Posted on 05/19/2019 9:33:42 AM PDT by ETL
Dan Bongino lays out very well in fine detail the sophisticated plot devised by the DEMOCRATS and Russia!
For LOTS more on the FACTS of DEMOCRAT-RUSSIA collusion, including DEM-RUSSIA collusion via the Ukraine, see my FR Profile page.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/
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From John Solomon, The Hill, May 16, 2019...
"...a Ukrainian court ruled that the countrys National Anti-Corruption Bureau, closely aligned with the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, and a parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko wrongly interfered in the 2016 American election by releasing documents related to Manafort."
Ukraine, a U.S. ally and neighboring foe of Russia, is soon to find out. And its a case with implications in the United States, where the fallout from the unproven Trump-Russia collusion scandal has engulfed several Ukrainians.
The countrys chief corruption prosecutor on Thursday opened an investigation into suspicions that Serhiy Leshchenko, a crusading anti-corruption member of Ukraines parliament and former investigative journalist, accepted bribes in 2016 from a Russian source that enabled him to buy a luxury condo far above his means. ...
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A Ukrainian court last December ruled that Leshchenko and the head of the countrys National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) an investigative agency modeled on Americas FBI both illegally meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by leaking financial documents that smeared then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort
The documents, known as the black ledger, identified payments Manafort secretly received from a Russian-backed political party in Ukraine years earlier and led to Manaforts abrupt resignation from the Trump campaign. He eventually pleaded guilty to lobbying and tax violations and is in prison.
The court ruling against Leshchenko was an extraordinary admission of foreign government influence on Americas last presidential election.
But it wasnt Leshchenkos only intrusion into American politics, apparently.
Sworn testimony released a few weeks ago by Congress revealed Leshchenko also was a source of Russian dirt on Trump that was fed to Hillary Clintons opposition research firm, Fusion GPS, the firm that created the so-called Steele dossier that led to a two-year Russia probe that recently cleared Donald Trump of colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin
So, a Ukrainian parliamentarian fed dirt to Clintons team and leaked to the media information that harmed the Republican candidates campaign? That seems like more collusion than was uncovered by special counsel Robert Muellers investigation.
But the most tantalizing information about Leshchenko surfaced in my interview Thursday with Ukraines chief anti-corruption prosecutor, Nazar Kholodnytskyy, who revealed that the alleged bribes to the parliamentarian and the condo purchase occurred around the time that Manafort stepped down under pressure based on Leshchenkos leak.
Absolutely that is one of the things they are going to be investigating, Kholodnytskyy told me when asked whether any of the Russian money could have been paid as an inducement or a reward for Leshchenkos meddling in the U.S. election.
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To repeat...
Here’s a YouTube link to Dan Bongino on Fox News Jeanie Pirro’s show discussing the same...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxDeWUbmNlI
Rudy sees it too!! The still breaking Ukraine scandal centers on Democrats and PRO-RUSSIA people in the Ukraine!! ...NOT the folks being threatened by Russia there, as many if not most media, including conservative talk radio and TV, reporting might have you think or assume.
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From the Washington Post, May 11, 2019
Giuliani said he was calling off the trip because there were enemies of Trump on the team of Zelensky, a comedian with no previous political experience who toppled President Petro Poroshenko in a runoff election last month.
Zelensky who played Ukraines president on a popular TV show has pledged to fight corruption and push to end the war against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Many Ukrainian officials see U.S. support as a key deterrent preventing Russian President Vladimir Putin from encroaching further on their territory.
Western diplomats in Kiev have voiced concerns that Zelensky, given his lack of political experience, could be outmatched in negotiations with Putin.
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May 11, 2019 Update
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, said Friday on "Fox News @ Night" that he will not be traveling to Ukraine as previously announced.
Giuliani, a former Republican mayor of New York City, said that he believed he would be "walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president, and in some cases, enemies of the United States and in one case, an already convicted person who has been found to be involved in assisting the Democrats with the 2016 investigation.
"There was a great fear that the new [Ukrainian] president would be surrounded by, literally, enemies of the president [of the United States] who were involved in that and people who are involved with other Democratic operatives," he told host Shannon Bream. ..."
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From CBS News
May 10, 2019...
In an interview on Fox News The [Laura] Ingraham Angle Thursday night [May 9, 2019], Giuliani said that as Mr. Trumps lawyer, he has an obligation to develop explanations of what his client was charged with.
