Posted on 09/26/2019 1:12:54 PM PDT by karpov
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff’s opening statement at today’s hearing, a grilling of National Intelligence Director Joseph Maguire, was remarkable. To begin with, he recited a parody of the conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that was so absurd, it would not have made it into a Grade-C mob movie. A telling decision by Schiff, a capable former prosecutor: If you have an extortionate conversation, you quote it. If you need to imagine it into something it isn’t, that means it is not an extortionate conversation.
Also telling: Chairman Schiff came flying out of the starting block describing how overwhelmingly dependent Ukraine is on the United States and its president. Of course, this fact must be forced to the fore because it is not obvious from the Trump–Zelensky conversation — again, Schiff does not have evidence that Trump extorted Zelensky for the purpose of aiding Trump’s 2020 campaign.
But more to the point, the relationship of dependency intensified in 2015 due to the flight to Moscow of Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych. At that point, a new Ukrainian government more to the Obama administration’s liking, under President Petro Poroshenko, came to power. It was desperate for American help, financially and security-wise, which is why Vice President Biden was in a position to pressure it into firing the prosecutor who was conducting a corruption investigation of Burisma, the energy company that had appointed Hunter Biden to its board and was lavishly compensating him.
In Ball of Collusion, I outline some of the extensive evidence that in 2016, the Obama administration’s law-enforcement agencies pressured their Ukrainian counterparts to revive a dormant corruption investigation of Paul Manafort.
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When Biden threatened to with hold that Billion dollars it would have led to Ukraine defaulting on its debt. He threatened to ruin its economy.
AG Barr...please pick up the white courtesy phone, are you there?
If you listen to Schiff-4-Brain’s final remarks after today’s sham hearing, you’d think he was describing Slow-Joe Biden’s real antics, not the parody antics he made up about Trump!
How did a queer get a security clearance? Oh, things have changed. SAD.
Easy Fix:
Trump orders AG Barr to Arrest and Prosecute everyone that exerted influence in Ukraine, including the 28 Democrat House members and 4 Senators, Joe Biden, Hillary,DNC...
Call it the Pelosi Rule.
It won’t happen.
Sessions was Mr. Magoo.
Barr is Sgt. Schultz.
HEADS UP. The “leaker” came from CIA. He was a Brennan double agent in place, tasked to do all the damage he could. There should be a counter-intelligence review of him. I smell a spy against Trump and Trump’s Administration.
At the heart of our national crisis is that virtually all we have in the District of Corruption are amoral lawyers practicing Rule of Lawfare.
Even the ones who are not themselves corrupt, like former Federal Attorneys McCarthy and diGenova, are far too willing to pretend that their fellow lawyers are upstanding.
That is why the vaunted McCarthy had to publish a mea culpa on Robert Mueller.
I trust the political perception of none of them. They are blinded by being products of the very environment they profess to analyze.
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