America's Newest Crime Cabal or So It Seems
Just Added to the Cabal List
(Robert Hyde, CT GOP Candidate)
An important
and timely post – there is a lot to unpack below now as we near the trial date of
Trump.
FYI: My
other blog related post is here re: the recently released and now public documents from Lev Parnas (below is designed and highlighted to fit the
blog – enjoy).
Background that got us to this point:
What landed
Trump in so much hot water is his phone call on July 25 with Ukrainian
President Zelensky, as he then steered the conversation toward what Trump
depicts as a scandal that could bring down Biden (a 2020 rival) by saying: “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son.”
However,
there’s little to back up the suspicions.
Hunter Biden as a civilian worked
with Burisma, an energy company in Ukraine that had come under corruption
scrutiny – why?
Hunter Biden
served on Burisma’s board from 2014 to
2019. Biden reportedly made up to $50,000 per month for his
role — which therefore could have amounted to $3 million during his time on the
board from April 2014 to April 2019.
In October,
when Prosecutor General Ryaboshapka
announced this new review of previous investigations relating to Zlochevsky, he told Reuters that: “He was not aware of any evidence of wrongdoing
by Hunter Biden,” according to Reuters reporting.
Its founder,
Mykola Zlochevsky, served as Ukraine’s minister of ecology and natural
resources under former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was swept from office by mass protests in 2014. Following that uprising, Western
governments pressed Ukraine’s new leaders to investigate corruption.
One of the
initial subjects was Zlochevsky, who was accused of money laundering and abuse
of power. Zlochevsky has denied any wrongdoing.
So, what criminal charges came out of
all that? Short answer: None.
NOTE: To date, no known evidence that any
of the investigations ever involved Joe or Hunter Biden. And, Ukraine’s former
prosecutor general, Lutsenko, told Bloomberg News that there was
no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden.
Bloomberg reported that prosecutors in Ukraine had
shelved the investigation into Zlochevsky by 2015, meaning Hunter didn’t stand
to benefit from the prosecutor’s ouster.
So… What does Trump say? Typical Trump and without substantiation, he said and tweeted (as usual) that the Biden family: “Was paid off, pure and simple” and
accused “the family of corruption,
extortion and pillaging foreign countries.”
He’s called them “stone-cold
crooked” and publicly urged Ukraine and China to open
criminal investigations of them.
NOTE: Trump’s contention is that Hunter Biden flew to Beijing
aboard the vice president’s aircraft and left a billionaire – the episode he
wants China to investigate.
NOTE: That also isn’t supported by the available facts, and China
said no to any investigations that Trump wants.
Historical Fact: Joe Biden, as the Obama
administration’s point person and as Vice President, pressed Ukraine successfully
for the ouster of Viktor Shokin as Ukraine’s prosecutor general in 2016 for
massive corruption.
The problem
with Shokin, in the eyes of many U.S. political leaders, most of our Western
allies, the IMF, World Bank, and many Ukrainians themselves, wasn’t that Shokin
was being too aggressive about corruption (looking into Burisma for example),
but that he was being far too lax.
So, where did all these allegations
come from?
The notion that Hunter Biden and father Joe Biden
could be complicit in Ukrainian corruption was first aired in a 2018 book by conspiracy writer and editor at Breitbart
news, Peter Schweizer.
The book is called: “Secret
Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family
and Friends.”
NOTE: Trump even cited
Schweizer by name in
some of his Twitter attacks on the Bidens.
However, even in his book, Schweizer doesn’t allege
that any laws were broken by either of the Bidens.
Raging Trump:
Trump’s
attacks also come after a string of controversies involving members of Trump’s family and China, most of them unfolding after he was
elected that he never mentions.
EXAMPLES TRUMP AVOIDS:
1. Daughter Ivanka’s company was awarded several
potentially valuable trademarks by the Chinese government, including one for voting machines.
2. Jared Kushner’s real estate company tried to
sell its troubled investment in a Manhattan skyscraper to a prominent Chinese firm.
3. Nicole Meyer, Jared Kushner’s sister and family executive, used her connections to Trump when
she pitched Chinese investors in Beijing to buy into a development in New
Jersey with a promises of visas for $500,000 and path to a “Green Card.”
