During today’s hearing in the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) referenced a POLITICO article from last month which reported that a lawyer who worked for Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee when Devin Nunes (R-CA) was the committee’s chairman, fed information on Ukraine to President Trump.
💣 Nunes is directly implicated in #Urkainegate 😂
Swalwell then asked Hill if she ever heard the name of the recently indicted Rudy Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, “who was influencing President Trump and Rudy Giuliani about some of the debunked you referenced earlier.”
“I have heard his name, yes,” Hill replied, adding that she was aware that Parnas was indicted for illegal campaign finance transactions.
Swalwell then referenced a Daily Beast story from this Wednesday with the headline, Lev Parnas Helped Rep. Devin Nunes’ Investigations. After asking that the article be entered into the record, Swalwell then turned to House Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
Flashback:
Lev Parnas helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018 - to support his Russia and Ukraine conspiracist investigations
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested by the FBI at he Dulles airport “on federal charges of violating campaign-finance laws through a six-figure donation they facilitated to President Donald Trump”.
They had one-way tickets to Vienna where “Giuliani Was Meant to Head to Vienna a Day After His Arrested Associates Flew There”
“Mr. Chairman, you have been falsely accused throughout these proceedings by the ranking members of being a ‘fact witness,'” Swalwell said.
“Now if this story is correct, the ranking member [Devin Nunes] may have actually been projecting and, in fact, he may be the fact witness working with indicted individuals around our investigation.”, Swalwell
Democratic Rep. Peter Welch snapped back when the GOP congressman ranted about the whistleblower at the impeachment hearings.
👏👏👏 Peter Welch exposes Jim Jordan for the moronic conspiracy clown that he is. #laughingstock #NationalDisgrace
Republican Jim Jordan, Bat💩Crazy Conspiracy Theorist from Ohio
“There is one witness, one witness, that they won’t bring in front of us, they won’t bring in front of the American people. That’s the guy who started it all, the whistleblower.”
#BeBest Rep. Peter Welch, Democrat from Vermont replied
“Thank you, I say to my colleague, I’d be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify. President Trump is welcome to take a seat right there.”
"Welch’s comment was met with laughter throughout the hearing room.” Forty😂😂😂😂😂
“No one is accusing us of interfering in the U.S. elections anymore; now they’re accusing Ukraine," the Russian president told an economic forum in Moscow.
What a coincidence, Putin said this on the same day Fiona Hill and David Holmes were testifying at Trump’s Impeachment Hearing.
"Thank God, no one is accusing us of interfering in the U.S. elections anymore; now they’re accusing Ukraine."
— Vladimir Putin
Trump, Nunes, GOP: Mission Accomplished
Republicans have been propagating Putin’s own propaganda campaign to accuse Ukraine instead of Russia — to show that Trump wasn’t helped by Russia — even though Putin publicly admitted it at the Helsinki Summit in 2018.
Washington Post:
“Mr. Putin began publicly pushing false theories of Ukrainian interference in the early months of 2017 to deflect responsibility from Russia.”
The U.S. Intelligence community and Fiona Hill said Russia uses propaganda to divide Americans — to “advance Russian interests”.
However, Russia’s #psyops program has also exposed traitors 😏
“Trump-Supporting Lawyers Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing Teamed Up With Giuliani to Dig Up Ukraine Dirt on Biden” — need to be brought into the light for their roles.
Lev Parnas initially hired former Trump lawyer John Dowd and refused to cooperate with congressional investigators. Nov. 4, 2019: Parnas agrees to cooperate House Impeachment Inquiry
John Dowd represented Trump during a portion of the Mueller investigation. In a voicemail, Dowd asked Michael Flynn for a “heads-up” if he knew of information implicating President Trump.
Paul Manafort needs to be added for his Ukraine “black ledger” and involvement in spreading Putin’s anti-Ukraine anti-Clinton meaning pro-Trump propaganda
Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
U.S. Intelligence officials briefed Senators weeks before the Impeachment Hearings...
debunking Trump and Republican made up — debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory — which is really PUTIN’s CONSPIRACY THEORY. #psyops
It was Russia NOT Ukraine who interfered in 2016 election and Russia is continuing to interfere in the 2020 election — in favor of Trump
This backs up Fiona Hill’s testimony.
This backs up the dozens of U.S. Intelligence reports
Was the House Intelligence Committee briefed before the impeachment hearings?
In a briefing that closely aligned with Dr. Hill’s testimony, American intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscow’s own hacking of the 2016 election, according to three American officials. The briefing came as Republicans stepped up their defenses of Mr. Trump in the Ukraine affair.
The revelations demonstrate Russia’s persistence in trying to sow discord among its adversaries — and show that the Kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference seeped into Republican talking points.
American intelligence agencies believe Moscow is likely to redouble its efforts as the 2020 presidential campaign intensifies. The classified briefing for senators also focused on Russia’s evolving influence tactics, including its growing ability to better disguise operations.
Reminder of Hill’s testimony
“I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine — not Russia — attacked us in 2016,” Hill
“Mr. Putin began publicly pushing false theories of Ukrainian interference in the early months of 2017 to deflect responsibility from Russia.”
During a news conference in February 2017, Mr. Putin accused the Ukrainian government of supporting Hillary Clinton during the previous American election and funding her candidacy with friendly oligarchs.
Senator Angus King, independent of Maine and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who declined to answer questions about the briefing.
“These people are pros at this,” said Mr. King, who caucuses with the Democrats. “The Soviet Union used disinformation for 70 years. This is nothing new. Vladimir Putin is a former K.G.B. agent. He is trained in deception. This is his stock and trade and he is doing it well.”
Republicans and Trump are Russian Assets
Republicans have sought for weeks amid the impeachment inquiry to shift attention to President Trump’s demands that Ukraine investigate any 2016 election meddling, defending it as a legitimate concern while Democrats accuse Mr. Trump of pursuing fringe theories for his benefit.
The Republican defense of Mr. Trump became central to the impeachment proceedings when Fiona Hill, a respected Russia scholar and former senior White House official, added a harsh critique during testimony on Thursday. She told some of Mr. Trump’s fiercest defenders in Congress that they were repeating “a fictional narrative” — and that it likely came from a disinformation campaign by Russian security services, which themselves propagated it.
Republicans ,“I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” Dr. Fiona Hill
“There is a long history of Russians putting out fake information,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former senior C.I.A. official. “Now they are trying to put out theories that they think are damaging to the United States.”
Read the article for all supporting evidence
AMERICANS, why is AG William Barr wasting Taxpayers money investigating Putin’s fake conspiracy?
