II. Efforts to restrict access to records related to call
There was a "Word for Word" transcript that was produced as a matter of routine. The officials involved in the reporting by this Whistleblower attempted to lock down all the records of the phone call. OMG. The officials in the White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript computer system. In doing that there was no record to pass along to Cabinet level officials. The betrayal those people must have felt learning the very White House attorneys they confided in demanded the record be erased.
I am not surprised there is a Whistleblower.
That is a conspiracy to conceal information. What goes on already in this White House? Where are the checks and balances we are all expecting? None of the White House lawyers are doing their job.
Below is the beginning of page 4.
The White House lawyers demanded the staff to load the electronic copy onto the Highly Classified computer system where the highly classified documents are kept. What this boils down to is that the conversation was posted to a Ukraine presidential website while Trump's White House lawyers are scrambling to hide it. The lawyers are out of line. They committed FRAUD. They incorrectly classified this conversation.
III. Ongoing concerns
July 26th, the same day of the conversation with Trump by Zelenskyy, US Special Representative to the Ukraine, Ambassador Kurt Volker, was summoned to President Zelenskyy's office. Mr. Volker was joined by Mr. Gordon Sondland, the US Ambassador to the EU. According to the records of the discussion between President Zelenskyy, a variety of political Ukrainian political figures, Ambassadors Volker and Sondland the way forward with Trump was the topic of discussion. There was something very wrong and it seems as though basically President Zelenskyy wasn't going to be caught in Trump's pressure vice. He registered his concerns with USA Ambassadors in the presence of witnesses to understand what he heard was actually what he heard. He also wanted to know what happens next.
There is another meeting in Madrid with Guiliani and a representative of President Zelenskyy about the cases discussed between Trump and Zelenskyy. August 2nd. Why all the oversight by Guiliani? Why all the pressure to the Zelensky administration? At this point, why doesn't Guiliani write the case reports himself?
Andriy Bohdan, a lawyer and adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, arrives to a press briefing in front of the presidential administration in Kyiv on May 21, 2019. A day later, he was appointed Zelenskiy's chief of staff.
These people have jobs to do for Ukraine and that does not include running around looking for a "Ghost of Biden's Past.
There was no satisfying Trump. The only way they could get Guiliani off their backs was to promise a visit to the White House in August. Below is the bottom of page 4.
One of the men that were to travel to the White House in August was Andriy Yermack, this is what he recently said about the USA and it's credibility as reported by Reuters.
“We consider the United States our friend, (click here) our strategic partner. What is happening there - it’s their own domestic political games. We will not take part in this in any way,” Andriy Yermak, one of Zelenskiy’s aides, said in a television broadcast on the 1+1 channel late on Sunday.
So Trump seems to think Ukraine and Russia are going to be buddies.
1 April 2019
The Treaty of Friendship between Ukraine and Russia expired on April 1, 2019. (click here)
The document provided that Ukraine and Russia "respect each other’s territorial integrity and confirm the inviolability of the borders between them."
UNIAN memo. The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was signed by the then Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin on May 31, 1997.
The document fixed the principle of strategic partnership, the recognition of the inviolability of existing borders, respect for territorial integrity and mutual commitment not to use its territory to harm the security of each other.
It was automatically renewed on each 10th anniversary of its signing, unless one party advised the other of its intention to end the treaty.
After Russia annexed Crimea and unleashed war in Donbas in 2014, appeals have been voiced repeatedly in Ukraine to sever the Treaty.
On September 6, 2018, the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine decided not to extend the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, which is expiring on March 31, 2019....
The dissolving of the treaty should not be a surprise to anyone. Putin dissolved an internatinoal treaty that ensured Ukraine it's sovereignty when he invaded Crimea and began a war on the eastern border of Ukraine. If Putin was going to dissolve an international treaty why wouldn't he dissolve every other treaty ever written between the two countries?
There is now a deal between Russia and Ukraine to hold elections in the contested areas. Some Ukrainians are not happy with their new President for doing so.
2 October 2019
Hundreds of Ukrainians have protested (click here) after President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had backed an agreement that would bring elections to territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
Mr Zelensky came to power promising to end the five-year conflict in the east which has left 13,000 people dead.
Any vote would be under international standards and would not be held "under the barrel of a gun", he said.
Nationalists rallied in Kiev with banners demanding "no capitulation".
Large parts of Luhansk and Donetsk, in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, were seized by Russian-backed separatists in 2014 after Russia captured and annexed Ukraine's Crimea region.
Conflict broke out as Ukraine's army tried to recapture rebel-held areas and at least 40,000 people have been wounded. An estimated 1.5 million people have been internally displaced in the past five years....
By Marc Bennetts
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed the released prisoners at the airport in Kyiv.
Kyiv and Moscow (click here) have exchanged dozens of prisoners in a dramatic operation that resulted in freedom for 24 Ukrainian sailors taken captive by Russia, as well as a potential suspect and key witness in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, was on the tarmac at Kyiv’s Boryspil airport to greet the prisoners released by Russia on Saturday morning. There were emotional scenes as family members were reunited on the runway.
Oleg Sentsov, a Ukrainian film-maker sentenced to 20 years’ prison in Russia on controversial ‘“terror” charges in 2015, was among those returning home....
The world witnessed it. There were armed "unidentified" soldiers that took Crimea. There was no national Ukraine military as it was disbanded by Viktor. So, Crimea was overrun by Russian soldiers and sympathizers.
By Patrick Wintour
Armed servicemen wait in Russian army vehicles outside a Ukrainian border guard post in the Crimean town of Balaclava in March 2014.
The Russian state directed and ran the military coup in Crimea (click here) and its subsequent annexation in 2014, Ukraine has told the European court of human rights.
The case in Strasbourg is one of a series brought by the Ukrainian government designed to expose alleged Russian state complicity in human rights abuses. It has the potential to embarrass Vladimir Putin and lead to Ukrainian demands for reparations from Russia.
Russia rejects allegations it was responsible for the annexation and sought on Wednesday to strike out the case in an attempt to stop it proceeding to its next stage – gathering of direct evidence.
Ben Emmerson QC, representing the Ukrainian government, told the court Ukraine lost control of Crimea on the day of the coup not as a result of unilateral action by armed separatists but “as the result of a military invasion by the armed forces of the Russian Federation, aided and abetted by pro-Russian political and paramilitary proxies in Crimea”....
IV. Circumstances leading up to the 25 July Presidential phone call.
This is where the discussion occurs about the articles from "The Hill." I am calling it quits for tonight and will pick up here tomorrow morning. I can't believe this is taking this long to sift through. I expected to simply do a good reading of the entire document and move on. There is a lot to this and a lot to understand about the circumstances surrounding it. I really do want to be able to sort through the articles in "The Hill." It looked to me to be at least 10 to 15 articles. I don't really expect to find any surprises about VP Biden or his son. They are both rock solid super Americans and I expect that is what the final result will be.
So, good night for now.
Continued in next morning entry.
