Calls for Dismissal of Corrupt Ukrainian Prosecutor

 

It turns out that the US was not the only nation that called for the prosecutor's dismissal. Why would you not share that part?  *S*

<B>"The United States and other Western nations had for months called for the ousting of Mr. Shokin, who was widely criticized for turning a blind eye to corrupt practices and for defending the interests of a venal and entrenched elite. He was one of several political figures in Kiev whom reformers and Western diplomats saw as a worrying indicator of a return to past corrupt practices, two years after a revolution that was supposed to put a stop to self-dealing by those in power."

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/10/rumors-joe-biden-scandal-ukraine-absolute-nonsense-reformer-says/

No, Biden Was NOT Locked in a Basement

From Politifact: "We counted at least 14 different events outside Biden’s Delaware home in September, in six different states." 

<> So much for the lie that Biden was locked in a basement.

https://tinyurl.com/yafzqcw7

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/04/jason-miller/biden-isnt-basement-trump-campaign-keeps-saying-so/

Biden Successes

Biden succeeded at ousting Trump; rescuing us from Trump's recession; restoring our reputation in the world; strengthening our alliances; growing 6.6 MILLION new jobs in one year; and facing up to COVID.

Happy Days Are Here Again

According to a report in the Post, "the overall U.S. economy is on track for its best performance in almost 40 years."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/28/hunger-philadelphia-free-fridges/

G7 Embraces "Build Back Better"

 “We, the leaders of the Group of Seven, met in Cornwall … determined to beat covid-19 and build back better,” reads the opening sentence of a joint communique released by the G7 meeting in the UK.

A scan of the document reveals that the G7 used the expression "build back better" or "building back better"  NINE times.

It appears they have embraced Biden's thinking.  Good news! Adult leadership is  back!

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/06/13/carbis-bay-g7-summit-communique/

Harris, Biden, and Racism

 

The FactCheckers have ruled: "Kamala Harris did not call Joe Biden a racist."

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-9244041620
 

Biden Faces Mexico Law against Detaining Migrant Children

 

According to reporting by the Houston Chronicle, Mexico recently passed a law against detaining migrant children, so the flow of children and families to the U.S. has only increased.

https://tinyurl.com/y7e87736

Trump Unbound

From a NYTIMES email:

President
Trump breaks so many of the normal rules of politics that it can
sometimes be hard to know when his tweets and comments are truly
newsworthy. Even by his standards, though, the past several days have
stood out. Consider:

Trump said on Monday that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” wearing “dark uniforms” had been headed to the Republican National Convention to do “big damage.” The claim is similar to a baseless conspiracy theory that spread online over the summer, well before the convention. He has declined to condemn the killings of two protesters in Kenosha, Wis. He instead defended the 17-year-old charged in the shootings — a Trump supporter named Kyle Rittenhouse — saying he was acting in self-defense. Trump also promoted a Twitter post that called Rittenhouse “a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump.” He defended violence committed by his supporters in Portland, Ore., who fired paintballs and pepper spray at Black Lives Matter protesters. He compared the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha to missing “a three-foot putt” in a golf tournament. He claimed that “people that you’ve never heard of” and “people that are in the dark shadows” are controlling Joe Biden. He claimed Democrats were trying to “destroy” suburbs with “low-income housing, and with that comes a lot of other problems, including crime.” He added that Cory Booker — one of the highest-profile Black Democrats — would be “in charge of it.” He predicted that the stock market would crash if Biden won. He said that Biden, at the Democratic National Convention, “didn’t even discuss law enforcement, the police. Those words weren’t mentioned.” In fact, Biden held a discussion at the convention on policing, with a police chief. Trump claimed that he “took control of” the situation in Kenosha by sending in the National Guard. In fact, Wisconsin’s governor, not the president, sent the National Guard. He retweeted messages asserting that the pandemic’s death toll was overstated. Evidence indicates the opposite is true. He said that protests against police brutality were actually a secret “coup attempt” by anarchists “trying to take down the President.”

