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Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in Election 2016 to Stop Putin. That Bet Backfired Badly. (FLASHBACK March 10, 2022)
realclearinvestigations ^ | 10/17/2022 | paul sperry

Posted on 10/17/2022 8:30:49 AM PDT by bitt

Ukrainian-Democratic coordination traces back to 2014, when then-Obama Vice President Joe Biden helped install Petro Poroshenko in Kiev. Then came collusion against Trump.

Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.

Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Donald Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that's been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate -- their political rival.

Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.

As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine's ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.

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To: conservative_cyclist

Biden was hoping his buddy Putin would destroy evidence and kill witnesses that could be used against the Biden crime syndicate.


21 posted on 10/17/2022 4:30:07 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: BobL

“Pretty much explains why the Never Trumpers here are so pissed at Russia.”

Uh, no the “Never Trumpers” are all the ones who are cheering on the resurrection of the Soviet Union.


22 posted on 10/17/2022 5:16:33 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying To All.)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

“Uh, no the “Never Trumpers” are all the ones who are cheering on the resurrection of the Soviet Union.”

If they are, there isn’t anyone in the world listening to them.


23 posted on 10/17/2022 6:06:12 PM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 38 degrees)
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To: bitt

Paul Sperry has MSM cred. Good for him.


24 posted on 10/17/2022 8:58:43 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: bitt
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump in Election 2016...

Curse those Uke GloboHomoNazi murderers, and any who lie with them!

25 posted on 10/18/2022 12:02:17 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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