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Three House committees investigate Trump, Giuliani pressure on Ukraine to hurt Biden’s campaign
Cnbc ^ | September 9, 2019

Posted on 09/09/2019 8:21:28 PM PDT by NorseViking

KEY POINTS Three House committees are investigating reported efforts by President Trump and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani “to pressure the government of Ukraine to assist” Trump’s re-election campaign. Giuliani has repeatedly urged Ukraine to probe former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who had a role with a Ukraine gas company.

Three House committees on Monday began investigating reported efforts by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to pressure “the government of Ukraine to assist” Trump’s re-election campaign by having Ukraine probe former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

The investigation comes weeks after Giuliani reportedly urged a top representative of Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to probe whether Ukrainian officials tried to harm Trump’s 2016 campaign and whether Biden’s own diplomatic efforts in that country affected Hunter Biden’s involvement with a gas company in Ukraine owned by an oligarch there.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Russia; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: clowncar; collusionhoax; delaware; hunterbiden; jamescomey; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; lisapage; peterstrzok; robertmueller; rudygiuliani; russiasucks; ukraine; volodymyrzelensky; witchhunt
One question. Would anyone ever go to prison over 2016 collusion hoax? Would Biden go to prison?
1 posted on 09/09/2019 8:21:28 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Good. Maybe they will show how Andrew Weismann worked with the CIA front company McKinsey in the Ukraine to frame Trump.


2 posted on 09/09/2019 8:24:38 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: NorseViking
On the one hand, Republicans are suggesting that an investigation into possible crimes is warranted in the case of Joe Biden and his family.

This, of course, is outrageous and deeply offensive to the media.

And thus, on the other hand, the media is suggesting that an investigation into possible crimes is warranted in the case of Donald Trump and his associates.

Because anyone who calls for an investigation, ought to be investigated.

3 posted on 09/09/2019 8:26:09 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: tired&retired

These are damned DEMS...they won’t do that!


4 posted on 09/09/2019 8:26:25 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ClearCase_guy

“” “” On the one hand, Republicans are suggesting that an investigation into possible crimes is warranted in the case of Joe Biden and his family.”” “”

I have no idea what is to investigate. Biden’s curruption in Ukraine is just so blatant that all you need is to formally document the obvious and write charges.


5 posted on 09/09/2019 8:36:14 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking

Evidently it is an impeachable offense to point out a democrat’s crimes.


6 posted on 09/09/2019 8:41:25 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: NorseViking
Perhaps they might want to interview Viktor Shokin. He was the prosecutor investigating corruption in a company involving Biden’s son . Biden insisted Shokin be fired or a billion dollar loan would not happen. Biden even bragged about getting Shokin fired on camera.
7 posted on 09/09/2019 8:45:55 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman

What is it if not obvious bribery and abuse of office?


8 posted on 09/09/2019 8:48:27 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: NorseViking
Yep. Stinks to high heaven. Which is why this article is RAT propaganda trying to spin this as Trump is the bad guy. Something about the web site keeps crashing my phone so I don't know if Sorkin’s name was even mentioned.
9 posted on 09/09/2019 8:57:21 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman

Should be Shokin...not Sorkin...


10 posted on 09/09/2019 9:01:00 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: tired&retired

You keep posting that McKinsey is a CIA front company.

Prove it.


11 posted on 09/09/2019 9:03:52 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

The book “The Almost Classified Guide to CIA Front Companies, Proprietaries & Contractors” lists McKinsey & Company.

Page 246, top of page

Just read about all the operations they have been involved in worldwide.
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How George Soros Singlehandedly Created The European Refugee Crisis (with McKinsey)

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-08/how-george-soros-singlehandedly-created-european-refugee-crisis-and-why

Soros was there to profit from the chaos he helped create. His prize in Ukraine was the state-owned energy monopoly Naftogaz.

