Sadly, they are more corrupt than even I ever thought.
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Peru is not more corrupt than other Latin American states.
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Conducted the first week of July, the poll found 54 percent of voters across 48 GOP-controlled congressional districts said Republicans are "more corrupt" than Democrats, with 46 percent arguing that Democrats were more corrupt.
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Election campaigns have just become more violent, more corrupt, more dangerous.
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A July poll from the progressive Center for American Progress found that 54 percent of voters across 48 Republican-held congressional districts said the GOP was "more corrupt" than Democrats; 46 percent said Democrats were more corrupt.
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The political system was worse and more corrupt than ours is today.
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Way more corrupt lawmakers, lobbyists, and donors sucking at the government teat.
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Of those surveyed, 46 percent said they believe Democrats are more corrupt.
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It is more corrupt than Nigeria; its infant mortality is higher than Afghanistan's.
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He'd likely argue, rightfully, that there are bigger, more corrupt fish to fry.
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No more corrupt and unacceptable (practices), no more benefits to individual interests over football.
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The more corrupt a society is, the more its citizens see smiling as suspicious.
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In fact, the US actually has become a more corrupt country on Trump's watch.
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But in smaller, poorer, more corrupt countries, LPG subsidies are probably out of the question.
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After he resigns, we can't stop this because there are more corrupt politicians in power.
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Every dour attention-grabber wants to claim that the elites are more corrupt than ever.
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Today it is assessed as more corrupt than poorer states such as Rwanda, Namibia and Senegal.
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Family members gathered outside the Mazatlan funeral home said the violence was making police more corrupt.
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Alternatives to democracy should be more corrupt systems, but this is not always the case, either.
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Many Ukrainians tell me that the new government is even more corrupt than the last one.
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With Temer as president the last two years, Brazil has become more conservative and more corrupt.
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But such systematized thievery has become entrenched in an economy that is more corrupt than ever.
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"We always had Louisiana to be more corrupt than us," said Steve Flowers, an Alabama political analyst.
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But I think a lot of people think she's a lot more corrupt than she really is.
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Hungary — Falling from 54 points in last year's survey to 51 now, Hungary has become more corrupt.
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This deep state is more corrupt and this is more abuse of power than we have ever known.
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Others, such as Australia, Brazil, Libya, Spain and Turkey are more corrupt than they were four years ago.
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The family members gathered outside the Mazatlan funeral home said the rising violence was making police more corrupt.
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Last year Transparency International ranked the Afghan government as more corrupt than 96 percent of all other countries.
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What kind of advantage could those outside of an even more corrupt-seeming system accrue to their benefit?
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In fact, to hear Don Jr. tell it, the Trump family deserves credit for not being even more corrupt.
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"The swamp is bigger, deeper, uglier and filled with more corrupt creatures than ever before in history," Warren said.
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And a body blow to the tax and spend politics that have driven our more corrupt and failed cities.
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I have learned to live with Fake News, which has never been more corrupt than it is right now.
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In contrast, Guatemala is becoming more corrupt and messy, yet the Trump White House is ignoring the deteriorating conditions.
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Serhii Plokhii, a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard, said Ukraine was not necessarily more corrupt than other nations.
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While it is not quite the same thing, there is some evidence that more isolated capital cities are more corrupt.
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He and those behind him are more corrupt than Dilma herself, and I fear for the future of my country.
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And in the process became more and more — corrupt is too big of a word — seasoned by cynicism and cunning.
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Alan Dershowitz said in the lead-up to the 2016 election that Donald Trump was more corrupt than Hillary Clinton.
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His case is helped by the fact that some of his even more corrupt colleagues have recently departed the administration.
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Well, now you can add to that his plight to help reform one of the world's more corrupt governing bodies: FIFA.
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The point is that getting there would be far uglier and look far more corrupt than even the firing of Comey.
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Ukraine has no universal healthcare and is perceived to be more corrupt than most of its neighbours, according to Transparency International.
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The move, while long predicted, raises concerns about prosecutorial independence in a country that ranks among the more corrupt in Europe.
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We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
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But the way in which this is done in poorer, often more corrupt countries makes truly comparable statistics hard to pin down.
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Notably, there is a section in the report where Trump is heard lamenting that he doesn't have a more corrupt attorney general.
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"I don't think it's because Alabamians are more corrupt per capita," said Jackson R. Sharman III, a criminal defense lawyer in Birmingham.
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There is a perennial myth that the problem with Washington is that the longer people spend there, the more corrupt they become.
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If she didn&apost, then the FBI under James Comey was even more corrupt going rogue in their attempt to destroy Donald Trump.
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That flawed version was banned in America, so a notorious pornographer, Sam Roth, rushed into print a pirated and even more corrupt edition.
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Ukraine is widely considered one of the more corrupt places on Earth, where paying the children and spouses of powerful people is routine.
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Opposition leader Raila Odinga then chose to boycott Thursday's do-over election, claiming it would be even more corrupt than the first one.
