“I would like you to do us a favor…” The American President, that Ukraine is doing him a Favor. After the phone call Trumps with Volodymyr Selenskyj face – off the US election-Getöses – a number of questions.
Five pages from the Transcript of the phone call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Selenskyj
It is Thursday, 25. July, 9:03 o’clock in the Morning in Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump with the newly elected President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Selenskyj connect. A few doors down, in the round-the-clock occupied the Situation Room in the West wing of the White house, sitting the employee of the government, the logging of the conversation. The explicit “order of the president” published “Memorandum of Telephone Conversation”, five printed pages long, leaves a number of questions. But to some there are answers.
Where has worked for Hunter Biden?
“The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s Son.” This casually raised remark, Trump ushered in the delicate part of the conversation with the ukranischen President. Both of them had spoken to this point for a few minutes with each other, and now there is still this other thing: “There is a lot of talk about Biden’s son.”
Specifically: Hunter Biden had been in the spring of 2014, in the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Burisma Holding; not the first American in the Management of the gas company. His father, the then-US Vice President Joe Biden, had to insure the public that there is no conflict of interests. Media reports talked about the fact that Hunter Biden should have gotten up to $ 50,000 per month for the more consultative activities. Unconfirmed.
Father and son: Hunter on the left) and his father Joe Biden, candidate Biden (on the presidential candidacy in 2020
But it’s not about the money to get Hunter Biden out of the Ukraine. Because previously in the conversation, Trump mentioned a Prosecutor of Ukraine, “which was very good and then it was turned off, and that’s really unfair”, we formulated Trump. This investigator is Viktor Schokin, the corruption investigations against the company Burisma, and possibly also against Hunter Biden led. He was discharged in April 2016, the government in Kiev. The then-called reason was, that the chief Prosecutor should not be energetic enough to take action against corruption.
At a meeting of the “Council on Foreign Relations” had Biden in a relaxed conversational tone to know that he had called for the dismissal Schokins. It also Trump refers to: “Biden around and showed off that he has stopped the prosecution. So if you could investigate… For me, that sounds awful.”
How have helped the USA to the Ukraine?
In the Memorandum of the call, the speech is not expressly excluded from totals. But the way Trump makes his Ukrainian interlocutor to help US, obviously as a kind of “hint, hint” to interpret. “Germany does almost nothing for you” – “Germany does almost nothing for you.” At the time of the call, the US government’s military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of almost 400 million dollars held back. The money was approved by Congress already. All of this is likely to be the politically significantly young Selenskyj not escaped.
First the phone, then Selenskyj and Trump met this week on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly
Who the Whistleblower is?
Who has brought the thing punched out and rolling, we don’t know. What we do know: In September, the speaker of the house of representatives, Nancy Pelosi turned to the words, according to the inspector General of the US intelligence services to Congress. Michael Atkinson said that the government prevent him from drawing, with the complaint of a Whistleblower forward. Observers in Washington and, above all, the opposition Democrats believe that the could have in the U.S. press as an “intelligence officer”, so as a secret service employee, described the Informant even more to Indicate a potential failure of the U.S. President. About state secrets? Thus, it may be in the informant’s actually just someone that had the phone calls from the “Situation Room” from mithörte or access to the logs. The Democrats bet on the fact that the Whistleblower in the course of an Impeachment proceeding would testify.
Has mixed the President’s personal and government interests?
This is according to the current level of knowledge, a question of textual interpretation stand. But the fact that Trump mentioned in the phone call to his Minister of justice, William Barr and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in a breath, on the special Amtsverständnis of the US President to close. “Rudy knows very well informed about what is going on, and he is a very capable guy. If they could speak with him, that would be great,” says Trump to Selenskyj. Again to be clear, Giuliani has no government office, but Trumps is a private defender.
Has Rudy Giuliani spoke with Selenskyj?
