Two senators implicated in Ukrainegate extortion campaign — and an arms dealer is exposed in Russiagate
This complicates everything, “bigly”:
It was early September, and Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, faced an agonizing choice: whether to capitulate to President Trump’s demands to publicly announce investigations against his political enemies or to refuse, and lose desperately needed military aid.
Only Mr. Trump could unlock the aid, he had been told by two United States senators, and time was running out. If the money, nearly $400 million, were not unblocked by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, it could be lost in its entirety. …
[I]nterviews in Kiev with government officials, lawmakers and others close to the Zelensky government have revealed new details of how high-level Ukrainian officials ultimately decided to acquiesce to President Trump’s request — and, by a stroke of luck, never had to follow through.
Well, well, well! Which two senators were putting the screws to a government already under siege from Vladimir Putin? Could it be Lindsey Graham? And Ron Johnson? Should we assume the entire Senate GOP caucus is implicated?
It would be irresponsible NOT to speculate.
Meanwhile, the trial of flamboyant dirty trickster has shaken another rotten apple out of the tree:
On the opening day of Roger Stone’s trial for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing its investigation, one mystery appeared to be solved by prosecutors. The Donald Trump supporter who Stone alerted in October 2016 that “the payload is coming” — an apparent reference to WikiLeaks’ release of damaging emails from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign — was Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to prosecutors.
The exchange was publicly known but it had not been previously revealed that Prince, a Trump donor whose meetings with Trump officials during the transition stirred controversy, is the individual identified in the Stone indictment as “a supporter involved with the Trump campaign.”
Why in the wide, wide world of sports is Erik Prince involved? Could it have something to do with leverage for arms deals with Middle East potentates and military clients?
DEVELOPING HARD…
