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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Pedo-Duopoly: Stop Pretending That Only One Political Party Could Possibly Be Full of Pedophiles and Sex Traffickers

1. Introduction

     Don't let anyone trick you into thinking that only one major party is full of pedophiles.



2. Democrats

     - Bill Clinton (flew on Epstein's plane 26 times, accused of attempted rape by several adult women)

     - Anthony Weiner (sent pictures of his penis to teenage girls, went to prison for it for over a year)

     - Laura Silsby Gayler (associate of Hillary Clinton who pled guilty to unlawful trafficking of children in Haiti; she claims she was rescuing the refugee children on behalf of New Life Children's Refuge, but she evidently never attempted to locate their parents)

     - Huma Abedin (Hillary Clinton aide; accused of involvement in her husband's crimes, and accused of child abuse and torture along with Hillary Clinton)

     - Hillary Clinton (suspected of assisting in the covering-up of evidence in the Kathy Shelton rape case, accused of defaming Kathy Shelton by suggesting that the twelve-year-old wanted to be raped; suspected of covering-up for Anthony Weiner and/or John Podesta's possible sex crimes; suspected of child abuse and torture along with Huma Abedin)

     - John Podesta (evidently raped a child while singing his own name on audio clip "Fatherhood")

     - Tom Pritzker (cousin of J.B. Pritzker, associated with Epstein)

     - Bill Richardson (governor of New Mexico, which includes Zorro Ranch, one of the homes of Epstein, who associated with Richardson)

     - Tamera Stanton Luzzatto and David J. Leiter (wife and husband, Hillary Clinton aide and John Kerry aide, respectively; Luzzatto created blog called Evie's Crib, posted photos of her granddaughters, and wrote captions alluding to their future sexual value; 
belongs to the Italian-Jewish Luzzatto family and probably related to Italian book reviewer Sergio Luzzatto who praised Ariel Toaff's book Pasque di Sangue which asserts that Jewish people killed several or even many Christian children between 1100 and 1500, and another probable relative Dr. Amos Luzzatto criticized Sergio's review and Toaff's book)

     - Robert Byrd (West Virginia senator; accused by Juliette Bryant of being one of the lead people involved in MK-ULTRA)

     - Jimmy Carter (pardoned musician Peter Yarrow for statutory rape of a fourteen-year-old girl)

     - Joe Biden (pinched nipple of 8-year-old girl live on C-SPAN on January 3rd, 2015; accused of attempted rape by nine adult women)

     - Hunter Biden (statutory rape, made teenage "girlfriend" strip for him; let daughter and friends put feet on his chest)

     - Beau Biden (praised Judge Jan Jurden for giving light sentence to serial child rapist Robert Richards IV)

     - Barney Frank (suspected of involvement with homosexual prostitution scandal possibly involving teenage boys)

     - David Brock (suspected pedophile, lost lawsuit to one of his ex-boyfriends after breakup, associated with New York club scene where minors were sometimes present; 
friend of Barney Frank and of Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant owner James Alefantis)

     - Chuck Schumer (flew on Epstein's plane, signed in as "Chuck Schumi")

     - Epstein's favorite Democratic politicians, including Schumer (More than 80% of Epstein's campaign donations went to Democratic candidates) [Source: Business Insider]

     - Kamala Harris (accused of helping priests accused of child sex crimes avoid trials, stepdaughter modeled for Spanish fashion company Balenciaga which published a pedophilic advertisement, chose possible statutory rapist Tim Walz to be her running-mate)

     - Tim Walz (suspected of molesting and/or raping one or more of his male students, in China and/or at Lilith Fair)

     - Ketanji Brown Jackson (Democrat-leaning Supreme Court justice; sent Pizzagate shooter Edgar Maddison Welch to prison, rendering him unable to tell his side of the story)

     - Barack Obama (allegedly photographed with George Clooney and a young Asian girl in a boat; chose child molester Joe Biden to be his running mate)

     - Andrew Cuomo (married Kerry Kennedy in 1990 with Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly in attendance, in Epstein's black book, associated with pedophile producer John Griffin, accused of sexual harassment and assault by multiple women)

     - Maria Shriver (in Epstein's black book)

