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In reply to the discussion: Hunter Biden says special counsel used Alexander Smirnov's discredited bribery claims to derail his plea deal [View all]Kid Berwyn
(24,304 posts)11. He's going to make a case to a jury of his peers.
The facts are on his side. Maybe his lawyer can apply them to the gun and tax laws he is supposed to have broken.
The jury should hear exactly how then-peeResident Pisswig used the powers of the US Government to frame Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in Ukraine.
How My Work For Trump and Giuliani Sought to Make Ukraine Defenseless
BY LEV PARNAS
TIME, February 13, 2023 2:36 PM EST
Parnas is a Florida businessman and former associate of Rudy Giuliani serving a sentence for fraud and campaign finance violations
EXCERPT...
My connection to Trump came through Giuliani, with whom I had done business, and through the large campaign donations I had made to Trumps campaign. Giuliani, who desperately wanted to be Secretary of State, recruited me to help him further Trumps interests overseas. I had no official position, but my primary task was to be their go-between with Ukrainian and Russian oligarchs and government officials. In retrospect, I concluded that my real job was to help undermine and destabilize the Ukrainian government.
Trump and Giuliani argued that Ukraines leaders were corrupt and anti-American, but I believe there were other reasons Trump had it in for them. He viewed them as political enemies who had supported Hillary Clinton in 2016, hurting his feelings and engaging his unquenchable thirst for revenge. Trump also hated the Ukrainian government because Putin did. Some have said that Putin has compromising information on Trump, regarding money laundering or prostitutes, but those theories are promoted by people who did not know Trump well. I never saw evidence of that kind. Rather, I think the Russian leader had a lot in common with Trumps father, Fred. Both men were authoritarian leaders who valued ruthlessness and considered it the only way to succeed. I first met Fred when I was selling condos in Brooklyn as a kid and he and Putin struck me the same way. Both men had immense effects on Donald Trump.
Trump acted on his hatred of Ukraine as he tried to improve his re-election chances in 2020. The plan that Giuliani and Trump put into operation was simple. Giuliani sent me to collect compromising information that the Eastern European oligarchs had on Hunter Bidens activities in Ukraine to use against Joe Biden. It was also my job to convince the new Ukrainian government to announce an official investigation into Hunter Biden. If they didnt, the U.S. would not send Trump or Vice President Mike Pence to Zelenskys inauguration, threatening Zelenskys domestic stature and his ability to stand up to Putin. Trump also paused much needed military aid for Ukraine while he tried to get Zelensky to open the Biden investigation.
Trump didnt care if this made Ukraine vulnerable to Russia, which had annexed Crimea from the country in 2014. At about the same time, Trump casually asked me: How long do you think Ukraine could hold out against a Russian invasion? I responded: Not long, without our help. I eventually realized that not only was I enabling Trumps dirty tricks in the 2020 election, I was also risking that Ukraine would be essentially unarmed when Putin invaded. Trump was determining the future of two countries and affecting the lives of millions. And who was I? Just another guy whod made some money from the Soviet Unions collapse, just some guy from the streets of Brooklyn who hadnt even finished college.
CONTINUES...
https://time.com/6255090/lev-parnas-giuliani-trump-ukraine/
Twelve human beings will be hearing just to what extent Trump and the GOP have gone to destroy a private citizen and his good name. It's not just illegal, what they've done using their office is treason.
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Hunter Biden says special counsel used Alexander Smirnov's discredited bribery claims to derail his plea deal [View all]
Kid Berwyn
Jun 2024
OP
I hope Hunter Biden sues the hell out of Special Counsel David Weiss for this sham
Botany
Jun 2024
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