Ukraine Prosecutor Says No Formal Request For Biden-Burisma Probe

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Ruslan Ryaboshapka, the general prosecutor of Ukraine, said that Attorney General William Barr has made no official move to request an investigation into Burisma and the Bidens.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1265623
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Reports that he was later seen in a side room after the briefing counting large piles of hyrvnia out of a briefcase handed to him by a local businessman are entirely untrue and malicious rumors.

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“Ukraine is not as corrupt as is being presented there,” he said. “We have made significant progress as of late.”

Ukraine. Now with 20% less corrupt.

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Devin Nunes is going to wait a bit before demanding to know what’s going to be done about the sex dungeon Hunter Biden kept in the basement of Burisma’s headquarters.

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I think that was a good move which makes it difficult for Barr to get involved.

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Barr doesn’t want Ukraine to investigate Biden’s involvement with Burisma because nothing illegal will be found. Can’t have that.

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Ukraine will find whatever Barr tells them to find, or else. And they already have a taste of what “Or else” can mean.

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Barr won’t do it. His job is secure for a good while now, so he has nothing to gain.

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People with tens of millions in the bank prostitute themselves and toss their ethics out the window for Trump. 3/4 of his cabinet could set fire to money to stay warm if their furnace failed, yet there they are, working for a self-evident destructive narcissist and bombastic pathological liar.

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A major reason Ukraine is less corrupt is because Ghouliani* et al have been steadily importing it to the US.

*As we’ve been told, he’s “always looking for corruption.”

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BUt how about all of those informal requests?

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so, there is no actual DoJ Ukraine investigation. Meanwhile, Barr’s toady, Durham, is busy looking for leads in his sham ‘investigation’ of the origins of the Russia investigation…

And on Thursday, Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, tied Mr. Durham’s investigation to the Ukraine scandal, infuriating people inside the Justice Department. But Mr. Mulvaney’s comments also put the spotlight on the fact that Ukraine is one country that Mr. Durham has sought help from. His team has interviewed private Ukrainian citizens, a Justice Department spokeswoman has said without explaining why.

For "private Ukranian citizens, read “corrupt former prosecutors like Shokin and Lutschenko, and criminal oligarchs like Firtash”

Nadler should stop wasting his time with phony impeachment panels, and demand that Durham come before his committee and bring all communications between him and Barr, and/or the White House…

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“Ukraine is not as corrupt as is being presented there,”

Whatever corruption may linger in Ukraine, it is eclipsed by the corruption of this administration.

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Nunes is like one of those gender reveal failures on YouTube…

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Well, that train left the station with the Whistle-blower’s revelation.

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I agree with Paul. Durham and Barr should BOTH be on the “hostile witness list” that the House Counsel brings to trial in the Senate. Let Chief Justice Roberts show if he has the cajones to mandate their cooperation. I am betting they are both up to their necks in this thing.

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If Ukraine wants to prove they aren’t rife with corruption, they should state they aren’t and won’t open an investigation into Hunter Biden, Burisma, or anything connected to either.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) [is] seeking materials from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Maybe this is where Pompeo finally quits stonewalling…