the phone more often.
The President:(laughter) That’s a good idea. I think your country is very happy about that.
President Zelenskyy: Well yes, to tell you the truth, we are trying to work hard because we wanted to drain the swamp here in our country. We brought in many many new people. Not the old politicians, not the typical politicians, because we want to have a new format and a new type of government. You are a great teacher for us and in that.
The President: Well it’s very nice of you to say that. I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping you more than they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it’s something that you should really ask them about. When I was speaking to Angela Merkel she talks Ukraine, but she doesn’t do anything. A lot of the European countries are the same way so I think it’s something you want to look at but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine. I wouldn’t say that it’s reciprocal necessarily because things are happening that are not good but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine.
President Zelenskyy: Yes you are absolutely right. Not only 100%, but actually 1000% and I can tell you the following; I did talk to Angela Merkel and I did meet with her. I also met and talked with Macron and I told them that they are not doing quite as much as they need to be doing on the issues with the sanctions. They are not enforcing the sanctions. They are not working as much as they should work for Ukraine. It turns out that even though logically, the European Union should be our biggest partner but technically the United States is as much a bigger partner than the European Union and I’m very grateful to you for that because the United States is doing quite a·lot for Ukraine. Much more than the European Union especially when we are talking about sanctions against the Russian Federation. I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.
The President: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance, by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.
President Zelenskyy: Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation. We are ready to open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United States and Ukraine. For that purpose, I just recalled our ambassador from the United States and he will be replaced by a very competent and a very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer. I would also like and hope to see him having your trust and your confidence and have personal relations with you so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr. Giuliani just recently and we are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again that you have nobody but friends around us. I will make sure that I surround myself with the best and experienced people. I also wanted to tell you that we are friends. We are great friends and you Mr. President have friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly. That I can assure you.
The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that’s really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of new York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.
President Zelenskyy: I wanted to tell you about the prosecutor. First of all I understand and I’m knowledgeable about the situation. Since we have won the absolute majority in our Parliament, the next prosecutor general will be 100% my person, my candidate, who will be approved by the parliament and will start as a new prosecutor in September. He or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue. The issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty so we will take care of that and will work on the investigation of the case. On top of that, I would kindly ask you if you have any additional information that you can provide to us, it would be very helpful for the investigation to make sure that we administer justice in our country with regard to the Ambassador to the United States from Ukraine as far as I recall her name was Ivanovich. It was great that you were the first one who told me that she was a bad ambassador because I agree with you 100%. Her attitude towards me was far from the best as she admired the previous President and she was on his side. She would not accept me as a new President well enough.
The President: Well, she’s going to go through some things. I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call and I am also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. I’m sure you will figure it out. I heard the prosecutor was treated very badly and he was a very fair prosecutor so good luck with everything. Your economy is going to get better and better I predict. You have a lot of assets. It’s a great country. I have many Ukrainian friends, their incredible people.
President Zelenskyy: I would like to tell you that I also have quite a few Ukrainian friends that live in the United States. Actually last time I traveled to the United States, I stayed in New York near Central Park and I stayed at the Trump Tower. I will talk to them and I hope to see them again in the future. I also wanted to thank you for your invitation to visit the United States, specifically Washington DC. On the other hand, I also want to ensure you that we will be very serious about the case and will work on the investigation. As to the economy, there is much potential for our two countries and one of the issues that is very important for Ukraine is energy independence. I believe we can be very successful and cooperating on energy independence with United States. We are already working on cooperation. We are buying American oil but I am very hopeful for a future meeting. We will have more time and more opportunities to discuss these opportunities and get to know each other better. I would like to thank you very much for your support.
The President: Good. Well, thank you very much and I appreciate that. I will tell Rudy and Attorney General Barr to call. Thank you. Whenever you would like to come to the White House, feel free to call. Give us a date and we’ll work that out. I look forward to seeing you.
President Zelenskyy: Thank you very much. I would be very happy to come and would be happy to meet with you personally and get to know you better. I am looking forward to our meeting and I also would like to invite you to visit Ukraine and come to the city of Kyiv which is a beautiful city. We have a beautiful country which would welcome you. On the other hand, I believe that on September 1 we will be in Poland and we can meet in Poland hopefully. After that, it might be a very good idea for you to travel to Ukraine. We can either take my plane and go to Ukraine or we can take your plane, which is probably much better than mine.
