On Thursday, a so-called whistleblower complaint that serves as the basis for the Dems’ impeachment of President Trump was released to the press and the spin cycle quickly kicked in.
According to the document which detailed claims that admittedly were not even witnessed by the person who submitted it – reported by the NYT to be a CIA agent – it is documented that President Trump pressured Ukraine’s new president to investigate Joe Biden and his son for corruption.
The charges have a strange resemblance to the long-running and thoroughly debunked Russian collusion hoax and the frenzied nature of this iteration of the coup against Trump is fraught with hazard for Democrats including Hillary Clinton.
If one Dem stands to benefit the most from this scam it is Mrs. Clinton who would not only get revenge against Trump but would also remove the former vice president from the equation as questions mount over his own role in Ukraine.
“Democrats wrote to the Ukrainian government in May 2018 urging it to continue investigations into President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign — collusion later found NOT TO EXIST.” https://t.co/wYdRmpfddk
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2019
While it is sheer hypocrisy to accuse Trump of threatening the Ukranian president after a group of Dem Senators did exactly that in a letter that has been revealed, the opening of the Ukraine can of worms also makes the DNC’s collusion with a foreign entity fair game.
The spotlight on the former Soviet state and its notoriously corrupt political system has brought new attention to a letter written by former Senate Judicairy Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley to de facto Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in 2017 detailing the collusion between the DNC and Ukraine.
.@ChuckGrassley demanding answers by DOJ on collusion between the DNC, Clinton campaign, and Ukrainian government. https://t.co/mAhCuMmYuN pic.twitter.com/Zpuyo66R3l
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) July 25, 2017
On Thursday, Senator Grassley put out a press release which should send a message to hateful Hillary as she prepares to launch her imminent bid for the White House in the aftermath of the impeachment.
WASHINGTON – To little media fanfare, Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a July, 2017, letter to the Justice Department about reports that a DNC consultant coordinated with the Ukrainian government to acquire opposition research on Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign.
The letter references a Politico report citing former Ukrainian officials, including former parliamentarian Serhiy Leshchenko’s assertion that a majority of Ukraine’s politicians are “on Hillary Clinton’s side.”
According to Grassley:
Dear Mr. Rosenstein,
According to news reports, during the 2016 presidential election, “Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump” and did so by “disseminat[ing] documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter…”[1] Ukrainian officials also reportedly “helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.”[2] At the center of this plan was Alexandra Chalupa, described by reports as a Ukrainian-American operative “who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee” and reportedly met with Ukrainian officials during the presidential election for the express purpose of exposing alleged ties between then-candidate Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and Russia.[3] Politico also reported on a Financial Times story that quoted a Ukrainian legislator, Serhiy Leschenko, saying that Trump’s candidacy caused “Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election.”[4]
Reporting indicates that the Democratic National Committee encouraged Chalupa to interface with Ukrainian embassy staff to “arrange an interview in which Poroshenko [the president of Ukraine] might discuss Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych.”[5] Chalupa also met with Valeriy Chaly, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., and Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador in March 2016 and shared her alleged concerns about Manafort. Reports state that the purpose of their initial meeting was to “organize a June reception at the embassy to promote Ukraine.” However, another Ukrainian embassy official, Andrii Telizhenko, told Politico that Shulyar instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump, Manafort, and the Russians. He reportedly said, “[t]hey were coordinating an investigation with the Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa” and that “Oksana [Shulyar] was keeping it all quiet…the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa.[6]
Chalupa’s actions appear to show that she was simultaneously working on behalf of a foreign government, Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign, in an effort to influence not only the U.S voting population but U.S. government officials. Indeed, Telizhenko recalled that Chalupa told him and Shulyar, “[i]f we can get enough information on Paul [Manafort] or Trump’s involvement with Russia, she can get a hearing in Congress by September.”[7] Later, Chalupa did reportedly meet with staff in the office of Democratic representative Marcy Kaptur to discuss a congressional investigation. Such a public investigation would not only benefit the Hillary Clinton campaign, but it would benefit the Ukrainian government, which, at the time, was working against the Trump campaign. When Politico attempted to ask Rep. Kaptur’s office about the meeting, the office called it a “touchy subject.”
Aside from the apparent evidence of collusion between the DNC, Clinton campaign, and Ukrainian government, Chalupa’s actions implicate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). As you know, the Committee is planning a hearing on FARA enforcement. Given the public reporting of these activities in support of a foreign government, it is imperative that the Justice Department explain why she has not been required to register under FARA.
Although some of the references to Russia are outdated, this Politico article from 2017 explains some of what it called Ukraine's impact on 2016 election and relationship with DNC.
Good primer.https://t.co/TGFrVR1IqA— Sharyl Attkisson🕵️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) September 23, 2019
Grassley’s 2017 letter to the DOJ uses a report by Politico to pose the very serious questions as to whether Ms. Chalupa was acting on behalf of the DNC with her activities in the summer of 2016 to create the conditions for the Russian collusion narrative.
What should really concern Hillary are reports that Chalupa is a target of prosecutor John Durham in his investigation into the origins of the Russia hoax.
BREAKING: In prosecutor Durham's crosshairs is Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American and DNC operative who worked w Biden's hand-picked Ukrainian prosecutor Sytnyk to leak the fake "black ledger" on Manafort to help Hillary. Soon after, the FBI subjected Manafort to FISA spying pic.twitter.com/VYBayVZ1Hj
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) September 25, 2019
With the renewed attention on Ukraine and the DNC thanks to the “whistleblower” it may be wise for Chalupa to cut a deal to spill her guts to the feds before she ends up on that long list of names who have posed a threat to the Clintons – like Jeffrey Epstein.