{"id":927,"date":"2019-12-07T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=927"},"modified":"2019-12-07T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T16:39:38","slug":"trump-russia-collusion-hoax-was-started-by-the-democrats-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax Was Started by the Democrats in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine was the Origin of the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax<\/h1>\n

By Lawrence Sellin<\/p>\n

During the first week of December 2015, Donald Trump began to establish a substantial\u00a0lead<\/a>\u00a0over his Republican primary opponents.<\/p>\n

Vice President Joseph Biden\u00a0traveled<\/a>\u00a0to Ukraine to announce, on December 7th<\/sup>, a $190 million program to \u201cfight corruption in law enforcement and reform the justice sector,\u201d but behind the scenes explicitly linked a $1 billion loan guarantee to the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who had been investigating the energy company Burisma, which employed Biden\u2019s son Hunter.<\/p>\n

On December 9, 2015, the reported whistleblower Eric Ciaramella held a meeting in Room 236 of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Action Center, which was 59%-funded<\/a>\u00a0by Barack Obama\u2019s State Department and the International Renaissance Foundation, a George Soros organization.<\/p>\n

Also attending that meeting was Catherine Newcombe, attorney in the Criminal Division, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, with the U.S. Department of Justice, where, among other duties, she oversaw the Department’s legal assistance programs to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

By December 2015, Paul Manafort was undoubtedly considering approaching the Trump campaign to rejuvenate his U.S. political bona fides and mitigate the\u00a0legal and financial difficulties<\/a>\u00a0he was experiencing at the time.<\/p>\n

From the beginning of his association with the Trump campaign, Roger Stone, a long-time Manafort partner,\u00a0made<\/a>\u00a0a strong case to Trump to bring in Manafort, who would\u00a0officially connect<\/a>\u00a0to the campaign immediately after the February 1, 2016 Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n

Based on events occurring during the same period, were Obama Deep State operatives aware of Manafort\u2019s intent and already intending to use his past questionable practices and links to Russia against Trump?<\/p>\n

Such awareness of Manafort\u2019s plans could have been obtained either through\u00a0FBI surveillance<\/a>, which began in 2014 and ended in early 2016, or through information provided by Manafort associates, for example, Ukrainian businessman\u00a0Konstantin Kilimnik<\/a>, who worked for Manafort and was a FBI and Department of State asset, not a Russian agent as later painted by the Mueller investigation.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0White House visitor logs<\/a>, on January 19, 2016, Eric Ciaramella chaired a meeting of FBI, Department of Justice and Department of State personnel, which had two main objectives:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To coerce the Ukrainians to drop the Burisma probe, which involved Vice President Joseph Biden\u2019s son Hunter, and allow the FBI to take it over the investigation.<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To reopen a closed 2014 FBI investigation that focused heavily on GOP lobbyist Paul Manafort, whose firm long had been tied to Trump through his partner and Trump pal, Roger Stone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That is, contain the investigation of Biden\u2019s son and ramp up the investigation of Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n

    Again, according to\u00a0White House logs<\/a>, the attendees at the January 19, 2016 meeting in Room 230A of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building were:<\/p>\n

    Eric Ciaramella – National Security Council Director for Ukraine<\/p>\n

    Liz Zentos – National Security Council Director for Eastern Europe<\/p>\n

    David G. Sakvarelidze – Deputy General Prosecutor of Ukraine<\/p>\n

    Anna E. Iemelianova (Yemelianova) – Legal Specialist, US Embassy Kyiv and\u00a0US Department of Justice\u2019s Anti-Corruption Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Nazar A. Kholodnitsky, Ukraine\u2019s chief anti-corruption prosecutor<\/p>\n

    Catherine L. Newcombe – attorney in the Criminal Division, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, with the U.S. Department of Justice<\/p>\n

    Svitlana V. Pardus \u2013 Operations, Department of Justice, U.S. Embassy, Ukraine.<\/p>\n

    Artem S. Sytnyk\u00a0 – Director of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine<\/p>\n

    Andriy G. Telizhenko, political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC<\/p>\n

    Jeffrey W. Cole – Resident Legal Advisor at U.S. Embassy Ukraine, presumed to be FBI<\/p>\n

    Just two weeks after that meeting, on February 2, 2016, according to\u00a0White House logs<\/a>, Eric Ciaramella chaired a meeting in Room 374 of the Eisenhower Executive Office, which seems to be a planning session to re-open an investigation of Paul Manafort (Note: one of the crimes of which Manafort was accused was money laundering, an area covered by the Department of the Treasury). The attendees were:<\/p>\n

    Jose Borrayo – Acting Section Chief, Office of Special Measures, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network<\/p>\n

    Julia Friedlander – Senior Policy Advisor for Europe, Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury<\/p>\n

    Michael Lieberman – Deputy Assistant Secretary, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury<\/p>\n

    Scott Rembrandt – Anti-Money Laundering Task Force, Assistant Director\/Director, Office of Strategic Policy, Department of the Treasury<\/p>\n

    Justin Rowland – Special Agent (financial crimes), Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/p>\n

    \"\"It appears that Paul Manafort became a vehicle by which the Obama Deep State operatives could link Trump to nefarious activities involving Russians, which eventually evolved into the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.\u00a0 Remember, the key claim of the follow-up Steele dossier, the centerpiece of the Mueller investigation, was that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was the focal point of a “well-developed conspiracy between them [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership.”<\/p>\n

    Nellie Ohr, Fusion GPS employee and wife of Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, not only worked with Christopher Steele on the so-called Trump dossier, but, in May 2016, was the conduit of information to her husband and two Department of Justice prosecutors of the existence of the \u201cblack ledger\u201d documents that contributed to Manafort\u2019s prosecution.<\/p>\n

    Bruce Ohr and Steele attempted to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, efforts that eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which the FBI asked Deripaska if he could provide information to prove that Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia.<\/p>\n

    The surveillance and entrapment attempts of Paul Manafort, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and others were\u00a0designed<\/a>\u00a0to collect evidence about Trump without formally documenting that Trump was the target.<\/p>\n

    After the election, to cover their tracks, James Comey, representing the FBI and the Department of Justice, misleadingly\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Trump that the investigation was about Russia and a few stray people in his campaign, but they assured him he personally was not under investigation.<\/p>\n

    They lied.<\/p>\n

    Donald Trump always was, and still is, the target of the Deep State, the left-wing media and their Democrat Party collaborators.<\/p>\n

    Photo credit:\u00a0Alexandria, VA Sheriff<\/a><\/p>\n

    Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired US Army Reserve colonel, an IT command and control and cyber security subject matter expert and a veteran of Afghanistan, Iraq and a humanitarian mission to West Africa. He receives email at\u00a0lawrence.sellin@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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