Anonymous ID: 150464 Sept. 16, 2020, 12:21 p.m. No.10671050   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1069 >>1171 >>1273

Joe Biden’s 2016 call with ex-Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko is leaked (1 of 2)

 

A phone call between Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was leaked Tuesday showing the two former leaders discussing what the then-vice president could and couldn’t tell the incoming Trump administration, with Biden telling the foreign leader that he wants to stay “deeply engaged” in their diplomatic work as a private citizen. The call, revealed by Ukrainian politician Andriy Derkach, took place on Nov. 16, 2016, just a week after then-candidate Donald Trump won the presidential election. During the exchange, the outgoing vice president and the then-president of Ukraine discussed the topic of visas, “something we have tried to sell to the Ukrainian people,” Poroshenko said.

 

“Hey, Petro. It’s Joe. How are you?” the conversation between the two began. “Very well indeed, as usual, when I hear your voice, my dear friend,” Poroshenko responded. The call then went dark and picked back up with Poroshenko saying, “And if President [Obama] can also support us, not only with the means, but with visa-free, that is something we have tried to sell to the Ukrainian people. And still hoping that you can come, maybe on the 21st of November, on our anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity and that would be very big delivery.” The vice president told Poroshenko that he was not able to visit on the date in question before warning that a future visit at a later date was dependent on how the Ukrainian responded to the incoming Trump administration. “With regard to my coming on the 21st, as I told you I can never come … the 21st. I am going to try to come immediately after, in early December. But here’s where I am now, part of my answer to that depends on what was your conversation with our president-elect?” he asked the Ukrainian president. The former vice president went on to divulge his view that the Trump campaign did not believe they were going to win the 2016 election and because of this, their transition team was not up to the job. “One of the things I’ve been doing is spending — they are not making the — I’m not being critical, but they, the new administration, the incoming administration has been very, very slow on getting ready for transition. Quite frankly, like most of America, they didn’t think they were going to win the election, so they did not have a fulsome transition team. As a matter of fact, they changed their transition team. Transition is a very, very delicate and precise dance, it goes on from administration to administration over the last 100 years and it requires the exchange of classified information and the like,” Biden continued, knocking his incoming successors for their handling of the transition.

 

As a result, he said, he had withheld some information regarding Ukraine from his counterparts in the Trump transition team. “And the people they put forward to be part of the transition have to be cleared to do that, just as we had to be cleared after the Bush administration, etc. They have not done that, they’re trying to catch up and do it now since they fired the guy who headed up the transition just last week. The reason I bother to tell you that is I have been somewhat limited on what I am able to tell their team about Ukraine,” he admitted. “The truth of the matter is that the incoming administration doesn’t know a great deal about the situation. So I am meeting with the vice president-elect, who is the only one who has any foreign policy experience,” he added, speaking of Vice President Mike Pence. During the Obama administration, Biden handled policy on Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and China, something he was selected to handle due to his 30 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His handling of Ukraine policy came under the microscope last year during President Trump’s impeachment trial. The president was impeached by the Democrat-controlled House over his actions related to Ukraine, specifically that he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about investigations of Biden and his son Hunter, who sat on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company heavily involved in corruption.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/biden-hits-trump-administration-in-leaked-call-with-poroshenko/

Anonymous ID: 150464 Sept. 16, 2020, 12:22 p.m. No.10671069   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1273

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Joe Biden’s 2016 call with ex-Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko is leaked (2 of 2)

 

https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/biden-hits-trump-administration-in-leaked-call-with-poroshenko/

Anonymous ID: 150464 Sept. 16, 2020, 12:30 p.m. No.10671155   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1209 >>1214 >>1238 >>1263 >>1273

Bill Barr Said Prosecutors Could Charge Rioters for Conspiring to Overthrow U.S. Government

 

Attorney General Bill Barr said during a conference call with U.S. Attorneys last week that charging Americans with sedition was on the menu of criminal statutes available to federal prosecutors examining how to charge violent protesters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. According to the Journal, which cited “people familiar” with the conference call, the attorney general “encouraged the prosecutors to seek a number federal charges, including under a rarely used sedition law, even when state charges could apply.” The seditious conspiracy statute, 18 U.S. Code § 2384, is a means of punishing those who conspire to violently overthrow or who oppose by force the authority the U.S. government or who by force conspire to seize federal property: ''If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.''

 

A plain reading of the statute suggests that federal authorities could theoretically charge individuals who are working in concert, for example, to attack federal law enforcement and take over a federal courthouse. FBI outcast Peter Strzok, among others, immediately interpreted the report as proof that the attorney general is succumbing to the “ever-present temptation to sacrifice the first amendment to stifle dissent.” Attorney General Barr has said publicly that Black Lives Matter and antifa are “essentially Bolsheviks.” Barr called antifa a “highly organized” and “new form of guerrilla warfare”—the type of thing that would be covered by the seditious conspiracy statute.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/bill-barr-said-prosecutors-could-charge-rioters-for-conspiring-to-overthrow-u-s-government/

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