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Republicans are still trying to frame Joe Biden with Ukraine
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/06/republicans-are-still-trying-frame-joe-biden-with-ukraine/
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, on Thursday. (Toni Sandys/The Washington Post)
Opinion by Paul Waldman
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August 6, 2020 at 4:59 p.m. CDT
President Trump had a plan. He would squeeze the president of Ukraine, a U.S. ally in desperate need of our help, to assist Trump in his reelection campaign. I would like you to do us a favor though, he told the Ukrainian, doing his best impression of a mob boss forcing a local shop owner to pay protection.
According to the plan, Ukraine would announce a blockbuster investigation of Joe Biden. Whether there was any evidence of wrongdoing mattered as little as the substance of Hillary Clintons email management practices. The goal was to create media stories linking Biden with payoffs and shakedowns in a foreign land, so voters would come to believe the Democrat was as corrupt and untrustworthy as Trump himself.
The plan fell apart, withering in sunlight and leading to Trumps impeachment. But now, Trumps allies in Congress are trying to revive it.
At a time when the country is dealing with some pretty serious problems, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is relentlessly pursuing an investigation into
Hunter Biden and Burisma!
Johnsons investigation is being propelled by a chain of information, if one can call it that, that begins with Russian-connected Ukrainians, runs through bonkers conspiracy theorist and presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and is then delivered to Johnson. The obvious purpose is to make a case that when he was vice president and led an international effort to pressure Ukraine to confront its corruption problem, Joe Biden was actually trying to take the heat off the company that was paying his son.
If you thought this ridiculous allegation was comprehensively disproved during Trumps impeachment, youd be right. But Johnson is undeterred:
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One national security official told Politico that the Ukrainians feeding material to Giuliani and Johnson are so unreliable that it should be out of the question to consider their information legitimate investigative material. Additionally, the article reports, intelligence officials are so skeptical of his probe that Johnson is considered toxic by some members of the intelligence community.
Even some Republicans such as Sen. Lindsey O. Graham have been skeptical of the information Johnson is getting from Ukraine; in February, Graham warned, Russia is playing us all like a fiddle....................................
Hortensis
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(68,869 posts)Poiuyt
(18,135 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,158 posts)For this traitor working for Putin.
Horrible days ahead
Thekaspervote
(32,825 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)But Im thrilled its getting the light of day upon it!
Turbineguy
(37,427 posts)is in violation of FARA. https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara
Lucky for him, they're closed just now.
Poiuyt
(18,135 posts)His goal is just to create questions among the unthinking