After all, what we know so far. But as the “Wall Street Journal” reported, the former New York city mayor in June in Paris with a representative of the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s office. And later, after the critical phone call between the two presidents, traveled Giuliani to Madrid to meet a man by the name of Andriy Yermak. Yermak is considered to be one of the most important Advisor to the Ukrainian President. When Giuliani was first raised on the Ukraine issue in the CNN, he pointed everything away from him – and then days later, admitting that he had asked the Ukraine, in terms of Biden investigations. “Of course I did.” Want to put Giuliani in front of the President?
The lawyer of the President: Rudy Giuliani
What was Biden from Hunter?
Hunter Biden at the beginning of July gave the magazine “The New Yorker” on the record, his father talked to him only Once on the Ukraine issue. “Father said to me: I hope You know what You’re doing. And I replied, I know.” The magazine also describes alcohol and drug-problems of the son of the Vice President, whose brother Biden Beau 2015 of a brain tumor had died. According to the report, Hunter Biden has rejected in may 2019 the offer of the Ukrainian gas company, to sit for a further term of office on the Board. The title of the article in the New Yorker was: “Can Hunter the campaign of his father to destroy Biden?” Originally, the Text appeared under the title of “father and son”.
Who, or what, Crowdstrike is actually?
The gas company Burisma is not mentioned in the phone call between the presidents of Trump and Selenskyj in particular. For Trump speaks in a rather cryptic formulation of a business: Crowdstrike. At this point, it is clear that the Americans are demanding information from his counterpart in the Ukraine. Trump’s own words: “Our country has been through a lot, and the Ukraine know a lot about it. I want you to find out what happened with this whole Situation with the Ukraine, they say, Crowdstrike …”
Five printing pages: the published phone log
It is unclear whether at this point in the manuscript, passages are missing, deleted or has been omitted. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” is explored the trail and reported, the California-based cyber security firm Crowdstrike “played a Central role in the investigations, who have hacked in 2016, the systems of the Democratic campaign committees (DNC)”. Trump speculates in any case, the masterminds were sitting in the Ukraine: “I’m guessing you have one of your wealthy people … the Server, you say that the Ukraine did it”, is quoted by the US President in the Protocol.
What is the connection between the Mueller Report, and the Ukraine?
The phone call between Trump and Selenskyj took place on may 25. July 2019 instead. Only a day earlier, on 24. July, had said in Washington a special investigators Robert F. Mueller before Congress – and those of Mueller, who had investigated any previous allegations against the President. Trump went into the phone call on this gig Mueller’s, was, in General, been seen as more of a point of victory for the man in the White house. Quote: “I want you to go to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, ended all this nonsense with a very weak performance by a man by the name of Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say that much of it started with the Ukraine.”
Why have changed the Democrats right now is your course?
Opposition leader Nancy Pelosi to the impeachment proceedings yet skeptical. Their concern: It could be of benefit at the end of the incumbent rather than damage. Apparently, the internal pressure within the Democrats was now so great that the speaker of the house of representatives was different. The Chairman of the judiciary Committee, Jerrold “Jerry” Nadler, had already tried to interview special investigator Mueller, sufficient Material to gather together – in vain. After the Ukraine-involvement was known, spoke – along with many senators, even the contenders for the presidential nomination, Joe Biden, publicly for the procedure. Had Nancy Pelosi not hear these important voices from their own ranks, they would have damaged the own man.
As it is, and not otherwise: Nancy Pelosi announces the steps to impeachment
What stage of the impeachment process is achieved?
Never in the history of the United States of America a President is removed from office by an Impeachment of the office. Richard Nixon came in 1974, a vote previously, and resigned in the “Watergate”affair. It is clear: In the house of representatives, the Democrats have the necessary majority in the Senate, however. Currently, a precursor of the complex method, is reached. The Committee on legal Affairs has the task, the “Articles of Impeachment” – that is, the exact charges to set up. This will then be voted on individually. If the members give in the house of representatives only a single charge, the majority of the approval, is set the impeachment process formally in motion. President Trump would then speak again of the “witch hunt”, of a witch-hunt. The presidential election in 2020, he now has his theme.