eYe update: Bombshell Mondays 10-14-2019
Yesterday's series of articles from WSJ, WAPO, and NYT confirmed my theory that Bolton had to be the leaker. Along with the devastating testimony from Fiona Hill much was revealed. There are 5 prongs to the story confirmed by her yesterday:
Prong 1 - Withhold Aid: Mulvaney to go around career bureaucrats at OMB/DOD to use political appointees to hold up the aid. This gave Trump the leverage to extort the UKR gov.
Prong 2 - Clear the path at the State Dept to enable Rudy to run a shadow FP. Trump got Pompeo's acquiescence and help, along with Rudy and his two goons (with one part involving lobbying US pols w/illegal campaign donations (Pete Sessions) to remove Yovanovich and reorganize US foreign policy in UKR policy around Rudy, with Sondland and Volker reporting to him. NSC cut out. DOD cut out. This enabled Rudy, Sondland and Volker to push the quid pro quo (confirmed by Yavonovich, Hill, plus more whistleblowers) and make it clear to UKR that this was coming from Trump: election help in exchange for a WH meeting + release of aid. This effort culminates in the actual shakedown laid out by Trump himself in the July 25 call.
Prong 3 - Align with Russian and Pro-Russian Ukrainian interests to put the squeeze more tightly on Zelensky. Giuliani runs this with Parnas/Fruman; connects with Letsenko; taps into the Firtash network and other allies of the pro-Russian parties (Party of Regions and their offshoots (psst…and Paul Manafort who likely gave Rudy these ideas)). The intersection point between the SDNY probe of Rudy and the Impeachment inquiry probe of the Zelensky shakedown is Marie Yovanovitch. She was seen as an obstacle to the pro-Russian UKR types like Firtash (prevented corruption) and to Trump (would not allow the shakedown to happen or to frame Biden).
Prong 4 - Politically Weaponize all Anti-Biden Info Gathered in Ukraine + Info for Barr's "Origins of the Investigation" to Delegitimize the Mueller Probe and Findings - This is the role of AG Barr. Once Trump has gotten Zelensky"s attention, AG Barr then takes his road show to connect with the UKR government on the issue of "investigations into Burisma" which we learned is code for "get Biden" + his nutty investigation to undermine the origins of the Mueller probe and rewrite history to align to Trump's damaged psyche as one might see from scientology cultists rationalizing L Ron. Since Barr attends NSC meetings, has access to the WH Counsel and to Trump, it is fair to assume that he is completely read in on the entire conspiracy. SDNY must demand his recusal. He’s a co-conspirator in the larger scheme of which they are investigating Rudy for one piece that has overlap with others.
Prong 5 - the Cover-Up. Once word started getting out about the call, Trump and the WH Counsel’s office hid the transcripts in the secret server; Trump lied to Ron Johnson when asked directly about the shakedown; Trump instructed Sondland on how to answer Amb Taylor via text, that it would be evidence that investigators would see. WH Counsel and Barr became aware of the WB, and took every step possible to deflect the claim. Barr declined to pursue investigations into Trump based on referrals made by the ICIG and the CIA GC, when he has an obvious conflict (he’s part of the conspiracy!). Pompeo tries to muzzle people from testifying and lies about his knowledge and involvement. Pence lies about his knowledge and involvement.
But it all falls apart thanks to Bolton, Adam Schiff, and our print media reporters. [cont]