Ukrainegate

Gilbert Doctorow
Antiwar.com

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
Former U.S. President Barack Obama is now in severe legal jeopardy, because the Russiagate investigation has turned 180 degrees; and he, instead of the current President, Donald Trump, is in its cross-hairs.

Going into 2020, Donald Trump continues to face one poliical crisis after another, and now becoming only the fourth US president behind Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton – to face Impeachment. But how much of what is being reported in the mainstream media is fact, or fiction?

Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Padraig McGrath, political analyst…
On December 23rd, the Washington Post ran a piece exploring the possible motivations behind US president Donald Trump’s decision to pause US military aid to Ukraine on July 12th last year. On September 28th 2018 and February 16th respectively, President Trump had signed into law 2 bills from Congress which approved a combined $391 million in military aid to Ukraine, including the provision of lethal weaponry.

(WASHINGTON DC) – Incredibly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that she would not be sending the articles of impeachment over to the Senate, saying that she would like a say in how the Senate Trial is going to be run, insisting that she wants to be sure it’s ‘fair’ for Democrats – indicting the partisan nature of this entire debacle.

(WASHINGTON DC) – Last night, Hawaii Congresswoman and presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard defied House Leader Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party whip by voting “present” on two articles of impeachment being brought against President Donald Trump over alleged ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ regarding White House relations with ally Ukraine.

On November 22nd, a 100-page Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data-dump was made by the U.S. Department of State, to the Democratic-Party-aligned nonprofit “American Oversight,” which had been founded in March 2017 by liberals (really by the main billionaires who fund the Democratic Party) after the 2016 Democratic electoral defeat (to Republican billionaires). The now Republican-headed U.S.

In a recent media segment, Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who has recently returned from Ukraine, claims to have new evidence of Obama era corruption involving senior US officials. He believes that recent impeachment efforts by Democrats are merely part of a politicized ‘cover-up’ designed to conceal massive money laundering and bribery scandals which were allowed to take place under the gaze of then Vice President Joe Biden.

This week, Maxine Waters (D-CA), chair of the Congressional Financial Services Committee, took to the airwaves on CNN to further doubled-down on the widely held evidence-free conspiracy theory that US President Donald Trump was elected by the Russians, and that Russia ‘hacked’ into US election systems and into the DNC servers. Bizarrely, Waters opened up her soliloquy with the caveat, “I believe, even though I don’t have the facts to prove it,” before concluding her monologue with,“Those are facts.”

Eric Zuesse