Friday, September 27, 2019

Properly had

This ugly man Trump is throwing this nation under the bus taking dozens perhaps hundreds of formerly innocent people with him. Some trusted him, some even loved him and this is what this Beast gave them -- subpoenas, maybe criminal prosecutions, and the need to hire attorneys for what? For working for and not recognizing a Mafia like conman who lies all the time and cares NOTHING for anyone but himself.

Enjoy yourselves, as Sherlock Holmes once said: you've been had properly had!

Salient Points and my opinion in italics and bracketed

have tried to copy and paste what I think are the most salient parts of the Whistle Blower Complaint.  I think it easier to understand if it is written.

My opinion:  Lost in the retelling of the Whistle Blower Complaint is my opinion that the real effort of Trump is to change Ukraine back to right wing leadership that would be favorable not only to Trump but to most importantly Putin taking the onus of Russian interference in the US 2016 election, proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and placing it on so called by Trump Ukrainian corruption which is a lie and has since been disproven.  The former Ukrainian Russia friendly corrupt leadership in Ukraine is now hold up in Russia as he was removed from Ukraine.  Russia has taken part of Ukraine -- Crimea -- and Ukraine is now fighting a hot war on that border with Russia.  Ukrainians generally loathe Russian aggression. Putin's desire, of course, is to return the entire Baltic region to Russian control lost during Glasnost and the fall of the former Soviet Union.  Putin is aiming at Kiev to take all of Ukraine.  The question becomes and always has been in my opinion WHY OH WHY IS TRUMP SO DEDICATED TO ADVANCING RUSSIAN AUTHORITARIAN INTERESTS AND TURNING HIS BACK ON THE DEMOCRACIES?  Once we find this out all other dominoes to me would fall into place.   The accusation of Biden's interference has been disproven and is now a conspiratorial lie promulgated by none other than the professional liar Trump!  It helps Putin!

Phone call of July 25 and beginning of the whistle blower Complaint

initiate or continue an investigation into the activities of former Vice President Joseph Biden and his son, Hunter Biden;

assist in purportedly uncovering that allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election originated in Ukraine, with a specific request that the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the Democratic National  Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S. cyber security firm Crowdstrike,  which initially reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the DNC's networks in 2016; and

meet or speak with two people the President named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters, Mr. Giuliani and Attorney General Barr, to whom the President referred multiple times in tandem.


COVER UP and FOOTNOTES:  Relegating certain information to be held as "Classified" which should not remain classified but is in order to cover up certain actions by Trump or his minions.  "I also believe that applying a classification marking to this information would violate EO 13526, Part 1, Section 1.7, which states: "In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to: (I) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error; [or] (2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency."

It is unclear whether such a Ukrainian investigation exists. See Footnote #7 for additional information.

"I do not know why the President associates these servers with Ukraine. (See, for example, his comments to Fox News on 20 July: "And Ukraine. Take a look at Ukraine. How come the FBI didn't take this server? Podesta told them to get out. He said, get out. So, how come the FBI didn't take the server from the DNC?")

The President also praised Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Mr. Yuriy Lutsenko, and suggested that Mr. Zelenskyy might want to keep him in his position. (Note: Starting in March 2019, Mr. Lutsenko made a series of public allegations—many of which he later walked back—about the Biden family's activities in Ukraine, Ukrainian officials' purported involvement in the 2016 U.S. election, and the activities of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. See Part IV for additional context.) [My note:  The entities Trump praises are among the right wing corrupt and have since been voted out of office or removed. Zilenskyy a seemingly honest president, is supposed to clean things up. THERE WAS NO UKRAINIAN INVOLVEMENT IN THE US 2016 ELECTION.  THAT WAS RESERVED FOR RUSSIA PROVEN BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT]

They told me that there was already a "discussion ongoing" with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials' retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain.

The Ukrainian side was the first to publicly acknowledge the phone call.

  "Donald Trump expressed his conviction that the new Ukrainian government will be able to quickly improve Ukraine's image [i.e. with Trump and Putin] and complete the investigation of corruption  cases that have held back cooperation between Ukraine and the United States." [lie with much needed by Ukraine to fight Russians 240 million dollars of US military equipment held back]

In addition to White House personnel, I was told that a State Department official, Mr. T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, also listened in on the call.

 Based on my understanding, multiple State Department and Intelligence Community officials were also briefed on the contents of the call as outlined above.

COVERUP:  In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to "lock down" all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced—as is  customary—by the White House Situation Room. This set of actions underscored to me that White House officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call.
•    White House officials told me that they were "directed" by White-House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to Cabinet-level officials.

Democratic Presidential Convention--On to November

  I watched the Democratic convention last evening until my body's demand for sleep overtook me around midnight.  Having followed thin...