The President: Okay, we can work that out. I look forward to seeing you in Washington and maybe in Poland because I think we are going to be there at that time.
President Zelenskyy: Thank you very much Mr. President.
The President: Congratulations on a fantastic job you’ve done. The whole world was watching. I’m not sure it was so much of an upset but congratulations.
President Zelenskyy: Thank you Mr. President bye-bye.
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As UNIAN reported, Zelensky's press service said on July 25 that during a telephone conversation, Trump expressed his conviction that the new Ukrainian authorities would be able to quickly improve Ukraine's image and "complete an investigation into corruption cases that had hindered interaction between Ukraine and the United States."
Trump's July 25 telephone call with Zelensky is at the center of an escalating battle over a whistleblower's complaint reportedly concerning the U.S. leader's dealings with Ukraine that the administration refused to give Congress.
The media suggested that during the conversation with Zelensky, Trump could have repeatedly insisted that Ukraine investigate the actions of influential politician from the U.S. Democratic Party and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
On September 21, U.S. congressmen called on the Trump administration to provide the transcript of his July 25 phone call with Zelensky.
UNIAN memo. Ukrainian authorities have been probing into money laundering in the amount of over US$33 million during the acquisition of a group of companies of Kherson oil transshipment, in which Wirelogic Technology AS, Digitex Organization LLP, and ex-Minister of Ecology, businessman Mykola Zlochevsky's Burisma Holdings Limited were involved. Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, was a member of the latter's board. On May 14, the then Prosecutor General, Yuriy Lutsenko, said that Ukraine was ready to transfer materials on Burisma to U.S. law enforcement agencies. According to him, the investigation had a printout of all the Burisma payments, including to senior U.S. officials. Yet, Lutsenko emphasized, the foreigners who were involved in the management of Burisma had not violated Ukrainian legislation.
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| U.S. media outlet reports identity of whistleblower in Trump-Ukraine scandal - news world | ||
The activist attorneys who represent the whistleblower refused to confirm or deny that their secretive client is indeed Ciaramella.
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This was reported by Breitbart News, which cited a report by RealClearInvestigations.
It says Ciaramella's name has been raised in private in impeachment depositions and during at least one House open hearing that was not part of the formal impeachment proceedings.
Federal documents reportedly show Ciaramella also worked closely with the then Vice President Joe Biden on Ukrainian policy issues in 2015 and 2016 and worked under Susan Rice, President Barack Obama's national security adviser. He also worked with former CIA Director John Brennan.
It also claims Ciaramella was part of an Obama administration email chain celebrating the eventual signing of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine.
Mark Zaid and Andrew Bakaj, the activist attorneys representing the whistleblower, refused to confirm or deny that their secretive client is indeed Ciaramella.
As UNIAN reported earlier, a scandal erupted between the White House and U.S. Congress in the wake of media reports claiming that an intelligence whistleblower had filed a complaint with concerns about Trump's promise to a foreign leader in pursuit of his own political interests.
The media suggested that during a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, Trump could repeatedly insist on Kyiv "looking into" the actions of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, now Trump's potential rival at the upcoming elections, and his son, Hunter Biden.
On September 21, members of U.S. Congress called on the Trump administration to provide the transcript of the U.S. president's conversation with Zelensky. On September 24, the White House published the unclassified memorandum of the July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky. The document reads that Trump asked Zelensky to look into the case of Biden's son, Hunter, who had been part of the board of a Ukrainian gas firm.
On the same day, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced the formal launch of an impeachment inquiry.
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| Zelensky names main topics of future Normandy Four summit - news politics | ||
There will be no secrets from society, the president has assured.
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In a video address, the president noted that "the Normandy format is aimed at renewing the dialogue, which can bring us closer to the complete cessation of the war and the return of our territories."
"And surely, the main thing is the return of our prisoners of war," he stressed.
