Showing posts with label quid pro quo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quid pro quo. Show all posts

Monday, July 22, 2024

Op-ed: 
A Mutiny on America's Ship of State 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 
The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.

The plan set in motion by Obama back in 2020 has now proven to have worked perfectly. Kamala Harris...yet another Obama shill...dropped out of the what then was the 2020 presidential primary race almost immediately due to her extremely poor showing, thus leaving Obama a clear path to force her down Biden's throat as his VP, after all she met all of his and the lefts diversity, mandatory, must check off boxes.

Remember, Biden was always to be a “transitional” one-term president, or so he said, leaving his next generation vice-president as the next in line for the Democrat throne if you will...thus assuring Obama not only his coveted fourth term in office but that his “Fundamental Transformation of America” would reach its final fruition with Obama pulling what would be a then President Harris' strings.

And while all seemed to be falling into place, Joe Biden threw a wrench into the mix when he announced he would be seeking a second term in office. And stay the course he did when as late as this past Friday he insisted that no no one would force him out of the race with his reason being that only he could beat Donald Trump in November. And this was no matter his disastrous June debate performance, his obvious failing physical and mental decline, mounting pressure from within his own party to step down, or that his top donors were deserting him en masse.

And yet, just this passed Sunday at approximately 2:30pm EST, after having posted a letter on social media, Joe Biden announced that he will be suspending his 2024 re-election campaign saying, "While it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term."

But my first two-part question to his letter's statement is what exactly was Biden promised in return for his finally vacating the race, especially after his recent saying, as per a New York Times report that, “Obama is the puppet master behind the scenes” of discussions regarding my exiting the campaign; and what was “Dr. Jill”...who really was the driving force behind Biden and the only one he truly listened to...promised for her having to give up what she thought was assured to be her second term as First Lady, along with all its perks of course.

Simply, no matter what he states in public I believe Joe Biden never wanted to leave the race nor did “Dr. Jill” want him to, but that he was literally forced out by Obama so he could get Kamala Harris into office and thus be fully assured of his completing his full “fourth term” in office...an agreement made...in my opinion...when Obama chose her to be Biden's vice-president back in 2020.

Now my second question is, why really did Biden drop out of the race...and know it was not for the good of the country nor for his party even though the Democrats will now try to paint Joe Biden as a hero to contrast his true legacy as being a presidential failure. Why indeed, for Biden surely knows about all of Obama's dirty little dealings done while he was in office...dealings which Joe easily could have used as leverage to get Obama and his people off his back? The answer is really quite simple, as in it's my opinion, because Biden feared Obama would in return expose the truth about all his dirty, monetarily profitable, and ever so criminal “quid pro quo” deals with Ukraine, and his still questionable deals with China, just two of many now coming to mind.

And so an Obama forged deal was made to not only remove Joe Biden from the race, most especially with the all-important “down-ticket” races now in jeopardy of being lost as well, but a deal that would keep Obama...no longer needing to be veiled...in office courtesy of Kamala Harris becoming not only America's first woman president...how Hillary must be fuming...but America's first woman “of color” to occupy the Oval Office.

And so DEI wins over both what is common sense and what Democrats love to call our “democracy” for in their literally forcing Joe Biden out of the race, Obama and his minions have again made a mockery of the very thing they claim America is. Stabbing Biden in the back was but a small price to pay especially with Obama now “allowing” him to finish off his term...a term never really his to begin with nor will it be his to finish. Obama himself behind the scenes...to make sure Biden stays in line...will be calling all the shots, both domestically and foreign policy wise.

So what exactly, besides appearance wise being able to finish off his term, was the proverbial “bone” thrown to Biden​? How about with Harris in office...and know that “voter fraud” will be in full operational mode to try and assure just that...his convicted felon son Hunter would receive either a Harris presidential pardon or a commutation of sentence...while Biden's brother and other family members who remain encased in questionable foreign financial dealings see said accusations quietly fading away. Just two of many possibilities, a long and devious time in the making.

