Posted on 04/25/2019 6:10:46 PM PDT by McGruff
As Donald Trump began his meteoric rise to the presidency, the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington to coordinate ongoing anti-corruption efforts inside Russias most critical neighbor.
The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraines top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of President Obamas National Security Council (NSC), the FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).
The agenda suggested the purpose was training and coordination. But Ukrainian participants said it didnt take long during the meetings and afterwards to realize the Americans objectives included two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President Joe Bidens family, and one that involved a lobbying firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Yes! Obama named Biden the administrations ‘point man’ on Ukraine in February 2014.’’
This is DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE of the U.$. and a Senior U.$. Official ‘directly meddling’ in the affairs of a foreign country, AT POLITICAL LEVEL, in order to protect THE SON of the U.$. Vice President from a corruption investigation..
I thought ‘making threats and using MONEY to MAKE THOSE THREATS was called ‘extortion’?
WHO ELSE was on the Board of Burisma....Devon Archer, an associate of ‘John Kerry’ and friend of Hunter Biden.
"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 Clintons 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 Clintons allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
Those documents implicated Trumps 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 werent 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 Ukraines 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 Manaforts 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, Politicos investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one anothers 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 CrowdStrikes 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 Trumps 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 Trumps 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 Trumpas well as other world leadershas 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.
--snip--So what [Joe Biden] is doing is using U.S. taxpayer government resources for the personal benefit of his family, and by the way, all of this absolutely rings true, remarked Schweizer. Joe Biden was the Obama administrations person on Ukraine, he traveled to that country something like 17 times during his tenure as vice president, which is pretty amazing.
Schweizer went on, Whats remarkable is when, a couple of days before Donald Trump was inaugurated in Washington, D.C., Joe Biden was actually in Ukraine. Its pretty remarkable for a vice president of the United States to be overseas that late in the game, but he was in Ukraine. [Joe Bidens] sway and influence there was enormous, and it raises all kinds of questions about the way that he used or abused government power, and of course it raises questions about what potentially did Ukrainians have on Hunter Biden.
What kind of evidence and information do we have? asked Schweizer of corruption concerns regarding Joe Biden. We know that millions of dollars flowed into Hunter Bidens accounts. We know that he was not qualified for the job, and the question is, what did he get for Ukrainians in return? I think thats all the sort of thing that needs to be investigated and looked into by a grand jury.
Schweizer added, You have a pattern with Hunter Biden. Of a couple of cases that we know of and others that are lingering out there. We know in the case of China he flies with his dad on Air Force Two in December of 2013 and ten days later, his firm gets a $1 billion private equity deal with the Chinese government.
Schweizer continued, Again, [Hunter Bidens] firm has no background in China. Hunter Biden has no background in China. Its just odd. About four months later, he gets this deal with the Ukrainians, particularly with Burisma. What we also know is, based on financial account records that came out [from] Morgan Stanley that was managed by Hunter Bidens business partner, a guy named Devon Archer, he handled an account for Morgan Stanley and that account sent huge sums of money to Hunter Biden.
Schweizer went on, Not only does that account show money coming in from the Chinese and Ukrainians. Theres also $1.2 million that comes from this LLC that we cant trace. it comes from a boutique Swiss bank account thats been implicated in money-laundering in ten countries. Theres $145,000 from the son of the former prime minister of Kazakhstan, which is of course a highly corrupt country with all sorts of interesting implications. The point is, Ukraine is not an isolated case. China is not an isolated case.
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Exclusive Joe Biden Steered $1.8 Billion to Ukraine While His Son Bagged Sweetheart Deal from Their Government
By ROBERT KRAYCHIK, 3 Apr 2019
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, recalled how Hunter Biden, Joe Bidens second son, received millions of dollars from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while his father directed $1.8 billion in aid money to Ukraine as vice president during the Obama administration. Schweizer joined Tuesdays edition of SiriusXMs Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. Schweizer said, I think a deeper problem that [Joe Biden] faces is as has been reported on Breitbart and reported at the Hill, today which I think is far deeper is the fact that his family, particularly his son, cashed in while he was vice president of the United States.
John Solomon reported on Hunter Bidens receiving millions of dollars from Burisma Holdings after being installed on the companys board during his fathers vice presidential tenure: U.S. banking records show Hunter Bidens American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts usually more than $166,000 a month from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia.
