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Related: About this forumRudy-linked pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko
Source: Washington Post
Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko
By Paul Sonne and Rosalind S. Helderman
5/19/2020, 11:25:30 p.m.
A Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Rudolph W. Giuliani late last year released recordings of private phone calls several years ago between Vice President Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko, then Ukraines president, in a new broadside against the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. president that has raised questions about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
Andriy Derkach, an independent member of Ukraines parliament who previously aligned with a pro-Russian faction, said at a news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday that he had received the tapes which consist of edited fragments of phone conversations Biden and Poroshenko had while still in office from investigative journalists. He alleged they were made by Poroshenko.
Derkach has past links to Russian intelligence. He attended the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in Moscow. His father served as a KGB officer for decades before becoming head of independent Ukraines intelligence service in the late 1990s. His father was fired from that post amid a scandal over a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered.
The recordings played at the news conference Tuesday shed relatively little new light on Bidens actions in Ukraine, which were at the center of President Trumps impeachment last year. They show that Biden, as he has previously said publicly, linked loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the countrys prosecutor general in 2015. But Derkach used the new clips to make an array of accusations not proven by the tapes.
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By Paul Sonne and Rosalind S. Helderman
5/19/2020, 11:25:30 p.m.
A Ukrainian lawmaker who met with Rudolph W. Giuliani late last year released recordings of private phone calls several years ago between Vice President Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko, then Ukraines president, in a new broadside against the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. president that has raised questions about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
Andriy Derkach, an independent member of Ukraines parliament who previously aligned with a pro-Russian faction, said at a news conference in Kyiv on Tuesday that he had received the tapes which consist of edited fragments of phone conversations Biden and Poroshenko had while still in office from investigative journalists. He alleged they were made by Poroshenko.
Derkach has past links to Russian intelligence. He attended the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB in Moscow. His father served as a KGB officer for decades before becoming head of independent Ukraines intelligence service in the late 1990s. His father was fired from that post amid a scandal over a Ukrainian journalist who was kidnapped and murdered.
The recordings played at the news conference Tuesday shed relatively little new light on Bidens actions in Ukraine, which were at the center of President Trumps impeachment last year. They show that Biden, as he has previously said publicly, linked loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the countrys prosecutor general in 2015. But Derkach used the new clips to make an array of accusations not proven by the tapes.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ukrainian-lawmaker-releases-leaked-phone-calls-of-biden-and-poroshenko/2020/05/19/cc1e6030-9a26-11ea-b60c-3be060a4f8e1_story.html
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Rudy-linked pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker releases leaked phone calls of Biden and Poroshenko (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2020
OP
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)1. Trump's re-election strategy: Spaghetti meet wall.
Singing to the 40% choir is not a way to win.
I hope they keep it up.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)2. It's edited which makes the republicans look even more . . .
fake.