by
Phillip
Todd
In
September 2019, House Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry
into President Trump over a whistleblower's accusation that he
threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine as a pressure tactic to force
the Ukrainian government to investigate allegations that Joe Biden's
son Hunter benefited financially from the firing of that same
Ukrainian prosecutor. That’s the story out in the public domain but
the real reason the president wanted the investigation reopened was
to uncover, discretely, what is known throughout Europe - Foreign
election interference by Democratic operatives who were in Ukraine
and Italy attempting to dig up dirt on Donald Trump in order to help
Hillary Clinton win the election.
Ukrainian
law enforcement officials believe they have evidence of wrongdoing by
American Democrats and their allies in Kiev, ranging from 2016
election interference to obstructing criminal probes. One focus of
Ukrainian investigators, Kostiantyn
Kulyk, deputy head of the Prosecutor General’s International Legal
Cooperation Department
said that money had been spirited unlawfully out of Ukraine and moved to
the United States by businessmen friendly to the prior, pro‐Russia
regime of Viktor Yanukovych. Ukrainian businessmen "authorized
payments for lobbying efforts directed at the U.S. government,"
he stated. In addition, these payments were made from funds
that were acquired during the money‐laundering operation. "We have
information that a U.S. company was involved in these payments."
That company is tied to one or more prominent Democrats, Ukrainian
officials insist. Prosecutor
General Yuriy Lutsenko, stated that he has enough evidence
particularly involving Biden, his family and money spirited out of
Ukraine ‐ to warrant a meeting with U.S. Attorney General William
Barr. "I'm looking forward to meeting with the attorney general
of the United States in order to start and facilitate our joint
investigation regarding the appropriation of another $7 billion in
U.S. dollars with Ukrainian legal origin," Lutsenko said.
In
another instance, he said, Ukrainian authorities gathered evidence
that money paid to an American Democrat allegedly was hidden by
Ukraine's National Anti‐Corruption Bureau ﴾NABU﴿
during
the 2016 election under pressure from U.S. officials. "In the
course of this investigation, we found that there was a situation
during which influence was exerted on the NABU, so that the name of
[the American] would not be mentioned," he said. Ukrainian
officials say they don't want to hand the evidence to FBI agents
working in Ukraine because they believe the bureau has a close
relationship with the NABU and the U.S. Embassy. "It is no
secret in Ukrainian political circles that the NABU was created with
American help and tried to exert influence during the U.S.
presidential election," Kulyk stated. Any investigation into any
Democrat (Joe and Hunter Biden) would surly expose this truth.
The
left leaning Politico reported in 2017 on evidence of Ukraine's U.S.
embassy helping the Clinton campaign to discredit Trump. "A
Ukrainian‐American operative who was consulting for the Democratic
National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in
Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign
aide Paul Manafort and Russia," the newspaper reported.
Ukraine's evidence, if true, would mark the first documented
allegation of Democrats receiving assistance from a foreign power in
their efforts to help Clinton win the 2016 election.
There
is public‐source information, in Ukraine and in the United States,
that gives credence to some of what Ukrainian prosecutors allege. A
court in Ukraine formally concluded that law enforcement officials
there illegally tried to intervene in the 2016 U.S. election by
leaking documents of Manafort's business dealings after he was named
Trump's campaign chairman. And a Ukrainian parliamentarian released a
purported tape recording of a top Ukrainian law enforcement official
bragging that he was responsible for the leak and was trying to help
Clinton win. Lutsenko told Hill.TV in an interview aired last week
that he has opened a criminal investigation into those allegations.
Nellie Ohr, wife of a senior Justice official and a researcher for
the Fusion GPS opposition research firm, testified to Congress last
year that some of Fusion GPS's research on Trump-Russia ties came
from a Ukrainian parliamentarian. The Democratic Party and the
Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on Trump.
Why
isn’t this front page news? Because the investigator was terminated
after refusing to drop the investigation into Burisma and Joe’s
son, Hunter Biden. Financial records showing a Ukrainian natural gas
company routed more than $3 million to American accounts tied to
Hunter Biden, younger son of then‐Vice President Joe Biden, who
managed U.S.‐Ukraine relations for the Obama administration.
Biden's son served on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company,
Burisma Holdings. Records shown that Vice President Biden pressured
Ukrainian officials in March 2016 to fire the prosecutor who oversaw
an investigation of Burisma Holdings and who planned to interview
Hunter Biden about:
- Correspondence
showing members of the State Department and U.S. Embassy in Kiev
interfered or applied pressure in criminal cases on Ukrainian soil.
- Disbursements
of as much as $7 billion in Ukrainian funds that prosecutors believe
may have been misappropriated or taken out of the country, including
to the United States.
- Sworn
statements from two Ukrainian officials admitting that their agency
tried to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of
Hillary Clinton.
- Contacts
between Democratic figures in Washington and Ukrainian officials that
involved passing along dirt on Donald Trump.
So
bold were the Democrats that on January 18, 2018 bragged about his
meeting with Ukrainian officials. Biden said, “I remember going
over, convincing our team, our leaders to— convincing that we
should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I guess,
the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that
there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a
commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take
action against the state prosecutor, and they didn’t. I said, ‘I’m
telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars,” Biden
boasted of his threats to Ukraine’s leaders. “I said, ‘You’re
not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in’ — I
think it was about six hours — 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.”
Quid
Pro Quo
Kostiantyn
Kulyk, deputy head of the Prosecutor General’s International Legal
Cooperation Department confirmed Ukraine is investigating that
alleged incident: "We have evidence and witnesses stating that
Joe Biden applied pressure on Ukrainian law enforcement to stop the
investigation."
The
head of Burisma Holdings, Nikolai Zlochevsky, was reportedly indicted
in Ukraine this week, and Ukrainian members of parliament are
demanding that President Donald J. Trump and president of Ukraine,
Volodymyr Zelensky, investigate. The
indictment claims that $7.4 billion was laundered by the “family”
of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych through American investment fund
Franklin Templeton Investments. They
also allege that the investment fund has ties to the U.S. Democratic
Party, according to Ukraine news agency. This
is big news in Europe but almost non-existent in the U.S. media. We
will keep you updated on future events.