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To: longnshort who wrote (1167636)	9/30/2019 7:37:33 AM
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eff em the Godfather says!!! twitter.com

To: longnshort who wrote (1167636)	9/30/2019 8:01:13 AM
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BOMBSHELL: LIAR POS tRump IS QUOTING A JEW HATING RIGHT WING "START A CIVIL-WAR" PASTOR GOP Rep Slams Trump’s Quoting Of Pastor’s ‘Civil War’ Warning As ‘Beyond Repugnant’ Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he “never imagined” such a message from a president. By Mary Papenfuss huffpost.com President Donald Trump ominously raised the possibility of national violence Sunday if he is removed from office, quoting an evangelical pastor who warned on Fox News of a “Civil War-like” fracture. Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran of Iraq, quickly slammed Trump’s tweet as “beyond repugnant,” adding: “I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President.” The Rev. Robert Jeffress said in an interview Sunday (see the video above) that “ removing the president” will “cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal.” “I have never seen them more angry,” Jeffress said of evangelicals. Jeffress, a right-wing pastor based in Dallas and powerful Trump supporter, has said that Jews are going to hell. He has characterized both Islam and Mormonism as heresies from the “ pit of hell,” and called evangelical Christians who don’t support Trump “morons.” Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump Replying to @realDonaldTrump ....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews 50.3K 6:11 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 41.7K people are talking about this Adam Kinzinger ?@RepKinzinger I have visited nations ravaged by civil war. @realDonaldTrump I have never imagined such a quote to be repeated by a President. This is beyond repugnant. t.co Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump Replying to @realDonaldTrump ....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews 80.9K 6:59 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 27.1K people are talking about this Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) also slammed Trump’s tweet. “This is just a reprehensible way to talk and people could get hurt,” Schatz warned. He added that this “isn’t about partisan teams anymore.” Brian Schatz ?@brianschatz This is just a reprehensible way to talk and people could get hurt. This isn’t about partisan teams anymore - it’s clear now he will allow the Republican Party to eat itself and will tear the country apart if he thinks it gives him an advantage of any kind. t.co Sam Stein ?@samstein Call me quaint but it just seems a bit ominous to have a president quote tweeting someone warning about civil war 3,893 7:39 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 907 people are talking about this Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) cited Trump’s warning in a tweet and wondered if Republicans will now support the impeachment inquiry against the president — and condemn him in “strong, unequivocal terms.” Chris Murphy ?@ChrisMurphyCT Hey @brianschatz - question: The President just said that if Congress impeaches him, his suppporters will rise up in armed insurrection. “Civil War”, he says. So tomorrow will Senate Republicans a. support impeachment inquiry; or b. condemn him in strong unequivocal terms 21.1K 7:45 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 6,790 people are talking about this In addition to the outrage expressed by politicians against Trump’s tweet, other followers of the president were stunned: Jeff Tiedrich@itsJeffTiedrich if Obama had ever openly called for a civil war, Fox News would have totally lost their collective minds. Hannity would have shit red-hot cinder blocks. the incandescent furor from the wingnut outrage-industrial complex would have torn a fucking hole in the space/time continuum 11.7K 7:34 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 2,625 people are talking about this Katie Mack ?@AstroKatie Any president who would prefer civil war to being removed from office does not love their country and is certainly not serving it 25K 7:51 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 5,128 people are talking about this Michelangelo Signorile ?@MSignorile And Democrats: Isn’t promoting Civil War another article of impeachment? I think so. 1,721 7:54 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 444 people are talking about this Liddle’ LeGate (don’t forget the hyphen) ?@williamlegate A president calling for their own country’s civil war is a “high crime” Don’t @ me. 9,649 6:50 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,897 people are talking about this Charles Johnson ?@Green_Footballs So far this weekend, Donald Trump has called for executing whistleblowers and members of Congress, and threatened a new civil war if the impeachment process continues. That’s the president* doing this. Does anyone see a problem with that? 723 6:31 PM - Sep 29, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 303 people are talking about this Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost? Here’s how.

To: longnshort who wrote (1167636)	9/30/2019 8:30:25 AM
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Hunter Biden 'did not violate anything,' former Ukrainian prosecutor says Trump is facing allegations that he tried to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate the former vice president's son. nbcnews.com Sept. 26, 2019, 10:18 AM MST By Dareh Gregorian A former Ukrainian prosecutor who investigated a gas company tied to Hunter Biden said Thursday that there was no evidence the former vice president's son engaged in illegal activity. "From the perspective of Ukrainian legislation, he did not violate anything,” Yuriy Lutsenko told The Washington Post. Lutsenko, who served as Ukraine's prosecutor general from May 2016 until last month, closed the investigation into the gas company Burisma and its oligarch owner in 2017, The New York Times has reported. Earlier this year, Lutsenko met with President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and discussed Burisma, Lutsenko's spokeswoman told Bloomberg. Then in March, according to the Times, Lutsenko reopened an investigation into the company, though his spokeswoman has disputed that. The meetings with Giuliani were referred to in a bombshell whistleblower complaint unsealed Thursday that alleged that Trump had pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the Bidens. Download the NBC News app for full coverage of the impeachment inquiry In May, Lutsenko told Bloomberg News that his office had found no evidence of wrongdoing against Hunter Biden or his father, Joe Biden, who'd helped to oust Lutsenko's predecessor. That prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, had been accused of failing to act in numerous corruption cases, including the investigation into Burisma. In addition to the United States government, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund have demanded that Shokin be replaced. On Thursday, Lutsenko said he did not know of any Trump administration officials going to Ukraine to investigate the claims against the Bidens. “No American groups came to Ukraine for an investigation,” he told the Post. Lutsenko added that whatever wrongdoing there might have been at Burisma took place before Hunter Biden joined the company. “Hunter Biden cannot be responsible for violations of the management of Burisma that took place two years before his arrival,” Lutsenko told the Post.

