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President Trump in Wilmington, NC
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LIVE: President Donald J. Trump Holds a Rally in Wilmington, N.C. - 4/20/24
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TRUMP MAGA RALLY IN WILMINGTON NC 4-20-24
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Michael Lavaughn Robinson AKA Michelle Obama
her fangs are showing in the first pic of your post
Amazon fuckery
Clandestine
@Clandestine
Zelensky is personally thanking Speaker Mike Johnson for passing tens of billions of dollars in additional funding for UkraineâŚ
Our politicians continue to sell us out. Mike Johnson, and every single Representative who voted for this bill, is a traitor to the American People.
https://truthsocial.com/@Clandestine/posts/112304958384854705
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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WITHOUT PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR A PRESIDENT TO PROPERLY FUNCTION, PUTTING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GREAT AND EVERLASTING DANGER!
Apr 20, 2024, 3:00 PM
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[Profile picture from source site (Twitter/Gettr/Truth Social)] Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump 04/20/202415:02:49
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A President of the United States must have Full Immunity in order to properly function and do what has to be done for the good of our Country. A Nation-destroying ruling like the one handed down by the D.C. Circuit cannot be allowed to stand. If not overturned, as it should be, this decision would terribly injure not only the Presidency, but the Life, Breath, and Success of our Country. A President will be afraid to act for fear of the opposite Partyâs Vicious Retribution after leaving Office. I know from personal experience because I am going through it right now. It will become a Political Weapon used for Election Interference. Our Elections will be corrupted and under siege. So bad, and so dangerous for our Nation. SAVE PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112305095954297300
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
REMEMBER, if I donât have Presidential Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesnât have it either, and he would certainly be Prosecuted for his many ACTUAL CRIMES, including illegally receiving massive amounts of money from Foreign Countries, including China, Ukraine, and Russia, paying off Ukraine to fire an unfriendly prosecutor, allowing millions of people to illegally Enter and Destroy our Country, SURRENDERING in Afghanistan, with Hundreds Dead, many Americans Left Behind, and handing over Billions of Dollars Worth of the Best Military Equipment anywhere on Earth, the Decimation of American Wealth through the Green New Scam, and so much more. REMEMBER, Crooked Joe Biden and his CORRUPT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, D.A.âs and A.G.âs, has attacked his Political Opponent at a level never seen before in this Country, and wants desperately to PUT âTRUMPâ IN PRISON. He is playing a very dangerous game, and the great people of America WILL NOT STAND FOR IT. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
Apr 20, 2024, 3:07 PM
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Page 2: A President has to be free to determine what is right for our Country without undue pressure. If there is no Immunity, the Presidency, as we know it, will âno longer exist.â Many actions for the benefit of our Country will not be taken. This is in no way what the Founders had in mind. Legal Experts and Scholars have stated that the President must have Full Presidential Immunity. A President must be free to make proper decisions. His mind must be clear, and he must not be guided by the fear of retribution!
Apr 20, 2024, 3:08 PM
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FBI Serves Subpoenas at City Hall of Americaâs âWorst Mayorâ Tiffany Henyard
The Gateway Pundit reported that Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard is under FBI investigation for abusing her power after she shut down businesses that didnât donate to her campaign.
According to Dolton citizens, Henyard uses local police to target businesses that donât contribute to her.
She has also been accused of stealing charitable funds and even using taxpayer dollars for personal use.
No wonder residents call her the âworst mayor in America.â
A May 2023 taxpayer-funded trip to Las Vegas that resulted in allegations of serious misconduct and claims that Henyard retaliated against an aide and a police officer who reported alleged sexual misconduct on the part of a village trustee, is also part of the investigation.
In March, Henyard reportedly vetoed an investigation, unanimously approved by The Dolton Village Board, into allegations that she misused funds for lavish expenses and a costly $1 million security detail.
A group of Dolton trustees recently hired failed former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who let her city burn with rampant crime and violence, to investigate Henyard for a hefty $400 an-hour fee.
Now, Fox 32 Chicago reports that on Friday, the FBI served subpoenas at the Dolton City Hall:
âI can confirm that the FBI was conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity in that area today. Department of Justice policy prevents the FBI from commenting on the nature of any investigation that may be occurring. There is no further information available for release at this time,â the FBI said in a statement.
Four agents from the FBI paid a visit to Dolton around 2:30 p.m. They served two federal subpoenas. The first one was for employment records, personnel files, and disciplinary reports for 25 Dolton employees, including three police officers and Keith Freeman. Freeman, who is the village administrator, was charged with bankruptcy fraud on Monday.
