Reminder: The DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign used the government of Ukraine for the express purpose of finding negative information on then candidate Trump in order to undermine his campaign. At the center of this plan was Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian American operative..
Chalupa is a Ukrainian American operative "who was consulting for the DNC" and who reportedly met w/Ukrainian officials during the 2016 election for the express purpose of "exposing" alleged ties between then-candidate Trump, Manafort, & Russia. https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/889911414286163974?s=20
The DNC encouraged Chalupa to work w/Ukrainian embassy staff to "arrange an interview in which Poroshenko [the president of Ukraine] might discuss Manafort's ties to Yanukovych." In March 2016, Chalupa met w/Ukraine's ambassador to the US, & a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador.
In May 2016, Chalupa emailed a DNC official stating that she met with 68 Ukrainian journalists about Manafort and that there would be "[a] lot more coming down the pipe." Less than a month later, the "black ledger" was announced in Ukraine... https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09-27%20CEG%20RHJ%20to%20DOJ%20(Ukraine%20DNC).pdf?mod=article_inline
Moreover, Nellie Ohr stated during a congressional interview that Fusion GPS used Serhiy Leschenko, a Ukrainian politician that admitted Ukraine intervened in the 2016 election, as a source for derogatory material against then-candidate @realDonaldTrump... https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/10.19.18%20Nellie%20Ohr%20Interview.pdf
Lastly, Clinton camp & DNC also hired Fusion GPS to conduct oppo research against candidate Trump, which included, among other efforts, the hiring of former British Intel Officer Chris Steele to compile his dossier that used Russian govt sources for info. https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09-27%20CEG%20RHJ%20to%20DOJ%20(Ukraine%20DNC).pdf?mod=article_inline
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