Ukraine scandal

Ukraine scandal
07/25/2019 AD extorted

In a complaint filed with the inspector general of the U.S. intelligence community in August 2019, an anonymous whistleblower, later determined to be an official of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), reported that in a July phone call to Zelensky, Trump had strongly implied that nearly $400 million in security assistance to the country would be released only if Zelensky carried out two requests, which Trump introduced by saying, “I would like you to do us a favor though….”

• Zelensky must search his country for a computer server used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from which thousands of confidential e-mails had been stolen by hackers and later published by WikiLeaks. Trump apparently believed one or more versions of the long-debunked “CrowdStrike” conspiracy theory, according to which the DNC server had been surreptitiously transported to Ukraine and hidden there to prevent the FBI from examining its contents, which would have shown that the hackers were not Russian but Ukrainian and was part of a plot involving the DNC to falsely blame Russia for interfering on Trump’s behalf in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
• Zelensky investigate an unfounded allegation regarding Joe Biden’s motivation for pressuring the Ukrainian government in 2015 to remove Ukraine’s prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. Trump believed that Biden, while serving as vice president, had urged Shokin’s ouster in order to halt an investigation of the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings, Ltd., that threatened to uncover wrongdoing by his son Hunter Biden, who was then a member of the company’s board.

— see Britanica - Ukraine scandal

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