WASHINGTON — The U.S. will provide Ukraine with an additional $325 million in military aid, President Joe Biden announced Thursday during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The package includes air defense capabilities, cluster munitions, anti-tank weapons and other equipment.
Call me old fashioned but I thought Congress was suppose to approve spending our money. From
Rand Paul sizes up all that is disturbing about the latest round of Zelensky’s request for more stuff. The tune “If you don’t know me by now” comes to mind. If you need a refresher, take a look at this week’s Bunkerville’s specials.
Ah, the usual grifters come calling. The Clintons want to give us Haiti 2.0. Bunk goes down memory lane.
Here is Rand Paul with the video of him outlining the whole nasty business with Maria. First the notes from the video.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Fox’s Maria Bartiromo on Thursday and tore into Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky while repeating many anti-Ukraine talking points popular on the hardright of American politics.
Paul slammed Zelensky’s visit to Washington, DC following the United Nations General Assembly and ripped him for “begging for more money.” “It’s not even just going to armaments. You realize we’re funding the pension of their government workers and we complain about bloated government here.
They’ve got bloated government and they’ve got corruption. And the American taxpayer, people are struggling in our country, are asked to fund it. I think it’s wrong. And I think most of the American people, frankly, are with me,” Paul told Bartiromo.
Bartiromo replied, saying, “There’s also this incredible story about an American journalist, Gonzalo Lira, he’s reportedly right now in prison in Ukraine on allegations of spreading Russian propaganda.” “I don’t understand this, that Joe Biden could approve $113 billion of money to Ukraine, and yet he has not tried to get this American journalist out of prison there.
I might just as well round out the week with Zelensky.
If you thought Joe and Hunter Biden were raking in the dough over in Ukraine, do I have a story to tell you about John. Podesta is the key to unlocking the secrets of the Clinton Cabal and Fusion GPS and Perkins Coi. Durham has the Clinton Campaign in his headlights and this is going to get good. Podesta was the chairman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
I have been posting about Podesta since 2016. Six years later, the chickens are coming home. Even better I have the Maria Bartiromo interview of Podesta who sank her teeth into him back several years ago and wouldn’t let go.
You get to Watch John Podesta squirm as Maria Bartiromo questioned why he owned 75,000 shares in a Kremlin backed company. He flat out lied over and over.
Meanwhile, Podesta was busy projecting his shady dealings with Russia onto Trump. Exactly what the Democrats have always done and still do today.
Special Counsel John Durham has asked high ranking officials from the Clinton Campaign and Hillary for America, including the Clinton Campaign’s Chair (who we believe to be John Podesta1), about their awareness of the activities conducted by Fusion GPS on Hillary’s behalf.
This confirms an important avenue of Durham’s investigation: whether the Hillary Campaign or Hillary for America were part of a conspiracy to traffic false information to the FBI and other governmental entities.
While we reported on this development back in December, Durham’s latest filing (available here) provides context to his statement that Hillary for America, the Hillary Clinton Campaign, and former employees of that campaign were involved “in matters before the Special Counsel.”
What is becoming apparent is that there are few connected with the Clinton money machine who are not enjoying the fruits of the Clintons. This story tells us how John Podesta made out collecting big bucks with Russia while no doubt selling our technology down the drain. But the Clintons are well-known for a penchant for selling out technology. Bill loved to do deals with China, looks like Hillary and her cohorts look toward Russia. First this, and then on to Podesta. We have this gem:
A Moscow-based technology initiative funded in part by the Russian government funneled tens of millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state, according to a new report released Monday.
As President Obama’s top diplomat, Clinton oversaw and facilitated the State Department’s failed five-year project to “reset” U.S.-Russia relations, which spurred the creation of Skolkovo, a research facility known as Russia’s version of Silicon Valley,Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer wrote in a new report, titled “From Russia with Money.” (Remember this name: Skolkovo Research Facility)
The amount of money given to the foundation from “key” Skolkovo partners ranges from $6.5 to $23.5 million, according to Clinton Foundation data. The foundation only discloses donations in ranges, making it difficult to track the exact amount.
But I digressed:
A bombshell report released Sunday by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) revealed that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, developed undisclosed relationships with a Putin-connected Russian government fund.
Podesta served on the executive board of an energy company called Joule Unlimited, which received $35 million from a Kremlin-connected entity.
The program was designed to build an “innovation city” called Skolkovo, a Russian equivalent to the U.S.’s Silicon Valley. Critics of the initiative, including the FBI, warned that the Russian government would use Skolkovo to gain access to technology and information that would help build up their military.
The FBI and U.S. Army determined that Skolkovo had transformed into a “dangerous pathway” for Russian technological espionage and boosted the military’s technological capabilities.
Many Skolkovo research projects used “dual-use” technologies, meaning the operations have both civilian and military uses, the report said.