     - Ted Kennedy (in Epstein's black book, along with seven other Kennedys; allegedly told someone he didn't care after they told him the girl he was leering at was fifteen years old)

     - Katie Porter (accused of defending pedophiles and/or legitimizing or excusing pedophilia / sexual attraction to children)


     - Gerry Studds (accused of statutory rape of underage congressional pages)

     - George Mitchell (U.S. Senator from Maine, associate of Jeffrey Epstein)

     - Bill Gates (Democratic fundraiser, businessman, suspected eugenicist, and "philanthropist", owns M.S.N.B.C.; photographed with Jeffrey Epstein, flew to Africa with Epstein and Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker in 2002)

     - Sam Seder (political commentator; joked about wanting Roman Polanski to sexually assault Seder's own daughter)

     - Emma Vigeland (political commentator on Sam Seder's Majority Report; ridiculed concerns about transgender-identifying males entering bathrooms where young girls are present)

     - Peter Fonda (Democrat, far-left activist, and former hippie; said he hoped Barron Trump would be raped)

     - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (was escorted to an art gala by Benjamin Bronfman, whose aunts Sara and Clare funded the NXIVM sex cult)

     - 
Douglas Paul Rutnik (attorney, father of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand; represented the NXIVM cult in court; Kirsten reportedly "slammed" her father's association with the cult)



3. Republicans

     - Dennis Hastert (raped and molested several teenage boys)

     - Gerald Ford (accused of rape by MK-ULTRA survivor Cathy o'Brien)

     - Matt Gaetz (accused of sex trafficking girls internationally)

     - Joel Greenberg (accused of helping Matt Gaetz traffic girls by making fake IDs for them)

     - Donald Trump (wished Ghislaine Maxwell well, hired Alex Acosta as Labor Secretary after Acosta gave Epstein a sweetheart deal, partied with Epstein, danced with young teenage girls; accused of child rape by Katie Johnson who says Trump raped her at age thirteen, suspected of raping more children in addition to Katie Johnson; made multiple inappropriate comments about his daughter Ivanka; flew on Epstein's plane four times, but did not fly to Epstein's island using Epstein's plane, but still may have visited Epstein's island using his own plane or someone else's; admitted to being a sexual predator on The Howard Stern Show, accused of rape by at least 25 adult women, attempted to rape E. Jean Carroll and later ruled civilly liable for defaming her)

     - Jim Jordan (accused of covering-up sexual assault of young men while working as a coach at Ohio State University)

     - Sonny Bono (possible statutory rapist; met Cher when he was twenty-seven and she was sixteen, married her secretly some time between ages 16 and 18; he and Cher dressed their daughter Chastity as a Playboy Bunny when she was three years old)

     - Alexander Acosta (former Attorney General of Florida, allowed Epstein to be on work release, enabling him to continue to abuse women and girls)

     - Steve Bannon (worked with Epstein to improve his image, took over Internet Gaming Entertainment from Brock Pierce, an Epstein associate who likely taught Epstein about Bitcoin and advised Marc Collins-Rector to pay-off someone who was raped by Collins-Rector as a teen)

     - Lawrence King (Franklin / Boystown child trafficking scandal, Nebraska, 1980s)

     - George H.W. Bush (groped several adult women, rumored to be known for his sexual promiscuity by his brothers in Skull and Bones, possibly abused one or more of his sons; presided over White House homosexual prostitution scandal in which men and/or boys may have been sneaked into the White House in the middle of the night, possibly with Barbara Bush's knowledge)

     - Jeb Bush (possibly related to statutory rapist Mary Kay LeTourneau and/or helped shield her from prosecution)

     - Jayson Boebert (husband of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert; groomed teenage girls)

     - Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, and numerous other federal-level Republicans (met with the Duggar family, whose son Josh molested his sisters)

     - Matt Walsh (political commentator; defended teen pregnancy, met with the Duggar family)

     - Robert Morris (former District Judge in Campbell County, Kentucky, who served as Trump's 2016 campaign chairman for that county; sentenced to prison for sex trafficking and other sex crimes)

     - Tim Nolan 
(televangelist and founder of Gateway Church in Texas, friend of Trump; accused of raping a twelve-year-old girl in the 1980s)

