“During President Trump’s impeachment, former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified to Congress that she knew little beyond an initial briefing and “press reports” about Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas firm that had hired Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and was dogged by a corruption investigation. “It just wasn’t a big deal,” she declared under oath on Oct. 11, 2019.
…Yovanovitch, for instance, was specifically warned in an email by her top deputy in September 2016 — three years before her testimony — that Burisma had hired an American firm with deep Democratic connections called Blue Star Strategies to “rehabilitate the reputation” of the Ukrainian gas firm and that it had placed “Hunter Biden on its board,” the memos show. She also met directly with a representative for Burisma in her embassy office, less than 45 days before Trump took office, a contact she did not mention during her impeachment deposition.
The discussions about Burisma inside Yovanovitch’s embassy were so extensive, in fact, that they filled more than 160 pages of emails, memos and correspondence in fall 2016 alone, according to the State Department records obtained under FOIA by the conservative group Citizens United.
…Yovanovitch, who recently retired from State, did not respond Tuesday to a message sent to her private email seeking comment. Her lawyer during the impeachment proceedings, Lawrence S. Robbins, also did not respond to an emailed request for comment. State officials declined comment.
David Bossie, a former congressional investigator and current outside adviser to Trump who runs Citizen United, said the documents his group obtained raise questions about Yovanovitch’s testimony last fall and what else Congress may not know about the embassy’s involvement with the Hunter Biden-connected Burisma firm. “These new records clearly don’t support Ambassador Yovanovitch’s testimony under oath during [Rep. Adam] Schiff’s sham impeachment. Her sworn testimony must be investigated and scrutinized just like in the case of General [Michael] Flynn,” he said. “You can’t have two sets of rules.”…”
Actually, you can, ‘cuz we do; what he means is we shouldn’t! Which is a wrong we hope and pray this dynamic duo is truly committed to righting.
Now, here’s a special Progressive-inspired A*s Clown edition of The Gouge!
First up, as Jeff Foutch noted in his forward of the following from the Washington Examiner‘s Brad Polumbo, just when you’d thought CNN had hit peak stupid, they go…
“There are almost no words for how ridiculous this is. Anchor Chris Cuomo has touted CNN as the “facts first” network. Reliable Sources (ironic)host Brian Stelter regularly tut-tuts Fox News (sometimes justifiably) for having unqualified guests speaking on expert subjects. But at least they don’t tell their viewers to take their coronavirus wisdom from 17-year-old, troubled teenagers…”
Not to mention three older individuals who have no more access to the facts than does Greta…or any of us.
In a related item of Progressive a*s clowning, Townhall.com‘s Matt Vespa details Emmett Sullivan’s disgusting…
“Michael Flynn’s sentencing judge Wednesday asked a former federal judge to explore whether Trump’s former national security adviser should face a contempt hearing for perjury after he pleaded guilty to a crime for which he now claims to be innocent. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan also asked retired New York federal Judge John Gleeson to make a nonbinding recommendation whether to order Flynn, who pleaded guilty to a crime and now claims innocence, to explain why he should not be found in criminal contempt for lying under oath in his guilty plea.
Sullivan’s request to Gleeson comes one day after Sullivan had put on hold the Justice Department’s bid to drop charges against Flynn, saying he expects independent groups and legal experts to argue against the move. “The Court exercises its inherent authority to appoint The Honorable John Gleeson (Ret.) as amicus curiae to present arguments in opposition to the government’s Motion to Dismiss,” Sullivan wrote in a two-page order…”
As Alice noted in an earlier version of Wonderland…
Next up, the WSJ‘s Kim Strassel continues the asinine a*s comedy as she relates the reality of…
“In the Bible, we are told that the truth will set us free. In the Beltway, we find that the truth-tellers get hammered.
Take William Barr…
…Thepress spent all week flogging an open letter from 1,900 former Justice Department employees calling on Mr. Barr to resign for having “assaulted the rule of law” by withdrawing the charges against Mr. Flynn. Never mind that this crew is an insignificant fraction of the tens of thousands of former department employees who didn’t sign a letter. Many stories also conveniently neglected to mention that the letter was organized by Protect Democracy, a nonprofit formed in 2017 by former counsels for President Obama.
