The Truth About Ukraine: Donald Trump says "The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world." (Circa 2019, TRANSCRIPT and link of 2 minute video clip )

YOUTUBE ^ | December 1, 2022 | President Trump

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ransomnote: The video excerpt (transcript below) is undated, was recorded when President Trump was in office, and is likely from 2019. The video was uploaded to YOUTUBE on Dec 1, 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZaNqkKGt8aA

TRANSCRIPT of video clip:

Why are we the only ones that give the big money to the Ukraine?

We give money to Ukraine, and it’s bothered me from Day 1; and you have plenty of people, just here;  I say, "how come it’s always the United States that gets ripped?"

Frankly, Ukraine, we wanna help them.

What I was having a problem with are two things.

Number 1, Ukraine is known  (audience:  Zelensky?) –before him, for tremendous corruption. Tremendous, more than just about any country in the world. In fact, they are rated one of the most corrupt countries in the world. And I don’t like giving money to a country that’s that corrupt.

Number 2, I hate being the country that’s always giving money when Ukraine helps Europe and the European countries far more than they help us, but I don’t like to be the sucker, and European countries are helped far more than we are, and those countries should pay more to help the Ukraine. ~ President Trump

END OF TRANSCRIPT

ransomnote: Biden has already given the Ukraine $67 Billion dollars and is proposing to send another $40 Billion. Trump wouldn't do it while in office - he made the exposure of the Biden/democrat corruption in the Ukraine a condition of military aid. Biden will never stop giving our wealth to protect the Deep State crime hub in the Ukraine.

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Related links on FR:

The Economist quotes the Urkainian head of the armed forces who indicates he doesn't expect to get the resources he needs to defeat or defend against the Russians

Support for Zelensky/Ukraine is support for Biden/Deep State

Aid to Ukraine Explained in Six Charts ($68 billion to date with another $37 billion Biden just promised)

General Zaluzhny, Ukraine at a fork in the road (TRANSCRIPT and link to 40 minute YOUTUBE video, my notes)

Related Internet link (opposition research):

"After President Trump’s illegal Ukraine aid freeze scheme was exposed, he has claimed that he froze the aid out of a desire to fight corruption. That is a myth. There is no evidence that he cares about fighting corruption in Ukraine or anywhere else."  ~Senator Leahy, Vice Chairman, Senate Appropriations

 

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The following link to an 8 minute video from March, 2022, is a way-out-there rewrite of history by the MSM. It's so over-the-top in its attacks and the false portrayal of Zelensky as just a sincere young guy fighting corruption that it becomes entertaining.

In it, we're reminded how much the media hated Donald Trump for refusing to meet with Zelensky, asking Zelensky to investigate the crimes of Biden (and freezing foreign aid when he declined), and saying the Ukraine had interferred with the 2016 elections to help Hillary win (in the video, described as a 'conspiracy theory' and 'Russian disinformation').

It's strange how time has laid bare he MSM's indoctrination purposes - the newscaster relays all om am exaggerated ,ammer. as if he is a 'mean girl' cheerleader making up unbelievable gossip about a rival.

Special vitriol was reserved for Rudy Guiliani - the clip describes him as leading an effort to 'manufacture dirt in the Ukraine on Trump's political opponents'. But the Bidens (Joe, his brother Jim, Hunter) along with the sons of Pelosi and Schumer all were engaging in the corruption of the Ukraine.

Ah, but this MSNBC video stresses that Zelensky was "uncorrupt" and that President Trump tried to "shake him down", so forget about all that. It's so far from reality I found it strangely funny. YMMV (your mileage may vary).

When Ukraine Needed U.S. Backing, All They Got Was Donald Trump's Corruption

 

[BipolarBob]

FBI “They may be crooks but they’re OUR crooks”.

[dblshot]

Ukraine is almost as corrupt as Washington DC.

[PGR88]

Waiting for the neocon troll BS

He’s a Pooty Putin Puffer!

Dirty Ruzzian Orc

He hates America!

Why is Trump fellating Putin?

[tlozo]

Right, so the idiotic argument is that this somehow justifies foreign invasion, genocide, and annexation by a more corrupt neighbor? Moronic

You deserve this, you're government is corrupt!

[SaxxonWoods]

With all the arms they’ve been given Ukraine should rule Russia by now.

[ansel12]

Here is President Trump telling us he is sick of Putin’s constant nuclear threats and murderous destruction of Ukraine.

““Look, Stuart, when he goes in and he kills thousands of people are we going to just sit by and watch?

