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Old 10-17-2019, 08:37 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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I just read that Republican Mitt Romney's ex-National Security expert for his 2012 presidential campaign is former CIA and, you guessed it, sits on the Board of Directors at Burisma.

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"Burisma faced a money-laundering investigation and questions over how it had obtained some of its licenses to drill for natural gas. In spring 2014, the company appointed Hunter Biden and a former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, to its board. Three years later, Burisma added Cofer Black, a former CIA official and foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, to the board."

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/76657...den-allegation
Then you have the two Giuliani associates arrested for allegedly paying a man believed to be former Texas Republican member of Congress, Pete Sessions, $20,000 for his help in ousting our former ambassador to Ukraine who they thought was blocking their business aims.

Add this to Democrats Ed Markey, Jeanne Shaheen, John Kerry...

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"That's handy because then-Secretary of State John Kerry himself has visited Ukraine with promises of U.S. aid and assistance. Well, Leiter registered as a Burisma lobbyist in mid-2014. But in the year leading up to that, he gave close to $60,000 to Democrats, including a select group of U.S. senators who would later be instrumental in pushing cash towards Ukraine's energy sector, directly in line with Burisma's interests. He donated to Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., four times and to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., three times. A month after the last of those donations, both Markey and Shaheen were among four senators who wrote a letter to President Obama that said, "We should leverage the full resources and expertise of the U.S. government to assist Ukraine in improving its energy efficiency, increasing its domestic production and reforming its energy markets."

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/stev...as-bidens-dems
As Steve Hilton says, Markey, the grand poobah of the Green New Deal, wasn't pushing Obama to support windmills and solar power. They were asking him to support increasing gas production - US cash for Ukraine gas.

Maybe we should just BleachBit Capitol Hill. Draining the swamp just takes too long.
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Old 10-17-2019, 08:51 AM
 
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There is so much of this all over the globe from which elite politicians profit.

You are on it as usual.
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Old 10-17-2019, 08:54 AM
 
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You had to know that suddenly the RWNJs would suddenly try to lump Romney in with their conspiracy theories after he had the audacity to call them like he sees them.
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Old 10-17-2019, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Seacoast NH
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I just read that Republican Mitt Romney's ex-National Security expert for his 2012 presidential campaign is former CIA and, you guessed it, sits on the Board of Directors at Burisma.



Then you have the two Giuliani associates arrested for allegedly paying a man believed to be former Texas Republican member of Congress, Pete Sessions, $20,000 for his help in ousting our former ambassador to Ukraine who they thought was blocking their business aims.

Add this to Democrats Ed Markey, Jeanne Shaheen, John Kerry...



As Steve Hilton says, Markey, the grand poobah of the Green New Deal, wasn't pushing Obama to support windmills and solar power. They were asking him to support increasing gas production - US cash for Ukraine gas.

Maybe we should just BleachBit Capitol Hill. Draining the swamp just takes too long.



You didn't mention that John Kerry's stepson was also on the Burisma board. Oversight or didn't know about it??
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Old 10-17-2019, 08:59 AM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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You didn't mention that John Kerry's stepson was also on the Burisma board. Oversight or didn't know about it??
These guys are using that same old, tired line that worked so well for Obama "I only just learned about this when I saw it on the evening news."



And the news tonight will be, "oh gee golly wow, guess he never knew about this. Move along folks, move along.
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Old 10-17-2019, 09:07 AM
 
Location: OH->FL->NJ
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Both sides were milking the Ukraine cow. This is why there are many working in both sides to bury this as much as they can.
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Old 10-17-2019, 09:12 AM
 
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I just read that Republican Mitt Romney's ex-National Security expert for his 2012 presidential campaign is former CIA and, you guessed it, sits on the Board of Directors at Burisma.
Just being on the board of directors at Burisma, or just about any other company, is not evidence of wrong-doing. It can be completely innocent.

... and calling Biden a "stinkfish" on Ukraine: not sure why you think he deserves that title because so far there has been zero evidence of wrongdoing by either Hunter or Joe.

Giuliani's four associates were formally indicted, accused of funneling money into the US for illegal political contributions. That, plus the president's documented attempt to trade election interference for arms, are the only real Ukraine scandals that exist today.
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Old 10-17-2019, 09:15 AM
 
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Just being on the board of directors at Burisma, or just about any other company, is not evidence of wrong-doing. It can be completely innocent.

... and calling Biden a "stinkfish" on Ukraine: not sure why you think he deserves that title because so far there has been zero evidence of wrongdoing by either Hunter or Joe.

Giuliani's four associates were formally indicted, accused of funneling money into the US for illegal political contributions. That, plus the president's documented attempt to trade election interference for arms, are the only real Ukraine scandals that exist today.
Oh please.....They were put there for pay to play and you know it. You're just embarrassed to admit it.
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Old 10-17-2019, 09:17 AM
 
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Oh please.....They were put there for pay to play and you know it. You're just embarrassed to admit it.
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There needs to be solid proof. Rumors don't cut it.
Hmm....
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Old 10-17-2019, 09:19 AM
 
Location: Morrison, CO
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And you wonder how politicians, their children and cronies all get rich while they are IN OFFICE. By selling you and me out to the highest bidder.
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