But the bottom line, in my opinion, is that Joe Biden was the victim of an Obama orchestrated political coup...a mutiny of the “ship of state” if you will...for no other reason than to assure America-hating Barack Obama his “fourth term” in office. And if Kamala Harris was to somehow, by “hook” or more likely by “crook,” to win this November she probably would then run for a second term...if Obama allows it that is...thus giving Obama a possible no longer needing to be veiled “fifth term” in office, thus breaking FDR's record of what was then four “legally elected” terms in office.

So with Biden's withdrawal now a done deal what of Kamala Harris...Biden's so-called “border czar” who actually never visited the border and who he now has officially endorsed...will after her now owning, if you will, what's left of Biden's monetary “war chest”...actually garner enough support within the Democrat party's faithful to be the nominee as per what Obama wants or will other hopefuls start entering into the race? Will Robert F. Kennedy Jr. switch back to the Democrat party and vie for the nomination; will Sen. Joe Manchin re-register as a Democrat and as per some reports possibly vie for the nomination; or will an unexpected but highly popular person within the party's fold pop-up...someone like Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer perhaps.

The Democrats do have many who would love to not only be the candidate to beat Donald Trump but be the president who pushed forward the leftist agenda. But two things I do know, and first is that no matter who is the final nominee they would have to be Obama approved or it would be a no-go, for whether it's admitted to or not Barack Obama is still the deciding voice within the Democrat party. And second, after Biden and the Democrats failed policy record regarding the border, the economy, inflation, foreign affairs, the ever divisive “woke” and “green energy” nonsense, etc. you just know that unless Barack Obama outwardly supports and campaigns for Kamala Harris, there are still possibilities that with a number of Democrats not happy with Joe Biden being forced out of the race that Harris might not get enough delegates at convention to secure the nomination.

But remember these two things...first, Joe Biden did not willingly drop out...he was forced out...nor is he hero for doing so, and second, no matter who is Democrats presidential nominee...no one...I repeat no one...will beat the now Trump/Vance juggernaut. Case closed.

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Monday, May 20, 2024

Op-ed: 
Lies Told...Truths Not Accepted 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio
The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google.
 
“The Biden administration's policy toward Israel and around the world is to punish our allies and boost our enemies.” - Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

It's official...Joe Biden has proven himself to be a traitor to Israel on par with that of his puppet master Barack Obama. Two men interchangeable now working in tandem it seems...two men whose past and present actions have exposed which side they're really on in regards to any and everything Israel.

Two men with overlapping policies...dangerous anti-Israel policies...with Biden now trying to stop Israel from finishing its intended mission...as in the total elimination of Hamas from Gaza. And with Biden channeling his inner Obama, not only has he delayed the entirety of Congress' approved arms shipments* to Israel, but he has withheld from Netanyahu key intelligence information pertaining to the exact locations of Hamas' leadership. And Biden is doing so to cater to the whims of the anti-Israel/ antisemitic sorts here at home in hopes of garnering their political favor come November's election.

Remember, Obama's inner hatred towards Israel and the Jewish people can be summed up in this original sentence from his book “The Audacity of Hope”...that is before editing took place...as in, “I will stand with the muslims if the politics winds shift in an ugly direction.” And Biden's stated “unwavering support” for Israel...said soon after Hamas' October 7th attack on Israeli civilians...were obviously words spoken with fingers crossed behind his back. And why...because while Obama knew he'd always get a second term in office courtesy of his having played the “race card” throughout his first term thus solidifying for himself a second term, Joe Biden...even with Obama pulling his strings...has never been assured of that...voter “irregularities” not withstanding. And Obama knows that when Biden dares to go “off script” and speaks for himself, that things not meant for public consumption suddenly become newsworthy...as has recently happened.