Zelensky noted that "the conditions of the Normandy summit include disengagement of troops in Stanytsia Luhanska, disengagement of troops in Zolote, namely in Katerynivka (because there are five settlements of Zolote). We – the Ukrainian Army, the Ukrainian Government – control four of them. And in Zolotoe-5 there are militants. That is, disengagement in Katerynivka. There is also meant to be disengagement in Petrivske. We disengaged forces in Stanytsia Luhansks and even, as you see, made this temporary pedestrian bridge, and today the one made of concrete is already being constructed – we'll build a massive bridge in Stanytsia Luhanska. And we have a checkpoint there, there is electricity there, it's like 'Switzerland'," the head of state said.
At the same time, he added: “As for the plan of further action, as for the cities, or towns, or places, where disengagement will take place, what exchange format will be for our people, what deadlines, what format can there be for local elections – all these questions need to be asked and addressed at the Normandy summit. But it's about working this out and then coming forward to our society and saying: these are the solutions. Let's discuss these solutions. There will be no secrets from our society about this, because this is a very sensitive topic."
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| Rudy Giuliani Will Throw Trump Under The Bus To Save Himself | ||
Rudy Giuliani has been one of Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders over the past few years, but that could soon change as he finds himself in deepening legal trouble.
According to former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, it’s possible that Giuliani will face criminal charges, and if he does, he could bring down the president with him.
“If Rudy Giuliani is charged, there’s nowhere to go but up,” Kirschner said during a discussion with MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Thursday.
Kirschner said that the former NYC mayor doesn’t want to end up in the same Federal Bureau of Prisons where he spent a career sending criminals.
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Rudy Giuliani’s relationship with his bumbling associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, has been under investigation since the two men were arrested last month.
As The Washington Post reported, “Parnas and Fruman connected Giuliani to current and former Ukrainian officials as Giuliani sought damaging information about Democrats in Ukraine.”
That scheme, of course, is at the center of the ongoing House impeachment inquiry because Donald Trump pressured the president of Ukraine to coordinate with Giuliani and investigate Joe Biden.
As The Post also noted, Giuliani had previously claimed he didn’t need a defense lawyer. The growing likelihood that one or both of his associates will cooperate with the impeachment inquiry – and the fact that his name has been mentioned hundreds of times in impeachment depositions – seems to have given him a sudden change of heart.
As Rudy Giuliani’s legal woes grow, so too does the possibility that he will sing. That prospect should terrify the man in the Oval Office.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
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| France 24: Trump ally Sondland admits tying Ukraine aid to Biden investigation | KyivPost | ||
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U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland arrives at a closed session before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees Oct. 17, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.
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US diplomat Gordon Sondland told a Ukrainian official his country would likely not get nearly $400 million in security aid unless they pursued investigations demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump, revising earlier testimony to the Trump impeachment inquiry.
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| FBI Director Says 'I Don't Know' if Rudy Giuliani Has Security Clearance | ||
FBI Director Christopher Wray appeared in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, where he was questioned by Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), reports The Hill.
One of the first questions the FBI Director was asked was whether he knew if Rudy Giuliani—President Trump's personal attorney—"holds any security clearance of any kind."
"I don't know the answer to that," Wray said.
Since being mentioned in Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Giuliani has been at the center of the House Democrats' impeachment proceedings.
During the phone call, Trump appeared to instruct Zelenskiy to contact Attorney General William Barr and Giuliani for instructions regarding the investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
This phone call was the subject of a whistleblower report that became the impetus for the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Testimony has also revealed that Giuliani attempted to coerce Zelenskiy into publicly announcing an investigation into Hunter Biden in exchange for almost $400 million in congressionally approved aid to Ukraine that was being withheld.
Giuliani is not an official employee of the federal government, which is why Harris and other congressional Democrats are interested in his current and previous levels of security clearance.
Harris shifted her focus from Giuliani to Wray, getting to the point of her main question, asking first whether his "first oath" was to the Constitution or the president.
"My loyalty is the Constitution and to the people of this country," Wray replied.
She went on to ask, multiple times, if it is "ethically appropriate" for the FBI to "launch, limit or stop a criminal investigation at the request of the president or at the request of anyone at the White House?"