The proof of the skullduggery behind these attacks and press stories is in the name they don’t mention: U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen.He’s the man Mr. Barr tapped in January to review the Flynn case, and who made the recommendation to withdraw the charges. Career prosecutors worked on the withdrawal brief.No one has dared suggest Mr. Jensen is anything but a fine lawyer—because they can’t. He spent 10 years at the FBI and 10 as a career prosecutor.His involvement refutes the critics’ assertion that this was a “politicized” decision by Mr. Barr on behalf of Mr. Trump. So they’ve excised him—and the career prosecutors—from the story…”
Speaking of excising a*s clowns, courtesy of Bill Meisen, Bill Hemmer goes toe-to-toe with an utterly unhinged Xochitl Hinojosa:
She’ll “leave it up to the investigators”?!? She’s staring the country straight in the face and denying we just endured her party’s witch hunt for the last three years!
Please note, she NEVER even acknowledges the question, yet alone attempts to answer it. Don’t you think, KNOWING you were going on live television, and with advance knowledge of the subject at hand, one would be a WEE bit more prepared?!? Sorry, but the only thing ready for prime time is this spokeperson’s politically-correct appellation.
As contributor Bill Meisen noted, “Hemmer is known as a rather gentile host rather than an aggressive interrogator. This was a welcome deviation. His interview of Ms. Xochitl also proves that there are health risks associated continued quarantines. For if I were quarantined in the same house as this mindless, shrill shrew, it wouldn’t take long before you found me at the end of a rope.”
Or, as we responded, found HER at the end of a rope…or in a corner with two squarely in her forehead. We haven’t heard such uncontrolled timbre since the infamous Scream…Howard Dean’s, not Munch’s.
Since we’re on the subject of a*s clowns pushing the envelope, writing at Best of the Web, Jim Freeman explores…
“Dr. Anthony Fauci has proven he doesn’t understand economics. His Tuesday Senate testimony also suggested the limits of his knowledge about public health.
As for the economic impact of the shutdowns encouraged by Dr. Fauci, the disaster is manifest…
…In the meantime, a bit of good news from the Tuesday hearing is that Dr. Fauci reports that while Donald Trump respects his advice, the President also “gets opinions from a variety of other people.”
Thank God.“
Quite literally!!!
Seriously, the good doctor could at least admit there is no way the country can stay in lockdown indefinitely. And while he’s at it, he might at least acknowledge there’s this thing called “the economy“, his self-admitted ignorance about which, his status as “a scientist, a physician, and a public health official” notwithstanding, still doesn’t excuse his utter ignorance of the impact his advice has on the nation.
We’re solidly of the opinion Fauxchi isn’t actually preventing any Wuhan virus-related fatalities, he’s merely postponing them.
A position this video from Tucker and Dave Portnoy supports:
Anyone interested in viewing Portnoy’s video in its entirety can access it here. TRIGGER WARNING: Much of Portnoy’s complaint is in rather frank French!
Here’s the juice: as detailed in May 4th edition of The Gouge, there are any number of viruses continuously roaming the planet for which medical science has found no cure, including the Hong Kong flu, which was far deadlier than the Wuhan virus has proved to date, yet which occasioned no closings or lockdowns of any kind!!!
As previously noted…
And just to show we call out a*s clownery irrespective of source and/or political leanings, consider this flip-floppery courtesy of Townhall.com‘s Reagan McCarthy:
“The nationally-watched special election in California’s 25th congressional district ended in a GOP victory on Tuesday night. The race has not been called thus far, but Republican Mike Garcia holds a substantial lead over Democrat Christy Smith in the race for disgraced former Congresswoman Katie Hill’s seat…”
Sooo…which is it: the result is “too close to call” or “ended in a GOP victory”; “the race has not been called” or Garcia “holds a substantial lead”?!? One or the other must be true, and it’s the job of reporters and editors to accurately present cold, hard facts, not conflicting collections of quaint colloquialisms.
Which brings us, appropriately enough, to The Lighter Side:
Then there’s this lockdown-themed meme from Speed Mach…
…five more from Balls Cotton…
…and this series of mostly spousal-related humor from our brother Rob:
Finally, we’ll call it a week with an update on the latest pre-determined, race-based court case on America’s docket, as…
“The lawyer for Travis McMichael, one of the men accused of gunning down an unarmed “Georgia jogger“, vowed Thursday to find the “truth” and that the “facts” would eventually come out at a trial.“We know that there are strong opinions, we know there is anger, we know there is outrage,” Jason Sheffield said. “Right now we are starting at the end. We know the ending. What we don’t know is the beginning.”
During his afternoon press conference, Sheffield vowed to “find the truth” and “bring that truth out” but said it would be done in a courtroom and not in the court of public opinion…”
We suggest a hearty “AMEN” to THAT benediction. Again, WITHOUT ANY IMPLICATION THE McMICHAEL’S ACTIONS WERE JUSTIFIED, isn’t this the way America’s system of jurisprudence is SUPPOSED to work?!?
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