Time for Obama to pull Biden's strings tighter, especially after his laying down “red lines” to Netanyahu...“red lines” telling BiBi that he dare not cross into Rafah to “take out” what remains of Hamas. And so here I say to Biden, how dare you tell the duly-elected leader of a sovereign nation what can or cannot be done in a time of war. Remember Biden...like Obama...is no friend to Israel*...he never was and he never will be. And  this all came to a head roughly two weeks ago when the U.S. State Department informed Congress that it intended to bypass laws that bar the U.S. from selling weapons to nations that boycott Israel. In fact, in the past Biden has waived these sanctions, but now he says they'll be extended through April 30, 2025.

Guess Biden forgets that he probably won't be in office come 2025...voter “irregularities” again not with standing.

So what exactly would these waivers accomplish? Let's start with “aiding and abetting” our ally Israel's enemies as said waivers would allow U.S. weapons to be sent to nations that not only support and work closely with Hamas, but with other Iranian proxies as well. Dubious indeed for the fact is that these waivers were announced just one day before Biden “threatened” and then followed through the withholding of the aforementioned, Congress approved, weapons delivery to Israel. And Biden must be called to task...in fact some have already called for his impeachment***...for these actions reek of yet another “quid pro quo”...as in “we'll give you this only if you give us that”...type of scenario. How so...because Biden is “leveraging” already approved U.S. dollars against Israel's intended military actions in Rafah...actions that might...or might not...entail heavy “collateral damage.”

But I see Biden's actions actually bordering on, if not crossing over, into treason. How so...because by his withholding promised “offensive aid” to Israel, Biden is not only “aiding and abetting” Israel's enemies but America's enemies as well. Remember, while Hamas is but one of Iran's proxy armies that use Iranian monies and equipment in their terrorist attacks, also remember that Iran is an enemy of the U.S., and that Hamas remains on the “U.S. Terrorist Watch List.”

In fact, in a recent CNN interview while Biden did say that Israel would continue to see U.S. support for its “defensive systems”...as in the “Iron Dome”...he quickly added the words, “If they [meaning Israel] go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem.” But forgotten by Biden is that the weapons and especially the bombs he's now withholding from Israel...including another 1,800 U.S. made 2,000-pound “heavy” bombs, and 1,700 U.S, made 500-pound bombs, plus lesser charged bombs...bombs more adaptable to lessening “collateral damage”...are the very bombs that Israel has been using in Gaza since their retaliatory strike on Hamas began. Simply, Biden is only condemning said bombs use now because of the growing pro-Hamas/pro Palestinian protests here at home which might help garner him some votes.

But no matter for Israel has stockpiled enough of these “heavy bombs” to use in Rafah, it's the smaller diameter bombs...aka “precision bombs” used more so for “targeted kills”...that Israel needed more of if “collateral damage” was to be kept to a minimum. So Joe Biden's dancing on Obama's pulled stings has actually forced Israel into using the larger bombs, thus allowing Biden to not only blame Israel for the increase in civilian deaths, but to also garner votes...a cleverly crafted move indeed.

And yet Biden remains a foolish man for this war never focused on “precision” based “targeted kills” for that scenario never ends wars in fact, at times, it starts or drags out wars. Israel must do whatever it takes as they push deeper into Rafah, for the fact remains that with northern Gaza remaining basically “ungoverned” with sporadic fighting continuing, remnants of Hamas have begun to strike out against Israel again. In fact, just before Mother's Day, a small faction of Hamas operatives launched a rocket into the middle of a children's playground in Be'er Sheva, Israel. And while, thankfully, no children were killed, this act plus recently released IDF drone footage showing Hamas operatives launching attacks on Israel from a UN Works and Relief Agency warehouse while using official UN vehicles for transport into Gaza...clearly shows why Hamas must be eradicated in full for only with Hamas' total defeat will Israeli's be able to live in what passes for a mere semblance of “normalcy,” let alone with a sense of “security.”

But the question remaining is, how can “normalcy” or “security” return to Israel when the very country she thought was her ally is openly stabbing her in the back. And proof of this can be seen when Biden, just a week or so ago, sent an unclassified report to Congress on Israel's, what he called, “incursion into Gaza.”

