Posted on 12/12/2019 11:51:23 AM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: One of the things they’ve been harping on today — and it’s filled with misquotes — the Democrats, just for example here, keep saying, “And Trump called President Zelensky, said, ‘Do me a favor.’” The Republicans are pulling their hair out, “He didn’t say, ‘Do me a favor.’ He said, ‘Do us a favor,’” meaning the United States. But what was that all about? Grab audio sound bite number 24. What is this really all about?
We have a trade pact, we have a deal with Ukraine, a mutual agreement where we will ferret out corruption — they will, we will. They will help us; we will help them. “Corrupt” has been the name of the game in Ukraine up until Zelensky was elected. Now, Zelensky has to prove that he’s a new deal, he’s a new guy, he’s not the same old corrupt leader.
So the president of the United States, following the law, suggested that there’s a hell of a lot of American corruption in Ukraine that Zelensky’s gotta root out. And some of that corruption involved the vice president of the United States, Joe Biden. Joe Biden in fact interfered in the internal domestic politics of Ukraine for the benefit of himself and his son and Barack Obama. Donald Trump did not. Donald Trump has not.
Donald Trump has not engaged in corruption in Ukraine, but Barack Obama and Joe Biden have. Ukraine needed financial assistance from the United States. It’s a new day under Donald Trump. You don’t get financial assistance unless you’re genuinely deserving of it. Are you a good ally? Do you say good things about us? Do you welcome our support? Do you support us? Is it mutual?
We’re not throwing away money anymore under Donald Trump. Recipients of American foreign aid have to genuinely demonstrate that they’re allies, and one of the ways Ukraine has to do it, are you gonna get serious in fighting the corruption going on there? Because we’re not gonna pay you any more if you’re going to allow it to continue.
So Trump says you’ve got a problem. You need to look at what Joe Biden’s been doing for his son. They want to impeach Trump for this when all Trump has been doing is following the law. Now, why Biden? Well, I want to go back to the audio sound bite January 23rd, 2018. This is the Council on Foreign Relations. And Joe Biden is bragging about how he interfered in domestic Ukraine politics and got a prosecutor fired, a prosecutor who was looking into his son’s relationship with the energy company Burisma.
Biden is here at the Council on Foreign Relations bragging about how he got the prosecutor fired and how he and Obama threatened to withhold American aid if in fact the prosecutor wasn’t fired. Ukraine fired the prosecutor, and Biden is here bragging about it.
This is what Trump wants investigated. This is what Trump wants to get to the bottom of. It’s perfectly legit. We have an American politician, sitting vice president admitting interfering in domestic politics in Ukraine for his own personal benefit. Here is Vice President Biden bragging about his interference to the council.
BIDEN: I went over, I guess the 12th, 13th time, to Kiev and uh, and I was gonna – supposed to announce that there’s another billion dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from, uh, Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn’t. I said, “Nah,” I said, “I’m not gonna,” or “we’re not gonna give you the billion dollars.” They said, “You have no authority, you’re not the president, the president said.” I said, “Call him.”
CROWD: (laughter)
BIDEN: I said, “I’m telling you, you’re not gettin’ a billion dollars.” I said, “You’re not getting the billion and I’m gonna be leaving here,” I think it was, what, six hours. I look and I said, “I’m leaving in six hours, if the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not gettin’ the money.” Well son of a bitch.
CROWD: (laughter)
BIDEN: He got fired.
RUSH: There it is. Biden is admitting that he gets a prosecutor fired in exchange for $1 billion in American loan guarantees, American aid. He’s bragging about it. Everybody’s laughing. Everybody’s applauding. This is what Trump says has got to stop to Zelensky. He said, “Do us a favor. Look into this.”
Now, because it’s Biden, everybody thinks Trump is trying to get the lowdown on Biden because he might be Trump’s opponent, the 2020 Democrat nominee. Who cares? Trump has a responsibility according to a mutually agreed to law to ferret out corruption in Ukraine and in the United States. And Biden has admitted it. There’s no impeachable offense here. They’re simply following United States law.
What’s happening is that Biden’s role in all this, Biden’s actual interference in a foreign government and its domestic affairs and then bragging about it is being totally ignored and swept under the rug. Trump has not done anything even close to what Biden has bragged about here. And yet they’re trying to impeach him.
Not to defend nuzzlin’ joe but to me it appears that he was doing his usual ‘corn pop and his posse shut down’, ‘I’m a badass’ bragging to his buddies at the cfr. Is there any back up to the events to ‘prove’ his bragging?
Hannity only talks about it. He never plays it.
The public prosecutor was fired almost immediately. Just a coincidence ?
Biden's toast... he's just too stupid to know it.
I always like to thank the people of Delaware who have enabled this buffoon and his corrupt family for 36 years!
Term Limits!
At least it brings in a new corrupt fool!
Your concept is reasonable. So was Biden lying, or did he really do it? Sounds like a great reason to ask Ukraine to cooperate with AG Barr to investigate.
The prosecutor seems to think this happened. He was fired in the time frame Biden speaks of and claims he was told it was because of US demands and that he had to be sacrificed so Ukraine could get the funding.
That's why we need to get to the bottom of it, and why Trump was justified in pushing Zelensky to investigate. Considering what we do know, it happened. Probably not in the embellished way "gangsta" Biden bragged about, but it appears it did happen. Between Burisma, Privatbank, the Govt of Ukraine, Biden, and a host of other corrupt Americans, this is a huge scandal that needs to be exposed.
and when he talks about it, he adds his own personal embellishments to it which inturn kinda gives the impression that the tape is simply a joke.
I have said here repeatedly, that the tape needs to be played in ads 24/7 on every TV channel possible. Do it now. Do it during the daytime especially when the housewives are home watching the Price is Right.
However, this delivery was very fast and he stumbled a few times reading it. That was it.
Play the damn tape people.
“...watching the Price is Right....” ‘The view’ with it’s cadre of harridans.
I thought Rush was talking about the interviews that Giuliani made with Vicktor Shokin where he describes how he was brought into the Ukraine president’s office and directly told that he was going to be fired for not dropping the Burisma investigations as demanded by Vice President Joe Biden.
The interview will be shown on the OANN Investigative Reports streaming service this Saturday starting at 9:00 AM. Here’s the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdVKGLl0wyk&ab_channel=OneAmericaNewsNetwork
That's not the right way to look at it IMHO; it cuts him too much slack. He's bragging, on tape. That's the evidence which gives a presumption that he did it. It should be up to him to provide evidence that he was just bragging, just being Joe, and that we shouldn't believe our eyes and ears.
Then it should be filed in the same category as when candidate Trump said {paraphrasing}"Russia, if you have the 33K emails, please release them".
We sometime see portions of former Vice President Joseph Biden's appearance at the January 2018 Council on Foreign Relations vis-à-vis what he says about his involvement and role in the firing of Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2016.
This clip includes the ENTIRE SUBJECT segment of CFR's public meeting. If you watch ALL of the video, you may gain a different picture of Biden's account of his involvement. I hope so.
Coauthors Joe Biden and Michael Carpenter discuss the article, “How to Stand Up to the Kremlin: Defending Democracy Against Its Enemies,” which appears in the January/February issue of Foreign Affairs.
SPEAKERS Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement; 47th Vice President of the United States (2009 to 2017)
Michael R. Carpenter, Senior Director, Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement; Former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (2015 to 2017)
Correct me if I’m wrong but at the time Humper and Burisma were raking in taxpayer dough for their little gas and oil operation, wasn’t Soetoro strangling America’s gas and oil industry with his burdensome regulations and denials of drilling permits?
Thanks Dave.
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