by Charlee | October 3
A lot has been reported about the ongoing mudslinging between the Democrats and Republicans over the impeachment inquiry that was announced last week mainly surrounding an alleged “corruption” that took place during a phone conversation between Pres. Donald Trump and Ukraine Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky.
In that phone conversation, House Democrats claim that Trump pressured the Ukrainian leader to investigate presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden, in hopes to “get help” for the 2020 election.
It was manna from heaven for the Democrats, when a “whistleblower” came forward with such allegation, prompting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to call for a formal launch of an impeachment inquiry against the President even without proof that such an attempt happened, or that any of the accusations were true. The inquiry was called for before anyone had seen the Whisleblower report of the seen the transcript of the call.
No “direct knowledge”
It was later found that the whistleblower didn’t have “direct knowledge” about what he put in his report. He “heard” people talk about it, and decided to blow it up. The Democrats believed him of course, and the media took the bait too — and now, here we are.
The transcript of the phone call was released by the White House last week, hoping to clear the claims of Trump pressuring Zelensky — and withholding a grant to Ukraine in exchange.
It would have rocked our world,if it had been true. Except that there were many inconsistencies to it that were far too similar to earlier attempts of Democrats to remove Trump from office, or at least delegitimize him as president.
Remember how it was when Trump was being investigated for the alleged “Russian collusion” that ended up being nothing but a waste of time and taxpayers $$$?
Btw, Zelensky already made it clear “he wasn’t pressured” by Trump to investigate on the Bidens.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be involved [in] democratic, open elections of [the] US. We had, I think, good phone call. It was normal. I think you read [in the transcript] that nobody pushed me,” Zelensky said.
Clear evidence of corruption
Read that again: “I think you read [in the transcript] that nobody pushed me.”
Zelensky already said Trump didn’t pressure him on anything. But of course the Democrats won’t believe that — neither will their friends in the mainstream media.
It’s like telling everybody you’re fine and they don’t believe you and keep insisting that you’re not.
Again, you can read the transcript of the conversation here.
Anyway, here we are. Impeachment inquiry has started and the political bickering continues.
Former New York City Mayor, and Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani also continues to call out Democratic hypocrisy for investigating Donald Trump based on a “hearsay” and giving Joe Biden a pass despite clear evidence of corruption.
Giuliani, in a television interview, produced a copy of the sworn statement of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin saying, under oath, that he was “forced out of office” as Ukraine’s top prosecutor because he was leading a “wide-ranging corruption probe” into an energy company were Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, sits as a part of the board.
The younger Biden receives a $50,000 monthly salary salary there.
Watch this:
Free pass for Uncle Joe
“Why is this less credible than the whistleblower when this is direct knowledge and the whistleblower is hearsay?” Giuliani said in an ABC interview, apparently taking a swipe at Democrats not even mentioning investigating Biden.
In Shokin’s affidavit, produced by Giuliani, the fired Ukrainian prosecutor — who claims to be “staunchly politically unaffiliated” said that former Ukraine Pres. Petro Poroshenko ordered him to resign due to pressure from Joe Biden who was threatening to withhold $1 billion in subsidies to Ukraine “until I was removed from office.”
“The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings…a natural gas firm active in Ukraine. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Board of Directors. I presume Burisma, which was connected with gas extraction, had the support of the US Vice President Joe Biden because his son was on the Board of Directors,”Guiliani read on-air from the signed affidavit of Shokin.
And Biden’s response? His campaign demanded to TV networks that Rudy Giuliani no longer be allowed on the air.
I’ll have to agree for now with Sen. Lindsey Graham when he said the whistleblower’s complaint against Pres. Trump is “all hearsay.”
Politics over facts
“This seems to me like a political setup. It’s all hearsay. You can’t get a parking ticket conviction based on hearsay. The whistleblower didn’t hear the phone call,” the South Carolina lawmaker said, insisting — just what the Ukrainian president already said, the phone call have “zero problems” and is just a “normal phone call.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier said “as soon as we have the facts, we’re ready [to start impeachment.”
The whistleblower complaint was not a first-hand account but rather a hearsay from something that was allegedly heard from other people – these are not facts.
Giuliani, on the other hand, has the signed document, under oath by Shokin himself, the prosecutor were it all began.
So why are Democrats so keen on investigating a smoking gun when the actual fire is right on their faces?
I guess they’ll go for anything against Trump, but not their own.
If Peter Schweizer says so................