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Posted on 02/21/2018 8:34:28 PM PST by saywhatagain
Mueller indicts lawyer Alex van der Zwaan. MSM scream: the evil Drumpf is about to fall! They're embarrassingly WRONG, of course. And they are MISLEADING you, by not mentioning OTHER names (bombshells incoming). Let me explain.
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The outrage is how the MSM and as I discovered researching van der Zwaan, Wikipedia covers and lies on behalf of the Clintons and Podesta.
For those who like to connect dots, read a good novel, the following is for you! enjoy
The link to "Vachel" twitter account is up there in the source of this header
From Vachel account . . . .
The indictment is linked to Manafort & Gates illegal lobbying for the pro-Putin Ukrainian strongman Viktor Yanukovych between 2007-2013.
Van der Zwaan, who looks like Clark Kent, has lied to the FBI about his contact with Gates & another person (anon).
Some background: Skadden Arps, a global law firm, was hired in 2012 by the Ukraine Ministry of Justice to prepare a report on the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a political rival to Viktor Yanukovych.
Viktor Yanukovych was elected as President of Ukraine on 7 February 2010. While he portrayed himself as a centrist, in reality he was a Kremlin-backed stooge. Tymoshenko was anti-Putin, so the inevitable occurred and she was arrested after Yanukovych's election.
On 11 October 2011, she was convicted of embezzlement and abuse of power, and sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered to pay the state $188 million.
This caused outrage and condemnation across the world.
The Yanukovych government then hired Skadden (the law firm) to write a report on the prosecution of Tymoshenko, assessing whether or not her imprisonment adhered to international legal standards.
Surprise, surprise: the Skadden report found that Yanukovych-era legal officials did not deprive Tymoshenko of her right to due process during the trial. In effect, the report was funded by the pro-Russian Ukrainian President to legitimize her prosecution.
IMPORTANT (bombshells incoming!) : Alex van der Zwaan was involved in producing the report, BUT he was not the person engaged by the Ukrainian government. That was Greg Craig, a partner of the firm. And Clifford Sloan, another partner.
What are you NOT being told?
Well, looky here: Greg Craig had been WH Counsel to Barack Obama. WTF? Yes! But wait, there's more:
Even more significantly (IMO), Craig had served as assistant to the President and special counsel in the White House of (drum roll)...
President Bill Clinton.
There's more:
Craig directed the team defending Clinton against impeachment. Working with Clinton's COS, one John Podesta.
Yes you can get up off the floor. Actually, wait a sec, stay there. The other partner at Skadden responsible for producing the report? Clifford Sloan?
Well, how about that?
Clifford Sloan was Associate White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton. At the same time as Greg Craig.
These two guys are CLINTON people.
FROM WAY BACK.
Ain't it funny what the media won't tell you? Anyway, let's move on.
The question : why would two Clinton stooges produce a report in 2012 for the pro-Russian government of Yanukovych? Can anyone guess?
Let's explore a bit, before we try and answer.
Who was SOS between January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013?
Hillary Rodham Clinton. Now when she took over as SOS, US policy toward Ukraine was clear - very much anti-Putin. Then came the infamous 'Russian re-set'.
July 2, 2010 - Clinton visited Ukraine to meet with Yanukovych & other leaders of the Putin-backed team. Consistent with the re-set but also disappointing for anti-Putin crowd, her tone was surprisingly positive about Yanukovych:
Hillary Clinton tells Ukraine door to NATO open
reuters.com
Of course, there were other reasons why it was in Clinton's private interests to ensure Yanukovych remained in power. Why?
Because she & Bill were being paid a fortune by one of Yanukovych's billionaire backers at the time, Victor Pinchuk.
How much? From 2009 up to 2013 (the year the Ukrainian coup erupted), the Clinton Foundation received at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, which is headquartered in Kiev.
Oh - also, in 2008 Pinchuk, who had made a fortune in the pipe-building business, had pledged a five-year, $29-million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Many aren't aware, but Ukrainians (read 'Pinchuk') were the single-largest donors to the Clinton Foundation:
Pinchuk is an extremely clever man, who switches sides when the winds dictate. His objective is simple: making more money. LOTS of it, too.
