POLITICO Playbook: The smoking texts
A step-to-step guide to the Trump team’s defenses on Ukraine and impeachment
GOP defenses for Trump’s Ukraine call quickly collapse under scrutiny
Trump Goes on Tweetstorm RTing People Trashing Fox News’ Ed Henry Over Mark Levin Clash
HE DID! Look at his twitter account:
One of his supporters put the exchange in question on YouTube:
This was NOT owning @edhenry by @marklevinshow #MAGA folks
Let’s break it down…
MARK LEVIN: “Identity of the whistleblower….”
We need for his or her name to remain SECRET.
If his or her name is revealed everyone they have ever come in contact with is in danger.
“I want to know the identity”
The FACTS are the issue. You DO realize @realdonaldtrump has already admitted he did it?
“CIA Operative … brings down my president … I want to know all about him!”
Trump is the one bringing down Trump.
Remember this wall Mark Levin?
Research what the Black Stars are FOR Mark!
The Stars on the Wall
30 Years of Remembrance
Why not worry about the FACTS instead of WHO he or she is?
“Dogs they have”
One will be more than Trump has.
“How many marriages they have”
Does this number for Trump bother you?
“A DUI”
What about convicted associates? Bankruptcies? Legal Settlements for fake universities?
Does Trump NOT Paying his bills bother you?
“I want to know everything”
No, you don’t. You have never wanted to know the facts. You just want to be the next Alex Jones – make up your own facts.
“This guy should be cross-examined”
We are not in a court of law. Impeachment is not a CRIMINAL trial – Trump isn’t going to PRISON – that may come later?
Trump says the whistleblower complaint isn’t accurate. The White House keeps showing how it is.
“We are gonna bring down a president of the United States”
I HOPE SO!
We have to impeach Trump for one specific reason. Create a permanent record of the votes for future generations. We need a primary source of who stood where once all of the facts on and impact of Trump are known.
“Democrats are telling us we can’t identify this guy”
Common sense, the law, ethics and concern for their safety, their family’s safety, and everyone they have ever come in contact with safety is telling US that.
“His life might be in danger”
Remember those Black Stars? Remember what the @CIA does for a living?
“Swings around his memo like it’s the Bible”
It is a Well-Written Memo!
The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write
He knows the difference between a hyphen and an apostrophe, Trump doesn’t!
“I can read it myself. I want to question this person about his memo.”
He or she will be questioned, by congress. You can read the answers.
“Why the CIA changed their whistleblower policy in August?”
Great Question! (They Didn’t!)
DISCLOSURE OF URGENT CONCERN FORM – UNCLASSIFIED
ANOTHER GOP LIE!
GOP Shows Russian Trolls How It’s Done With Whistleblower Smear
“Under the former policy he is not a whistleblower”
Key Word is Former and is based on the above lie. Hearsay? There IS NO FORMER!
Fact check: Trump falsely claims whistleblower rules changed just before Ukraine complaint
ED HENRY: “Was it illegal or not?”
MARK LEVIN: “Well we know its not illegal. What crime was violated?”
I got this ED!
FEC chair tweets memo on foreign election activity, alleges GOP colleague tried to block her
It is ILLEGAL to ask for election help from a foreign nation Mark.
MARK: “No one is naming them”
Excuse me Mark, but a LOT of people are naming the laws Trump is breaking, including the Chair of the @FEC
MARK: “… whether Biden did something illegal”
HE DIDN’T!
Trump’s Big Lie About Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Ukraine Falls Apart
MARK: “Nancy Pelosi can’t cite one section of United States Code”
I can:
Who can and can’t contribute
52 U.S. Code § 30121.Contributions and donations by foreign nationals
MARK: “Do your damn job and ask Joe Biden and Hunter Biden what the hell’s going on maybe the president wouldn’t have to raise the issue.”
THERE WAS and IS NO issue! This is a fabricated story to try to paint Biden as the conman and crook Trump IS. I have already documented Trump previously in this page.
MARK: “Why is the president having to raise the issue?
OUT OF DESPERATION and FEAR!
MARK: “and nobody wants to look into it.”
GOOGLE IT! Date Range 1/1/2008 to 1/1/2017
IT WAS LOOKED INTO!
MARK: “Lied about a quid pro quo”
They didn’t.
Trump’s Defenders Have Plenty of Lame Excuses
The Trump–Ukraine Transcript Contains Evidence of a Quid Pro Quo
MARK: “Lied about the president raising this 8 times.”
They didn’t
The 8 times Trump urged Ukraine’s leader to help with investigations
MARK: “Lied about the president asking for a favor trying to tie it to Joe Biden when he was talking about the 2016 election.”
TRUMP CONFESSED to THIS!
Trump Admits Everything
MARK: “The American people detest the media because they oppose freedom of the press because they love freedom of the press. The media has taken side here.”
