Posted on 04/23/2025 8:28:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
who was the largest contributor to the clinton foundation?
ukraine 140m
But the outcome is obviuos.
To the Victor goes the spoils. And that's been recognized since the beginning of time.
The Welsh Independence Front strikes again.
OCCRP: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_Crime_and_Corruption_Reporting_Project
Pandora Papers Reveal Offshore Holdings of Ukrainian President and his Inner Circle
$140m to the Clinton foundation from USAID most likely.
An intel threat to persuade Z to sign off on the deal?
Sign ze papers Zelenskyy, and we won’t prosecute you and your entire government.............
joshua - Ukraine wasn’t on the list of contributors to the clinton foundation.
The largest contributors to the Clinton Foundation, based on available data, are those who have donated more than $25 million each. According to a 2015 Washington Post analysis, seven contributors fall into this category, though specific names are not fully detailed in the provided references. Among them are:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Recognized as one of the largest and most prominent nonprofit donors globally.
Frank Giustra (via the Radcliffe Foundation): A Canadian mining magnate and founder of Lions Gate Entertainment, Giustra is a significant donor and sits on the Foundation’s board.
Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership: Launched by Giustra and Bill Clinton in 2007 to promote economic development in impoverished regions.
Fred Eychaner: A Chicago-based media magnate and major Democratic supporter.
Nationale Postcode Loterij: A Netherlands-based lottery that distributes funds to charities worldwide.
Ukraine, as a country, is not listed as a contributor to the Clinton Foundation in the available data. The Foundation’s donor lists include individuals, organizations, and foundations, but no specific contributions from the Ukrainian government or state entities are noted. The closest related donor is Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian businessman, who contributed between $10 million and $25 million, as mentioned in some sources. However, this is his personal contribution, not a donation from Ukraine itself.
Victor Pinchuk, through his foundation, donated between $10 million and $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, with at least $8.6 million given between 2009 and 2013, including during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as U.S. Secretary of State. His contributions are often linked to his efforts to promote Ukraine’s integration with the West, particularly the European Union, through initiatives like the Yalta European Strategy (YES), which he founded in 2004. The Clinton Foundation’s global reach and influence aligned with Pinchuk’s goals of fostering international support for Ukraine. Additionally, his donations may have been strategic to gain access to influential Western leaders, as evidenced by his interactions with the Clintons, including hosting Bill Clinton at YES conferences and attending Clinton’s 65th birthday party. Critics, like Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash, suggest these donations could reflect attempts to influence U.S. policy, though no direct evidence of quid pro quo has been confirmed. Pinchuk’s support for the Clinton Foundation also mirrors his broader philanthropy, as he has pledged to give away at least half his wealth through the Giving Pledge
Victor Pinchuk ALSO CONTRIBUTED to the TRUMP foundation — In September 2015, Pinchuk, through the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Donald Trump at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference in Kyiv, Ukraine. This payment was solicited by Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, and was the largest single donation the Trump Foundation received that year from anyone other than Trump himself. The Victor Pinchuk Foundation stated the donation was to promote “strengthened and enduring ties between Ukraine and the West,” and noted that Trump was not yet the Republican nominee at the time, suggesting no assured political influence. This contribution drew scrutiny from Special Counsel Robert Mueller in 2018 as part of investigations into foreign influence on the U.S. presidential election, with some experts like Marcus S. Owens, a former IRS official, calling the amount “unusual” for such a short speech and suggestive of an attempt to buy influence.
Where did you, joshua C, get the 140 m number from???
If Putin gets this, it is a pyrrhic victory - he didn’t get what he wanted in Feb 2022, and what he did get has been at the cost of thousands of Russian lives, billions of war materiel, destruction of Russia’s prestige and standing, and the loss of vassals in the ME while his back was turned.
Putin would have gained so much more at so much less cost if he hadn’t invaded in Feb 2022.
As I’ve pointed out over and over again - in Feb 2022, other countries gave up on Ukraine. If Putin had just kept his troops on the border, then Zelenskyy’s government would have collapsed, NATO would shrink to irrelevance and Putin would still have captive customers in Germany for his oil and gas. AND he would get the prestige.
