There isn't anything here about the Bidens, but, it is interesting anyway. The Former President Poroshenko was defeated from among many candidates running for the office. I find it curious that Putin polluted the Ukrainian elections with threats against the people if they re-elected Poroshenko but would work with anyone else elected. There was indeed a change in leadership in Ukraine and there has been cooperation from Russia.
President Poroshenko had engaged Russia and the Eastern Ukraine Separatists twice in drawing up two treaties, Minsk I and Minsk II. They were signed and placed in force and within those two treaties were methods to reunite all of Ukraine, including Crimea. It is interesting that plans for peace are being made that may not include the reunification of all parts of Ukraine.
This is definite Russian interference into the Ukraine elections.
March 20, 2019
By The Hill Staff
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko (click here) told Hill.TV that Russian President Vladimir Putin is forcing Ukrainian voters to choose between further conflict with Russia or electing a presidential candidate preferred by Putin.
Lutsenko, when asked by Hill.TV's John Solomon last week if there has been any evidence of Russian interference in the upcoming elections, said, "This question was raised by Mr. Putin. Whether we go together with [President Petro] Poroshenko and we continue to wage war, or we go with anybody besides Mr. Poroshenko, and he works with anybody besides him."
"The question has been complicated not only because of the direct blackmail of Putin of the Ukrainian people but also of his influence on media resources in the country," Lutsenko added.
The Russian Embassy in Washington directed Hill.TV to recent comments made by President Vladimir Putin, in which he said there was a feeling of "Russiaphobia" among Ukraine's leadership, and called for unity between the two nations ahead of the election.
"I hope that the wave of various pre-election situations and combinations in Ukraine wrapped up in Russophobia, which we currently see, will subside, and at least some conditions for developing interstate relations will be created," Putin said....
The article below is about the same investigation into the black-ledger files.
March 20, 2019
By John Soloman
After nearly three years and millions of tax dollars, (click here) the Trump-Russia collusion probe is about to be resolved. Emerging in its place is newly unearthed evidence suggesting another foreign effort to influence the 2016 election — this time, in favor of the Democrats.
Ukraine’s top prosecutor divulged in an interview aired Wednesday on Hill.TV that he has opened an investigation into whether his country’s law enforcement apparatus intentionally leaked financial records during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign about then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an effort to sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
The leak of the so-called black ledger files to U.S. media prompted Manafort’s resignation from the Trump campaign and gave rise to one of the key allegations in the Russia collusion probe that has dogged Trump for the last two and a half years....
There is a letter in this article that clearly spells out the funds in question were to be directed by the USA's embassy and used in cooperation with Ukraine. That solves that mystery.
The next article by "The Hill" is a conglomeration of all sorts of innuendo regarding Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Center and a group partly funded by USA dollars and partly funded by George Soros, AntAC.
March 26, 2019
By John Solomon
While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, (click here) Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted....
The article is mostly inflammatory and is obviously partisan in it's tone. The fact of the matter is there is nothing wrong, except, the perception of the Prosecutor General's Office about a group partly funded by private contributions, namely George Soros. The question arises in the appropriate nature of a Non-Profit carrying out corruption investigations.
In the USA and it is mostly the focus of the Republicans that government functions should be conducted by private enterprises. So, this group AntAC is a non-profit that is partly funded by private donations and partly funded by the USA government, probably through USAID. I can understand how Ukraine doesn't see private operations as benevolent and suspicious for corruption, however, this is typical of a movement primarily put forth by the Republicans.
Now, the USA funding and the Soros funding can be looked into to determine their origins and accountability for its spending, however, the non-profit itself is not illegal or misrepresented.
The next article is dated April 1, 2019 and it seems to begin the issue of Joe Biden and Ukraine. Perhaps I need to put the final article first in order to prevent misunderstanding of the outcome. So, this article is from today. Which should be no surprise since the opening of the impeachment inquiry.
October 3, 2019
By Tal Axelrod
Ukraine’s former President Petro Poroshenko (click here) on Wednesday said that former Vice President Joe Biden never asked him to open or close any criminal cases as President Trump continues to rail against what he calls misconduct.
Poroshenko refuted Trump’s claims that Biden abused his power as vice president when he sought to pressure Kiev to dismiss a federal prosecutor who was investigating a natural gas company on whose board Biden's son Hunter Biden sat.
Joe Biden has said he wanted the prosecutor fired over insufficient efforts to tackle corruption, and no evidence has emerged to suggest he acted to benefit his son....