The second subpoena was served specifically for Freeman, asking for records of all companies associated with him and possible ties to the village.
On Friday night, Mayor Henyard released a statement via Facebook saying, âTo all you clowns thats apart of the circus. Misery needs company, I pray for you all. Stop chasing Fake News.â
She then included a screenshot suggesting the FBIâs statement, and reports from multiple news outlets, is âfake news.â
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/fbi-serves-subpoenas-city-hall-americas-worst-mayor/
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Legal Scholars are extremely thankful for the Supreme Courtâs Decision to take up Presidential Immunity. Without Presidential Immunity, a President will not be able to properly function, or make decisions, in the best interest of the United States of America. Presidents will always be concerned, and even paralyzed, by the prospect of wrongful prosecution and retaliation after they leave office. This could actually lead to the extortion and blackmail of a President. The other side would say, âIf you donât do something, just the way we want it, we are going to go after you when you leave office, or perhaps even sooner.â
Apr 20, 2024, 3:08 PM
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Of course I was entitled, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief, to Immunity. I wasnât campaigning, the Election was long over. I was looking for voter fraud, and finding it, which is my obligation to do, and otherwise running our Country. If I donât get Immunity, then Crooked Joe Biden doesnât get Immunity, and with the Border Invasion and Afghanistan Surrender, alone, not to mention the Millions of dollars that went into his âpocketsâ with money from foreign countries, Joe would be ripe for Indictment. By weaponizing the DOJ against his Political Opponent, ME, Joe has opened a giant Pandoraâs Box. As President, I was protecting our Country, and doing a great job of doing so - Just look around at the complete mess that Crooked Joe Biden has caused. The least I am entitled to is Presidential Immunity on Fake Biden Indictments!
Apr 20, 2024, 3:09 PM
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
Here are the 139 Republicans who just voted against my amendment to strip every penny of your tax dollars from Mike Johnsonâs $61 BILLION Ukraine war spending bill.
Apr 20, 2024, 1:42 PM
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This is the notable decode
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
@RepMTG
Mike Johnson betrayed America once again.
After doing nothing to secure Americaâs Southern border, reauthorizing FISA to spy on the American people without a warrant, fully funding Joe Bidenâs DOJ that has indicted President Trump 91 times, and giving Bidenâs political gestapo a brand new FBI building bigger than the Pentagon, Speaker Johnson just sent $61 billion to fund the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.
House Republicans and the American people would be stronger without his disloyalty and betrayal of his principles.
Now itâs time for my colleagues to go home and hear from their constituents.
We need a new Speaker of the House!
Apr 20, 2024, 3:13 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@RepMTG/posts/112305137454978888
Grace Chong ufffc
@gracechong
29 Senate republicans approves the extension of FISA in the wee hours of night
Apr 20, 2024, 10:27 AM
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[Profile picture from source site (Twitter/Gettr/Truth Social)]Paul Sperry/ @paulsperry_ 04/19/2024 10:29:23
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BREAKING: VP Biden Emails Reveal Eric Ciaramella Had Serious Conflict of Interest Blowing Whistle on Trump
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/17/impeachment_whistleblower_was_in_the_loop_of_biden-ukraine_affairs_that_trump_wanted_probed_1024937.html
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Subpoena Eric Ciaramella
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Impeachment âWhistleblowerâ Was in the Loop of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed
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Above, Vice President Biden meets ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the White House in June 2016 as his Ukraine adviser Eric Ciaramella (right) looks on.
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
April 17, 2024
The âwhistleblowerâ who sparked Donald Trumpâs first impeachment was deeply involved in the political maneuverings behind Biden-family business schemes in Ukraine that Trump wanted probed, newly obtained emails from former Vice President Joe Bidenâs office reveal.
Harvard University/Davis Center
Eric Ciaramella: Privately expressed shock "Yikes" at linking U.S. aid to firing a prosecutor probing the firm paying Biden's son. But he kept mum publicly, so was he really shocked?
Harvard University/Davis Center
In 2019, then-National Intelligence Council analyst Eric Ciaramella touched off a political firestorm when he anonymously accused Trump of linking military aid for Ukraine to a demand for an investigation into alleged Biden corruption in that country.
