The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/10/20/us/ap-us-trump-jr.html">Associated Press</a> stealthily edited an article on Sunday that defended Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, from attacks leveled against them from President Donald Trump&#8217;s son, Donald Trump Jr.
&#8220;You know what the difference between the Bidens and us are?&#8221; Trump Jr. said last week on Fox News. &#8220;We were international business people before politics and we gave up doing all new deals going forward. We didn&#8217;t become, magically, international business people because of our political position. We put that all aside. For years –&#8221;
The Associated Press highlighted other criticisms that Trump Jr. has launched against Biden and his son before writing:
<blockquote>Trump Jr. has pushed back, suggesting that his criticism of Hunter Biden was not for having a famous father, but rather for trading access to his father’s office to enrich himself. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden.</blockquote>
A short time later, the Associated Press edited the report, without adding an update or correction on the article, writing [emphasis added]:
<blockquote>Trump Jr. has pushed back, suggesting that his criticism of Hunter Biden was not for having a famous father, but rather for trading access to his father’s office to enrich himself. Neither Biden has been charged with wrongdoing.</blockquote>
Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign has been on a downward trend over the past couple of months as questions about his fitness for office have increased and as Trump has rapidly escalated attacks on him over allegations of corruption surrounding his involvement with a Ukrainian gas company that employed his son, Hunter.
In 2018, &#8220;with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived">reported</a>. &#8220;The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.&#8221;
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours,&#8221; Biden recalled telling Poroshenko. &#8220;I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’”
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired,&#8221; Biden continued.
Hunter Biden admitted during an interview last week that he has benefited from his father being vice president.
&#8220;If your last name wasn&#8217;t Biden, do you think you would&#8217;ve been asked to be on the board of Burisma?&#8221; Hunter Biden was asked during an interview with ABC News.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know. Probably not,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn&#8217;t Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;It is impossible for me to be on any boards without saying that I’m the son of the vice president of the United States — lots of things would not happen in my life if my name wasn’t Biden,&#8221; Hunter Biden added.

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Associated Press Secretly Edits Article Defending Bidens From Trump Jr. Criticism

Hunter Biden

Joe Biden

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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris claimed during a Friday interview on CNN that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had &#8220;broken many laws,&#8221; but, when pressed on what specific laws she thinks that he has broken, Harris struggled to give any examples.
Harris appeared on &#8220;Anderson Cooper 360°&#8221; where she was asked about recent reports <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/giuliani-counterintelligence-probe/index.html">alleging</a> that Giuliani is under federal investigation over his business dealings in Ukraine after two men that he was allegedly connected to were arrested by federal authorities.
After Harris claimed that Giuliani had &#8220;broken many laws,&#8221; Cooper asked her: &#8220;What are the specific laws you believe Giuliani has broken or may have broken?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Harris answered. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to find out.&#8221;
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Kamala Harris claims that Rudy Giuliani has &#8220;broken many laws&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper asks her what laws he has broken
Harris responds: &#8220;Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/N2dUg7b2av">pic.twitter.com/N2dUg7b2av</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1185379995130175488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
Harris&#8217; remarks come as she has struggled in the polls, standing at only 5.4% according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> average.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/kamala-harris-restructure-presidential-campaign/index.html">reported</a> at the start of the month that Harris planned to &#8220;restructure her struggling presidential campaign,&#8221; adding that the moves &#8220;represent the clearest sign to date that Harris, who has seen her poll numbers consistently fall over the last three months, feels changes are needed to jumpstart her presidential bid and streamline an operation that one source said has been bogged down by bureaucratic hurdles.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; latest attempt to stay relevant in the news has been <a href="https://reason.com/2019/10/15/kamala-harris-demands-that-warren-promise-to-ban-trump-from-twitter/">calling</a> for Twitter to ban President Donald Trump, which almost certainly will not happen.
Partial <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/18/acd.01.html">transcript</a> of Harris&#8217; interview on CNN:
<blockquote>COOPER: First of all, just what&#8217;s your reaction to this latest reporting about Giuliani trying to override the Ukraine embassy and the State Department to get a visa for this former prosecutor?
HARRIS: Yes. Anderson, it&#8217;s further evidence of corruption by this administration, and the personal attorney of the president of the United States clearly implicitly being given permission to act as though he is an arm of the government and the State Department. And it&#8217;s a violation of an extraordinary number of rules and ethical laws about what – who should do what. And I&#8217;m just glad to see the process is beginning to really do the investigation into Rudy Giuliani. He has clearly broken many laws.
And, you know, I was listening to the report as you were playing it. And it also raises for me questions about, again, who knew what in the administration. As I&#8217;ve been thinking about it, clearly, there are questions to be asked of the chief of staff. We have talked about Mick Mulvaney, but I frankly think that we should also be asking of John Kelly and Reince Priebus, because clearly, for a long time now, we&#8217;ve been talking about bad behaviors coming from the administration and coming from the desk of the President of the United States.
COOPER: What are there specific laws you believe Giuliani has broken or may have broken?
HARRIS: Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;re going to find out. But I don&#8217;t – I think the range includes not only abuse of power and perhaps misstatement and mischaracterization of his role and responsibilities, but I also really do wonder just instinctively whether there&#8217;s been bribery associated with Giuliani&#8217;s conduct. I think there are a number of questions to be asked. And once the facts are transparent and have been available for Congress at the very beginning to see, I think we&#8217;ll know the laws that have been broken.</blockquote>

Kamala Harris

Harris Claims Giuliani Has ‘Broken Many Laws’, Can’t Name Any

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Rudy Giuliani

I wrote the book on the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;Culture of Corruption&#8221; 10 years ago, including a thick and sordid chapter on the Beltway swamp creatures of the Biden family. See-no-evil liberals scoffed at my catalogue of back-scratching, shady Delaware deals and Wall Street funny money: What nepotism? What ethical lapses? What corruption?
Now, Hunter Biden himself, the youngest son of former Vice President and Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, finally admitted this week what Daddy&#8217;s pooh-poohing pals have long (publicly) denied:
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn&#8217;t Biden,&#8221; Hunter confessed on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; Tuesday.
Well, knock me over with a feather and plaster-cast my shocked face.
On cue, the Dems&#8217; favorite &#8220;GOP strategist,&#8221; swamp lobbyist wife and anti-Trump loudmouth Ana Navarro Cardenas, cooed over Hunter&#8217;s &#8220;self-awareness&#8221; and &#8220;humility.&#8221; But even as the theatrically humbled Hunter admitted his privilege (staged the morning before Biden the Senior faced off for the fourth high-stakes Democratic presidential debate), he insisted he was as &#8220;qualified&#8221; as &#8220;anybody else&#8221; for his $50k-a-month gig at Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings.
After all, Hunter puffed: &#8220;I was vice chairman of the board of Amtrak for five years. I was the chairman of the board of the U.N. World Food Program. I was a lawyer for Boies Schiller Flexner, one of the most prestigious law firms in the world.&#8221;
Hold up, Sonny Boy. Reciting a litany of your unqualified domestic appointments to bolster the qualifications of your foreign gigs lacks — what&#8217;s the word? — self-awareness. &#8220;GMA&#8221; hostess Amy Robach, who had promised a &#8220;no holds barred&#8221; grilling, whiffed on fully informing viewers about Hunter&#8217;s lifelong biography of conflicts of interest and cashing in.
The Burisma &#8220;mistake&#8221; is a feature, not a bug, in the bubble-protected life and times of Delaware&#8217;s dirty Democrat dynasty. I repeat:
—Hunter&#8217;s first job, acquired after Joe Biden won his 1996 Senate reelection bid in Delaware, was with MBNA. The credit card conglomerate and top campaign finance donor forked over nearly $63,000 in bundled primary and general contributions from its employees to then-Sen. Biden — who secured his custom-built, multimillion-dollar house in Delaware&#8217;s ritziest Chateau Country neighborhood with the help of a leading MBNA corporate executive. Average Joe went on to carry legislative water for MBNA in the Senate for years.
—Hunter quickly ascended to senior vice president at MBNA by early 1998 and then scored a plum position in the Clinton administration&#8217;s Commerce Department, specializing in &#8220;electronic commerce&#8221; before returning to MBNA three years later as a high-priced &#8220;consultant.&#8221; While he collected those &#8220;consulting&#8221; (translation: nepotistic access-trading) fees, Hunter became a &#8220;founding partner&#8221; in the lobbying firm of Oldaker, Biden and Belair in 2002.
—William Oldaker was Papa Biden&#8217;s former fundraiser, campaign treasurer and general counsel — a Beltway barnacle whose Democratic machine days dated back to Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s 1980 presidential bid. Under Oldaker&#8217;s mentorship, Hunter lobbied for drug companies, universities and other deep-pocketed clients to the tune of nearly $4 million billed to the company by 2007. Then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama personally requested and secured cozy taxpayer-subsidized earmarks for several of Hunter&#8217;s clients.
—Hunter also was a top official at Paradigm Global Advisors, a hedge fund holding company founded with Joe Biden&#8217;s brother, James, and marketed by convicted finance fraudster Allen Stanford. As Paradigm chairman, Hunter oversaw half a billion dollars of client money invested in hedge funds while remaining a lobbyist at Oldaker, Biden and Belair. The ill-fated venture went bust amid nasty fraud lawsuits.
—The Biden Bro received a $500,000 loan from the family&#8217;s longtime donor, &#8220;friend&#8221; and Ukrainian-American businessman John Hynansky, which helped bail Uncle James Biden out of debt he racked up while renovating a massive, south Florida beachfront estate. Hynansky was also entangled in a messy Delaware real estate deal with Biden pal and convicted campaign finance and tax fraudster Chris Tigani, who spent two years in prison for laundering political donations through straw donors to Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign committee.
—Hunter then snagged a seat on the board of directors of taxpayer-subsidized, stimulus-inflated Amtrak, where he pretended not to be a lobbyist, but rather an &#8220;effective advocate&#8221; for the government railroad system serving the 1-percenters&#8217; D.C.-NYC corridor.
And all of this was before Qualified-As-Anybody-Else Hunter snagged his lucrative foreign gigs in Ukraine and China (not to mention the humiliating interlude when he was booted from the Navy Reserve in 2014 for cocaine use while &#8220;working&#8221; as a public affairs officer — a cushy, part-time job he secured only after finagling waivers for his age and a previous drug offense). The law license Hunter is so proud of earning was conveniently protected from review and revocation.
Bidenspawn-ship has its privileges — lavishly underwritten by &#8220;Average Joe&#8217;s&#8221; half-century-long career on the public teat.
Michelle Malkin&#8217;s email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

Joe and Hunter Biden.

