By Christian Berthelsen
Lev Parnas, (click here) an associate of Rudy Giuliani indicted on U.S. campaign finance charges, said a $1 million transfer into his wife’s bank account from Russia was the proceeds of a loan -- and not an attempt to conceal his assets.
Federal prosecutors pointed to the transfer in a filing last week asking the judge to revoke Parnas’s bail because he misrepresented his financial resources when he was arrested. They said Parnas’ wife, Svetlana, received $1 million from a bank account in Russia in September, the month before Ukraine-born Parnas and business partner Igor Fruman were arrested as they sought to leave the country....
...Parnas and Fruman are accused of working on behalf of one or more Ukrainian government officials to seek the removal of then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. They have pleaded not guilty to those and other charges....
Guiliani has stated he wanted Ambassador Yovanovitch removed from Ukraine because she was corrupt. Do the people interested in the USA's Rule of Law realize Guiliani and Trump are redefining the word corrupt to serve their own purpose?
To begin Rudy Guiliani, as a private attorney to the president, has no authority to demand the removal of an American Ambassador from her post and then achieve it through complaining to the president as his private attorney. Guiliani also acted to conduct his own investigation without the authority to do so. The Former Prosecutor General Yurig Lutsenko involved with Rudy Guiliani was removed from office for enforcing corruption in Ukraine. Guiliani does not have the endorsement of other countries to end corruption in Ukraine.
December 16, 2019
By Adam Entous
Of all the names featured (click here) in the private depositions and public testimonies of the Presidential impeachment inquiry—Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani; Giuliani’s associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman; Joe Biden and his son, Hunter—that of Yuriy Lutsenko has been cited more often than almost any other. In the sworn depositions of Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent, Lutsenko’s name appears two hundred and thirty times, nearly twice as often as Trump’s. Lutsenko, sometimes referred to simply as “the corrupt prosecutor general” of Ukraine, has been portrayed, hardly without reason, as an unscrupulous politician prone to telling lies to further his personal ambitions. As those closely following the news have learned, Lutsenko fed information to Giuliani, which Giuliani, Trump, and their allies spun to smear the reputations of the Bidens and of Yovanovitch, whom Trump fired in April. One of the House’s star witnesses told me, of Lutsenko, “I don’t think we’d be here if not for him.”...
...As prosecutor general—the equivalent of the Attorney General in the United States—Lutsenko tried to assure his American counterparts that he, too, was committed to reform, but they soon came to see him as an enabler of the corrupt system that they were seeking to fix. As Kent said in a closed-door deposition on October 15th, “He was bitter and angry at the Embassy for our positions on anti-corruption. And so he was looking for revenge.”
Lutsenko, who is fifty-five, left his job in August. He’d become a figure of some notoriety in Kyiv, and, in the fall, he relocated temporarily to London, enrolling in an English-language immersion program....
Unfortunately, Lutsenko served time in a Russian prison under the Former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych. It may be that experience tainted his ability to be a dedicated Prosecutor General for people of Ukraine. As Prosecutor General in Ukraine, other countries were seeking to end the Russian corruption of the country, to ensure a viable economy for investors and institutions like the IMF. But, they were unable to discern a country free of corruption in that Lutsenko was not prosecuting corruption so much as ignoring it.
Why then, with such a broad agreement in the international community recognizing the Former Prosecutor General as enforcing corruption, would Guiliani befriend him and attempt to change the truth and history?
There is a bigger picture and it is seated in long-standing hatred of governments of democracies in the world. What wealthy American doesn't complain about the taxes they pay and to the degree the government that does not act to facilitate their greater wealth? Guiliani figured the "Deep State" as defined by Trump would protect his actions all along the way until the goal of the Trump Cabal achieved it's goals.
Guiliani's words stated in full public view that Ambassador Yovanovitch was corrupt is all part of the covert agenda that is Trump. Guiliani is simply carrying out the agenda to turn the definition of corruption on it's head. THAT IS AN AGENDA ITEM for the Trump Cabal.
Why would the Majority Leader of the US Senate openly in full view of the public state basically, "...the deal is in..." and he would be working closely with the president's lawyers when it is a huge ethical violation and quite frankly anti-constitutional and anti-American. Why? Why would a US Senate majority leader continually obstruct laws the American people want? Money from cronies? Sure. Attempting to ensure the "status quo" stands? Absolutely. But, why enforce a status quo that is corrupt and dangerous?
December 17, 2019
By Tucker Doherty and Tanya Snyder
Kentucky’s largest transportation grant application (click here) under the Trump administration benefited from a process that the government’s top watchdog said lacked “the assurance of fairness,” raising questions about whether the Department of Transportation is making decisions based on project merits or political considerations.
The $67.4 million grant application for Boone County — a rapidly growing suburban district of political importance to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the husband of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao — was initially flagged by professional staff as incomplete. But after giving the state and local officials behind the application an extra opportunity to submit missing information, Chao chose it as one of 26 grant winners out of an initial pool of 258 applicants.
The Government Accountability Office faulted the department for failing to document why the Boone County project and 41 other applicants received this extra chance to fill in holes in their submissions while 55 other incomplete applications fell out of the running. Moreover, emails obtained by POLITICO show that Boone County officials were in contact with Chao’s aide Todd Inman, a former McConnell campaign staffer known to offer extra guidance to Kentuckians with business before the secretary....
A good and honest Majority Leader would bend over backward to be sure his wife and he were above any form of suspicion. But, they don't. Why? McConnell and Elaine Chow have a lot of reasons to continue THEIR CONTROL of the USA government and it's operations. It starts with her family and ends with the political populism of her husband and not as a spouse, but, as a woman with a lot of financial interests that might be adversely effected by a president interested in the people and stands on strong ethical grounds.
