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(Joe diGenova pictured)
Chris Wallace reported this morning on Fox News that two other names youll know have been working with Rudy Giuliani on his mission to strong-arm Ukraine into intervening in the 2020 election and help exonerate Paul Manafort: the husband and wife team of Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing. The two are frequent Hannity guests and at various points have been reported to be either joining or working with the Presidents legal team.
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As I noted yesterday, material that has been surfacing from The Hills opinion reporter John Solomon and then echoed by Giuliani seems to originate with one of Ukraines richest and most powerful oligarchs who is a former business partner of Paul Manafort and had to flee Ukraine after the overthrow of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014. He is in Austria, fighting extradition to the United States to face bribery charges.
His name is Dimtry Firtash.
Viktor Shokin is the fired prosecutor at the center of all these stories. As part of Firtashs effort to avoid extradition from Austria to the United States, he asked Shokin to swear out the affidavit in which Shokin accuses Biden of getting him fired to protect his son Hunter. (There is no evidence any of this happened. There was no investigation of Hunter Biden or the company on whose board he sat at the time Shokin was fired.)
So to review, former Manafort business partner Firtash asks Shokin to swear out an affidavit in which he accuses Biden. The affidavit quickly gets into the hands of Giuliani and Solomon. And who just recently went to work for Firtashs legal team? None other than diGenova and Toensing, as reported just this week by the Kyiv Post and other publications.
So the duo who we now learned has been working on behalf of the President with Rudy Giuliani to extort the Ukrainian government just signed on to represent the oligarch behind the affidavit in which the disgraced prosecutor says Joe Biden got him fired. And yes, the oligarch who got booted from Ukraine in 2014 and is a former business partner of Paul Manafort. - TPM
The picture is indeed coming into view. Familiarize yourselves with those names. They're going to come up repeatedly from now on.
ffr
(22,649 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)dchill
(38,324 posts)The one on the right.
ancianita
(35,813 posts)I want to hear their story, not just their connections in building 45's defense case.
Do you think it's something we won't know until there's a Senate trial?
czarjak
(11,194 posts)THAT impervious idiot.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)I guess he knows he could go jail when he loses the election.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)That part is really not coming into focus, for me.
But Manafort hasnt talked, and I think they must be afraid that he will. So, they are trying to get him a pardon. Make Biden a part of the railroading of the poor, innocent Manafort. Biden bad, Manafort okay.
I dont know. Theyre all so damn shady.
magicarpet
(13,941 posts)"I dont know. Theyre all so damn shady."
Who knows WTF......
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)For later study
UTUSN
(70,497 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Too bad Woodward and Wolff focused on WH inter-personal relationships and drama instead of what was going on behind the scenes
ffr
(22,649 posts)I'd also seen Brian Cohen's video before that, not realizing it was diGenova, but just some paid RW talking head.
When I stumbled upon TPM's story I recognized diGenova and thought WTF? He's in on this too?
Couldn't happen to a more worthless POS, IMO.
Seth's DU thread posted early
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212522890
Firtash gets Shokin to say Biden got him (Shokin) fired to protect Hunter (from nothing). How does this help Firtash stay in Austria?