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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We took him out. That should have happened a long time ago." Donald J. Trump
We took him out. That should have happened a long time ago." That's what DJT said after he ordered the killing of General Soleimani.
"Get rid of her. Get her out tomorrow. I don't care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. OK? Do it." That's what Donald Trump said, when he wanted the Ukrainian Ambassador to be 'fired."
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/01/27/three-things-odd-odder-oddities/
Doesnt it strike you as odd GOP senators are more upset about Schiffs repeating a threat ostensibly made by the White House to them, rather than Trumps repeated use of mobster language?
And in between the General's killing, and the dinner where Trump discussed the Ambassador, there were the ominous texts between Lev Parnas and Robert Hyde:
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/15/796593183/new-lev-parnas-documents-suggest-u-s-ambassador-was-under-surveillance-in-ukraine
The messages also seem to indicate that Hyde might have been involved in monitoring Yovanovitch and her movements.
"They are moving her tomorrow," Hyde later wrote, quickly followed by, "The guys over they asked me what I would like to do and what is in it for them."
Hyde said Yovanovitch had turned off her phone and computer, and that his associates in Ukraine would give updates on the ambassador's movements. He added, "They are willing to help if we/you would like a price ... Guess you can do anything in the Ukraine with money ... what I was told."
crickets
(25,987 posts)not_the_one
(2,227 posts)onethatcares
(16,195 posts)the entire maladministration is an organized crime family looking to divide the u. s. of a, for the good of their wallets.
I can't believe it's always been like this but the dumbing down of america seems to have worked
mercuryblues
(14,550 posts)Fruman and Parnas were on their way to Vienna. Firtash is under house arrest in Vienna for racketeering, money laundering and bribery. Townsend and diGenova are his lawyers.
He is invested in Strategic Communication Laboratories, it's subsidiary is Cambridge Analytica. He is also connected to Mogilevich, the Boss of all Bosses. At one point Mogilevich's lawyer was William Session's, Pete Sessions Daddy. Yes that Pete Sessions. The one that wrote the letter to trump urging the ouster of Yavonavitch and has his campaign coffers full of Russian $$$
tblue37
(65,502 posts)mercuryblues
(14,550 posts)I knew that. LOL. I googled to see how diGenova was spelled and still missed that I messed up on Toensing.
tblue37
(65,502 posts)when I typed it.
mercuryblues
(14,550 posts)Demsrule86
(68,733 posts)bdamomma
(63,931 posts)that's why the Ambassador got the call to pack up and leave.
We are dealing with mobsters here.
Chiyo-chichi
(3,590 posts)Their involvement would not have been needed if this was only about firing her. Nor would they have needed to surveil her.
bdamomma
(63,931 posts)a thug. Period.
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MineralMan
(146,338 posts)I wonder if it became known that there were physical threats against her and it was decided to get her out of town before they could be carried out. I haven't looked that up, but I seem to remember she was whisked away from there on very short notice.
If so, maybe someone should look more closely into that.
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)Informing her that she needed to leave on the NEXT plane out to the U.S. Not in a few days. Not when she could get around to it. On the next plane out. That sounds like an emergency to me.... As if she was under serious threat of harm. GET OUT ASAP. That sounds like a pretty dire warning.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)Fortunately, she left and it didn't happen.
yardwork
(61,729 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,499 posts)EleanorR
(2,395 posts)So why would he be asking them to fire her?
we can do it
(12,207 posts)Lev was trying to downplay it to save his own butt.