But four years earlier, while working as a national security analyst attached to then-Vice President Joe Bidenâs office, Ciaramella was a close adviser when Biden threatened to cut off U.S. aid to Ukraine unless it fired its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Ukraine-based Burisma Holdings. At the time, the corruption-riddled energy giant was paying Bidenâs son Hunter millions of dollars.
Those payments â along with other evidence tying Joe Biden to his familyâs business dealings â received little attention in 2019 as Ciaramella accused Trump of a corrupt quid pro quo. Neither did subsequent evidence indicating that Hunter Bidenâs associates had identified Shokin as a âkey target.â These matters are now part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
âIt now seems there was material evidence that would have been used at the impeachment trial [to exonerate Trump],â said George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, who has testified as an expert witness in the ongoing Biden impeachment inquiry. âTrump was alleging there was a conflict of interest with the Bidens, and the evidence could have challenged Bidenâs account and established his sonâs interest in the Shokin firing.â
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Alexander Vindman: He and Ciaramella raised alarms about Trump, not Biden.
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Ciaramellaâs role â including high-level discussions with top Biden aides and Ukrainian prosecutors â is only now coming to light thanks to the recent release of White House emails and photos from the National Archives.
The emails show Ciaramella expressed shock â âYikesâ is what he wrote â at Bidenâs move to withhold the $1 billion in aid from Kyiv, which represented a sudden shift in U.S. policy. They also show he was drawn into White House communications over how to control adverse publicity from Hunter taking a lucrative seat on Burismaâs board.
Yet there is no evidence Ciaramella raised alarms about the questionable Biden business activities he witnessed firsthand, which is in sharp contrast to 2019. In that instance, he was galvanized into action after being told by White House colleague Alexander Vindman of an âimproperâ phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. During the call, Trump solicited Zelenskyâs help in investigating Burisma and Hunter Bidenâs role in the company.
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Hunter Biden: He had a multi-million-dollar plum post that Trump wanted investigated.
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Some former congressional investigators say Ciaramella effectively helped cover up a scandal far worse than what Trump was impeached over. Whatâs more, he failed to disclose that he had a potential conflict of interest stemming from his connection to the matter Trump asked Zelensky to probe when he lodged his complaint against Trump. RealClearInvestigations was the first to identify the then-33-year-old Ciaramella as the anonymous impeachment âwhistleblower,â something major media continue to keep under tight wraps.
Ciaramella worked under CIA Director John Brennan when President Obama made Biden his point man on Ukraine in 2014, the same year Burisma hired Hunter. The next year, the CIA detailed Ciaramella, a longtime advocate for aid to Ukraine, to the White House, where he worked closely with Biden and his staff as a top adviser on key Ukrainian policies. After Biden left office, he stayed on at the GOP White House until mid-2017 even though heâs a Democrat, working as a Ukrainian and Russian analyst on Trumpâs National Security Council. Co-workers there accused him of trying to sabotage Trump, including allegedly leaking sensitive information to the press.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Archives
Above in the foreground, an unidentified, bespectacled aide resembling Eric Ciaramella aboard Air Force Two during Vice President Biden's Dec. 6, 2015 flight to Kiev. This was the trip when Biden threatened to withhold military aid if Burisma prosecutor Viktor Shokin were not fired, which he soon was. The White House identified those in the cabin with Biden as Ukraine energy adviser Amos Hochstein, standing; and, seated, Carlyn Reichel, Kate Bedingfield, and Elissa Slotkin.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Archives
RealClearInvestigations has reviewed more than 2,000 pages of newly disclosed archived emails from the former vice presidentâs office related to Ukraine, of which more than 160 contained references to Ciaramella. They reveal that his role advising Bidenâs office potentially intersects with the current impeachment inquiry in several areas. Chiefly, Ciaramella focused on aid to Ukraine and anti-corruption reforms in the country. In that capacity, he:
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Victor Shokin: Fired prosecutor.
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Hosted, cleared into the White House, and met face-to-face there with senior Ukrainian prosecutors.
Gave a âreadoutâ of the meeting to his superiors, who in turn pushed for Shokinâs firing.
Traveled with Biden to Kyiv during the 2015 trip during which Biden demanded Shokinâs firing.
Wrote media âtalking pointsâ for Ukrainian officials.
Huddled with the top Biden officials involved in discussions concerning the $1 billion aid package and Shokin, including: Amos Hochstein; Victoria Nuland; Geoffrey Pyatt; Bridget Brink; and Michael Carpenter.
Corresponded with Biden officials coordinating responses to negative media reports about Hunterâs cushy and controversial Burisma job.
