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MORE LIES.. Read between The Lines Kiddies. We know for a Fact The Clinton Campaign met with Ukrainian Agents in The Ukraine Embassy to kick off their smear campaign against The President.
THE BACK STORY: HOW THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN SOLICITED FOREIGN AGENTS AND GOVERNMENTS TO HELP THEM IN THE 2016 ELECTION:
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents (Portions of The Fusion GPS Dossier) implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clintonâs allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
âIt was clear that they were supporting Hillary Clintonâs candidacy,â Artemenko said. âThey did everything from organizing meetings with the Clinton team, to publicly supporting her, to criticizing Trump.
RUSSIAN STOOGES IN THE UKRAINE:
Ukraineâs minister of internal affairs, Arsen Avakov, even joined in, trashing Trump on Twitter in July as a âclownâ and asserting that Trump is âan even bigger danger to the US than terrorism.â
So did Leshchenko, who daily made accusations against the Trump Campaign after meeting with Clinton Campaign Officials.
At the time, Leshchenko suggested that his motivation was partly to undermine Trump.
âFor me, it was important to show not only the corruption aspect, but that he is [a] pro-Russian candidate who can break the geopolitical balance in the world,â Leshchenko told the Financial Times about two weeks after his news conference. The newspaper noted that Trumpâs candidacy had spurred âKievâs wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election,â and the story quoted Leshchenko asserting that the majority of Ukraineâs politicians are âon Hillary Clintonâs side.â
THE CONDUIT FOR UKRAINIAN PROPAGANDA FROM RUSSIAN LOYALISTS Straight to The Clinton Campaign: May I have a CHULUPA? :
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials (THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN & UKRAINIAN AGENTS) in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian antipathy for Trumpâs team â and alignment with Clintonâs â can be traced back to late 2013. Thatâs when the countryâs president, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Manafort had been advising, abruptly backed out of a European Union pact linked to anti-corruption reforms. Instead, Yanukovych entered into a multibillion-dollar bailout agreement with Russia, sparking protests across Ukraine and prompting Yanukovych to flee the country to Russia under Putinâs protection.
In the ensuing crisis, Russian troops moved into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, and Manafort dropped off the radar.
Manafortâs work for Yanukovych caught the attention of a veteran Democratic operative named Alexandra Chalupa, who had worked in the White House Office of Public Liaison during the Clinton administration. Chalupa went on to work as a staffer, then as a consultant, for Democratic National Committee. The DNC paid her $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016, according to Federal Election Commission records, though she also was paid by other clients during that time, (FUSION GPS & COIE Lawfirm) including Democratic campaigns and the DNCâs arm for engaging expatriate Democrats around the world.
A daughter of Ukrainian immigrants who maintains strong ties to the Ukrainian-American diaspora and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, Chalupa, a lawyer by training, in 2014 was doing pro bono work for another client (Steele's Orbis Intelligence Firm) interested in the Ukrainian crisis and began researching Manafortâs role in Yanukovychâs rise, as well as his ties to the pro-Russian oligarchs who funded Yanukovychâs political party.
A former DNC staffer described their exchange initially with Chalupa as an âinformal conversation,â saying ââbriefingâ makes it sound way too formal,â and adding, âWe were not directing or driving her work on this.â Yet, the former DNC staffer and the operative familiar with the situation agreed that with the DNCâs encouragement, Chalupa asked embassy staff to try to arrange an interview in which Poroshenko might discuss Manafortâs ties to Yanukovych.
While the embassy declined that request, officials there became âhelpfulâ in Chalupaâs efforts, she said, explaining that she traded information and leads with them. âIf I asked a question, they would provide guidance, or if there was someone I needed to follow up with.â But she stressed, âThere were no documents given, nothing like that.â
RUSSIAN LOYALISTS IN THE UKRAINIAN EMBASSY:
But Andrii Telizhenko, who worked as a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy under Shulyar, said she instructed him to help Chalupa research connections between Trump, Manafort and Russia. âOksana said that if I had any information, or knew other people who did, then I should contact Chalupa,â recalled Telizhenko, who is now a political consultant in Kiev. âThey were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa,â he said, adding âOksana was keeping it all quiet,â but âthe embassy worked very closely withâ Chalupa.
