Trump denies Hillary Clinton claim he sought foreign help for 2020 election

The Manchester Guardian ^ | September 20, 2019 | David Smith in Washington and Andrew Roth in Moscow

[2ndDivisionVet]

Speculation Ukraine was asked for information to damage Biden

Trump ‘asked a foreign power to help him win an election. Again’

Donald Trump on Friday denied an accusation from his political rival Hillary Clinton that he sought help from a foreign government to help his bid for re-election – a potential replay of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The White House was rocked this week by a whistleblower’s complaint that included a private conversation between the US president and a foreign leader. Some of the allegations appear to centre on Ukraine, according to reports in the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Trump spoke with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on 25 July, about two weeks before the complaint was filed. Washington is rife with speculation that the US president may have been pressuring Zelensky to provide damaging information about former vice-president Joe Biden, his potential opponent in the 2020 election.

The Trump campaign in 2016 had numerous contacts with Russia, and accepted a meeting that promised “dirt” on Clinton, although the special counsel Robert Mueller’s report earlier this year of his investigation into the controversy stopped short of finding direct collusion.

[2ndDivisionVet]

How is this a scandal? Do these fools forget that Hillary's team hired a foreign firm to put together that fake dossier?

[Innovative]

The only criminal here is Hillary.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Doesn’t matter what he says or proves. These people would do anything to those that get in their way. Ask Vince Foster.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Doesn’t matter what he says or proves. These people would do anything to those that get in their way. Ask Vince Foster.

[lgjhn23]

Gee....wonder who that unknown “whistleblower” might be?
John “boom boom” Bolton keeps coming to mind.
IF so, it sucks to be him.

[Gahanna Bob]

How is this a scandal? Do these fools forget that Hillary’s team hired a foreign firm to put together that fake dossier?

I think you nailed it.

[Innovative]

Bolton would not do something this awful.

He may complain and criticize, but wouldn’t sink so low.

[Neidermeyer]

Plugs needs to pick out his cell at Gitmo. Maybe they’ll let him bring a pair of comfy slippers.

[NEMDF]

Yep. And the MSM will just continue with speculation and innuendo, reporting it like it must be FACT.

[Vendome]

They are trying to bury the real story of Biden and son who in fact did “collude” with Ukraine and “Bo” is currently under investigation for his Sham Scam...

[Vendome]

Yeah, they’d probably shoot themselves in the back of the .... twice

Or post their response twice....

LOL

[Liz]

UKRAINE HONCHO: "I gave $29 million to the Clinton Foundation and all I got was access to Howdy Doody."

Chelsea Clinton and Viktor Pinchuk who donated $29 million to Clinton Foundation in Kiev, Ukraine 8/21/16.

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http://observer.com/2017/01/ukraine-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-election/http://observer.com/2017/01/ukraine-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-election/

OPINION Ukraine Tried to Tip the Election in Clinton’s Favor
Evidence reveals that Ukraine intervened to tilt the election in favor of its national interests
By Michael Sainato • 01/12/17

Politico reported that the Ukrainian Government worked to aid Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential elections. The actions taken by government officials included disseminating “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.”

Those documents implicated Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, who worked as an adviser for now-ousted Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych. However, the concerns that the documents raised weren’t in fact over any quasi-Russian ties, though partisan reporting pushed his narrative. Rather, the documents raised the question of whether Manafort declared the income that he had received from the position. The Podesta Group, a lobbying firm co-founded by Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta, also conducted work for Yanukovych.

However, the Manafort narrative not only painted Trump as pro-Russian, but also provided the Clinton campaign with a smear campaign while reaffirming its stance against Russia. It was in Ukraine’s best interest to tilt the election in support of Clinton, who strongly advocated for providing Ukraine with military aid and financial support in order to fight Russian separatists in the country.

Politico noted that Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American working as a consultant for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), met with top Ukrainian Officials in Washington D.C. about forcing Manafort’s resignation in order to perpetuate the narrative that Trump is connected to Russia. Both Chalupa and her sister Andrea have strongly pushed the anti-Russian narrative on social media, in addition to advocating that the electors of the electoral college defect from Trump. The report added, “Politico’s investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one another’s elections.”

In addition to the Chalupas, the co-founder and CTO of Crowdstrike, the cyber security firm that the DNC hired to investigate the alleged hacks, Dmitri Alperovitch, also serves as a senior fellow to the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council, which is an openly anti-Russian organization partly . The Atlantic Council is funded by Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who also happens to be one of the most prolific donors to the Clinton Foundation. The DNC denied multiple requests from the FBI to access their servers, effectively forcing the FBI to rely on CrowdStrike’s assessment of the hacks.

The Atlantic Council has propagated anti-Russian sentiment and advocated for bolstering NATO forces in anticipation of a military conflict between with Russia long before Wikileaks released emails from the DNC and Clinton Campaign Manager John Podesta. In 2013, the Atlantic Council awarded Hillary Clinton its Distinguished International Leadership Award. In 2014, the Atlantic Council hosted one of several events with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who took over after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was removed in early 2014. In August, Politico reported that Donald Trump’s favorable rhetoric to Russia was concerning Ukraine. The article stated, “Russia wants Trump for U.S. president; Ukraine is terrified by Trump and prefers Hillary Clinton.”

