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Ukraine and Whistle-Blower Issues Emerge as Major Flashpoints in Presidential Race
nytimes.com ^ | Sept. 21, 2019 | Lisa Lerer and Reid J. Epstein

Posted on 09/22/2019 11:36:05 AM PDT by ransomnote

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On Saturday, Mr. Trump sought to deflect attention from that question by accusing Mr. Biden of acting improperly as vice president in calling for the ouster of a Ukranian prosecutor who had overseen an inquiry into corruption related to the oligarch whose company employed Hunter Biden.

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Intensifying a line of attack he and his allies have stoked for months, Mr. Trump said the real problem was Mr. Biden and questions about what the president described as “the Joe Biden demand that the Ukrainian Government fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son.”

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No evidence has surfaced to support Mr. Trump’s claim that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.

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The issue strikes a particular nerve for Mr. Biden, who has long feared putting his family under the harsh spotlight of a presidential campaign. During a two-minute encounter with reporters on Saturday morning, he grew irate, angrily insisting that he had never spoken with his son about any overseas work.

While Mr. Trump’s attacks give Mr. Biden the one-on-one showdown with the president that his campaign has spent months trying to create, it also exposes him and his son to another round of questions about Hunter Biden’s business activities in Ukraine.

The Biden campaign moved quickly to warn the news media over the story, underscoring a deep concern about how allegations about the younger Mr. Biden’s work will be received by voters. “Any article, segment analysis and commentary that does not demonstrably state at the outset that there is no factual basis for Trump’s claim, and in fact that they are wholly discredited, is misleading readers and viewers,” said the deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, in an email to reporters.

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FReeper dead posted a link to a video clip of Biden bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired in exchange for funds. Note the video is almost 2 years old - the NYT and the rest of the media work to mask it from public view with silence.

LANGUAGE WARNING - The video host uses profanity freely.
WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System
43,175 views•Published on Jan 29, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtO1OigwfVs

The NYT article is long and detailed - their 'A' game at work manipulating public opinion Or should I say 'CIA' game?

IT's stunning that they would dare to hold up Biden's concern for his family after what they've done, and are still doing, to Trump's family.

  MORE AT THE LINK

1 posted on 09/22/2019 11:36:05 AM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Says no one but the Fakestream Media.


2 posted on 09/22/2019 11:40:33 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: TTFlyer

“No evidence has surfaced to support Mr. Trump’s claim “

Unless you count a recording of Biden bragging about doing it.


3 posted on 09/22/2019 11:42:28 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ransomnote

And just yesterday Trump was Putin’s slave, Trump was abandoning Ukraine, Trump was giving up on our allies.

*EYEROLL*


4 posted on 09/22/2019 11:47:24 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: gibsonguy

Hey, NYT idiots! He is not Mr. Trump, he is President Trump, no matter how much you despise him.


5 posted on 09/22/2019 11:47:38 AM PDT by exinnj
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To: ransomnote
This has to be the most laughable AND disgusting quote in the nytimes 'piece'. 

"The effort by the president and his team to shift the focus to Mr. Biden could boomerang, casting the Democratic front-runner as a sympathetic figure unfairly attacked with foreign help. It could just as easily mark a defining moment for Mr. Biden, a 76-year-old politician first elected to the Senate in 1972 and long accustomed to playing by the more genteel political rules of a different era."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/us/politics/biden-ukraine-whistleblower-complaint.html

In addition to routinely taking the 'low road,' that cretin can't keep his hands off women and girls in political settings; when did that become 'genteel'?

There is so much to HATE in that article!

6 posted on 09/22/2019 11:51:43 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: exinnj

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 09/22/2019 12:01:27 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: ransomnote

I find it amazing that not a single “journalist” has even bothered to look closely at what Trump was all upset about. Probably under orders to not go there, I suppose.


8 posted on 09/22/2019 12:10:13 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: ransomnote
No evidence has surfaced to support Mr. Trump’s claim...

No evidence has surfaced to support the NYT report on "another" allegation against Kavanaugh, but they tried to print it as fact anyway...

9 posted on 09/22/2019 12:21:51 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Why, because the Slimes sez so? What a bunch of moronic shills they are. Best case scenario is, the Slimes will use this latest smear to try to eliminate Biden from the nomination fight so someone else (Psychojawea rather than Bernie "Shock Treatment" Sanders, and either one of them rather than Irish Bob, Kameltoe, or Corey "Never Lived In Newark" Booker) can run against President Trump. If one of Demwits on the various Witch Hunt committees were to shoot someone dead on live TV, using an AR-15, the Slimes would say this wouldn't have happened if Trump had bothered to do anything about gun violence, oh, and they'd work infanticide advocacy in there somehow. Thanks ransomnote.

10 posted on 09/22/2019 12:23:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ransomnote; Liz; SunkenCiv
... link to a video clip of Biden bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired in exchange for funds.

WATCH IT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtO1OigwfVs

11 posted on 09/22/2019 12:30:23 PM PDT by GOPJ ( Daniel Okrent HELP - lowlife editors at the New York Times need YOU... they've lost their way.)
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To: ransomnote

Confessions are NO Longer Evidence? Let’s take this Nationwide!


12 posted on 09/22/2019 12:38:00 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: gibsonguy

Unless you count a recording of Biden bragging about doing it.


Badges? Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.


13 posted on 09/22/2019 12:42:03 PM PDT by redshawk (Willie's Whore was bused......oh my...lying pig)
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To: GOPJ; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...

Guess I’d better get that archived with alacrity! Suggest everyone do the same.


14 posted on 09/22/2019 12:51:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: gibsonguy

So an American VPOTUS’s son, with no particular expertise in the petroleum industry, no expertise in Ukraine or Russia, and whose only redeeming qualification is his relationship to the VPOTUS, gets a cushy job on the Board Ukraine’s largest natural gas producer. The Government of Ukraine decides to investigate, but VP Biden intervenes, demands the investigation INTO HIS SON ends, and the prosecutor be fired or he will pull a Billion Dollars. And brags about it on TV! But “No Evidence”!

Imagine for a moment if we swapped HUNTER BIDEN and BURISMA with DONALD TRUMP JR and GAZPROM...

Trump would no longer be POTUS and his son would being in PRISON, possibly with along with his father. It would be the biggest scandal in a century.


15 posted on 09/22/2019 1:03:04 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: ransomnote

“The Biden campaign moved quickly to warn the news media over the story”

What does it mean when a politician warns the news media?


16 posted on 09/22/2019 1:13:10 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: ransomnote

Anybody watch Rudy Giuliani on Fox News Sunday (John Roberts substituting for Chris Wallace)? It was a barnburner... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/giuliani-cnn-interview-biden-ukraine-controversy


17 posted on 09/22/2019 1:18:36 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: ransomnote

18 posted on 09/22/2019 1:21:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: GOPJ
try this link, it will expire
19 posted on 09/22/2019 1:22:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ransomnote
Why the NYT Must Die
20 posted on 09/22/2019 1:31:49 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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