(FACT) The Trump administration sold Javelin missiles to Ukraine (which the Obama administration was worried would fall into Russian hands due to corruption) because Poroshenko *agreed to take over the Manafort probe and then end it*. Giuliani conducted the negotiations.
PERIOD.
PERIOD.
PS/ The premise that the secret 2017 and 2018 negotiations conducted by Giuliani that a) ended the Manafort probes in Ukraine *and* b) resulted in Ukraine not complying with document requests from Mueller should be a *feather in the president's cap* is...frankly, *breath-taking*.
PS2/ The timeline of Giuliani's mid-2017 negotiations with Poroshenko regarding the Manafort probes are *well-documented*. Those negotiations ended in Poroshenko getting a meeting with Trump he wanted (*sound familiar?*) as well as military aid (*sound familiar?*). I mean Christ.
SOURCE/ So, you might ask, how *publicly reported* was the clandestine 2017 and 2018 Javelin-sale intrigue? Well, I personally have read at least 25 articles about it, *all* in major U.S. media. Here's one article from the NEW YORK TIMES that addresses it: nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/…
SOURCE2/ NEW YORK TIMES: "An examination of the first year of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine [2017] shows how the White House also saw the relationship as a transactional one that could help him politically." It's *in the public record* that those Javelin sales were transactional.
