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Swath of Damning Text Messages Released in Impeachment Inquiry<\/b><\/p>\n

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A swath of damning text messages between State Department officials have been released related to the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate his political rival Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Read the text messages here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Daily Beast reports<\/a>: \u2018By September, that effort\u00a0so alarmed<\/a>\u00a0the recently appointed charg\u00e9 d\u2019affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Bill Taylor, that he called it \u201ccrazy\u201d and spiraling toward a \u201cnightmare scenario.\u201d Another Trump appointee, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, insisted Taylor was \u201cincorrect\u201d about Trump dangling a \u201cquid pro quo\u201d before Zelensky\u2014the same quid pro quo that Sondland and his colleagues, from Trump on down, had spent months orchestrating.\u2019<\/p>\n

CNN adds<\/a>: \u201cOn the morning of the call<\/a>, in an exchange with a key adviser to the Ukrainian President, then-US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker made clear that it was important to the White House that Zelensky convince Trump that an investigation into the 2016 election would happen. \u2026 Volker provided Congress with the text messages ahead of his closed-door congressional testimony on Thursday before three committees leading the House\u2019s impeachment inquiry into Trump and Ukraine. \u2026 That Trump wanted an investigation was a message that seemed to register with the Ukrainian administration. Volker and the Ukrainian adviser, Andrey Yermak, continued to text after the call<\/a> about Zelensky making a public statement ahead of a meeting between the two leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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THE TERMS OF THE DEAL, as understood by both sides:<\/p>\n

ZELENSKY would publicly commit to investigating a BIDEN-linked company & claims about Ukrainian meddling to help @HillaryClinton<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u2014 & in exchange \u2014<\/p>\n

TRUMP would give ZELENSKY the @WhiteHouse<\/a> visit he coveted. pic.twitter.com\/uJ2JHuD5Rh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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2. Here Volker clearly establishes that the upcoming phone call<\/a> between Trump and Zelensky is meant to include the latter\u2019s promise to chase up the conspiracy theory of Ukrainian interference in 2016. Precondition for Z\/Trump WH meeting. pic.twitter.com\/PMl9AAr0wM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) October 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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4. Bill Taylor, US charge d\u2019affairs in Kyiv, asks explicitly if US military aid is contingent on Ukrainian investigations into Burisma\/2016 election interference. US ambo to EU tells him to \u201ccall<\/a> me.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/CoiH34cXdN<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) October 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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These text messages are DEVESTATING. In a functional Democracy the vote to impeach would be unanimous. t.co\/KVd3eeRog3<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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