Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump

By artappraiser on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:20pm |

SCOOP: @RudyGiuliani is headed to Kiev to urge the incoming president to pursue probes that could help TRUMP politically by casting suspicion on the origins of the MUELLER probe & the MANAFORT case, as well as the involvement of @JOEBIDEN's son in Ukraine. https://t.co/BfuL5v4YWJ
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 10, 2019

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/politics/giuliani-ukraine-trump.html

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ACTUAL @RUDYGIULIANI QUOTE: “We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do … because that information will be very very helpful to my client, & may turn out to be helpful to my government. Maybe not." https://t.co/BfuL5v4YWJ
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:26pm

And Giuliani is on @IngrahamAngle right now talking about Hunter Biden’s activities in the Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/cPi02GzpIj
— Marcus Baram (@mbaram) May 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:24pm

This story about the administration firing the ambassador to Ukraine this week after she took on the prosecutor Giuliani has been buddying up to merits a lot more scrutiny in light of tonight’s NYT story. https://t.co/IbmH2NqpNY
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 10, 2019

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 10:26pm

Fact-checking Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine

@ Politifact May 7th, 2019 at 2:46 p.m. and with May 8 correction appended

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 11:06pm

The Biden name was only worth about $3 million for grifter Hunter from Ukraine But China Joe managed to help him set up a $ Billion grift with the commies who are 'come on' no real threat to the US!

by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 11:46pm

You haven't had a fucking bad thing to say about Trump's campaign manager screwing around for years in Ukraine with millions in crooked money, and now you're going to play Mother Theresa? Fuck off. Used to have intelligent political discussions here.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/10/2019 - 1:29am

RUDY GIULIANI ASKS UKRAINE TO INTERFERE IN U.S. ELECTION TO HELP RE-ELECT TRUMP

“There’s nothing illegal” about it, according to the president’s lawyer.

By Tina Ngyugen @ The Hive @ VanityFair.com, May 10

There may be less to Joe Biden’s Ukraine conflict-of-interest “scandal” than meets the eye. It’s true that the optics of the vice president urging Kiev to fire a prosecutor who was investigating an energy company that counted his son Hunter Biden as a board member are not ideal. But, counters Bloomberg, the timeline doesn’t add up. According to a former Ukrainian official and documents from the time, the investigation into Burisma Holdings had ended by 2015, the year before Biden began pressuring the government to fire its corrupt prosecutor general. “There was no pressure from anyone from the U.S. to close cases against” Burisma, said former official Vitaliy Kasko. Biden defenders say the Obama administration was cracking down on corruption in Ukraine anyway, and Joe and Hunter say they never discussed the matter with each other.

Nevertheless, Fox News is all over the Biden-Clinton-Manafort-Ukraine conspiracy. (Yes, there are also connections to Hillary Clinton and Paul Manafort, which my colleague Abigail Tracy details here.) At the center of the effort to make Bidengate the next Benghazi is Rudy Giuliani, who sees nothing wrong with pressuring the Ukrainian government to reopen the investigation into Burisma. “We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do,” he told The New York Times in a story published Thursday, on the eve of a trip to Kiev to launch his charm offensive.

The irony is so rich it could give you a heart attack. Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine are, of course, precisely what Republicans accuse Clinton’s campaign of doing in 2016, when Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele went fishing for Ukrainian dirt on Donald Trump.On Thursday night, Giuliani told Laura Ingraham on Fox News that there had been “massive collusion” between “the Democratic National Committee, officials of the Obama administration, Clinton people, and the Ukrainian officials” to “create false information about Trump, about Manafort.” Naturally, then, Giuliani wants to counter that with some collusion of his own [....]

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/12/2019 - 12:03am

"Ukraine, if you're listening..." Sounds familiar.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/12/2019 - 3:35am

Sure you've seen that he's cancelled the trip blaming "Democrats' spin". Actually it's because mission accomplished without going. Distraction done, viral conspiracizing kicked off, whattaboutism galore, no need for Ukrainians or Russian bots even....

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/12/2019 - 2:27pm

Yes, new Ukrainian leader gets the message loud &clear.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/12/2019 - 2:50pm

Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump

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