The Ukraine President Zelenskyy made a big deal out of the fact, this was the second call.
Zelenskyy never said the EU was not doing as much economically or in humanitarian aid, he stated he would like to see stronger resolve to the sanctions placed against Russia.
This is the Javelin (click here) Ukraine President stated was important to the national defense of his country.
Trump never answered Zelenskyy's question. He changed the subject.
Crowdstrike (click here)
Executive Leadership (click here)
Board of Directors (click here)
Crowdstrike was the company the DNC called after the Russian hacking.
...So far, so good. (click here) Critically, though, CrowdStrike was the firm the Democratic National Committee called in 2016 after the organization discovered that hackers had broken into its email and chat systems and stolen data. The US intelligence community later confirmed that the attackers were Russian hacking group APT 28, also known as Fancy Bear—a moniker coined by CrowdStrike. (The Russian hacking group APT 29, or Cozy Bear, also infiltrated the DNC network in 2015.) When CrowdStrike began its investigation, Fancy Bear hackers still had active access to the DNC's networks, and CrowdStrike worked to remove them.
As part of that remediation, the DNC, CrowdStrike, and government investigators had to "decommission more than 140 servers, remove and reinstall all software, including the operating systems, for more than 180 computers, and rebuild at least 11 servers," according to court documents filed by the DNC in 2018.
Trump has had a very public, long-held fascination with that process, for years referring to the DNC's "missing server." But when CrowdStrike or another firm investigates an incident, they typically don't physically remove a client's devices. Instead, they make "images" of the hard drive and memory of every relevant device so that they can preserve a sort of snapshot of the compromised systems. Over time, digital forensic evidences washes away, as people reboot their devices or add and delete files.
In other words, there is no missing server....
This is way out of line for Trump to be asking a newly elected President of Ukraine to be involved with finding a server that doesn't exist, BUT, Trump believes it does. There is no reason for a newly elected Ukraine president to be asked these questions unless there was something nefarious behind it. Trump, Guiliani and Barr could not carry out such tasks from the USA without being discovered. I doubt the Ukraine president could find out anything at CrowdStrike, either, but Trump's asking is highly unethical, illegitimate and illegal. Was he hoping Guiliani and Barr would be able to carry out some sort of secret cyber hacking to fulfill Trump's delusional dream of finding 30,000 emails? And who do these men think they are to be leaning on an American ally with a war existing within the country's borders? This is all maniacal scheming that is criminal on it's face.
This type of scheming was to carry out some sort of social media blitz to turn Trump from the worst president in USA history to the man who saved the USA from THE DEEP STATE!
Once again, the American voter is the target of a scheme by Trump only this time carried out on foreign soil.
At a time when President Zelenskyy was frantic about corruption and riding Ukraine of it, is willing to entertain Rudy Guiliani. And why? Because the President of Ukraine was frantic about his strategic position in defending against Russia now in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. What does Guiliani have to do with any of that? Nothing. He was going to be entertained by the President of Ukraine so he could mastermind an election victory by Trump when Joe Biden was going to win the presidency in 2020.
Trump, Barr and Guiliani had the President of Ukraine by the throat and they weren't going to let go until they got what they wanted. In addition, it was playing to Russia and the possibility of retaking all of Ukraine. They all have to be charged for the crimes they have already committed.
Viktor Shokin (click here) is the prosecutor Trump referred to. In doing so, Trump is doing Putin's bidding. The people of Ukraine never trusted him. He never prosecuted the right people responsible for the corruption and took issue with anyone who said differently, including the CEO of Burisma Holdings, the company Hunter Biden would eventually have a place within their leadership.
Shokin wanted to prosecute Mykola Vladislavovich Zlochevsky, the CEO of Burisma Holdings for money laundering, tax evasion and generalized corruption. The big three that most corrupt prosecutors know they can find SOMETHING that is illegal. That prosecution never happened as Ukraine cleaned up it's corruption infrastructure which included the General Prosecutor of Ukraine, Viktor Shokin.
I was just thinking that even if Hunter Biden wanted to come forward to tell his story, he couldn't because so much of it is probably classified.
At the time of the paradigm shift in Ukraine that freed it from Russia, there was a lot of pressure from Europe and the USA to end the corruption. Yanukovych's home was open for display to prove the extent corruption ruled the country. Europe and the USA was willing to put sanctions in place if Ukraine did not purge itself of the corruption. The World Bank was also stating for as much as it wanted to help Ukraine restructure debt and find a way forward, the corruption had to an end. To that reality, there were plans drawn up for the new government under the new constitution to follow to act in good faith to secure financial stability while ridding itself of corruption. There was no going back. Ukraine had to move in the direction the people demanded. There were people that died for that change and the world, in general, would not let them forget.
So, after all this time, after all the deaths of Ukraine citizens fighting for their country, Trump has the god almighty nerve to interrupt military shipments to Ukraine for the sake of investigating a KNOWN corrupt prosecutor in Shokin. I don't think so. Trump is guilty up to his eyeballs in regard to the coercion of the President of Ukraine.
The impeachment committees need to go forward. The Republicans need to stand up for the USA Constitution and not their party politics. This is disgraceful and they should not be on the wrong side of the Constitution.