He lost.
As Sun Tzu says - no one wins in a long war.
The US will also send a representative ( who to be decided later ) to the Moscow Victory Parade on May 9th to help Russia celebrate its greatest victory since WWII. Many observers hope that next year’s parade can celebrate the recapture of the Baltics and, hopefully, Poland.
Yep. A lot of us have known this for a long time.
I bet there are senators, congressmen and generals gettin their bug-out bags ready..............
Lots of billionaires came out of this war.
While these findings are not definitive evidence of corruption in the legal sense—due to the lack of proven tax evasion, laundering, or personal enrichment—they highlight ethical breaches and hypocrisy given Zelenskyy’s anti-corruption platform. The ties to Kolomoisky amplify perceptions of oligarch influence, damaging Zelenskyy’s reformist image. Ongoing investigations by NAZK and NABU have not yielded charges, likely due to Ukraine’s systemic corruption and Zelenskyy’s institutional control. The Papers thus expose a gap between Zelenskyy’s rhetoric and actions, but without conclusive proof of criminality, they fall short of confirming corruption outright.
The Pandora papers do NOT show any corruption after his presidency
The Pandora Papers, released in October 2021, primarily focus on offshore financial activities predating Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency, which began on May 20, 2019. The documents do not provide direct evidence of corruption by Zelenskyy after he became president
The Pandora Papers do not indicate that Zelenskyy or his associates created new offshore companies or engaged in new offshore transactions after he became president. The documented activities (e.g., Maltex, SVT Films, and London property purchases) predate his presidency
There has been NO credible evidence that links Zelenskyy to personal misuse of aid. The Pandora Papers do not address aid flows, focusing on pre-2019 offshore activities.
Claims of Zelenskyy’s luxury purchases (e.g., yachts, villas) are debunked as Russian disinformation by fact-checkers like Snopes and the ICIJ. His 2022-2023 asset declarations show modest income (e.g., $300,000 annually, including Olena’s jewelry sales), consistent with his pre-war lifestyle.
Investigations by NABU and Western auditors (e.g., EU) have not found evidence of Zelenskyy personally diverting aid.
– Ukraine will receive compensation and assistance for rebuilding. The source of this funding is unknown.
It sure as hell better NOT be from the USA taxpayer. We have already paid enough to that stinking hell hole. /spit
This information has been know to the internet community following this topic for three weeks. Nothing new.
About the thing that would be news is for the US to actually ask Russia for the record their conditions for 1) peace, or 2) ceasefire.
Of course the US knows the conditions. Trump has en.gaged in the time honored tradition of keeping his allies and enemies off balance with all this talk of negotiations. In the mean time, the really MEAN time, Putin has been give the go ahead to deal with Zelinski in the only way Zelinski understands.
Do Not be Shocked in the next year if or when Russia actually declares a war between the two governments of Russia and Ukraine. This is the signal that Bandarites and Nazi’s are being targeted. I can actually see where a declaration of war gives cover the destruction of the Kiev government.
Had Trump and Putin actually been conducting negotiations, Washington would have had to respond to Russian requiremetns instead of the Biden styled Prononucements to the Press.
Trump is preapred to purchase minerals from Russia. Trump was prepared to reopen NordStream with a US cut on transit payments in place of Ukraine.
Zelinski was not open for business. After the US investment this was a strategic mistake. Even the Brit’s betrayal of the US in Ukraine can not repalce US power.
Trump needs to break the Bank of England and the British Intel Services, and then break our friendly relationship. Britian is the most toxic relationship the US has; at least with Israel we get God together to share. Brits have maintained a hostile relationship with Russia since the late 1850s and the same Brit families have given the US and Britian all this pain.
corruption
Ukraine bad - 105th out of 180 countries
https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/ukraine
Russia worse - 154th out of 180 countries
https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/russia
Having signed previous treaties with Putin which he violated, Ukraine wants a security guarantee avoiding future Russian invasions, ie NATO or peacekeeping western troops, both of which are opposed by Putin.
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