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Biden’s questionable relationship with Ukraine, a country
that had in the past locked horns with Russia numerous times – in 1932, Joseph
Stalin created
a man-made famine to haul
Ukraine into the Soviet orbit – recently re-surfaced in a New York Times piece
that is certain to catch the eyes of those who have questioned President
Trump’s presumed warm relationship with Putin.
After a nearly two year probe of the alleged Putin-Trump
collusion charge, Mueller found that neither Trump nor anyone connected with
the Trump administration had colluded with Russia, but doubters such as
Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal are still sifting through the embers
in search of signs of obstruction of justice.
According to the Times story, Vice President Biden
traveled to Ukraine in March 2016 and “threatened to withhold $1 billion in
United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s
top prosecutor.” The prosecutor putsch apparently succeeded: “The prosecutor
general, long a target of criticism from other Western nations and
international lenders, was soon voted out by the Ukrainian Parliament.”
Biden’s son Hunter Biden had a monetary interest in the
outcome, according to the Times story: “Hunter Biden was a Yale-educated lawyer
who had served on the boards of Amtrak and a number of nonprofit organizations
and think tanks, but lacked any experience in Ukraine and just months earlier
had been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing
positive for cocaine. He would be paid as much as $50,000 per month in some
months for his work for the company, Burisma Holdings,” which was being
investigated by the dismissed top prosecutor.
Ukraine has now reopened the case against Burisma Holdings,
Hunter Biden’s padrone.
Naturally, no one expects Blumenthal, the inspector Javier
of the now deflated Trump collusion investigation, to spend much time
relentlessly pursuing the reawakened Hunter Biden-Joe Biden-Russian collusion
case; the dismissed prosecutor was a thorn in the side of Putin and his man in Ukraine,
President Petro Poroshenko, later displaced by pro-Western President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
In its recent story, the
Times cast its eyes over Biden’s troubled waters: “… new details about
Hunter Biden’s involvement, and a decision this year by the current Ukrainian
prosecutor general to reverse himself and reopen an investigation into Burisma,
have pushed the issue back into the spotlight just as the senior Mr. Biden
is beginning his 2020 presidential campaign.
“They show how Hunter Biden and his American business
partners were part of a broad effort by Burisma to bring in well-connected
Democrats during a period when the company was facing investigations backed not
just by domestic Ukrainian forces but by officials in the Obama administration.
Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma prompted concerns among State Department
officials at the time that the connection could complicate Vice President
Biden’s diplomacy in Ukraine, former officials said…”
Socialist Sanders has problems that may never surface in the
current presidential campaign, because they surfaced long ago and did not
persuade the good people of Vermont to cast their votes for someone other than
Sanders, who had his honeymoon
in Russia and spoke glowingly in 1988 of both the repressive communist
Castro brothers regime in Cuba and the communist Ortega brothers regime in Nicaragua. Three communist
states – Russia, China, and Cuba now have a presence in Venezuela, robbed and ransacked
by socialism.
If either leading Democrat presidential candidate prevails
over Trump, Blumenthal -- silent as a tomb over Sanders' and Biden's
connections with a newly aggressive Russia -- might be the nation’s next
U.S. Attorney General. Or, better still, not above partisan hackery,
Connecticut's U.S. Senator and past Attorney General might be appointed as a
Justice to a highly politicized U.S. Supreme Court, a political reward for
Blumenthal’s fidelity to party above all things.
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