MALKIN: Beltway Bidenspawn-Ship Has Its Privileges

Hunter Biden was paid more than $80,000 a month as a &#8220;ceremonial figure&#8221; by the Ukrainian company Burisma, which hired him &#8220;as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name,&#8221; according to a new report.
The <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hunter-biden-ukraine-idUSKBN1WX1P7">Reuters News Agency</a> interviewed more than a dozen people, including executives and former prosecutors in Ukraine, to &#8220;paint a picture of a director who provided advice on legal issues, corporate finance and strategy during a five-year term on the board, which ended in April of this year.&#8221;
Burisma Holdings is one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies. By the end of Biden&#8217;s term, the company had paid $3.4 million to Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, a company headed by Hunter Biden&#8217;s business partner Devon Archer. From Reuters:
<blockquote>Specifically, the records show 18 months in which two payments of $83,333 per month were paid to Rosemont Seneca Bohai for “consulting services.” The two sources said that one of those monthly payments was intended for Biden and one for Archer. Reuters was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the documents or how much money Hunter Biden received.</blockquote>
&#8220;Biden never visited Ukraine for company business during that time, according to three of the people,&#8221; Reuters added.
Biden on Tuesday said he did nothing wrong when he served on the board of the Ukrainian gas company, but acknowledged that he likely got high-paying positions on such boards because “I’m the son of the vice president of the United States.”
“If your last name wasn’t Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Burisma?” ABC News’ Amy Robach asked.
“I don’t know, I don’t know, probably not,” Biden said. “It is impossible for me to be on any of the boards that I just mentioned without saying that I’m the son of the vice president of the United States.”
He went further, saying, “I don’t think that there’s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn’t Biden.”
President Donald Trump has hammered Joe Biden, the former frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, over his son Hunter&#8217;s ties to Ukraine and China. “The Biden family was PAID OFF, pure and simple!” Trump wrote on Twitter this month, accusing Hunter of banking $1.5 billion from the Chinese investment firm.
&#8220;Hunter Biden received over $700,000 from a New York-based capital management company that held equity in a Chinese investment firm with close ties to the Bank of China, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Hunter Biden’s Chinese, Ukrainian and American business dealings has found,&#8221; the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/17/hunter-biden-burisma-ukraine-china/">Daily Caller</a> reported.
Hunter Biden announced Sunday that he will resign from the board of the Chinese-backed private equity company. Hunter served on the board of BHR (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Company, which is backed by several Chinese state-owned companies. In a statement, his lawyer, George Mesires, said Hunter invested “approximately $420,000 in October 2017 to acquire a 10% equity position in BHR, which he still holds.”
But the lawyer said Hunter has never been paid by the company.
“To date, Hunter has not received any compensation for being on BHR’s board of directors. He has not received any return on his investment; there have been no distributions to BHR shareholders since Hunter obtained his equity interest. Moreover, Hunter played no role in directing or making BHR’s investments. Hunter intends to resign from the BHR board of directors on or by October 31, 2019,” Mesires wrote.

Hunter Biden Served As ‘Ceremonial Figure’ On Board For More Than $80,000 Per Month: Report

China

In a newly reported development that further complicates the Democrats&#8217; Ukraine corruption investigation, a State Department witness told congressional investigators this week that in early 2015 he warned about the problematic optics of the vice president&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company while his father was tasked with overseeing Ukraine-U.S. relations.  The career State Department official told investigators his warning was rebuffed by Biden&#8217;s office. Months later, Biden would pressure the Ukraine &#8212; by withholding a billion dollars in aid &#8212; to fire the prosecutor who had looked into the company employing Hunter.
Citing sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/diplomat-tells-investigators-he-raised-alarms-in-2015-about-hunter-bidens-ukraine-work-but-was-rebuffed/2019/10/18/81e35be9-4f5a-4048-8520-0baabb18ab63_story.html">The Washington Post</a> reported Friday that George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state and career State Department official, &#8220;testified Tuesday that he worried that Hunter Biden’s position at the firm Burisma Holdings would complicate efforts by U.S. diplomats to convey to Ukrainian officials the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest.&#8221;
The sources told the Post that Kent &#8220;had concerns that Ukrainian officials would view Hunter Biden as a conduit for currying influence with his father, said the people.&#8221;
Kent reportedly told congressional investigators that Biden&#8217;s office dismissed his warning about the potentially problematic situation by saying the vice president did not have the &#8220;bandwidth&#8221; to address the Hunter-Burisma question because he was dealing with his other son, Beau, battling cancer.
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&#8220;Kent, who also testified about how Trump’s associates raised unfounded allegations about the former ambassador to Ukraine, is the first known example of a career diplomat who raised concerns internally in the Obama administration about Hunter Biden’s board position,&#8221; the Post reports, noting that the paper &#8220;has previously reported that there had been discussions among Biden’s advisers about whether his son’s Ukraine work would be perceived as a conflict of interest, and that one former adviser had been concerned enough to mention it to Biden, though the conversation was brief.&#8221;
The Post also stresses that Kent&#8217;s testimony demonstrates that the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry has the potential to dig up information related to the Bidens that could undermine the Democratic presidential candidate, who is still the party frontrunner, according to multiple polls.
The Post goes on to acknowledge that Trump is not the only one who has raised allegations about the Bidens and Ukraine, as the Democratic frontrunner has &#8220;faced questions about why he didn’t anticipate concerns about potential conflicts of interest as he took a leading role in carrying out U.S. policy toward Ukraine.&#8221;
A former senior Biden national security aide told the Post that while the former Vice President was dealing with Beau&#8217;s ultimately fatal bout with cancer at the time, it had a &#8220;minimal impact on his work,&#8221; the Post reports.
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Hunter Biden addressed his work in Ukraine in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-breaks-silence-on-ukraine-accusations-trump-fires-back-really-bad">interview</a> this week with ABC News, and while he insisted that he did nothing &#8220;improper,&#8221; admitted that, &#8220;in retrospect,&#8221; some of his business dealings while his father was Vice President were a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;
“In retrospect, look, I think that it was poor judgment on my part,” he told ABC News’ Amy Robach in an interview released Tuesday. “Is that I think that it was poor judgment because I don’t believe now, when I look back on it — I know that there was — did nothing wrong at all. However, was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is … a swamp in — in — in many ways? Yeah. &#8230; I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father. That’s where I made the mistake. So I take full responsibility for that.&#8221;
Hunter also admitted that he &#8220;probably&#8221; would not have gotten some of the high-paying jobs he enjoyed if his father weren&#8217;t the vice president.
The Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry was sparked by a whistleblower report on Trump&#8217;s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to &#8220;look into&#8221; the alleged Biden-Burisma scandal.
&#8220;There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;So whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-breaks-silence-on-ukraine-accusations-trump-fires-back-really-bad">Hunter Biden Breaks Silence On Ukraine Accusations; Trump Fires Back: ‘Really Bad’</a>
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Hunter Biden and Joe Biden

Impeachment Witness Tells Congress He Warned About Biden-Ukraine Problem In 2015, Got Shut Down By Biden&#8217;s Office

