Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Mueller Investigating Ukrainian Billionaire's $150K Donation To Trump's Charity. Ignores $13 Miilion Donation To The Clinton Foundation

Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel magnate, has sought closer ties for Ukraine to the West. He donated $150,000 to the Trump Foundation in 2015 in exchange for a brief appearance by Mr. Trump via video at a conference in Ukraine. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

Daily Mail: Mueller's Special Counsel is probing Ukrainian billionaire's $150K donation to Trump's charity for a 20-minute video appearance

* Trump appeared via video to a Kiev conference in exchange for donation in 2015
* It was solicited by his lawyer Michael Cohen, whose offices were raided Monday
* Was largest donation made to Trump's charity by anyone that year except Trump
* Pinchuk founded foundation meant to 'promote Ukraine’s European integration'

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office is reportedly investigating a $150,000 donation made to Donald Trump's charity by a Ukrainian billionaire.

Victor Pinchuk paid the large donation in exchange for a 20-minute 'appearance' that Trump made via video to a conference for the oligarch's foundation in Kiev.

The donation was solicited by longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, according to the New York Times.

Read more ....

Update #1: Mueller Investigating Ukrainian’s $150,000 Payment for a Trump Appearance (New York Times)
Update #2: Who Is Victor Pinchuk? Mueller Investigating Ukrainian Billionaire’s $150,000 Payment to Trump Foundation (Newsweek).

WNU Editor: Investigate a $150,000 donation to the TRump Foundation .... but do not investigate the $13 million donation to the Clinton Foundation and the access that Victor Pinchuk had when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State .... Mueller Investigating Trump Over $150K Donation From Ukrainian Who Gave Clintons $13 Million (Daily Caller). More here .... ‘Russiagate gets sillier by the day’: Mueller goes after reported Clinton donor Victor Pinchuk (RT). This is just one more example on how bias this entire investigation has become, and one more nail in the coffin in the credibility of those who support it.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is hiliary president?

DON THE CON HAS IT COMIN

fred said...

Dear Editor:
anon is right. that is not the madate give Mueller. He is not in business of investigating our past 4 presidents...here, he is looking into Cohen and his connection to Russia, Trump, collusion etc

Of late, you seem very defensive on posts, reverting to other issues in defense of something or other

fred said...

In September 2015, Trump appeared via video link at a conference Pinchuk hosted in Kiev. Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, negotiated details of the event with Douglas Schoen, a former consultant for Bill Clinton, according to The New York Times. Trump did not initially request payment for the appearance, but Cohen contacted Schoen at one point to request a $150,000 honorarium, The Times reported.

Jay Farquharson said...

We find out what Meuller is actually investigating, when the Judge unseals the indictments,

And Meuller's not currently investigating Cohen, SDNY AAG Geoffery Berman, who was personally appointed to that post by Treason Tribble himself, is.

War News Updates Editor said...

She was US Secretary of State at the time when her foundation received this money.

And the mandate of the Mueller Counsel is to investigate everything .... collusion being the original reason why.

If you start being selective in targeting the law .... you will just end up having a Soviet legal system that criminalizes political opinion.

I am not defensive. I am angry to see the U.S. legal system becoming perverted in the manner that it has. And the ones who are applauding it the most are the ones who claim that they are liberals/progressives.

War News Updates Editor said...

Jay,
You are right abut the indictments when they are unsealed. If this is just about a porn star and a former playmate .... the Mueller Counsel will be having a lot of explaining to do on why they referred this case to Manhattan, thereby opening up another investigation that will now go for the next two or three years.

Anonymous said...

Jay, you're wrong. Berman is not investigating Trump. He recused himself.

Jay Farquharson said...

George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
I rather miss the news of raids during the Obama presidency. Instead of Manafort and Cohen's offices raided by the FBI, it was Bin Laden hideout, raided by Navy Seals.
4:28 PM · Apr 9, 2018

https://mobile.twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/983486729284915200?

Rosenstien referred the case to New York, according to FBI Policy and Procedures. There won't be "awkward question to answer", because by the time this wraps up, the "Ususal Suspects" doing a little lite treasoning for Russia, will be in jail or exile in Russia.

The Clinton Foundation is ranked by all of the Charity Watch goups to be one of the most effective, open, honest and best managed Charities in the US, and it has been heavilly investigated.

Treason Tribble's Charities are ranked as scams.

Adding to Treason Tribbles very bad day, NYAG forced $25 million in fraud compensation out of the Trump Org. For the Trump University Scam.

BTW, Possum Hollar's Elmira Gantry, Huckabee Saunder's at today's White Supremacy House Press Conference said:

She's not sure if Cohen's still Trump's Lawyer,

and the FBI raid on Cohen's home, office and hotel room has nothing to do with Treason Tribble,

So either y'all are getting all worked up over Fake News, or the White Supremacy House is lying, can't be both.


Jay Farquharson said...

"The raid of Cohen's office was handled by others in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and approved by a federal judge."

Yup, funny, all these recusals in Trump/Russia, almost like Treason Tribble's entire Administration is a bunch of Russian Nesting Dolls, engaged in a criminal conspiracy.

War News Updates Editor said...

For what it is worth. According to the New York Times, this raid was only focused on payments to a porn star and a former playmate .... Raid on Trump’s Lawyer Sought Records of Payments to Women
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/us/politics/trump-russia-mueller-rosenstein.html?smid=tw-share

Here is an easy prediction .... if this is true, the U.S. legal community is not going to be amused seeing one of their own being targeted in such a manner. I am sure there are a lot of lawyers who do not like President Trump, but when you mess around on how they practice law and their sacrosanct promise that communications with their client will be kept private .... there is going to be a lot of blow-back.

Jay Farquharson said...

For what it's worth, the only people who know what the raids are about, are Meuller, Rosenstien, the Judges and the SDNY Office.

Everybody else is guessing based on leaks from Cohen's Lawyer, who doesn't have a clue.

It's pretty pathetic that Treason Tribble and his Minion's are so corrupt, that Top Tier Lawfirms won't touch them with a 291/2 foot pole, and they have to beg RNC Donors for legal funding.

fred said...

A legal expert with lots of experience in these matters stated that fbi warrants could not be obtained for searching three places for just the stormy porn issue

Unknown said...

Muller is investigating Russia and the trump collusion, not Russia and everyone else, if there evidence of Hillary and the Russians that is and will be an entirely new case. This kind of news are elaborate to somehow prove Trump innocent, let me tell you guys. You will never be proven innocent by showing or proving someone else guilty of another crime. Bias or not Muller obviously had evidence of wrong doing by trumps associates.

Jay Farquharson said...

"Robert S. Khuzami, who led the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission for four years during the Obama administration, was named on Friday as the deputy United States attorney in Manhattan…

The United States attorney’s office in Manhattan has traditionally been one of the most aggressive pursuers of cases involving white-collar and Wall Street crime, and Mr. Khuzami’s background means he could become one of the country’s top financial watchdogs.

But don’t let that reference to the Obama administration fool you.

Mr. Khuzami spoke at the 2004 Republican National Convention, in defense of the Patriot Act and in support of President George W. Bush’s re-election."

I'm old enough to remember when a Real Presidential Scandal was the wearing of a tan suit, and the Press would dig deeply for weeks, not like these Fake Scandals of today.

Jay Farquharson said...

Yup,

https://www.popehat.com/2018/04/09/the-search-of-trump-lawyer-michael-cohens-office-what-we-can-infer-immediately/

In Treason Tribble's 'Murika, it's always Infrastructure Week.