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  1. Ukraine prosecutors didn't want the political spectacle that became impeachment and simply sought to turn over evidence about Joe Biden and election interference to U.S. prosecutors, memos show.


    Could the impeachment scandal have been prevented if the now-fired U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman had followed up on Ukrainian allegations about Joe Biden and his family in 2018?

    That’s the tantalizing question raised by emails from fall 2018 between an American lawyer and the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan that were obtained by Just the News.

    The memos show that well before Ukrainian prosecutors reached out to Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, in 2019 to talk about the Bidens and alleged 2016 election interference they first approached Berman’s office in New York in October 2018 via another American lawyer.

    The memos show Little Rock, Ark., lawyer Bud Cummins, a former U.S. attorney himself, reached out at least five times in October 2018 to Berman seeking to arrange a meeting with then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.

    Lutsenko, who emerged as a key figure in the impeachment scandal, wanted to confidentially share with federal prosecutors in New York evidence he claimed to possess that raised concerns about the Bidens’ behavior as well as alleged wrongdoing in the Paul Manafort corruption case.

    “Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko is offering to come to U.S. meet with high-level law enforcement to share the fruits of investigations within Ukraine which have produced evidence of two basic alleged crimes,” Cummins wrote Berman on Oct. 4, 2018, one day after the two had talked on the phone about the allegations.

    The allegations included that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect Burisma Holdings” after his son Hunter and his son’s business partner Devon Archer had joined the Ukrainian gas company’s board of directors and “substantial sums of money were paid to them,” Cummins wrote.

    At the time Hunter Biden and Archer joined Burisma in 2014, the company was under criminal investigation in both England and Ukraine for alleged corruption. The British case was dropped in 2015, and the Ukraine cases were eventually settled in the final days of the Obama administration.

    Joe Biden boasted during a 2018 public appearance that he forced the firing on Lutsenko's predecessor, Viktor Shokin, back in 2016by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine. At the time, Shokin was leading the investigation into Burisma. Biden denies the investigation factored into his decision.

    Biden’s and Archer’s firm received more than $3 million in payments from Burisma between 2014 and 2016, bank records obtained by the FBI show.

    Records recently released by the State Department also show Hunter Biden and Archer had contacts in 2015 and 2016 with senior State officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry and Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken.

    In addition, Burisma’s U.S. representatives were lobbying the State Department in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Kiev seeking to make the corruption allegations go away, the State memos released under FOIA show.

    “The allegation by Prosecutor General Lutsenko et al is that the US ambassador, Marie L. Yovanovitch, Biden and Kerry made conclusions about who were the good guys and the bad guys in local government. They believe Biden and Kerry were influenced by payments to Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to influence certain decisions, particularly those benefitting Burisma,” Cummins wrote, relaying the allegations from the Ukrainian officials.

    In addition, Cummins told Berman that Lutsenko had evidence that a ledger found in Ukraine in 2016 alleging to show payments to Manafort from a Russian-backed political party in Ukraine was doctored and the U.S. knew the evidence was corrupted. The emergence of the ledger caused Manafort to resign as Trump’s campaign chairman in August 2016, and eventually led to his conviction on money laundering and tax charges.

    “The second allegation above is that the Embassy and FBI willfully pressured Ukrainian officials to falsify evidence to be leaked to the media about Manafort to affect the outcome of the 2016 election,” Cummins wrote Berman.

    Cummins said in an interview he had one phone call and four email contacts with Berman in October 2018 about the Ukrainian matter, but the prosecutor’s office never took Lutsenko up on his offer to come to Washington and lay out his evidence.

    “I never heard from them again,” Cummins said of Berman’s office. “It was an opportunity for the Justice Department to address these concerns privately, and who knows how history would have turned out had the SDNY simply followed up.”

    Berman, instead, would eventually indict two associates of Giuliani on campaign finance and other charges after they tried to help the former New York City mayor and Trump lawyer publicize the Ukraine prosecutors' concerns. (One of the indicted associates, Lev Parnas, worked as a translator and interview facilitator for this reporter on a handful of Ukraine interviews in 2019, but prosecutors do not allege he did anything wrong in that work.)

    James Margolin, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in New York, declined comment Monday when asked about the Cummins overture in 2018.

    Cummins said he was not representing Lutsenko as his client, but rather a Ukrainian-American citizen who was trying to help the prosecutor general get information into U.S. authorities' hands.

