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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 12:31 PM Sep 2019

The tangled web of Trump officials and Zelensky

... Pence was filling in for his boss, President Donald Trump, who days earlier scrapped .. his first planned meeting with the new Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky -- to monitor a hurricane ...

... because of public and private urging from Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, officials also reckoned with how to raise allegations involving the son of Vice President Joe Biden, who .. Trump insisted should be investigated. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden ...

... "It was out there, but it was being handled by Giuliani. We did not deal with that because he (Giuliani) was talking about it and saying he was a private citizen" ...

... Volker .. helped arrange a meeting between Giuliani and a Zelensky aide, during which the former New York City mayor encouraged an investigation into the Biden issue. Volker connected the aide with Giuliani at the request of Zelensky's presidential adviser, the State Department said ...

... Trump's Cabinet aides have sought to turn the blame back on Biden ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/24/politics/volodymyr-zelensky-mike-pence-rudy-giuliani/index.html

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The tangled web of Trump officials and Zelensky (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2019 OP
Pence was filling in for his boss in Poland, speaking to UKR prez???? ffr Sep 2019 #1

ffr

(22,670 posts)
1. Pence was filling in for his boss in Poland, speaking to UKR prez????
Wed Sep 25, 2019, 01:01 PM
Sep 2019

K&R

The fact that the WH never mentions Pence in their "official" transcript, when we already can piece together that it was Pence who was acting on behalf of tRump in Poland, is nothing short of another cover-up.

Thank you struggle4progress



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