An “incursion” is usually referred to as a limited “hostile entrance” into a territory...an unexpected “raid” if you will. But Israel did not “raid” Gaza...Israel openly and rightfully declared war on Hamas and all its bases of operation in Gaza, which now encompasses Gaza itself along with its Hamas supporting populace...a populace who have yet to condemn Hamas or their barbaric October 7th attack on what were defenseless Israeli civilians...an savage attack specifically targeting women, babies, and young children.

But what exactly was in the report...a report deliberately held back until Biden could shed phony crocodile tears in a televised speech given on “Holocaust Remembrance Day?” Simply, a twisting of truth to aid Biden in his quest for the anti-Israel/pro-Hamas vote. Stating that Israel, “likely used U.S.-made arms to inflict a higher number of civilian casualties in Gaza than is broadly deemed acceptable”...pray tell what number of civilian casualties is mitigated to be acceptable in a time of rightfully declared war...a war against those who committed barbaric, savage, and inhumane acts...war crimes plain and simple.

Also, stated in the report was that, “the State Department found that it is reasonable to assess that there are possible violations with hundreds of investigations open.” Investigations into what, as mere common sense dictates that sometimes “an eye for an eye” does indeed become the very solution to a problem. Also, in regards to the war Israel now finds herself in, if those siding with Hamas and their Palestinian supporters truly did not want casualties... if they were really concerned about what surely would be a mounting civilian death toll...Hamas should not have provoked Israel...the one country most know would rightfully respond ten-fold to their having been attacked.

Simply, the ones needing investigation are the traitors within our government's ranks who dared to questions our ally Israel's actions. Guess these paper pushing, leftist aligned, bureaucrats and politicians still don't grasp the meaning of the words “Never Again.”

And while this report does not say that Israel has violated any U.S. weapons policy or international humanitarian law...the very nature and timing of the report's release is what's most telling. How so...because the report's release just happened to coincide with the ongoing increase in pro-Hamas/pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, and anti-American protests here in the U.S...protests whose partakers cry over the overinflated numbers of Palestinian lives lost.

Remember publicity, even negative publicity, in today's America equates more times than not as votes garnered along “blue party lines,” especially when numbers are deliberately manipulated to help push forward ones chosen cause.

Forgotten by these folks is the fact that in war innocent people die...the very nature of war always sees innocent blood being shed. But what not to be cried over is numbers being manipulated to help push forward a cause based upon lies. Simply, the number of (anything but) innocent Palestinian lives lost due to Israeli bombings has been overinflated two-fold. In fact...and surprisingly it's the United Nations...the organization who detests Israel the most...specifically the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)...who recently revised and lowered its Palestinian death count by half...including the number of women and children killed in the seven-months since Hamas started its war with Israel.

So much for Hamas’ death toll numbers...numbers continuously disputed by Israel as said numbers came mostly from the Hamas controlled “Gaza Ministry of Health”...numbers taken as truth by both Biden and the anti-Israel sorts who blindly accept the word of Hamas over that of our ally Israel.

“We will fight with our fingernails if necessary.”                   - Benjamin Netanyahu. May 9, 2024 

The Israel/Hamas War will eventually end, for war itself begins and ends in its own dictated time. However, I have a suggestion that might help end this war sooner rather than later, and I'll start by saying that those in Israel calling for Netanyahu's resignation for not having secured all the hostages release, to please wake up to the fact that few if any hostages are still alive.

It's my belief that most were killed soon after Israel's entry into Gaza, and that's why Hamas has not surrendered or even agreed to another ceasefire as the hostages, to them, were always but bargaining chips...bargaining chips now gone...bargaining chips likely used as “human shields” to protect Hamas' own miserable lives. Hamas never intended to release all the hostages for to do so would show weakness and vulnerability on their part...not something genocidal terrorists want as their calling card.