Biden has taken a very different approach to the unrest in Kenosha, Portland and elsewhere. He has told no apparent untruths, and he has criticized violence from both the political left and right — even though many liberals, whose votes Biden needs, are uncomfortable with any criticism of people on their side of the debate.

G.O.P. reaction. The Times tried to reach about a dozen leading congressional Republicans and ask for their reaction to Trump’s claims. “None cared to comment,” Mark Leibovich writes. Senator Mitt Romney offered one of the few public responses, calling the president’s comments “simply jaw-dropping.”

Russia adds to the misinformation. A group backed by the Kremlin is again trying to meddle in the U.S. presidential election and push voters toward Trump, Facebook and Twitter said yesterday.

2016 v 2020 Presidential Races

What is different now vs 2016?



1) Potential voters don't hate Biden like they were trained by the right wing, the media, and by even some progressives to hate Clinton.



2) Plus -- THIS time voters know Russia is helping Trump.



3) THIS time, voters know Trump's campaign manager is a dangerous convicted felon.



4)  THIS time, voters know Trump's NSA was a foreign agent who committed felonies to cover for his other crimes.



5) THIS time, voters won't see the FBI director interfere on Trump's behalf.



6) THIS time, voters know Trump solicited illegal campaign contributions from Russia, from China and from Ukraine.


7) THIS time, voters know Trump was a co-conspirator in an egregious felony that landed his lawyer in prison. 

8)
THIS time, Trump has the blood of nearly 200,000 (and rising) Americans on his hands.



It's a recipe for a Trump defeat.        

Biden Addresses Pandemic Threat in 2019

“We are not prepared for a pandemic. Trump has rolled back progress
President Obama and I made to strengthen global health security.

We need leadership that builds public trust, focuses on real threats, and
mobilizes the world to stop outbreaks before they reach our shores.”

- Joe Biden, October 25, 2019

Trump Mentally Unfit

Trump's mental state — not Biden's — is the real concern, mental health professionals say

Mental health professionals who have expressed concern over what they see as Donald Trump’s declining faculties say that similar fears about Joe Biden’s are overblown.

“A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme danger that result from a list of signs that Donald Trump has shown,” Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, told Yahoo News, “and none of them apply to Joe Biden.”

Lee edited a collection of essays written by 27 mental health professionals titled “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” which detailed what the authors see as the risks posed by a leader who they regard as mentally and emotionally unfit for the most powerful office in the world.



https://tinyurl.com/tkkxw3m

Is Biden Really a Professor

"Biden joins the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School and School of Arts and Sciences as the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor and the driving force behind the new Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement (link is external). Biden also holds a secondary affiliation in the Wharton School as a Practice Professor of Management. He represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate before becoming the 47th Vice President of the United States. "



https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/joseph-r-biden-jr

Applejack Contradicts Himself

Applejack on March 11:

3365 PM: Applejack [Quote] -- 7:42am -- Wed, Mar 11, 20 pst
Applejack
... [Biden] Voted for the war in Iraq

----

Applejack on March 9:

6271 PM: Applejack [Quote] -- 3:28pm -- Mon, Mar 9, 20 pst
The word ''War'' isn't in the resolution authorizing Bush to use military force in Iraq, so it wasn't a vote for the war by Hillary or Biden.

Veritas Predicts

5586   PM:   Veritas   [Quote]     -- 8:40am -- Wed, Mar 4, 20 pst
Biden will take the nomination, barring something outlandish.

Trump Caught Lying about Biden --- Again

From Fact Check:

“The president, without evidence, has claimed Joe Biden, as vice president, threatened to withhold “billions of dollars to Ukraine” in 2016 unless it removed the prosecutor general who “was prosecuting” Hunter Biden.”



“Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s then-prosecutor general, told Bloomberg News in May that Hunter Biden — who was a board member for Burisma, a gas company in Ukraine, from 2014 to 2019 — wasn’t under investigation.”



