Kellyanne Conway registers as Ukraine foreign agent

[onandup]

Kellyanne Conway is now a lobbyist for Ukrainian businessman and oligarch Victor Pinchuk’s philanthropic foundation.

Conway registered her $50,000-a-month contract with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation with the Justice Department on Friday, a requirement under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Conway will “engage U.S. lawmakers, and experts, and opinion makers, to explain the importance of Ukraine to the rules-based order and the protection of democratic principles,” in addition to “raising awareness” about “Ukrainians’ fight for freedom and the Russian illegal war of aggression,” according to the contract, which started on July 25 and will expire a week after November’s election.

Conway will also encourage stakeholders to attend the annual Yalta European Strategy meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine from Sept. 13-14

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/3109844/kellyanne-conway-registers-ukraine-foreign-agent-amid-jd-vance-flap/

I guess her opinion is for sale.

[DFab420]

1. Explains why she's been bad mouthing JD Vance

[niyad]

2. This is from The Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me this is from The Onion.

[woodsprite]

3. If I was truly a Ukraine businessman,

I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t hire a mouthpiece of Putin’s puppet. Maybe it’s more lucrative for her working directly for a foreign entity rather than the puppet.

[Irish_Dem]

5. The GOP works for Putin.

The Ukrainian oligarch is quite foolish.

[Rebl2]

12. I believe

she is still a putin puppet.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Bt I thought she was a true TSF believer and he says Ukraine should give up.

[-misanthroptimist]

6. How the hell did she end up on the right side of an important issue?

The writers for this universe are now just using the GoT writers' trick of subverting expectations whether it makes any sense or not. IMO, it's just bad writing.

[onandup]

8. Cash

If she really felt this way they wouldn't have to pay her.

[flying_wahini]

7. She wants to be in on all the inside scoop before it hits the news. She's an inside plant?

Plus $50k a month doesn’t hurt a bit.

[hydrolastic]

14. Double agent ?

We don't know what the real story is here. "Alternative facts"

[Irish_Dem]

22. This was my thought. I don't trust her.

[Boomerproud]

19. She makes more in a month than I do in 2 years of full time work.

[John1956PA]

9. She is like Max Von Sydow's character in . . .

. . . "Three Days of the Condor" (1975).

His character (Joubert, the hitman) said something to the effect, "I have no interest in politics, I go with whomever pays me."

[allegorical oracle]

16. Luv that film. And so agree with you. nt

[John1956PA]

21. On Jan. 6, 2021, VP Mike Pence said, "I am not getting into that car."

I am thinking that Pence was recalling the warning that Joubert gave to Condor.

[Patterson]

17. I saw him in Stockholm - he scared the crap out of me.

[Patterson]

18. I saw him in Stockholm - he scared the crap out of me.

[John1956PA]

20. He was great in every film in which he appeared.

Ingmar Bergman's 1957 classic "The Seventh Seal" set the tone for Mr. Von Sydow's film career. The subtle unflappable demeanor he displays toward the allegorical, and ultimately real, force of darkness is uncanny.

[displacedvermoter]

10. I smell a rat 🐭

[hatrack]

11. Victor Pinchuk . . . all kinds of yuck, at least per Wikipedia . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Pinchuk - Wikipedia has flagged this article as potentially posted or edited for payment.

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On 18 March 2015, National Anti-Corruption Bureau opened criminal proceedings. According to the investigation, the amount of the bribe to Viktor Pinchuk from 2003 to 2006 was allegedly $110 million.[14] In December 2015, Pinchuk brought a $2 billion civil action against fellow oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Gennadiy Bogolyubov in the High Court of Justice in London over the 2004 purchase of a Ukrainian mining company. Allegations made include murder and bribery.[15][16] In January 2016, an undisclosed out of court settlement was reached just before the trial was due to start.[17]

In 2004, Pinchuk created Yalta European Strategy, an international independent organization to promote Ukraine joining the European Union. Its annual summer meeting in Yalta was a Ukraine-EU forum for debate and policy recommendations development. Since the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation these meetings have been taking place in Kyiv. In September 2013, Pinchuk and Tony Blair introduced Hillary Clinton's keynote address to the conference at Livadia Palace, with Bill Clinton in attendance.[8][17] Stefan Fule, Paul Krugman, Alexei Kudrin, Shimon Peres, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Larry Summers and other political and business leaders have attended.[citation needed] In September 2015, Pinchuk donated $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance by Donald Trump shown at the conference that year in Kyiv.[18] Michael Cohen solicited Douglas Schoen for the donation from Pinchuk, which was the largest outside donation the Trump Foundation received that year.[18][19]

In 2015, Pinchuk promoted closer ties between Ukraine and the EU.[20] He was an active participant in the World Economic Forum at Davos.[21]

In December 2016, Viktor Pinchuk published an article in the Wall Street Journal "Ukraine Must Make Painful Compromises for Peace With Russia", in which he suggested that Ukraine temporarily abandon the prospect of EU membership, exclude NATO membership and make a compromise with Russia on the Crimea peninsula on purpose the achieving peace in Eastern Ukraine.[22] The article drew criticism from Ukrainian political authorities of Ukraine. Then-President Petro Poroshenko canceled a visit to the Davos Ukrainian Lunch, which took place on January 19, 2017.[23]

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[travelingthrulife]

13. Well that is a rather serious departure from previous positions

She is now anti-Trump and GOP? I wouldn't trust that snake in any capacity. Apologies to snakes.

[allegorical oracle]

15. Would never, ever trust her. Her facts are "alternative truth," said her sly tongue. nt