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The researchers said governments that are more corrupt spend less money on education and health care, especially in low-income and emerging market economies.
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Iraq was placed 169th out of 180 countries in Transparency International's 2017 Corruption Perception Index, with a lower rank reflecting a more corrupt country.
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And a recent poll suggests that a majority of voters in 48 Republican-held districts think the G.O.P. is more corrupt than the Democrats.
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Overall, Chile scored 70 points, three fewer than in last year's index, meaning it has become slightly more corrupt in the past 12 months.
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According to the World Bank, Hungary has grown more corrupt under its prime minister, Viktor Orban, who has used cronyism to entrench his Fidesz party.
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But what ensues instead is a scathingly farcical scene: Sinclair comforts Claudio, and then, while quoting biblical references, reveals himself to be even more corrupt.
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Oddly, they find that Ghana's police became more corrupt after their salaries increased, both absolutely and relative to Burkina Faso's police and Ghanaian customs officers.
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In 2017, Transparency International ranked Lebanon 143 out of 180 countries on its Corruption Perception Index, with a higher number reflecting a more corrupt country.
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Both years we gave Ukraine military aid during perhaps a more corrupt administration prior to Zelensky, who ran for president as an anti-corruption reformer.
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With Ukraine rated more corrupt than Russia and Nigeria, the SBU focuses much of its anti-smuggling efforts on crooked officials who wave through traffickers.
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My point is not that outsiders are more corrupt than insiders, nor that everyone's actions right now should be seen as reflecting nothing but self-interest.
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Illinois and New Jersey may be more corrupt, and Kansas and Louisiana more out of whack, but they don't bear the responsibility of being the future.
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Countries with a lower score are deemed to be more corrupt, and are generally characterized by impunity for corruption, poor governance and weak institutions, the report said.
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What's conceivable, however, is that both Capitol Hill and White House could be locked in perpetual combat over who's more corrupt and scandal-tainted than the other.
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A majority of respondents in 48 GOP-held congressional districts believe Republicans are "more corrupt" than Democrats, according to a new poll from a progressive policy group.
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The more sympathetic say that the BNP was in fact just as high-handed and perhaps more corrupt while in power, and allied to radical Islamists to boot.
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John Rando directs this revival of the Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn musical comedy about a lovable con man who makes New Jersey just a little more corrupt.
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But many other Iraqis wanted to be free to be more Shiite, more Sunni Jihadist, more corrupt or just more powerful than the tribe or sect next door.
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Politico reported that 54 percent of respondents from the GOP districts said in the online survey administered by the Center for American Progress that Republicans are more corrupt.
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Constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz said in 2016 that Donald Trump was more corrupt than Hillary Clinton and could be expected to continue being corrupt if he was elected president.
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In May, three more corrupt New York State lawmakers are expected to join the jumpsuited ranks, three more cautionary tales from a State Legislature with no apparent shortage of them.
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A July poll of 48 Republican-held congressional districts found that even in those Republican-leaning areas, a majority of voters now believe the GOP is the more corrupt party.
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The sports industry might be even more corrupt, as leagues often force resellers to use preferred services that set price floors, artificially raising the prices of tickets on the secondary market.
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And on Tuesday, CNN's KFile reported that Dershowitz had said in 2016 that he believed Trump was more corrupt than Hillary Clinton and more likely to continue being corrupt as president.
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I think we ought to have a really serious look at all the different ways in which the establishment grew more corrupt, more dishonest, more willing to lie to the American people.
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Earlier Thursday, the president tweeted that media outlets "have ZERO credibility or respect" as a result of their Russia probe coverage and have "never been more corrupt" than in this point in time.
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His GOP is somehow more corrupt and incompetent than Republicans were in the Bush era, and Democrats are more united in their antipathy toward Trump than they were toward Bush in the mid-2000s.
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Obama's warning ultimately did not persuade enough swing state voters to pick Clinton over Trump, and now we're living with the consequences of a president whose character is even more corrupt his administration is.
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McConnell's actions look even more corrupt now that some of his fellow Republican Senators are floating health bill ideas that would clearly be more in line with what the GOP has been promising for years.
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The Democratic Party of the 2000s and 230s was probably much more corrupt and inept than the Democratic Party of today—but back then it lived in the neighborhood, as it no longer does today.
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Here's Angela, a small part of a much bigger machine, but also somebody who just might have the key that will bring down a corrupt world order (and/or install an even more corrupt one).
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But an examination of the life and times of Hunter Biden does provide a reminder that most Americans thought politics as usual was corrupt long before Trump arrived on the scene to make it more corrupt.
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But as time went on it became more and more corrupt and all these oil-states began to resemble each other, developing a client-patronage system in which everybody has a job but not much work.
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Is it unfair or unwise of liberals to criticize Obama for harming the image of the movement he once led, if conservatives give their standard bearers a total pass when they do far more corrupt things?
