Ukraine’s Strategic Invisibility for Democrats |
Ukraine’s Strategic Invisibility for Democrats
Like in 2019, Trump is about to blow the whole Ukrainian connection to the Democrats wide open;
Douglas V. Gibbs ——Bio and Archives--March 29, 2026
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In 2019, Ukraine’s connection to Democrats was becoming clearer. Various officials who were connected to former Vice-President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama had engaged in activities designed to benefit private interests through influence peddling in Ukraine, often centered around Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma Holdings. It constituted a misuse of the “Biden Brand” for financial gain as the complicit mainstream media covered up the details of those interactions.
These activities played a critical role in 2014 with the Obama administration’s involvement in the revolution that ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. To protect the scheme, the Russian Collusion scheme was launched, which later led to Democratic Representative Adam Schiff lying about a phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian President in 2019, launching yet another attack against Trump, this time as an impeachment.
The key was to convince everyone that Donald Trump was a Russian asset. Following the Ukrainian revolution, Biden’s influence peddling led to the creation of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) that allegedly “leaked” information about the Trump 2016 Election Campaign to assist in creating the false narrative that Trump colluded with Russia to win the election.
During the early stages of the 2016 Election Season, in December of 2015, to protect against inconvenient investigations, Biden used the threat of withholding $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to pressure Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor general who had been investigating Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas giant who had Biden’s son, Hunter, as a board member.
Rudy Giuliani, at the time, said,........