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Obama engaged Ukraine to give the Russian collusion narrative an early boost (and 2016 Hillary)
thehill.com ^ | 04/25/19 07 | JOHN SOLOMON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR

Posted on 10/05/2019 2:54:47 AM PDT by Liz

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1 posted on 10/05/2019 2:54:47 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

WHY is the BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER listed as OPINION CONTRIBUTOR?


2 posted on 10/05/2019 3:04:03 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Liz
To get a full and clear picture (that literally has pictures) of the players and how they performed along the timeline, see Glenn Beck's Special noted in this thread


3 posted on 10/05/2019 3:15:46 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford
.... and follow the money.


4 posted on 10/05/2019 3:18:36 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Ann Archy
Probably so they can include the disclaimer below the byline...
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL

5 posted on 10/05/2019 3:23:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Ann Archy

I’d say it’s because John Solomon drafts the material for the article on his own, and probably does not give the editors access to his sources to verify them.


6 posted on 10/05/2019 3:28:55 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
THIS JUST IN: His fund-raising is in the sewer, but Biden has $6 million dollars for ads? Did he borrow it from his son?

Obama's wondering the same thing (cackle)----he always suspected Hunter was holding out on them in the Ukrainian deal.

Hunter had(s) a very expensive cocaine habit when he supposedly got a paltry $3 million from Burisma --- to be split three ways.

But Obama knew IMF had given Ukraine $5 billion.......which went missing......
and was being investigated by the same prosecutor looking into Hunter. Quelle "coincidence."

The corruption-seeking prosecutor got fired when Joe Biden stepped in to defend his son soon as the checks cleared......

7 posted on 10/05/2019 3:32:27 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Diogenesis
GREAT CHART---really brings it home.


8 posted on 10/05/2019 3:34:39 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).

So, where was the CIA and Brennan during all this?

9 posted on 10/05/2019 3:40:36 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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...that they had an interest in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions. That 2014 investigation was led by the FBI and focused heavily on GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort, whose firm long had been tied to Trump through his partner and Trump pal, Roger Stone.

I will give Obama credit. If the implication here is to be believed he was smart enough to go after Manafort three months before he joined the Trump campaign.

10 posted on 10/05/2019 3:43:25 AM PDT by semimojo
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“” “” So, where was the CIA and Brennan during all this?”” “”

They are Party Organs. Shilling for DNC of course.


11 posted on 10/05/2019 3:44:53 AM PDT by NorseViking
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To: Liz

I think career politicians are a major factor in crookedness in our gov’t and this unpeeling onion is more proof.
We need term limits


12 posted on 10/05/2019 3:49:34 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nathanbedford

Thanks.

L


13 posted on 10/05/2019 3:52:36 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Tad Devine and Tony Podesta were in Ukraine with Manafort doing the very same thing he did. Nothing happened to them.


14 posted on 10/05/2019 3:53:03 AM PDT by NorseViking
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If the implication is to be believed, Obama was smart enough to go after Manafort three months before he joined Trump's campaign.

Oh, please. Obama is not THAT smart. This was a ploy to divert attention from the dirty deals of Hillary's pals
..........the infamous Podestas (who Manafort worked for in the Ukraine).........

John Podesta was Hillary's campaign manager....Obama's COS....and Bill Clinton's top aide....among his many govt manifestations.

His brother was a lobbyist who went belly-up under all the scrutiny.

15 posted on 10/05/2019 3:57:18 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Diogenesis

Great chart. I never realized how extensivly the Clintons wove their web.


16 posted on 10/05/2019 4:00:04 AM PDT by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: Liz

True yet valerie may have been that smart. Doesn’t she still live with The 0ne helping him tie his shoe laces, or did he get velcro?


17 posted on 10/05/2019 4:03:07 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Diogenesis

Hillary was spending an awful lot of time in Sweden I wonder if she was getting off the record financial aid there?


18 posted on 10/05/2019 4:06:31 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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SOURCE: https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/wherever-joe-biden-went-son-hunter-cashed-in/

Wherever VP Joe Biden went on official business, son Hunter cashed in
By David Harsanyi, senior editor of The Federalist.
Twitter: @DavidHarsanyi
September 26, 2019 | 9:21pm | Updated

Biden has been leading the Democratic field. The central case for his candidacy rests on the supposedly exemplary work he did as a senior member of Team Obama. Well, in 2016, acting as the Obama administration’s point man in Ukraine, the vice president — unlike Trump — openly threatened to withhold $1 billion in American loan guarantees if the embattled nation didn’t fire the country’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.

As Biden later bragged, “I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.’ ” Most of the media assure us that, though by the Democrats’ new standards this kind of ­intimidation constitutes a flagrant abuse of power, Biden’s reasons for threatening Ukraine were chaste.

But simply repeating this talking point doesn’t make it true. Granted, Shokin was a shady character. Yet at some point he had been investigating Burisma, the largest gas company in Ukraine, which also happened to be paying Hunter Biden a $50,000 monthly salary as a board member.

By coincidence, Hunter had landed this cushy gig in a foreign country only a few months after the Obama ­administration began dispatching his father, Joe, to the very same foreign country on a regular basis.


19 posted on 10/05/2019 4:13:23 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Diogenesis

China’s contributions seem small, and I doubt Qatar forgot to donate.


20 posted on 10/05/2019 4:15:11 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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