Democrat House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff reportedly pressed U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker in a secret meeting on October 3 to say that President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President and current Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
&#8220;Volker denied that was the case, noting that Ukrainian leaders did not even know the aid was being withheld, and that they believed their relationship with the United States was moving along satisfactorily, without them having done anything Trump mentioned in his notorious July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,&#8221; The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump">reported</a>. &#8220;When Volker repeatedly declined to agree to Schiff&#8217;s characterization of events, Schiff said, &#8216;Ambassador, you&#8217;re making this much more complicated than it has to be.'&#8221;
The central allegation that Democrats are claiming that Trump is guilty of is engaging in a quid pro quo with Ukraine, instructing them to investigate Biden in exchange for U.S. military support.
&#8220;Part of the other context is vital military support is being withheld from the Ukraine during this period, right?&#8221; Schiff asked, according to the Examiner.
&#8220;That was not part of the context at the time,&#8221; Volker said. &#8220;At least to my knowledge, they [Ukrainian leaders] were not aware of that.&#8221;
It was at this point that Schiff reportedly began to press Volker. According to the Examiner, Schiff and Volker engaged in the following back and forth dialogue:
<blockquote>[Schiff] asked Volker whether he would agree that &#8220;no President of the United States should ever ask a foreign leader to help intervene in a U.S. election.&#8221;
&#8220;I agree with that,&#8221; said Volker.
&#8220;And that would be particularly egregious if it was done in the context of withholding foreign assistance?&#8221; Schiff continued.
Volker balked. &#8220;We&#8217;re getting now into, you know, a conflation of these things that I didn&#8217;t think was actually there.&#8221;
Schiff wanted Volker to agree that &#8220;if it&#8217;s inappropriate for a president to seek foreign help in a U.S. election, it would be doubly so if a president was doing that at a time when the United States was withholding military support from the country.&#8221;
Again, Volker did not agree. &#8220;I can&#8217;t really speak to that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My understanding of the security assistance issue is &#8212; &#8221;
Schiff interrupted. &#8220;Why can&#8217;t you speak to that, ambassador? You&#8217;re a career diplomat. You can understand the enormous leverage that a president would have while withholding military support from an ally at war with Russia. You can understand just how significant that would be, correct?&#8221;
Volker tried to go along without actually agreeing. &#8220;I can understand that that would be significant,&#8221; he said.
Schiff persisted. &#8220;And when that suspension of aid became known to that country, to Ukraine, it would be all the more weighty to consider what the president had asked of them, wouldn&#8217;t it?&#8221;
&#8220;So again, congressman, I don&#8217;t believe &#8212; &#8221; Volker began.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a pretty straightforward question,&#8221; Schiff said.
&#8220;But I don&#8217;t believe the Ukrainians were aware that the assistance was being held up &#8212; &#8221;
&#8220;They became aware of it,&#8221; Schiff said.
&#8220;They became aware later, but I don&#8217;t believe they were aware at the time, so there was no leverage implied,&#8221; Volker said.</blockquote>
Schiff has come under intense fire over the way that he has handled the House Democrats&#8217; attempt to impeach Trump.
During a congressional hearing in late September, Schiff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-adam-schiff-makes-up-quotes-from-trumps-ukraine-call">made up quotes</a> from Trump&#8217;s phone call with Ukraine, quotes that did not exist in the transcript of the call.
Schiff&#8217;s move garnered intense national criticism from top lawmakers and political commentators.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) tweeted: “When you don’t have facts on your side some just make it up. The opening statement by their ring leader was #FullofSchiff. House Dems blatantly lying to justify their impeachment inquiry is horribly timed, poorly written and badly intentioned.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) tweeted: “It is disturbing and outrageous that Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff opens up a hearing of this importance with improvised fake dialogue between President Trump and President Zelenskyy. We should focus on the facts.”
Fox News analyst Brit Hume tweeted: “If the conversation were as damning as Schiff et al would like, he would have simply read directly from it, instead of making up dialogue. Probably not surprising in light of the extravagant collusion claims he made for 2 years.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tweeted: “We now have both the transcript and the complaint. Anyone who reads them will see they prove what we already knew: @RepAdamSchiff and his cronies will peddle conspiracy theories and distort the truth to attack our President. It’s wrong.&#8221;
Schiff also came under intense fire after it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-schiff-knew-about-whistleblower-allegations-days-before-complaint-filed">revealed</a> that his staff had contact with the whistleblower before the whistleblower actually filed an official complaint form.
In a separate <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiffs-staff-includes-2-aides-who-worked-with-whistleblower-at-white-house">report</a>, the Examiner revealed that the whistleblower, a registered Democrat who had worked with Biden in the Obama White House, had also previously worked with two of Schiff&#8217;s current aides.

Adam Schiff

Schiff Pressured Witness To Say Trump Pressured Ukraine To Investigate Biden, Report Says

As former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani finds himself <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/465168-giuliani-associates-who-aided-ukraine-investigation-arrested-on">squarely engulfed</a> in the Ukraine scandal and impeachment inquiry surrounding President Donald Trump, one piece of the puzzle simply does not seem to fit.
If anything is a given about contemporary Republican Party foreign policy, it is a hawkish stance on Iran. That unified front is led by a president who pulled the U.S. out of the 2015 nuclear deal and continues to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/world/middleeast/trump-sanctions-iran.html">impose new sanctions against Tehran</a>. Giuliani, too, talks tough towards the Iranians — most recently <a href="https://en.radiofarda.com/a/giuliani-says-i-am-for-regime-change-in-iran/30182912.html">backing regime change and declaring “down with the tyrants in Iran”</a> when he spoke at a rally outside U.N. headquarters in September.
Yet Giuliani was on the cusp of making a paid appearance at the Armenian-hosted conference of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), a gathering held October 1st–2nd amid the <a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/150676/Iran-to-join-Eurasian-Economic-Union-EAEU-from-October">formalization of Iran’s future membership</a> in that Russian-led trade alliance that consists of five former Soviet republics. Although Giuliani <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-set-to-make-paid-appearance-next-week-at-kremlin-backed-conference/2019/09/27/a15ab242-e133-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html?outputType=amp">ultimately cancelled his 2019 EAEU appearance</a>, he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-headlines-conference-promoting-russia-organized-2018-10">attended the same conference last year</a> and is <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/democratic-senators-renew-questions-about-rudy-giuliani-s-apparent-work-n1058686">coming under rising scrutiny</a> for his <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-rudy-giuliani-mystery-trips-to-russia-armenia-and-ukraine?utm_content=bufferf7573&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">mysterious overseas travel — including to Armenia</a>.
Created to counter the influence of the European Union, the EAEU’s anti-Western approach is particularly apparent through its embrace of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. After the Moscow-based EAEU <a href="https://eurasianet.org/armenia-hopes-to-benefit-from-new-iran-eurasian-union-free-trade-deal">reached a free trade deal with the Iranians last year</a>, EAEU member Armenia this past April signed a <a href="http://www.iran-daily.com/News/251511.html">memorandum of understanding on customs cooperation</a> with Iran in which the two countries agreed to exchange information on the value of goods and vehicles transported through their shared border. In other words, commerce between Tehran and Yerevan flows without restrictions.
On a broader strategic level, both the free trade and customs deals were envisioned as pillars of a bridge linking Iran, the EAEU, and the EU. The final pillar will be cemented on October 27th, when Iran formally joins the EAEU and gains the ability to have its goods “exported to [Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia] with almost zero tariffs,” according to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Simultaneously, Iran is prepared to increase the natural gas its supplies to Armenia, Rouhani <a href="https://en.radiofarda.com/amp/iranian-president-again-offers-closer-ties-to-armenia/30193900.html?__twitter_impression=true">said at the EAEU conference</a>.
It should come as no surprise that the rapid growth of EAEU-Iran ties is spearheaded by Armenia, the only EAEU member which shares a border with Iran. Armenia is also the only EAEU state which maintains a “Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement” with the EU, meaning that the warm economic ties between Tehran and Yerevan could have a domino effect throughout Europe.
Further, Armenia has a long and ongoing history of offering Iran an escape route from international sanctions. Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-sanctions-armenia/exclusive-iran-looks-to-armenia-to-skirt-bank-sanctions-idUSBRE87K05420120821">has reported</a> that Armenian banks help the Iranian regime “obfuscate payments to and from foreign clients and deceive Western intelligence agencies trying to prevent it from expanding its nuclear and missile programs.” In August, the U.S. <a href="https://mirrorspectator.com/2019/08/15/us-sanctions-two-armenian-firms/">levied sanctions</a> on two Armenian companies over their business ties with Iran. And upon meeting with Rouhani at the EAEU gathering, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan affirmed that despite U.S. sanctions, Armenia’s “relations with Iran must be beyond geopolitical influences.”
All of which brings us to the recent EAEU conference, where Giuliani was set to participate in a panel led by Sergey Glazyev, a longtime adviser to Russian President Vladimiar Putin who has been subjected to U.S. sanctions since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Giuliani had been the only American scheduled to speak at the gathering.
How did this former Republican presidential candidate make his way onto an anti-Western conference’s agenda this year, while actually attending the same summit last year? <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-rudy-giuliani-mystery-trips-to-russia-armenia-and-ukraine?utm_content=bufferf7573&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=buffer">According to ProPublica</a>, Giuliani’s 2018 EAEU appearance was funded by Ara Abramyan, chair of the Union of Russian Armenians and president of the World Armenian Congress.
Abramyan also sits on the advisory board of TriGlobal Strategic Ventures, which has been organizing trips to Russia and Ukraine since 2004 for the ex-mayor’s Giuliani Partners, and has been described by The New York Times as “a company that provides image consulting to Russian oligarchs and clients with deep Kremlin ties.”
Before he cancelled his 2019 EAEU appearance, Giuliani had quipped in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giuliani-set-to-make-paid-appearance-next-week-at-kremlin-backed-conference/2019/09/27/a15ab242-e133-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html?outputType=amp">comments to The Washington Post</a> that he would “try to not knowingly talk to a Russian until this is all over.” Yet it is no laughing matter. By opening the door to free trade, the EAEU has set in motion a slippery slope that may lead Iranian businesses directly to the EU. It is a nightmare scenario in which anti-West meets West, and shockingly, one of its enablers is a high-profile Republican who is presumably aligned with his peers when it comes to cracking down on Iranian aggression.
That is why despite his eventual pullout from the EAEU conference, the question remains: Why would Giuliani even consider attending?
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<a href="http://jessebogner.com/">Jesse Bogner</a> is an author and journalist. His memoir and social critique, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Egotist-Memoir-Jesse-Bogner-ebook/dp/B0174UNI66/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1452620828&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=the+egotist">The Egotist</a>, has been translated into five languages. His work has been featured in The Daily Caller, MSN, and The Huffington Post.