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âPoint of contactâ: Eric Ciaramella taking notes next to Biden's security adviser Michael Carpenter (right) in a June 2015 meeting with Ukrainian officials at the White House.
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Former Obama-Biden administration officials have confirmed in recent closed-door congressional testimony that Ciaramella was a key part of Bidenâs process for making policy in Ukraine. In 2016, for instance, a White House photo shows him taking notes at a White House meeting Biden held with then-Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to discuss Ukraineâs anti-corruption reforms and other issues.
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Victoria Nuland: âEric was regularly the clearing authority to get me into the White House for interagency meetings on Ukraine."
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Ciaramella also worked directly with top Obama and Biden administration diplomats on Ukraine, including senior State Department official Victoria Nuland. u201cEric was regularly the clearing authority to get me into the White House for interagency meetings on Ukraine,u201d Nuland revealed in a 2020 Senate deposition. Asked if she ever discussed Ukraine policy and Shokin with Ciaramella, Nuland testified: u201cOf course, I did. He was part of the interagency process. He was also on my negotiating team for the six, seven rounds of negotiations I did with the Russians on [the disputed Ukraine region] Donbas.u201d
Ciaramella was directly involved in talks concerning the massive U.S. aid package to Ukraine that Biden conditioned on the removal of Shokin, who at the time had seized the assets of the corrupt Burisma oligarch employing Hunter Biden. He also arranged and participated in White House talks with Ukrainian prosecutors visiting from Shokinu2019s office.
White House visitor logs confirm Ciaramella escorted Shokinu2019s deputy prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze, into the White House for a January 2016 meeting. A White House agenda for the meeting lists Ciaramella as u201cpoint of contactu201d for the Ukrainian delegation. He also checked in Andriy Telizhenko, the Ukrainian Embassy official who says they discussed Burisma and Hunter Biden during the meeting and struggled to understand why his U.S. counterparts were suddenly hostile to Shokin after praising him in earlier talks.
Emails from the time show Ciaramella appeared surprised to hear about the linkage between the $1 billion loan to Ukraine and the dismissal of Shokin. Though Biden maintains he insisted Kyiv oust Shokin because he was too soft on weeding out fraud in entities that included Burisma, Ciaramella suggested he didnu2019t share the view that Shokin was corrupt. u201cWe were super impressed with the group,u201d Ciaramella added, u201cand we had a two-hour discussion of their priorities and the obstacles they face.u201d
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"Yikes": In an email, Ciaramella expresses shock at the quid pro quo to oust the Ukrainian prosecutor.
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs/Committee on Finance, Page 134
On Jan. 21, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt emailed Ciaramella and other White House aides an article from the Ukrainian press u2013 u201cU.S. loan guarantee conditional on Shokinu2019s dismissal.u201d
u201cYikes. I donu2019t recall this coming up in our meeting with them,u201d Ciaramella replied, referring to the White House meeting he hosted with top Ukrainian prosecutors.
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Geoffrey Pyatt, U.S. envoy to Ukraine: u201cI think you have to ask Eric what he meant by u2018Yikes.u2019u201d
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But in a closed-door 2020 deposition before the Senate, Pyatt sounded skeptical that Ciaramella was in the dark about the decision. u201cI think you have to ask Eric what he meant by u2018Yikes,u2019u201d Pyatt told Senate investigators. He said that he believed conditioning the loan guarantee on Shokinu2019s removal u201cobviously came up in those meetingsu201d hosted by Ciaramella, suggesting that Bidenu2019s aide knew of the quid pro quo before Pyatt circulated the article about it from the Ukrainian press.
The day before he hosted the Ukraine prosecutors, Ciaramella received an agenda from a State Department official that asked him to u201cnote the importance of appointing a new PG [Prosecutor General], reiterating that Shokin is an obstacle to reform,u201d according to emails. The agenda also called on Ciaramella to u201cask the del [Ukrainian delegation] what high-level cases are on the docket for prosecution,u201d which raises suspicions in some quarters that Bidenu2019s advisers were fishing for information about Shokinu2019s plans for prosecuting Burisma oligarchs, something Hunter Biden had been asked to find out.
In a Jan. 21 email, Pyatt told Ciaramella to u201cbuckle inu201d because, as he later explained to Senate investigators, the deal was a u201cdifficult issueu201d and u201cthere was going to be political controversy around this [news].u201d
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Mykola Zlochevsky: Shokin conducted a raid of this Burisma oligarchu2019s home, undercutting Biden's contention the prosecutor was corrupt.
