This sentence explains a lot.

[the other mike]

Trump has raised the issue again in recent days in response to reports that he pressured the newly elected Ukrainian president to investigate the Bidens during a phone call in July.

Here's the context for the sentence.

Trump Twists Facts on Biden and Ukraine

President Donald Trump once again twisted the facts to claim that Joe Biden, as vice president, threatened to withhold “billions of dollars to Ukraine” unless it removed the prosecutor general who “was prosecuting” Biden’s son, Hunter.

In May, Ukraine’s top prosecutor at the time said the younger Biden — a former board member for a gas company in Ukraine — was not investigated.

“Hunter Biden did not violate any Ukrainian laws — at least as of now, we do not see any wrongdoing,” Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s then-prosecutor general, told Bloomberg News. Lutsenko, who resigned in August, said a corruption investigation into leaders of Ukrainian gas companies concerned a potential money-laundering transaction that had occurred before Hunter Biden joined the board.

We wrote about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine four months ago, when the president made a similar claim in May on Fox News. In that interview, Trump said that “the [Ukraine] prosecutor was after his son,” referring to Biden’s son, Hunter.

Trump has raised the issue again in recent days in response to reports that he pressured the newly elected Ukrainian president to investigate the Bidens during a phone call in July. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump urged “Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with [Trump’s personal attorney] Rudy Giuliani on a probe that could hamper Mr. Trump’s potential 2020 opponent.”

Trump Twists Facts on Biden and Ukraine - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump once again twisted the facts to claim that Joe Biden, as vice president, threatened to withhold "billions of dollars to Ukraine" unless it removed the prosecutor general who "was prosecuting" Biden's son, Hunter.

www.factcheck.org

We have seen this sort of effort to divert attention away from a negative story on Trump before.

Podesta: Wikileaks dumps done to divert Fox News’s attention from ‘Access Hollywood’ tape

John Podesta said Wednesday that daily Wikileaks’ dumps of his emails in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election were meant to “divert attention, at least to give the anchors on Fox News something to talk about other than the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape.”

“The data from your emails, your email dump came out only minutes after the ‘Access Hollywood’ [tape was released],” MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell said to Podesta, who served as Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, during an on-set interview on Wednesday.

{mosads}”Late on a Friday afternoon,” replied Podesta.

“And just to set the context, most of those Wikileaks dumps were early in the morning to drive the news cycle here in the U.S.,” Mitchell said. “So this was unusual from the get-go and you guys noticed it right away.”

Podesta: Wikileaks dumps done to divert Fox News’s attention from ‘Access Hollywood’ tape

John Podesta said Wednesday that daily Wikileaks’ dumps of his emails in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election were meant to “divert attention, at least to give the anchor…

thehill.com

Roger Stone wanted WikiLeaks dump to distract from ‘Access Hollywood’ tape, Mueller witness says

Stone was indicted Friday, accused by the special counsel of lying to Congress about his quest for information about WikiLeaks’ plans to release information damaging to the Democratic candidate. According to the indictment, Stone was assigned this quest by “senior Trump Campaign officials.” And he allegedly enlisted two friends and intermediaries in the effort, including Corsi, identified in the indictment as “Person 1.”

Whether Stone had a hand in the advantageous timing, by influencing the dissemination of the purloined emails, could help investigators answer the question of why he, and others in Trump’s orbit, allegedly lied in responding to congressional queries about possible collusion between the Republican campaign and Russian officials who interfered in the race. When asked by Melber why Stone lied, Corsi said, “I failed to take the mind-reading course at Harvard. You’ll have to ask Roger.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/29/roger-stone-wanted-wikileaks-email-dump-distract-access-hollywood-tape-associate-claims/

This........https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%202020.09.23.pdf
........is the Senate report, chaired by Sen. Grassley (R), on the investigation in to Hunter/Joe/Burisma. It is an extensive account, covering Hunter's involvement with Burisma and Chinese companies, that rightly points out conflicts of interest regarding Hunter Biden's foreign business activities. While scolding Joe Biden and the Obama admin for, in the Repub's opinion, ignoring conflicts of interest...........NO WHERE DOES IT CONCLUDE THERE WAS ANY WRONGDOING ON JOE BIDEN'S PART.

Why are we still talking about this matter? For the very same reason Trump introduced it to the public in the first place. To hurt Joe Biden's chances in his quest for the presidency.

If you only knew how small this makes you look you'd be like damn I'm pretty little

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

“One of these deals involves the sale of American natural gas to China. Evidence suggests Joe Biden had a 10 percent equity stake through his son.”
— Comer, at the news conference

The phrase “evidence suggests” is doing a lot of work here. Comer is referring to a single email — dated May 13, 2017 — whose meaning has been under dispute. In the hard-drive copy of the laptop obtained by The Washington Post, the email lacked digital information that allowed it to be verified.
The Washington Post, in its reporting, cites only materials from the laptop that the security experts were able to verify or can be confirmed elsewhere. Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger, in his 2021 book “The Bidens,” said the email had been verified as authentic by “a person with independent access to Hunter’s emails.”

The 2017 email described possible ownership stakes for five partners, including Hunter Biden and his uncle Jim Biden, in a planned venture with CEFC, the Chinese company. The entity was to be called Oneida Holdings LLC.