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During Tuesday night&#8217;s CNN Democratic presidential primary debate, moderator Anderson Cooper ran interference for former Vice President Joe Biden — though it didn&#8217;t help the presidential hopeful entirely.
Biden has recently been pounded with criticism, mostly from President Donald Trump, for his and his son Hunter Biden&#8217;s shady dealings with Ukraine. When Cooper inquired about the scandal, he helpfully prefaced the question for Biden by repeatedly claiming the former vice president and his son had engaged in absolutely &#8220;no wrongdoing.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine,&#8221; started Cooper. &#8220;I want to point out there&#8217;s no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you.&#8221;
Cooper then noted that Biden announced on Sunday that no one in his family, including Hunter, will be involved with any foreign businesses when he&#8217;s president. &#8220;My question is, if it&#8217;s not okay for a president&#8217;s family to be involved in foreign businesses, why was it okay for your son when you were vice president?&#8221;
Biden said Hunter’s statements on the matter &#8220;speak for themselves&#8221; and claimed he never talked to his son about business, which has been contradicted by Hunter himself. 
“My son did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong,” Biden said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-answers-question-on-hunter-biden-my-son-did-nothing-wrong-i-did-nothing-wrong">Fox News</a>. “I carried out the policy of the United States government, which was to root out corruption in Ukraine and that’s what we should be focusing on.”
During a recent interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Hunter said he “did nothing wrong at all” but used “poor judgment” in retrospect because his actions are giving ammunition to his father’s political opponents.
He also noted that he “didn’t have any discussions with with my father before or after I joined the board as it related to it, other than that brief exchange that we had.” 
As reported by <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered">NPR</a>, Biden began making trips to Ukraine in the spring of 2014, when Hunter took a position on the board of Burisma, Ukraine’s largest private gas company — thereby earning a reported $50,000 a month.
“The question of a possible conflict of interest — with Hunter Biden profiting in a country where his father was actively working with the government — was raised publicly at the time,” NPR reported. Moreover, in March 2016, “Biden made one of his many trips to Ukraine and told the country’s leaders that they had to get rid of the prosecutor” probing corruption “if they wanted $1 billion in U.S. aid.”
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper runs interference for the Democrats, claims that Trump “falsely” accused Biden of corruption 
Biden responds by lying, falsely claims that he never talk to his son about business. Even his son said that he did. <a href="https://t.co/jxeVoHTSIU">pic.twitter.com/jxeVoHTSIU</a>
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WATCH: CNN’s Anderson Cooper Pitches Biden A Softball On Hunter-Ukraine Questions, Whiffs Anyway

In an <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/exclusive-hiding-plain-sight-hunter-biden-defends-foreign-66275416">interview</a> with ABC News published Tuesday, Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, broke his silence over renewed allegations of corruption stirred up by the famous July 25 phone call in which President Trump asked Ukraine&#8217;s president to &#8220;look into&#8221; the Bidens.
Though he repeatedly defended himself against accusations of &#8220;improper&#8221; behavior, Hunter admitted to ABC that some of his private ventures — which include his lucrative position on the board of Ukraine-based energy company Burisma Holdings — was the result of &#8220;poor judgment&#8221; and that he &#8220;probably&#8221; would not have gotten some of his high-paying positions if he was not &#8220;the son of the vice president.&#8221;
Trump has since weighed in on Hunter&#8217;s interview, declaring it &#8220;really bad&#8221; and suggesting it only made the allegations swirling around &#8220;Sleepy Joe&#8221; worse.
&#8220;In retrospect, look, I think that it was poor judgment on my part,&#8221; Hunter Biden told ABC News’ Amy Robach in reference to his business dealings while his father was vice president. &#8220;Is that I think that it was poor judgment because I don&#8217;t believe now, when I look back on it — I know that there was — did nothing wrong at all. However, was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is &#8230; a swamp in — in — in many ways? Yeah.”
&#8220;I gave a hook to some very unethical people to act in illegal ways to try to do some harm to my father,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;That&#8217;s where I made the mistake. So I take full responsibility for that.&#8221;
Though he took the blame for giving his father&#8217;s critics a way to hit him, Hunter underscored that the did nothing wrong. &#8220;Did I do anything improper?&#8221; he said. &#8220;No, not in any way. Not in any way whatsoever.&#8221;
&#8220;What I regret is not taking into account that there would be a Rudy Giuliani and a president of the United States that would be listening to this — this ridiculous conspiracy idea,&#8221; he suggested.
&#8220;If your last name wasn’t Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board or Burisma?” Robach asked in reference to Ukraine-based company that hired him just weeks after his father was tasked by President Obama with overseeing U.S.-Ukraine relations.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know. Probably not, in retrospect,&#8221; Hunter replied. &#8220;But that&#8217;s — you know — I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn&#8217;t Biden. Because my dad was Vice President of the United States. There&#8217;s literally nothing, as a young man or as a full grown adult that — my father in some way hasn&#8217;t had influence over.&#8221;
In a tweet Tuesday, Trump slammed Biden over the interview, saying the whole situation reminded him of another scandal involving a different presidential rival that didn&#8217;t end up playing out well for Democrats in the election.
&#8220;Hunter Biden was really bad on [Good Morning America],&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Now Sleepy Joe has real problems! Reminds me of Crooked Hillary and her 33,000 deleted Emails, not recoverable!&#8221;
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Hunter Biden was really bad on <a href="https://twitter.com/GMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GMA</a>. Now Sleepy Joe has real problems! Reminds me of Crooked Hillary and her 33,000 deleted Emails, not recoverable!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184125314147983361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Biden has openly bragged about his successful attempt as Vice President to use withheld aide to Ukraine to pressure the government to remove the prosecutor who happened to have investigated the company paying his son some $600,000 a year for alleged corruption.
Though the Bidens have repeatedly defended their respective dealings in Ukraine, <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/exclusive-hiding-plain-sight-hunter-biden-defends-foreign-66275416">Good Morning America</a> notes that &#8220;ethics experts told ABC News that Hunter Biden’s role on the board of a Ukrainian oil and gas company called Burisma, while his father fronted U.S. foreign policy toward Kyiv, could present an ethical conundrum.&#8221;
 Transcript via <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/exclusive-hiding-plain-sight-hunter-biden-defends-foreign-66275416">GMA</a>.

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Hunter Biden Breaks Silence On Ukraine Accusations; Trump Fires Back: &#8216;Really Bad&#8217;

Hunter Biden on Tuesday said he did nothing wrong when he served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, but acknowledged that he likely got high-paying positions on such boards because &#8220;I’m the son of the vice president of the United States.&#8221;
In his first public statements since the scandal exploded in Washington, Biden told ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; that it was &#8220;poor judgment&#8221; on his part to hold the job, which reportedly paid him $50,000 a month. Biden made hundreds of thousands of dollars through his employment with Burisma, the largest private gas company in Ukraine — despite having no real qualifications for the job.
“If your last name wasn’t Biden, do you think you would have been asked to be on the board or Burisma?” ABC News’ Amy Robach asked.
“I don’t know, I don’t know, probably not,” Biden said. “It is impossible for me to be on any of the boards that I just mentioned without saying that I’m the son of the vice president of the United States.&#8221;
He went further, saying, “I don’t think that there’s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn’t Biden.”
Biden said he never discussed his foreign business interests with his father, either his work at Burisma or his seat on the board of a China-based investment firm from which he resigned over the weekend. And he bristled when asked about how much he has been paid by foreign companies.
“Look, I&#8217;m a private citizen,” he said. “What I don&#8217;t have to do is sit here and open my kimono as to how it relates to how much money I make &#8230; or didn&#8217;t, but it&#8217;s all been reported.”
He acknowledged, though, that he made a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what, I’m a human and you know what, did I make a mistake?&#8221; Biden asked. &#8220;Well maybe in the grand scheme of things. But did I make a mistake based upon some ethical lapse? Absolutely not.&#8221;
President Trump has hammered Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, over Hunter Biden&#8217;s ties to Ukraine and China. “The Biden family was PAID OFF, pure and simple!” Trump wrote on Twitter this month, accusing Hunter Biden of banking $1.5 billion from the Chinese investment firm.
“Look, this is — literally has no basis in fact. In any way,” Biden told Robach, later adding, “No one ever paid me $1.5 billion, and if they had, I would not be doing this interview right now.”
Biden said many of the charges now swirling around him are pure fantasy.
“They feel like they have the license to go out and say whatever they want,” he said. “It’s insane to even — it feels to me like living in some kind of, you know, ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ where you’re up on the real world and then you fall down the rabbit hole, and, you know, the president’s the Cheshire Cat asking you questions about crazy things that don’t bear any resemblance to the reality of anything that has to do with me.”
Biden also said Trump and his dad are different because &#8220;my dad doesn’t go after other people’s kids. He just doesn’t. Never has.”
“Being the subject of Donald Trump’s ire is a feather in my cap. It’s not something that I go to bed nervous about at night at all. The reason I’m able to do that is because I am absolutely enveloped in love of my family,” he said.

Hunter Biden Admits He Got High-Paying Jobs Because &#8216;I&#8217;m The Son Of The Vice President&#8217;

