Posted on 10/23/2019 3:15:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy gathered a small group of advisers on May 7 in Kyiv for a meeting that was supposed to be about his nation’s energy needs. Instead, the group spent most of the three-hour discussion talking about how to navigate the insistence from Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, for a probe and how to avoid becoming entangled in the American elections, according to three people familiar with the details of the meeting.
They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the issue, which has roiled U.S.-Ukrainian relations.
The meeting came before Zelenskiy was inaugurated but about two weeks after Trump called to offer his congratulations on the night of the Ukrainian leader’s April 21 election.
The full details of what the two leaders discussed in that Easter Sunday phone call have never been publicly disclosed, and it is not clear whether Trump explicitly asked for an investigation of the Bidens.
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LIES.
The narrative continues....
You know the game
They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the diplomatic sensitivity of the issue, which has roiled U.S.-Ukrainian relations.
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Anonymous sources. Weird, right?
They have nothing but clown-s**t and clown-lies for 3 years. So much so that no sane, lucid person could possibly trust any of them any longer. Including Fox - which is actually the worst of them all.
No introspection whatsoever. Hope they enjoy their irrelevance and financial hardships. Hope they fkn hang themselves in the janitor's closets too.
Pure Fake News.
Always with the anonymous BS.
The narrative continues....
You know the game
The Dems have a green light from the GOP Senate to continue this nonsense. Until that changes they have no motivation to modify their behavior.
So? Trump has not been shy about saying he wanted Ukraine to investigate bidden. He even asked about it in the transcript of the phone call. The pressure angle is subjective to say the least. There is no there there.
What crap! The a-hole Dems were already investigating the President to impeach him. This is the one thing they chose to focus on, because all the other issues were going nowhere.
FAKE NEWS
More anonymous hearsay.
of course Ukraine would not want to interfere in the US elections!
more and more, it looks like Biden is only in the race, so that the Trump administration cannot investigage the following without being accused by the FakeNewsMSM of interfering in the 2020 election! nice.
11 Jan 2017: Politico: Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton.
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated 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, a Politico investigation found...
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
I don’t even believe Biden - with his pathetic rallies, his endless gaffes, and continuing creepy behaviour - is or has ever been a front-runner for the Dems, and someone who could beat Trump! what? pull the other one.
only President Trump is NOT to investigate ANYONE.
time to take down the DEEEEEP STATE.
That’s what Presidents are elected for!
The alternative is a weasely, slimy, backboneless President that goes on a World Apology Tour immediately upon taking office.
LIARS. ON THE RECORD STATEMENTS show the AP to be lying.
https://time.com/5686305/zelensky-ukraine-denies-trump-pressure/
Man Unnamed Sources is a busy guy the last few days
Even thou the guy specifically said he felt no pressure, our good friends at AP found this scoop.
But I,for one,won't be holding my breath.
Washington-based AP guy, Michael Biesecker, would have been the one to torture this fake story into existence. Trump team know him:
7 Jun 2018: WaPo: Eric Wemple: EPA spokesman called AP journalist an ‘anti-Trump reporter’
Michael Biesecker is an investigative reporter for the Associated Press. But to Jahan Wilcox, the pointlessly combative spokesman who works under Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, he’s something else altogether: an “anti-Trump reporter.”
An odd allegation, to be sure, to unleash against someone who focuses on the environment, clean energy and the like...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/06/07/epa-spokesman-called-ap-journalist-an-anti-trump-reporter/
to WaPo’s Wemple, who defended Biesecker: you couldn’t even place a “smile” emoji at the end of this?
23 Oct: Tweet: Erik Wemple
Moderators for next month’s Dem debate in Georgia: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell, NBC News WH correspondent Kristen Welker, WaPo WH reporter Ashley Parker
https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/1187122936911745024
FIVE AP writers needed to deflect from the Clinton angle. Biesecker is a swamp creature:
7 Oct 2016: Seattle Times: Private Clinton speeches leaked in hacking blamed on Russia
by MICHAEL BIESECKER, CHAD DAY and JEFF HORWITZ, AP; AP writers Ted Bridis and Stephen Braun contributed to this report
The leaks were the result of another email hacking intended to influence the presidential election...
Podesta posted a series of tweets Friday night, calling the disclosures a Russian hack and raising questions about whether some of the documents could have been altered.
“I’m not happy about being hacked by the Russians in their quest to throw the election to Donald Trump,” Podesta wrote. “Don’t have time to figure out which docs are real and which are faked.”
Podesta’s comments came just hours after U.S. officials publicly accused the Russian government of directing cyberattacks on political organizations and American citizens in an attempt to interfere with U.S. elections.
The joint statement from the office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Homeland Security Department cited disclosures of “alleged hacked emails” on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks as being “consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts.”...
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/private-clinton-speeches-leaked-in-hacking-blamed-on-russia/
Biden said before the cameras that he is the guy behind the impeachment.
This the Biden machine trying desperately to stop Trump from hanging him and his 50-year old criminal son.
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