{"id":38135,"date":"2020-02-07T18:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T23:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38135"},"modified":"2020-02-07T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T23:32:29","slug":"how-do-you-undo-the-damage-done-by-dishonest-people-and-a-dishonest-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38135","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Undo The Damage Done By Dishonest People And A Dishonest Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a new website in town. It is called “Just The News<\/a>.” One of its contributors will be investigative reporter John Solomon. Recently they posted a preview of what is to come.<\/p>\n

Just The News recently posted an article titled, “Key witness told Team Mueller that Russia collusion evidence found in Ukraine was fabricated” written by John Solomon.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

One of Robert Mueller\u2019s pivotal trial witnesses told the special prosecutor\u2019s team in spring 2018 that a key piece of Russia collusion evidence found in Ukraine known as the \u201cblack ledger\u201d was fabricated, according to interviews and testimony.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ledger document, which suddenly appeared in Kiev during the 2016 U.S. election, showed alleged cash payments from Russian-backed politicians in Ukraine to ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe ledger was completely made up,\u201d cooperating witness and Manafort business partner Rick Gates told prosecutors and FBI agents, according to a written summary of an April 2018 special counsel\u2019s interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a brief interview with Just the News, Gates confirmed the information in the summary. \u201cThe black ledger was a fabrication,\u201d Gates said. \u201cIt was never real, and this fact has since been proven true.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gates\u2019 account is backed by several Ukrainian officials who stated in interviews dating to 2018 that the ledger was of suspicious origins and could not be corroborated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If true, Gates\u2019 account means the two key pieces of documentary evidence used by the media and FBI to drive the now-debunked Russia collusion narrative \u2014 the Steele dossier and the black ledger \u2014 were at best uncorroborated and at worst disinformation. His account also raises the possibility that someone fabricated the document in Ukraine in an effort to restart investigative efforts on Manafort\u2019s consulting work or to meddle in the U.S. presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much mystery has surrounded the black ledger, which was publicized by the New York Times and other U.S. news outlets in the summer of 2016 and forced Manafort out as one of Trump\u2019s top campaign officials.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I suspect that Paul Manafort is not necessarily a saint, but there is no excuse for the way out ‘justice’ system has treated him–particularly when we know that the evidence used to start the ball rolling against him was fake. Once he knew the evidence was fake, why did Robert Mueller continue the investigation?<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

In an interview last summer, Leschenko said he first received part of the black ledger when it was sent to him anonymously in February 2016, but it made no mention of Manafort. Months later, in August 2016, more of the ledger became public, including the alleged Manafort payments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leschenko said he decided to publicize the information after confirming a few of the transactions likely occurred or matched known payments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Leschenko told me he never believed the black ledger could be used as court evidence because it couldn\u2019t be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that it was authentic, given its mysterious appearance during the 2016 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe black ledger is an unofficial document,\u201d Leschenko told me. \u201cAnd the black ledger was not used as official evidence in criminal investigations because you know in criminal investigations all proof has to be beyond a reasonable doubt. And the black ledger is not a sample of such proof because we don\u2019t know the nature of such document.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the end, the black ledger did prompt the discovery of real financial transactions and real crimes by Manafort, which ultimately led to his conviction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But its uncertain origins raise troubling questions about election meddling and what constitutes real evidence worthy of starting an American investigation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How may people charged with financial misdeeds have been put in solitary confinement for long periods of time? His treatment was not equal justice under the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is a new website in town. It is called “Just The News.” One of its contributors will be investigative reporter John Solomon. Recently they posted a preview of what is to come. Just The News recently posted an article … Continue reading →<\/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":[849,11768,12498,1711,10982,3035,5472,11559,10962,11437,7146],"class_list":["post-38135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-election","tag-john-solomon","tag-just-the-news","tag-media","tag-paul-manafort","tag-robert-mueller","tag-solitary-confinement","tag-special-counsel","tag-special-prosecutor","tag-steele-dossier","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135","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=38135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38137,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38135\/revisions\/38137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}