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How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost 4/25/19
The Hill ^ | 4/25/19 | John Solomon

Posted on 09/25/2019 10:39:17 AM PDT by outpostinmass2

As Donald Trump began his meteoric rise to the presidency, the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington to coordinate ongoing anti-corruption efforts inside Russia’s most critical neighbor.

The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).

The agenda suggested the purpose was training and coordination. But Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long — during the meetings and afterward — to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President Joe Biden’s family and one that involved a lobbying firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump.

U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii Telizhenko, then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting.

Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukrainian Embassy, said U.S. officials volunteered during the meetings — one of which was held in the White House’s Old Executive Office Building — that they had an interest in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions.

That 2014 investigation was led by the FBI and focused heavily on GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort, whose firm long had been tied to Trump through his partner and Trump pal, Roger Stone.

Agents interviewed Manafort in 2014 about whether he received undeclared payments from the party of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and whether he engaged in improper foreign lobbying.

The FBI shut down the case without charging Manafort.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014; 201601; 42519; biden; blackledger; declassification; demsukraine; fbi; fisa; impeachment; jamescomey; kholodnytsky; kholodnytskyy; lisapage; manafort; obama; obamaukraine; peterstrzok; robertmueller; sidebarabuse; spygate; trumprussia; ukraine; whitehousemeetings; whmeetings
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Spokespeople for the NSC, DOJ and FBI declined to comment. A representative for former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice did not return emails seeking comment.

Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, told me he attended some but not all of the January 2016 Washington meetings and couldn’t remember the specific cases, if any, that were discussed.

But he said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the U.S.-friendly NABU, after Manafort was named Trump’s campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.”

Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media. “Look, Manafort’s case is one of the cases that hurt me a lot,” he said.

“I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort."

1 posted on 09/25/2019 10:39:17 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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2 posted on 09/25/2019 10:44:04 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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Donald at the impeachment circus


3 posted on 09/25/2019 10:45:59 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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The shit is hitting the fan


4 posted on 09/25/2019 10:48:07 AM PDT by Spruce
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Dump their own dirt back on them. Call for their removal from congress.


5 posted on 09/25/2019 10:54:49 AM PDT by GailA (Intractable Pain, a Subset of Chronic pain Last a Life TIME at Level 10.)
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The key to their game is to keep the truth incommunicado. History shattering treason and corruption are being revealed everyday and 80% of the American people are completely unaware. The left’s hold on information is so pervasive they could shoot Trump and those 80% would probably never know. When Trump is silenced on Twitter make that 90%.


6 posted on 09/25/2019 10:58:49 AM PDT by hardspunned
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ya know, you read this article, and then you read the below article, and the picture gets even darker for the Dems. Who initially fell over themselves getting Ukrainians to the US to collude, and then fell over themselves preventing Ukrainians from getting to the US to tell about the DNC’s attempt to get them to collude. Talk about obstruction...geesh.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3781231/posts


7 posted on 09/25/2019 11:00:02 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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if the Obama/Hillary people were digging for dirt on Manafort as early as January 2016, then I suspect a mole planted in the Trump campaign pushed to have Manafort hired in March of 2016. Interesting.


8 posted on 09/25/2019 11:16:37 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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bookmark


9 posted on 09/25/2019 11:54:13 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Freedom or Liberty? Which would you choose?)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

ANOTHER FLASHBACK


10 posted on 09/25/2019 11:59:00 AM PDT by bitt (Trump stole pancakes from his distant cousin. Huh.)
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One of my favorite gifs


11 posted on 09/25/2019 12:03:01 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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So what? You are acting like you expect something to be done about this.


12 posted on 09/25/2019 12:19:33 PM PDT by Agatsu77
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bttt


13 posted on 09/25/2019 1:14:44 PM PDT by GOPJ (...They know they cannot win honestly at the ballot box... Freeper EagleUSA)
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Read later.


14 posted on 09/25/2019 1:19:21 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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>>> one that touched Vice President Joe Biden’s family <<<

The one that kept Plugs out of the 2016 presidential race.


15 posted on 09/25/2019 1:30:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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It fits like a glove. The democRATS routine is always to accuse the pubbies of wrongdoing, when they themselves are the perpetrators of the wrongdoing.


16 posted on 09/25/2019 1:33:48 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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Another Hill article from April

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3740372/posts

Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don’t you want our evidence on Democrats?
The Hill ^ | 4/07/19 | JOHN SOLOMON
Posted on April 7, 2019 at 5:13:16 PM PDT by Libloather

Ukrainian law enforcement officials believe they have evidence of wrongdoing by American Democrats and their allies in Kiev, ranging from 2016 election interference to obstructing criminal probes. But, they say, they’ve been thwarted in trying to get the Trump Justice Department to act.


17 posted on 09/25/2019 5:07:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Ain’t it funny that pecker head politicians from all countries always say they don’t recall certain things in meetings they may have attended, but not sure they did. They never seem to remember do they?


18 posted on 09/25/2019 5:27:01 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are living in the Last Days. The Bible says so, and I believe it!! Know Him now!!)
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bump


19 posted on 09/25/2019 6:42:24 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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WH Log for Jan 2016

Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukrainian Embassy, said U.S. officials volunteered during the meetings — one of which was held in the White House’s Old Executive Office Building

20 posted on 09/26/2019 5:29:11 AM PDT by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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