    Cummins’ email states that Lutsenko wanted to meet with Berman because the U.S. attorney’s office in New York had successfully prosecuted Archer on unrelated charges earlier in 2018. Archer’s conviction, however, was overturned by a judge, and Berman’s office never retried the case.

    Cummins' efforts to help arrange the meeting were confirmed by one of Lutsenko's deputies, Konstantin Kulyk, who said last year that Ukrainian authorities repeatedly tried to convey evidence about possible wrongdoing by Americans to the U.S. Justice Department but were thwarted.

    Lutsenko said in an interview last year that when Cummins’ efforts failed to get an audience with the Justice Department he reached out to Giuliani, hoping to find a different channel to get information investigated.

    It was those contacts that eventually spurred the entire impeachment inquiry, which ended in January in the Senate’s acquittal of Trump.

    Democrats have tried to portray Giuliani’s activities as an effort to dig up dirt on Trump’s 2020 rival, and to get Ukrainian officials to launch a probe of Biden.

    But Cummins’ emails make clear Ukrainian authorities weren’t interested in investigating the Bidens on Ukrainian law violations. Rather, they wanted to confidentially provide evidence of possible violations of U.S. law so American authorities could investigate. And they had no interest initially in involving the Trump White House. Rather, they simply wanted to share evidence with U.S. authorities at the prosecutor-to-prosecutor level.

    Cummins’ emails to Berman make clear that Lutsenko did not trust the U.S. embassy in Kiev or the FBI to review the materials, fearing they were too political.

    “Lutsenko faces political hurdles in getting a visa to come here. It is believed that the embassy in Kiev has blocked his obtaining a visa in the past. He believes it is because the US ambassador knows the nature of his investigation and wants to obstruct him from coming and sharing it,” Cummins wrote Berman on Oct. 4, 2018.

    Five days later, Cummins wrote that Lutsenko was prepared to deliver serious evidence, including copies of two ledgers in the Manafort case that Ukrainian prosecutors believed were faked

    “Presumably he will be prepared to discuss eyewitness testimony he believes will corroborate both this story and also the separate bribery allegations,” Cummins wrote.

    When Berman stopped responding, Cummins offered to have Lutsenko meet with a lower-ranking federal prosecutor simply to transfer the evidence. “Perhaps you can provide at least one trusted prosecutor and trusted agent to meet with a couple of the actual investigators and just let them take down the information like they would if any citizen walked in the door with some information to share,” Cummins wrote on Oct. 18, 2018.

    There was never any further response, Cummins said.

    Ukrainian officials have said they did not believe the Bidens broke Ukrainian law but may have engaged in conflicts of interest prohibited by U.S. law. The concerns about the Bidens engaging in conflicts of interest were confirmed by U.S. officials as well.


    During impeachment testimony last fall, both Yovanovitch and her top deputy in the Kiev embassy, George Kent, testified that Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma while his father oversaw U.S.-Ukraine policy created the “appearance of a conflict of interest.” Kent said he even tried to raise his concerns with Biden’s VP office but was rebuffed.

    All federal officials are required by federal ethics laws to avoid taking actions that create the appearance of a conflict of interest.

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  2. 8 hours ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

    It's over 800,000 now

     

    And since you cried about the crusades @Shabibilicious just thought you might want to watch this video. Or do you HATE YouTube also? Pay attention when he says you don't want what comes after him. 

    Watch "Senate Candidate Puts Everything On The Line To Divulge Inner Workings Of a Political Secret!" on YouTube

     

    It's OVER 1 000 000 now!!!!!!!

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  3. I am a time traveler back from 2127.

     

    • Constitution was changed a lot.
    • Trump served for 20 years.
    • Melania Trump was next president.
    • Globalists were executed worldwide.
    • Executives, managers and many workers of the global corporate state (Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter, NY Times, CNN, FOX, et al) were tossed into a large wood chipper and the remains were converted into environmentally friendly products.
    • The EU disintegrated.
    • Europe had a civil war and reverted back into separate distinct nations.
    • Radical Islamist and all progressives were sent to Antarctica to live peacefully side by side but failed when the Islamists tried to convert the non believers while the progressive tried to indoctrinate them via political correctness. Both side killed each other and they were permanently removed from the gene pool.
    • J.P. Morgan Chase and all board members were would found guilty of treason and executed.
    • After 2032, no one in America illegally.
    • Hollywood sued out of existence by 2028.
    • The Border Wall is an American shrine now and people go there to celebrate the Republic.
    • Trump is on Mount Rushmore next to Chuck Norris.
    • Iran is now used as a nuclear waste disposal area.
    • Autopsy showed that Michille Obama was a well hung man and a "Wookie".
    • Elon Musk almost committed suicide when Trump took away his free government loans and his mission to Mars program had to find new income. As a result Mars became a prison planet