...Yuri Lutsenko, another of Ukraine’s former prosecutor generals, who was investigating Hunter Biden, said last month that his probe was abandoned after turning up no evidence of wrongdoing on Hunter Biden's behalf.
“From the perspective of Ukrainian legislation, he did not violate anything,” Lutsenko said of Hunter Biden.
Trump’s efforts to push Kiev to investigate Biden are at the heart of the House’s impeachment inquiry....
There are more articles surrounding these topics and I will list them here with links to those that care to read them, but, I am going to return to the Whistleblower Complaint to finish reading it's content. As far as I am concerned about the issue of corruption with Joe and Hunter Biden is closed and there simply is nothing supporting the rhetoric. The articles below are in chronological order.
Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian Nightmare: A closed probe is revived (click here)
Ukraine continues to fight corruption - don't believe the smear (click here)
Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don't you want our evidence on democrats? (click here)
Ukraine top prosecutor says no evidence on Biden (click here)
Ukrainian that meddled against Trump in 2016 is now under Russia-corruption cloud (click here)
Guiliani says "of course" he asked Ukraine to look into Biden seconds after denying it. (click here)
Hillary Clinton: 'The president asked a foreign power to help him win an election, again. (click here)
Guiliani, Fox's Roberts clash on appropriateness of Ukraine contacts (click here)
Former Zelensky advisor: Ukraine 'understood' discussing Biden was condition for talking to Trump (click here)
Ukrainian prosecutor tied to Trump scandal says Hunter Biden 'did not violate anything' (click here)
Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister says Joe Biden's son must be investigated (click here)
Five things to know as Ukraine fallout widens for Trump (click here)
Volker met with advisor for Ukrainian firm at center of impeachment inquiry (click here)
Trump tweets clip inserting photo of Bidens and Ukrainian gas executive Nickback video (click here)
Those are all the articles I found in "The Hill" pertaining to the topic at hand.
Continued in next entry.
IV. Circumstances leading up to the 25 July Presidential phone call
"The Hill" articles beginning March 20, 2019
March 20, 2019
Hill Staff
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch presented her official credentials to President @Poroshenko. Congratulations!
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko (click here) told Hill.TV's John Solomon in an interview that aired Wednesday that U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch gave him a do not prosecute list during their first meeting.
“Unfortunately, from the first meeting with the U.S. ambassador in Kiev, [Yovanovitch] gave me a list of people whom we should not prosecute,” Lutsenko, who took his post in 2016, told Hill.TV last week.
“My response of that is it is inadmissible. Nobody in this country, neither our president nor our parliament nor our ambassador, will stop me from prosecuting whether there is a crime,” he continued....
It would seem as though the relationship between the US Ambassador and the Prosecutor General Lutsenko had a poor relationship. There is a question from the Prosecutor General Lutsenko as to the distribution of $4.4 million dollars designated for his office.
There is nothing here about Joe or Hunter Biden. The next article is about a probe opened into US Election interference. I believe the Prosecutor General decided there had to be problems within Ukraine because of the involvement and prosecution in the USA of Paul Manafort.
Ukraine is a sovereign country and does not need the permission of the USA to conduct any probe into any subject they deem important to their country. It is completely understandable that Ukraine would feel a responsibility to understand the movements and activities of Paul Manafort considering the brevity of the situation with the Trump Campaign. Additionally, Ukraine is very conscience about the issue of corruption from the country's past and attempts to stem such problems in the future.
March 20, 2019
By Hill TV Staff
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko (click here) told Hill.TV’s John Solomon in an interview aired on Wednesday that he has opened a probe into alleged attempts by Ukrainians to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“Today we will launch a criminal investigation about this and we will give legal assessment of this information,” Lutsenko said last week.
Lutsenko is probing a claim from a member of the Ukrainian parliament that the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Artem Sytnyk, attempted to influence the 2016 vote to the benefit of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
A State Department spokesman told Hill.TV that officials are aware of news reports regarding Sytnyk.
"We have always emphasized the need for deep, comprehensive, and timely reforms that respond to the demands the Ukrainian people made during the Revolution of Dignity: an end to systemic corruption, faster economic growth, and a European future for all Ukrainians," a State spokesperson told Hill.TV....
...Solomon asked Lutsenko about reports that a member of Ukraine’s parliament obtained a tape of the current head of the NABU saying that he was attempting to help Clinton win the 2016 presidential election, as well as connections that helped release the black-ledger files that exposed Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s wrongdoing in Ukraine....
