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Possible Trump gang crimes in Ukraine:
1. As @maddow suggests, did Giuliani persuade the former Ukrainian prosecutor general to close investigation into Manafort's crime in Ukraine in 2018 in return for delivery of Javelins?
2. Trump & Sondland effectively asked President Zelenskyy to falsify the Manafort file & whitewash Manafort. A major question is whether Manafort was involved in the killing of 125 people on Maidan in January & February 2014.
3. Absurdly, Trump asked @ZelenskyyUa for the Crowdstrike server revealing the Russian interference in the US 2016 elections. This demand is so bizarre that it has probably been planted in Trump's brain by Putin, but Trump did pronounce it.
4. Trump wanted to invent dirt on the Bidens. First, insisting that Hunter Biden was guilty of illegalities when Burisma received gas licenses, but that happened in 2012, while Hunter came on board in 2014: impossible.
5. VP Biden led the Western & reformist pressure to oust the thoroughly corrupt prosecutor general Viktor Shokin & succeeded in March 2016. Lying Trump claims that Shokin was honest & that Biden wanted to block a Burisma investigation that did not exist.
6. The financially big deal is the Perry/Fruman/Parnas attempt to take over Naftogaz. This was in all probability coordinated with rogue gas trader Dmytro Firtash, for whom Parnas & Shokin work. This could be a $1bn heist & seems the main financial crime of the Trump gang in UA.
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