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/

Transcripts Show GOPPERS Trying to Muddy Impeachment Waters

The House released two transcripts of testimony from Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and Michael McKinley, a former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.



Yovanovitch: https://tinyurl.com/y699j77s





McKinley: https://tinyurl.com/y533xz7h





https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/testimony-of-former-u-s-ambassador-to-ukraine-marie-masha-yovanovitch/f9742f2d-4fd2-467f-b069-531c663d52d3/?tid=lk_inline_manual_3



https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/testimony-of-former-senior-advisor-to-the-secretary-of-state-ambassador-p-michael-mckinley/7605871a-ac88-4009-b6dd-9db0f77be7b6/?tid=lk_inline_manual_3

Applejack on Russian Aggression

Applejack should consider pledging allegiance to the Kremlin.


3080   PM:   Applejack   [Quote]     -- 8:27am -- Fri, Nov 1, 19 pst
Applejack
What should be upsetting for Americans, is that we gave $400 million in aid to Ukraine in the first place

Trump and Rudy "Funneled" Illegal Payments

The two CREEP Plumbers arrested by the FBI are suspected of funneling Russian money into a Trump PAC. ''Funneling''?

Where have we heard that word before?

Wait. I remember now. Rudy admitted that Cohen and Trump used a law firm for funneling illegal payments to Stormy Daniels.


“During an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Giuliani said
the money to repay Cohen had been “funneled … through the law firm and
the president repaid it.”” 



https://fox17online.com/2018/05/03/trump-acknowledges-he-repaid-lawyer-for-stormy-hush-money/

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

Elpinche on Trump's Shake-Down of Ukraine

4836   PM:   Elpincheviejo   [Quote]     -- 7:24am -- Thu, Sep 26, 19 pst
I think Dino understands it's 'this for that'--an exchange. HE thinks that Biden got the Uke prosecutor replaced in order to protect Hunter. What Dino doesn't understand is that the prosecutor's investigation of Hunter Biden's company had ended long before Joe Biden got him dismissed, and that Joe Biden's efforts were part of the Obama administrations thrust to address corruption. Basically, the problem is that the prosecutor was too cozy with the offenders, and was not aggressively going after that corruption. 

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/

Trump, Ukraine, and Biden

Finally Trump admits discussing Biden with the president of Ukraine. From the NYTIMES:

"WASHINGTON — President Trump acknowledged on Sunday that he discussed
former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Ukraine’s president as
Democrats ramped up calls for an investigation into whether he
improperly pressured a foreign leader to investigate a political
opponent."  

[. . . ]

"The Wall Street Journal has reported that Mr. Trump urged Mr. Zelensky about eight times
during the July 25 phone call to work with the president’s lawyer,
Rudolph W. Giuliani, on an investigation of Mr. Biden and his son."

-  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/us/politics/trump-ukraine-biden.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Timeline on Trump Deal with Ukrainian President

Trump's then DNI, Dan Coats, announced his resignation just three days after Trump's felonious phone call with the Ukrainian president.



Coincidence?



Here's a timeline from "The Hill" -



July 28: DNI Dan Coats exit announced. (The phone call happened three days earlier, on July 25.)



Aug. 8: Sue Gordon announces resignation (Reportedly at the urging of Dan Coats)



Aug. 12: Whistleblower files complaint



Aug. 15: Coats, Gordon exit, Maguire steps in as acting DNI



Aug. 26: Whistleblower complaint is forwarded to Maguire



Sept. 2: Maguire misses congressional deadline



Sept. 9: Atkinson alerts Congress



Sept. 10: Schiff writes back, demands complaint



Sept. 13: DNI responds



Sept. 18: The Washington Post breaks the story



Sept.19: Lawmakers denied full briefing on complaint's contents



Sept. 20: Trump defends conversations with world leaders



Sept. 21: Trump doubles down, slams media for ignoring Biden story



https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/462464-timeline-the-trump-whistleblower-complaint __________________________



As reported by CNN:

Washington (CNN)The country's No. 2 intelligence official,
Sue Gordon, knew it was likely she would have to eventually step down
from her post, but the timing of that decision became more urgent on
Thursday after her boss -- outgoing spy chief Dan Coats -- interrupted a
meeting she was holding on election security and asked his deputy to
submit her letter of resignation, sources familiar with the events told
CNN.

While details
of the conversation between Gordon, an intelligence veteran of more than
30 years, and Coats remain unclear, sources say that the situation
clearly abruptly changed after the meeting was interrupted.

Shortly
after her encounter with Coats, Gordon submitted her letter of
resignation to Vice President Mike Pence, though the document itself was
addressed to Trump, according to officials, a highly unusual move that
prompted some confusion among some West Wing officials who waited for
the President's tweet confirming the news.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/politics/sue-gordon-resignation-coats-interrupts-meeting/index.html