Quote (Goomshill @ Nov 13 2019 08:28pm)
based on the money changing hands and testimony today and leading questions from republicans in the know, it seems to paint a pretty clear picture of what was up
burisma started loading western officials onto its board at the same time as the oligarch owner was driven into exile, in some combination of {seeking to innoculate itself from western investigations} / {being forcibly taken over by the west} / {seeking to convince the west it would play ball with them in control}. They started funneling lots of money to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer & John Kerry from 2014 to 2016. Then when Shokin stirred the pot and raided the oligarch's home- maybe Shokin's palm wasn't getting greased enough, or in reaction to western figures pressuring him- they used their leverage with the west to get direct US intervention to protect Burisma from investigations. A simultaneous outreach through Hunter Biden, Devon Archer & John Kerry, all popping up in diplomatic channels in the same few months of 2016.
its pretty ridiculous to claim its a coincidence that the people getting these millions in payouts from a corrupt ukrainian gas company were the same people who served as diplomatic conduits for Burisma's lobbying to get a reprieve from corruption charges. And its a bad look when your secretary of state, your vice president's son and a former CIA director are all dipping into that gravy. It wasn't even an indirect laundered money trail, it was straight payments from Burisma into an LLC formed by co-founded by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz and Devon Archer
dunno how much more direct the money trail could be, unless a chinese businessman walked up to Hunter Biden's hotel room and handed him an $80,000 diamond in person (oh wait)
I'm just dumbfounded how so much evidence in the form of actual bank records & other tangible documents can be unloaded and no one in the msm cares to report it. And then to have the audacity to go after Trump based on 'anonymous sources said' yet ignoring a paper trail...