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The former ambassador demurred when asked if conditioning the $1 billion on Shokinâs firing was Bidenâs idea or came from his office. âIt was the â our interagency policy,â he testified, adding, âI donât remember when the vice president would have weighed in on this.â
However, Pyatt allowed that it was a sudden change in policy. âAt the beginning,â he said, âit was not our expectation that Shokinâs removal would be necessary.â Indeed, an Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee on Ukraine stated, âUkraine has made sufficient progress on its [anti-corruption] reform agenda to justify a third [loan] guarantee.â Ciaramella was a member of the IPC task force, which monitored Shokinâs office. The next month, moreover, the task force drafted a loan guarantee agreement that did not call for Shokinâs removal. Then, in December, Joe Biden flew to Kyiv to demand his ouster.
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Derek Harvey, investigator: "The impeachment inquiry should compel Ciaramella to testify."
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If what Ciaramella expressed in his email (which he knew would be part of archived White House records) was a genuine reaction, it appears that Vice President Biden went against the recommendation of one of his top NSC advisers on Ukraine. If Ciaramella were genuinely alarmed, he might have blown the whistle on his boss like he did on Trump, but he stayed mum. If, on the other hand, Ciaramella were a party to the quid-pro-quo discussions, as Pyatt suggests, then he had âa direct conflict,â noted Derek Harvey, the former congressional investigator involved in the first impeachment. Either way, Ciaramella clearly found himself in the middle of a major controversy.
Just weeks prior, White House photos indicate that Ciaramella traveled with Biden on the same December 2015 Air Force Two flight the vice president took to Kyiv to threaten Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to ax Shokin. Republicans have accused Biden of pushing Shokinâs ouster to block scrutiny of his sonâs actions.
âBiden called an audible and changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine to benefit his son on the plane ride to Ukraine,â House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said, and âlater bragged about withholding a U.S. loan guarantee if Ukraine did not fire the prosecutor [Shokin].â
Biden and his supporters have repeatedly claimed Shokin had to go because he wasnât cracking down on corruption and that everyone else in the administration, as well as Europe, agreed Shokin should be fired. This remains the prevailing narrative in major U.S. media. But around that time, Shokin had conducted a raid of Burisma oligarch Mykola Zlochevskyâs home, seizing his house, cars, and other assets.
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Out of office in 2018, Biden regales a think tank event with a salty account of getting Shokin fired.
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IRS Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, who examined Hunterâs emails as part of his investigation of Hunter for tax evasion, said Shokin was identified as a âkey targetâ in emails exchanged between Hunter and Burisma officials in November 2015 â the month before Biden traveled to Ukraine to demand Shokinâs removal. Just days before Biden arrived in Kyiv in early December 2015 to demand Shokinâs ouster, Hunter allegedly called his father from Dubai following a meeting there with Burisma official Vadym Pozharskyi, who asked him to pressure his father to shut down Shokinâs investigation. Vice President Biden was familiar with Pozharskyi, having met with him in April 2015 during a dinner at the Cafe Milano in D.C. arranged by Hunter.
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Joseph Ziegler, IRS investigator: âThe unstated goal was to have the Ukrainian prosecutor removed in an effort to close the criminal case against [Burisma founder] Zlochevsky."
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âThe unstated goal was to have the Ukrainian prosecutor removed in an effort to close the criminal case against [Burisma founder] Zlochevsky,â Ziegler said in recent testimony before the House impeachment inquiry. After Shokin was pushed out of office, the Burisma investigation dried up.
Ciaramella tried to marshal a defense for Biden in the whistleblower complaint he sent to Rep. Adam Schiff in August 2019. He listed among Trumpâs concerns at the time of the fateful July phone call âthat former Vice President Biden had pressured Poroshenko in 2016 to fire Shokin in order to quash a purported criminal probe into Burisma Holdings.â But Ciaramella attempted to pour cold water on the notion by referencing a Bloomberg News article that quoted a âformer senior Ukrainian prosecutorâ who falsely claimed âthat Mr. Shokin in fact was not investigating Burisma at the time of his removal in 2016.â
White House emails reveal that Ciaramella was looped into messages sent by Bidenâs communications team, who were concerned that Hunter Biden taking a position on corrupt Burismaâs board created unseemly optics and undercut their bossâ mission to clean up corruption in Ukraine.