     - Ruben Verastigui (Republican Party staffer and Republican National Committee aide, and anti-abortion activist; sentenced to more than twelve years in prison for possession of child sexual abuse images)

     - Roy Moore (creationist state supreme court justice from Alabama; groomed teenage girls, accused of rape by a woman who says she was sixteen when it happened, accused of sexual impropriety by four other women)

     - Ted Cruz (admitted to letting his daughters put make-up and a tutu on him as part of a school event, filmed ignoring his daughter's discomfort while he forced a kiss on her, "may or may not be" the person who comedian Tom Segura claims brought up the topic of "daughter-fuckers" while talking to Segura, studied law under Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz at Harvard)

     - Mark Foley (
accused of statutory rape of underage congressional pages)

     - Dan Crane (accused of statutory rape of underage congressional pages)

     - Fred Risser (Republican-leaning Wisconsin judge, prevented a lawsuit against a child-molesting priest because he said a trial would "re-traumatize" the male child victim)

     - Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and Dan Bongino (accused of covering-up information about Epstein's death and of withholding the release of the Epstein files)

     - Nathan Larson (Republican, Libertarian, Nazi, and independent; arrested attempting to meet a twelve-year-old girl for sex at an airport, admitted intent to rape his own daughter, now deceased)

     - Elon Musk (Republican businessman; accused of exposing himself to a flight attendant, photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell, possibly used child sex trafficker and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell as a matchmaker to help him find women and/or girls; evidently has a "pedo-furry" fetish, i.e., attraction to young-looking costumes and/or cartoons of animals or animal-like humans)

     - Jeff Bezos (Republican businessman; was in a "secret retreat" for writers of books, called Campfire 2018, with Ghislaine Maxwell)




4. Other Prominent Political Figures

     - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (formerly a Democrat, now an independent working with Trump and Republicans; admitted to flying on Epstein's plane twice; then-teenage babysitter he employed later accused him of rape; wife committed suicide after discovering he cheated on her with thirty-seven different women)

     - Alan Dershowitz (formerly a democrat, now independent; defended both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell in court; accused of getting a "massage" from a teenage girl with Epstein's help, claims he actually received a massage from an old Russian woman; wrote a 1997 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times questioning the reasoning behind laws establishing the age of eighteen as the age required to give fully informed consent to sex).




5. Conclusion

     Every single state has both Democratic and Republican politicians who have been accused of rape or child sex crimes.
     We know that because a giant list of Republican lawmakers accused of sex crimes, has been published, and added to, by the Daily Kos, since 2021. And because Wikipedia also has a list of politicians - of both major parties - accused of sex crimes against children and adults.
     Thirty-one lists of Republicans (775 people total):
     https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/23/1806673/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-1
     Fifty-six lists of Republicans (1400 people total; includes the lists from the link above):
     List of federal political sex scandals (including Democrats and Republicans):
     http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States
     [Note: I will add a link to a list of Democratic politicians accused of such crimes, if and when I am able to find a previously existing list. If I cannot find one, then I will create my own, and publish it to this blog at a later time.]

     It's not only politicians; it's judges and lawyers, social workers and G.A.L.s, and other government employees like police officers (mostly male and Republican), and like teachers (mostly female and Democratic). This problem crosses
all barriers of class, race, party, and sex. It is not certainly confined to one political party.

     [Note: I can provide more details about politicians accused of pedophilia, from any state, upon request. These lists will eventually be published, once organized.]

     Stop voting for Democrats and Republicans. And be extremely careful about which Libertarian candidate you vote for, because that party has a pedophilia problem too (Tom Woods and Arvin Vohra, for example).

     The only way to hold both major parties responsible at the same time - including for the crimes they're both in on - is to elect more third-party, minor party, and independent candidates, until people who want to thoroughly investigate all claims of sex crimes against politicians, constitute the majority of elected officials. That's the only way that truly neutral, independent, and unbiased investigations will occur.




Written and published on July 24th, 2025.

Edited on July 25th, 2025.

Originally published under the title
"Stop Pretending That Only One Political Party
Could Possibly Be Full of Pedophiles and Sex Traffickers".

Title changed on July 25th, 2025.

