Shapiro: Trump Impeachment 'Should Be On The Table' If Mueller Investigation Quashed

The Hill ^ | 06/30/18 | Brett Samuels

[Enlightened1]

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said Friday that impeachment "should be on the table" if President Trump or one of his appointees ends special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference prematurely.

Shapiro, the founder and co-editor of The Daily Wire, appeared on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher," where he said he doesn't believe Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 election. Shapiro said he's waiting to see evidence suggest otherwise.

[Liz]

Hillary got plenty of Ukraine support in exchange for Clinton Foundation donaions.

"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.

[vg0va3]

One day he will grow up and realize that he has lived through the greatest times and regret that his hate blinded him throughout.

His loss.

[MAGAthon]

thankfully, I’ve never had any interest whatsoever in this person.

however, I read all the quotes and almost every word is dishonest and dripping with evil intent … and all said to Bill Maher!!!

you have to wonder!

[Presbyterian Reporter]

All one needs to know about Shapiro to disregard his opinions.

“””Shapiro was the editor-at-large at Breitbart, but resigned in March 2016 during the conflict between a Breitbart reporter and Corey Lewandowski, President Trump’s campaign manager at the time. Shapiro defended the reporter and accused Breitbart of “abandoning” his former colleague.

He also called Steve Bannon — the executive director of the website who would eventually become the White House chief strategist for several months — a “bully” who “sold out [Breitbart founder] Andrew’s mission in order to back another bully, Donald Trump.”

Shapiro revealed that he would “never vote for” Trump in March 2016 because he “stand[s] with certain principles.””””

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/14/ben-shapiro-who-is-and-why-is-so-controversial.html

[captain_dave]

What a little shit. Too much the critic. Too little wisdom.

[Nifster]

The youngster doesn’t understand the constitution. He’s too young to remember the Nixon era

[Enlightened1]

I guess that’s what this little pip squeak will say to weasel himself out of this one.

Ben Shapiro is a NeverTrumper that is a fraud in the conservative movement.

[onedoug]

He blatantly lied to Dennis Prayer when he claimed be all in for Trump.

[bcr100]

There is far more evidence against Hillary yet they rushed that investigation. Of course we know why. But how long does this Mueller one get to go? Ridiculous setting up investigations like these with no timetables.

[Jim Noble]

“Wasn’t it Ben Shapiro who said that Corey Lewendowski shoved a female reporter at a Trump rally?”

Good memory.

A pathetic white knighting display. And I don’t even think he got over on her.

[polymuser]

Another confused Jew. Got fame at 17. Looks like an older version of Hogg, same haughty eyes. Enemy.

[heights]

“I respect his intellect”

Why would you Respect the “Intellect” of a man that spouts such mind Stupidity.?

[CIB-173RDABN]

Cannot stand this whiney voiced smartass.

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Beat me to it. I can only listen for a few seconds and have to go elsewhere.

Now that I know he feels the same way as Bill Maher I have no reason to even try to listen to his opinions.

[Patriot777]

About the harm Hillary thing, going to the O-muzzie tangent...
Didn’t Zero threaten to eliminate ‘her majesty’ and her offspring during that Election year because she-it had acquired the certificate proving Zero was either Kenyan or Indonesian?

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

I saw him on the list of Never-Trumpers who have seen the light and I thought, no he hasn’t. He is not quite Glenn Beck but close.

[heights]

Oh, I forgot, he LIED his ass off for and along with his Chick saying Trump’s manager Viciously threw her to the ground. The man is a Liar.

[Theodore R.]

So when does “prematurely” end and justification begin?

[babble-on]

Whether it “should be” or not, it will be.

[PhiloBedo]

Shapiro is going to be Jerry Rivers replacement in the line-up of loons.

[babble-on]

Was he referring the the female reporter that Corey Lewandowski shoved at a Trump rally?