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Foreign influence: the Ukrainian forest hidden by Russian trees

Dated: September 24, 2019 by Sharyl Attkisson 5 Comments

      

The following is an excerpt from a news analysis in The Hill.

As the media shows renewed interest in the involvement of both President Trump and former Vice President Biden โ€” and Bidenโ€™s son โ€” in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, itโ€™s worth asking: Was the U.S. 2016 election a surrogate battle between Russia and Ukraine?

The question isnโ€™t new, just overlooked. Much emphasis has been given to Russiaโ€™s involvement โ€” one cannot accurately say it has been underreported โ€” but we have largely ignored the Ukrainian question. Thatโ€™s despite hard facts linking Ukraine to multiple attempts to interfere in or to influence the campaign for the benefit of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

The suggestion was explicitly put into the public forum as early as January 2017 by David Merkel, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Merkel told Politico that Russia and Ukraine, now mortal enemies, took opposite sides in the U.S. presidential race โ€ฆ each presumably banking on the idea that they would be better off with their chosen candidate, in terms of influence and U.S. aid.

โ€œNow, it seems that a U.S. election may have been seen as a surrogate battle by those in Kiev [Ukraine] and Moscow [Russia],โ€ Merkel said....

Politicoโ€™s investigation nearly three years ago found that: 

  • A Ukrainian-American operative consulting for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) met with top officials in Ukraine's U.S. embassy to publicize ties between Trump, his top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia. (It worked.)
  • Ukrainian officials tried to help Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. 
  • Ukrainian officials โ€œdisseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.โ€
  • Ukrainian officials helped Clinton allies dig up damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
  • โ€œThe Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafortโ€™s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trumpโ€™s campaign was deeply connected to โ€ฆ Russia.โ€

These findings would doubtlessly be considered alarming and scandalous if only the name โ€œTrumpโ€ were substituted for โ€œClinton,โ€ and โ€œUkraineโ€ were substituted for โ€œRussia.โ€ Yet the information garnered little more than a ho-hum on the media landscape.

Thereโ€™s more. (Continued...)

Read the entire article by clicking the link below:

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/462709-ukraine-scandal-shows-that-foreign-influence-is-a-bipartisan-affair?rnd=1569288425


      
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  1. Helen Corey says

    September 25, 2019 at 7:24 am

    Why are you lumping in what President Trump is said to have done (1 phone call) with what Dems did (got rich on Ukrainians bribes in hundreds of thousand $$$)?

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    • Sharyl Attkisson says

      September 25, 2019 at 12:02 pm

      No lumping here. I didn't even discuss the phone call or "what dems did." The point I tried to make is a bit different.

      Reply
  2. Don says

    September 25, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    Thanks for greatly clarifying this story and best of all, for leaving the reader to think for themselves.

    Reply
  3. GEORGE EADY says

    September 25, 2019 at 3:07 pm

    WHY DID YOU NOT SAY THE WHISTLEBLOWERS INFO WAS 3RD HAND HEAR SAY .AND THAT HEAR SAY DOES NOT HOLD UP IN COURT . THIS LOOK LIKE THE DNC IS SETTING POLOSI UP. THIS WILL BACK FIRE AND THEY KNOW IT . BUT WHAT THEY DONT KNOW IT WILL ALSO REMOVE THE TOP 5 IN THE DNC

    Reply
  4. phoenixoffaith says

    September 25, 2019 at 4:05 pm

    Sharyl, thanks for going off the beaten path of the tired old controlled media. I always try to look deeper than what the "official" narrative says.

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