The general prosecutors official file for the Burisma probe shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money. Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was fired as general prosecutor, he had made specific plans for the investigation that included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden. Weve talked before about the deals he procured with the government for China, remembered Schweizer. The other place [Joe Bidens] son, Hunter Biden, procured a big deal was in Ukraine. In Ukraine, it involved an energy company called Burisma, which is a very corrupt organization headed by an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky who is very close to
ViktorYanukovich, the pro-Russian leader. Schweizer asked, Theres all kinds of questions and implications. Is there a Russian component to this, because Burisma is such a corrupt company? The bottom line is Joe Biden was the Obama administrations point-person on policy towards Ukraine, noted Schweizer. He steered $1.8 billion in aid to that government and while he was doing so, his son got a sweetheart deal with this energy company that weve been able to trace over just a 14-month period paid $3.1 million into an account where Hunter Biden was getting paid.
Schweizer highlighted Hunter Bidens lack of professional or experiential bona fides in terms of his board position at Burisma Holdings.Suffice to say, Hunter Biden has no background in Ukraine, stated Schweizer. He has no background in energy policy. Theres really no legitimate explanation as to why he got this deal with this energy company, other than the fact his father was responsible for doling out money in Ukraine itself.
Schweizer went on, Its a huge problem, and it goes to this question of corruption and potential payoffs and bribes that these foreign entities were making to the Bidens in exchange for hopefully getting favorable treatment. Despite the Robert Mueller-led operations ostensible pursuit of collusion between President Donald Trump and the Russian state, Schweizer noted actual financial dealings between the Biden family and foreign interests.
Schweizer said, One of the phrases that has been tossed around as it relates to the Russian collusion hoax was obstruction of justice by Trump, and theres been no at least in my mind evidence that that ever happened, and it doesnt seem that Mueller felt any charges should be brought on that count. But in this case, you would have a pretty clear-cut case of obstruction of justice, where Joe Biden is saying to Ukrainian officials, We are not going to give you this billion-dollar loan guarantee unless you fire this guy.'
Schweizer added, There is far more evidence of collusion involving Joe Biden or even involving the Clintons of collusion with these foreign powers than there was with Donald Trump, because you actually have the transaction of money, you have very favorable policies that were carried out. I think collusion is not too strong a word. I think its a pretty accurate word. Schweizer added, Theres no question. The Bidens got a lot of money millions of dollars from these foreign powers. Hunter Biden had no legitimate reasons to get the deal. He simply wasnt qualified.
Schweizer warned of politicians and officials monetizing their political influence.
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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.
Biden is just as filthy dirty as the other demonicrat oligarchs. I saw a clip of him today speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations (a slightly deep state operation) where he was actually bragging about how he threatened to withhold the $ billion loan guarantee to Ukraine if their president did not fire the prosecutor who was investigating his crooked little boy Hunter. More proof (if any is needed) that Slow Joe is dumber than a bag of hammers.
Slimeball.......he’s independentl wealthy. Uses the shakedown really well.
Biden has never had a private sector job in his life. He’s always been a government worker, in one form or another. Violent GOVERNMENT THUG Bully is the perfect resume...................
There it is!
I thought making threats and using MONEY to MAKE THOSE THREATS was called extortion?
Not a whiff of corruption in the Obama administration [/sarc]
We all saw this as it happened during Ukraines revolution. It was well known the US was interfering in every sense of the word...not just the US but the IMF and EU were all over Ukraine doing their takeover.
Basically all we see happening to Trump are the very same Demorat/Leftist/people/powers who have orchestrated and called for regime changes in other countries and were a part of..only now they’re going after Trump....The Demorat party is ‘entirely’ Globalist minded.
Any nation leader who is not on board with the Global New World Order will be a target for regime change.
In light of what we’ve learned since April 2019,
this is interesting..
OPINION Ukraine Tried to Tip the Election in Clintons 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 Clintons allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
Those documents implicated Trumps 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 werent 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 Ukraines 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 Manaforts 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, Politicos investigation found evidence of Ukrainian government involvement in the race that appears to strain diplomatic protocol dictating that governments refrain from engaging in one anothers 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 CrowdStrikes 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 Trumps 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 Trumps 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 Trumpas well as other world leadershas 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.
Chelsea Clinton and Viktor Pinchuk who donated $29 million to Clinton Foundation in Kiev, Ukraine 8/21/16.
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