Team Biden Panics As Leaked Ukraine Phone Calls May Require Appointment of a Special Counsel
Posted at 7:30 pm on May 19, 2020 by
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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden approaches reporters to answer questions following a campaign stop at Lindy’s Diner in Keene, N.H., Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Interesting stuff today materialized out of Ukraine. Ukraine, for those of you
wearing face masks, is a nation that was vitally critical to US national interests right up to the point when President Trump’s impeachment charges were laughed out of a Senate that counts Mitt Romney among its members. Ukraine became a political battleground in the US because Joe Biden somehow managed to get his grifting, coke-sniffing, baby-daddy son a job on the board of a directors of a company in an industry with which he was not familiar in a country to which he has no family ties and can’t even speak the language of the rest of the board. Now debunked allegations that President Trump conditioned military assistance to Ukraine upon Ukraine investigating Joe Biden led to Trump’s kangaroo court session run by Jerry Nadler and the farcical Senate trial that followed.
Today some tapes were leaked by a Ukraine Member of Parliament named Andrii Derkach. Here are the tapes, in
YouTube form, and here are key parts via Robby Starbuck on Twitter
Robby Starbuck
✔@robbystarbuck
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Here are the Joe Biden, John Kerry and Petro Poroshenko phone calls that appear to be evidence of a quid pro quo where Biden asks for Ukrainian Prosecutor Shokin (who was investigating Burisma where Hunter Biden worked) to be fired in exchange for a billion $ loan.
Kerry call
Robby Starbuck
✔@robbystarbuck
Part 2 of the Biden, Kerry, Poroshenko calls leaked by Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach. He says investigative journalists got the calls and the calls were presumably recorded by Poroshenko.
Kerry call part 2
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Robby Starbuck
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Part 3 of Biden, Kerry, Poroshenko calls leaked by Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach. In this call note Biden’s apparent disdain for Minnesota. Poroshenko admits there’s no evidence Shokin has done anything wrong but is demanding his resignation for Biden.
Biden call part 1
Robby Starbuck
✔@robbystarbuck
Part 4 of Biden, Kerry, Poroshenko calls. In this call Poroshenko calls Biden’s promise to sign for the billion $ loan "extremely motivating" in terms of firing the Ukrainian prosecutor Shokin. Biden says he needs to "huddle with his team" to approve the new Ukrainian prosecutor.
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Replying to @robbystarbuck
Part 5 of Biden, Kerry, Poroshenko calls leaked by Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach. In this call Biden says he’s "a man of his word" and now that they’ve installed the approved prosecutor he is "ready to sign that billion dollar loan guarantee".
Biden call part 3
Robby Starbuck
✔@robbystarbuck
Part 6 of Biden, Kerry, Poroshenko calls leaked by Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach. In this call Poroshenko details the quid pro quo explicitly. Earlier in the calls he says there’s no evidence of Shokin being corrupt but they demanded his resignation anyways for Biden.
Biden #4
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Robby Starbuck
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Part 6 of Biden, Kerry, Poroshenko calls leaked by Ukrainian MP Andrii Derkach. In this call Poroshenko details the quid pro quo explicitly. Earlier in the calls he says there’s no evidence of Shokin being corrupt but they demanded his resignation anyways for Biden.
Biden #4
Robby Starbuck
✔@robbystarbuck
The calls must be investigated. Why was Biden trying to get Shokin removed when Ukraine had no evidence of wrongdoing? Does Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma play into it? How will Democrats defend this when they impeached
@realDonaldTrump for an innocent call to Ukraine (far less)!
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All it took was the right person to notice
Donald Trump Jr.
✔@DonaldJTrumpJr
Yikes!!!! This is not a “perfect conversation”
An audio recording of a conversation between Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko on May 13, 2016 - YouTube
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And the Biden campaign and their fluffers in the media literally beshat themselves
Joe Biden’s director of pudding…I mean ‘rapid response,’ the Truth Over Facts guy.
Andrew Bates
✔@AndrewBatesNC
Even after a Russian intelligence asset doctored that recording, it was still a nothingburger. The debunked lie that got your daddy impeached is dead.
