As Twitchy reported early Wednesday, the State Department’s inspector general had requested to meet with several Senate and House committees “to discuss and provide staff with copies of documents related to the State Department and Ukraine.” The request was said to be “urgent,” and Democrats on the committees were hoping to be handed proof of impeachable offenses.
The Daily Caller reports, however, that the IG instead presented the committees with “months-old news articles about Dem ties to Ukraine.”
Sources tell @dailycaller that the State IG presented a packet of months-old news articles about Dem ties to Ukraine to congressional staffers during today's "urgent" briefing.
Huge blow to Dems who were expecting docs that could help w/ impeachment.https://t.co/bbjccetWed
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 2, 2019
The packet was apparently given to Pompeo this spring in an attempt to undermine the US Ambassador to Ukraine. It was then passed along to the IG in May, raising questions as to why this was presented as "urgent" now.
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 2, 2019
Sources say some of the articles in the packet were from The Hill's John Solomon, who has written extensively about Ukraine (and particularly Democratic involvement there).
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 2, 2019
This also undercuts the reporting of other outlets, who claim the briefing today was going to be about retaliation against State employees who cooperated with Dems impeachment investigation.
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 2, 2019
That’s what we’d been led to believe.
To summarize: Dems went into the briefing expecting impeachable information. Came out with articles (which they call conspiracy theories) about their own party's connections to and pressure on Ukraine. Brutal.
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) October 2, 2019
Lol destroyed https://t.co/wo1qUoG84r
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 3, 2019
REKT.
— Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) October 2, 2019
— Catherine Siena (@1catherinesiena) October 2, 2019
So, the "urgent" briefing was to warn the Democrats not to go down this road, or they'd be outing everybody, like they appear to have done with the "Russian Collusion" nonsense?
— Chewiechipsahoy (@Crapplefratz) October 2, 2019
God, even the State Dept. IG is trolling them now. @realDonaldTrump is rubbing off with regards on how to deal with Congress
And it's glorious
— Under Cover Tanker (@mn6824) October 2, 2019
Not surprised at all. Dems continue to get demoralized. Every time they get excited about negative info about @realDonaldTrump, it backfires, just as this ‘whistle blower’ saga will, and it comes back to bite them in the a*s.
— Lawrence Kulin (@theLKat) October 2, 2019
Karma just had a litter of puppies.
— Wayne Berwick (@RealBerwickW) October 2, 2019
I think they're just laying the groundwork so that everybody will understand what happened when the conspiracy theories are proven to be true.
— agreee2disagree (@agreee2disagree) October 2, 2019
Yeeeehaaaaaa. Trump on the offensive
— Bulldawg Forever (@fhayes1984) October 2, 2019
Looks like Sec Pompeo is a master troller, too ???
— ??C Larson Blessed American?? (@teachermom54) October 3, 2019
What they got was a foreshadowing of the past. ?????
— Brad Swan (@altesojr) October 2, 2019
@ComfortablySmug libs owned yet again
— Nathan Lewis (@nlewi285) October 2, 2019
Be careful what you ask for
You just might get it
And it won't be what you expect— Abstract1dea (@abstract1dea) October 2, 2019
Whomp whomp!
— Kristine Bock (@PalmKristine) October 2, 2019
The Dems are having maybe their worst day since Trump was elected. The Schadenfreude is particularly delicious today.
— Saikat Puppet Master (@Clankster1) October 2, 2019
What a set up! Engineered by Trump
— Rubicon (@Rubicon1313) October 2, 2019
Should have handed them a Ukrainian phone book.
— Dennis Dockery (@slobzilla) October 2, 2019
Well, that was supposed to be today’s bombshell story, and instead, it’s news that the whistleblower reached out to Adam Schiff before filing the complaint. Well played.
Related:
'Highly unusual and cryptically worded': State Dept. IG requests urgent meeting with Congress https://t.co/3wIuxCMBpU
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 2, 2019
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