He was a solid backer of Yanukovych, which continued until the winds started turning against the Kremlin-backed President in 2013:
Of course, this involved lobbying Hillary Clinton as SOS, via the Clinton Foundation. Here's an email from September 2011 revealing Pinchuk's ties to Yanukovych:
(link: https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_SeptemberWeb/O-2015-08633-191/DOC_0C05783797/C05783797.pdf) foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCU…
When the winds shifted against Yanukovych, he simply switched sides to protect his business interests. The Clintons did the same thing when needed.
They took money from him the whole time.
This included Clinton turning a blind eye while Punchik's company, Interpipe, screwed US manufacturers of lead piping by pricing them out of the US market. All while under international sanctions, too. More on that here:
Did Clinton disclose what was going on with Pinchuk? Hell no. She deliberately LIED about even meeting him.
Emails show Clinton denied, then met with Ukrainian donor
washingtonexaminer.com
How convenient that the Obama MOU (between the Clinton Foundation and Obama admin) restricted transparency only to donations from 'foreign governments'.
It was a sham document from the start, as it permitted oligarchs to either donate as individuals, or as proxies for governments. Not that it mattered - the Clintons breached it anyway:
(link: https://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/memorandum_of_understanding_clinton.pdf) media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politic…
28. Anyway, remember how I pointed out at the start of the thread that the media are missing key names when discussing the Manafort/Gates indictment? We have CRAIG & SLOAN, the two Clinton stooges at Skadden.
The other name? TONY PODESTA.
See, Podesta was working the pro-Yanukovych lobbying scheme with Manafort the whole time, via The Podesta Group. Manafort was also using Mercury LLC, another lobbying group.
Mercury did the GOP side of the aisle, Podesta the Democratic side of the aisle.
Manafort appears to have been the Russian link. He'd been acquainted with Yanukovych since the mid-2000s and appears to have been advising him from at least 2007-2013:
Who did Manafort and Gates work for in Ukraine and Russia? washingtonpost.com
However, don't forget that Podesta was ALSO extensive connected with Russia/Putin. By 2012, he had already lobbied for Russia, as well as a list of the world's worst regimes: March - OIG report - dam wall will break.
ThankQ.
Very interesting and illuminating to how DC is hopelessly corrupt - those with power switch sides when convenient and continue to grease the skids to achieve their financial goals. Will be curious to see how this plays out, but those are some pretty big players connected to some very big names.
Perhaps the real question should be “will Mueller go there?”
Time will tell, but right, wrong, fair, or indifferent.... there MUST be an investigation of the Clinton Foundation and how in the holy hell our nation ever signed off on having a Sec. of State who was a beneficiary of a “foundation” taking in hundreds of millions of dollars from people actively engaged in lobbying our nation for some benefit.
It is also very ironic that the very media and people who cheered the “occupy” movement, which lambasted the fact that the connected in our nation create great wealth by gaming the system do not see the incredible hypocrisy among their “leaders” who exempt their business interests from minimum wage and rake in tens of millions of dollars pulling the levers of power.
Check out comment #1.
The Clintons laugh all the way to the bank! I despise them to their core - which is putridly rotten. My only comfort is knowing that their sins WILL be found out and they will not escape the final judge to whom ALL secrets are known.
Bookmarked - great job!
bookmark Manafort Craig Podesta
For those unaware, Vachel Lindsay on Twitter was formerly Imperator Rex3 whose account got suspended by Twitter.
From the tweet, the indicted attorney is the son-in-law of an oligarch.
Follow the money.
Thanks for the ping; post. LOCK THEM UP!
Hillaryous Rotten Criminal ALERT!
Very interesting, let’s hope the dots are connected correctly. They sure seem to be.
The author needs to add Crowdstrike and Dmitri Alperovitch into any analysis of Clinton’s Ukraine connections
And then take a look at who are fellows at the Atlantic Council...many of the same players, even including Evelyn Farkas
“Victor Pinchuk Foundation and Atlantic Council to Host a Conference “Russia’s Cyber Operations in Ukraine and Beyond”
https://pinchukfund.org/en/news/17736/
#10. Re the picture of Hillary with the caption “I did not have financial relations with that company Uranium One”.
She also said, “Please ignore my red glowing ass. It’s just a rash”.
:’)
Van der Zwaan.
See post 11
Van der Zwaan is the son in law of oa oligarch. See the tweet for the data that is buried in the bottom of the screenshot.
for some Q-ers
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