Among Skolkovo’s technological innovations were Russian hypersonic cruise missile engines, radar surveillance equipment, and vehicles built to deliver airborne Russian troops, Schweizer wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
The GAI report says “Two months after Podesta joined the board, Vladimir Putin’s Rusnano announced that it would invest up to 1 billion rubles into Joule Unlimited, which amounts to $35 million. That represents one-fifth of the entire amount of investment dollars Joule collected from 2007 to 2013.” Rusnano is a government-owned joint-stock company that was founded by Vladimir Putin in 2007.
Meanwhile, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta sat on the executive board of Joule Energy, which claimed to pioneer technology based on harnessing energy from the sun and participated in the Skolkovo initiative.
It is unclear why Podesta failed to disclose and reveal his membership on the board of one of the Joule entities, even though it was required by law. The revelation of Podesta’s secret relationship with Kremlin-connected entities, however, only raises more questions about the transparency and trustworthiness of the Clinton campaign — and casts into doubt the Democratic effort to paint Clinton’s opponent as too cozy with Russia.
“I think that everybody at the Russian reset table seems to walk away with something,” Schweizer told the New York Post.
“The Clintons, they get their donations and speaking fees in the millions of dollars. The Russians get access to advanced US technology. The tech companies [that participated in the reset, including Cisco, Intel, Microsoft] get special access to the Russian market and workforce,” Schweizer added. “At worst, [Russia gets] a more robust military, with technologies that we helped develop, and that can be sold to our enemies.”
While Clinton Inc continues to attempt to link Trump with Russia it is Podesta who has his long fingers in business dealings with the Kremlin. Worse, it is the Uranium one deal that is the product of commerce. Not only that, he lied.
The Daily Caller has previously reported on Podesta’s direct and indirect links with murky Russian-based firms. The Podesta Group that he and his brother founded in 1988 has lobbied on behalf of firms with links to the Kremlin – including Uranium One, which now controls one-fifth of the U.S. uranium supply.
Podesta has always maintained that he transferred his 75,000 shares from Joule Unlimited Technologies, a Kremlin-financed energy company, to an “anonymous” holding company named Leonidio Holdings. Not only does Leonidio share an address with Podesta’s daughter, Rouse, but they share a tax return.
The other beneficiaries are all in the family too. Read more: Daily Caller
This week we learn that Robert Mueller granted immunity to Tony Podesta who committed the same exact crimes as Paul Manafort.
Dirty cop Robert Mueller offered Tony Podesta, founder of the now-defunct Podesta Group, immunity in exchange for testimony against Trump’s former campaign chair Paul Manafort.
White House visitor logs reveal that Tony Podesta visited Clinton 114 times during the Obama administration. He has given “special access” to the Obama presidential team by his brother, John Podesta. Tony Podesta will walk free.
Now, connections between Clinton, Podesta, and Russia are receiving much-needed light, as Mueller’s misguided probe into the Trump campaign leaves his intended targets smelling like roses.
Now the coup de grace
Better yet, Marie Bartiromo interviewed Podesta about all of this and this was an interview to watch. She held his feet to the fires of hell, a brilliant interview.
John Podesta, the chairman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, was a target of WikiLeaks during the election, but he battled with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo over his own links to Russia.
Podesta blamed the Russians when his hacked emails were published by WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign, asserting that Moscow was working to elect now-President Donald Trump.
Flashback:
The best of the swamp today. What is it with all of these politicians getting involved with energy companies? Especially over Russia’s way?? China too??
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Another home run by Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” If ever there was an interview to be viewed in its entirety it’s this one with George Papadopoulous. After a few minutes of watching, I guarantee you will not be able to put it down. The Russia spy pieces all come together. It should scare the dickens out of all of us and new information is riveting. The interview starts a few minutes from the beginning.
Further on in the program, Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intel Committee, speaks about his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and why the tale of Joseph Mifsud and George Papadopoulos is key to understanding what happened.
DEVIN NUNES: Well, it’s beyond me. I never knew you could use counterintelligence capabilities, these are the capabilities in our government to go after and target terrorists. I never knew that you could actually go out and use those capabilities to spy on Americans, and we don’t know all of this yet for sure, but we have strong suspicions that that is exactly what was happening. And you really only have to look at the text messages from Strzok and Page who were the FBI agents who were the lead that ultimately served on the Mueller dossier team. They were texting about this stuff.
MARIA BARTIROMO: They wanted an insurance policy.
DEVIN NUNES: That’s right.
Note the timeline for George Papadopoulos. He had several “run ins” with Western (UK, Italian, Australian) intel agents well before he met with Alexander Downer, the Australian diplomat that the FBI claims is the reason they had suspicions about him and other Trump aids.
In truth, Papadopoulos had never met with anybody from Russia prior to the FBI running secret agents at him. And to date, he has never met with anyone from Russia. Yet, we are somehow supposed to believe that the FBI was so “concerned”about Russian efforts to infiltrate the Trump campaign? There was absolutely no evidence to even investigate Papadopoulos.
Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo 5/5/19 | Breaking Fox News May 5, 2019
Fox has taken the full interview down on YouTube. Here is a link to the various sections of it. Chose Papadopoulos. One not to be missed. Nunes response can be found below.
May. 05, 2019 – 12:33 – Former 2016 Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos walks Maria Bartiromo through the timeline of events that led up to why he was investigated during the Trump-Russia probe.
Better yet, back in the day, Marie Bartiromo interviewed Podesta about it and this was an interview to watch. She held his feet to the fires of hell, a brilliant interview.
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, John Podesta, played a central role in another potential Russian collusion scandal that has not yet been investigated.
Podesta, the former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, served on the board of Joule Unlimited, a now defunct alternative energy company, from January 2011 to January 2014. He resigned from the company’s board to accept the powerful job of Counselor to President Barack Obama.
Best part about this story, Breitbart is just picking it up, let’s see if we can give it some traction:
Here is a smack down that one doesn’t get to witness very often. Marie sank her teeth into Podesta and like a good bull-dog, didn’t let up. Finally someone looks at the Clinton crime cabal. Example:
“You joined the board of a small energy company in 2011,” Bartiromo said. “Two months later a Russian entity directly funded by the Kremlin invested $35 million in the company. You were given 75,000 shares in a Russian company which you failed to disclose when you became an Obama associate.”
“Maria, that is not true. I fully disclosed and I was completely compliant,” Podesta responded.
“You are picking through my emails that were stolen from the Russians and released by WikiLeaks and creating a story that is not true,” he added.
Bartiromo continued to say he had shares in a “Russian company.”
“Go back and get your facts straight, Maria,” Podesta said.
“That’s not true, John. We know you owned 75,000 shares,” Bartiromo responded.
John Podesta, the chairman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, was a target of WikiLeaks during the election, but Wednesday he battled with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo over his own links to Russia.
Podesta blamed the Russians when his hacked emails were published by WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign, asserting that Moscow was working to elect now-President Donald Trump. The U.S. intelligence community has said the hack was part of a broader Russian effort to interfere in the election.
But the longtime Clinton ally, who met with the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss Russian meddling, has also faced allegations that he owned shares in a Kremlin-backed energy company, Joule Unlimited.
Bartiromo pushed Podesta on his association with the company, which she said was “widely reported” to be Kremlin-backed. Podesta served on the company’s board for multiple years starting in 2011. Read More:Free Beacon
A Moscow-based technology initiative funded in part by the Russian government funneled tens of millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary of state, according to a new report released Monday.
As President Obama’s top diplomat, Clinton oversaw and facilitated the State Department’s failed five-year project to “reset” U.S.-Russia relations, which spurred the creation of Skolkovo, a research facility known as Russia’s version of Silicon Valley,Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer wrote in a new report, titled “From Russia with Money.”
While Clinton Inc continues to attempt to link Trump with Russia it is Podesta who has his long fingers in business dealings with the Kremlin. Worse, it is Uranium that is the product of commerce. Not only that, he lied. Supposedly he got out of the business, but no, in a follow-up story he put the shares in his daughter’s account as you will see. Yet nothing in the media. Recall? Russian Government Initiative Gave Millions to Clinton Foundation ?
Here is a smack down that one doesn’t get to witness very often. Marie sank her teeth into Podesta and like a good bull-dog, didn’t let up. Finally someone looks at the Clinton crime cabal. Example:
“You joined the board of a small energy company in 2011,” Bartiromo said. “Two months later a Russian entity directly funded by the Kremlin invested $35 million in the company. You were given 75,000 shares in a Russian company which you failed to disclose when you became an Obama associate.”
“Maria, that is not true. I fully disclosed and I was completely compliant,” Podesta responded.
“You are picking through my emails that were stolen from the Russians and released by WikiLeaks and creating a story that is not true,” he added.
Bartiromo continued to say he had shares in a “Russian company.”
“Go back and get your facts straight, Maria,” Podesta said.
“That’s not true, John. We know you owned 75,000 shares,” Bartiromo responded.
John Podesta, the chairman for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, was a target of WikiLeaks during the election, but Wednesday he battled with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo over his own links to Russia.
Podesta blamed the Russians when his hacked emails were published by WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign, asserting that Moscow was working to elect now-President Donald Trump. The U.S. intelligence community has said the hack was part of a broader Russian effort to interfere in the election.
But the longtime Clinton ally, who met with the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss Russian meddling, has also faced allegations that he owned shares in a Kremlin-backed energy company, Joule Unlimited.
Bartiromo pushed Podesta on his association with the company, which she said was “widely reported” to be Kremlin-backed. Podesta served on the company’s board for multiple years starting in 2011. Read More:Free Beacon
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