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'That's crazy': Joe Manchin slams Jerry Nadler for suggesting more investigations into Trump

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Posted by Fred 2020-02-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 "Yer killin' me, Nads!"

Posted by charger 2020-02-08 01:17|| 2020-02-08 01:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Shitshow, Part Infinity

Posted by Lex 2020-02-08 01:41|| 2020-02-08 01:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Just listened to/watched Glenn Beck's podcast from last night on the Ukraine, corruption, money laundering and Trump. Lots of fluff and Beck-ian babble but if one can sit through it there is actually a pretty compelling alternative narrative to what we have been being fed. I don't think he quite takes it far enough though - I think Congress was complicit (in funding Ukraine military action) but did not want to actually take responsibility for that action, so has to misdirect investigation onto Trump (whom they all hate anyway) politics. The infamous Trump abuse phone call is placed in an entirely different - and much more logical - context. Worth watching but would be even better if he would condense it into a two page written article.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-02-08 02:21|| 2020-02-08 02:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Glenn Beck unveils money laundering scheme linked to Hunter Biden and Burisma

This provides context to President Trump's discussions last year with the president of Ukraine

In a Thursday night special, BlazeTV host Glenn Beck laid out the evidence implicating a possible international money laundering scheme linked to Ukrainian gas firm Burisma and former Burisma board member Hunter Biden.

The links provided by Beck show that $1.8 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to Ukraine during the Obama administration is unaccounted for — and raises the question: Why hasn't Congress launched an investigation into how those funds were spent?

What are the details?

During the special, Beck explained that in 2014, $23 million was sent to a bank in London via wire transfer by Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma. British authorities immediately froze the accounts and began tracing the funds back to their origins.

According to Beck, the evidence suggests that the money had been laundered through the minimally regulated Latvian banking system and transferred into an array of shell companies.

"Not only did Biden not seem to care about his new company being investigated for stealing and laundering money," Beck said, "he also apparently didn't mind that the primary owner of Burisma [Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi] was on a U.S. visa ban list for — get this — murders and beheadings."

A few weeks after Burisma was implicated in a money laundering ring, Hunter Biden became a board member, and within a few months, then-Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry lobbied for $1.8 billion to be delivered into PrivatBank — which was owned by Kolomoyskyi and became Ukraine's state bank.

That $1.8 billion is still missing and could have gone anywhere — possibly into Kolomoyskyi's own pocket, or possibly spent in whole or in part to bankroll Ukraine's war with Russia, given that the oligarch was known for "bankrolling" the conflict. But if the funds were used to fund a war with Russia, those taxpayer dollars were not authorized by Congress.

The International Monetary Fund has also been investigating corruption and money laundering in Ukraine, and in 2016, the Ukrainian government finally seized PrivatBank from Kolomoyskyi for enriching himself off of IMF loans.

On September 10, 2019, the IMF informed the White House Budget Office that there was an "obligating event" that needed to occur in order for Ukraine to receive further IMF funds.

On Sept. 11, police special forces raided PrivatBank, seizing documents and evidence needed to investigate the scheme. The same day, President Donald Trump released military aid to Ukraine.

"Trump wanted a public announcement of 'investigations,' and everyone assumed that he meant an interview on CNN," Beck said. "I'd say a special forces daylight raid on Ukraine's biggest and most corrupt bank is one hell of a public announcement."

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-08 04:48|| 2020-02-08 04:48|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ This could be something to watch in the coming days.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-08 04:50|| 2020-02-08 04:50|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 And rage at the cover-up?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-08 05:37|| 2020-02-08 05:37|| Front Page Top

#7 A moronic leap from the GIT-GO! IMO

Posted by ranture 2020-02-08 08:44|| 2020-02-08 08:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Well Joe, are you just noticing this about the Dem Party? Time to wake up and smell the coffee and distance yourself from this criminal enterprise.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-08 09:45|| 2020-02-08 09:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Manchin, the chief hypocrite in the House. Votes for a guilty verdict and then pretends to be against any further follow up with a blind"we are equal powers, Mr. President", as a loyalty test or sumting. And Romney made the vote more partisan not bi-partisan as suggested. Do they really thing a GOPe Senator who votes yes, and tells the world he won't vote for Trump in 2020 is bi-partisan and not just Dem in disguise?

Posted by Victor Emmanuel Unusosh3143 2020-02-08 10:49|| 2020-02-08 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Why hasn't Congress launched an investigation into how those funds were spent?

Because they all got a cut.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-02-08 11:25|| 2020-02-08 11:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Joe Manchin's family,members in good standing of Global Grifter Uniparty (EpiPen branch)

Posted by Lex 2020-02-08 12:49|| 2020-02-08 12:49|| Front Page Top

#12 imo, the house the lowest on the totem pole

Posted by Chris 2020-02-08 14:17|| 2020-02-08 14:17|| Front Page Top

#13 Do they really thing a GOPe Senator who votes yes, and tells the world he won't vote for Trump in 2020 is bi-partisan and not just Dem in disguise?

No, but they hope the rubes and normies do.

Posted by charger 2020-02-08 14:51|| 2020-02-08 14:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Why hasn't Congress launched an investigation into how those funds were spent?

Probably not 'because they got a cut' (though certainly some did), but because it would show they were involved in an unacknowledged military action (sort of like Iran-Contra, perhaps) and don't want to face the political consequences of it coming out.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-02-08 14:54|| 2020-02-08 14:54|| Front Page Top

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