““Hunter Biden did not violate any Ukrainian laws — at least as of now, we do not see any wrongdoing,” Lutsenko, who resigned in August, told Bloomberg. Lutsenko said a corruption investigation into leaders of Ukrainian gas companies concerned a potential money-laundering transaction that had occurred before Hunter Biden joined the board. In 2017, Burisma announced that “all legal proceedings and pending criminal allegations” against the “operating companies of Burisma Group have been closed.””

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/09/qa-on-intelligence-community-whistleblower/

The Washington Post also reports that in the investigation of the Ukrainian gas company Hunter Biden was NOT accused of any wrongdoing. Trump continues to lie about it.

"Hunter Biden served for nearly five years on the board of Burisma, Ukraine’s largest private gas company, whose owner came under scrutiny by Ukrainian prosecutors for possible abuse of power and unlawful enrichment. Hunter Biden was not accused of any wrongdoing in the investigation."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-president-of-the-united-states-is-the-whistleblower-stephen-miller-says/2019/09/29/e1e400bc-e2c2-11e9-a6e8-8759c5c7f608_story.html

Vagne Caught in Yet Another Whopper

Vagne? What about it. Let's see the admission.

1026 PM: Vagne [Quote] -- 10:55am -- Wed, Sep 25, 19 pst
Vagne
Tina: So what ? Actually Biden ADMITTED he broke the law....



1244 PM: Vagne [Quote] -- 11:42am -- Wed, Sep 25, 19 pst
Vagne
Veritas: Republicans paid for that dossier to be created,
Oh Lord, this is so stupid I'm putting you into iggy....

Reporters Help Trump Smear Biden

Whose horse shit is Trump parroting? Pale's parroting a "conspiracy theory developed by John Solomon, an opinion columnist for the Hill in Washington, who relied on the word of a disgraced Ukrainian prosecutor, Nazar Kholodnytsky. Last year, Kholodnytsky was wiretapped by Ukraine’s independent anti-corruption bureau and caught on tape advising suspects in a corruption probe on how not to get caught."



Guess who else Solomon relies on for "information."

"Solomon’s other main source for the claim that the ledger was false was Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort’s former Ukrainian business partner, who has been linked to Russian intelligence."

https://theintercept.com/2019/09/22/reporters-stop-helping-donald-trump-spread-lies-joe-biden-ukraine/

Biden Cleared

From the NY Daily News:  Biden did not act alone. In fact "multiple international organizations, including the G-7 and the International Monetary Fund, agreed that if there were any hope of attacking corruption in Ukraine, Shokin had to go. Biden became the Obama administration’s point man on a coordinated international effort to get it done . . .So, yes, Biden moved, correctly, to get a rotten apple removed."

From NYDAILYNEWS Editorial Board --"Ignore the smear: Joe Biden acted appropriately in ousting a corrupt Ukraine prosecutor"

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-biden-20190923-7zb2czz4hbdijpod3mcp2nh7g4-story.html

No Evidence to Support Biden Smear

Even one of the chief media whores at the NYTIMES was forced to admit there is no evidence to support the right wing smear of Biden.

"There is no evidence that Mr. Biden intentionally tried to help his son when he pushed for the dismissal of the Ukrainian prosecutor, who was widely seen in the West as corrupt." - Michael Crowley and Kenneth P. Vogel

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/us/politics/trump-whistleblower-complaint.html

Biden Cleared - Ukraine Smears Debunked

"Viral rumors that Joe Biden abused his power as vice president to protect his son’s business interests in Ukraine in 2016, which spread last week from the pro-Trump media ecosystem to the New York Times, are “absolute nonsense,” according to Ukraine’s leading anti-corruption activist. That evaluation is backed by foreign correspondents in Kiev and a former official with knowledge of Biden’s outreach to Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych was deposed  . . . "

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/10/rumors-joe-biden-scandal-ukraine-absolute-nonsense-reformer-says/