Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is taking his anti-corruption, pro-reform agenda seriously, with plans to boot more than 500 Ukrainian prosecutors from the governmental payroll by the end of the month.
According to the Post, Zelensky’s efforts to root out corruption in his own country may harm his relationship with Trump, who’s currently under impeachment inquiry in the House for an alleged effort to recruit Zelensky to probe his political rival.
But… but… I thought rooting out corruption was all Trump wanted from Zelensky?
Yup… Pretty telling that actually rooting out corruption is a negative for drump.
It’s interesting why this prosecutor is getting the boot. He can’t prove he meets a standard of competency. In the US, we have such standards (bar exams, for example), which we do apply, for the most part. A person can’t just be appointed to be a prosecutor without having passed some sort of muster beyond being well connected. It will behoove us to maintain this system, albeit an imperfect one.
Giuliani corrupts everything he touches.
GCEHT
So weird that the corrupt are all linked to Ghoulie…
Jailiani’s going to Ghail.
Giuliani and Trump are like toxic nuclear waste. Cannot be recycled, only stored away for 1,000’s of years in cement.
An archaic term for jail is gaol, maybe we should start calling him Gaoliani.
Guess you’ve missed all of those folks in America who have faked diplomas and whatnot on their resumes to get jobs. It’s no different here than it is there.
One of my crossword puzzle entries, for sure.
I don’t know about you, but–even counting Mob Action–I have never seen a human more guilty of 100s of felonies walking free like Jailiani.
ALL of that is due to Trump, who, in my opinion, is the worst mobster the United States has ever produced.
“According to the Post, Zelensky’s efforts to root out corruption in his own country may harm his relationship with Trump, who’s currently under impeachment inquiry in the House for an alleged effort to recruit Zelensky to probe his political rival.”
So, with peace talks on the horizon with Russia, maybe Zelensky feels he can reach some sort of distasteful yet plausible accommodation with Putin, cutting Trump out of the loop and getting rid of the headache Trump represents. And making Putin happy is making Trump happy, no? A twofer.
Everything’s comin’ up Putin!
This is a shrewd move on Zelensky’s part: “I agree wholeheartedly with President Trump and we’re taking very public steps to root out corruption, a course of action on which he and I agree.”
Where does Trump go then?
I’m sure Sean Hannity will tell Trump what his next move is as soon as he has thought of it.
Forward and reverse several times in the bus grinding Rudy’s corpse into the asphalt.
Good thing Rudy has “insurance!”
Of course, Ukraine being Ukraine, removing these 500 prosecutors is just swapping out them for a different set of corrupt folks, ones with the right connections to the new set of folks in power…
Yes it is. And we thought it was just Trump.