Reply With Quotewhy wasn't Trump informed if the US government knew?
It looks like the IC STILL hasn't told Trump,and surely they knew.
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Ukraine had already reopened probe of H. Biden-linked firm months before Trump call
A newly unearthed document shows that Ukrainian officials had opened a new probe into the firm linked to Hunter Biden months before President Trump's phone call with that country's leader, Fox News contributor John Solomon reported late Tuesday.
Solomon said Tuesday on "Hannity" that the U.S. government knew Ukraine was planning to look again into activities at Burisma Holdings, an energy company that employed then-Vice President Joe Biden's son as a member of its board of directors, early this year. The report is noteworthy because President Trump has been accused by Democrats of threatening in July to withhold foreign aid to Ukraine unless its new president pursued an investigation into the company and the younger Biden's role there.
"The U.S. government had open-source intelligence and was aware as early as February of 2019 that the Ukrainian government was planning to reopen the Burisma investigation," he claimed. "This is long before the president ever imagined having a call with President Zelensky," he added, noting Petro Poroshenko was still Ukraine's president at that time.
Solomon claimed the information he obtained was omitted from a U.S. intelligence community whistleblower's complaint lodged against Trump last month.
He also claimed that NABU -- an FBI-like anti-corruption agency in Ukraine -- requested the probe into Burisma and owner Mykola Zlochevsky be reopened earlier this year. The investigation then went forward, Solomon said. The new probe later resulted in a "Notice of Suspicion" being filed, alleging the existence of "illicit funds" running through the firm, Solomon also claimed.
Solomon said his reporting revealed the requested reopening of the probe into Burisma involved, in part, "unusual transactions" in the natural gas giant's accounts.
Solomon said the timeline of the alleged "illicit funds" coincided in part with the time Hunter Biden held a place on the firm's board. The younger Biden was reportedly paid as much as $1 million per year for his time on the board, but Solomon said investigators in Ukraine were "looking at the possibility that the $3.4 million paid to Hunter Biden's firm may have been part of the illicit funds that were moving through the company."
"A month later, in April, the prosecutor's office -- open-source intelligence, again -- the U.S. government officials confirming they were aware of this -- made a request of another investigative agency in Ukraine for assistance in going through these bank records," Solomon claimed.
"That is a significant change in the timeline -- it was omitted from the whistleblower's complaint, and the question is did he not know it or did he exclude it because it didn't fit the narrative he was trying to write," he continued.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-s...ctual-timeline
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why wasn't Trump informed if the US government knew?
It looks like the IC STILL hasn't told Trump,and surely they knew.
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They are saying Ukraine reopened the Burisma investigation back in feb. or Mar.?Originally Posted by dukkha
That might explain why Trump asked for an announcement if possible.
Last edited by Bigdog; 11-29-2019 at 02:43 PM.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
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anatta (12-02-2019), Cancel 2020.2 (11-29-2019)
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Guess Fox forgot that Guiliani, Barr, Nunes, and other Deep State Dept. unofficials were urging the Ukrainians to do that months before the fateful call.
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Gestapo Joe is a China Ho
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
Gestapo Joe is a China Ho
This totally destroys Schiff's bribery narrative.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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There is no way Ukraine had an investigation of Hunter Biden. You need better sources. It is not against the law to be a lobbyist and work for an oil company. The crime of being paid partially for his name and connections was manufactured by Trumpies.
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Fake News source.
Gestapo Joe is a China Ho
John Solomon hasn't been proven wrong yet.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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If we were worried about corruption in the Ukraine, why didn't we ask for an investigation into Manafort and Gates? They were laundering millions in lobbying money to offshore accounts.
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The USA is supposed to investigate their citizens, they don't ask another country to do it AND the criminal traitor Trump and his crime family want a country they accuse of corruption to handle the investigation for them? Really? What lying freaks.
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This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
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not correct. The US has an anti-corruption treaty with Ukraine- United States' Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT)
Bigdog (12-10-2019)
Gestapo Joe is a China Ho
According to the Left, ... Obobo was totally incompetent in his utter failure to protect the 2016 election against foreign interference.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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We don't always have jurisdiction for actions committed in another country.
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The time frame indicates that if Biden had done anything illegal or corrupt as Trump is falsely alleging, he was doing so while representing then USA so it would have most definitely been within the USA's jurisdiction.
BLUEXITA Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red
Dear Red-State Trump Voter,
Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.
It is a tragedy that so much of the work that so many men and women toiled at for so long to make this a better country, and a better world, has been thrown away, leaving us all in such needless peril.
This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america
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