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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTPM Josh Marshall must read re Zelensky/timing "Absolute Must Read"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/absolute-must-readI cant recommend this article to you strongly enough. If thats enough to hear, heres the link. I have wondered, many of you have asked me, just what the rush of activity was to get Vladimir Zelensky to kick off and publicly announce these investigations. After all, during the key events the US election was well over a year away. The answer comes down to the April election in Ukraine. Trump and Rudy had a deal in place or thought they had a deal in place with the crew around the old President Poroshenko. When Zelensky beat him in a landslide it set off a frenzied, sloppy and ultimate futile effort to get Zelensky to honor the deal. Read it.
the link - it is hot linked above in the first line - goes to this
The Most Pivotal Moment In The Trump Ukraine Scandal Timeline
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/the-most-pivotal-moment-in-the-trump-ukraine-scandal-timeline
It all comes down to April.
President Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and his two now-indicted cronies had thought they had struck a deal with Kyiv for political dirt.
But everything changed in a matter of days. Whatever deal the group thought they had struck fell apart with the election of President Volodymyr Zelensky, forcing Trump and Giuliani to launch a new pressure campaign to bully Kyiv anew into helping them politically.
It was then that Giuliani, his two buddies, and Trump embarked on a flurry of activity to try to convey to the newly elected Zelensky the need to announce investigations into the Bidens and into alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, eventually trying to bring to bear the full might of U.S. foreign policy to serve their partisan political goals.
The fulcrum of the scandal was the April 21 election. It is the key to understanding what came before and to unlocking the sequence of events that followed, culminating in the impeachment inquiry against Trump.
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TPM Josh Marshall must read re Zelensky/timing "Absolute Must Read" (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Nov 2019
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handmade34
(22,756 posts)1. good read n/t
liberalla
(9,224 posts)2. K & R
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