** BREAKING ** Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden 'did not violate anything'

[Skya Rhen]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/former-ukraine-prosecutor-says-hunter-biden-did-not-violate-anything/2019/09/26/48801f66-e068-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html

By Michael Birnbaum and
David L. Stern
September 26 at 11:32 AM

KIEV, Ukraine — A former top Ukrainian prosecutor, whose allegations were at the heart of the dirt-digging effort by Rudolph W. Giuliani, said Thursday he believed that Hunter Biden did not run afoul of any laws in Ukraine.

“From the perspective of Ukrainian legislation, he did not violate anything,” former Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko told The Washington Post in his first interview since the disclosure of a whistleblower complaint alleging pressure by Trump on Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelensky.

Lutsenko’s comments about Hunter Biden — which echo what he told Bloomberg News in May — were significant because President Trump and his personal attorney Giuliani have sought to stir up suspicions about both Hunter and former vice president Joe Biden’s conduct in Ukraine in recent weeks. Joe Biden is leading Trump in many opinion polls ahead of the 2020 election.

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As vice president, Joe Biden pressured Ukraine to fire the Lutsenko’s predecessor, Viktor Shokin, who Biden and other Western officials said was not sufficiently pursuing corruption cases. At the time, the investigation into Burisma was dormant, according to former Ukrainian and U.S. officials.

“Hunter Biden cannot be responsible for violations of the management of Burisma that took place two years before his arrival,” Lutsenko said.

[Demsrule86]

1. Impeachment will make it clear that Biden did nothing wrong...maybe that is part of why

they are impeaching. Trump can't be allowed to use his power against his political rivals...it must end.K&R

[Shell_Seas]

2. Hahahahhah!!!

[highplainsdem]

3. K&R! Thanks for posting this!

[TheRealNorth]

4. Rudy may have been in Ukraine....

To manufacture evidence against Biden.

[Celerity]

5. +10000

[pandr32]

7. Does appear to be the case

It appears they wanted the President of Ukraine to be part of the fraud. He would be Putin's boy then.

[peggysue2]

8. I'm sure that's what it was all about

Throw some money around, twist arms, make promises. Just your everyday gangster maneuvering. Because they've been getting away with it.

Until now.

[Skya Rhen]

9. And Rudy would have been instrumental in guiding the Ukraine officials as to how to manufacture lies

on the Bidens.

[peggysue2]

10. Exactly, Skya

Giuliani is now screaming he's being tortured by the on-going revelations. I guarantee you he'll finger everyone involved in this putrid mess from the top down. This isn't going to be a tight-lipped Manafort vow of silence. Rudy is losing his shit already.

And Trump? He's still trying to spin it. Perfect conversation, doncha know? And Nancy Pelosi? She's been hijacked by the radical left.

On and on it goes. They're digging their own graves.

[TheRealNorth]

13. Exactly

They don't even have to make shit credible, just create the mirage.

[underpants]

6. But...but he's corrupt!!

I can hear the excuse now

[procon]

11. Important stuff, but lost in this forum.

Hunter Biden and Ukraine are not topics to be sequestered away to the Primary forum. I nearly missed it. These are time critical topics that would probably get more exposure if moved to General Discussion.

[Skya Rhen]

12. This article references Joe Biden, frontrunner, as well as his son.

[MustLoveBeagles]

33. Thank for the OP

Have you cross posted this in general discussion?

[Pepsidog]

14. Good post. The right doesn't deal in facts though.

[onetexan]

21. the right are not people whose minds Dems should try to change, rather the sensible Independents,

the apathetic young people, and people who typically don't vote.

[Pepsidog]

22. Yep. I was with my righty brothers-in-law, he's a lost cause.

[Javaman]

15. oh that's gonna leave a mark. LOL nt

[Puppyjive]

16. Trump isn't smart enough

Trump isn't smart enough to have known about Joe Biden's son and what he was doing. Putin does. This is a coverup. Everyone is focused on election fraud and impeachment, we need to focus on who benefits from pulling funding from the Ukraine and how have they have gotten so intimate with our President.

[Gothmog]

17. Former Ukraine prosecutor says Hunter Biden "did not violate anything"

Link to tweet

A former top Ukrainian prosecutor, whose allegations were at the heart of the dirt-digging effort by Rudolph W. Giuliani, said Thursday he believed that Hunter Biden did not run afoul of any laws in Ukraine.

“From the perspective of Ukrainian legislation, he did not violate anything,” former Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko told The Washington Post in his first interview since the disclosure of a whistleblower complaint alleging pressure by President Trump on Ukraine’s president, Volodymr Zelensky.

Lutsenko’s comments about Hunter Biden — which echo what he told Bloomberg News in May — were significant, because Trump and his personal attorney Giuliani have sought to stir up suspicions about both Hunter and former vice president Joe Biden’s conduct in Ukraine in recent weeks. Joe Biden is leading Trump in many opinion polls ahead of the 2020 election.

Hunter Biden has denied any wrongdoing, and there is no evidence he was involved in any lawbreaking in his work in Ukraine with the country’s largest private gas company.

[calimary]

18. SO much relies on the unspoken "understandings" here.

And that tweet included here, with the Ukrainian president and trump shaking hands, what on earth should we expect the poor sap to do? He’s asked if he felt pushed, with the big capo who was the one pushing him so hard and so relentlessly SITTING RIGHT THERE? WHILE he’s being asked if he felt pushed by the same big Mafia don who’s sitting there literally inches away?

What the hell do you expect the poor schmuck to say? The don is as much as holding an invisible knife to his throat.

The same dynamic applied to the now-infamous “transcript.” You won’t find trump saying “here. I’m bribing you to go bigtime mess up this potential rival. And you know that money you think we’re gonna send you? Get me some dirt on my rival or you can kiss that money goodbye.”

No. trump would never do it that way. He’s all about insinuation and suggestion and staging unspoken messages and clues and tip-offs. He’s more of the “gee, nice little set-up you got there, dude. It’d be a shame if something happened to it...” type of manipulative mind-fucker.

And then he can look you straight in the face and lie to you that he never threatened to rough you up, rape your wife and daughter and burn your house down.

[Botany]

19. "Hunter Biden cannot be responsible for violations that took place two years before his arrival,"

[NBachers]

20. Another tumbler clicks into place.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Good

[ecstatic]

25. Which is why we should all stop talking about that angle and focus

only on trump's crimes/extortion. Every article that comes out on this topic, good or bad, feeds into trump's mission, which was to juxtapose Biden's name alongside a scandal.

[Kablooie]

26. So trump did all this for nothing

He never would have gotten his scandal even if it hadn’t been revealed.

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. But isn't that how he slithered out of the Mueller inquiry about finding Hillary dirt?

That he never used any information from Russia against her!

.....of course the reason is that the Russians couldn't find anything for him, but don't tell the MSM that.

[LiberalLovinLug]

27. Wasn't it all about wanting them to "find something" nudge nudge, wink wink?

Concoct some bogus charges against Biden's son. That's my interpretation.

[FloridaBlues]

29. When trump shouts this lie about the Bidens don't you wish the press would answer back

No evidence to back up your lies.
I haven't heard one person in real time say this to trump on his pressers !

[AllaN01Bear]

30. he cant do his own dirty work, so he has to have others do it for him.

i wonder if hes done it this way all his life ?

[Cha]

31. Thank You, Skya!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Another Trump argument goes down the crapper

[Tarheel_Dem]

34. K&R