On Sunday, CBS’ “Face the Nation&#8221; host Margaret Brennan played a Saturday-taped interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
During the segment, Brennan asked Cruz if he believed it was appropriate for President Trump to ask China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. Cruz replied, &#8220;Of course not.&#8221;
<blockquote>BRENNAN: So, China&#8217;s a surveillance state.
CRUZ: Yeah.
BRENNAN: Is it appropriate for President Trump to be saying China should look into the Biden family? Is that appropriate?
CRUZ: Look, of course not. Elections in the U.S. should be decided by Americans, and it&#8217;s not the business of foreign countries, any foreign countries, to be interfering in our elections.</blockquote>
Brennan followed up by asking the senator about Ukraine, and specifically Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani:
<blockquote>BRENNAN: Even Ukraine? I mean when you&#8217;re talking about some of this, I mean do you think that, say, the president&#8217;s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who&#8217;s been talking about China, who&#8217;s been talking about Ukraine. Do you want to hear him testify about this sort of shadow foreign policy?
CRUZ: Listen, foreign countries should stay out of American elections. That&#8217;s true for Russia. That&#8217;s true for Ukraine. That&#8217;s true for China. That&#8217;s true for all of them. It should be the American people deciding elections. I don&#8217;t know what Rudy&#8217;s been saying. I do know though that we should decide our elections. It should be the American people making those decisions.
BRENNAN: And you do want him to testify before your committee?
CRUZ: I think it [would] make a lot of sense for Rudy to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. That&#8217;s ultimately a question for the committee chairman, Lindsey Graham, but I&#8217;d like to see Rudy testify. Yes.</blockquote>
Cruz’s comments come less than two weeks after the president suggested to reporters that China should investigate the Bidens.
Standing before a gaggle of press outside the White House on October 3, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-on-trump-saying-china-should-investigate-biden-i-dont-think-its-a-real-request">said,</a> &#8220;China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine.&#8221;
When asked a followup question about whether he’d spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president replied:
<blockquote>I haven’t, but it’s certainly something we can start thinking about because I’m sure that President Xi does not like being on that kind of scrutiny where billions of dollars is taken out of his country by a guy that just got kicked out of the Navy. He got kicked out of the Navy &#8212; all of a sudden, he’s getting billions of dollars. You know what they call that? They call that a payoff.</blockquote>
The next day, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was asked about the appropriateness of such a remark. The senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-on-trump-saying-china-should-investigate-biden-i-dont-think-its-a-real-request">stated</a> that it was his belief that President Trump was essentially trolling the media with his China remark. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rep-jordan-i-dont-think-americans-believe-trump-thinks-china-is-going-to-investigate">echoed</a> Rubio’s sentiment just days later during an interview on ABC.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) had a decidedly different take on Trump’s remarks, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-mitt-romney-a-fool-and-suggests-he-should-be-impeached">previously reported</a>:
<blockquote>In a written statement to the <a href="https://www.omaha.com/news/nation/morton/americans-don-t-look-to-chinese-commies-for-the-truth/article_d229258d-0d9d-5fdf-800a-7c74f6f5c253.html">Omaha World-Herald</a> regarding Trump’s China ask, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said, “Hold up: Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth.” He added, “If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that’s a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps.”
However, Sasse also accused Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of “running a partisan clown show in the House.”</blockquote>
The suggestion that the president’s remarks were a troll of the media are somewhat undermined by the following two tweets sent on October 3 and 5:
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As the President of the United States, I have an absolute right, perhaps even a duty, to investigate, or have investigated, CORRUPTION, and that would include asking, or suggesting, other Countries to help us out!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1179925259417468928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote>As the President of the United States, I have an absolute right, perhaps even a duty, to investigate, or have investigated, CORRUPTION, and that would include asking, or suggesting, other Countries to help us out!</blockquote>
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Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics. If Mitt worked this hard on Obama, he could have won. Sadly, he choked!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180484483147059200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote>Somebody please wake up Mitt Romney and tell him that my conversation with the Ukrainian President was a congenial and very appropriate one, and my statement on China pertained to corruption, not politics. If Mitt worked this hard on Obama, he could have won. Sadly, he choked!</blockquote>
After the initial exchange regarding appropriate presidential behavior, Cruz further noted that the Justice Department &#8220;should investigate violations of law &#8230; if there’s credible evidence of a violation.&#8221;
<blockquote>BRENNAN: So the president is often talking about the need to look in to Joe Biden. If he is so concerned, would it be in any way appropriate for him to bring it to his own Justice Department instead of talking about foreign countries looking into his political rival?
CRUZ: I have long advocated that the Justice Department should enforce the law, should investigate corruption, should investigate violations of law, regardless of party.
BRENNAN: But to be clear, you&#8217;re not calling for the Justice Department to investigate the Biden family?
CRUZ: Look, I believe the Justice Department should investigate violations of law. If there&#8217;s credible evidence of a violation of law, yes, they should investigate, and I&#8217;ll tell you what I have called for. I think President Trump wisely released the transcript of his conversation with the Ukrainian government. I think that was good because a lot of what the Democrats had been raising, alleging an illegal quid pro quo, was not in fact backed up by the transcript. But I think actually the administration should do the exact same thing for Joe Biden. That it should release the transcripts of Joe Biden&#8217;s conversations with Ukraine. Use the same standard for President Trump and Joe Biden and let the American people read the transcripts and decide.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Cruz Agrees It’s Inappropriate To Say ‘China Should Look Into The Biden Family’

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called for a probe into four Democratic Senators on Sunday over a letter that they sent to Ukraine in 2018 that threatened to withhold aid from the country if it did not continue to investigate President Donald Trump.
When asked by left-wing &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; host Chuck Todd about whether he was concerned over Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s interaction with Ukraine, Paul responded, &#8220;If anything is consistent here it&#8217;s that both parties have tried to involve themselves in Ukraine. So for example, four senators, Democrats, wrote a letter to the Ukrainian government and said, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t keep investigating Trump we may reconsider our bipartisan support for your aid.&#8217; Both parties seem to be doing this.&#8221;
Speaking on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, Paul said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t really know enough about what he&#8217;s doing. I knew he traveled over there to try to seek information on Hunter Biden&#8217;s corruption. I think a lot of Americans see the $50,000 a month Hunter Biden was making and it doesn&#8217;t pass the smell test. I think most people do think there was some corruption involved with Hunter Biden. And I hope we do get to the bottom of it.&#8221;
&#8220;If you&#8217;re going to condemn Trump you need to condemn the Democrat senators. It shouldn&#8217;t be just one-sided,&#8221; Paul concluded. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s going after President Trump. Someone needs to actually, in an objective way, evaluate a letter from four Democrats that said to Ukraine, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t keep investigating Trump we will reconsider our bipartisan support for aid.&#8217; That&#8217;s a threat. And that&#8217;s the same kind of stuff they&#8217;re accusing Trump of. But nobody&#8217;s talking about that the Democrats are doing exactly the same thing.&#8221;
Paul&#8217;s remarks about the four Democratic Senators who wrote a threatening letter to Ukraine comes from an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/24/democrats-investigation-might-do-more-hurt-biden-than-trump/">article</a> in The Washington Post which noted that three Democratic Senators – Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) – &#8220;wrote a letter to Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Yuriy Lutsenko, expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical to the Mueller probe.&#8221;
&#8220;In the letter, they implied that their support for U.S. assistance to Ukraine was at stake,&#8221; the article continued. &#8220;Describing themselves as &#8216;strong advocates for a robust and close relationship with Ukraine,&#8217; the Democratic senators declared, &#8216;We have supported [the] capacity-building process and are disappointed that some in Kyiv appear to have cast aside these [democratic] principles to avoid the ire of President Trump,&#8217; before demanding Lutsenko &#8216;reverse course and halt any efforts to impede cooperation with this important investigation.'&#8221;
The fourth Democratic senator to whom Paul was referring was Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy.
In September, The Hill&#8217;s John Solomon <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/462658-lets-get-real-democrats-were-first-to-enlist-ukraine-in-us-elections">wrote</a> that Murphy &#8220;delivered a pointed message to Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky&#8221; that &#8220;Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s family.&#8221;
&#8220;The implied message did not require an interpreter for Zelensky to understand: Investigate the Ukraine dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and you jeopardize Democrats&#8217; support for future U.S. aid to Kiev,&#8221; Solomon concluded.
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Rand Paul: “Four senators, Democrats, wrote a letter to the Ukrainian government and said, ‘If you don&#8217;t keep investigating Trump we may reconsider our bipartisan support for your aid &#8230; Someone needs to actually, in an objective way, evaluate [the] letter &#8230; That&#8217;s a threat’” <a href="https://t.co/59kyjIN46N">pic.twitter.com/59kyjIN46N</a>
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Rand Paul

Rand Paul Calls For Probe Into 4 Democratic Senators Over Threats To Ukraine

Democratic Party

The goalposts they are a’ changing.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Sunday that there need not have been a desire for a quid pro quo agreement between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for their phone discussion to lead to the president&#8217;s impeachment.
Democrats claim Trump was withholding millions in U.S. aid, which he wanted to exchange for Ukranian help investigating the business dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s son Hunter, who made upwards of a million dollars from a gas company in the country. Now, Schiff says no quid pro quo is necessary.
&#8220;We have discovered in short order not only the contents of that call, but also the preparatory work that went into the call. The effort to condition something the Ukrainian president deeply sought, and that was a meeting with the president to establish that this new president of Ukraine had a powerful patron in the president of the United States that was of vital importance to Ukraine, was being conditioned on digging up dirt on the Bidens,&#8221; Schiff said on Sunday&#8217;s episode of CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face The Nation.&#8221;
&#8220;So, you see that as the quid quo pro, not just the military aid?&#8221; host Margaret Brennan asked.
&#8220;Well, first of all, there doesn&#8217;t need to be a quid pro quo,&#8221; the California Democrat said. &#8220;But it is clear already, I think, from the text messages that this meeting that the Ukrainian president sought was being conditioned on their willingness to intervene in the U.S. election to help the president. That is a terrible abuse of the president’s power. Now whether that abuse goes further, that is the withholding of military aid also as leverage, there&#8217;s certainly strong indication that’s true as well.&#8221;
Weeks before Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump put on hold $391 million in aid. He says he did so to pressure other nations to contribute more money and to take time to examine programs. Democrats, though, say it was a clear quid pro quo: Dig up some dirt on Biden and his son, or no money.
But The New York Times’ Kenneth Vogel posted an interesting statement on Twitter last week in the midst of the mess. “The Ukrainians weren’t made aware that the assistance was being delayed/reviewed until more than one month after the call,” he wrote.
Here’s exactly what Trump said in the call regarding Biden’s son, according to a transcript released by the White House:
<blockquote>I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that’s really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him, that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news, so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution, and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it … It sounds horrible to me.</blockquote>
In an odd twist, Joe Biden is on tape discussing his push for the Ukrainian government to fire Viktor Shokin, bragging that he had threatened to withhold $1 billion until Shokin was canned. “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,” he says he told Ukrainian leaders. “Well son of a bitch, he got fired,” Biden says with a smile in the video clip.
Now that&#8217;s a quid pro quo.