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So the question of how you replace a bad elite with a better one, not just with something more corrupt, is what both left and right should be pondering while this particular purgation runs its course.
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"CBP does not agree with the perception that Border Protection agents hired during the previous surge are more corrupt or have more integrity issues than those hired before or after the surge," she said in a statement.
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During the election, many people were led to believe that Clinton was a far more corrupt and dishonest person than Trump, but almost everyone seeking to redeem themselves today was in on the truth behind the propaganda.
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Despite the fact that other leaders in the region have been far more corrupt, Akhmetshin somehow made the case with U.S. officials and journalists that Nazarbayev was worse, perhaps because more should be expected of him in an oil-rich, pro-western state.
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"American Made" encourages and earns your laughter, although it also provokes skepticism, particularly in its attempt to portray Barry as a picaresque hero, one of those rogues tumbling and swaggering from adventure to adventure in a world that's more corrupt than they are.
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"The more you go to the East, the more you see more authoritarian systems and more corrupt practices," said Ognyan Minchev, executive director of the Institute for Regional and International Studies and a professor of political science at the University of Sofia.
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According to the German lobbying group's latest "Corruption Perceptions Index" for 22015, which covers the perception of public sector corruption in 210 countries, the majority is still generally seen as more corrupt than not -- but more countries saw their score improving rather than declining.
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But the researchers split the news coverage into two types: reports of specific instances of corruption, such as a new bribery investigation into a named politician, and more general claims, such as a discussion of whether Italy is more corrupt than other countries in Europe.
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A 2006 study by the economists Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel found that diplomats from more corrupt countries like Egypt and Pakistan were much more likely to park illegally in New York City than those from more law-abiding places like Australia and Norway.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — When Laura Codruta Kovesi was in charge of Romania's anticorruption agency, thousands of government officials and business leaders were successfully prosecuted in what became an important victory in the battle against graft in a country that ranks among the more corrupt in Europe.
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But clearly the President himself has been dismayed by the poll numbers, lashing out on Twitter at Fox News after its new poll last week showed 51% of registered voters want him impeached and removed; and 51% also said his administration is more corrupt than previous administrations.
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The ongoing travesty at Baylor is an interminable reminder that it is always possible for people in power to be more corrupt, more depraved, and simply more apathetic toward the plight of actual human beings if it benefits themselves or the institution that signs their paychecks.
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You elect populists in the United States or Europe, you get this kind of rebellion, but it's a rebellion that leads back into stalemate, and you basically get a more corrupt form of government that reduces people's faith in the system further, but doesn't actually achieve the things that the populists want to achieve.
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Comparing Trump with most other politicians in Washington on honesty, corruption, intelligence and how "in touch" he is, a plurality of adults come down on the negative side for each one: 45% say the President is less honest than most other politicians in Washington, 41% see him as more corrupt, 47% less intelligent and 0033% less in touch.
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Nothing less than a full investigation is required, and if email-destroying Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE can't break from Obama on this then she is even more corrupt than anyone imagined.
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Yovanovitch, who privately testified to House investigators last month, described a smear campaign led by Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiBiden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep FBI sought interview with whistleblower at heart of impeachment probe MORE, corrupt Ukrainian officials and disreputable media figures who successfully facilitated her removal as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in May.
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Last month, Yovanovitch told the three investigatory committees in private about the "dangerous precedent" set by Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiBiden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep FBI sought interview with whistleblower at heart of impeachment probe MORE, corrupt Ukrainian officials and disreputable media figures to oust an ambassador they believed was standing in the way of their business and political interests.
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Yovanovitch, a career diplomat, described to House investigators last month a "dangerous precedent" where the president's personal lawyer Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiBiden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep FBI sought interview with whistleblower at heart of impeachment probe MORE, corrupt Ukrainian officials, and disreputable media figures succeeded in ousting a U.S. ambassador who they saw as standing in the way of their business and political interests.
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Yovanovitch's public testimony late last year put a human face on the impeachment inquiry into Trump's contacts with Ukraine, describing a dangerous precedent in which the president's personal lawyer Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiYovanovitch: Political leaders need to do more to support the foreign service Barr ensnared in Roger Stone firestorm Former diplomat Yovanovitch wins award for her work MORE, corrupt Ukrainian officials and disreputable media figures could succeed in ousting a U.S. ambassador who they saw as standing in the way of their business and political interests.
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Marie YovanovitchMarie YovanovitchFive bombshells from explosive Sondland testimony How Trump has disowned most of the impeachment witnesses Watchdog group sues State Department to release communications related to John Solomon MORE, who privately testified to House investigators last month, described a smear campaign led by Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiBiden: Impeachment hearings show 'Trump doesn't want me to be the nominee' Sondland brings impeachment inquiry to White House doorstep FBI sought interview with whistleblower at heart of impeachment probe MORE, corrupt Ukrainian officials and disreputable media figures who successfully facilitated her removal as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine in May.
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