A White House official who listened to President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s leader described it as “crazy,” “frightening,” and “completely lacking in substance related to national security,” according to a memo written by the whistle-blower at the center of the Ukraine scandal, a C.I.A. officer who spoke to the White House official.
The White House official was “visibly shaken by what had transpired,” the C.I.A. officer wrote in his memo, one day after Mr. Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a July 25 phone call to open investigations that would benefit him politically.
A palpable sense of concern had already taken hold among at least some in the White House that the call had veered well outside the bounds of traditional diplomacy, the officer wrote.
“The official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official’s view, the president had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own re-election bid in 2020,” the C.I.A. officer wrote.
Didn’t he say like this exact thing a few years ago? I definitely remember something along those lines
Edit: ok yeah the link in her tweet is from 2.5 years ago
Yep, and it didn’t make much of a difference. That latte salute by Obama was the real offense, obviously.
Lol Trey Gowdy. What’s he gonna do? Argue in court it was Hillary Clinton’s fault what happened with Benghazi forced Trump to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden?
Was Patton on this afternoon?
Lol looks like our boy Trey wants nothing to do with this clusterfuck.
https://mobile.twitter.com/travisakers/status/1181648423487000576
Veterans returning from war are weak because they can’t handle PTSD but if Fox News airs one critical segment about him this fucking cream puff breaks into incontinent hysterics
Hunter Hunter being linked to Benghazi is one of the more reasonable conspiracies we will see in the near future.
Why would ANYONE get involved with Trump right now?
It’s very clear that there are zero upsides and a fuckton of risks.
The GOP clearance sale continues:
I’d bet everything I own that Sanders would wield the full force of his political capital and make huge changes. I like Warren, but still don’t understand why it is that Sanders takes a back seat to her when his entire career has been based on this and he’s been preparing for this exact moment in history
I like Sanders and thus this feels like a very dirty word to say and is possibly wrong anyway but: electability.
https://mobile.twitter.com/timkmak/status/1181613496536051717
https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1181679425831743489
Nothing to see here… 
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a letter Tuesday that Trump and his administration won’t participate in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry.
“You have designed and implemented your inquiry in a manner that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process,” Cipollone wrote in an eight-page letter laying out the White House’s concerns about the inquiry. “Put simply, you seek to overturn the results of the 2016 election and deprive the American people of the President they have freely chosen.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1181683675487985664
God dammit why do people do this shit? He says enough awful shit in a given hour with which likes can be collected yet they tweet stuff from years ago like it’s breaking news.
What I WOULD like to see is all the things he says put into ads opposite his on TV though, instead of just his side or nothing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1181675690015494144
(CNN)By the time President Donald Trump’s line with Volodymyr Zelensky went quiet, the scramble began.
In the hours and days after the Ukrainian President signed-off – “Thank you Mr. President, bye-bye” – nervous word spread among national security aides about the contents of the July 25 call, an early show of worry that Trump’s request for an investigation into Joe Biden was far from the “perfect” conversation he now insists transpired.
The scramble and fallout from the call, described by six people familiar with it, parallels and expands upon details described in the whistleblower complaint. The anxiety and internal concern reflect a phone conversation that deeply troubled national security professionals, even as Trump now insists there was nothing wrong with how he conducted himself. And it shows an ultimately unsuccessful effort to contain the tumult by the administration’s lawyers.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1181668185579380736