The people within the Trump Cabal has accumulated a great deal of wealth and they want it protected. So, while a conspiracy isn't as clear as a picture they all have the same interest, control of government outcomes.
Donald Trump is all too obvious. He didn't even place his business profile in the care of "a blind trust" supervised by a non-partisan entity/institution.
Guiliani was/is in a fight with a spouse during divorce proceedings and wanted to be able to live a comfortable lifestyle while claiming he has no tangible income. Why not become a billionaire? Trump is an icon that built his billions on the backs of others. His casinos have failed and included in repeating bankruptcies. His activity in a non-profit benefited himself and it was shut down with minimal fanfare, prosecutions or fines. Why not be a billionaire?
...Rudy Giuliani Net Worth: $45 million (click here)
Giuliani’s time after serving as the mayor of New York City has proven lucrative as he has channeled that experience into major success as a consultant and paid public speaker. His net worth is estimated to be $45 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth....
Why not throw in with Trump to falsify actions and prioritize corruption? The Former Prosecutor Generals in Ukraine have nothing to lose and believe Giuliani has power compliments of Trump to conduct themselves in ways that best provide for their agendas. The conversation between Trump and the Ukraine President Zelenskyy is PROOF of that, Trump did nothing but play up good feelings of congratulations and instill the idea Guiliani and Bill Barr have unlimited power in foreign countries to bring about agendas that already were ended by the international community.
"I Headed the FBI and CIA..." (click here)
Trump supporters that are American voters don't see anything wrong with Trump or his agenda. They are amused by Trump's ill demeanor. They agree with his idea of protecting American borders. They believe Trump will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for the strides he takes with North Korea. For the most part that is not all that bad, right? They have other ideas about what the USA is all about and what complete freedom comprises in understanding Liberty.
They have one fatal flaw. The "Deep State" conspiracy is actually an attack on the USA Constitution. The opinion by Former FBI and also CIA Director, William H. Webster (click here) finds a profound danger to the country in the way Trump politics plays out in an agenda of domestic destruction.
The "Deep State" Trump RELIES on to define his political successes actually is his own making. He hates being examined by any government authority. His best excuse for concealing his taxes from the public is constant harassment of him by the IRS reviews.
Poor, Donald. Poor, poor Donald.
Donald John Trump has no conscience. He has a personal agenda and celebrity along with his family.
He breaks the law as does Guiliani and Bill Barr has countless ethics violations to face if anyone can keep count. John Durham has no case. The Inspector-General already said he has no idea what Durham could find that wasn't available to him.
William H. Webster's opinion is a real turning point or at least should be. A man retired from a life of service to this country is speaking out in defense of the USA Constitution. Why wasn't the Special Counsel report enough? Why are all these professionals coming to the public to ALERT Americans to the danger of the Trump Cabal. Who's left? How many more FORMER anyone does the American people have to hear from in order to "get it right."
There is an attack against the USA Constitution and it stems from greed and entitlement. Those that want wealth beyond wealth are not interested in the USA or it's Constitution and God Help the USA Constitution if it gets in their way.
Russia media is now calling Trump as a Russian agent to benefit Mother Russia.
The "Deep State" is fictitious, a myth at best. It is an excuse for anything that "trip's up' Trump and his henchmen/women.
William H. Webster is not a person anymore interested in a Deep State and obviously would mount an authored opinion against it if he believed it was a danger to the USA's Constitution. He did not pen an opinion about a Deep State conspiracy, he warned the American people about the Trump White House and it's chronic abuse of power.
Americans need to wake up to the truth. We have a problem and it is called Trump's abuse of power.
Sedition.
Trump's abuse of power easily can be defined as sedition in hiding behind a "Deep State" conspiracy.
Sedition is a conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state.
Sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that tends toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent towards, or resistance against established authority.
Gaslighting is an interesting word, but, I sincerely believe sedition is the issue. Trump means to rid the country of it's Consitution and in place he leaves lawlessness. I refuse to dance around this anymore.
18 U.S.C. § 2384 (click here) - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 18. Crimes and Criminal Procedure § 2384. Seditious conspiracy
There is evidence and this is just one example. He threatened civil war in retribution for his impeachment.
Governors need to be ready. There are people following Trump's tweets as permission for attacks on government and the people of the USA. Charlottesville is an example of what can transpire to Trump's racist agenda.
Trump would be delighted if these militias were successful in cowering the country or igniting a civil war. The fool that he is doesn't realize they would end him and replace him with their own authorities.
October 2, 2019By Mary B. McCord
Oathkeepers members at the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia
Although the president (click here) was quoting Pastor Robert Jeffress’s comments on Fox News, he was adopting them as his own.
It might seem tempting to dismiss this language as of a piece with President Trump’s typical Twitter rhetoric. But it is worth paying particular attention to this tweet—because among the people who read it were militia groups enthusiastic about exactly what Trump portended. And while no violence has yet resulted from the president’s tweet, it would be foolish to underestimate the power of Trump’s comments to call rogue militias to action, particularly if there is an impeachment and he continues to use this rhetoric to fan the flames. In the days after his civil war tweet, he went on to use similarly incendiary language, referring to impeachment proceedings as a “COUP.”
Consider the Oath Keepers group, a far-right armed militia. Calling on its 24,000 Twitter followers to read the president’s whole tweet thread, the Oath Keepers account posted:...
Those that covet the idea of Civil War are using Trump's politics to further their own violent agenda.
These guys are not just about keeping their wives happy. They have members in prison. They live in both worlds, within the prison and outside. They mean it and they are using Trump to organize.
There is no traceable conspiracy, there is simply a common ground that attracts silent partners.