In response to their preferred candidate losing the election, Ukrainian officials are now scrambling to revert from their lobbying for Hillary Clinton and the DNC. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko recently signed a $50,000-a-month contract with a lobbying firm to set up meetings with U.S. officials in the new administration. Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk wrote an op-ed on December 29 in the Wall Street Journal in which he argued that Ukraine needs make compromises to establish peace with Russia. After the election, reports surfaced that Pinchuk donated to Trump’s charity to try to gain the same favor and access that his donations to the Clinton Foundation afforded him. “The sole reason the Victor Pinchuk Foundation has reached out to President-elect Trump—as well as other world leaders—has been to promote strengthened and enduring ties between Ukraine and the West,” a spokeswoman for the Pinchuk foundation told ABC News.

While past elections in Ukraine have been viewed as proxy battles between the U.S. and Russia, it appears that the 2016 presidential election in the U.S. faced similar influence from two foreign countries attempting to influence an election outcome preferable to their own national interests.

[Liz]

Obama/Hillary’s State Department Urged U.S. Investors To Fund Russian Research For Military Uses
Common Sense Evaluation ^ / FR Posted on 8/27/2018, 9:19:30 AM by gaggs

Wow! The Wall Street Journal in 2016: The Clinton Foundation, State and Kremlin Connections.
Why did Hillary’s State Department urge U.S. investors to fund Russian research for military uses?

A program overseen by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of the "reset" with Russia wound up enhancing Russia's military technology and funneling millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. Both the U.S. Army and the FBI found that the program, intended to support Russia's version of Silicon Valley, was exploited to improve Russia's military capability.

The FBI warned several American technology companies in 2014 that the city of Skolkovo, on the outskirts of Moscow, "may be a means for the Russian government to access United States sensitive or classified research development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial application." In reality, it was. (Excerpt) Read more at commonsenseevaluation.com ...

[odawg]

Trump could end this overnight by declassifying the right documents, especially about the Witch. Unleash the roar of the documents rather than the bleating of endless investigations that are ignored upon release.

However, he just lets them lie away, and the lies are trumpeted by the MSM into truth in the public mind. He only has tweets to combat them.

[Liz]

THE OBAMA/HILLARY RUSSIAN LOVE AFFAIR---Visiting Moscow on March 24, 2010, Secy Hillary
explained the Reset Button’s purpose: “Our goal (Obama and the State Dept) is to help strengthen Russia.”

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No need to ask Obama and Clinton about their Russian connections-----the paper trail is long and wide.
HILLARY'S STATE DEPT----AND THE OBAMA YEARS---UNRELENTING SCANDAL By Ari Lieberman/ frontpagemagazine.com

EXCERPT The taxpayer financed-Skolkovo Scandal – While serving as secretary of state, Clinton oversaw a program meant to “reset” relations with Moscow and improve ties. The program centered around the Russian city of Skolkovo near Moscow with the stated aim of “identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the American and Russian people.”

Hillary's State Dept program transformed Skolkovo into a technology hub akin to a Silicon Valley. Sensitive American technology was transferred to the Russians, substantially enhancing their military and cyber capabilities. The US Army and the FBI concluded that Russia had exploited the program for military applications.

The FBI warned American technology companies doing business in Skolkovo that the Skolkovo project was a means by which the Russians would acquire dual use technologies and apply them for military ends. According to investigative author Peter Schweizer, Russian and American companies and individuals involved in the Skolkovo fiasco “had major financial ties to the Clintons.”

Moreover, during the Russian reset period, those entities provided the Clintons with “tens of millions of
dollars” in the form of “contributions to the Clinton Foundation, paid for speeches by Bill Clinton, or
investments in small start-up companies with deep Clinton ties.” /////Of all the spurious excuses she gives for her loss, the most ludicrous is that
Hillary says she lost her "sure-thing election" because "Putin doesn't like me."
Comey sucked up--told Congress Putin wanted to “harm Hillary.”

Hillary once bragged that she, alone, was brought into Putin's inner sanctum
where she assured Putin she was worried about wildlife like he was.

Putin whispered to an attentive Hilary that they were BFF.

Secy Hillary and Obama were eager to please Russia w/ the friendly reset button.
Hillary later said the reset gambit was Obama's and her idea "to strengthen Russia."

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He had no official position or title.
Ex-Pres Clinton traveled to Russia to clinch the uranium giveaway deal.
And to pocket a $500,000 dollar speaking fee from a Moscow bank plus a sizeable commission.

Billybooboo even laid his "Hot Damn Hokey Hillbilly Act" on Putin.

[madison10]

I would not even have offered an answer to the hypocritical witch.

[piasa]

In addition to the Chalupas, the co-founder and CTO of Crowdstrike, the cyber security firm that the DNC hired to investigate the alleged hacks, Dmitri Alperovitch, also serves as a senior fellow to the Washington-based think tank Atlantic Council, which is an openly anti-Russian organization partly . The Atlantic Council is funded by Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, who also happens to be one of the most prolific donors to the Clinton Foundation. The DNC denied multiple requests from the FBI to access their servers, effectively forcing the FBI to rely on CrowdStrike’s assessment of the hacks.

And one of the Washpo writers who initiated this new scandal report is Ellen Nakashima, who earlier was one of the reporters who was chosen by the DNC to lead, along with Crowdstrike, their messaging on Russia 'collusion.'

[Liz]

Good catch.

[usnavy_cop_retired]

Connecting some dots here. John Solomon is reporting that Rudy met with the Ukrainian lawyer in August, (at the State Dept. request), and debriefed the State Dept. on Aug. 11. The WaPo states that the whistle blower made his allegation on Aug. 12. Possibly someone at State tipped the Dems of the debrief material sending them into a panic so they arrange for the complaint to be filed, (which means that the Dems have been getting intel briefings of PDJT’s phone calls in real time). When the DNI and AG shot down the complaint as not being a legit whistle blower complaint they had to leak to Schiff and WaPo.