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GOALPOST SHIFT: Schiff Now Says There Doesn’t Need To Be A Quid Pro Quo

On Wednesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about the Trump administration’s response to Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment inquiry. Video and partial transcript below: 
Very, very Trumpy letter sent from the White House to congressional Democrats about the impeachment inquiry. There have been some question about whether the White House is going to let certain people testify or not testify before Congress. Basically, what it comes down to is will the White House cooperate with this impeachment inquiry, or are they going to stonewall and tell the Democrats to shove it?
Now, I&#8217;m not a gambling man, but if I were, I probably would have bet on the latter. And if I had, I would&#8217;ve won a lot of money. This letter puts it in no uncertain terms, the White House is not going to cooperate. The striking thing about this letter is it reads not like it was written by a White House lawyer. It reads like it was written by Trump himself. I&#8217;m sure it was written by lawyers because there are a lot of details in it, but the language, and the rhetoric, and the tone, obviously, has been set from the very top, and that begins with President Trump. 
So the letter goes: 
<blockquote>Dear Madam Speaker and Mrs. Chairman:
I write on behalf of President Donald J. Trump in response to your numerous, legally unsupported demands made as part of what you have labeled — contrary to the Constitution of the United States and all passed by partisan precedent — as an “impeachment inquiry.” As you know, you have designed and implemented your inquiry in a manner that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process. </blockquote>
This is an important way to begin, because you might remember from past impeachments — I guess for most people, the only one they&#8217;ve lived through is Bill Clinton, then they were about to impeach Richard Nixon, and you probably weren&#8217;t alive in the 1860s for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. 
One thing that&#8217;s been very strange in the coverage of this impeachment is they keep referring to the “formal impeachment inquiry,” the official formal impeachment inquiry. And they&#8217;re saying this in the mainstream media to give this impeachment push this air of legal seriousness, to give it an air of being official.
But what is a formal impeachment inquiry? Drew Klavan says it is that you put on your tiara and a nice ball gown, and then you talk about impeachment. It&#8217;s not like the House has taken a vote on anything, they haven&#8217;t impeached the president. They haven&#8217;t taken a vote to impeach the president. [It’s] just Nancy Pelosi came out one day and said, Yes we&#8217;re going to start an impeachment inquiry, and we&#8217;re going to give it to some committees. 
But that&#8217;s not how impeachment really works. And so for right now, it&#8217;s all just bluster. It&#8217;s all just a way to drag people from the White House, in front of Congress, on television, during an election year. Because, the impeachment inquiry such as it is, is fundamentally political. Not legal, but political. 
This gets to another reason why it&#8217;s illegitimate. We&#8217;ll get to that in a second. But that&#8217;s the setup. What the White House is saying, is that what you are doing is not valid, it is not legitimate, you&#8217;re not following the normal legal processes, and so we are not going to participate. They go on: 
<blockquote>For example, you&#8217;ve denied the President the right to cross-examine witnesses, to call witnesses, to receive transcripts of testimony, to have access to evidence, to have counsel present, and many other basic rights guaranteed to all Americans. You have conducted your proceedings in secret. You have violated civil liberties and the separation of powers by threatening the Executive Branch officials, claiming that you will seek to punish those who exercise fundamental constitutional rights and prerogatives. All of this violates the Constitution, the rule of law, and every past precedent. Never before in our history has the House of Representatives — under the control of either political party — taken the American people down the dangerous path you seem determined to pursue.</blockquote>
Now, the key here is the separation of powers, because the way that the House is describing this impeachment process is, they&#8217;re saying, We have a right. We have a duty, as a coequal branch of government to rein in the executive. We are going to go in there and take the executive down for what, I don&#8217;t know what is it, collusion with Ukraine now? 
It used to be collusion with Russia, then it was Stormy Daniels. They&#8217;re going to find something because in D.C., you could indict a ham sandwich. So they&#8217;re going to try to find some legal basis for impeaching Trump, but this is obviously an impeachment in search of a crime.
The separation of powers here matters because what people are not talking about is reining in the Congress. The reason that the Founders and the Framers of our Constitution set up this impeachment process is to prevent oversteps by the executive. Sure, but also oversteps by the legislature, because it&#8217;s not as though Congress is the most important branch of government. It&#8217;s a coequal branch: One of three. 
This is actually why, if the president is impeached, he will go to trial in the Senate, and presiding over that trial will be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Why is the Chief Justice there? Is the Chief Justice there because he has a really nice robe and he looks really good and he can smile on camera? No, he&#8217;s there because he represents a coequal branch of government. 
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KNOWLES: An Impeachment In Search Of A Crime

On Wednesday, the Biden campaign sent a letter excoriating The New York Times for daring to provide coverage that is unfavorable to former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden. The campaign also sent letters to enormous news disseminators Facebook and Twitter for allowing ads that highlight Biden&#8217;s shady dealings with Ukraine.
In the letter to the Times essentially trying to bully the newspaper into only publishing favorable coverage on the powerful Democrat, the Biden campaign complains that President Donald Trump is the real threat to a free press.
The two-page letter is addressed to Dean Baquet, executive editor of the Times, and is penned by Biden&#8217;s deputy campaign manager and communications director, Kate Bedingfield.
According to Bedingfield, the Times has done &#8220;little&#8221; internalizing of &#8220;the sobering lessons of 2016.&#8221; In other words, the Times did not do enough to stop Trump from being elected in 2016, and the Times is similarly failing to stop him in the upcoming 2020 election.
Bedingfield&#8217;s letter highlights the Times running an op-ed critical of Hunter Biden&#8217;s dealings with Ukraine while his father was serving as vice president. The op-ed was written by Peter Schweizer, whom Bedingfield smeared in the letter as a &#8220;discredited right-wing polemicist.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered">NPR</a>, Biden began making trips to Ukraine in the spring of 2014, when his son Hunter took a position on the board of Burisma, Ukraine’s largest private gas company — thereby earning a reported $50,000 a month. “The question of a possible conflict of interest — with Hunter Biden profiting in a country where his father was actively working with the government — was raised publicly at the time,” the left-leaning outlet noted. Moreover, in March 2016, “Biden made one of his many trips to Ukraine and told the country’s leaders that they had to get rid of the prosecutor” probing corruption “if they wanted $1 billion in U.S. aid,” NPR reported. Stunningly, Biden openly bragged last year at the Council on Foreign Relations about wielding his influence to seemingly protect his son. “I said, ‘You’re not getting the [$1 billion]. I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b****. He got fired,” he harrowingly boasted.
Bedingfield complained by name about journalist Ken Vogel and accused the paper of spreading right-wing and Russian propaganda. &#8220;What was especially troubling about the Times&#8217; active participation in this smear campaign is that prior to its reporting on the subject by Ken Vogel, this conspiracy had been relegated to the likes of Breitbart, Russian propaganda, and another conspiracy theorist, regular Hannity guest John Solomon,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://mailchi.mp/cnn/rs-oct-9-2019">said</a>.
Lacking even the most basic self-awareness, the letter also took a shot at President Donald Trump for being the real threat to a free press:
<blockquote>&#8220;Like so many media organizations today, the Times is confronted with unprecedented challenges and judgment calls as it navigates a high-volume, competitive news environment that is heavily disrupted by increased trafficking in misinformation online and complicated by the repulsive attacks on the free press by a commander-in-chief who is hostile to the truth itself.&#8221;</blockquote>
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Here&#39;s the letter Biden deputy campaign manager <a href="https://twitter.com/KBeds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KBeds</a> sent NYT editor Dean Baquet. &quot;Are you truly blind to what you got wrong in 2016, or are you deliberately continuing policies that distort reality for the sake of controversy and the clicks&#8230;?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fCJ8Ii32Ds">https://t.co/fCJ8Ii32Ds</a> <a href="https://t.co/DoVzSm5MXI">pic.twitter.com/DoVzSm5MXI</a>
&mdash; Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1182137760670523392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Times responded on Thursday to Biden, defending its reporting.
&#8220;Our coverage of the Biden campaign and Hunter Biden has been fair and accurate,&#8221; a spokesperson said in a statement to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/media/joe-biden-new-york-times-reliable-sources/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;[The Times] will continue to cover Joe Biden with the same tough and fair standards we apply to every candidate in the race and we&#8217;re happy to sit down with Biden advisers anytime to discuss news coverage.&#8221;
The spokesperson also noted that the Schweizer op-ed was published in the paper&#8217;s opinion section, &#8220;where [the] mission is to invite intelligent discussion on a range of opinions and ideas. The op-ed makes an argument that nonpartisan government watchdogs would make, arguing in favor of a law that would prohibit self-dealing by those with government connections.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/10/media/joe-biden-new-york-times-reliable-sources/index.html">CNN</a>, the Biden campaign also sent letters to Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday, &#8220;imploring the companies not to run an ad that spread the debunked theory about Biden and Ukraine.&#8221;

Biden Sends Letter Excoriating New York Times For Unfavorable Coverage. NYT Responds.

