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House Democrats are considering masking the identity of a partisan CIA officer behind a so-called “whistleblower” complaint regarding President Donald Trump’s telephone call with Ukraine from Republicans on Capitol Hill, according to a report. 

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Monday told reporters that she will not get “duped” into talking about Joe Biden’s (D) role in the so-called Ukraine “scandal,” urging reporters to “leave Joe Biden alone.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the weekend lambasted the impeachment investigation launched by House Democrats as a “silly gotcha game.”

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that his department sent Congress an “initial response” letter following a subpoena for documents linked to the House impeachment inquiry.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News Daily that despite former Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) contention, there are not 30 Republican senators who would back impeachment of President Donald Trump. 

President Donald Trump criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Sunday, suggesting she and Rep. Adam Schiff be “impeached” for their attempt to remove him from office.

Mark Zaid, the activist attorney representing the so-called whistleblower at the center of the impeachment movement targeting President Donald Trump, says he is representing a second so-called whistleblower who spoke to the Intelligence Community’s inspector general about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president.

Prepared remarks by the first impeachment inquiry witness indicate House Democrat leaders cherry-picked and mischaracterized texts he provided during testimony Thursday to fuel their effort to remove President Donald Trump from office.

Sixty-one House Republicans have sponsored a resolution condemning House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) for deliberately misrepresenting a phone conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky. 

House Republicans said Friday that it’s “deceitful” for Democrats to release “cherry-picked” text messages from then-U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker without the full transcript.

Officials in Ukraine on Friday reported 41 attacks by Russia-backed separatists against Ukrainian army positions in the war-torn Donbas region have occurred since midnight on Thursday despite a cease-fire agreement. One of the attacks fatally wounded a Ukrainian soldier.

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “American Newsroom,” network anchor Chris Wallace said it raised “all kinds of questions” that President Donald Trump demanded Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky investigate 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s business ties.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to accept, at least in theory, an agreement that would bring elections to Russian-occupied Donbas, triggered protests in the heart of Kiev on Wednesday night from those who feel an agreement with Moscow would jeopardize Ukraine’s sovereignty.

Whistleblower Aid, a small nonprofit helping the lawyers for the so-called whistleblower at the center of the impeachment movement targeting President Donald Trump, is heavily tied to far-left activist organizations and Democratic politics.

Hillary Clinton suggested in a tweet on Thursday that President Trump committed an impeachable offense on national television.

Newly disclosed text messages show Gordon Sondland, the United States Ambassador to the European Union, defended President Donald Trump’s July 25 telephone call with the leader of Ukraine, affirming the president has said “no quid pro quo of any kind” took place between the heads of state, according to a report. 

Schiff did not notify Republicans on the committee of an intelligence official who came to the committee with concerns.

A CIA officer whistleblower failed to follow the law for protecting members of the intelligence community (IC) seeking to report government malfeasance by going to the Democrat head of the House Intelligence Community before the IC inspector general (IG).

“Biden and his son are stone cold crooked and you know it,” Trump said to reporters at the White House. “His son walks out with millions of dollars, the kid knows nothing, you know it and so do we.”

The inspector general (IG) at the U.S. Department of State has requested to provide an “urgent” briefing related to Ukraine to congressional staffers on Wednesday afternoon on a matter that he was made aware of four months ago, Breitbart News has learned.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said during a press conference Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s attack on an intelligence officer whistleblower amounts to an “incitement of violence.” 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) attempted to draw the distinction during a press conference Wednesday that Democrats have launched an “impeachment inquiry,” not an “outright impeachment” of President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump continued to attack Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday after the House Intelligence Chairman read a fabricated account of his call with the president of Ukraine.

House Democrats on Wednesday threatened to subpoena White House officials for records on President Donald Trump’s discussions with Ukraine as part of their formal impeachment inquiry into the president’s phone call with the eastern European country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

Democrats in red states are worried the impeachment process may spin out of control and destroy their chances of winning the Senate.

President Donald Trump accused the Democrats on Tuesday of conducting a “coup,” to remove him from office.
“[I]t is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People,” he wrote.

After multiple failed attempts to sabotage the Trump Presidency, Democrats have decided that impeachment is the only way they stand a chance at taking back the White House. The party of futile resistance thought they had found a way to take down the President, but after only 24 hours their narrative fell apart.

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tapped Watergate prosecutor Jon Sale to represent him in the ongoing Democrat-led impeachment probe, it was revealed Tuesday.

Newt Gingrich blasted the Democrat-led House impeachment effort against President Trump, calling it “phony, one sided, [and] partisan,” citing his experience leading a “serious impeachment effort” against Bill Clinton.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is demanding Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry turn over details of his trip to Ukraine for President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration in May, which was mentioned in a partisan CIA officer’s so-called “whistleblower” complaint about President Donald Trump’s July telephone call with Zelensky, according to a report.

A spokesman for Rep. Adam Schiff’s House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence denied any impropriety related to a trip taken by a staffer to Ukraine last month sponsored and organized by the Atlantic Council think tank.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s leader isn’t just trying to charm U.S. President Donald Trump — he’s set his sights now on Tom Cruise, too.

The release of the transcript detailing President Trump’s conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is setting what some say is a “dangerous precedent,” as Democrats are beginning to express the need to review transcripts of other calls between Trump and foreign leaders.

Liz Cheney said a complaint that Trump sought help from Ukraine in the 2020 elections “is starting to seem like a political setup.”

Sens. Chuck Grassley, Mike Lee (R-UT), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter Monday to the inspector general of the intelligence community, demanding to know why they changed the whistleblower requirements.