President Trump Warns Media They are Embarrassing Themselves With “Whistleblower” Story…
September 20, 2019
Posted on 09/20/2019 12:44:30 PM PDT by mplc51
President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ’s son, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer, on a probe, according to people familiar with the matter.
“He told him that he should work with [Mr. Giuliani] on Biden, and that people in Washington wanted to know” whether allegations were true or not, one of the people said. Mr. Trump didn’t mention a provision of foreign aid to Ukraine on the call, said this person, who didn’t believe Mr. Trump offered the Ukrainian president any quid-pro-quo for his cooperation on an investigation.
Mr. Giuliani in June and August met with top Ukrainian officials about the prospect of an investigation, he said in an interview. The Trump lawyer has suggested Mr. Biden as vice president worked to shield from investigation a Ukrainian gas company with ties to his son, Hunter Biden. A Ukrainian official earlier this year said he had no evidence of wrongdoing by Mr. Biden or his son.
After the July call between the two presidents, the Ukrainian government said Mr. Trump had congratulated the new president on his election and expressed hope that his government would push ahead with investigations and corruption probes that had stymied relations between the two countries.
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In recent months, Mr. Giuliani has mounted an extensive effort to pressure Ukraine to do so. He told The Wall Street Journal he met with an official from the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office in June in Paris, and met with Andriy Yermak, a top aide to Mr. Zelensky in Madrid in August. Mr. Giuliani told the Journal earlier this month that Mr. Yermak assured him the Ukrainian government would “get to the bottom” of the Biden matter.
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So what?
Trump’s wanting to expose longtime Democrat corruption is supposed to make TRUMP look bad???
This is a scandal but the feckless frackin’ Democrats constantly harping for impeachment even before Trump was nominated...yeah, that’s okay.
SMDH.
This is all old news....IIRC, Go back to mid June.
Trump, “There are some awkward rumors about Biden having strong-armed the Ukrainian government for family benefit. That is unacceptable. If a high member of my country’s government has misbehaved, I want to get to the bottom of it.”
That’s the legal weasel way of saying it.
Yes...and...?????
And Democrat corruption with foreign countries should not be investigated because...?
Trump’s wanting to expose longtime Democrat corruption is supposed to make TRUMP look bad???
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It’s the quid-pro-quo part that would have been bad, if true.
That’s why an article like this is important, but will be ignored by most of the MSM
Drudge has Siren up....
So some people according to some people heard that Trump said bad things about Biden.
One - I don’t believe it.
Two - even if true Biden wasn’t running for election then and hadn’t even suggested running.
Three - the President of the US is the executive officer and if there are potential crimes against the state being committed (as I’m sure Obama and Pelosi and Reid and Hillary and Bill will tell you) then they should be investigated.
Or do we still believe that Newt Gingrich had his private calls recorded by that nice old couple down the street that heard them on their radio and felt it was their civic duty to bring them to the press?
Of course he does - Drudge is state media now.
Good
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden said he told Poroshenko.
Biden used US aid to stop an investigation of the firm his son was tied to. THAT’s the scandal. Not Trump asking the UK to look at this.
“This is all old news....IIRC, Go back to mid June.”
Interesting. The article mentions events happening in the future!
If this were Warren or Schumer asking a foreign leader to investigate potential Trump wrongdoing, the media would be praising them up and down.
why is it a scandal? What laws were broken?
Silly me....I heard Biden with mine own lying ears say how he got the prosecutor of the company that employed Biden’s son Hunger. He said it with mirth to an interviewer and damn if he didn’t removed that Ukranian prosecutor who was trying to do a job despite Ukraine’s reputation for corruption.
So Trump is asking the current Ukraine administration to re-look into the matter...WHICH THEY DAMN WELL SHOULD!!!
Hunter Biden gets to collect millions from a company receiving American aid, much diverted to ole Joe’s boy.
Evidently the Dems and media and Gop lite are trying to make it sound like Trump is siccing a foreign gubmint on an innocent and sweet American citizen.
I HEARD BIDEN SAY IT, I HEARD HIM WITH MINE OWN EARS.
This is going to come out. Biden is going down.
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