2020 Election

New York Times

Comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a press conference Thursday &#8220;should end this Democrat Scam,&#8221; President Trump says — if the Democrats and their allies in the media weren&#8217;t committed to it.
&#8220;The President of the Ukraine just stated again, in the strongest of language, that President Trump applied no pressure and did absolutely nothing wrong. He used the strongest language possible,&#8221; Trump tweeted Thursday. &#8220;That should end this Democrat Scam, but it won’t, because the Dems &amp; Media are FIXED!&#8221;
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The President of the Ukraine just stated again, in the strongest of language, that President Trump applied no pressure and did absolutely nothing wrong. He used the strongest language possible. That should end this Democrat Scam, but it won’t, because the Dems &amp; Media are FIXED!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1182289435955777537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In a &#8220;press marathon&#8221; Thursday, President Zelensky, the world leader on the other end of the line during the famous July 25 call that sparked the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry, once again stressed that &#8220;there was no blackmail.&#8221;
As evidence, Zelensky pointed to the fact that his government didn&#8217;t even know that the U.S. was withholding $391 million in military aid until weeks after the call.
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&#8220;There was no blackmail.&#8221; Ukrainian President Zelenskiy says he didn&#8217;t know U.S. military aid funds for Ukraine had been blocked until after his July 25 call with President Trump. <a href="https://t.co/UwG46WeFmD">pic.twitter.com/UwG46WeFmD</a>
— Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (@RFERL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RFERL/status/1182284021306462210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As BuzzFeed&#8217;s Stephen Miller <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/ukraine-unaware-aid-holdup-month-after-trump-call">reported</a> last week, Zelensky&#8217;s government &#8220;was still checking its bank account for US aid for a month after the Trump call.&#8221;
&#8220;The Ukrainian government didn’t know it was being held up in Washington by Trump, according to the two Ukrainian officials,&#8221; Miller reported. &#8220;Nearly a month after the call — which Zelensky has since described as &#8216;good&#8217; and Trump has called &#8216;perfect&#8217; — the Ukrainian government was left stumped when they received word that the aid had in fact been suspended.&#8221;
&#8220;Ukraine finally learned about the holdup in late August, nearly a month after the call, according to Olena Zerkal, the deputy foreign minister who was acting minister at the time of the call,&#8221; Miller explained. &#8220;And they only found out from a &#8216;letter sent to us from our Washington Embassy&#8217; that provided no explanation for the move, she said. Zerkal said she couldn’t remember the exact date of the letter, but it was before <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/28/trump-ukraine-military-aid-russia-1689531" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Politico</a> broke the news of the holdup on Aug. 28.&#8221;
A U.S. official confirmed the timeline to BuzzFeed and noted that Ukraine wasn&#8217;t informed about the delay in aid because the administration expected to resolve the issue quickly.
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-ordered-hold-on-military-aid-days-before-calling-ukrainian-president-officials-say/2019/09/23/df93a6ca-de38-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a>, Trump ordered the aid to be withheld a week before the July 25 call. Trump has says that he ordered the aid to be withheld because the U.S. is attempting &#8220;to make sure that country is honest.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s very important to talk about corruption,&#8221; Trump said last week. &#8220;If you don’t talk about corruption, why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt?&#8221;
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who is at the center of the impeachment inquiry, likewise used aid to force Ukraine to address corruption — at least that&#8217;s his explanation for his demand of the Ukrainian government to remove the prosecutor who investigated his son&#8217;s company.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ukraine-president-were-ready-to-investigate-ukraines-alleged-meddling-in-2016-u-s-election">Ukraine President: We’re Ready To Investigate Ukraine’s Alleged Meddling In 2016 U.S. Election</a>

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Trump: What Ukraine&#8217;s President Just Said &#8216;Should End This Democrat Scam&#8217;

Volodymyr Zelensky

During a &#8220;press marathon&#8221; on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the topic of his famous July 25 phone call with President Trump, including one of the &#8220;favors&#8221; Trump mentioned: to look into &#8220;the whole situation&#8221; of Ukraine&#8217;s role in the 2016 U.S. election.
&#8220;Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446">Politico</a>&#8216;s Kenneth Vogel and David Stern wrote in a January 2017 report that has since been cited by multiple administration officials. &#8220;Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found.&#8221;
During his call with Zelensky, Trump asked for a &#8220;favor&#8221; that included looking into &#8220;this whole situation with Ukraine&#8221; in 2016, including the role played by Ukrainian-based cybersecurity company Crowdstrike, which the Democratic National Committee used to review the hacking of its emails.
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&#8220;I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,&#8221; Trump told Zelensky. &#8220;I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike&#8230; I guess you have one of your wealthy people&#8230; The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you&#8217;re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it&#8217;s very important that you do it if that&#8217;s possible.&#8221;
While <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/08/gop-theory-that-ukraine-set-up-trump/">The Washington Post</a> says that &#8220;evidence so far indicates there is nothing that took place in Ukraine that even begins to compare to the Russian intervention in the 2016 election&#8221; and slams Republicans&#8217; Crowdstrike suspicions as a &#8220;crazy stuff,&#8221; the Trump administration and some Republican congressmen, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), believe there&#8217;s more there than the media would like to admit.
During his &#8220;press marathon&#8221; Thursday, Zelensky announced that his government is &#8220;ready to investigate Ukraine&#8217;s alleged meddling in the U.S. elections,&#8221; referencing the 2016 election, Eastern Europe Correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1182261326992871424">Christopher Miller</a> reported Thursday in a <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/10/10/siren-president-zelenskiy-says-were-ready-to-investigate-ukraines-alleged-meddling-in-the-us-elections/">series of tweets</a> issued during the press conference.
Zelensky also addressed his new attorney general that will be heading up future investigations.
&#8220;This is a new, young team, we&#8217;ll have a new attorney general, an open, honest person, 100%. This is my man, I said. I meant it was a person from my team, not from the old attorney general&#8217;s,&#8221; he said.
Asked by Miller about Ukraine&#8217;s potential meddling in the next election, Zelensky told him, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to interfere in any way in the U.S. elections and I will not be doing it&#8230; Elect your own president and do not interfere in the future elections of an independent Ukraine. With due respect for the United States and America&#8217;s policy, we are not serving the latter&#8217;s purpose, as we are an independent country. However, we do not want to lose our relations, we wish to strengthen them instead.&#8221;
Zelensky also once again confirmed that he did not even know about the U.S. withholding military aid until after the phone call with Trump, undermining the Democrats&#8217; claim that Trump was using the aid as &#8220;pressure&#8221; to force Ukraine to &#8220;dig up dirt&#8221; on Joe Biden.
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Zelenskiy today also confirmed he didn&#8217;t know US had held up $391 million in military aid when he spoke to Trump on July 25. Here&#8217;s my reporting on that from last week, with comments from then-puzzled Ukrainian officials. <a href="https://t.co/I4Z59fsUvD">https://t.co/I4Z59fsUvD</a>
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1182267730872942592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump has since responded to Zelensky&#8217;s statements Thursday as more evidence that the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry is a &#8220;scam.&#8221;
&#8220;The President of the Ukraine just stated again, in the strongest of language, that President Trump applied no pressure and did absolutely nothing wrong,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;He used the strongest language possible. That should end this Democrat Scam, but it won’t, because the Dems &amp; Media are FIXED!&#8221;
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The President of the Ukraine just stated again, in the strongest of language, that President Trump applied no pressure and did absolutely nothing wrong. He used the strongest language possible. That should end this Democrat Scam, but it won’t, because the Dems &amp; Media are FIXED!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1182289435955777537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Below is the much-analyzed section of the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-transcript-call/index.html">transcript</a> of the July 25 call in which Trump asked for the favor to the look into Ukraine&#8217;s role in the 2016 election and alleged corruption involving the Bidens:
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<blockquote>Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike&#8230; I guess you have one of your wealthy people&#8230; The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you&#8217;re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it&#8217;s very important that you do it if that&#8217;s possible.
Zelensky: Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation. We are ready to open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United States and Ukraine. For that purpose, I just recalled our ambassador from United States and he will be replaced by a very competent and very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer. I would also like and hope to see him having your trust and your confidence and have personal relations with you so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr. Giuliani just recently and we are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again that you have nobody but friends around us. I will make sure that I surround myself with the best and most experienced people. I also wanted to tell you that we are friends. We are great friends and you Mr. President have friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly.. That I can assure you.
Trump: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that&#8217;s really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what&#8217;s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, There&#8217;s a lot of talk about Biden&#8217;s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it&#8230; It sounds horrible to me.
Zelensky: I wanted to tell you about the prosecutor. First of all, I understand and I&#8217;m knowledgeable about the situation. Since we have won the absolute majority in our Parliament, the next prosecutor general will be 100% my person, my candidate, who will be approved, by the parliament and will start as a new prosecutor in September. He or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue. The issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty so we will take care of that and will work on the investigation of the case. On top of that, I would kindly ask you if you have any additional information that you can provide to us, it would be very helpful for the investigation to make sure that we administer justice in our country with regard to the Ambassador to the United States from Ukraine as far as I recall her name was Ivanovich. It was great that you were the first one who told me that she was a bad ambassador because I agree with you 100%. Her attitude towards me was far from the best as she admired the previous President and she was on his side. She would not accept me as a new President well enough.
Trump: Well, she&#8217;s going to go through some things. I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call and I am also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. I&#8217;m sure you will figure it out. I heard the prosecutor was treated very badly and he was a very fair prosecutor so good luck with everything. Your economy is going to get better and better I predict. You have a lot of assets. It&#8217;s a great country. I have many Ukrainian friends, their incredible people.</blockquote>
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Ukraine President: We&#8217;re Ready To Investigate Ukraine&#8217;s Alleged Meddling In 2016 U.S. Election

