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Exquisite timing

22 Friday Nov 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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bribery, corruption, Donald Trump, extortion, Fiona Hill, John Bolton, quid pro quo, Russia, social media, Twitter, Ukraine

John Bolton (r) [2010 file photo].

This morning, at 7:00 a.m.:

John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton
Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months. For the backstory, stay tuned……..
7:00 AM · Nov 22, 2019

There was much disdain in the comments:

Okay, lightweight.

Testify

If only John Bolton had the courage of Fiona Hill

“Few Republicans are going to want to read a Bolton book showing Trump in a bad light. And Democrats are not about to put money into the pockets of a man who effectively blocked us from hearing damning testimony.”

It’ll be enough.

Testify to Congress under oath. That’s really the only thing we want to hear from you.

While you were away from Twitter, sir, a lot of people found it cowardly that you chose to discuss the Trump administration before a “gathering of Morgan Stanley’s largest hedge fund clients” but not before Congress.

There’s that.

In it for the glory, but mostly the profit.

There’s that, too.

Trump is burning this country to the ground. DO SOMETHING.

Testify in public and under oath, or you are just wasting air and space.

Hey John Bolton why don’t you do your patriotic duty and come forward – if it’s a matter of money we can start a Go Fund Me page for your testimony
It wouldn’t be a “quid pro quo” cause the GOP doesn’t think anything is so we are good!

We see what they did there.

To sell a book? Or do justice now? You watched Trump up close and know what he’s capable of if he’s allowed to continue.

It will be on you.

You sent those under your charge to the NSC lawyers and they agreed to testify to Congress. Are you too cowardly to do the same? Is the power of your party affiliation more important than your duty to country?

Testify under oath or leave us all alone.

Public servants with everything to lose stepped forward.

Come forward for the right reason.

We’re full up on schemes and bribes.

Just testify, dude. Fiona Hill did.

The only way I want to hear from you is under oath, before the American people. It’s your duty.

You need to testify.

#BoltonUnderOath

Do your duty; testify.
You’ll always be able to sell your book. But you’ll never be able to get this moment in history back.

How about testifying in the Impeachment hearings and tell the FRONT story? That madman you’re protecting in the White House is destroying our country, and you stand silent? You are better than this, sir.

I think we’re very close to finding out whether John Bolton really is better than this.

Quit fan-dancing for tips and testify.

Testify first. Tweet later.

We’re waiting…..

Your timing is curious sir. It’s either to promote your book (which is more likely the case) or to antagonize the monster in the WH. Either way I care less about what you tweet and more about you stepping forward and telling the Impeachment committees what you know. #BeBest

Sir, US Capitol Building, First Street SE, Washington, D.C. Wear a jacket and tie.

And on and on.

“This is a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government.”

22 Friday Nov 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Resist, social media

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bribery, corruption, Donald Trump, extortion, Fiona Hill, impeachment, quid pro quo, Russia, Sarah Kendzior, social media, Twitter, Ukraine

Yes, we are.

Last night:

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior
I’m glad people listened to Fiona Hill. I wish you’d listen when she says we’re running out of time. We *never* had time. A central tactic of autocrats is to simply run out the clock. That’s what Trump’s been doing while people take their sweet time catching up to the obvious.
8:31 PM · Nov 21, 2019

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

#ImpeachTheMF

#resist

Previously:

The resistance (December 18, 2016)

Keep a civil tongue…

21 Thursday Nov 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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bribery, corruption, Donald Trump, extortion, impeachment, Putin's Puppet, quid pro quo, Russia, social media, Twitter, Ukraine, useful idiot

“Россия” (Russia) – a variant of the Russian presidential flag.

It’s not a possibility.

This morning:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Corrupt politician Adam Schiff’s lies are growing by the day. Keep fighting tough, Republicans, you are dealing with human scum who have taken Due Process and all of the Republican Party’s rights away from us during the most unfair hearings in American History……
7:15 AM · Nov 21, 2019

Consciousness of guilt.

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Impeachment: Greenland

07 Thursday Nov 2019

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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bribery, corruption, Donald Trump, extortion, Greenland, impeachment, Ukraine

My God, it’s a perpetual clown show.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

From Ambassador Bill Taylor’s deposition [pdf] before the House Intelligence Committee in the matter of the impeachment investigation of Donald Trump (r):

[….]
THE CHAIRMAN: And you go on jn that paragraph to say: “My understanding was that the Secretaries of Defense and State, the CIA Director, and the National Security Advisor sought a joint meeting with the Presjdent to convince him to release the hold, but such a meeting was hard to schedule.” What do you deduce from that, that our alIy is fighting with the Russians, but all of these agencies that support this can’t get a meeting with the President to discuss it?

AMBASSADOR TAYLOR: It turns out, Mr. Chairman, that those principals, as we call them, were on different trips at different times. I think this was also about the time of the Greenland question, about purchasing Greenland, which took up a 1ot of energy in the NSC.

THE CHAIRMAN: Okay. That’s disturbing for a whole different reason.

AMBASSADOR TAYLOR: Different story. Different story.[….]

“…a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government…”

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