AP
George Kent: He tried to get Bidenâs aides to raise the issue of potential family conflicts with their boss.
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In a Dec. 8, 2015, email, for example, Bidenâs communications director Kate Bedingfield copied Ciaramella on a link to a New York Times article headlined, âThe Knotty Ties Between Joe Biden, His Son and Ukraine.â Bedingfield is quoted in the story, authored by James Risen, denying Hunter had traveled with his father to Ukraine in an attempt to downplay his influence. She also said Ukrainian officials never raised his position on the Burisma board with Biden as an issue of concern. Risen got spun, however, on the issue of compensation for Hunter, reporting that it was ânot out of the ordinary.â
At the time, Burisma was paying Hunter, who had no energy sector experience, $1 million a year just for lending his name to its board. It turns out that Hunter never traveled to Ukraine for a single meeting in the five years he sat on Burismaâs board. Republicans suspect Biden got the prosecutor ousted to keep the money flowing from Burisma to the Biden family.
Career State Department officials led by George Kent, who was stationed in Ukraine at the time, tried to get Bidenâs aides to raise the issue of potential family conflicts with the vice president. Despite their concerns, Biden never asked his son to step down from the Burisma board, which would have made all questions go away. And despite Kent and other officials identifying Burisma founder Zlochevsky by name as a corrupt actor in Ukraine, Biden himself never publicly called Zlochevsky out as corrupt while Hunter served on his board and pocketed millions in payments from him. For all his talk of fighting corruption in Ukraine, Biden failed to distance himself from one of the most corrupt oligarchs in the country.
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Jason Foster, ex-Senate investigative counsel: "None of the whistleblower protections apply to this particular situation.â
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Harvey, who served as the staff investigator for the Republican side of the House Intelligence Committee during the 2019 Trump impeachment hearings, said: âThe [Biden] impeachment inquiry should compel Ciaramella to testify since we now know he was involved in communications about Biden using the $1 billion in aid to extort Ukraine into firing Shokin.â
Harvey said Ciaramella would make a valuable material witness against Biden in the probe, which centers on whether Biden used his White House clout or political influence on behalf of his sonâs foreign paymasters. White House photos indicate Ciaramella took notes during his meetings with Biden, his staff, and Ukrainian officials â materials that lawmakers could subpoena along with his testimony.
Another former staff investigator noted that Ciaramella is no longer protected by federal whistleblower laws. He has left the government and now works as a senior fellow focusing on Ukraine and Russia for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, where he is consulting with White House officials and pushing for billions more in U.S. aid for Ukraine â including âa Marshall Plan for the Ukrainian military.â Through a spokesperson, Ciaramella declined to comment.
âNone of the whistleblower protections apply to this particular situation,â said Jason Foster, former chief investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee and a whistleblower expert. He also noted that the Whistleblower Protection Act doesnât shield whistleblowers from any other conduct they might have been involved in, including their own conduct. Nor does it give them a legal right to anonymity.
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James Comer: The âwhistleblowerâ impeachment of Trump was a âcover-upâ operation for the alleged Biden blackmail scheme.
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A spokeswoman for the House Oversight Committee, which is leading the Biden impeachment inquiry, declined to say whether Ciaramella is on the witness list. âI donât have anything for you on this at this time,â said House Oversight Communications Director Jessica Collins. However, Comer has publicly described the âwhistleblowerâ impeachment of Trump as a âcover-upâ operation for the alleged Biden blackmail scheme in Ukraine involving U.S. aid and the Burisma corruption probe.
What Ciaramella witnessed and what he documented in notes he took during high-level Biden-Ukraine meetings could now be relevant to the active impeachment inquiry of President Biden. The House may have little choice but to hold the kind of hearings the Democrats blocked during the earlier impeachment by keeping Ciaramellaâs identity â and his own potential conflict â secret.
As the catalyst for Trumpâs impeachment, Ciaramella could now be a reluctant witness for Bidenâs.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/17/impeachment_whistleblower_was_in_the_loop_of_biden-ukraine_affairs_that_trump_wanted_probed_1024937.html
Clandestine
@Clandestine
Johnson gets one briefing in a SCIF, and all the sudden he thinks Russia, China, and Iran are an âAxis of Evilâ.
He is either incredibly gullible, or he is compromised. Regardless, he is unfit for office.
This dumbass is openly admitting he wants to fund WW3.
Apr 18, 2024, 12:44 PM
https://truthsocial.com/@Clandestine/posts/112293226429615133
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