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House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) blasted Democrats in his opening statement Wednesday morning, pointing to their history of fabricating scandals as part of their desperate attempts to corner President Trump. “No conspiracy theory is too outlandish” for them, he said.

Democrats will hold the fifth public hearing of their impeachment inquiry on Wednesday with testimony from Gordon Sondland.

Far from condemning Trump, David Hale offered several new pieces of evidence that support the president’s defense against impeachment.

Gordon Sondland has testified that President Trump told him directly that he wanted “nothing” from Ukraine and “no quid pro quo.”

War heroes slammed Vindman, a National Security Council official who testified Tuesday in the impeachment inquiry’s third public hearing.

Former senior National Security Council (NSC) official Tim Morrison confirmed Tuesday afternoon that he did not think President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July was illegal.

MSNBC’s Ari Melber described Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s testimony as devastating and falsely claimed the witness “saw a bribery plot,” despite the fact that Vindman explicitly denied that.

Adam Schiff falsely claimed Vindman was worried Trump had broken the law. In fact, Vindman admitted his concerns were moral, ethical, and policy-based — not legal.

Support for the Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry is dropping and opposition is growing among independent voters, a Politico-Morning Consult poll released Tuesday revealed.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) used a portion of his time during Tuesday’s public impeachment hearing before the House Intelligence Committee to remind the American people that Democrats have been hellbent on impeaching President Trump since the day he took office and slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for calling the duly elected president an “impostor.”

The Democrats’ star impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman refused to characterize former Vice President Joe Biden’s (D) threat — to withhold aid from Ukraine unless it fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings — as “wrong,” admitting that he viewed the video showing Biden bragging about his threat but refraining from condemning it.

Christian evangelist Franklin Graham said on Tuesday that the Democrats’ ongoing impeachment effort against President Trump is “dividing our country even further” and added that Trump’s enemies are hell-bent on “destroying him & his presidency regardless of the damage it does to our nation.”

An interjection from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) on the need to “protect the whistleblower” has many conservatives saying that the chairman essentially outed Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman as the so-called “whistleblower’s” source. The claim, if true, calls Schiff’s and Vindman’s previous claims, that they do not know the identity of the “whistleblower,” into question.

Kurt Volker’s October 3 closed-door testimony has been the most beneficial to Trump’s defense in the impeachment inquiry.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), as well as a number of users on Twitter, ripped the New York Times on Tuesday for spreading fake news regarding the actions of the Democrats’ star impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified that he gave the transcript to someone in the “intelligence community,” but would not say which agency.

Democrats accidentally undermined their own case against President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning when one of their star witnesses, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, confirmed Ukraine felt no pressure from the administration.

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Tuesday during the third public hearing of the impeachment inquiry criticized Democrats for settling on accusations of “bribery,” after their claims of a “quid pro quo” “wasn’t polling well.”

House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) outlined three questions that Democrats and members of the media “don’t want asked or answered” during his opening statement for Tuesday’s public impeachment hearing featuring Vice President Mike Pence aide Jennifer Williams and White House National Security (NSC) Director of European Affairs Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman resented that Trump conducted his own foreign policy, independent of the bureaucrats and the “interagency consensus.”  

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale testified to the House Intelligence Committee earlier this month that aid to Lebanon had been withheld at the same time, and in the same way, as aid to Ukraine.

Williams has no relevant first-hand knowledge, and was never asked to brief Vice President Pence about investigations, nor did Zelensky bring them up.

Tim Morrison never thought there was anything illegal, or even improper, about the call. “I want to be clear: I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed.”

David Holmes, the political officer at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine who has emerged as the Democrats’ new star witness in the “impeachment inquiry,” admitted he had been drinking at the time he claimed to overhear the president on the phone.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) recalled that President Donald Trump had rejected a quid pro quo out of hand, and said Ukraine felt no pressure.

A Charisma News poll found that almost 90 percent of evangelicals think that the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Trump is a “witch hunt.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who rose to the spotlight last week during the first public impeachment hearings before the House Intelligence Committee, is branding herself as someone who is “proudly the opposite of AOC.”

Two witnesses confirmed that there had been an earlier hold on Ukraine aid in 2017, and that the Obama administration had been aware of Hunter Biden’s role in Burisma.

The GOP is aiming to expose the Democrat impeachment inquiry as a partisan bust, launching a coordinated, multimillion-dollar ad blitz targeting pro-impeachment lawmakers serving in districts that President Trump won in 2016.

Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, received emails about Ukraine policy from a top director at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations.

Democrats omitted that Tim Morrison did not have concerns that President Trump had done anything illegal, as well as other exculpatory evidence.

Tim Morrison testified last month that he believed nothing improper occurred during Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky.

Attorney General William Barr accused congressional Democrats of “sabotaging” the Trump administration by implying that the government in power is illegitimate.

State Department staffer David Holmes, the aide who claims to have overheard President Donald Trump talking to U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland the day after his July 25 conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, testified in a closed-door impeachment inquiry hearing at the House Intelligence Committee Friday afternoon that he overheard Sondland telling President Trump that President Zelensky “loves your ass.”

Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch admitted she has no knowledge of President Donald Trump accepting bribes nor of the president being involved in any criminal activity.

Former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified the Ukrainian government had an open probe into Burisma Holdings when Joe Biden demanded the firing of the country’s top prosecutor.