Wray never gave Harris a detailed answer, deflecting each time she asked the question.
"I'm not going to wade into specific people's conversation ... but what I will say is that the FBI's obligation and my obligation and the obligation I expect of all 37,000 men and women of the FBI is that we're going to conduct properly predicated investigations, continue properly predicated investigations and complete properly predicated investigations," he said.
Wray said that FBI investigations should be supported "only by facts." He also said he couldn't recall a time when Trump or anyone else in the White House had asked him to launch, limit or stop a criminal investigation.
"Why is witness intimidation a threat to the pursuit of justice?" Harris later asked.
"Because investigations and prosecutions should be about the truth and pursuit of the truth, and if witnesses who have firsthand information can't and don't come forward, then that pursuit of the truth is frustrated and impeded," Wray said.
At the end of her questioning, Harris thanked the director for his service.
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| Trump and Giuliani's impeachment defense pushes America closer to a 'mafia state' | ||
Neither President Donald Trump nor his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani deny the underlying facts of the allegations at the heart of the impeachment inquiry. This seems like a relatively crazy thing to do, given that Democrats are out for blood — but they really have no choice given how much is already public. So instead of denying the facts, Trump’s defense appears to be: Yes, we did it, but there was nothing wrong with it.
Instead of denying the facts, Trump’s defense appears to be: Yes, we did it, but there was nothing wrong with it.
The “there was nothing wrong with it” defense does triple duty: It gives Trump’s surrogates something to argue, it muddies the water and confuses people with its sheer audacity, and — most important — it pushes the United States one step closer to becoming what the Hungarian scholar Bálint Magyar calls a “mafia state” to describe the kind of autocracies we see springing up in the former Soviet Union.
The defense also gives Senate Republicans little cover to hide behind. The GOP will soon be called on to tell the American people whether it agrees that it’s OK to use the levers of government to benefit Trump personally.
After all, Giuliani openly admits that he was in Ukraine to dig up information to support Trump’s harebrained theories that the real election interference in 2016 came from Ukraine. He also admits he was trying to find evidence that the Bidens were behaving corruptly and that the hacked DNC “server” is being hidden in Ukraine.
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Trump, similarly, doesn’t deny that he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to look into each of these matters. Both Trump and Giuliani insist, though, that there was nothing wrong with any of this. Trump says the “perfect” transcript of the July 25 call proves it. Giuliani, too, justifies what he was doing as simply being part of his obligation as Trump’s personal lawyer to “vindicate his client.” In fact, Giuliani noted on Twitter that these attempts to “vindicate” Trump stretch back even further than July.
Jennifer Rubin of The Washington Post nails it when she says that Trump and Giuliani “cannot grasp that there is a difference” between conducting U.S. foreign policy for national security reasons and conducting foreign policy to benefit Trump personally.
We’ve been talking about Trump and Giuliani running a “shadow” foreign policy alongside (and often in conflict with) the official State Department foreign policy. But Masha Gessen, relying on Magyar's work, explains that we are “using the wrong language” to describe what Giuliani was doing in Ukraine. A president, who is the chief foreign policy official in the nation, cannot, by definition, run a shadow foreign policy. What the president can do, however, is destroy the institutions that traditionally conduct foreign policy, in this case, the State Department, staffed by career diplomats.
Magyar talks about the three stages of establishing autocracy. Stage one, the “autocratic attempt,” is when potential regime change from democracy to autocracy is still reversible. Stage two is what he calls the “autocratic breakthrough.” The final stage is autocracy, or a mafia state.
A mafia state is essentially a criminal government. Mafia states — like Putin’s Russia — develop as the government takes over businesses. As the ruler consolidates power and wealth, both wealth and power come to be concentrated in one person. Eventually, the entire state comes under the control of the head of the family and expands across the entire country. In other words, the ruler ends up owning the country.
When this happens, the ruler’s personal interests and the interests of the nation become meshed into one. Trump has been open about his admiration for Putin, the head of a powerful mafia state. Trump, in fact, often acts like a mafia don.
