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NEW: During an August meeting in Madrid, Rudy Giuliani urged Zelensky aide Andriy Yermak not to fire Giuliani's longtime client, Kyiv Mayor Klitschko, whose re-election campaign was headed by Manafort associate Sam Patten and bankrolled by Firtash.
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Klitschko, a Poroshenko ally, was on the verge of being fired from an appointed post by Zelensky. Giuliani pressured Zelensky's aide to retain him, and, a month later, chastised Zelensky on twitter re the same.

Ultimately, Zelensky did not fire Klitschko.
2015: Firtash associate Lyovochkin hires Manafort crony Patten to run Klitschko's election campaign, which Firtash financed and Giuliani advised.
2016: Manafort passes Trump polling data to Lyovochkin, who funnels money into Trump's inaugural thru Patten.
ICYMI: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are examining Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s bank records about his work in Ukraine for Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko – who also knows Trump and boxed at Trump's now-shuttered Taj Mahal Casino arena.
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NEW: Andrew Peek, Trump's Russia Director who was escorted from WH grounds on Jan 17, was under investigation before joining the NSC in Nov '19. State and NSC officials are cooperating with the probe which has ongoing for months.
by @ErinBanco @attackerman thedailybeast.com/andrew-peek-ns…
@ErinBanco @attackerman “Multiple officials in the State Department and the White House are cooperating in a *security-related investigation* into Andrew Peek…”

Oh.
@ErinBanco @attackerman Prior to joining Trump's NSC, Andrew Peek was deputy asst secretary of state for Iraq and Iran. Peek’s State Dept colleagues raised concerns about him before he left to join the NSC.

This was posted 12 days before Peek was escorted from the White House ->
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BREAKING: Per John Bolton's book, in early May, Trump directed him to help with his Ukraine extortion scheme.

Trump gave the order in the Oval Office in front of Mick Mulvaney, Rudy Giuliani, and Pat Cipollone, who is leading Trump’s impeachment defense.
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In his book, Bolton writes that during the early May meeting, Trump directed him to call newly elected President Zelensky to ensure he'd meet Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the politically motivated investigations that Trump sought.
The previously undisclosed directive from Trump in May that John Bolton describes is the earliest known instance of Trump using the power of the US government to advance his Ukraine extortion scheme –– in the presence of White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
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I have not been able to watch most of the impeachment hearings. Has anyone asked @DevinNunes about his taxpayer-funded escapades with indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas?
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New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

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nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
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