Whistleblower has no first-hand knowledge of Ukraine phone call

  I would like to take a moment or two to welcome the mainstream media to the Biden/Ukraine scandal. Most people probably have not heard about Joe Biden’s alleged abuse of power and influence peddling with Ukraine while he was Vice President because, with the exception of a few blogs and conservative websites, the media has ignored this scandal. So here is a little background on what it is believed good ole Uncle Joe was up to in regards to his son Hunter and Ukraine:

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.

“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat.

Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.

U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia.

The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money.

  What it amounts to is this: Joe Biden threatened to withhold billions of dollars of United States funding from Ukraine unless that country fired a prosecutor who was investigating a firm that Hunter Biden worked for…and the Ukrainian officials did.

  But this story was ignored by the mainstream media until late last week when a so-called whistleblower stepped forward with the shocking accusation that the President of the United States wanted the former Vice President investigated for corruption by Ukraine officials. The Democrats’ and the mainstream media’s collective hearts were aflutter at the possibility that this could be the scandal they have been hoping for and there are now renewed calls for Donald Trump’s impeachment.

  It turns out however that this whistleblower has no first-hand knowledge of the phone conversation that Donald Trump supposedly had with Ukrainian officials. Here is more:

The anonymous whistleblower who claimed that President Donald Trump pressured the Ukraine’s head of state to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden didn’t have direct knowledge of what was said, according to a new report.

CNN‘s Stephen Collinson reported Friday that the whistleblower “didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications,” citing an official briefed on the matter:

Instead, the whistleblower’s concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration’s determination that the complaint didn’t fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.

  So this great witness the left is hinging its hopes and dreams on did not even hear the conversation he or she is tattling on. In other words this is nothing but hearsay. That does not sound like much of a viable witness to me but that will not stop the media and the Democrats from sounding the alarms. Ironically  they are accusing Donald Trump of interfering in foreign affairs by asking a foreign country to investigate the interference by the Vice President in foreign affairs. 

The media and the Democrats are in a tough spot here because by going after Donald Trump they might put the spotlight on Joe Biden’s activity and this could backfire on them. They might think they can walk this tightrope but they are not nearly as clever as they think they are.

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