The fact is, this was a massive collusion between the Democratic National Committee, officials of the Obama administration, (Hillary) Clinton people, and the Ukrainian officials, corrupt officials who, by the way, were pro-Russian corrupt officials to create false information about Trump..."
This is this is real [collusion] not collusion conspiracy to present false information, and to leak it to the press, and to give it to the FBI, he claimed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rudy-giuliani-defends-ukraine-trip-to-help-defend-trump/
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Once again, for those who missed it the first few times...
[RT (Russia Today) is a Russia state-owned and controlled propaganda media outlet -ETL]
From The Daily Caller, May 5, 2019
* Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors of a Ukranian company [Burisma] as part of an effort to recruit well-connected Americans while the company was under investigation, according to The New York Times.
* Then-Vice President Joe Biden played a role in pressuring Ukraine to oust the countrys top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the company, Burisma.
* Shokins successor initially ended the investigation into Burisma, but decided in March 2019 to reopen it.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/05/biden-ukraine-burisma-trump/
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From 2014...
The Federalist
May 13, 2014
Mollie Hemingway
"In late April, around the time the vice president made an official trip to Ukraine, Burisma allegedly appointed Devon Archer, one of Hunter Bidens business partners, to its board as well.
Heres a brief write-up on the story from the Moscow Times, an English-language news service based in Russia.
These dual announcements raise more questions than they answer. The prominence of the individuals involved Hunter Biden is the vice presidents son, while Devon Archer was a major bundler for John Kerry and also his stepsons college roommate
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Mykola Zlochevsky
Same article, Daily Caller, May 5, 2019
Burisma is a natural gas exploration and production company owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a cabinet member of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. [Viktor Yanukovich was Putins stooge in the Ukraine -ETL].
Yanukovich was removed from his position in February 2014.
He currently lives in exile in Russia and is wanted by Ukraine for high treason.
Zlochevsky later fled the country in late-2014 as Ukrainian prosecutors launched investigations into his time in public office as well as his private businesses.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/05/biden-ukraine-burisma-trump/
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Viktor Yanukovych (Party of Regions), Putin's stooge in the Ukraine -ETL]
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His major rival was Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. ..."
The campaign was often bitter and violent.
Yushchenko became seriously ill in early September 2004.
He was flown to Viennas Rudolfinerhaus clinic for treatment and diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, accompanied by interstitial edematous changes, due to a serious viral infection and chemical substances that are not normally found in food products.
Yushchenko claimed that he had been poisoned by government agents.
After the illness, his face was greatly disfigured: jaundiced, bloated, and pockmarked.
British toxicologist Professor John Henry of St Marys Hospital in London declared the changes in Yushchenkos face were due to chloracne, which results from dioxin poisoning.[17]
Dutch toxicologist Bram Brouwer also stated his changes in appearance were the result of chloracne, and found dioxin levels in Yushchenkos blood 6,000 times above normal.[18]
On December 11, Dr. Michael Zimpfer of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic declared that Yushchenko had ingested TCDD dioxin and had 1,000 times the usual concentration in his body.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#TCDD_poisoning
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Viktor Yushchenko
Many Ukrainians believe you need look no further than the face of Viktor Yushchenko to understand Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Once smooth and ruggedly handsome, it still bears the scars from an assassination attempt when someone slipped dioxin into Yushchenko's food. ..."
Read more here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24765781.html#storylink=cpy
On Wednesday, [May 1, 2019] Attorney General William Barr testified that he is concerned about the Trump-Russia dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked Barr whether or not the Department of Justice (DOJ) could confirm that the Steele dossier was not part of the disinformation campaign Russia used to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
How do we know that the Steele dossier is not itself evidence of the Russian disinformation campaign, knowing what we know now that basically the allegations made therein were second-hand, hearsay, or unverified, Cornyn stated, referring to key claims in the dossier that the report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller disproved, such as the claim that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen traveled to Prague.
Can you state with confidence that the Steele dossier was not part of the Russian disinformation campaign? Cornyn asked.
No, I cant state that with confidence and that is one of the areas that Im reviewing, Barr replied. Im concerned about it and I dont think its entirely speculative.
If Russia had a hand in the Steele dossier, that would imply that Hillary Clintons campaign and the DNC either worked with Russians or were duped by the Russians in their disinformation campaigns.
