THE KYIV POST (Ukraine) in MAY: Corrupt Ukrainian Prosecutor in League With Rudy Giuliani, Who Has Admitted Lying About Biden to Aid Trump, Prepared Memo Outlining Criminal Charges Against Joe Biden and Secretly Submitted Them to Trump's "Team" in May 2019 kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
1/ This is a *stunning* story that does not appear to have been widely picked up in America: Trump's "team" worked behind the scenes in spring 2019 not just to *encourage* an *investigation* of Joe Biden but to *secretly help draft criminal charges* against him. I'm...speechless.
2/ I'll try not to make this too confusing, but there's an additional, stunning wrinkle: this intel only came out due to an October '17 lawsuit that Trump's team appears to have helped initiate to try to muddy the waters about Manafort's crimes in Ukraine. en.hromadske.ua/posts/ukraines…
3/ Giuliani appears to have pressured then-Ukrainian president Poroshenko to get involved in Manafort's case in early June 2017; within 120 days, a member of Poroshenko's party did just that; shortly thereafter, discussion of selling Javelins to Ukraine began. This is really bad.
4/ The timeline in NEW YORK MAGAZINE strongly suggests Trump dangled a meeting with him to Poroshenko to get Poroshenko involved in Manafort's case—and the timeline of the Javelin negotiations suggests they may've been payment for the October 2017 lawsuit. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
5/ At the time then-Ukrainian president Poroshenko launched a lawsuit to claim collusion between the Democrats and Clinton, he was seeking Javelin missiles from Trump (dsca.mil/major-arms-sal…). 120 days after the lawsuit was filed, they got the missiles. foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/25/did…
6/ There's a *line* from Kremlin agent Kilimnik telling Trump's campaign Ukraine meddled (2016), to Trump publicly adopting the theory (April '17), to Rudy pressuring Ukraine on Manafort (May '17), to the lawsuit (October '17), to the Javelins, to the Biden revelations (May '19).
7/ Trump began his collusion with pro-Kremlin Ukraine-based politicos in March '16: by hiring Manafort "for free" *despite* knowing his past. When Russia then attacked that America, Trump and his "team" kicked their collusion with pro-Kremlin Ukrainians (Kilimnik) into high gear.
8/ Trump's Ukrainian collusion, which began in earnest when he adopted in mid-2016 Manafort and Flynn's Kremlin-seeded "adamance" that Ukraine had meddled, has been every bit as profitable as the collusion with Russia that was detailed—at voluminous length—in the Mueller Report.
9/ Since 2016, Trump has leveraged his ties—some direct, some via intermediaries—to pro-Kremlin Ukrainians for everything from messing with Ukraine's gas industry, controlling military aid to Ukraine, squashing probes of Manafort, getting charges prepared against Biden, and more.
10/ It's fine for Dems to seek a narrow impeachment. But Schiff says he's still investigating Trump-Ukraine collusion—and having read hundreds of articles going back years from around the world I can tell him what he'll find: this is 10x worse than what they'll impeach Trump for.
11/ Americans have no clue how far this plot extends. It extends to *multiple* military-aid negotiations with Ukraine, attempts to obstruct Mueller by preventing Ukrainian compliance with him on Manafort, and yes, having charges *fully prepared* to be brought against *Joe* Biden.
12/ We know Zelensky was hours from announcing investigations of Biden/Clinton on CNN *in September*... but now we know—via the Kyiv Post—that *four months earlier* the then-prosecutor general of Ukraine had already shared with Trump's team planned criminal charges against Biden.
13/ We know the lengths—beyond those fake charges—Trump had Ukraine ready to go to in order to get Javelin missiles: fake lawsuits on Clinton-Ukraine collusion, changes to the Naftogaz board to *fire* its anti-corruption CEO, and so much more. And it *does*, here, get confusing.
14/ The depth of this story is staggering—if you don't think the Ukraine scandal could fill a report the size of the Mueller Report, you haven't been reading articles from around the world on this subject going back years. What happened in July was simply when Trump got *caught*.
15/ This impeachment process is like talking about the second a suspect was arrested...and never discussing the *years*—yes, *years*—of crimes that preceded that arrest. GOP senators are able to ignore what happened because they've gotten Democrats to focus solely on a few calls.
16/ When Manafort joined Trump's campaign in March 2016, he wasn't just in deep debt to a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska—he was afraid for his life. He immediately summoned his Ukrainian-Russian assistant, who is tied to Russian intelligence, to come to America to assist him.
17/ Just as the *first task* Deripaska had given Manafort and Kilimnik in 2006 had been to harm Ukraine by meddling with its politics, the first task Manafort gave Kilimnik was to find out from Deripaska what Deripaska—who's said he represents Kremlin interests—wanted him to do.
18/ Kilimnik told Manafort that Manafort needed to not aid Ukraine in its war with Russia. Days later, Trump met NatSec team for the first time and told them exactly this. By the 2016 RNC, Trump aides were quoting the directive as reason to block a GOP platform change on Ukraine.
19/ Per Politico, once the GOP platform change on Ukraine was blocked on Trump's orders, Kilimnik boasted about being responsible for the decision to associates. At the same time, he was telling Manafort to tell the Trump campaign Russia was innocent and that Ukraine had meddled.
