American Greatness: As Democrats and their allies in the media dismiss charges that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election as a conspiracy theory, three top Republican Senators are working to prove them wrong just in time for the impeachment trial in the Senate.
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced Friday that they are requesting records from and interviews with Alexandra Chalupa, a Democratic consultant and Ukrainian-American activist who met with Ukrainian embassy officials throughout 2016, allegedly on behalf of the DNC. The trio are also seeking records from Andrii Telizkhenko, a former Ukrainian political officer who told Politico that Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador, instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump and Manafort to the Russians.
According to the Daily Caller, the request is a continuation of Grassley’s 2017 inquiry into possible coordination between the DNC and the Ukrainian embassy to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign.
Chalupa met throughout 2016 with Ukrainian embassy officials, and sought to trade information related to Manafort, who worked through 2014 for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, on Jan. 11, 2017, Politico reported. Telizhenko told Politico he was directed by his bosses to help Chalupa in the effort.
In addition to Chalupa’s efforts, multiple Ukrainian government officials spoke out against Trump during the 2016 campaign.
One official scrutinized by Republicans is Serhiy Leshchenko, a former Ukrainian parliamentarian who gained international attention in August 2016 for helping publicize the so-called “black ledger” that detailed payments that the Ukrainian Party of Regions allegedly made to Manafort.
Manafort denied receiving the payments, but was forced off the Trump team following reports of the “black ledger.” He was convicted in the special counsel’s investigation of financial crimes related to income from his Ukraine work.
Citing the Politico report in his July 2017 letter to the DOJ, Grassley—then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee—wrote that Chalupa’s actions appeared to show that “she was simultaneously working on behalf of a foreign government, Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and Clinton campaign, in an effort to influence not only the U.S voting population but U.S. government officials.”
The Iowa senator wrote in the July 24, 2017 letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that Chalupa’s activities in Ukraine constituted a possible Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violation. read more
Bring the deep-fried loon in with new ‘Rat candidate out of NY, Evelyn Farkas. But first, keep expectations burrowed.
why are the repubs even discussing a trial when there is no crime?
the Turtle & his minions are willingly, gleefully rushing headlong into it … why?
… starting to smell a rat …
Because the R’s can dig up what the D’s have been hiding.
Chalupa? For reals? This isn’t the Onion, is it?
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“Because the R’s can dig up what the D’s have been hiding.”
The House will never hold an impeachment vote. They can’t risk failing, and they can’t risk passing. Don’t know what they’ll do instead. Probably just try to kill him outright.
Could someone let me know when someone from the coup is indicted?
Doesn’t Taco Bell sell Chalupas?
If the House passes an Impeachment Resolution there will be a trial in the Senate however this time the GOP will write the rules and all those witnesses that were cut off by Schiff will be allowed to testify in full, all those witnesses that the GOP wanted to call that Schiff denied and all that exculpatory information hidden away will come out. When it’s shown that Trump was guilty of nothing and that the Dems have been trying to hold a coup then even Democrat Senators will be in trouble if they vote guilty. Yep, I’d say the Dems are sweating bullets right now and if Schiff finds himself alone in an alley beside Congress he’ll get the shit kicked out of him by a pack of Democrat Congresscritters.
Anyone else get the feeling when Lindsey issues a strongly worded letter “requesting” documents, it’s for the sole purpose of shredding them?
OMG, Big Owe, Farkas is running for office? Soros money for sure. She’s the one that blurted the whole leak game two years ago. Also another Atlantic Council minion. She should be in jail like the rest of them should be. I guess she’s running to stay out.
Alexandra Chalupa: Now with 30% more filler!
I was thinking more Gordita than Chalupa…