House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said shortly after the release of the report into President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign that his committee is still investigating whether the situation predated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Did this scheme begin far earlier than we first understood?” Schiff asked. “Was the scheme, in fact, put in place to try to pressure the last President of the Ukraine Poroshenko and his corrupt Prosecutor General Lutsenko into conducting these same investigations, and was that plan put into turmoil and chaos when this new reformer Zelensky surged in the polling and ultimately won that presidency? That is something we continue to investigate and something these phone records also shed light on.”
Schiff says committees are still investigating whether pressure campaign extended back to involve former Ukraine President Poroshenko pic.twitter.com/D2OM7uYF8o
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) December 3, 2019
Two months before Zelensky won his office, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had already communicated with Yuriy Lutsenko and reportedly planted the idea of “investigations” in Trump’s head, regurgitating fabrications about the Bidens’ corruption he got from Lutsenko.
By late February, Poroshenko, who was facing a tough reelection battle, had expressed openness to trading the bogus investigations for a U.S. state visit, according to the Wall Street Journal.
But Poroshenko lost. When Zelensky, a comedian who ran on a platform of reform, won in a landslide, Giuliani and his cronies scrambled to rebuild the deal with the President-elect and to make inroads with the new government officials.
That was the start of the Zelensky chapter of the pressure campaign, which includes the infamous July 25 call and leadership of the “three amigos”: Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and former Special Envoy for the Ukraine crisis Kurt Volker.
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Worth a read. They just had to shift gears with Zelensky.
It has seemed to me that, from the moment Mueller’s report printed and was simultaneously touted by Barr falsely as an exoneration of the Dipshit in Chief, said Dipshit said “let’s lean on Ukraine cuz I can do whatever I want”. That would have been March. Since he is both stupid and illiterate Dipshit believed the Barr spin permitted him to do precisely what he then believed Mueller exonerated him of having done vis a vis Russia. Of course Mueller only came up short on conspiracy, so Dipshit and his crack team of wise guys decided they could now actively conspire. Hilarious.
This has become obvious…after Poroshenko lost there was a definite shift, where it looked like the efforts of Giuliani and Solomon were stopped until they could clear out Yovanovitch and start a new chapter of pressure on Zelensky. They really did seem to have all the ducks in a row, and the election tossed out their ability to generate the fake investigation. There’s a scramble that then happens, including Giuliani’s attempted travel in May, to try to get in with the new administration.
I think this preliminary effort to get an announcement is evidence of a far bigger plot that was going on, one that had to adapt quickly so that the “investigation” of Biden could be announced soon enough to torpedo his campaign. They had plenty of time to arrange it with the Poroshenko people, then had to rush (and use pressure) to get it with the new president. Following this thread is going to bring out a new element, one that fits with what happened later…and, with the courts giving the House its subpoena power we’ll see a deeper investigation, one that also fills out the impeachment information (likely during the trial). Press reports of the House’s investigation will affect the Senate trial, especially if something really bad comes out.
I think all these fake witch hunt hoax investigations are going to grow geometrically, as more and more Trump Crime Family hijinks are revealed.
More please…