It would mean that the real collusion with Russia may have been on the Clinton side, rather than the Trump side.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
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July 2017...
While the mainstream news media hunts for evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, the public record shows that Democrats have willfully used Moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against Donald Trump and attack his administration.
The disinformation came in the form of a Russian-fed dossier written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. It contains a series of unverified criminal charges against Mr. Trumps campaign aides, such as coordinating Moscows hacking of Democratic Party computers.
Some Democrats have widely circulated the discredited information.
Mr. Steele was paid by the Democrat-funded opposition research firm Fusion GPS with money from a Hillary Clinton backer.
Fusion GPS distributed the dossier among Democrats and journalists. The information fell into the hands of the FBI, which used it in part to investigate Mr. Trumps campaign aides.
Mr. Steele makes clear that his unproven charges came almost exclusively from sources linked to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He identified his sources as a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure, a former top level Russian intelligence officer active inside the Kremlin, a senior Kremlin official and a senior Russian government official.
The same Democrats who have condemned Russias election interference via plying fake news and hacking email servers have quoted freely from the Steele anti-Trump memos derived from creatures of the Kremlin.
In other words, there is public evidence of significant, indirect collusion between Democrats and Russian disinformation...
Continued at source...
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/11/democrats-spread-false-russian-information-on-trum/
Or,
Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig
Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of Ukraines prosecutor generals international affairs office, said that investigators had evidence that a number of Western figures, such as Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig, also received money from the Party of Regions, the party of ousted Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Craig was recently indicted for allegedly lying about his dealings with Ukraine.
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"Prosecutors who brought charges against Craig, the former Obama White House counsel, focused on a Ukrainian businessman who was also a major donor to Clintons organization, the Clinton Foundation, The Epoch Times reported earlier in April."
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Saturday special counsel Robert Mueller is trying to cover up his involvement with the Uranium One deal that benefited the Clintons while trying to have a coup against the president.
REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX): Robert Mueller has done more damage during his 12 years as FBI director than any other probably all directors put together...
He has wasted money right and left.
Amazingly, hes hired people like [Andrew] Weissmann that worked with him and [Rod] Rosenstein in investigating the Russian illegal efforts to obtain our uranium which they quashed information in order to allow the sale to go through so that Hillary could get the $145 million for her foundation.
So it is really outrageous. Hes covering for himself at the same time hes trying to have a coup against the president.
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So it is really outrageous. Hes covering for himself at the same time hes trying to have a coup against the president.
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Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007. He was at Hillary Clinton headquarters on election night and is part of the anti-Trump Resistance.
Vadim Mikerin, director of Tenex, plea agreement shows that the Obama DOJs Fraud Section was then run by Andrew Weissmann.
The Justice Department instructs prosecutors that when Congress has given a federal offense its own conspiracy provision with a heightened punishment (as it has for money laundering, racketeering, narcotics trafficking, and other serious crimes), they may not charge a section 371 conspiracy. Section 371 is for less serious conspiracy cases. Using it for money laundering which caps the sentence below Congresss intent for that behavior subverts federal law and signals to the court that the prosecutor does not regard the offense as major.
Yet, that is exactly what Rod Rosensteins office did, in a plea agreement his prosecutors co-signed with attorneys from the Justice Departments Fraud Section. (See in The Hills report, the third document embedded at the bottom, titled Mikerin Plea Deal.) No RICO, no extortion, no fraud and the plea agreement does not mention any of the extortions in 2009 and 2010, before Committee on Foreign Investment in the US approved Rosatoms acquisition of Uranium One. Mikerin just plead guilty to a nominal money laundering conspiracy charge, insulating him from a longer sentence. Thus, he got a term of only four years for a major national security crime.
Barack Obamas CIA chief, John Brennan, told the Annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus, on 15 September 2016, in Washington DC, that when he had applied in 1980 to join the CIA, he admitted to them that in the 1976 Presidential election, when Jimmy Carter was running against Gerald Ford, Brennan had voted instead for the candidate of the U.S. Communist Party, Gus Hall, and that he was then greatly relieved to find that this information didnt cause rejection of his CIA-application.
This had happened 11 years before the 1991 end of the Cold War...
