Posted on 09/30/2019 6:46:34 PM PDT by bitt
Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton.
Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we've seen in this case.”
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country
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Hannity and his guests spent some time tonight remarking upon the truths in this article (amazing for politico..)
can you guys visualize the clinton soros stephanopolous war room right now, the panic
Ok. Reading along thinking this ain’t right till I noticed the 1/11/17 dateline
The news of the show, imo, was when sen graham said something to the effect of: “wouldn’t it be a surprise to find out the people the put together the “whistleblower “ were the same people thar put together the “steele dossier”?
Excellent show, and line up of guests on Hannity this evening. Jay Seckalo, Rudy and Lindsey Graham all spoke well and Sean let them say what they wanted to say with not much interrupting tonight.
YES!
and Graham also said ‘we’ll be seeing the info about the foreign gov’ts interfering with our election in TWO WEEKS!
When does the old hag Jezebel jump out of a window at Trump Tower?
Wow! I am stunned American media still has someone capable to connect dots. Although it took years to see the obvious.
My bad. Didn’t mention the date as well.
The CIA is infiltrated with people chosen who don't put America first... or second or third... I wonder if Bill Ayers had a hand in picking who would be top dogs over there...
Right. Coulda been “bombin bill ayers” or any of his clones.
They’ve all preaching the same mantra
HAR
rich
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