The article spells out the fact Paul Manafort took money from the former President Yanukovych's party for some time and recorded in record books called the black ledger. A member of the Ukraine Parliament stated the Director of the Anti-corruption agency made an illegal investigation into these "black ledger" entires and it would benefit the Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign. The Director of the Anti-Corruption agency in Ukraine was Artem Sytnyk.
Of course, anyone in Ukraine with any knowledge of an illegal investigation into potential corruption that would benefit one candidate or another would report such things. So, this article seems to report the beginning of an inquiry into an illegal investigation. If these allegations are true the benefit of the Clinton Campaign would come in the form of exposure of Paul Manafort and the monies paid to him. Since Paul Manafort was the Campaign Chairman of the Trump Campaign, it would bring disgrace to Mr. Trump.
The reason Paul Manafort resigned from the Trump Campaign was due to reports in the USA media that he was involved with Russia and Ukraine. The black ledger files are real and they were brought forward in the Special Counsel report. Of course, Paul Manafort is in prison now. The exposure of the black ledger files was important to the USA FBI. The worry by the member of parliament is after the fact of the discovery of the monies paid to Paul Manafort. It is understandable a member of the Ukraine parliament would seek to understand the corruption involved within their sovereign borders.
There is nothing here about Former Vice President Biden or his son.
This is interesting and just came from CNN. I think it closes the case on Joe and Hunter Biden. There was a bipartisan concern for the corruption in Ukraine and the end to it. The Prosecutor General's Office under Shokin was considered to be corrupt, hence, ending his career.
October 3, 2019
By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck
A newly unearthed letter (click here) from 2016 shows that Republican senators pushed for reforms to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office and judiciary, echoing calls then-Vice President Joe Biden made at the time.
CNN's KFile found a February 2016 bipartisan letter signed by several Republican senators that urged then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to "press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary."
The letter shows that addressing corruption in Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office had bipartisan support in the US and further undercuts a baseless attack made by President Donald Trump and his allies that Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire then Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to stop investigations into a Ukrainian natural gas company that his son, Hunter Biden, sat on the board of. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden, nor is it clear whether Hunter was under investigation at all.
Trump called the 2016 dismissal of the Ukrainian prosecutor "unfair" in his July 25 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying, "A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved," according to the rough transcript of the phone call.
The 2016 letter, sent by members of the Senate Ukraine Caucus, was signed by Republican Sens. Rob Portman, Mark Kirk and Ron Johnson, as well as Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Jeanne Shaheen, Chris Murphy, Sherrod Brown, and Richard Blumenthal and focused on longstanding issues of corruption in Ukraine and urged reforms of the government....
Continued in the next entry.
The most recent picture is the top photo and the bottom photo is an earlier picture. In his recent picture, he looks to have puffiness around his eyes. That sort of periorbital edema is usually affiliated with the heart or an allergic reaction. If he was having that type of allergic reaction he would be in an ER.
With digital photos who knows for sure.
Trump is a Putin wannabe. A report today states Trump is tweeting about the sixteen-year-old woman at the UN General Assembly that spoke regarding the Climate Crisis. Trump is following the example of Vladimir Putin:
October 2, 2019
Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin (click here) on Wednesday took aim at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, telling an energy forum he did not share the excitement about her United Nations speech last month.
The 16-year-old Swede electrified the UN summit in New York when she denounced world leaders for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt by millions of her peers by demanding: “How dare you?...
So, Trump follows Putin regularly. Out of fear or admiration?
A life saving and record-setting drug raid in Oregon!
Congratulations to all those involved to make it happen.
October 2, 2019
By Conrad Wilson
U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy J. Williams speaks at a press conference in Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Williams unsealed a 60-count indictment Wednesday against 41 defendants in a drug related case.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Billy Williams (click here) announced a 60-count indictment Wednesday against 41 defendants, who he said conspired to distribute methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine manufactured in Mexico throughout the Portland metropolitan area.
The case, unsealed by a judge in federal court on Wednesday, is one of the “largest takedowns of a drug trafficking organization” in Oregon history, Williams said. He said defendants in the case were facing lengthy prison sentences, including in some cases, life behind bars....
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?
What did Guiliani think he was doing? Chief of Staff Andiiy Bohdan (click here) was harassed by Guiliani, too.
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....
September 7, 2019
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.
11 September 2019
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.
Paragraph 1 has already been reviewed in the previous entry. Part 4 will be read later. The second paragraph goes on to reiterate the trauma of the realization the President was using the powers of his office to serve his personal agenda. This paragraph clearly states the other OFFICIALS were in agreement that the President was breaking the law. It indicates clearly there was a group of individuals sharing the same information. There is also White House lawyers consulted in how this information and the letter should be treated. Here again the idea of urgency enters the picture. There are persons in the White House concerned over a common event witnessed as valid and consulting White House lawyers. The Whistleblower believed urgency rather than discussions with lawyers was needed, hence the complaint.