A lot to digest. MOST people do NOT detest the media. We are NOT the ones tweeting “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” – Trump IS!
Most mainstream media reporting the FACTS. Negative coverage <> bias – think Baltimore Orioles beat writers. FOXNEWS with the exception of Chris Wallace and Shep Smith HAVE Chosen Sides.
MARK: “Utterly corrupt, political, partisan process and it’s about time we had some real reporters who would try to get to the bottom of this.”
For a second there, I thought you were describing the Trump administration. It is sad how the @gop will make this impeachment partisan and future generations will read the yea and nay votes and know where people stood once all of the facts on Trump come out.
Reporters ARE doing a great job – that is why Trump keeps tweeting “Enemy of the People” – out of fear.
Excuse me @FOXANDFRIENDS but “high crimes and misdemeanors”
MARK: “They have issued 100s of subpoeanas”
Can we say Hillary Emails (She testified by the way, unlike Trump) Benghazi? Those subpoenas were answered. Trump is telling people to ignore these subpoenas.
MARK: “His family, his businesses, his bank accounts”.
Those pesky tax returns…
MARK: “Mueller report, obstruction”
READ the REPORT. There WAS obstruction. “Does Not Exonerate”
MARK: “There is going to be a huge backlash … you can’t disenfranchise 63 million people”
62,980,160 Trump 65,845,063 HRC – We got 58 in Tennessee and 3 in West Virginia!
Impeachment is NOT disenfranchising anyone. Their vote counted. The actions of their chosen candidate is the problem. They didn’t lose their RIGHT to vote.
MARK: “Alternative forms of information”
Making up their own facts out of thin air with no basis in facts or the truth.
MARK: “The offense of the century because the president dares to mention something in the American newspapers to the Ukrainan president.”
Stopping funds and changing the 2016 GOP platform is not something newspapers did.
The timeline of Trump’s decision to withhold aid to Ukraine is increasingly suspicious
How The Trump Campaign Weakened The Republican Platform On Aid To Ukraine
MARK: “He doesn’t say Get Biden! He doesn’t say I’m digging up dirt on Biden”
Excuse me MARK, he admitted that he did exactly that!
Trump Admits Asking Ukraine to Investigate Biden’s Son
MARK: “He doesn’t say do me a favor and get Biden”
He did…
Trump admits discussing Biden in Ukraine call
MARK: “Why don’t you talk to my attorney general…”
YOU are admitting it now! You are Rudying it!
MARK: “I want to know if Adam Schiff and his staff have been working with this phony whistleblower. I want to know who the lawyers are who helped him write that complaint as I was the first to point out before.”
We will find out… And you may not be happy with the FACTS that come out of this…
MARK: “I want to know the whole activity that’s taking place in the shadows of this goverment to try to bring down a president of the United States”
Impeachment is a very transparent process, unlike our president.
As president, Trump sings a different tune on ‘transparency’
MARK: “Things being done to this president that have never been done to prior presidents”
Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton beg to differ…
MARK: “Where do they keep the transcript of the phone call? Who gives a damn?!?!”
I DO! The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978 gives a damn! Ethics and principles gives a damn! Thank Goodness some people in Congress gives a damn!
Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978
How the Trump White House is Abusing the Record-Keeping System
John Kelly reportedly used to mute the line during calls with world leaders to urge Trump not to discuss sensitive topics
Ex-official: Trump’s past phone-call memos also concealed
MARK: “The president has the power to issue an executive privilege order. Doesn’t matter if he kept it in his pillow.”
But those Hillary Servers? Those Hillary Emails? Hypocrite much Mark?
ED HENRY: “You wanted the quote. He said on the call 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 could be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look inyo it, it sounds horrible to me. So there’s the quote, I will let you react.”
MARK: “I don;t have a problem with that. What’s the problem with that?”
The fact that there was NO PROSECUTION to be STOPPED? The issue was NOT with the PROSECUTOR for PROSECUTION, it was from the LACK of investigation and prosecution. Facts are important. This isn’t the leader of Australia or Belgium Trump is speaking too. It is a nation whose president remembers how Trump changed the 2016 GOP platform to cut help to it and saw funds intended for defensive help frozen and not delivered by the person he is on the phone with.
MARK: “Ed, there is a video of Biden. Biden impugns himself.”
Let’s ask Russia…. RT TV
Now Research WHY the United States, The EU and @IMF wanted the prosecutor fired.
RT tells the same lie (I wonder why???) – the prosecutor was NOT investigating Burisma – that was the problem!
No reason to probe Bidens: former Ukraine prosecutor
MARK: “New York Times dropped their investigation”
The New York times did their job. Nothing wrong to find.
MARK: “They’re busy chasing, you know, racism in America I guess but they dropped their investigation of this.”
Racism? You don’t want to bring that topic up Mark! Trust Me!