To: longnshort who wrote (1167636)	9/30/2019 8:33:02 AM
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Giuliani Will ‘Absolutely’ Face Criminal Charges for Ukraine Meddling: Ex-SDNY Prosecutor September 29, 2019 at 03:04 PM ET By Tom Boggioni – Raw Story thenewcivilrightsmovement.com Appearing on MSNBC with host Alex Witt, a former SDNY prosecutor who served with Rudy Giuliani when he was a U.S. Attorney said there was no doubt in his mind that the former New York City mayor will face criminal charges over his dealings with officials in Ukraine. Speaking with the host, attorney John Flannery noted that many of Giuliani’s former associates who served as prosecutors believe he has broken the law. “It’s been a long time coming, the levels of disappointment with Rudy,” Flannery began. “When I first knew him, I thought he was the kind of fellow we would find on the Supreme Court in his Bobby Kennedy days before he went to Washington. Now I see a guy who should be arrested for impersonating a criminal defense attorney.” Wit later in the interview pressed the former prosecutor about Giuliani’s shenanigans in Ukraine, asking, “Do you think Rudy Giuliani is in legal jeopardy?” “Absolutely, ” Flannery shot back without missing a beat. “We have a combination of bribery, we have the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at risk here because we’re paying a favor, withholding funds and expecting a condition precedent that favors the president favorably before the funds are given, and we also have efforts to conceal the very document we had in this conversation by people in the White House.” “We have the State Department involved, we have the Justice Department involved,” he continued. “This is a major scandal and hopefully by Halloween, we’ll figure out how to identify the articles of impeachment that correspond to this misconduct.”

To: longnshort who wrote (1167636)	9/30/2019 8:36:13 AM
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Ex-Ukraine Prosecutor To Giuliani: I Will Not Investigate Bidens For ‘An American Official’ Yuriy Lutsenko, who was fired as Ukraine’s prosecutor general, told Rudy Giuliani that he saw no wrongdoing by Joe Biden, according to the Los Angeles Times. 09/29/2019 06:30 pm ET By Sanjana Karanth huffpost.com A former Ukrainian prosecutor general reportedly told President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani that he saw no evidence of wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son as Trump alleged, according to the Los Angeles Times. Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s former top law enforcement who was fired last month, told the LA Times in an interview published Sunday that he told Giuliani that authorities with the United States should launch their own investigation if they have evidence of potential misconduct by the Bidens, but to not use Ukraine to seek political vengeance that could affect the 2020 U.S. election. “I told him I could not start an investigation just for the interests of an American official,” Lutsenko, a politician aligned with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, told the LA Times. Trump made the unsubstantiated allegation that Biden, who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination to face Trump in 2020, used his official capacity as vice president at the time to help Ukranian energy company Burisma, which his son Hunter Biden served on the board of, by pushing for the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. There is no evidence Joe Biden intentionally tried to help his son by urging Shokin’s ouster, and both Bidens have denied any wrongdoing. Biden and others in the Obama administration have said they urged for Shokin’s dismissal because he was accused of neglecting corruption in his office and for failing to bring corruption cases. Lutsenko also told The Washington Post on Thursday that the former U.S. vice president’s son did not break any Ukrainian laws while serving on Burisma’s board, in the former prosecutor general’s first interview since the declassification of a whistleblower complaint that alleges Trump pressured newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find dirt on the Bidens. ASSOCIATED PRESSYuriy Lutsenko speaks at a session of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2016. The complaint by an anonymous U.S. intelligence official is at the center of a formal House impeachment inquiry into the president and alleges Trump used “the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. elections.” The complaint includes a July 25 call in which Trump pressured Zelensky to “do us a favor, though” and work with Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to find damaging information on his potential political rival. The call, which the White House released a summary of last week, occurred just days after Trump suspended nearly $400 million in U.S. military aid to Ukraine. Lutsenko’s statements to the LA Times should be taken with caution considering the whistleblower’s complaint says he was a source for Giuliani and Trump on many unsubstantiated claims about Ukrainian corruption investigations, including the ones related to the Bidens. The New York Times also reported Saturday that Lutsenko at one point took “procedural steps” to further investigations involving Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky linked to Hunter Biden, resulting in Giuliani and Trump promoting stories about the Bidens to conservative journalists in the U.S. Lutsenko was also involved in the U.S. State Department removing U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in May, which happened as Giuliani increased pressure on the new Zelensky administration to get involved in U.S. politics. Lutsenko alleged that Yovanovitch interfered with the 2016 U.S. elections by handing him a “do not prosecute” list and “had blocked Ukrainian prosecutors from traveling to the United States expressly to prevent them from delivering ‘evidence’ about the 2016 U.S. election,” the complaint stated. Lutsenko admitted in April that he was the one who requested the “do not prosecute” list. In Trump’s July 25 call with Zelensky, the U.S. president threatened Yovanovitch by saying she’s “bad news” and is “going to go through some things.” House investigators have scheduled an Oct. 2 deposition with Yovanovitch as part of the impeachment inquiry. The House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees also scheduled depositions with several other State Department officials, such as Ambassador Kurt Volker who resigned as U.S. special envoy for Ukraine a day after the whistleblower complaint was released to the public. The committees also issued subpoenas on Friday for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who Giuliani said was aware of his shadow diplomacy with the Ukrainian government.