20/ Kilimnik's insistence—which matched Manafort's and Flynn's, per major media—is the reason Trump and Flynn *rejected* Trump's August 17, 2016 briefing on Russia's cyber-attacks on America. And Trump spent the fall vacillating... because he blamed *Ukraine*, as he'd been urged.
21/ By April '17, now-President Trump was publicly blaming Ukraine for meddling, and within 60 days Giuliani had begun his course of clandestine pressure on Ukraine, which had the *awesome* scope and reach—over a matter of years—that I've described here. But it all dates to 2016.
22/ I am telling you now that every news article released on the Ukraine scandal will support this timeline, because the timeline is already based on hundreds of articles. For instance, here's breaking news from just a few minutes ago:
23/ Consider the Mueller Report Shoe #1. The Ukraine scandal is Shoe #2. Both shoes have now dropped. Democrats—hoping to get America to *understand* all this—have asked us to focus on the *tip of one shoelace* and nothing more.
But put both shoes together and...it's staggering.
But put both shoes together and...it's staggering.
24/ There's no "theory" here. No "I think this could've happened." This is a timeline of events based on major-media reporting in the US and Ukraine. Virtually none of these facts are even contested by Trump's allies. They're just hoping that you won't/can't see them all at once.
25/ We can wait until investigative reports drop in *2035* telling us what Trump was up to from 2016 to 2020—or we can *read the damn investigative reporting already in front of us* and try to *explain* it to (bizarrely) the very media that was responsible for the reporting. /end
PS/ There's no typo in Tweet #17: Manafort/Kilimnik began working with Deripaska in *2006* under a $10 million contract to aid Putin in the US and abroad. Manafort's first non-policy action was to move into Trump Tower. His second? To get a second home next to Fred Trump's fixer.
PS2/ Manafort was even going to bring Trump into a business deal in the late 00s with Fred Trump's fixer—Brad Zackson—Deripaska, and Dmytro Firtash. If that last name rings a bell, it's because he's one of the central figures in the Ukraine scandal—Putin's chief agent in Ukraine.
PS3/ Wait, you're saying you didn't know Trump was desperately trying to do at least 4 major business deals in Ukraine from '06 to '08, right after Manafort—one of Ukraine's top politicos—moved into Trump's home, Trump Tower? And that those deals failed? And that Trump was livid?
PS4/ This story is from major-media accounts and is one of the wildest you've ever seen since...well, Shoe #1—the Mueller Report. Except there's a key difference: Trump failed to cover his own involvement in the crimes, emboldened by what he saw as Mueller's "failure" to nab him.
PS5/ I understand that Mueller's reluctance to make any decision that could arguably be the province of Congress to make (i.e. impeachment) angers many, but we'll find that Mueller's decision *not* to indict Trump or Don Jr. is *exactly* what let us discover this second "shoe."
DOCUMENT/ 4 pages of the FAKE MEMO—whose editor, Lutsenko, would later say he saw "no evidence of misconduct" by Joe Biden—is below. Note how *nakedly political* the document is—i.e., intended to please Trump. Joe Biden is mentioned 19 times, Hunter NEVER. kyivpost.com/ukraine-politi…
NOTE/ What the *almost wholly false* content of the memo establishes is that, as late as May—and likely far earlier, when the memo was constructed for Trump's perusal—Trump's ambition (as to Burisma) was the destruction of *Joe Biden*, not investigating corruption within Burisma.
NOTE2/ Given that Giuliani and his agents Parnas and Fruman had been in substantial contact with Lutsenko by May 2019, any memo he produced would've reflected his understanding of the lies they wanted laundered into U.S. media. And *all* had to do with Joe Biden—not Hunter Biden.
NOTE3/ Lutsenko—who, again, now says he saw "no evidence of misconduct" by Joe Biden—*met Giuliani in Europe* over the past week, with Giuliani declaring he now has "compelling evidence" of crimes by Biden. Is he referring to evidence we already know is *fake*, or nothing at all?
NOTE4/ If Giuliani delivers evidence he knows—and has been told—is fake to federal officials in the midst of a federal investigation (which an impeachment proceeding is) he'll be committing a crime. You can't falsify material evidence for use at an impeachment. But there's more:
NOTE5/ Giuliani won't say if he's kept Trump apprised of his actions—and Trump seems to indicate he's been in touch with Rudy but hasn't seen Rudy's "evidence." Is this because Trump knows—since May—that it's fake? And passing it to Congress—or aiding Rudy in doing so—is a crime?
NOTE6/ I'm saying that federal law enforcement and media need to be alive to the fact—right now—that Trump, Giuliani and their foreign co-conspirators in Kyiv and Budapest may well be working to insert evidence they know to be false into an ongoing federal investigation: a crime.
NOTE7/ If what is discussed in this article comes to pass, it could well be a crime: washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
NOTE8/ 18 USC § 1519 prohibits “knowingly….mak[ing] false entry in any record....with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation…of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States.” The penalty is up 20 years in prison.
NOTE9/ There may be other statutes that fit these facts, but a key point is that aiding/abetting or conspiring in a violation of 18 USC § 1519 carries the same 20-year maximum penalty. Is Trump directing Rudy to put evidence they *know* is false in the middle of a federal probe?
NOTE10/ I say "they *know* is false" because they saw Lutsenko's memo back in May, and *thereafter* he renounced the memo and all his allegations of misconduct by Biden (and Yovanovitch) *without reservation*. How could Trump and Giuliani pass forward any "evidence" from him now?