     

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  4. There is no creature on Earth more loathsome than American Democrat politician.They are by definition created from maelstrom of

    infected moral filth. No virtue or honor in any element of their life. It is nihilism on full display. They seek one thing only, to bring as much

     

    destruction, dishonor and misery to another human being. Together with the China Communists and the World Globalists, Socialists -

    Communists Pedophiles they carried out of many before, now the treasonous "Corona Virus" Coup against world population, against

     

    America, against Our Great President, his Family, the Constitution and us 100 mil. Supporters & real Americans. Damn this vile people.

    Wipe out the Democraps on November 3. God Bless and Be With Our Great President Donald J. Trump!!

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  5. 1 hour ago, Pitcher said:

    I perfectly understand a handful of people made dumb tweets, much like the Dems do daily.  People tend to lose their minds and make dumb tweets when it comes to politics.  Orange Peel, really, I thought we were past the name calling!!!  

     

    I’m just trying to have a conversation with you.  I know you hate the President.  You tell us your opinion EVERYDAY.  MY question to you was, will you vote for Sanders if he wins the Dem nomination.  Imo, if you do that is a vote for Socialism.  Is that what you want, is that what you support system">support?  I think the Dems have a very very difficult situation brewing.   It’s the same as the last election.  Again, just my opinion, but if Americans HAVE to choose between Trump and Sanders I believe Trump wins.  Trump, hate him or Love him, is a non candidate.  Sanders is a wild card and no one knows what he will do.   

     

    Someone to explain what is the difference between Sanders DemSocialist Party and Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei  National Socialist German Workers' Party" (Nazi Party of Hitler) or the Communist Party of USSR

    (Soviet Union) ???

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  6. How to catch wild pigs!

     

    Distributed by email - Author unknown

     

    There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

    The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist government.

    In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'
    The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

    The young man said this was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

    They get used to that and start to eat, again you continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

    Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

    The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms just a little at a time.

    One should always remember 'There is no such thing as a free lunch!!' also 'You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper then you can do it yourself.'

    If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is the problem confronting the future of our Constitutional Republic in America, you might want to send this on to your friends. If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life you will probably delete this email, but God help you when the gate slams shut.

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  7. Pelosi's Greatest Mental Breakdown

     

    There really ought to be punishment for tearing the Official Signed State Document. The pieces immediately to be displayed in the Smithsonian Museum for the next generations with the story about: "Psychopaths should not be elected Speaker of the House"....

     

    There is no creature on Earth more loathsome than American Democrat politician.They are by definition created from maelstrom of infected moral filth. No virtue or honor in any element of their life. It is nihilism on full display. They seek one thing only, to bring as much destruction, dishonor and misery to another human being. The display of disrespect shown to Our Great President, his Family, the Constitution and other Honored people presented shows that the Democrats are without honor and self - respect. Damn this vile people. God Bless and Be With Our Great President Donald J. Trump.

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  8. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is refusing to transmit the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump that the House of Representatives passed on Wednesday evening to the Senate for a trial.
    She is, in the words of the articles, guilty of “obstruction of Congress.” And unlike President Trump, Speaker Pelosi has no constitutional basis whatsoever for refusing the request of one of the two houses that make up the legislative branch.

     

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  9. 6 hours ago, SgtFuryUSCZ said:

     

    You mean just another leftist tool...? :blink:

     

    But having meticulously crafted and set up the b.s. The House just passed

    along partisan lines gives that traitorous sniveling little rat unlimited power to

    continue to completely 'invent' and control the narrative -- much to the detriment of

    The American People & the President we elected.

     

    They'll never throw his azz under the bus... he's too useful an idiot... like Comey, Brennan, et al.

     

    Lamentably, these soul-less rats get away with bloody murder until the devil himself comes to claim them.

    Gorged Soros is still walking around loose... so is KILLary Klinton and they're solid examples of scofflaw

    filthy traitorous weasels.  