"Ukrainian MP releases Biden-Poroshenko call recordings, spouts absurd conspiracy theory."
https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ukrainian-mp-releases-biden-poroshenko-call-recordings-spouts-absurd-conspiracy-theory.html … https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1262855485574787073 …
Ukrainian MP releases Biden-Poroshenko call recordings, spouts absurd conspiracy theory | KyivPost...
A Ukrainian lawmaker who previously met with and gave an interview to Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has released audio recordings allegedly featuring phone conversat...
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Donald Trump Jr.
✔@DonaldJTrumpJr
Yikes!!!! This is not a “perfect conversation”
An audio recording of a conversation between Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko on May 13, 2016 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVPBNGH2HA …
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This from BuzzFeed News (hahahaha, learn to code, baby) European division
Christopher Miller
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Here's a preview of what you'll likely soon see from pro-Trump US media,
@RudyGiuliani &
@jsolomonReports: 'Ukraine MP releases damning audio of Biden & ex-Prez Poroshenko discussing firing of ex-prosecutor Shokin. But the audio doesn't reveal anything new & is heavily edited.
An ‘investigative journalist’ doing reverse jujitsu
One of Biden’s state directors
Michael Carpenter
✔@mikercarpenter
Derkach is a graduate of the Felix Dzerzhinsky Academy of the KGB in Moscow.
https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ukrainian-mp-releases-biden-poroshenko-call-recordings-spouts-absurd-conspiracy-theory.html …
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Another ‘investigative journalist’ and
convicted felon
And concern trolling from some guy I never heard of affiliated with an organization that does heaven knows what
Aubrey Belford@AubreyBelford
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The tapes are a fascinating window into just how much control US govt has over Ukraine, but don't actually show us anything new about Biden.
But now that the Hunter/Burisma story is out in the wild, this will be used as "evidence" to back it up. That's how disinfo works.
Aubrey Belford@AubreyBelford
This is a great example of why journalists need to be absolutely faithful to the facts. I doubt Solomon thought he was helping a foreign disinfo campaign — he just wanted his favorite president re-elected. But bullshit has consequences, and here we are.
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Here are the key points as I see them.
The tapes come from a guy who is a school-trained KGB thug so the possibility that they are doctored. There is also a possibility that they aren’t. In this case I think that the same credence need to be shown these tapes as our fearless media firefighters gave to the the Manafort “black ledger,” also from Ukraine, and to the Steele dossier, which was produced by FSB thugs. The tapes, doctored or not, fit, at a minimum, the standard Dan Rather set for the media with his Texas Air National Guard documents in 2004: fake but true. They dovetail perfectly with what we know about Biden’s efforts to shake down Ukraine for money for his kid and with what Biden told us himself about getting the prosecutor who was getting too close to Hunter Biden fired:
In other words, we are required to take these tapes at face value, assume they are true, and proceed accordingly.
What would the next step look like?
Well, with an ordinary American, like Donald Trump, we’d unleash the Intelligence Community and the FBI. We’d get FISA warrants on his kid…they could sell the recordings on PornHub and help write down part of the Wuhan stimulus package. We’d run undercover operatives against members of his campaign. We’d set up stings to entrap senior staffers. We’d leak lies to the press to discredit Biden. But Biden isn’t an ordinary American. He’s Democrat royalty. So we can’t really have a Justice Department and FBI controlled by President Trump investigate Biden. It would be gauche and unseemly. But we do have a solution. A special counsel. Department of Justice regulations say this about the appointment of a
special counsel:
28 CFR § 600.1 – Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel.
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§ 600.1 Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel.
The Attorney General, or in cases in which the Attorney General is recused, the Acting Attorney General, will appoint a Special Counsel when he or she determines that criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted and –
(a) That investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney’s Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances; and
(b) That under the circumstances, it would be in the public interest to appoint an outside Special Counsel to assume responsibility for the matter.
I think we’re there. No other administration has ever carried out a criminal investigation of a candidate for president from another party and President Trump certainly wouldn’t want to be the first. Even though the tapes must be presumed true, we would be remiss in not giving Biden the benefit of the doubt and there is no better person to do that than a special counsel.