Netanyahu knows this as likely as do most not personally involved, an unfortunate reality that the families of those taken still have trouble facing. BiBi Netanyahu made a decision to save his country and its multitude of people, and while we cry for the hostages now likely lost, imagine instead having to cry for the entire nation of Israel and the sum of her people lost.

Simply, Israel must end this war by any means possible, and it's time for...I believe...Biden and Obama's instigators in Israel to stop fueling the pain hostage families feel. The longer Israel has roadblocks thrown in its path to victory, the more the death toll rises with peace moving further and further away. And whether some want to accept it or not the only ones then left standing will be Biden, Obama, Iran, and the indoctrinated folks who relish and feed on hate. Case closed. __________________________________________________________

* As I was writing this article Biden approved a “possible transfer” ...note the word "possible" of $700 million in tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds, minus Congress' approved 1,800 U.S. made 2,000-pound “heavy” bombs; 1,700 U.S, made 500-pound bombs; plus lesser charged bombs including “precision bombs” which would help keep “collateral damage” to a minimum.

** Click to read my article: 'Obama and Biden...No Friends of Israel.'

*** Amongst those calling for Biden's impeachment for refusing to send certain promised arms to Israel by soliciting a “quid pro quo” with Israel, is U.S. Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) who filed articles of impeachment (HR 1220) on May 13, 2024 accusing Biden of “abusing his authority by leveraging vital military aid for policy changes.”

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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Investigative Report 
The Albatross That Is Quid Pro Quo
By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The albatross is a superstitious relic written about in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In that poem the narrator killed the bird and his fellow sailors eventually forced him to carry the burden of his crime by wearing the dead bird around his neck. Ever since, the albatross has become a metaphor for a psychological burden that feels like a curse. 

The Democrat party has an albatross, a burden that is a curse from which they have but one means of escape...they must remove said albatross from their ship. And that albatross is Joe Biden. He’s in trouble...deep trouble...and the peril for his party is real if they fail to cast the albatross overboard. The trouble Joe Biden is in is much more than political, it's legal in nature and it's international in scope. The peril for his party is of his party’s own doing as they continue backing Biden out of a combination of desperation, arrogance, and hatred of Biden’s foe in the upcoming election...President Donald J. Trump. 

We want to be very clear here that while desperation over losing the 2016 election and a defacto third term in office for Obama...with Hillary Clinton being but the facade of power in the U.S...coupled with the arrogance of the Democrat party feeling that they were entitled to a third Obama term to finish the “fundamental transformation of America” into a socialist state, did and still does indeed play a significant role in this dire saga. And it's not blind faith in Joe Biden that has driven the Democrat party to the brink of political disaster...it's simply their blind hatred of President Trump which has now led them to the edge of the abyss. 

For the moment, we want you to set aside Joe Biden’s disastrous slipping mind. We want you to set aside what has become the fodder of social media including his recent completely racist remark, his inability to focus on uttering cognitive sentences, and his dementia-riddled appearances from his basement tapes, and instead focus on what the mainstream media and his own party are desperately trying to ignore. And as we always do, we will step back to see the bigger picture and provide better context for what is really going on as Biden and his presumptive nomination loom as an albatross for the Democrat party. 

After the Russia collusion attempted coup against President Trump fell apart like a house of cards built upon a foundation of lies in a tornado of truth via the Mueller Report, the Democrat party having failed to bring down the duly elected President of the United States, saw desperation quickly setting in. So on the heels of that debacle, even before the dust had settled, the Democrat party launched their second manufactured coup attempt and it came in the form of impeachment hearings in the House. And with the House in Democrat control the outcome of those hearings were pre-determined. President Trump would be found guilty no matter the evidence or lack thereof, and the final charges against him would be two-fold...abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. 

But that wasn’t where it started was it? Those weren’t the original charges were they? It was something else altogether. When the impeachment began the Democrats had charged President Trump with issuing a “quid pro quo” deal with the new president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and doing so in a phone conversation. The Democrats claimed that President Trump had withheld defense funding from Ukraine and demanded that President Zelensky investigate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, for corruption. 

