WHAT TRUMP ASKED UKRAINE TO INVESTIGATE

Powerline ^ | OCTOBER 20, 2019 | JOHN HINDERAKER

[Hojczyk]

n his phone call with Ukraine’s President Zelensky, President Trump asked for a favor. The favor was not, as was widely reported at the time, to investigate Joe Biden. Rather, the favor was for Zelensky’s government to investigate Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election:

I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.

There is a certain irony here: for three years, we have been told that investigating foreign interference in the 2016 election is of paramount importance. Now, it apparently is an impeachable offense.

If, like me, you didn’t remember that Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election has been reported, this Politico article from January 2017 (via InstaPundit) is a useful reminder:

Someone forgot to tell Barack Obama about that “diplomatic protocol.” He contributed substantial resources to trying to defeat Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel, and endorsed Justin Trudeau for Prime Minister of Canada just a few days ago.

[TruthWillWin]

Finally someone is talking about this!

When Trump asked for a favor during that call it was not to investigate the Biddens, it was to look into "Crowdstrike"!

Media is not only ignoring this they are lying and saying he asked for a favor to look into the Biddens?

CNN even edited out the word "Crowdstrike" from the transcript of the phone call they released.

Crowdstrike must be a huge problem for the Dems!

[gibsonguy]

“for three years, we have been told that investigating foreign interference in the 2016 election is of paramount importance. Now, it apparently is an impeachable offense.”

2 party’s 2 sets of rules.

[Sasparilla]

We all know that
the rules are ALWAYS different for Democrats.
Every issue, every act, every spoken word.
Without fail.

[Texas Eagle]

Whoa! And Joe Biden and his swallowers ASSUMED President Trump was talking about him! No wonder.

It's like when you're in church and the Pastor starts talking about a certain subject and you start feeling uncormforatble and suddenly it's as if he's looking directly at you when he says something.

[tflabo]

So much for the lying Rats impeachable ‘cryteria’ of high crimes and misdemeanors.

[Regulator]

Completely innocuous and appropriate.

The operatives like Fiona Hill (who is NOT American) and Marie Yovanovitch running around shrieking about this are just doing a little dance that Schiff pre-coordinated with them. Get hysterical, scream and cry in anguish, make it sound like something terrible and use that as an excuse for all sorts of deep dark nefarious plots.

Beyond comical.

[Texas Eagle]

I’d love to see President Trump tweet something like, “I never asked Ukraine anyone in particular. What makes you think I was asking him about you, Creepy? I mean Joe.”

[tflabo]

Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. Did Trump move the ‘Rats cheese after they exposed their own covered corrupted maze?

[OrioleFan]

One word - parody. Democraps can impeach you based on a parody. Sick!

[TruthWillWin]

Impeachment is going nowhere.

We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Dem party as we know it, same for MSM!

[bert]

The rules are the same for all.

The lawerly interpretation of the rules and the media spin are what is different.

That lawerly difference of interpretation and refutation of the spin is now being exposed and illuminated.

[Liz]

SOURCE: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27403003
14 May 2014

Vice President Joe Biden's son joins Ukraine gas company

(BBC report) Burisma, a private oil and gas company in Ukraine, announced that it has appointed Hunter Biden, the youngest son of US Vice President Joe Biden, to its board of directors. The company, founded in 2002, is controlled by a former energy official in the government of deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

The move has raised some eyebrows in the US, given the Obama administration's attempts to manage the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. "Joe Biden has been the White House's go-to guy during the Ukraine crisis, touring former Soviet republics and reassuring their concerned leaders," writes the National Journal's Marina Koren. "And now, he's not the only Biden involved in the region."She says that by appointing Hunter Biden head of its legal affairs unit, "Burisma is turning to US talent - and money and name recognition - for protection against Russia".

The younger Mr Biden isn't the only American with political ties to have joined Burisma's board. Devon Archer, onetime senior advisor to current SoS John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and a college roommate of Mr Kerry's stepson HJ Heinz, signed on in April.

Mr Biden and Mr Archer are also managing partners at Rosemont Seneca Partners, a Washington, DC-based investment company. Both Mr Biden and Mr Archer have not responded to requests from reporters for comment.

In Burisma's press release announcing his hiring, Hunter Biden says: "I believe that my assistance in consulting the company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine." All this could be explained simply as a foreign energy company looking to increase its visibility in the US and spur investment. State-controlled companies currently account for 90% of Ukraine's gas production, but this year Burisma became the nation's largest private producer.

The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway adds that there may be other, less savoury possibilities:
<><> most disturbing is attempting to curry favour with the US government
<><> enlisting the services of the close family friend of SoS Kerry and the son of the vice president.
<><> Biden/Archer pitches that their "relationship network" creates opportunities for portfolio companies compound to greater outcomes for all parties.

Hemingway concludes that this seems like a "cliched movie plot": "a shady foreign oil company
co-opts the vice president's son in order to capture lucrative foreign investment contracts".

The Obama White House emphasised that vice president Biden's son's new job will have no influence on US foreign policy. "Hunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer," said a spokeswoman for VP Biden in the Wall Street Journal. "VP Biden does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company."

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Did Burisma include this pic in its corporate mailings?

[OrioleFan]

We are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Dem party as we know it, same for MSM!

I will celebrate the day that happens. For now, I need to run up to the store and get more popcorn...