CNN anchor attacks Trump, defends Biden from '100 percent wrong' and 'baseless' accusations

fox ^ | 9/35/2019 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

[MarvinStinson]

CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin went after President Trump on Wednesday, accusing the commander-in-chief of making "baseless" and "100 percent wrong" claims about former Vice President Joe Biden.

Baldwin took issue with Trump after the president's bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky following the release of a transcript of their conversation, during which he slammed Hunter Biden's alleged financial ties to Ukraine and China and repeated his call for an investigation.

“When Biden’s son walks away with millions of dollars from Ukraine, he knows nothing, and they’re paying him millions of dollars, that’s corruption,” Trump said. “When Biden’s son walks out of China with $1.5 billion in a fund, and the biggest funds in the world can’t get money out of China, and he’s there for one quick meeting, and he flies in on Air Force Two, I think that’s a horrible thing.”

The president also knocked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claiming she is "no longer the speaker" as far as he's concerned.

Baldwin immediately took exception to the swipe against Pelosi.

"The last time I've checked, Nancy Pelosi is the speaker of the House, so I don't know what he's talking about there," Baldwin said.

The "CNN Newsroom" anchor then pivoted to the president's remarks about Biden.

“Everything he said about the Bidens is 100 percent wrong,” Baldwin continued. “The accusations against the Bidens are baseless. There is no evidence of wrongdoing, including by Ukrainian prosecutors. Joe Biden is indeed on tape talking about withholding aid because the U.S. and Western nations wanted a corrupt prosecutor out. In fact, the goal of Western nations at the time was to get prosecutors who would investigate corruption. So, first and foremost, those are the facts.”

[MarvinStinson]

“Joe Biden is indeed on tape talking about withholding aid because the U.S. and Western nations wanted a corrupt prosecutor out. In fact, the goal of Western nations at the time was to get prosecutors who would investigate corruption. So, first and foremost, those are the facts.”

[originalbuckeye]

How many ignoramuses watch this ignoramus?

[Sarah Barracuda]

When its a Dem accused its always “THATS FALSE” when a Republican is accused, automatically guilty

[tennmountainman]

Not many.

[canuck_conservative]

Question: How does a crack-and-meth-addict who knows nothing about the energy industry and has no executive experience,

get a job as Board Director that pays $50,000 per MONTH??

Answer: Political Corruption

[Liz]

Joe Biden brags he got key Ukrainian official fired, threatening withholding US financial assistance
When they balked, he told them to "call Obama," indicating Obama was in on the shakedown
ZERO HEDGE | JANUARY 25, 2018

Former Vice President Joe Biden just casually dropped a bombshell admission that he personally and directly intervened in Ukraine’s governance, boasting on stage during an event hosted by the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that he got a high Kiev government official removed essentially at the snap of his fingers.

“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 at the CFR talk on Tuesday (a follow-up to prior admissions revealing that the US actively asserted behind the scenes control of Ukraine’s new government, to the point that US officials even dictated who would occupy high offices in the war-torn country).

Biden confirmed what was only previously hinted at through an anonymous senior official who spoke to The New Yorker in 2016. It was revealed then that Ukraine’s Prosecutor General (the equivalent office to the US Attorney General), was removed only after the Obama administration threatened to withhold 1$ billion in loan guarantees.

The prosecutor general at the time, Viktor Shokin, was previously supported by the US and much of the EU, but as The New Yorker described, “after initially supporting Shokin, U.S. and E.U. officials soured on him.” Washington suddenly viewed Shokin, who had served two decades within the Prosecutor General’s office as corrupt and unwilling to initiate crackdown in major financial scandal cases involving high profile figures.

Ukraine’s chief prosecutor serves a term of six years and can only be appointed and dismissed by the president with parliamentary consent; however in the case of Shokin, Joe Biden boasted before the CFR audience that he told Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and former Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk sometime in late March 2016, “I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars,” unless they immediately sacked Shokin. To the glee of his CFR listeners who laughed audibly, Biden added, “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired!”

Indeed the threat of withholding what had been the third installment of a massive loan package desperately needed to help prop up the new pro-EU/US Kiev government resulted in Viktor Shokin being hastily removed from his post by Ukrainian parliament on March 29, 2016 – within the very month Biden made the ultimatum (Shokin had initially promised he would willingly resign in a February letter, but resumed his work through March). Poroshenko then officially and formally dismissed Shokin on April 3, 2016.

But it appears that it was somewhat of an open secret as Shokin became widely referred to among Ukrainians as “the billion-dollar man”. It was also a time in which Biden and other US officials were constantly in direct communication with President Poroshenko, talking foreign aid and loan packages, and presumably according to Biden’s latest admission, how he should run his government.

Biden had previously disclosed in his personal memoirs that he “had been on the phone with either Poroshenko or… Yatsenyuk, or both, almost every week” for months attempting to guide nearly every major decision of the Poroshenko administration after the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych in the 2014 coup d’état which inaugurated the Ukraine crisis.

As a reminder, in 2014 – not long after Ukraine’s US-endorsed and facilitated presidential coup – Joe’s son Hunter joined the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the largest private gas producers in Ukraine, incorporated in Cyprus, a European tax haven.

Elsewhere in the talk, Biden revealed that the Obama White House “spent so much time on the phone making sure that everyone from… [former French president Francois] Hollande to [former Italian prime minister Matteo] Renzi wouldn’t walk away” from anti-Russian sanctions.

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We certainly hope that Biden continues to open his infamously big mouth as he will only further confirm that the US version of events whether in Ukraine, Syria, or other parts of the world championed by political figures who happen to take their dictates from Washington, etc…) is nowhere close to the reality.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I watch it because it’s good comedy.

[irishjuggler]

How do the House impeachment inquiry and/or Senate trial happen without Joe and Hunter Biden being called to testify and be cross-examined? GOP needs to fight back... hard.

[SunkenCiv]

WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System

[bigbob]

T answer that I’d need to know the number of seats in airport lounges...

[shelterguy]

I occasionally watch Brooke because I want to see her frozen face break in half.

[x]

This is the Brooke Baldwin who believes that Senators and Representatives have term limits.

[hawkaw]

This is exactly what I read about MSNBC. It’s like they all have the same talking points just as Rush showed us many years ago.

[samadams2000]

Some poor unfortunate soul is married to that.

[MayflowerMadam]

“When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44).

All RATs are either possessed, or at least totally controlled, by Satan, “the father of lies”.

[Rock N Jones]

And the moon is made of cream cheese !
And that’s a fact!

[sergeantdave]

Hey, Brooke Baldwin, we hanged Nazi propagandists at Nuremberg.

[Political Junkie Too]

There is no evidence of wrongdoing, including by Ukrainian prosecutors.

If only they would use that same criteria to judge Trump.

I've posted before, Democrats get every benefit of doubt, every favorable interpretation, and Republicans (especially Trump) get the most negative interpretation possible.

-PJ

[Sarah Barracuda]

They get their talking points from the DNC and Media Matters every morning..the “Media” is the DNC, they are paid Democrat activists