USA Today reports that “Burisma Holdings was not under scrutiny at the time Joe Biden called for Shokin’s ouster, according to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an independent agency set up in 2014 that has worked closely with the FBI.”
in fact when Shokin briefly investigated Burisma it was via a probe “focused on a period before Hunter Biden joined the company.” Indeed, Shokin’s review of Burisma’s Ministry of Ecology permits considered only the period from 2010 to 2012;
Hunter Biden “did not join the company until 2014,” USA Today reports, and even Shokin’s successor, a prosecutor publicly spoken of with admiration by both Trump and Giuliani named Yuri Lutsenko, will eventually admit that
“there is no evidence Hunter Biden did anything wrong,” saying in a statement to the press that Biden’s son “did not violate” any Ukrainian laws.
When former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is asked directly whether Biden ever requested that the
Ukrainian government open or close any individual criminal cases, Poroshenko will answer that the former U.S. vice president did not.
...at the time Hunter’s father was calling for Shokin’s termination at the end of 2015 and beginning of 2016, .
Burisma was not only no longer under ongoing investigative scrutiny, it was already working toward “a [November 2016] settlement and a fine paid by one of the firm’s accountants,” per USA Today [end]
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What has been missing is someone that has researched all of the Trump related reporting worldwide, with an analytical mind, not looking for a specific outcome. A logician, not an investigative reporter.
Come to find out, there is a team of analysts, headed by @SethAbramson,
who have done just that. Combing through hundreds of stories, Seth has stitched together a narrative - one that will shock the world - if only the broadcast establishment would give his narrative credence.
Know that his conclusions are not based on personal conjecture,
but are rather based on respected media sources. The skill he brings to bear is that of an investigator, who follows the facts where they may go, and simply tells the story. Fact checked. Corroborated. By a team of professionals at great expense.
There are no separation of powers in the Trump regime. That is THE only reason he is still in office.
Barr is the main conspirator. @SethAbramson has the goods. read.macmillan.com/lp/proof-of-co…
As part of his assistance of Durham’s investigation, Barr conferences privately overseas with foreign leaders and intelligence services, receiving Trump’s help in scheduling certain of his meetings.
The Independent reports on November 1 that “UK intelligence officials [are] shaken by [the] Trump administration’s requests for help with [Durham’s] counter-impeachment inquiry,” with one British official saying,
Snips:As for whether interference by Zamel and Psy-Group in the 2016 election offers some additional evidence of involvement by the Israeli government, worth noting is a New York Times report confirming that Psy-Group is indeed “staffed by former Israeli intelligence operatives.”
The Daily Beast and the Times of Israel have both reported that not just Gates but two members of “Trump’s inner circle” reached out to Psy-Group looking for election assistance; the names of these top-level Trump aides are at present unknown.
From the book (just the Saudis)
In 1991, as Trump faces close to a billion-dollar debt attributable to his failed casinos in Atlantic City, a Saudi royal, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, purchases Trump’s 281-foot yacht for $20 million
Four years later, the same Saudi royal again saves Trump from bankruptcy by taking over Trump’s 51 percent stake in New York’s Plaza Hotel for $328 million
If you were going to write a political drama, you could not cast a better (bizarre) cast of characters or story.
Trump, Pence, Bannon, Ailes, Kellyanne, Spicer, Priebus, Sessions, Mnuchin, Navarro, Kudlow, Redfield, Azar, Kushner, Ivanka, Melania, Junior, Giuliani, Pompeo,