This country will be in 100 years from now they will be talking about what a travesty, a horrible thing this is. We can’t let that, just on a human basis we can’t let that happen, and then he says that there are nuclear power but we’re a greater nuclear power.
(snip)
But if we didn’t have it we couldn’t talk but I listened to him constantly using the n word , that’s the n word, and he’s constantly using it.
But if we didn’t have it we couldn’t talk but I listened to him constantly using the n word , that’s the n word, and he’s constantly using it. The nuclear word, and we never talk, we say oh, he’s a nuclear power, but we’re a greater nuclear power.

We have the greatest submarines in the world, most powerful machines ever built, most powerful and they got built under me. Most powerful machines ever built and nobody knows where they are and

You should say look , if you mention that word, one more time, we’re going to send them over and we’ll be coasting back and forth up and down your coast. You can’t let this tragedy continue. You can’t let these thousands of people die. It’s going to be hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of people by the time it ends.

[McGruff]

Whitewashing Ukraine's Corruption

https://www.cato.org/commentary/whitewashing-ukraines-corruption#

[hardspunned]

I guess we should have listened to Hillary. This proves that Trump was as big a Putin stooge as the Biden FR team claims I am.

[McGruff]

How corrupt is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?

https://mronline.org/2022/07/22/how-corrupt-is-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky/

[dangus]

Worse that that:

You deserve this; the government you just voted out of office is corrupt!

[JonPreston]

I’m hoping DJT runs on a Peace and Prosperity platform. His one term was a success story on both fronts.

[New Jersey Realist]

90 percent of what they get they funnel back to our politicians.

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Whitewashing Ukraine’s Corruption
CATO.org ^ | April 6, 2022 | Ted Galen Carpenter

Posted on 12/19/2022, 2:40:56 PM by ransomnote

[H/T McGruff]

[tlozo]

90 percent of what they get they funnel back to our politicians.

Right, including the weapons. Okay

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled The Truth About Ukraine: Donald Trump says "The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world." (Circa 2019, TRANSCRIPT and link of 2 minute video clip ), tlozo wrote:

90 percent of what they get they funnel back to our politicians.

Right, including the weapons. Okay

They are selling some of the weapons to countries and organizations (e.g., ISIS) which have a hard time getting weapons donations from the US.

[Czech_Occidentalist]

Why don’t you ask why Ukraine is corrupt? It’s because it has been in the Russian sphere of influence. In Russia corruption is considered a normal part of life. Getting out of the Russian sphere of influence is the only chance for Ukraine to get rid of (most of) corruption.

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled The Truth About Ukraine: Donald Trump says "The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world." (Circa 2019, TRANSCRIPT and link of 2 minute video clip ), tlozo wrote:

Right, so the idiotic argument is that this somehow justifies foreign invasion, genocide, and annexation by a more corrupt neighbor? Moronic

You deserve this, you're government is corrupt!

 Quite the drama queen, aren't you?

Trump was pointing out the obvious - there's no point in giving money to corrupt organizations or people. The citizens in the Ukraine whom Trump would like to help will never see a dime of that aid. Zelensky and his globalist handlers redistribute the money among themselves (e.g., Biden crime family). Zelensky and his NATO directors provoked this war and it's paying them richly (67 billion in US aid alone, with another promise of 40 billion) but the people suffer. 85% of the Ukraines government is foreigners without any loyalty to the public that is sitting in the cold dark these days. 

You fabricated the assertion that anyone is saying anything to the citizens abused by Zelensky like 'you deserve this' etc. Biden's 'foreign aid' only aids the destruction of the country's infrastructure and the waste of countless lives of Ukrainian soldiers, or civilians handed a gun and told to fight.

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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled The Truth About Ukraine: Donald Trump says "The Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world." (Circa 2019, TRANSCRIPT and link of 2 minute video clip ), Czech_Occidentalist wrote:

Why don’t you ask why Ukraine is corrupt? It’s because it has been in the Russian sphere of influence. In Russia corruption is considered a normal part of life. Getting out of the Russian sphere of influence is the only chance for Ukraine to get rid of (most of) corruption.

The United States CIA and State Department (among other assets) helped to overthrow the Ukraine in 2014 for the purpose of building up the Ukraine's army (which it and others in Europeo did) to wage a proxy war for them against Russia (which is happening). Angela Merkel now admits publicly that the only reason for the Minsk Agreements was not for peace, but to buy time to build up the Ukraine.

Do you not care that Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Jim Biden all had corrupt, profitable dealings with the Ukraine, just as Jim Jordan and others in the new 2023 Congress have said they are going to investigate? Is it just another excuse for you to say, "RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!" ? 

[tlozo]

They are selling some of the weapons to countries and organizations (e.g., ISIS) which have a hard time getting weapons donations from the US.

Completely discredited bs. Link to one credible source.