In fact, sources familiar with the effort say that Shulyar specifically called Telizhenko into a meeting with Chalupa to provide an update on an American media outletâs ongoing investigation into Manafort.
Telizhenko recalled that Chalupa told him and Shulyar that, âIf we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trumpâs involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.â
Chalupa confirmed that, a week after Manafortâs hiring was announced, she discussed the possibility of a congressional investigation with a foreign policy legislative assistant in the office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who co-chairs the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. But, Chalupa said, âIt didnât go anywhere.â
Asked about the effort, the Kaptur legislative assistant called it a âtouchy subjectâ in an internal email to colleagues that was accidentally forwarded to Politico.
Kapturâs office later emailed an official statement explaining that the lawmaker is backing a bill to create an independent commission to investigate âpossible outside interference in our elections.â The office added âat this time, the evidence related to this matter points to Russia, but Congresswoman Kaptur is concerned with any evidence of foreign entities interfering in our elections.â
A DNC official (WASSERMAN SCHULTZ OF PAKISTANI HACKER FAME) stressed that Chalupa was a consultant paid to do outreach for the partyâs political department, not a researcher. She undertook her investigations into Trump, Manafort and Russia on her own, and the party did not incorporate her findings in its dossiers on the subjects, the official said, stressing that the DNC had been building robust research books on Trump and his ties to Russia long before Chalupa began sounding alarms.
Clintonâs campaign seized on the Manafort Ukraine Russia Narrative to advance Democratsâ argument that Trumpâs campaign was closely linked to Russia. The ledger represented âmore troubling connections between Donald Trumpâs team and pro-Kremlin elements in Ukraine,â Robby Mook, Clintonâs campaign manager, said in a statement. He demanded that Trump âdisclose campaign chair Paul Manafortâs and all other campaign employeesâ and advisersâ ties to Russian or pro-Kremlin entities, including whether any of Trumpâs employees or advisers are currently representing and or being paid by them.â
THE ALLEGED LEDGERS:
A former Ukrainian investigative journalist and current parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko, who was elected in 2014 as part of Poroshenkoâs party, held a news conference to highlight the ledgers, and to urge Ukrainian and American law enforcement to aggressively investigate Manafort.
Manafort denied receiving any off-books cash from Yanukovychâs Party of Regions, and said that he had never been contacted about the ledger by Ukrainian or American investigators, later telling POLITICO âI was just caught in the crossfire.â
THE ACCUSATION:
According to a series of memos reportedly compiled for Trumpâs opponents by a former British intelligence agent (Christopher Steele & Skirpal), Yanukovych, in a secret meeting with Putin on the day after the Times published its report, admitted that he had authorized âsubstantial kickback payments to Manafort.â But according to the report, which was published Tuesday by BuzzFeed but remains unverified. Yanukovych assured Putin âthat there was no documentary trail left behind which could provide clear evidence of thisâ â an alleged statement that seemed to implicitly question the authenticity of the ledger.
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE LEDGER:
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, a Ukrainian former diplomat who served as the countryâs head of security under Poroshenko but is now affiliated with a leading opponent of Poroshenko, said it was fishy that âonly one part of the black ledger appeared.â He asked, âWhere is the handwriting analysis?â and said it was âcrazyâ to announce an investigation based on the ledgers.
Some Poroshenko critics have gone further, suggesting that the bureau is backing away from investigating because the ledgers might have been doctored or even forged.
The scrutiny around the ledgers â combined with that from other stories about his Ukraine work â proved too much for Manafort, and he stepped down from the Trump campaign less than a week after the Times story.
TREE:
Clinton, with The Help of Obama, The DNC, a British and Russian Spy, & Ukrainian Agents Loyal to Russia set the whole thing up all along.
Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
MORE LIES.. Read between The Lines Kiddies. We know for a Fact The Clinton Campaign met with Ukrainian Agents in The Ukraine Embassy to kick off their smear campaign against The President.
THE BACK STORY: HOW THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN SOLICITED FOREIGN AGENTS AND GOVERNMENTS TO HELP THEM IN THE 2016 ELECTION:
Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents (Portions of The Fusion GPS Dossier) implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clintonâs allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.
âIt was clear that they were supporting Hillary Clintonâs candidacy,â Artemenko said. âThey did everything from organizing meetings with the Clinton team, to publicly supporting her, to criticizing Trump.
RUSSIAN STOOGES IN THE UKRAINE:
Ukraineâs minister of internal affairs, Arsen Avakov, even joined in, trashing Trump on Twitter in July as a âclownâ and asserting that Trump is âan even bigger danger to the US than terrorism.â
So did Leshchenko, who daily made accusations against the Trump Campaign after meeting with Clinton Campaign Officials.
At the time, Leshchenko suggested that his motivation was partly to undermine Trump.
âFor me, it was important to show not only the corruption aspect, but that he is [a] pro-Russian candidate who can break the geopolitical balance in the world,â Leshchenko told the Financial Times about two weeks after his news conference. The newspaper noted that Trumpâs candidacy had spurred âKievâs wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election,â and the story quoted Leshchenko asserting that the majority of Ukraineâs politicians are âon Hillary Clintonâs side.â
THE CONDUIT FOR UKRAINIAN PROPAGANDA FROM RUSSIAN LOYALISTS Straight to The Clinton Campaign: May I have a CHULUPA? :
A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials (THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN & UKRAINIAN AGENTS) in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian antipathy for Trumpâs team â and alignment with Clintonâs â can be traced back to late 2013. Thatâs when the countryâs president, Viktor Yanukovych, whom Manafort had been advising, abruptly backed out of a European Union pact linked to anti-corruption reforms. Instead, Yanukovych entered into a multibillion-dollar bailout agreement with Russia, sparking protests across Ukraine and prompting Yanukovych to flee the country to Russia under Putinâs protection.
In the ensuing crisis, Russian troops moved into the Ukrainian territory of Crimea, and Manafort dropped off the radar.
Manafortâs work for Yanukovych caught the attention of a veteran Democratic operative named Alexandra Chalupa, who had worked in the White House Office of Public Liaison during the Clinton administration. Chalupa went on to work as a staffer, then as a consultant, for Democratic National Committee. The DNC paid her $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016, according to Federal Election Commission records, though she also was paid by other clients during that time, (FUSION GPS & COIE Lawfirm) including Democratic campaigns and the DNCâs arm for engaging expatriate Democrats around the world.
A daughter of Ukrainian immigrants who maintains strong ties to the Ukrainian-American diaspora and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, Chalupa, a lawyer by training, in 2014 was doing pro bono work for another client (Steele's Orbis Intelligence Firm) interested in the Ukrainian crisis and began researching Manafortâs role in Yanukovychâs rise, as well as his ties to the pro-Russian oligarchs who funded Yanukovychâs political party.
A former DNC staffer described their exchange initially with Chalupa as an âinformal conversation,â saying ââbriefingâ makes it sound way too formal,â and adding, âWe were not directing or driving her work on this.â Yet, the former DNC staffer and the operative familiar with the situation agreed that with the DNCâs encouragement, Chalupa asked embassy staff to try to arrange an interview in which Poroshenko might discuss Manafortâs ties to Yanukovych.
While the embassy declined that request, officials there became âhelpfulâ in Chalupaâs efforts, she said, explaining that she traded information and leads with them. âIf I asked a question, they would provide guidance, or if there was someone I needed to follow up with.â But she stressed, âThere were no documents given, nothing like that.â
RUSSIAN LOYALISTS IN THE UKRAINIAN EMBASSY:
But Andrii Telizhenko, who worked as a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy under Shulyar, said she instructed him to help Chalupa research connections between Trump, Manafort and Russia. âOksana said that if I had any information, or knew other people who did, then I should contact Chalupa,â recalled Telizhenko, who is now a political consultant in Kiev. âThey were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa,â he said, adding âOksana was keeping it all quiet,â but âthe embassy worked very closely withâ Chalupa.