    The turd has been dislodged. The flood is coming... a little bit each day ...

    https://is.gd/KSimps

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  10. I hate America. I thought I loved America, but then Democrats explained it to me. Its a racist white privileged patriarchy that has oppressed nations all over the world. It was founded by slave owners who divided their time between raping slaves and exploiting the proletariat.

    Now that I understand how wonderful Mooslimeism is versus Christianity, communism versus capitalism and unwhitey versus whitey, I'll work 2 jobs if invaders aren't given them first and pay 300% in taxes to support students, sick invaders, gender studies departments, public ector unions and the destruction of old, evil America!

    Why, I'll bust up Robert E. Lee states and put up Lenin statues instead! I'll volunteer to make all Boy Scouts sign pledges to be ***! Down with Colombus! Up with raking, murder7ng, torturing Canches!

    I'll put up a North Voetnamese flag on the wall of my garage, and tear Yrump stickers off of cars!

    Oh, hallelujah! Librhoidism has opened my eyes to how evil America is! Praise Darein, Moohamhead and Castro! I have seen the light...!!

    CWP

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  11. On 3/14/2019 at 2:21 AM, Pitcher said:

    BA, terrible post from such an intelligent person.

     

    If AOC doesn’t represent a major part of the Dem Party then why is she given Rock Star Treatment.  Why is her every word plastered all over TV; the Internet, and the newspapers.  I’m amused that no one on the left has attempted  to shut her up.  I mean whenever President Trump makes bombastic, confrontational, and racial comments the Left is always ready condemn and label him every ism word in the dictionary.  So the Dems are just a bunch of hypocrites as well as a bunch of unlawful lying unhinged and pathetic group of Socialists who could care less about America or its people.  

     

    BTW, I’m not afraid of anything.  

     

     

     

    Why? because of her AGENDA! Watch:

     

     

  12. On 3/13/2019 at 2:54 PM, Shabibilicious said:

     

    Perhaps, CL....The public Cohen hearing did jump start the investigation into Trump's finances though.....and put Trump's family and business squarely in the spotlight, as well as Mr Weiselberg (sp)....I suppose that could be considered collateral damage.....I imagine as long as it doesn't touch Donald directly he doesn't much care.....he's happiest when he's promoting himself as an unfairly treated champion of the masses anyway.  It's worked for him his whole life, now is no time for him to change, even if he had a clue how.

     

    GO RV, then BV

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  13. On 2/27/2019 at 4:24 PM, Shabibilicious said:
    Politics

    Michael Cohen: Trump sent letters to his schools threatening them not to release his test scores

    The Independent Tom Embury-Dennis,The Independent 4 hours ago 
     

    Mr Cohen, the US president’s former lawyer and personal fixer, will tell the House oversight and reform committee on Wednesday how his then client directed him to send letters warning Mr Trump’s schools against releasing his grades.

    The revelation is part of a larger picture Mr Cohen plans to sketch of Mr Trump as “a racist, a conman, and a cheat” who, he will claim, knew his campaign was communicating with WikiLeaks in order to damage his 2016 presidential rival Hillarious Clinton.

    “When I say conman, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores,” Mr Cohen will say, according to a transcript first obtained by the New York Times.

    “As I mentioned, I’m giving the committee today copies of a letter I sent at Mr Trump’s direction threatening these schools with civil and criminal actions if Mr Trump’s grades or SAT scores were ever disclosed without his permission.”

    He will continue: “The irony wasn’t lost on me at the time that Mr Trump in 2011 had strongly criticized President Obama for not releasing his grades.”

    Mr Trump branded Barack Obama a “terrible student” in an interview nine years ago with the Associated Press, in which he pressured the former president to release his academic records.

    Mr Cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for Mr Trump, will tell lawmakers how he is “ashamed” over his efforts to “protect and promote” his former boss.

    “I am ashamed because I know what Mr Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat,” he will say.

    “He was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails.”

    Last summer, Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, bank fraud, and campaign finance violations in relation to hush money payments made to two women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, on the eve of the 2016 election.

    He also pleaded guilty to a separate charge by brought by Robert Mueller’s office that he lied to Congress about discussions over the construction of a proposed Trump Organisation skyscraper in Moscow – referred to in court documents as the “Moscow Project”.

    He was sentenced to three years in jail and is due to start his sentence shortly.

     

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-cohen-trump-sent-letters-092112093.html

     

    GO RV, then BV

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