For anyone whose paid close attention to the public testimonies of State Department and National Security Intelligence representatives during the U.S. House’s Impeachment inquiry hearings, it becomes confidently clear how the president’s action beginning in early 2019 were aimed almost solely to bribe Ukrainian officials to find dirt on Joe Biden. Through the use of back channel proxies headed by Rudy Giuliani and a couple of lickspittle thugs, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman efforts were made to create a false narrative that not only benefitted Trump’s 2020 election prospects but threw our democracy under the bus.
There are so many details to consume and process in this American tragedy that it would overwhelm and discourage the average lay person to draw rationale conclusions, something that is part and parcel to Trump and GOP efforts in the hopes that his crimes will disappear from the American consciousness.
So let’s discuss one aspect to what’s being said in Trump’s campaign to mislead the American public. Back on November 21st the president called the FOX talk show FOX and Friends and made the following statements:
“A lot of it had to do, they say, with Ukraine,” Trump said. “They have the server, right? From the DNC ... they gave the server to CrowdStrike — or whatever it’s called — which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian, and I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. That’s a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?”
When F&F host Steve Doocy pushed the president by asking him “Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine?” the president responded with “Well, that’s what the word is,” employing the use of hearsay - the very thing GOP critics claimed about the testimonies of Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent and current U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, William Taylor.
So what was Trump distorting here? Well, below is a transcript of MSNBC’s Chris Hayes who spelled it out on his televised town hall last week:
Crowdstrike is NOT a Ukrainian company. It’s an American company co-founded by a guy born in Russia who became an American citizen. It is a publicly listed cyber-security company based in Silicon Valley in good ole Sunnyvale California.
They currently have a contract with the Republican Party. They do digital security services for Fortune 500 companies all over the country and they happen to have had a client back in 2016, the Democratic National Committee who got hacked, in 2016. And the DNC hired Crowdstrike to do the analysis of what happened, who and how they got hacked.
Crowdstrike was the first people to say “we looked at it, analyzed, found the culprit, saying Russia hacked the DNC. In effect, they were the ones who blew the whistle on Russia
Contrary to US Intelligence and special prosecutor Mueller, Russia didn’t actually hack the DNC. Instead the DNC hacked its own server, leaked their own emails which got their head of the DNC fired. And then in partnership with Crowdstrike they created a story framing the Russians for the hack they did of themselves. And then they refused to let anyone investigate it and so they shipped the physical server with the evidence over to Ukraine. With this ludicrous conspiracy theory, Trump and his sycophants in Congress are in effect saying that America attacked itself to disrupt the 2016 vote.
After hearing this I wanted to laugh while equally feeling compelled to shout in rage. The entire notion of Ukraine attempting to disrupt and subvert our elections is, as Leona Hill stated in her testimony on 11/21, “a fictional narrative that’s been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian Security Services themselves”. To hear the President of the U.S. repeat this fictional narrative and his utter failure to safeguard our elections against future hacking is alarming to say the least and borders on treason, in my opinion.
It is inherent that each and everyone of us stay up on the facts and challenge the false narratives this corrupt administration is disseminating. This commentary is part of that attempt and over the next week or so I will be laying out with other facts vs. fiction commentaries as it relates to the apparent state of mind of those who put themselves above the Constitution
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