In fact, sources familiar with the effort say that Shulyar specifically called Telizhenko into a meeting with Chalupa to provide an update on an American media outletâs ongoing investigation into Manafort.
Telizhenko recalled that Chalupa told him and Shulyar that, âIf we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trumpâs involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.â
Chalupa confirmed that, a week after Manafortâs hiring was announced, she discussed the possibility of a congressional investigation with a foreign policy legislative assistant in the office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who co-chairs the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. But, Chalupa said, âIt didnât go anywhere.â
Asked about the effort, the Kaptur legislative assistant called it a âtouchy subjectâ in an internal email to colleagues that was accidentally forwarded to Politico.
Kapturâs office later emailed an official statement explaining that the lawmaker is backing a bill to create an independent commission to investigate âpossible outside interference in our elections.â The office added âat this time, the evidence related to this matter points to Russia, but Congresswoman Kaptur is concerned with any evidence of foreign entities interfering in our elections.â
A DNC official (WASSERMAN SCHULTZ OF PAKISTANI HACKER FAME) stressed that Chalupa was a consultant paid to do outreach for the partyâs political department, not a researcher. She undertook her investigations into Trump, Manafort and Russia on her own, and the party did not incorporate her findings in its dossiers on the subjects, the official said, stressing that the DNC had been building robust research books on Trump and his ties to Russia long before Chalupa began sounding alarms.
Clintonâs campaign seized on the Manafort Ukraine Russia Narrative to advance Democratsâ argument that Trumpâs campaign was closely linked to Russia. The ledger represented âmore troubling connections between Donald Trumpâs team and pro-Kremlin elements in Ukraine,â Robby Mook, Clintonâs campaign manager, said in a statement. He demanded that Trump âdisclose campaign chair Paul Manafortâs and all other campaign employeesâ and advisersâ ties to Russian or pro-Kremlin entities, including whether any of Trumpâs employees or advisers are currently representing and or being paid by them.â
THE ALLEGED LEDGERS:
A former Ukrainian investigative journalist and current parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko, who was elected in 2014 as part of Poroshenkoâs party, held a news conference to highlight the ledgers, and to urge Ukrainian and American law enforcement to aggressively investigate Manafort.
Manafort denied receiving any off-books cash from Yanukovychâs Party of Regions, and said that he had never been contacted about the ledger by Ukrainian or American investigators, later telling POLITICO âI was just caught in the crossfire.â
THE ACCUSATION:
According to a series of memos reportedly compiled for Trumpâs opponents by a former British intelligence agent (Christopher Steele & Skirpal), Yanukovych, in a secret meeting with Putin on the day after the Times published its report, admitted that he had authorized âsubstantial kickback payments to Manafort.â But according to the report, which was published Tuesday by BuzzFeed but remains unverified. Yanukovych assured Putin âthat there was no documentary trail left behind which could provide clear evidence of thisâ â an alleged statement that seemed to implicitly question the authenticity of the ledger.
THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE LEDGER:
Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, a Ukrainian former diplomat who served as the countryâs head of security under Poroshenko but is now affiliated with a leading opponent of Poroshenko, said it was fishy that âonly one part of the black ledger appeared.â He asked, âWhere is the handwriting analysis?â and said it was âcrazyâ to announce an investigation based on the ledgers.
Some Poroshenko critics have gone further, suggesting that the bureau is backing away from investigating because the ledgers might have been doctored or even forged.
The scrutiny around the ledgers â combined with that from other stories about his Ukraine work â proved too much for Manafort, and he stepped down from the Trump campaign less than a week after the Times story.
TREE:
Clinton, with The Help of Obama, The DNC, a British and Russian Spy, & Ukrainian Agents Loyal to Russia set the whole thing up all along.
Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
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