President Trump quickly declassified the transcript of the phone call and released that transcript to the public, as well as to the anti-Trump liberal media. That transcript should have ended the matter as it unequivocally showed that no such “quid pro quo” took place, that President Trump made no such demand as the Democrats had claimed, and that the entire manufactured charge was bogus. It should have ended the matter, but it didn’t. The liberal media ran with the manufactured claim and between the mainstream media and the House hearings, once they moved from secret star-chamber testimony to public testimony from witnesses that witnessed nothing...witnesses who admitted just that in both their secret and public testimony...witnesses also admitting that they heard no “quid pro quo” deal...the American public was carpet bombed with unending blather of President Trump’s supposed “quid pro quo.” 

Then, with just a day or two of public testimony in the House, Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler began the process of wrapping up the House end of the impeachment before sending the debunked matter to the Senate with the charges suddenly being changed to abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, neither of which are impeachable offenses. 

And why? Because we believe it had quite a bit to do with a recently resurfaced video of Joe Biden bragging about the time when he got tough with then Ukrainian President Poroshenko, telling Poroshenko to fire his country’s lead prosecutor,Viktor Shokin, who at the time was investigating Burisma Holdings the very energy company where Biden’s son Hunter was a board member, or Ukraine would not get $1 billion in defense aide.



And that most assuredly is “quid pro quo.” More on that in a bit. 

And here we believe that by changing the impeachment charge from “quid pro quo” to abuse of power and obstruction of Congress two components came into play. The first being the combination of the transcript of the phone call showing no such “quid pro quo,” and the fact that not a single witness brought by the Democrats in the House hearings had witnessed any such deal being made. It would have been a tough sell to get enough Democrats in the House to vote in favor of impeachment based on a charge for which there existed no evidence and to which existed not a single witness, but we also believe that of greater concern to the Democrat party was that video. How could they impeach President Trump for something their backed and presumptive nominee had bragged about doing himself.

Very quickly the Democrat party tried to cover for Biden’s bragging bloviations by employing their propagandists, as in the mainstream media, to create a smoke screen. They tried to bury the bragging by saying that Joe Biden’s meeting in which he claimed that he got tough with Ukraine, to the tune of a $1 billion “quid pro quo,” took place months before Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko fired lead prosecutor Viktor Shokin and therefore, Shokin’s firing wasn’t related to whatever Biden may or may not have actually said. Furthermore, the Democrat party claimed that with no evidence of what Biden said happened existing, that it was probably just Joe Biden being Joe Biden. Move along. Nothing to see here. 

But now the tables have turned. While the transcript of the phone call between President’s Trump and Zelensky decisively showed no evidence of a “quid pro quo” deal, the evidence of Biden’s actual “quid pro quo” deal with Poroshenko has been made public in the form of actual audio of a call between then Vice President Biden and then President Poroshenko.



The date of that call was just shortly after Poroshenko fired Shokin, and in it Joe Biden clearly tells Poroshenko that he is a “man of his word,” and that he was prepared to sign the deal for the $1 billion based on the news that Shokin had indeed been fired. And you can also hear Poroshenko tell Biden that it was “extremely strong motivation” that made the $1 billion deal happen.

That audio of that phone call was selectively leaked, and much to the dismay of the Democrat party they have no recourse for it. And while it's illegal to leak classified material to the media, as was done in the unmasking of General Flynn, it's also illegal when said material is leaked from and by U.S. sources in the employment of the U.S. government or intel agencies that are privy to said material. 

RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS can only speculate as to where this leak came from, but it's what we like to refer to as informed speculation. It seems nearly impossible that the audio was leaked from U.S. sources as any such recording would have been classified and kept under lock and key by Democrat officials and intelligence agencies. RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS believes that the audio of those conversations between Joe Biden and Ukrane's President Petro Poroshenko were obtained from Ukraine itself. Remember, Rudy Giuliani, roughly six months ago, was making the media rounds claiming to have in his possession evidence of Biden’s illegal activities with relation to Ukraine. 