Hillary Clinton

On Tuesday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talks about how President Trump doubles down and trolls the press with his remarks on Ukraine and China. Video and partial transcript below: 
But then President Trump himself, a unique character in American politics, decides he&#8217;s not going to stay quiet; he&#8217;s not going to defend himself; he&#8217;s going to double down. And so here is President Trump&#8217;s response on colluding with foreign governments over the question of the Bidens&#8217; corruption. 
<blockquote>TRUMP: Well, I would think that if they were honest about it they would start a major investigation into the Bidens. It&#8217;s a very simple answer. They should investigate the Bidens, because how does a company that&#8217;s newly formed, and all these companies, if you look at — by the way, likewise, China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened to China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine. So I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens.
TRUMP: Because nobody has any doubt that they weren&#8217;t crooked that was a crooked deal a hundred percent. He had no knowledge of energy, didn&#8217;t know the first thing about it. All of a sudden he&#8217;s getting fifty thousand dollars a month plus a lot of other things. Nobody has any doubt. And they got rid of a prosecutor &#8212; who was a very tough prosecutor &#8212; they got rid of him. Now they&#8217;re trying to make it the opposite way, but they got it. So if I were the president, I would certainly recommend that of Ukraine.</blockquote>
Absolutely the perfect response to this. I guess it gets back to our point: sometimes the wrong decision is better than indecision. I don&#8217;t think this is the wrong decision. I think it&#8217;s perfectly defensible to tell Ukraine to look into corruption and their own interference in the 2016 election, and I think it&#8217;s perfectly right for President Trump to double down on that. Because what&#8217;s he going to do? He could apologize and explain himself to the press — that&#8217;s not going to get him anywhere, and there&#8217;s no reason for him to do it. He doesn&#8217;t owe those people one word of explanation. 
So, what he does is he goes out there, and he makes a joke. And even Marco Rubio, who is obviously no particular fan of the president, Marco Rubio was asked about this response from Trump and he just explains to the press &#8212; not President Trump&#8217;s remarks &#8212; he explains to the press how stupid the press is. 
<blockquote>REPORTER: You think it&#8217;s okay for President Trump to ask China to launch an investigation of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden?
RUBIO: I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s a real request or him just needling the press knowing that you guys are going to get outraged by it. He&#8217;s pretty good at getting everybody fired up, and he&#8217;s been doing that for a while and the media responded. Right on right on right on task. 
REPORTER: You&#8217;re one of the loudest critics of China and its human rights abuses. I mean is it okay to ask him to say that?
REPORTER: I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a real request, I think he did it to get you guys. I think he did it to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. I said, I mean, he plays it like a violin and everyone falls right into it. That&#8217;s not a real request.</blockquote>
Of course. I mean, this is now Senator Marco Rubio not acting like a senator &#8212; he&#8217;s acting like he&#8217;s a panelist on Special Report. He&#8217;s acting like a political analyst and he&#8217;s saying, You idiots! 
If President Trump were going to use the weight of the federal government to leverage all of that and get a foreign power and an adversarial power like China to investigate his political opponents, if he were really doing that, he&#8217;d probably pick up the phone. If you were really doing that, maybe you wouldn&#8217;t pick up the phone, he&#8217;d get some back channel-spy to go in and ask and they would basically do it like Obama did it, like Obama and Hillary and the Democrats did it. But that’s not what Trump is doing. He’s forcing the press, and manipulating the press, to expose their own hypocrisy. 
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KNOWLES: Trump Baits The Media On Ukraine. They Fall For It.

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The man at the center of the famous phone call that sparked the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry is now officially calling for the impeachment of his potential 2020 presidential opponent.
After several of his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls announced their full support of impeaching President Trump for asking his Ukrainian counterpart to &#8220;look into&#8221; alleged corruption involving Biden and his son, the former vice president has made it official: He now believes Congress should impeach Trump.
&#8220;To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached,&#8221; Biden told an audience at a town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, as reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/09/politics/joe-biden-trump-impeached/index.html">CNN</a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s shooting holes in the Constitution. And we cannot let him get away with it.&#8221;
Biden said Trump has &#8220;already convicted himself&#8221; by allegedly &#8220;obstructing justice&#8221; by &#8220;refusing to comply with the congressional inquiry.&#8221;
&#8220;In full view of the world and the American people, Donald Trump has violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed impeachable acts,&#8221; the Democratic frontrunner declared.
&#8220;Trump will do anything to get re-elected, including violating the most basic forms of democracy,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s stunning, and it&#8217;s dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;No president in history has dared to engage in such unimaginable behavior,&#8221; Biden alleged.
In response, Trump fired off a tweet pointing to the issue at the heart of his much-analyzed phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and suggesting that Biden was only getting behind the impeachment push because he is being rapidly overtaken in the polls by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
&#8220;So pathetic to see Sleepy Joe Biden, who with his son, Hunter, and to the detriment of the American Taxpayer, has ripped off at least two countries for millions of dollars, calling for my impeachment &#8211; and I did nothing wrong,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Joe’s Failing Campaign gave him no other choice!&#8221;
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So pathetic to see Sleepy Joe Biden, who with his son, Hunter, and to the detriment of the American Taxpayer, has ripped off at least two countries for millions of dollars, calling for my impeachment &#8211; and I did nothing wrong. Joe’s Failing Campaign gave him no other choice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181991604493656064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump followed that tweet up with a video highlighting the corruption claims against Biden and calling for Americans to push back against the Democrats&#8217; efforts to &#8220;overturn the election.&#8221;
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Sleepy Joe Biden! <a href="https://t.co/oZtytImXqq">pic.twitter.com/oZtytImXqq</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181995834369544198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Biden&#8217;s slightly belated — at least compared to some of his Democratic rivals — call for impeachment follows the White House&#8217;s decision to, as The New York Times put it, &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/us/politics/sondland-trump-ukraine-impeach.html">declare war on impeachment</a>&#8221; in a letter to Democratic congressional leaders Tuesday.
&#8220;Your unprecedented actions have left the president with no choice,&#8221; the letter White House Counsel Pat A. Cipollone sent to Democratic leaders Tuesday reads. &#8220;In order to fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the executive branch and all future occupants of the office of the presidency, President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.&#8221;
While the Democrats initially launched their impeachment inquiry over claims of a quid pro quo issued by Trump to Zelensky, after a transcript released by the Trump administration showed no such overt &#8220;pressure,&#8221; Democratic leaders have increasingly shifted the rhetoric toward &#8220;obstruction.&#8221; In his statement on Wednesday, Biden notably fell in line with his fellow Democrats&#8217; &#8220;obstruction&#8221; narrative.
The impeachment inquiry was sparked by a <a href="https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf">whistleblower complaint</a> accusing Trump of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election,” particularly by “pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President’s main domestic political rivals.” Amid a flood of reports about the complaint, Trump authorized the release its release as well as the release of a transcript of the call in which Trump did ask for Zelensky to &#8220;look into&#8221; the Biden matter but offered no &#8220;quid pro quo&#8221; as initially alleged.
&#8220;I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down, and that’s really unfair,&#8221; Trump told Zelensky. &#8220;A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what’s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it … It sounds horrible to me.&#8221;
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Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Campaigns In New Hampshire

Biden Calls For Trump Impeachment; Trump Smacks ‘Sleepy Joe’ With Ukraine Video

On Tuesday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about Joe Biden’s declining poll numbers and Elizabeth Warren’s growing popularity among the far-left. Video and partial transcript below: 
In the 2020 race, Joe Biden is all but dead. Elizabeth Warren has now taken a narrow lead over Joe Biden in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a new Investor&#8217;s Business Daily TIPP poll. Both candidates [also] continue to lead in head-to-head matchups against Trump, although Biden has the more comfortable lead.
The poll shows Warren at 27% and Biden at 26%, but [Biden] has been sliding quickly. He is now [in second place] in the vast majority of the new polls. Bernie Sanders has completely fallen out of the race, he’s all the way down at 10% — the heart attack, obviously, is not going to help. His support will probably kick over to Elizabeth Warren. Joe Biden is lagging in fundraising as well. In the third quarter, Biden raised only $15.2 million while Warren raised [around] $25 million, as did Bernie Sanders. 
The October IBD-TIPP poll found Warren edging Trump by just two points, 48 to 46 — an even slimmer [lead] than her lead in September. So while Elizabeth Warren will be a competitive nominee, it is certainly no foregone conclusion that she will beat President Trump. The fact is, President Trump is an expert at dragging people through the mud. It is his thing. He is great at it. 
And Elizabeth Warren is ripe for the picking, not only on the Pocahontas kind of stuff, but also because she&#8217;s kind of dishonest about her own policies. I&#8217;ve talked about this on the show. Elizabeth Warren used to be an interesting human, and now she&#8217;s a full-scale Bernie-ite progressive who refuses to answer straight questions about whether she&#8217;s going to raise your taxes. Trump should have a lot of material to work with, he really should. 
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A lot of politics is about expectations versus reality. The expectations for President Trump, and the reality of President Trump, are identical — nobody has expectations that have not been met. If you believe that President Trump is a godsend, then your expectations meet your reality, and if you believe that President Trump is the worst president ever, your expectations meet your reality. If you&#8217;re somewhere in the middle, your expectations meet your reality, because Trump can fulfill all those conditions for you. There is nothing hidden about the man, everything is out on the surface. 
However, if Elizabeth Warren is perceived as an anti-corruption fighter, if she is pure as the driven snow, if the hem of her skirt has never been muddied — [it’s important to realize that] President Trump is a mud monster. He embraces other candidates, and they walk away covered in mud. That is what President Trump does best. 
So if Elizabeth Warren is riding at 48% right now, and Trump is riding at 46% in that poll, Elizabeth Warren might actually be in some trouble. Because, again, she has not had one iota of negative press attention since that ridiculous DNA test that she took at the beginning of this year. Since then, it has been nothing but glowing reports written by her sycophants in the media who are carrying around drool cups for her. I mean, they are literally drooling into cups over Elizabeth Warren. It&#8217;s insane. 
So Joe Biden, he&#8217;s been trashed. This lends credence to all the folks who have been claiming that President Trump, and the Ukraine stuff, it&#8217;s all about taking down Joe Biden so that [Trump] can run against Elizabeth Warren. Again, I think that accidents and stupidity is a much more motivating force in human affairs than is detailed planning. But I guess, if you want to make the case, like some folks do, that Trump 4D-chessed this thing out and that he was talking with Ukraine because he knew that Ukraine was eventually going to spill its beans, and that eventually all this was going to come out and it would sink Joe Biden. I guess he could make that case. Although the reality is, of course, that Joe Biden was sliding in the polls at least a month and a half, two months ago. So the Ukraine thing is just the final nail in his political coffin. 
This new poll, by the way, shows that Warren has now displaced Sanders as the candidate of the far-left. She now has the support of 38% of self-described liberals. Among Democrats, Biden is at 14% among white voters; Warren is ahead of Biden 33 to 20. Biden is still ahead 44 to 16 among black and Hispanic voters, but that could obviously change over time. Among Democratic investors, 31% backed Elizabeth Warren versus 23% for Joe Biden. Which just goes to show you that a lot of Democrats who invest their money apparently care about their money a lot less than they care about politics. So I guess good for them; I guess they&#8217;re putting their money where their mouth is. 
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