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Adam Schiff-Ukraine connection comes under scrutiny

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Adam Schiff-Ukraine connection comes under scrutiny | Fox News

Adam Schiff's ties to Ukraine under the microscope
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has played a leading role in investigating the Trump-Ukraine scandal, is facing questions about his own connection to a Soviet-born businessman who has raised money for his campaign and whose company has received lucrative defense contracts from Ukraine's government.
That man is Igor Pasternak, the founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp., which makes blimps for military and commercial customers. His business has also been involved in weapons manufacturing, working with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to produce a modified version of the M4 and M16 rifles, according to reports.

PELOSI DEFENDS SCHIFF AFTER BEING PRESSED ABOUT HIS 'PARODY' OF TRUMP'S UKRAINE CALL
In 2013, Pasternak (arms dealer) hosted a fundraiser in Washington for Schiff, who later came to embrace a strong stance in support of the United States sending military aid to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia.

“Before this time, Schiff rarely, if ever, mentioned Ukraine,” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham said on her show Thursday night, after detailing Schiff’s connection to Pasternak. “But after the fundraiser, he used multiple television appearances to basically demand that we send money and arms to them.”

This is yet more blow back from the failed impeachment attempt. I call it failed because it's just a matter of time until its thrown out.
This is something we should start to look into and know about. Seems more and more we are seeing corruption from the left wing relative to Russia/Ukraine. I recommend you guys take a good hard look into Pasternak and his dealings with Adam Schiff.

Thoughts? Think there is anything here or are these claims baseless?
 
 

Having connections in a foreign country is not a problem. Threatening to sever those connections if said foreign country doesn't open an unprompted investigation into your political opponent is a crime.
 
I mean no matter how much you attack anyone else, we already have direct evidence of Trump's wrongdoing.
 
This sounds like something the left would claim is a violation of the emoulets clause if a republican accepted a fund raising party from a foreign entity.

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lwf said:
Having connections in a foreign country is not a problem. Threatening to sever those connections if said foreign country doesn't open an unprompted investigation into your political opponent is a crime.
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I thought accepting something of value was s problem?

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lwf said:
Having connections in a foreign country is not a problem. Threatening to sever those connections if said foreign country doesn't open an unprompted investigation into your political opponent is a crime.
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And the lie still continues... color me surprised.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
I mean no matter how much you attack anyone else, we already have direct evidence of Trump's wrongdoing.
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No matter how much of a left wing spin you put on this. We already know that he did nothing akin to what you're pushing.
 
Oborosen said:
No matter how much of a left wing spin you put on this. We already know that he did nothing akin to what you're pushing.
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I think you need to read the texts that were just released. It’s basically been proven without any doubt at this point.

“Good lunch. Heard from the WH - assuming President Z convinces trump he will investigate/“get to the bottom of” 2016, we will nail down a date for a visit to Washington. Good luck!”

From the morning of the call. Can’t get more obvious than that.
 

Igor was a naturalized citizen of the US when he had the fund raiser for Schiff.

The fundraiser was legal.

At no point did Schiff use Igor as a conduit to demand anything of the Ukrainian government.

Schiff's current elected status and position does not allow him to make demands of the Ukrainian government, unlike Trump.

All that has been revealed is that Ukrainian-born, US citizen held a fundraiser for Schiff. There's nothing here. You are grasping at straws.
 
trouble13 said:
This sounds like something the left would claim is a violation of the emoulets clause if a republican accepted a fund raising party from a foreign entity.

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Well, since Pasternak is a US citizen...I would say that your post s bit off.

Oh, and Pasternak, according to the link that was given, DOES give money to the GOP, so....
 
trouble13 said:
I thought accepting something of value was s problem?

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Did anyone read the part where the guy was a US citizen at the time of the fundraiser?
 
Now that it is exposed as a leak and not a whistleblower, I wonder how the legalities change. It seems clear the leaker did something illegal and would not surprise me if Schiff did as well.
 
From the link provided:

'According to his online biography, Pasternak was born in the former Soviet Union, started his first company in Ukraine, immigrated to the United States in 1993 and is now a U.S. citizen. Since that time, Pasternak’s company has been awarded Ukraine defense contracts.

An invitation for the July 18, 2013, fundraiser, posted online, invited guests to Pasternak’s home on Capitol Hill. “Please join Igor Pasternak for a taste of Ukraine Reception honoring Congressman Adam Schiff,” the invite said.

To attend the fundraisers, sponsors were encouraged to contribute $2,500, and guests were asked to pay $1,000. The invite said checks were payable to “Adam Schiff for Congress.”

An online search of donor records shows that Pasternak has donated money to politicians and organizations of both parties.'
 

Thanks for your opinion. I guess we will just have to wait and see how this unfolds. Im sure there will be a few more bombshells coming down the pike.
 

Yes, the text have been read and it still leads to nothing all things considered.

This whole thing is just turning into Russia Gate 2.0 and it's going to tank with the exact same premise. That the democrats and the media basically scrambled to make up as much as they could, in such a short amount of time.

I'm still surprised Schiff got to basically fabricate as much of the conversation as he could and not suffer any consequences.
 
SLC said:
Yep we have the Transcripts
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Oh no, you see when all that came out. Everyone started screaming that either the transcripts weren't real, or that they were altered so heavily that they were nothing but lies. Hell, one of WaPos writers was saying that it was akin to a deep state obstruction plot, started by Russian assets on her twitter feed. Only to delete it within something like eight hours.
 

Pressuring Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into his political rival and releasing a press release authored by the White House in exchange for aid against Russia and a visit to the White House isn’t nothing.
 
Do you have any information on when he became a citizen?

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trouble13 said:
Do you have any information on when he became a citizen?

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Read the article liked in the OP.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
Pressuring Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into his political rival and releasing a press release authored by the White House in exchange for aid against Russia and a visit to the White House isn’t nothing.
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It is nothing because that didn't happen. Rather, that is a deliberately, known lie.
 
We're gonna see thousand mafia lawyer type threads leading up to the next election.
 
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