James Gilliar, a business associate summarizing the allocation of the equity in Oneida Holdings LLC., in the email, wrote how four partners would get 20 percent each, except for Jim Biden, who would get 10 percent. He added a question: “10 held by H for the big guy?” One of the recipients of the mail, Anthony Bobulinski, has said that the “big guy” referred to Joe Biden and that “H” referred to Hunter. Bobulinski was a guest of Trump at one of the 2020 presidential debates.
But Gilliar told the Wall Street Journal in 2020: “I would like to clear up any speculation that former Vice President Biden was involved with the 2017 discussions about our potential business structure. I am unaware of any involvement at anytime of the former vice president. The activity in question never delivered any project revenue.”

Three days after the email was sent, a draft agreement setting up Oneida was circulated. It shows each partner would receive 20 percent, including Jim Biden. No mention is made of Joe Biden. The company agreement signed on May 22, 2017, had the same allocation. Oneida was to hold 50 percent of another corporate entity called SinoHawk. Neither Gilliar nor James Biden responded to requests for comment.

The Wall Street Journal said that it had reviewed corporate records and found no role for Joe Biden. The Washington Post, in an extensive report on the CEFC dealings, also did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC. The Biden campaign at the time denied he had any role.

Comer says that this deal involved natural gas, but he appears to be referring to a different transaction, described below. There is no evidence this particular deal concerned natural gas.

Collins said Comer had not made a mistake. “Committee Republicans have evidence the Bidens’ deal with CEFC — a company closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party — was changed when the Bidens cut out their Western partners of SinoHawk to keep the business in the family,” she said. Asked to provide the evidence, she would only say it was “based on whistleblower information provided to Committee Republicans.”

In an Oct. 13 letter to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said that an FBI summary of an interview with Bobulinski revealed that the deal was intended to pay the partners for deals that had “remained intentionally uncompensated while Joe Biden was Vice President.” The venture failed but, in a separate arrangement, Hunter and Jim Biden received nearly $5 million from CEFC, Grassley noted.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...r-biden-deals-allegedly-involving-his-father/

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[the other mike]

At least half a million Ukrainians have died because of Biden's war, and all you twits think up is finding a way to steal another election.

 

[berg80]

If you only knew how small this makes you look you'd be like damn I'm pretty little

If you thought insulting me detracts from the facts in the OP you thought wrong.

 

[Winco]

Must be nice to get a paycheck for sitting on one's ass.

Are you talking about Road Runner welfare check?

 

[berg80]

At least half a million Ukrainians have died because of Biden's war

Exactly when did Putin's invasion of Ukraine become Biden's war?

 

[the other mike]

If you thought insulting me detracts from the facts in the OP you thought wrong.

You beg to be insulted with crap like this.
But, you're welcome.
(In advance, in case you ever become honest or awakened)

 

[the other mike]

Exactly when did Putin's invasion of Ukraine become Biden's war?

Our govt and the CIA installed Zelinsky and his nazis in 2014.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

If you thought insulting me detracts from the facts in the OP you thought wrong.

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Cute post.

You don't need anyone's help to accomplish that.




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[LordBrownTrout]

True. But the larger point is the entire Hunter/Burisma/Joe canard was designed to be a smokescreen to distract from the Orange Menace's extortion of Zelensky.

No, bidens corrupt enterprise was around long before orange man came into the scene. Biden is a criminal. If we had a competent congress, he would have already removed from office.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Biden's a criminal extortionist.

Trump pushed on that, and the DeepSwamp wilded him.

Trump needed Seal Team 6 as his VP

 

[berg80]

You beg to be insulted with crap like this.
But, you're welcome.
(In advance, in case you ever become honest or awakened)

If you thought insulting me detracts from the facts in the OP you thought wrong. I dare you to try to refute anything in the OP.

 

[j-mac]

Exactly when did Putin's invasion of Ukraine become Biden's war?

When we started exclusively funding it.

 

[berg80]

Biden is a criminal.

If only I had a nickel for every time you folks flailed around, swinging your arms about, in a futile attempt to distract from Trump's actual, numerous, well founded, criminal indictments.

 

[j-mac]

If you thought insulting me detracts from the facts in the OP you thought wrong. I dare you to try to refute anything in the OP.

Trying to fight with pigs only make you dirty, and the pigs love it.

 

[berg80]

When we started exclusively funding it.

I am to believe you think we are the only nation supplying Ukraine with either monetary or material support? Does Putin bear no responsibility in your twisted mind?

 

[berg80]

Trying to fight with pigs only make you dirty, and the pigs love it.

I dare you to embarrass yourself by trying to refute anything in the OP.

 

[Blaster]

There's no question Hunter unethically played on the family name. That does not translate to an impeachable offense for his dad.

Joe Biden was involved in his son's unethical behavior.

 

[j-mac]

I am to believe you think we are the only nation supplying Ukraine with either monetary or material support? Does Putin bear no responsibility in your twisted mind?

How much? What’s the breakdown…?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

I am to believe you think we are the only nation supplying Ukraine with either monetary or material support? Does Putin bear no responsibility in your twisted mind?

Ukraine is none of our business. The reason we are there is the current biden criminal cartel. It's that simple.