Andrea, if Alexandra is withdrawing her extensive 2017 comments to Politico, I didn't know that. I get precisely *zero* of my information from that disloyal non-journalist fraud John Solomon, who as far as I'm concerned should be *indicted*. (And *no one* should target *anyone*.)
From POLITICO's interview with Alexandra: "Chalupa told Politico she had developed a network of sources in Kiev and [DC], including...government officials...She occasionally shared her findings with officials from the DNC and Clinton’s campaign, Chalupa said."
What am I missing?
What am I missing?
From POLITICO's interview with Alexandra on her activities as a paid DNC consultant: "She said she shared her concern [on Manafort] with Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Valeriy Chaly, and one of his top aides, Oksana Shulyar, during a March 2016 meeting at the Ukrainian Embassy."
From POLITICO's interview with Alexandra: "Officials [at Ukraine's embassy] became 'helpful' in Chalupa’s efforts, she said, explaining that she traded info and leads with them. 'If I asked a question, they'd provide guidance, or if there was someone I needed to follow up with.'"
From POLITICO's interview with Alexandra: "Chalupa confirmed that, a week after Manafort’s hiring was announced, she discussed the possibility of a congressional investigation with a foreign policy legislative assistant in the office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)."
I've *never* said—nor do I believe—@AlexandraChalup and @AndreaChalupa, that the DNC paid Alexandra to do *any* of these things. But she had DNC access because of her paid consultancy, and admits she used that access to pass some information from the Ukrainian embassy to the DNC.
@AlexandraChalup @AndreaChalupa If you believe Alexandra not explicitly or even implicitly being asked by the DNC to provide that value to them—but the DNC then *not refusing* that value when it was offered by one of their paid consultants—is going to withstand cross-examination, Alexandra needs a new attorney.
@AlexandraChalup @AndreaChalupa I'm trying to be helpful—using *only* info that comes from Alexandra's interviews. If she repeats under oath what she honestly told POLITICO—which of course she will—but does so without a sense that she's open to a very hard cross-examination, it will hurt the impeachment effort.
@AlexandraChalup @AndreaChalupa Anyway, I've said my bit here. If the Democrats do as poor of a job distinguishing between Alexandra's interviews—which is all I relied upon—and "Russian disinformation," which I have never gone within a country mile of, the impeachment trial is doomed before it even begins. /end
