Mike Pence called Ukraine's president to praise fight against "corruption" days after US sent aid

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Source: Salon

Pence spoke to Zelensky over the phone on Sept. 18, six days after the aid package was released under bipartisan pressure, and a little more than two weeks after he and then-national security adviser John Bolton met with the Ukrainian president during a visit to Poland.

"The Vice President spoke by phone today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to follow up on their productive September 1 meeting in Warsaw and discussed President Trump's upcoming meeting with President Zelenskyy next week at the UN General Assembly in New York," the White House said in a readout of the call.

"The Vice President reiterated the United States' unwavering commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the readout adds. "The Vice President commended President Zelenskyy's administration for its bold action to tackle corruption through legislative reforms, and offered full U.S. support for those efforts."

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2019/09/25/pence-called-ukraines-president-to-praise-fight-against-corruption-days-after-us-aid-package_partner/

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The tie in? The language used: "corruption" is a euphemism.

Huffington Post is breaking a story early Thursday AM about Trump-Guiliani in which...

Trump First Pressured Ukrainian President To Work With Giuliani In April Call: Report
Zelensky's aides came to understand Trump's calls for fighting "corruption" as a euphemism for the Biden family and for Ukrainians who in 2016 released jeopardizing information about the Trump campaign, the newspaper reported. - HuffPost 09/26/19

[Yoopy]

1. They were after Biden. They don't care about corruption

BS as usual from the bullsshitters.

[ffr]

2. By they, I assume you mean Mike Pence, Donald Trump and others in the WH cabal?

As in the Vice President and President of the United States.

[Yoopy]

4. Yes. Pence and Trump

They have corrupt friends everywhere, including Trump himself.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Welcome to D.U., Yoopy.

[get the red out]

5. VPs can be indicted

The media needs to dig more into Pence.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Yup... Agnew found that out real quick and did his plea deal/resignation before it happened!

I know Rachel gave a run-down on Agnew's letter to the SotH requesting an impeachment instead, which of course was denied.

[get the red out]

11. I heard that on her show

That's what reminded me that Pence might be in for some TROUBLE.

[mpcamb]

19. "VPs can be indicted." Right, so let's get the transcript of Pence's call. Not a synopsis...

[Frustratedlady]

6. I find it fascinating that the Trump administration is SO concerned about corruption.

Are Republican supporters so ignorant they cannot see the ROTFLMBO humor?

[Captain Zero]

8. Histrionics over corruption anywhere except their 2016 campaign.

How many of THEIR guys are in prison from FELONY convictions?

[MFGsunny]

9. After all, Trumpkin betrayal of America plot with Ukraine is Manafort 2.0. But Z is not! n/t

[BigmanPigman]

10. Is that the code word like "adoptions" was for fhe tRump Tower meeting?

[yellowcanine]

12. Unfortunately not enough to nail the little peckerhead.

Pence is smarter than Trump but just as corrupt.

[ffr]

14. Oh, but this is but the language Pence the tRump cabal used

Just you wait until the information on the National Security Council directorate for Intelligence Programs computer system is revealed to congress.

I think heads are going to explode.

[blue-wave]

13. Dirty Mike!

President Pelosi sounds good to me!!

[Botany]

17. Trump sent Pence to Poland in part to talk to the President of the Ukraine

I mentioned below that the key thing about this latest and most egregious Trump scandal is that his senior team was clearly in on it, aware of it, participated in it. One key person here is Vice President Mike Pence. Earlier this month Pence flew to Poland to fill in for President Trump in meetings with European leaders on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. On September 1st, he met in Warsaw with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The next day he held a press conference with President Duda of Poland at which he was specifically asked whether he had pressed Zelensky to manufacture damaging information about Joe Biden and whether military aid was being held up until he did.

Pence started by saying he hadn’t and then proceeded to give an answer that made it pretty clear that he had, even if he had not mentioned the former Vice President by name. It caught the ear’s of everyone who was already following this story. It’s even more clear with what we learned last week.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pence-gave-ukraine-the-message-too

[Botany]

15. "corruption" equals the Bidens

BTW if "they" suspected the Bidens of a crime why would they go to the Ukraine and
not the FBI?

[ffr]

16. Obviously out for their own interests. Fuck the United States!

Last edited Thu Sep 26, 2019, 02:33 PM - Edit history (1)

In the weeks leading up to the call, Mr. Zelensky had taken steps toward removing Yuriy Lutsenko, the country’s top prosecutor, with whom Mr. Giuliani had been working to gather information about, and push investigations into, the Bidens and the Manafort documents.

[B Stieg]

18. Seems Pence was the carrott before the stick!

But neither approach has been successful.
The Ukrainian comedian doesn't seem to be the corrupt one, here!