Ukraine Foreign Minister Refutes Central
Claims to Democrat Impeachment
Narrative – There Was Never a Trump
Request to Investigate Biden…
Conservative Treehouse,
by
Sundance
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
11/15/2019 10:27:54 AM
Within the current claims of the Democrats there is a baseline action that needs to exist for any “bribery” or “undue influence” claim to exist. Meaning there had to be pressure by President Trump upon the government of Ukraine to initiate an investigation of Joe Biden.The call transcript between President Trump and President Zelenskyy doesn’t show such a request. Ukraine President Zelenskyy said there was never such a request by President Trump; and now Ukraine Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko says there was never such a request from U.S. Ambassador Sondland on behalf of President Trump:
(Via Daily Mail) The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko told Ukrainian reporters
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 11/15/2019 11:48:21 AM (No. 235916)
But, his brother, heard a guy that he knows from work, tallking to a different guy, who told him that this other guy overheard one side of a phone call that might have been the President......
They have NOTHING.
Read the transcript.
Laugh at these fools.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 11/15/2019 1:59:06 PM (No. 236024)
Not only are these fools past the point of caring, they are oblivious at how rude they are being to a foreign government official. And the clown car continues its rush to political destruction.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dino Sayer 11/15/2019 2:08:13 PM (No. 236034)
Actualkly it turns out the Ukrainians sent Biden's group millions....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 11/15/2019 3:08:06 PM (No. 236072)
Not sure I understand this. It's in the transcript, Trump did ask for Zelensky to investigate the Biden matter. "So whatever you can do with the Attorney General..." and "so if you can look into it...". The point is, it was a perfectly proper and much needed request; and not exactly hardball, either.
What I'm wondering is why Trump seems to be the first government official to be concerned about Biden's very suspicious behavior. I would ask the State Department functionaries why they didn't, at the time, refer Biden's actions to their inspector general.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
EQKimball 11/15/2019 4:20:48 PM (No. 236129)
Trump’s problem has always been that by instinct he is a lone operator who acts without sufficient consideration of potential consequences. The business organization he ran was lean at the top and he had no need to please directors or shareholders. No one could tell him “no,” and he could not be fired. He hired lawyers to fix things when they got messy, rather than to help him evaluate options before he took action. Picking up the phone to call a foreign leader before detailed planning ran the risk of stumbling into a potential minefield, which is what happened. Trump knew Biden’s son had a lucrative sinecure for which he had no experience. He also knew that Biden, Sr. had leaned on Ukraine to call off the heat on Burisma. Really, those two facts were sufficient without further investigation. Trump couldn’t leave it at that, so he asked for further cooperation at a time when payment was due on foreign aid. Stupid, clumsy, needless and likely typical of daily business dealings when building casinos. But, dammit, some needs to tell him he is President now. Should he be impeached for it? No. Ukraine got its aid without delivering the dirt. But going forward I hope he has learned something. It might just be the first time.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
The Remnants 11/15/2019 4:31:01 PM (No. 236134)
Supposing one Head of State, Trump, called the newly-elected Head of the State of Ukraine, Zelensky, to congratulate him, and, among other things, to voice concern about the "endemic" corruption in Zelensky's country, considering the U.S. has given millions and millions of foreign aid to the country, with little or no accounting of where the money goes to.To add more complications to the problem, former Vice President Biden, was charged by former President Obama, to be the point man for the U.S. in the Ukraine during Obama's term of office. It is also known that Biden's son was made a member of the Board of a very big energy company in Ukraine called Burisma during that time and the President of Burisma was a bit shady, and this adds even more complications to the situation.
Now, just supposing, that the former Vice President, at the time of Trump's call to Zelensky, had retired from public life, and the simple reason for Trump's call to Zelensky is to find out if there was a possibility the Ukraine was cleaning up the corruption in the country so President Trump would not feel so much reluctance giving it any more foreign aid. People should focus on the corruption in the country, rather than on Trump.
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No there there. But Biden is sure getting a lot of (negative) publicity… I imagine his enabling his ne’er-do-well son to become a millionaire is probably big talk around those kitchen tables where $50,000 a year would be a windfall…$50,000 a month for sitting on the board of a foreign board in a country where one didn’t speak the language nor have any knowledge of corporate business or that business’s particular business is mind-blowing...