The first public knowledge of the telephone call came at the website of President Zelenskyy. Obviously, his administration was supposed to have transparency with the people of Ukraine. The reading is above and I have the words here:
"Donald Trump expressed his conviction that the new Ukrainian government will be able to quickly improve Ukraine's image and complete the investigation of corruption cases that have held back cooperation between Ukraine and the United States."
That posting on President Zelenskyy's website also implicates Trump in that there is no cooperation between Ukraine and the USA unless corruption cases (without listing names) are completed. So, President Zelenskyy left the conversation with Trump with a clear understanding the USA military equipment was not coming YET.
The Whistleblower is correct. That posting along with the specifics of what was transpiring within the White House staff and the slow to take responsibility White House lawyers is a clear path forward that Trump broke the law and needs to be impeached.
To make it clear an understanding exists that the "cases" are about the Biden family and the White House staff knew of no other case existing.
Okay, now we are up to 12 people listening to the phone call. All were policy officials and duty officers in the White House. The staff believed this would be just another call to a foreign leader and there was no listening restricts in place. Those listening to the phone call also included a State Department official, Mr. T. Ulrich Brechbuhl. The Whistleblower had no knowledge of anyone that may have been with President Trump in the Oval Office. Also noted is a fairly good distribution list for the transcript of the call to the State Department and Intelligence Community.
Continued in following entry after a break.
Footnote 2 was referring to Footnote 7.
Footnote 3 It makes a reference to FOX News and Mr. Podesta telling the FBI to get out of someplace. Evidently, the STORY Trump is trying to peddle is there is a missing server and Podesta would know where it is and it is somewhere in Ukraine. The Whistleblower doesn't know why Trump affiliates a server with Ukraine. Most people that live logical lies won't understand that either, but, the Trump Koolaid demands magical thinking to understand a mysterious storyline which obviously includes a devious Ukraine government completely dedicated to the election of Hillary Clinton. What is so hard to understand about that?
Below is the beginning of Page 3 of the Whistleblower complaint.
The phone calls between these two men and quite possibly the previous President of Ukraine need to be examined. The understanding Trump has in his conversation is advanced in regard to the particulars of another investigation with Joe and Hunter Biden being the focus. There is a clear understanding of the removal of Prosecutor General Lutsenko from office. Trump states perhaps he needs to stay in his office. Why would he make that statement unless he has spoken previously to President Zelenskyy about the issue? There is every reason to believe there are more than two phone calls as well. Rudy Guiliani was in Ukraine many times. He would have been asking the president of Ukraine to carry out another investigation. So, the basis of this complaint spans more time than just three to four months. Is there any chance Trump has a separate cell phone he uses for political reasons and uses that phone to make calls to heads of state?
In parentheses, March 2019 Mr. Lutsenko made public allegations about the Biden family's activities in Ukraine involving the 2016 elections and the US Embassy in Kiev. There is a further explanation in Part IV.
Below is Part 4 beginning on page 4 of the complaint.
There are a lot of inflammatory titles starting in March of 2019 in The Hill about Ukraine. The Hill's collection of articles begins on March 20, 2019.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko (click here) told Hill.TV's John Solomon in an interview that aired Wednesday that U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch gave him a do not prosecute list during their first meeting....
This article is about $4.4 million dollars that were understood to be provided to the Prosecutor General from the USA. The article comes to no conclusions and prevents sketchy information. There is absolutely no mention of VP Biden or Hunter Biden in any way.
That same day, March 20, 2019. there is an article stating Ukraine was opening up a probe about USA election interference. This is news to me. I have not heard anything about a Ukraine investigation into USA election interference and obviously this a political magazine. I don't believe the Special Counsel entertained articles in popular newsprint.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko (click here) told Hill.TV’s John Solomon in an interview aired on Wednesday that he has opened a probe into alleged attempts by Ukrainians to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election....
...Lutsenko is probing a claim from a member of the Ukrainian parliament that the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Artem Sytnyk (click here), attempted to influence the 2016 vote to the benefit of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton....
...NABU issued a statement on Friday, calling Lutsenko's comments "not true and is an absurd effort to discredit an independent anti-corruption agency."...
22 March 2019
The statement of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, (click here) who publicly said that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau could have influenced the US presidential election, is not true and is an absurd effort to discredit an independent anti-corruption agency.
