With the current push to impeach President based on anonymous whistleblowers with CIA backing, it would do well to take a step back and follow the money trail that flows from one of the most corrupt governments on the planet – Ukraine.
With a corruption ranking of 120 out of 180 countries, it shouldn’t be surprising that it is Ukraine that donated the most money of any country to the Clinton Foundation. It seems corruption rewards corruption.
In 2012, Ernst & Young ranked Ukraine among the three most corrupt nations in the industrial words, joining Columbia and Brazil for that honor. Amid that war-ravaged land, Ukraine became a cesspool of U.S. taxpayer-funded ‘aid’ with millions of those dollars finding their way back into the hands of Hillary Clinton.
Dean Garrison of DC Clothesline reports that while Clinton was Secretary of State (2009 to 2013) the Clinton foundation was given at least $8.6 million from the Victor Pinchuk Foundation based in Kiev, Ukraine.
Though Ukraine has long been known as a most corrupt place, the current narrative in the U.S. is that it is President Trump who fostered corruption on Ukraine’s president.
Garrison counters that false narrative by reminding us to “connect the dots that bind Mr. Pinchuk and the Obama White House” and to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.”
Andrew McCarthy writing an opinion piece for Fox News explains the origin of the money trail was unabashed Clinton backer Serhiy Leshchenko. He writes, “Besides serving the government in Kiev and providing scintillating geopolitical analysis, Leshchenko had a side job: He was a source for … wait for it … Fusion GPS — the Clinton campaign-opposition arm, led by Glenn Simpson, which later dreamed up the Steele dossier.”
President Trump merely set fire to the governmental trash pile left behind by Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton. Now the left is hoping to hoodwink the American people into believing the Ukraine matter is Trump’s fault.
Ironically the Obama administration prodded Ukraine to establish a National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) which in turn developed a close working relationship with the FBI. Those dots led to the arrest of Paul Manafort.
Manafort had been closely connected to the director of NABU, Artem Sytnyk. Sytnyk was the official who shut down the investigation of Bursima (the natural gas company Hunter Biden sat on the board of and was paid $3 million by) after Vice President Biden orchestrated the firing of Ukraine’s prosecutor.
During early 2016, Democrats were given a heads-up about a potential Manafort-Trump alliance. NABU investigators and Ukrainian prosecutors later traveled to Washington where the Obama administration arranged meetings for them with the FBI, the Justice Department, the State Department, and the White House’s National Security Council.
The trail leads back to Serhiy Leshchenko who not only served the Kiev government but had a side-gig with Fusion GPS. It was Fusion GPS that was paid by the Clinton campaign for opposition research. That research turned out to be the infamous Steel dossier.
McCarthy asks, “can anyone say, ‘Clinton campaign collusion with Ukraine.’?” A Ukrainian court ruled that Leshchenko and Sytnyk broke the law when they leaked information to foreign (American) interests. That infraction said the court, “led to interference in the electoral processes of the United States in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state.”
It’s no coincidence that Ukraine gave more than England, Saudi Arabia, or Germany to the Clinton Foundation. Nor why Democrats want to shift the blame to President Trump.
