{"id":37563,"date":"2019-11-16T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37563"},"modified":"2019-11-16T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T17:21:13","slug":"dont-look-for-this-name-on-the-witness-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37563","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look For This Name On The Witness List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/15\/heres-a-witness-schiff-doesnt-dare-call-in-impeachment-hearings\/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&amp;utm_medium=site+buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site+buttons&amp;fbclid=IwAR3EDCD3kUNyTorSj8dutrQAqMjaE-1-M4UzPSPBE0c7ksRT_fs9GzwaOrc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Post<\/a> posted an article about Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Badly undermining Democrats\u2019 impeachment narrative, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko told the press in Kiev on Thursday, \u201cI have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>That is, between the investigations President Trump wanted into 1) Ukrainian interference in the 2016 campaign and 2) Joe and Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian firm Burisma, on the one hand, and US aid that Trump put on hold this summer, on the other.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>He specified that he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/14\/sondland-made-no-link-between-us-aid-biden-probe-ukrainian-minister\/\">didn\u2019t hear that message<\/a> from Trump\u2019s top envoy, Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, who \u201cdid not tell us, and did not tell me exactly, about the relation between the assistance and the investigations.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In summary: \u201cYes, investigations were mentioned, you know, in a presidential conversation. But there was no clear connection between these events.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also made it plain he never felt undue pressure to investigate the Bidens. And he never did, yet the aid went through anyway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you were paying close attention to the circus in Washington, you probably noticed that the charges against President Trump have suddenly changed from quid pro quo to bribery. That is the result of focus groups engaged by the Democrats that showed that the concept of bribery carried more impact that the idea of quid pro quo. When bribery doesn&#8217;t resonate the way they want it to, they will move on to something else. Meanwhile we have trade deals that need to be approved and infrastructure that is crumbling. Hopefully, the voters will replace the &#8216;resistance&#8217; leaders in the House of Representatives in the next election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The New York Post posted an article about Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko. The article reports: Badly undermining Democrats\u2019 impeachment narrative, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko told the press in Kiev on Thursday, \u201cI have never seen a direct &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=37563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12346,5215,451,11531,7857,5252,657,10589,8321,12121,7151,12409,5756],"class_list":["post-37563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-burisma","tag-foreign-minister","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-hunter-biden","tag-impeachment","tag-infrastructure","tag-new-york-post","tag-president-trump","tag-the-new-york-post","tag-trade","tag-ukrainian","tag-ukrainian-foreign-minister-vadym-prystaiko","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37564,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions\/37564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}