17 Jul 2017 10:45 pm
LMAO, your own source contradicts itself.Termin8tor » 16 Jul 2017 8:26 am » wrote:Here you go, psycho.
In the first paragraph it talks about 'Hillary Clinton's' real collusion with Ukraine.
Then it cites the part of a Politico article that says that it was a Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee who met with people at the Ukrainian Embassy.
And the reason the story went nowhere at the time is that it doesn't say anything about anyone from the Clinton campaign meeting with any foreign government to get dirt on Trump.
Sean Hannity dragged up the old Politico story and twisted it into something that it never was, and TrumpCo. ran with it.
And idiots like you are more than happy to spread their falsehoods and lies.
This is from the Politico story from January 11, 2017 cited in your source.
The Ukrainian-American consultant Alexandra Chalupa was acting on her own.A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia.
But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect.
And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we've seen in this case.”
There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine.
Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election.
And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/u ... ire-233446
She was not part of the Clinton campaign, and the research she gathered was nothing that wasn't already publicly known.
This is in no way the same thing that Fredo, Kushner and Manafort did.Former DNC contractor denies working with Ukrainian officials on anti-Trump research.
The former Democratic National Committee contractor at the center of allegations that Democrats worked with Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on then-presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN Friday that DNC officials never asked her to "go to the Ukrainian Embassy to collect information."
Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American activist and Democratic consultant for over a decade, is the latest in a line of Democrats, including multiple DNC officials and former Clinton campaign officials, to deny the claim.
It's a talking point the White House and other pro-Trump Republicans are using to deflect from Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer described to him in emails as a "Russian government lawyer."
"During the 2016 US election, I was a part time consultant for the DNC running an ethnic engagement program," Chalupa said in a lengthy statement to CNN.
"I was not an opposition researcher for the DNC, and the DNC never asked me to go to the Ukrainian Embassy to collect information."
Chalupa said Friday that because of her Ukrainian-American heritage she was aware of Paul Manafort's political consulting work for Victor Yanukovych, a former Ukrainian President with close ties to Moscow.
Manafort, a longtime Republican operative, was hired by Trump in March 2016.
"When it was announced that the Trump campaign hired Manafort, many Ukrainian-Americans were alarmed and concerned it was an early signal that Putin was trying to influence the US election," Chalupa said.
"At that time, I flagged for the DNC the significance of his hire based on information in the public domain."
Chalupa, who maintained other clients while working for the DNC, does say she had a "couple" meetings with "representatives of the Ukrainian Embassy," but that those meetings had to do with an "Immigrant Heritage Month women's networking event" she helped organize in June with Melanne Verveer, a Ukrainian-American and former US Ambassador for Global Women's Issues at the State Department under Hillary Clinton.
The White House has seized on Chalupa's work and a Politico story in January that said Ukrainian government officials worked with at least one staffer at the DNC during the 2016 campaign to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump.
The story centers on Chalupa, who Politico reported has a network of people in Kiev and Washington -- including Ukrainian government officials -- who would pass her information that she would then float as potential research to DNC staffers.
Chalupa disagreed with the casting of the Politico story, posting on Facebook in January that it was "nonsense."
But the White House has jumped on the story, with multiple officials claiming it proves collusion.
If Ukraine was not an ally, but an adversary, and Chelsea Clinton had gotten an email from someone saying that the Ukrainian government would like to help her mother by providing the campaign with some dirt on Trump (which would have most likely have been obtained by spying) and then she, her husband and John Podesta met with these people, that would be the same thing.