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Debunking the Debunking of Pizzagate: What the Theory Has to Do with the Clintons, Burisma, Blood Libel Claims, the New York Synagogue Tunnels, and Devil Worship

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Pizzagate is Real

2. How Are James Alefantis and Hillary Clinton Connected?

3. How Are James Alefantis and Marina Abramovic Connected?

4. Are James Alefantis and John Podesta Cannibals?

5. Are James Alefantis and John Podesta Pedophiles?

6. What Do the Podestas, Alefantis, and Sigmund Freud Have to Do with the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann?

7. Is There Any Proof That John Podesta Abused Kids, Aside from the Madeleine McCann Theory?

8. "The Jewish Angle": Who is Tamera Stanton Luzzatto, and What Does it Have to Do with Blood Libel?

9. "The Ukrainian Angle" and "The Russian Angle": What Pizzagate Has to Do with Joe and Hunter Biden, Burisma, and the Russo-Ukrainian War

10. Conclusion: How to Get Real, Thorough Investigations of Alleged Child Abusers and War Profiteers






Content


1. Introduction: Pizzagate is Real

     Pizzagate is real, and always was.

     Almost everything that the majority of the American public has heard about Pizzagate is false. For example, how many people out there have heard the following facts?

     For one, there was no “Pizzagate massacre”. There was a Pizzagate shooting, but there was no massacre. A movie director named John Valley put out a film called “The Pizzagate Massacre” in 2020, but nobody died in the Pizzagate shooting incident.

     The Pizzagate shooter - Edgar Maddison Welch - did bring a gun into Comet Ping Pong Pizza, and he did cross state lines from North Carolina into the District of Columbia in order to do it. But he did not shoot at any person nor living thing, and he probably never even aimed at anybody. He never intended to kill anyone, and he never did.

     Welch fired at a computer tower, not a person. He only destroyed – or intended to destroy – inanimate property, not any living human being.

     Welch fired bullets at that computer tower because he believed that it contained child sexual abuse material (a/k/a “child pornography”), and that Alefantis may have been using the computer to sell photos of children being abused, or maybe even to sell the children themselves. Researchers believe that Alefantis was using the encrypted section of his website to sell child abuse images – and possibly even opportunities to rape children – in exchange for U.S. Dollars and for Bitcoin.

     Researchers saved screenshots of text lines from a website; these images were composed mostly of green and white fields, with black text on them. Researchers say these images were from portions of the encrypted section of the Comet Ping Pong Pizza website which were being used to display information about the children. The text in the images was very small, however, and unclear.

     A man who went by “BigFish” on Twitter may have been the person who hacked the encrypted section of the website. BigFish claimed that he hacked into the website, and found child pornography; and then called the police to report what he had found. BigFish told a YouTube-based Pizzagate researcher named Dean Fougere (also known as Plato Smith and Titus Frost) that he could name five D.C. police officers. whom he either spoke to, or were assigned to the case. Their names were Marcus Stevens, Jeremiah Johnson, Chanel Dickerson, Daniel H. Godin, and Peter Newsham.

     Peter Newsham – an officer assigned to investigate James Alefantis for sex crimes against children – later became the Chief of Police of D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. And the woman who sentenced the Pizzagate shooter – Edgar Maddison Welch, Jr., who shot nobody – to prison, was Ketanji Brown Jackson. Jackson later became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Welch recently died in prison, unable to tell his side of the story.

     This aftermath of the dismissal of Pizzagate theories as "conspiracy theories", alone, should prompt a thorough investigation. But they will always say that more proof needs to be shown. Therefore, what follows, is my attempt to provide that proof.



2. How Are James Alefantis and Hillary Clinton Connected?

     Since BigFish found that Comet’s website connected to nine servers around the world – one of which was in Germany – he suspects that the D.C. police may have passed the investigation off to federal or even international authorities.

     Curiously, Alefantis co-owns a ping-pong-themed restaurant in Germany, which is called Dr. Pong's; the other owner is a man named Oliver Miller. The restaurant does not only sell food; it also sells “table tennis equipment” as the most expensive item that it has available. The price of the “equipment” has prompted some researchers to become concerned that “table tennis equipment” to be a reference to a human being; that is, to a person who is being penetrating in the mouth and the vagina at the same time.

