Tuesday’s public impeachment testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee revealed that the Democrats’ case against Donald Trump has more to do with foreign policy disagreements based largely on hearsay vs. actual evidence of malfeasance. Today marked the first public testimony after weeks of hearings conducted in private.
.@Jim_Jordan: You didn’t listen in on President Trump & Zelensky’s call?
Taylor: I did not.
Jordan: You’ve never talked with Chief of Staff Mulvaney?
Taylor: I never did.
Jordan: You’ve never met the President?
Taylor: That’s correct.
Jordan: And you’re their star witness. pic.twitter.com/ebZ6jsEjeB
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) November 13, 2019
Speaker Adam Schiff (D-CA) and his fellow Democrats spent much of the day trying to coax damning testimony out of Ambassador Bill Taylor and top State Department official George Kent – only to come up empty handed over whether President Trump conditioned US military aid to Ukraine on an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
What we did learn is that US officials, including Kent, “constantly” pushed Ukraine to reopen a “scuttled investigation” into the owner of a Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Holdings, which was hired then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son to sit on their board in 2014.
I did not witness any effort by any U.S. official to shield Burisma from scrutiny. In fact, I and other U.S. officials consistently advocated reinstitution a scuttled investigation of Zlochevsky, Burisma’s founder, as well as holding the corrupt prosecutors who hold the closed the case to account.
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In early 2015, I raised questions with the deputy prosecutor general about why the investigation of Mr. Zlochevsky had been terminated based on our belief that prosecutors had accepted bribes to close the case. After, I became aware that Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma. Soon after that in a briefing call with the national security staff of the office of the Vice President in February 2015, I raised my concern that Hunter Biden’s status as a board member could create the perception of a conflict of interest.
Schiff also lied about “not knowing the identity of the whistleblower” whose anonymous complaint launched the impeachment effort, despite it being widely reported that the whistleblower – Eric Ciaramella – approached Schiff’s staff before filing the complaint.
Rep. @Jim_Jordan rips @RepAdamSchiff for coordinating with the whistleblower.
Schiff claims he “does not know the identity of the whistleblower.” pic.twitter.com/HdDQGmHwv8
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 13, 2019
Ohio Republican Jim Jordan – recently added to the House Intelligence Committee – absolutely tore into the Democrats’ narrative every time he was ‘tagged’ in. —>
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