Over the past four years, the National Bureau has repeatedly proven to be an apolitical law enforcement agency. After the establishment of the NABU, for the first time in the history of Ukraine, arrests of top-officials (previously considered as “untouchable”) have started. However, even in such circumstances, it is hard to believe that a newly established law enforcement agency in a country that went through the Revolution of Dignity could somehow influence the US presidential election process in 2016....
This is a matter of who do people believe. This is part of the restructuring of any government when there has been revolution. Be clear, the revolution in Ukraine was exactly that. It removed the communist-backed Russian that was president of Ukraine. So, some of this mess is nothing more than a mess until evidence is provided. The question in instances like this is not who does one believe, but, where is the evidence about the allegations.
I will continue to read the reports by the Hill for now. This revolves around Paul Manafort. I am quite confident some of this is connected to an embarrassment Ukraine feels for their country's involvement with Paul Manafort. My initial impression is there is nothing to this complaint about Ukraine interference and benefit the Clinton Campaign.
It is pretty clear that these speculations in "The Hill" involves questions by Ukrainians of their Prosecutor General and how Paul Manafort got away with his escapades. Ukraine should not be so hard on itself. Paul Manafort was involved with an obviously corrupt Ukraine political party.
The Party of Regions “black ledger” — more than 800 pages of records, passed by the former First Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Viktor Trepak to the NABU on May 27, 2016. The records allegedly contain data on multiple payments from the shadow cashbox of the Party of Regions to Ukrainian top-officials and civil activists.
There is nothing here that pertains to Joe Biden and there is nothing here that implicates Hillary Clinton either. Ukrainian officials simply can't believe Paul Manafort was carrying on within the borders of their country and it was never found until the FBI brought the convictions.
It would appear there may be extensive corruption involved with Manafort. There is an extensive article about Manafort and Ukraine monies paid to him right upto the point he resigned from Chairmanship of the Trump Campaign.
...From 2004 to 2014, (click here) Manafort had advised President Viktor Yanukovych, who advocated that his country sever ties with the United States and other Western nations, and align itself more closely with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. After Yanukovych fled the country in disgrace in 2014, a ledger was recovered from the burned-out ruins of his Party of Regions. Its records showed that Yanukovych and his political allies had made some $12.7 million in secret cash payments to Manafort. The disclosure led directly to Manafort’s resignation in August 2016 as chairman of the Trump presidential campaign....
At any rate, Joe and Hunter Biden are yet to be even mentioned in the stories on the Hill or within the supporting documents in the articles. I found the article above on my own which provides some insight into bigger issues.
The interference that was supposed to have benefitted the Clinton Campaign was released records of the financial files of the Party of Nation's "black ledger." There is no release of secret files or monies provided. The Clinton Campaign would have indirectly benefited from those financial files that would embarrass Paul Manafort, hence benefit Clinton over Trump.
That is the ghost Trump is chasing. I have seen entries from those files, but, it was in the Special Counsel report and is on this blog. The entire circus Trump is crying about is a false trail out of embarrassment by Ukraine.
Footnote 4 on Page 4 of the complaint is about a report in a news publication, OCCRP (click here)
22 July 2019
Two Soviet-born Florida businessmen (click here) — one linked to a Ukrainian tycoon with reputed mafia ties — are key hidden actors behind a plan by U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s personal attorney to investigate the president’s rivals.
Trump’s attorney, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, said in May that he planned to visit then-incoming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to win support for probes into potentially damaging claims raised by senior Ukrainian officials.
Among them was the misleading contention that Trump’s main 2020 Democratic rival, Joe Biden, improperly pressured Ukraine’s government to fire a top prosecutor; that American diplomats in Ukraine had exhibited pro-Democrat bias; and that local officials conspired to undermine Trump’s presidential campaign and help Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Giuliani set off a firestorm in the conservative media by promoting the allegations....
According to that same footnote, there were several people affiliated wtih the new president Guiliani met with; Ivan Bakanov (click here) and Serhiy Shefir (see below):
...Some view his cabinet choices, (click here) especially Bohdan, as ominous since most are close associates and friends. Serhiy Shefir, now Zelensky’s first aide, is a longtime business partner and friend....
I think interrupting the complaint with Page 4 would be an injustice.
Continued in the next entry and returning to the beginning of Page 3 of the complaint.
The leak of the so-called black ledger files to U.S. media prompted Manafort’s resignation from the Trump campaign and gave rise to one of the key allegations in the Russia collusion probe that has dogged Trump for the last two and a half years....