FYI from Hunter Biden’s lawyer: “Hunter
Biden has not been compensated for being on the board of directors, nor has he
received any return on his investment to date. And, although BHR has been involved
in a number of business deals, there have been no distributions to the
shareholders since Hunter has been an equity owner, now over two years.”
All this is
directly related to Trump’s pressure on Ukraine’s president to find dirt on Joe
Biden for the arms deal that Trump was holding up and Javelin anti-tank weapons
that Ukraine wanted to buy – here from the Washington Post (via MSN) and
especially from former Special Envoy, Kurt Volker: Volker then told House investigators
on that he had warned Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani that Giuliani
was receiving untrustworthy information about Joe and Hunter Biden.
A very logical question: Why and why now (also, just watch
Trump run with this story at his next rally – bet on it).
Also Lev
Parnas – Giuliani lackey and close associate – apparently was the one tracking
and watching Amb. Yovanovitch.
Also, recall
this from Trump who told Zelensky when they discussed Yovanovitch in their July
phone call that: “The former ambassador from the United States, the
woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad
news so I just wanted to let you know that.”
Trump added:
“Well, she’s going to go through some things. I will have Mr. Giuliani give you
a call and I am also going to have Attorney General [William] Barr call and we
will get to the bottom of it.”
I wonder: How did Trump know that or did he also speak
to Hyde and Rudy about “watching” her?
This video
is from MSNBC and sure the documents there in and posted above are surely going
to come up his Senate impeachment “trial” which assumes McConnell plays by the
fairness trial rules and not his/Trump rules?
Also here from CNN this absolutely shocking news from the recent Lev Parnas
document release … totally shocking and more details on who Robert Hyde is from
the Daily Beast here;
Parnas, a
close former associate of Rudy Giuliani, discussed with another man the
surveillance of Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch before she was ousted
from her post last year by Trump.
Documents introduce that colorful new
participant: Connecticut
congressional candidate Robert F. Hyde. Documents show the push by Giuliani and
his allies to remove Yovanovitch, an effort that is at the center of
impeachment proceedings.
In a series of text messages (three most-important are
seen below) Giuliani’s associate Parnas in March 201, made contact with Hyde, also
an ardent supporter of Trump, and who has donated thousands of dollars to
Republicans and the Trump campaign, as they discussed Yovanovitch's whereabouts
in Ukraine.
Hyde to Parnas (#1)
Hyde to Parnas (#2)
(Most damaging)
Hyde to Parnas (#3)
(Also damaging)
Using coarse
language at times, Hyde suggested to Parnas that Yovanovitch should be removed (taken
out) from her position.
He implied he or his allies were monitoring her and if
the price were right, she could be out – that to me sounds like mob talk:
Other examples from Hyde: “F**k
that bitch,” Hyde to Parnas on March 22, 2019. That was in response to a
series of articles and tweets Parnas sent him.
The following day, Hyde continued to
Parnas: “Wow. Can't believe Trump hasn't fired this
bitch. I'll get right in that.”
Later in a cryptic message, Hyde to
Parnas: “They are willing to help if we/you would
like a price. Guess you can do anything in the Ukraine with money ... what I
was told.”
Yovanovitch
was recalled from her post on April 24, 2019. Though Hyde
didn't mention Yovanovitch by name, his texts to Parnas referred to her,
according to House officials.
Yovanovitch's attorney, Lawrence S.
Robbins, said in a statement: “Needless to say, the
notion that American citizens and others were monitoring Ambassador
Yovanovitch's movements for unknown purposes is disturbing. We trust that the
appropriate authorities will conduct an investigation to determine what happened.”
Though Parnas
and another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman, have been in the public eye for
months, particularly since their indictment in October on campaign-finance
charges. Hyde hadn't been associated publicly with effort to remove Yovanovitch
until Tuesday's disclosure of his messages.
My 2 cents: I know this post is long, but I wanted to
get out at this historical time in our history – for the record as it were.
Hope you liked it.
Now get ready for the biggest event in DC – the trial
of Donald J. Trump.
Thanks for stopping by.
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