     Hillary Clinton was not directly involved in Pizzagate; she did not traffic children in a basement, and no serious person who looked into the Pizzagate theories believed that she was. James Alefantis – the owner of pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong, in Washington, D.C. – was the person suspected of trafficking kids in a basement.

     The whole idea behind the notion that Pizzagate is false, relies on the claim that Comet Ping Pong Pizza restaurant owner James Alefantis didn't have a basement, from which to traffic children. But he did. In an interview with Fox News from 2016 or 2017, James Alefantis told Megyn Kelly that his restaurant didn't have a basement. But he admitted, in a magazine interview, that he did have a basement, and used it to store tomatoes for his pizza sauce. That interview – published under the title “From Scratch: James Alefantis” – was published by MetroWeekly on April 16th, 2015, and was was written by the interviewer, Doug Rule.

     Alefantis told Rule, “…we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes - 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in.” [copied verbatim from the original article].

     But the basement of Comet Ping Pong Pizza isn’t even James Alefantis’s only basement. Pizzagate researchers additionally discovered that Alefantis owned eleven other properties in D.C., at least one of which had a basement. They found numerous photographs of Alefantis and a small construction crew doing work on the basement of a property located elsewhere in the District.

     Researchers found out that half of Alefantis’s properties (six out of twelve) were located just above, or near, the tunnel systems under D.C.. The existence of such tunnel systems are admitted. There is video of congressmen boarding a train that goes through the basement of the Capitol. It's there to provide security to congressmen.

     The reason why Hillary Clinton got caught up in Pizzagate, was that Hillary Clinton was possibly friends with James Alefantis. Hillary Clinton has been known to associate with Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Some researchers suspect that James Alefantis is really a Rothschild, and is using a false name.

     James Alefantis – who uses the nickname “Jimmy Comet” – claims that he is Greek. But people who believe he’s using a false name, note that “j’aime les enfants” is French for “I love children”, and also that Pierre Charles l’Enfant designed the street and tunnel infrastructure of Washington, D.C.. It’s possible that “Alefantis” named himself after one or both of these phrases. Alefantis also made a post, to his “JimmyComet” Instagram account, about Antinous, a lover of Emperor Hadrian. It’s possible that Hadrian and/or Antinous were pedophiles, and that Alefantis may have posted the photo of the statue of Antinous as a conscious nod to homosexual pedophilia (called “pederasty” in the context of Ancient Greece). There are also rumors that Alefantis employed sixteen-year-old boys in his restaurant, and had sex with them.

     The age of consent in Washington, D.C. – where Comet Ping Pong is located - is sixteen years old. However, that does not mean, conclusively, that Alefantis is not a pedophile. He also posted a photo of himself standing behind a girl, who looked about five or six years old, with her hands taped to a table. Researchers archived evidence of Alefantis’s creepy posts – and other creepy posts by people who followed him on social media – on websites like Reddit, 4chan, Steemit, and Voat.

     Researchers examining Wikileaks emails dumps from between 2007 and 2015 discovered that Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta had been emailing Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. They also discovered an email from Hillary Clinton, referring to her “sacrificing chickens” in her backyard “to Moloch”. Some claim that the email is not real, and some defend Clinton by saying that she was probably just joking about how her detractors perceive her.

     That’s why it’s possible that Hillary Clinton doesn’t have as much to do with Pizzagate as the theory’s doubters think; and doesn’t have as much to do with Pizzagate as John Podesta and James Alefantis do. But, on the other hand, it’s not as though James Alefantis’s “possible” connection to the Clintons, is really that dubious. It’s possible that James Alefantis knows the Clintons; possibly through either the Rothschilds, and/or through David Brock.

     Alefantis’s restaurant, Comet Ping Pong, is located near Poetry and Prose, a book store where politicians and pundits come to make speeches and hold political events. Alefantis, having been named the forty-ninth, out of fifty, most powerful people in the District of Columbia. He was given this title in the January 17th, 2012 issue of G.Q. (the men’s magazine). [Source: https://www.gq.com/gallery/50-most-powerful-people-in-washington-dc]

     Alefantis’s prominence in the D.C. community means that he probably would have been acquainted with Poetry and Prose, and people who spoke there (such as Hillary Clinton). And, since Clinton employed John Podesta as her campaign manager, it’s possible that Alefantis knew Podesta. And – to repeat – researchers have discovered an email between John Podesta and Marina Abramovic. So if Alefantis knows Abramovic, it’s possible that he met them through Podesta and/or Hillary Clinton.

