Voor Joe Biden is USA2020 nu zo goed als voorbij. Een verzoek vanuit de Senaat aan het State Department om meer informatie wordt zijn politieke doodvonnis.

De ironie is dat de beslissende stoot hiertoe werd gegeven door een Democratisch gezinde juridische waakhond, die Trump-advocaat Giuliani op de korrel trachtte te nemen:

A liberal watchdog group’s attempt to nail Rudy Giuliani has backfired in spectacular fashion after their FOIA request resulted in the US State Department releasing detailed accusations of corruption against the Bidens – based on interviews with former Ukrainian officials who were in charge of the investigations.

Het State Department was hen ter wille:

Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit from the group American Oversight, the State Department on Friday night released almost 100 pages of records detailing efforts by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to investigate corruption, which include contacts with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) earlier this year.

Maar het was meer dan ze hebben wilden.

While American Oversight’s ‘gotcha‘ is that Giuliani had “multiple contacts” with Mike Pompeo and others while investigating Ukraine corruption, they completely ignore interview notes containing detailed allegations by former Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin – who Joe Biden had fired, as well as his successor, prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko – who “believes Mr. Viktor Shokin the former Prosecutor General is honest.“

Dezelfde Viktor Shokin waarover Biden sr. snoefde dat hij hem had laten ontslaan:

 

Het hele gesprek voor de Council on Foreign relations vindt u hier.

Tijdens het verhoor van overste Vindman over de eventuele impeachbaarheid van de president veegde de luitenant-kolonel de artikelen van John Solomon over de Bidens van tafel met: allemaal gelogen, niets van waar – of woorden van min of meer gelijke strekking. Solomon was daar nogal; pissig over, en reageerde dit weekend met een uitgebreid en degelijke samenvatting van zijn artikelen over de Bidens en hun daden. 28 uitstekend gedocumenteerde punten later lijkt er van de beweringen van Vindman niet veel over. Ik licht er een serie van vijf uit:

Fact 22: Then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said in a televised interview with me that Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during a 2016 meeting provided the lists of names of Ukrainian nationals and groups she did want to see prosecuted. You can see I accurately quoted him by watching the video here.
Fact 23: Ambassador Yovanovitch and her embassy denied Lutsenko’s claim, calling it a “fabrication.” I reported their reaction here.
Fact 24: Despite the differing accounts of what happened at the Lutsenko-Yovanovitch meeting, a senior U.S. official in an interview arranged by the State Department stated to me in spring 2019 that US officials did pressure Lutsenko’s office on several occasions not to “prosecute, investigate or harass” certain Ukrainian activists, including Parliamentary member Leschenko, journalist Vitali Shabunin, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre and NABU director Sytnyk. You can read that official’s comments here. In addition, George Kent confirmed this same information in his deposition here.
Fact 25: In May 2018, then-House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions sent an official congressional letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking that Yovanovitch be recalled as ambassador to Ukraine. Sessions and State confirmed the official letter, which you can read here.
Fact 26: In fall 2018, Ukrainian prosecutors, using a third party, hired an American lawyer (a former U.S. attorney) to proffer information to the U.S. government about certain activities at the U.S. embassy, involving Burisma and involving the 2016 election, that they believed might have violated U.S. law. You can read their account here. You can also confirm it independently by talking to the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan or the American lawyer representing the Ukrainian prosecutors’ interests.

Voor de lezers die denken, hééé, Marie Yovanovitch, die naam heb ik eerder gehoord: dat klopt.

Zelf beweert ze dat Giuliani instrumenteel was in haar ontslag als Amerikaans ambassader in Oekraïne (zie punt 25)

Via deze zijstap zijn we weer terug bij de door het State Department vrijgegeven documenten, die voor een belangrijk deel onderbouwen wat ik daarover vrijdag al schreef. Lees het artikel over die documenten vooral zelf; het is geen ingewikkeld Engels, maar hetis teveel om het hier en bloc te copypasten. Ik haal er een aantal krenten uit:

Shokin then details how in July 2015, “US Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt told him that the investigation has to be handled with white gloves, which according to Mr. Shokin, that implied do nothing. On or about September 2015 Mr. Pyatt gave a speech in Odessa where he stated that the cases were not investigated correctly and that Mr. Shokin may be corrupt.”

