Report: Ukraine 'Interfered' In US Election... to Help HillaryBut Trump, Russia ...
The Left is preoccupied, at present, with instigating a Cold War 2.0. We're thrilled to see them care about our nation's security being potentially breached. If only they had seemed to care while former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton compromised our national security by using an unsecured, home-brew server -- wide open to hacking from any bad actor -- to transmit and receive our classified information.
If only they cared about reports that indicate Ukraine did try to interfere in our recent presidential election... in order to help elect Hillary Clinton.
Politico just published the findings of an extensive investigation into Ukrainian interference in the U.S. presidential election, reporting that the former Soviet Bloc member tried doggedly to sabotage President-elect Donald Trump and usher Clinton into the White House.
The report indicates that Ukrainian government officials "disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter" and "helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers."
While Politico reports that there is "little evidence" of a top-down effort -- meaning it is difficult to prove that the official order to interfere was handed down directly from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, it is highly unlikely that he was not aware, and did not give the effort his blessing. Politico provides additional details:
Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election. And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
[...] A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails.
Of course now government officials in Kiev "are scrambling to make amends" with the incoming Trump administration, even hiring a costly D.C. lobbying firm to help repair the relationship, according to the report.
The Politico investigation, which is quite lengthy, reveals that Poroshenko regime's "standing with Trump is considered so dire that the president’s allies after the election actually reached out to make amends with — and even seek assistance from — Manafort."
Meanwhile, Poroshenko's rivals see an opportunity to pounce, visiting Washington since the election to make inroads with the President-elect.
Poroshenko is scrambling to alter that dynamic, recently signing a $50,000-a-month contract with a well-connected GOP-linked Washington lobbying firm to set up meetings with U.S. government officials “to strengthen U.S.-Ukrainian relations.”
Revelations about Ukraine’s anti-Trump efforts could further set back those efforts.
“Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Ukraine,” said David A. Merkel, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who helped oversee U.S. relations with Russia and Ukraine while working in George W. Bush’s State Department and National Security Council.
"None of the Ukrainians have any access to Trump — they are all desperate to get it, and are willing to pay big for it," an American consultant familiar with the debacle told Politico.
Radio silence from the Left ensues.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/report-ukraine-interfered-us-election-help-hillary