It is therefore not surprising that Trump and Giuliani cannot discern a difference between foreign policy conducted for the good of the U.S. and foreign policy conducted for the personal gain of Donald Trump. Trump and Giuliani are operating as if Trump is — or owns — the United States. When Trump and Giuliani insist there was nothing wrong in using the levers of government to “vindicate” Trump, they are envisioning Trump as the head of a mafia state.
Trump makes the subtext text. He calls a spade a spade. By admitting to the facts but insisting there was nothing wrong with it, he’ll force Republican senators to state for the record precisely what kind of America they want. They won’t be able to hide behind euphemisms.
Do they want to uphold a clear separation between the president’s personal interests and the interests of the nation as a whole? Or do they want to go along with Trump’s argument that he has done nothing wrong? If Republicans choose the latter, they are helping Trump blur the distinction between his own personal interests and the interests of the United States.
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Post Link | C-SPAN has launched a new web page, c-span.org/impeachment, devoted to Congress’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The goal is to provide one-stop shopping for all of C-SPAN’s coverage of the inquiry, including the latest Hill tweets, various news conferences and hearings, and the Trump Administration’s response.
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Didn’t he pick the Whistleblower? twitter.com/gopoversight/s… Days since @RepAdamSchiff learned the identity of the whistleblower: 82 pic.twitter.com/AKE4Jtb1dj Posted by GOPoversight on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 1:08pm 1246 likes, 55...
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Didn’t he pick the Whistleblower? twitter.com/gopoversight/s… Days since @RepAdamSchiff learned the identity of the whistleblower: 82 pic.twitter.com/AKE4Jtb1dj Posted by GOPoversight on Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 1:08pm 1246 likes, 55...
» Saved Stories - None: Google Alert - Barr's 'investigation of investigators': Mueller documents: Manafort pushed Ukraine hack theory
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Mueller's investigation concluded in March with a report that found ... Attorney General William Barr ultimately concluded that the president had not ... During his interviews with investigators , Gates also told the FBI that Donald Trum...
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Mueller's investigation concluded in March with a report that found ... Attorney General William Barr ultimately concluded that the president had not ... During his interviews with investigators , Gates also told the FBI that Donald Trum...
» Saved Stories - None: Mueller documents: Manafort pushed Ukraine hack theory
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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pushed the idea that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the hack of ... Saved Stories - None
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» Saved Stories - None: Jared Kushner was recalled from vacation with Russian oligarch to save Trump campaign: Mueller ...
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Jared Kushner was recalled from vacationing with a Russian oligarch to fire Paul Manafort and save Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, according ... Saved Stories - None
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Jared Kushner was recalled from vacationing with a Russian oligarch to fire Paul Manafort and save Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, according ... Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: NPR News: 11-03-2019 12PM ET
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» Saved Stories - None: REVIEWS: Anthony Weiner affair as the Judeophobia component of the Operation Trump - 4:58 AM 11/2/2019 - Saved and Shared Stories In 100 Headlines
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» Saved Stories - None: The New Abwehr and Operation Trump - by Michael Novakhov - Thursday January 10th, 2019 Update
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» Saved Stories - None: "Trump liar" - Google News: Be thankful you don’t work for President Trump - Hartford Courant
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» Saved Stories - None: NPR News: 11-02-2019 7AM ET
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» Saved Stories - None: "trump, russia and the mob" - Google News: Is Britain already in a cyber war? - Telegraph.co.uk
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» Saved Stories - None: Alan Dershowitz wanted David Boies off Epstein-related suit. A top lawyer has replaced him - McClatchy Washington Bureau
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» Saved Stories - None: In Trump's Twitter Feed: Conspiracy-Mongers, Racists and Spies - The New York Times
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» Saved Stories - None: The impeachable offense Trump may have committed — but Democrats aren’t really talking about - The Washington Post
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» Saved Stories - None: Politics: The impeachable offense Trump may have committed — but Democrats aren’t really talking about
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Everyone focuses on "high crimes and misdemeanors." Politically, it might be smarter to focus on "bribery." Politics Saved Stories - None
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Everyone focuses on "high crimes and misdemeanors." Politically, it might be smarter to focus on "bribery." Politics Saved Stories - None
» Saved Stories - None: This Week’s 3 Top Impeachment Developments - The New York Times
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