Bartiromo questions whether ‘hysteria’ over Ukraine a ‘ruse’ to distract from ‘what Hillary Clinton did?’

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo suggested the Biden administration may have perpetrated a “ruse” through “hysteria” over Ukraine to take attention away from Hillary Clinton.

Bartiromo invited Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on “Mornings with Maria” to discuss whether the unsubstantiated claims from President Biden and his surrogates about the imminent danger of a Russian invasion of Ukraine were fabricated.

“Was this a ruse? Was this whole thing an effort to take attention away from what Hillary Clinton did and what we know to be a complete hoax over this Russia investigation?” Bartiromo began her question, before implicating Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

“What are your thoughts? Because I know Jake Sullivan worked for Hillary Clinton,” Bartiromo said to Tuberville, “and he was one of the people who was peddling this Russia collusion lie for four years. And there he is now as NSA coming up with this hysteria over Russia.”

“They’re scrambling,” Tuberville responded bluntly. “There’s no doubt about it.”

“I wouldn’t trust Jake Sullivan or Mayorkas or Secretary Blinkin as far as I can throw them,” Tuberville added. “I’ve heard ’em talk. They give us information. They speak in circles. They don’t talk directly to you. They talk around you. They have their own agenda…it’s catching up with them.”

Bartiromo further implied there was something suspicious about Biden saying that Russia would be invading Ukraine on a specific date. He’s made several speeches on the threat now, hyping the hysteria by moving the U.S. embassy from Kyiv and urging all Americans to leave the Ukraine before they are caught in the crossfire.

Meanwhile, the media had remained relatively silent on the Durham filing that led new conversations on Hillary Clinton’s campaign spying on President Donald Trump compared to their vehemence from years past that it simply wasn’t true.

Unable to avoid the topic any longer, corporate media switched gears to ridiculing conservative outlets as “stupid” or “liars” for seeking a resolution to this longstanding matter.

Meanwhile, Biden took time to address the nation once more threatening sanctions. Bartiromo brought up this diplomatic tool to Tuberville discussing the deadlock the measure has faced in the Senate since January.

“A lot of people have told me, sanctions should have been in place weeks ago, months ago,” Bartiromo said before suggesting Biden shouldn’t have ever removed the original sanctions.

Tuberville agreed that the matter should have been resolved before the pipeline became such a lynchpin in the reason but reaffirmed his belief Putin presently has no intentions of invading Ukraine saying, “he has nothing to earn out of this.”

As to whether or not the Ukrainian people have any real concern over the hysterical threat of danger that has been supposedly looming over their heads, Jack Posobiec, host of Human Events, has been following their reactions day to day and posted this video from Wednesday morning when the invasion was foretold to begin.

Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose
campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country.

Politico.com
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN
01/11/2017

<>Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire; foreign aid billions threatened
<>Kiev scrambles to make amends with president-elect Trump after working to boost Clinton.
<>President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, and the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the presidential race.

A Politico investigation found
<><>Ukrainian govt officials helped Hillary and trashed Trump, questioning his fitness for office.
<><>They disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption
<><>They suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.
<><>They helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.

A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.

The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.

Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don’t think we’ve ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we’ve seen in this case.”

There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.

And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.

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