Ukrainian Foreign Minister: No Link Between U.S. Aid and Investigations

⏱️ Quote : “I have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance,” Prystaiko  [img credit : business insider]

Big news broke Thursday morning, and Republicans are doing a happy dance...

Ukrainian foreign minister Vadym Prystaiko said U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland had “never” made a link between U.S. aid to Ukraine and any type of investigations (neither on the Biden’s role with Burisma or the 2016 elections.)

This completely contradicts the hearsay testimony presented on Wednesday by the two “star witnesses” for the Democrats.

The only “bombshell” the Democrats could produce on day one was Bill Taylor’s fourth-hand hearsay story about one of his staff members being at a restaurant with Sonderland, who overheard Sonderland speaking to the President on his cell phone. The staffer says they were talking about “investigations.”

Breitbart News journalist Kristina Wong noted this “new evidence” was not only hearsay, but it also didn’t add anything new to the table. It only tries to support the accusations made on the original phone call of July 25th.

As Reuters reported:

• Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Thursday that U.S. ambassador Gordon Sondland did not explicitly link military aid to Kiev with opening an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Interfax Ukraine reported.
  
  
• “Ambassador Sondland did not tell us, and certainly did not tell me, about a connection between the assistance and the investigations. You should ask him,” Prystaiko said about Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union.
  
  
• “I have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance,” Prystaiko was quoted as saying by Interfax. “Yes, the investigations were mentioned, you know, in the conversation of the presidents. But there was no clear connection between these events.”
  

Sonderland testified last month inside Schiff’s basement dungeon that he spoke frequently with Prystaiko and other Ukrainian officials during the time period in question.

Sonderland is scheduled to testify in the public hearings next week. Today’s news makes his testimony “must-see tv.”

Stay tuned.

Payback: GOP Senate may drag out impeachment trial to hurt 2020 Dems running for POTUS:

According to the Washington Post, some GOP senators are looking at a strategy that would severely cripple the Democrat senators who are running for President in 2020. The strategy is to intentionally make the upcoming impeachment trial go as slow as possible. How does this hurt the Democrat senators running for President? By constitutional law, they cannot leave an impeachment trial. They must be present. Which means they wouldn’t be able to go out and campaign. Although some GOP senators want a swift trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the trial will last as long as the Senate wants it to run. With a GOP Senate majority, the trial may last well into February.

Running her mouth again—Democrat Brain Trust AOC admits the real reason for Schiff’s show trials:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on CNN Wednesday evening, the words just started flowing, and some truth spilled out... watch the video and hear her reveal how the Democrats really view the impeachment circus: “We need to move quite quickly because we are talking about the compromise of the 2020 elections. This isn’t just about something that has occurred, this is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.”

Rush calls impeachment “a political campaign disguised as a hearing.”:

As one of the great political commentators of our time, Rush Limbaugh naturally has plenty to say about shampeachment: “This is not really an impeachment hearing. It is a one-sided campaign event.” His critique after the first day of the show trial was spot on, as usual. We are watching a taxpayer funded smear campaign televised by the Dems news media allies.