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19/ We got played. We fell for believing the Ukraine scandal is about a *phone call* because that seemed—not just to media, but even to some DC Democrats—like the only story Americans would understand. My view? Americans will always tune in to a fascinating story—however complex.
20/ This thread isn't even the good stuff. It's bits and pieces. Again, a TV network could be constructed just to explain the major-media reporting on this. Like, did you know Trump's attorney was just in Kyiv meeting with someone (Andrey Derkach) trained by Russian intelligence?
21/ Has anyone told you the indicted Lev Parnas worked as a salesman for the Trump Organization when Fred Trump ran it 30 years ago? That Paul Manafort not only moved into Trump's home—Trump Tower—in 2006 but simultaneously got a *second* home next to Fred Trump's longtime fixer?
22/ Did you know Trump's friends Parnas and Fruman between them (sometimes separately, sometimes together) owned at least six companies that moved millions and millions and millions of dollars... ...but had no customers, no clients, no offices, no business model, and no budget?
23/ Did you know, i.e. did media tell you, that Trump spent all of 2017, 2018, and early 2019 denying the *previous* Ukrainian president (Poroshenko) a White House visit in *just* the same way—and for *just* the same illegal reasons, as he did with Volodymyr Zelensky in mid-2019?
24/ Google any of this—*any* of it. You won't find yourself reading some obscure, dodgy website—I'd never visit or pay any attention to those. No—you'll find yourself reading NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and so on.
25/ What no one does is put these stories together. I did it in book format, but online all we have (though it's pretty great) is The Moscow Project, aided by @robreiner. My ask, here, to @robreiner: it's time for The Kyiv Project. I *promise* you'll have the same volume of info.
PS/ Everyone getting a clearer picture now? The Giuliani "helper" and KGB-trained Derkach spent 2017 telling Kyiv it would lose aid if it investigated Manafort; Mulvaney blocked the aid; Trump *opposed* the aid... and Poroshenko dropped the investigations.https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-view-of-ukraine-as-corrupt-took-shape-early-11573900201?emailToken=b30eda55abc052d0110077277fe5757dZy4w7g5ybJa9wzIeUDO0zZ5qR5cUlyaNt28PjQbfB5QHlF7v/i0RPFSrapyLNiUO1MXCcBZrXF0nsNeGF1ZVTjicXW+9GeTt8eO6n3lilzU%3D&reflink=article_copyURL_share …
PS2/ WSJ: "Trump's skepticism toward Ukraine cropped up in [2017] deliberations in which he initially opposed the sale of missiles to Ukraine...his distrust also showed in his initial resistance to meeting Ukraine’s then-president in 2017 at the White House." Two *related* facts.
PS3/ And when Trump finally let Ukraine have missiles in 2018, he told them... they *couldn't use them*, as it might "provoke Russia."https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-impeachment.html …
IMO, Putin strongly objected to NATO putting Javelin missiles in Ukraine close to Russia's Black Sea fleet. The missiles will not be permitted near the East Ukraine conflict zone, so Putin's concern was assuaged by Trump. https://www.businessinsider.my/republicans-leaving-out-key-detail-trump-javelin-sale-to-ukraine-2019-11/amp/ …
Like I said, you are sending chills up my spine. However, I need to separate the messenger from the message. It’s ol’ Pumpkinhead that gives me the chills up my spine.
I’m grateful for your reporting, thanks.
#Patriot
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