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

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