NEWS: Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, through her lawyer, is calling for authorities to investigate whether her movements in Ukraine were indeed being monitored as Robert Hyde suggested in the text messages released tonight. – via @JoshNBCNews
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 15, 2020
Yovanovich, who Trump once told the Ukranian president would "go through some things," appears to have been under surveillance by Giuliani associates, per evidence turned over to the House https://t.co/uxv45P80yW
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 15, 2020
Um holy sh*t. This certainly makes it sound like Parnas and co. were actively tracking Yovanovitch's movements. This could explain why Yovanovitch was moved out of Ukraine so quickly. https://t.co/4rBRB06ZGN pic.twitter.com/5Gc8WcGPih
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 14, 2020
This seems like something the Secretary of State would want to know immediately! And every member of Congress. https://t.co/e6FPa5rTaM
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 15, 2020
Pages 126-7 of Ambassador Yovanovich's testimony. In the context of today's document dump, it's rather chilling. pic.twitter.com/BS2L6ESeEW
— Rootless [But Very Stable] Cosmopolitan (@BrianBuchbinder) January 15, 2020
Indications Yovanovitch was being surveilled: “Wow. Can’t believe Trumo [sic] hasn’t fired this bitch. I’ll get right in that.” Mr. Hyde then sent a series of text messages suggesting that he had Ambassador Yovanovitch under physical surveillance in Kyiv” https://t.co/GTHqoItWga pic.twitter.com/FXyUZtKjIF
— Robbie Gramer (@RobbieGramer) January 14, 2020
Before allegedly surveilling Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in Ukraine, GOP House candidate Robert F. Hyde was best known for being behind in his child support payments and sending a vile tweet about Kamala Harris. https://t.co/89UXUWvIJ9
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 15, 2020
URGENT: I spent decades intercepting foreign communications & I can assure you the comment about “you can do anything for money” was a shadow remark of a previous conversation where her assassination was likely discussed & lol considered by Robert Hyde & the Private Contractors. https://t.co/ZCwDevBOeV
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) January 15, 2020
Have to wonder how Hyde goes from running a menacing op for Parnas in March to making a huge scene at a Trump property in May—the same month Yovanovitch was recalled, and a month after she got whisked out of Ukraine because of threats to her security. pic.twitter.com/059ix11DiV
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 15, 2020
The debate starts shortly but there's important new impeachment details: More evidence that Giuliani's Ukraine efforts were for Trump's personal benefit. https://t.co/2ymRcPe2tE
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 15, 2020
And…
BREAKING Former Trump national security adviser moves to withdraw guilty plea for lying to FBI in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation about his contacts with Russia's ambassador. pic.twitter.com/qMLC0EuiQl
— Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) January 15, 2020
Three years into @realdonaldtrump's term, there's still a blind spot at the core of his presidency: his business. The president has private clients, debts, partners, needs — and we still don't understand them well enough.
Yet.https://t.co/kTp47rTkQM— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) January 14, 2020
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BREXITSHAMBLES BRITAIN
Imagine a sentence more perfectly calculated to have every Scot baying to turn your innards into a casing for haggis.
Tone deaf Tories turn all Scotland against them. https://t.co/odgpPeENXP
— Simon Ubsdell (@SimonUbsdell) January 14, 2020
Brexit latest:
DOWNSIDES
Job losses
Businesses failing
End of manufacturing
End of farming
Workers/consumer rights slashed
Environmental protections gone
End of Union
Chlorinated chicken
NHS sold offUPSIDES
Blue passports
Brexit festival
Big Ben bongsCONCLUSION
Worth it pic.twitter.com/KeqDidjKuu— David Schneider (@davidschneider) January 14, 2020
This is so sweet & quietly persuasive. On January 31st, let’s all refrain from pointing out how pant-wettingly stupid Brexit is. No demands for ‘tangible benefits’. No questions about actual improvements. No pointing out already broken promises. No facts. Just bongs & ignorance! https://t.co/F3xkd56qWE
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) January 14, 2020
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WORLD
Trump did this very deliberately. His goals are to destroy our post WW2 alliances on behalf of Putin all while causing hourly strategic chaos https://t.co/PvBm5gDbjk
— Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) January 14, 2020