Soros again had his US cronies, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and US consulting company McKinsey, advise the puppet government of Ukraine to privatize Naftogaz.
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The Story McKinsey
Didn’t Want Written
Illustrations by Laura Lannes

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1g5zjdcr97k2y/The-Story-McKinsey-Didn-t-Want-Written

Despite the concerns about the protocol, when the Westmoreland disclosures were filed on July 3 in accordance with it, McKinsey disclosed hundreds of MIO connections. They included 56 investments — in funds run by Whitebox, UBS, BlackRock, Oaktree Capital Management, PIMCO, and Bank of America, among others. It also disclosed numerous hedge funds that had been McKinsey clients when they were lenders to other companies that filed for bankruptcy.
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New York Times

How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments

Its clients have included Saudi Arabia’s absolute monarchy, Turkey under the autocratic leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and corruption-plagued governments in countries like South Africa.

In Ukraine, McKinsey and Paul Manafort — President Trump’s campaign chairman, later convicted of financial fraud — were paid by the same oligarch to help burnish the image of a disgraced presidential candidate, Viktor F. Yanukovych, recasting him as a reformer.

Inside Russia itself, McKinsey has worked with Kremlin-linked companies that have been placed under sanctions by Western governments — companies that the firm helped build up over the years and, in some cases, continues to advise.
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How Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann’s offer to an oligarch could boomerang on DOJ (Ties to McKinsey Consulting)

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/454185-how-mueller-deputy-andrew-weissmanns-offer-to-an-oligarch-could-boomerang

Weissmann quietly reached out to the American lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash with a tempting offer: Give us some dirt on Donald Trump in the Russia case, and Team Mueller might make his 2014 U.S. criminal charges go away.
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Elizabeth Warren Asks McKinsey to Provide Information on Work for Saudis
By Jordyn Holman
October 23, 2018,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-24/warren-asks-mckinsey-to-provide-information-on-work-for-saudis
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Spies fear a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligence
Insiders say a multimillion dollar McKinsey-fueled overhaul of the country’s intelligence community has left it less effective.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/02/spies-intelligence-community-mckinsey-1390863

The CIA, which hired McKinsey in 2015, went through similar changes that irked many at the agency, according to current and former employees.

A former senior intelligence official who witnessed CIA’s reorganization, for example, said the changes there affected turnaround time for intelligence reports, which is a critical factor in decision-making. He also complained about the newly created “mission centers,” saying that, ironically, he had “greater connectivity” to analysts before they were forced to share a room.

“It’s become a place there that having meetings passes for making progress,” the former official added.

But not everyone agreed with how much of a role McKinsey had in the restructuring, or with the negative assessment of the changes.


12 posted on 09/09/2019 9:31:16 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Nateman

#7. Please don’t suggest to the leftwing media that they should actually do some honest investigative reporting. It would break a decades long record of doing just the opposite and bragging about it.

Time for the Sen. Judiciary and Intelligence Committees to hold joint hearings into the Clintons and Bidens re the Ukraine and Red China.

I’ll bring the popcorn, by the ton.


13 posted on 09/09/2019 10:40:36 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: NorseViking

Sounds like a chicken Kiev move to me


14 posted on 09/10/2019 12:40:12 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: NorseViking

If it is from the democrats in the house, they are lying.

JoMa


15 posted on 09/10/2019 1:19:32 AM PDT by joma89
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To: NorseViking
Biden hasn't even been nominated yet.

He's also the Democrat contender who Trump would probably prefer to face over most of the others. So how does an investigation of Biden help Trump's re-election campaign?

16 posted on 09/10/2019 3:14:43 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Alberta's Child

It actually makes sense to unveil everything closer to the elections.


17 posted on 09/10/2019 3:15:51 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Nateman

Yes, this


18 posted on 09/10/2019 3:54:58 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Chan)
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To: NorseViking

instead of investigating Biden which is the crime involved


19 posted on 09/10/2019 7:36:28 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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