Rudy Giuliani was not then nor is he now an employee of any governmental body or agency. When Giuliani made several trips to Ukraine to gather such evidence, he was a private citizen and attorney for President Trump. It is the informed speculation of RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS that the audio was procured by Rudy Giuliani from Ukrainians familiar with the recording and then selectively leaked, not by President Trump now in the middle of the 2020 campaign, but by a private U.S. citizen under that citizen’s own direction and nobody else's.

So as we previously said, Joe Biden is now in deep trouble, and has become an albatross around the neck of the Democrat party. But the proof of Biden’s “quid pro quo” is just one factor in the curse he’s placed on his own party as there is more...much more...but first a bit more background to get up to speed as to where we are today. 

First, we now know that back in 2016, then Vice President Joe Biden was indeed behind the firing of Ukraine’s Chief Prosecutor Victor Shokin, the man who was investigating Burisma Holdings...one of Ukraine's largest independent natural gas producers...a company where Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was on the board at the time. Second, in a surprising turn of events, just this past February 24th, Ukraine's Prosecutor General’s Office along with the State Bureau of Investigations ordered an investigation into Shokin’s claim that he was fired only because of pressure Biden put on then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. And third, when Ukrainian law enforcement agencies originally opened their investigation they did refuse to name Joe Biden as the alleged perpetrator of the stated crime...listing instead the soon to be defendant as an unnamed American. Thankfully, Kiev's District Court Judge S. V. Vovk then ruled that an “anonymous listing” was “improper” and ordered Ukrain's law enforcement agencies to “formally name” former Vice President Joe Biden as Victor Shokin's accused perpetrator adding that “the order of the court may not be appealed.” 

Then just a few weeks ago, Judge Vovk ordered Ukraine’s law enforcement services to officially and “formally list” ex-prosecutor Victor Shokin as being the victim...yes...the victim...of said alleged crime by Joe Biden. And why was Shokin suddenly perceived as the victim...because there now was enough evidence to investigate both Shokin’s claim regarding his firing as well as Biden's supposed threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, which together amounted to, as per Judge Vovk, an “unlawful interference” into Shokin’s work as Ukraine’s then chief prosecutor. 

So, as our upcoming presidential election starts kicking into high gear...Joe Biden's campaign could very well see itself being over even before July's Democrat nominating convention begins as ghosts of the past are surely now casting an ominous shadow over him. 

And it all started back in February 2014 when Russia invaded Ukraine, with then Vice President Joe Biden saying...as per his memoirs...that he told then President Obama that he must “take decisive action” to make Moscow “pay in blood and money” for its aggression. And Obama's response...he sent the Ukrainians blankets instead of the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missiles they had asked for. And Obama then sent Joe Biden, in his role as vice president, to the Ukraine six times not only in the role of “executor of his Ukraine policy,” a policy which included Obama having to caution Biden “about not over promising to the Ukrainian government,” while at the same time telling Biden to insist that Ukraine's leaders deal with the corruption that made their country not only a risky bet for international lenders but that reform was needed regarding Ukraine’s “cronyism-ridden energy industry.” 

And it's here where Joe Biden's hopefully soon to be downfall begins for Hunter Biden was now on the board (from 2014-2019) of the very energy company...Burisma Holdings...that Prosecutor Victor Shokin was in the process of investigating. And Joe Biden could not allow it to be known how his son secured a board of director's job that he had no background in nor experience for and yet it was a job he was being paid large sums of money to do. Simply, it appears that it was the politically powerful Biden name itself that was now being used as leverage to help secure his son’s business interests in Ukraine while at the same time Joe Biden was being tasked by Obama to oversee U.S.-Ukraine policy, quite the conflict of interest we'd say. 