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2018/03/31/john-brennan-voted-communist-in-1976-then-entered-cia-in-1980/
Here’s the direct link to Dan’s podcast on Friday where he explains in detail what he discussed with Judge Jeanine:
Ep. 982 Outed! Heres the Real Russia Scandal
https://bongino.com/ep-982-outed-heres-the-real-russia-scandal/
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I am absolutely ADDICTED to Dan’s podcasts - around noon every day, I start checking to see if he’s posted his podcast for that day yet .... for anyone who really wants to know how bad this Spygate situation is & find out facts no one but a few (like John Solomon, Sara Carter, etc.) are reporting, check out Dan’s info. He has some of his own sources as well:
Link to all podcasts on his website (he’s also started doing his podcasts as videos as well):
https://bongino.com/podcast/
Yea, but...
Like Rudy Giuliani, Dan Bongino is trying hard to get people to realize and understand what really happened here, how it was the DEMOCRATS who were in (total) collusion with the Russians, including through pro_russia figures in the Ukraine, yet it seems to keep going over people’s heads.
In fact, Giuliani, just the other day was trying to get the point about Dem-Russia via the Ukraine across to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, who has otherwise done an outstanding job on the overall story, and Sean practically ignored it. Limbaugh doesn’t seem to know too much about this angle either.
Posting on this precise topic here for many many months now, and mostly just hearing crickets, I can certainly relate to their frustrations. This is major stuff here! People really need to pay much more attention to it.
BTW, Do you or anyone (if anyone is actually out there?) know if transcripts for Dan Bongino’s podcasts are available? I tried a quick check, but couldn’t find anything. Too busy right now to try again. Thanks.
May 15, 2019...
GIULIANI: (continues) Its a case that is crying out to be investigated.
If it doesnt get investigated, we just dont have equal justice in this country.
Bidens son took millions of dollars out of the Ukraine, and over a billion dollars out of China.
Well, Joe Biden was vice president, was really directing the relief for Ukraine, the loan guarantees, well over a billion dollars of loan guarantees.
His son then got under investigation, for good reason.
He was working for the most corrupt company in the Ukraine [Burisma].
He was working for a Ukrainian oligarch who was being protected by Putin.
The same Putin that we have been hearing about for all this time, right?
Imagine that.
HANNITY: Let me
GIULIANI: Putins friend was paying Joe's son three, four, five, possibly more, millions of dollars.
And he got under investigation.
And Joe bragged two years later that he got the prosecutor general fired.
He just left out of it that the prosecutor general was investigating his son and his sons crooked boss [Putin's friend].
And then afterwards, the case disappeared.
HANNITY: To help explain to people there is a separate issue with China that Peter Schweizer covers in his book.
Bidens son flies with him to China.
Within a week or so after, hes doing a deal hes never done in his life.
But I want to play [a video] ... Ukraine is now begging to give us information that in fact they wanted to disrupt our elections in 2016 to help Hillary Clinton. Where are all the collusion people on that?
And Joe Biden literally leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars, demanding in six hours, that a prosecutor investigating his own son gets fired as a result of his connections to this energy company.
His son then got under investigation, for good reason.
He was working for the most corrupt company in the Ukraine [Burisma].
He was working for a Ukrainian oligarch who was being protected by Putin.
The same Putin that we have been hearing about for all this time, right?
Imagine that.
HANNITY: Let me
GIULIANI [abruptly interrupting Hannity]: Putins friend was paying Joe's son three, four, five, possibly more, millions of dollars.
BTW, Do you or anyone (if anyone is actually out there?) know if transcripts for Dan Bonginos podcasts are available?
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I have never heard Dan mention transcripts .... if he had them, I think he’d say so. I’ll scrounge around to make sure that’s the case.
BTW, Judge J sort of blew off most of what Dan was saying after he made his initial statements .... that’s why listening to the podcast with his fully developed info is so much more informative.
I have gotten to where I hate these 2, maybe 3 minute soundbites (like on JJ’s show, as much as I like her). I think that’s why Levin’s hour long discussions are so good, plus podcasts on various subjects - time enough to get a thought out in total & discuss the particulars!
It’s an exciting time with all the Deep State dirt that is seeing the light of day & now hitting the fan .... I think a lot of folks are up to their eyeballs in legal jeopardy; however, I’ll wait for RESULTS before I do any happy dances.
PS - I find it more than ironic that Comey the Commie is walking in the “woods” with his deep thoughts and the “Woods Procedure” is one of the things that is likely to take him down.
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