George Kent just committed perjury (about 12:15 PM) in the Schiff impeachment hearings when he stated on the record that there was no basis for any Ukrainian election interference in the 2016 election.
David DeGerolamo
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Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election — that’s a fact, not a conspiracy theory
The reason why Ukraine got involved in the 2016 election was obvious. Trump had been saying he wanted the U.S. to have a more constructive relationship with Russia, which has been engaged in military conflict with Ukraine since 2014. Lev Golinkin, a journalist originally from Ukraine, laid the whole thing out in an article for the ultra-liberal Nation magazine back in late September.
“Ukrainians certainly had every reason to expose Manafort’s corruption, and the man’s subsequent trial showed there was an enormous amount to expose,” wrote Golinkin. “But Ukraine’s efforts also happened to coincide with—and have an immediate impact on—an American campaign. And yet, despite this information’s being available in English, and published by established Western media, we’ve had almost no debate about its implications.”
From 3/20/2019 – before the Trump phone call
Senior Ukrainian official says he’s opened probe into US election interference
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko told Hill.TV’s John Solomon in an interview aired on Wednesday that he has opened a probe into alleged attempts by Ukrainians to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
“Today we will launch a criminal investigation about this and we will give legal assessment of this information,” Lutsenko said last week.
Lutsenko is probing a claim from a member of the Ukrainian parliament that the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Artem Sytnyk, attempted to influence the 2016 vote to the benefit of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