And that is most definitely “quid pro quo” for joe Biden in his position as vice president was basically saying we'll give you this if you give me that...which meant having Victor Shokin fired. Fire the very man...the very prosecutor...who was now deep into conducting a series of criminal investigations for tax violations, money-laundering, and licensing infractions against Burisma and it's owner Mykola Zlochevsky...and if you leave my son out of it I'll make sure Obama gives you what you want...as in loan guarantees for military aide and equipment...were most likely Joe Biden's thoughts. And that is true “quid pro quo” in action no matter Biden's denying that Shokin’s firing was due to the Burisma issue, but instead because Shokin was ineffective as a corruption fighter...something we now know he was anything but. 

So now we stand at a crossroads as new information keeps coming out...information that dare not be reported on by the mainstream media of course...including that on May 20th Senate Republicans authorized the issuing of their first document subpoena as part of a now even broader investigation into the Obama administration's doings. Voting, as expected, along party lines, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, a committee headed by Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), agreed to not only issue a subpoena for Blue Star Strategies...the very consulting firm linked to Hunter Biden and Burisma...but to also investigate the actual “scope” of Hunter Biden's “work” for Burisma. 

But why Blue Star Strategies specifically...because it appears there's a possible conflict of interest as to whether Hunter Biden's role on the board of Burisma allowed those at Blue Star to improperly use their relationship with Biden, and hence his vice president father, to “influence” U.S. government agencies. The subpoena specifically asks for Blue Star's records from January 1, 2013 to the present as "related to work for or on behalf of Burisma Holdings or individuals associated with Burisma." which obviously includes Hunter Biden for he was the very one who connected Burisma with Blue Star Strategies claiming they could help Burisma fight the corruption charges being leveled against them. 



And while both House and Senate Democrats are furious that such a much needed investigation was called for let alone voted on during the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats have been sounding the alarm for weeks that GOP senators are using this investigation, an investigation they knew would be forthcoming, “to target President Trump's political rivals (specifically Joe Biden) and potentially inadvertently spread Russian misinformation.” As usual for the Democrats everything is both partisan and Russian related, no matter that for five months committee chair Ron Johnson has been trying but failed to speak with Blue Star's co-founder and chief executive officer Karen Tramontano minus the need for a subpoena. 

So as we wait to see how this investigation unfolds, and with committee chairman Johnson saying that some preliminary findings could be released as early as some time in June, Democrats are now saying that this investigation is all about trying to “save President Trump's job.” No, it's not, for the bottom is twofold. First, the upcoming hearings will provide the Senate with the "full picture" and second, “We the People” are entitled to the truth as to whether Hunter Biden and his father Joe Biden tried to not only influence U.S. government agencies on behalf of Burisma, but to line their own pockets as well. 

And so now we come full circle back to the beginning of who exactly might have leaked the now damning phone call tape between then Vice President Joe Biden and then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, which we, as RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS, believe is private citizen Rudy Giuliani, the man who traveled numerous times to Ukraine during the period of time in question. And during his trip last December, Giuliani  met with Andriy Derkach, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, who on May 19th held a press conference in Ukraine and played portions of the tape that featured the phone conversations between Biden and Poroshenko. And we believe that it was at the December meeting between the two men that Andriy Derkach gave the tape to Rudy Giuliani.

Now possibly being the key player in affording Ukraine the ability to formally name Joe Biden as the perpetrator in the crime of getting Victor Shokin fired, absolutely none of this has the hand of President Trump on it, but is the action of a private citizen legally allowed free reign to do what he thought best to do with the information in his possession. And how or from whom the information...the tape...was gotten is really not a legal matter for all, we believe, was under this private citizen's direction alone.

And if Rudy Giuliani is that private citizen...is the tape's leaker...know that in his leaking said tape Rudy Giuliani is a hero for its this tape alone that has given unquestionable credence to the Senate investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden going forward. And really, if this tape had not surfaced...and Ukraine has obviously known about it for a few months if not longer...why else would a previously judged to be guilty man suddenly become the victim. Why else indeed...after all why would the Democrats be so protective of their very own albatross...case closed.

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