So CNN has an interesting article about one of Trump’s three stooges (Rudy, Igor, Lev) Lev Parnes. Apparently Lev is leaking in order to get a cooperation deal or maybe he’s not interested in seeing the underside of one of Trump’s buses.
The article says that the three stooges met with Trump during a party at the White House last December. The photo below was from that party.
In the picture, which Parnas posted on social media, he and Fruman are seen smiling alongside Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal lawyer.
At one point during the party that night, Parnas and Fruman slipped out of a large reception room packed with hundreds of Trump donors to have a private meeting with the President and Giuliani, according to two acquaintances in whom Parnas confided right after the meeting.
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According to those two confidants, Parnas said that "the big guy," as he sometimes referred to the President in conversation, talked about tasking him and Fruman with what Parnas described as "a secret mission" to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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And in February this year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Parnas and Fruman met with the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and then Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. During that meeting, they extended Poroshenko an invitation for a State dinner at the White House, if he would commit to publicly opening investigations in Ukraine.
Now the timeline here is somewhat important. In Dec. 2018 Parnas gets his secret orders to make his contacts, and by Feb 2019 he’s got a meeting with the Ukranian president and Prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko, both corrupt as hell.
This brings up a couple of questions. The first is, ole Lev may think he’s James Bond, but how does some unknown little pawn in this game get a meeting with Poroshenko? Someone in the White House had to get word to Poroshenko that he was their guy in this bribery plot. Giuliani.
The second question I would have is, what is the corrupt Prosecutor General Lutsenko doing in the meeting? Obviously, they know some things about what the bribe is going to be, but the meeting is to get the details.
So in the process of trying to find more about these curious events, I ran across this interesting article in the NYT from Oct 5 2019. This article is pretty much about the corrupt Lutsenko. Keep an eye on the dates in this article.
“I understood very well what would interest them,” Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s recently fired prosecutor general, said in an extensive interview in London. “I have 23 years in politics. I knew.”
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When Mr. Lutsenko sat down with Mr. Giuliani in New York in January, he recalled, his expectations were confirmed: The president’s lawyer wanted him to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter.
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According to notes of their January meetings given to members of Congress last week, Mr. Lutsenko told Mr. Giuliani about what he called payments to Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
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The two also discussed the theory that Paul Manafort — Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager, who had been convicted in the United States of fraud for his work as a consultant in Ukraine — had been set up by supporters of Hillary Clinton.
We’re back to the timeline. The 3 stooges are given orders from Trump in Dec., Giuliani meets with Prosecutor Lutsenko in Jan. and James Bond Panas and the other stooge meet with the Ukranian President and Lutsenko in Feb. So Giuliani made clear in Jan what they wanted from the Ukranians, so what was the Feb. meeting about? We’ve got the Quo, but what was the Quid?
After his meetings with Mr. Giuliani, Mr. Lutsenko provided grist for a series of articles in The Hill, a Washington news portal. His remarks were pitch-perfect in their appeal to Mr. Trump and his supporters.
Mr. Trump tweeted the headline of one of the articles: “As Russia Collusion Fades, Ukrainian Plot to Help Clinton Emerges.”
In another article, Mr. Lutsenko aired his feud with Ms. Yovanovitch, the American ambassador, asserting that she had given him a list of untouchables not to prosecute.
Mr. Trump praised him in a phone call with Ukraine’s president. Mr. Giuliani aggressively promoted the news that Mr. Lutsenko’s office had revived an investigation into the owner of a Ukrainian energy company that had hired Mr. Biden’s son. And in an interview with Fox News in April, Mr. Trump described Mr. Lutsenko’s claims as “big” and “incredible,” worthy of attention from the American attorney general.
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Later in 2018, an official in Mr. Lutsenko’s office, Kostiantyn Kulyk — one of the deputies Ms. Yovanovitch had asked Mr. Lutsenko to dismiss at their first meeting — came up with another idea, according to a senior Ukrainian law enforcement official.
Mr. Kulyk had compiled a seven-page dossier on Hunter Biden — a potential way of reaching officials in Washington who had been blocked by Mr. Lutsenko’s testy relations with the American Embassy in Kiev, the official said.
In March, Mr. Kulyk moved to restart the criminal case against the owner of the gas company that had recruited Hunter Biden to sit on its board. But Mr. Kulyk was under a cloud himself: The anti-corruption bureau had investigated him on suspicion of illicit enrichment.
So even before the 3 stooges were involved in Dec. Lutsenko had his cronies producing a “dossier on Hunter Biden”, and immediately after the Jan. meeting with Giuliani Lutsenko was planting propaganda in “the Hill”, and in March they reopened the criminal case against Burisma.
WHY?
The story is they did all of this for Javelin missiles to fight the Russians. These corrupt mobsters cared about as much about the security of Ukraine as Trump cares about the security of the U.S.! In fact they are exactly the people Putin would want in a puppet government, like the one he had a few years ago. Putin doesn’t need a military victory in Ukraine, he just needs to get the right corrupt puppets in the Government so he can control everything.
So why did Lutsenko and Kulyk and Poroshenko do almost everything Trump wanted, for months on end? What did they get in return?! What did Trump bribe them with that we don’t know about?
Keep in mind that Lutsenko had been complaining about Ambassador Yovanovitch for almost a year and yet Trump was getting everything he wanted, without firing the Ambassador. The Ambassador was fired on the inauguration day of president Zelensky. She didn’t become a real threat to Trump until Zelensky got elected.
Also keep in mind that Prosecutor Lutsenko (A major figure in the bribery shakedown) was fired in late Aug. by the parliament, BEFORE the military aid was released and before people knew anything about a whistleblower complaint. So president Zelensky knew how important Lutsenko was in this entire shakedown and how helpful he was to Trump, and yet he let parliament fire him anyway? How does that make any sense?
Sooooo many questions. What was the bribe the Trump crime syndicate was paying to Ukrainians before Zelensky got elected? Why did Ambassador Yovanovitch become a sudden threat that had to be removed after Zelensky got elected? Having the great connections she had in Ukraine, did she hear rumors about the Trump shakedown? Why was Lutsenko, one of Trump’s most corrupt puppets, suddenly fired when everyone knew how corrupt he was for years and at a time when Ukraine desperately needed the military aid that was being held as part of the shakedown? Why hasn’t the intelligence committee called on Parnas to testify about the Feb meeting with Lutsenko where he may have firsthand knowledge about Trump’s bribes?
This is a complex story with lots of loose ends. It may take months, years, or probably never, before we get the whole story, or even part of the story.
RESIST!
