Posted on 09/25/2019 10:39:17 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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 former President Obamas National Security Council (NSC), 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 afterward 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.
U.S. officials kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united, said Andrii Telizhenko, then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting.
Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukrainian Embassy, said U.S. officials volunteered during the meetings one of which was held in the White Houses Old Executive Office Building that they had an interest in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraines Russia-backed Party of Regions.
That 2014 investigation was led by the FBI and focused heavily on GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort, whose firm long had been tied to Trump through his partner and Trump pal, Roger Stone.
Agents interviewed Manafort in 2014 about whether he received undeclared payments from the party of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russias Vladimir Putin, and whether he engaged in improper foreign lobbying.
The FBI shut down the case without charging Manafort.
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Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraines chief anti-corruption prosecutor, told me he attended some but not all of the January 2016 Washington meetings and couldnt remember the specific cases, if any, that were discussed.
But he said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the U.S.-friendly NABU, after Manafort was named Trumps campaign chairman: Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.
Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media. Look, Manaforts case is one of the cases that hurt me a lot, he said.
I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort."
Donald at the impeachment circus
The shit is hitting the fan
Dump their own dirt back on them. Call for their removal from congress.
The key to their game is to keep the truth incommunicado. History shattering treason and corruption are being revealed everyday and 80% of the American people are completely unaware. The lefts hold on information is so pervasive they could shoot Trump and those 80% would probably never know. When Trump is silenced on Twitter make that 90%.
ya know, you read this article, and then you read the below article, and the picture gets even darker for the Dems. Who initially fell over themselves getting Ukrainians to the US to collude, and then fell over themselves preventing Ukrainians from getting to the US to tell about the DNC’s attempt to get them to collude. Talk about obstruction...geesh.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3781231/posts
if the Obama/Hillary people were digging for dirt on Manafort as early as January 2016, then I suspect a mole planted in the Trump campaign pushed to have Manafort hired in March of 2016. Interesting.
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ANOTHER FLASHBACK
One of my favorite gifs
So what? You are acting like you expect something to be done about this.
bttt
Read later.
>>> one that touched Vice President Joe Bidens family <<<
The one that kept Plugs out of the 2016 presidential race.
It fits like a glove. The democRATS routine is always to accuse the pubbies of wrongdoing, when they themselves are the perpetrators of the wrongdoing.
Another Hill article from April
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3740372/posts
Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don’t you want our evidence on Democrats?
The Hill ^ | 4/07/19 | JOHN SOLOMON
Posted on April 7, 2019 at 5:13:16 PM PDT by Libloather
Ukrainian law enforcement officials believe they have evidence of wrongdoing by American Democrats and their allies in Kiev, ranging from 2016 election interference to obstructing criminal probes. But, they say, theyve been thwarted in trying to get the Trump Justice Department to act.
Ain’t it funny that pecker head politicians from all countries always say they don’t recall certain things in meetings they may have attended, but not sure they did. They never seem to remember do they?
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Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukrainian Embassy, said U.S. officials volunteered during the meetings one of which was held in the White Houses Old Executive Office Building
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