En – o ironie – hetzelfde vergrijp waarvoor de Democraten thans pogen Trump weg te krijgen werd door Biden daadwerkelijk gepleegd:

“Mr. Shokin stated that on or around April of 2016 Mr. Petro Poroshenko called him and told him he had to be fired as the aid to the Ukraine was being withheld by Joe Biden. Mr. Biden told Mr. Poroshenko that he had evidence that Mr. Shokin was corrupt and needed to be fired. Mr. Shokin was dismissed in April of 2016 and the US aid was delivered within one and one half months.

En daar hebben we ambassadeur Yovanovitch weer:

“On a different point Mr. Shokin believes the current Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch denied his visa to travel to the US. Mr. Shokin stated that she is close to Mr. Biden. Mr. Shokin also stated that there were leaks by a person named Reshenko of the Ukrainian State Secret Service about the Manafort Black Book. Mr. Shokin stated that there is possible deceit in the Manafort Black Book.”

Er staat meer, waaronder het geheel van die 100 pagina’s vrijgegeven documenten. Met als gevolg dus het hier helemaal boven al genoemde onderzoek door de senaat naar Joe Biden:

Former Vice President Joe Biden lashed out at Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for launching an investigation into whether Biden abused his office when he had Ukraine’s top prosecutor fired while he was looking into Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company paying Hunter Biden to sit on its board.

Biden werd er zo zenuwachtig van dat hij senator Graham die om meer documenten verzocht over de contacten van Biden met Oekraïense gezagsdragers ietwat dreigerig bejegende:

“Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life,” Biden told CNN host Don Lemon in a Friday interview in South Carolina.
“I say Lindsey, I just — I’m just embarrassed by what you’re doing, for you. I mean, my Lord.”

Dat Biden an het padje af is behoeft verder weinig betoog lijkt mij. Dit is onsamenhangend gestamel. Het is allemaal een complot van Trump die zo bang is voor Biden dat… (meer gestamel)

“They have him under their thumb right now. They know he knows that if he comes out against Trump, he’s got a real tough road for reelection, number one,” Biden continued. “He knows me; he knows my son; he knows there’s nothing to this. Trump is now essentially holding power over him that even the Ukrainians wouldn’t yield to. The Ukrainians would not yield to, quote, ‘investigate Biden’ — there’s nothing to investigate about Biden or his son.“

Biden tells @donlemon he's "embarrassed by" Graham's actions after senator asks Pompeo to turn over docs related to Hunter and Ukraine

"Lindsey is about to go down in a way that I think he’s going to regret his whole life," Biden says, adding Trump is "holding power" over him pic.twitter.com/sjNjQV7Ogp

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 22, 2019

Letterlijk ging het dus hier om:

On Thursday, Graham sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seeking all documents and communications related to Joe Biden’s phone calls with Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenho which occurred Feb. 11, 18 and 19 as well as March 22, 2016, citing media reports that the two discussed firing the Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin.
In addition, Graham is seeking all documents and communications between Biden, his office, and Poroshenko’s office spanning the period from when Burisma founder Mykola Zlocheveky’s home was raided and Shokin was dismissed.

En alle kans dat ook Twitter nog een oproep krijgt data te leveren:

Graham notes in his letter that Hunter Biden followed longtime Joe Biden aide Tony Blinken over Twitter, the day that Interfax reported that Zlochevsky’s property had been seized –  suggesting the two may have discussed Shokin’s investigations, per Politico.

Ging Biden dankzij zijn hijgerige partijgenoten eerst al voor de bus, nu ligt hij er volledig onder. En de bus wil doorrr. Dat men een dementerende oude man als Biden zal opsluiten lijkt me niet waarschijnlijk; het is zelfs de vraag of hij nog leeft als dit alles eenmaal ten einde is. Zoon Hunter zal de klappen op moeten vangen, maar het zal hem eem troost zijn dat hij niet eenzaam en alleen in de bak zal eindigen.

De logica achter de hysterie van de Democraten wordt steeds duidelijker: Biden is het draadje waarmee de gehele regering-Obama uiteen gerafeld zal worden. En ze zijn er zelf mee begonnen. Hetgeen weer impliceert dat de DNC aan het touwtje van de Deep State zit, en expendable is.

Met groot vertrouwen wachten we intussen op de publicatie van het Horowitz-rapport op 9 december.

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