     Additionally, James Alefantis used to date David Brock, the political consultant author who founded the Democratic think tank Media Matters (full name “media Matters for America”). Brock wrote the 1996 book The Seduction of Hillary Clinton, initially in an attempt to expose Hillary’s corruption, but the book ended up having a “mixed ideological viewpoint”. This probably means that Brock capitulated to Hillary, and decided to “join them” rather than “beat them”. Brock’s positive view of – and close ties to – Hillary Clinton, means that Alefantis could know Clinton through his ex-boyfriend David Brock (if not through the Rothschilds).

     Researchers suspect David Brock of paying his other ex-boyfriend, William Grey, hush money, after they broke up on bad terms. [Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/media-matters-boss-paid-former-partner-850g-blackmail-settlement]


3. How Are James Alefantis and Marina Abramovic Connected?

     James Alefantis is not even the only suspected pedophile who was present at Comet Ping Pong restaurant. The restaurant featured shows from bands with names like the Coat Hangers (a reference to abortion), Thee Lolitas (a reference to the pedophilic book and films by Vladimir Nabokov), and the Sex Stains. Some of these shows were in the middle of the day, while others were late at night. At least one of these shows was advertised as “all-ages”. The band “Sex Stains” produced a music video featuring allusions to pizza and Rohypnol (“roofies”, the “date-rape drug”).

     Alefantis not only allowed bands like that to play in his restaurant – for families, mind you – he also featured art, in his restaurant, which depicted headless people. An artist named Arrington de Dionyso painted murals that were once on display at Comet. De Dionyso's murals depict headless people, but the paintings are not graphic, nor do they depict sex, nor children; however, de Dionyso's work is certainly among the least disturbing among the art tastes of Alefantis and the Podestas.

     That's why it is unfortunate that it was de Dionyso's art which was the one that Pizzagate researchers looked into first, rather than the works of Maria Marshall, Patricia Piccinini, Julie Roberts, Katy Grannan, Louise Borgeois, and Biljana Djurdjevic. That's because those artists’ paintings and photographs often depict either children in their underwear, Satanic or occult images, or other disturbing images, and each of them is admired by one or both of the Podestas. None of that, apparently, can be said about Dionyso's work.

     Tony Podesta’s art collection also includes a naked golden person contorting so as to be shaped like a bridge, belly-up, with its hands and feet on the floor; researchers have noted that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer liked to pose his victims in that position. Debbie Harry (singer for rock group Blondie) – a friend of Marina Abramovic – has also posed in that position. Debbie Harry was photographed, at the New York Museum of Modern Art, cutting a cake-shaped human being, with Abramovic next to her. Guests there – including Lady Gaga and Will Ferrell – were served “naked cake people” (in pool of fake blood) in an “artistic” meal which possibly alluded to human sacrifice.

     James Alefantis’s association with artists who create disturbing material, is the reason why we should ask whether Alefantis knows artist Marina Abramovic directly; however, that is still unclear. But researchers note it as a possibility, due to Podesta’s ties to Abramovic, and Clinton’s possible ties to Alefantis (through David Brock and/or the Rothschilds).

     Artist Marina Abramovic is suspected, by Pizzagate researchers, of Satanism, cannibalism, and pedophilia. That’s because she has been photographed with a naked baby boy who is not her own son, and also because she paints using her own blood and other bodily fluids. Researchers suspect that she taught John Podesta some of these techniques, because photos were found of the words “cut into the finger of your left hand” and “drink the pain” written in blood on a wall, in a filmed art exhibit, probably by Abramovic. Additionally, because Podesta was photographed with a bandage on a finger on his left hand, with a fish and the number 14 drawn on the palm of each hand in marker (which may refer to an Egyptian creation myth, or something in occultism). Abramovic has admitted, in interviews, that she does ceremonial magic for both artistic and spiritual purposes, and she claims that she considers them separate.

     Connection to a possibly Satanic and pedophilic artist (Marina Abramovic) is not the only suspicious thing about John Podesta. Researchers suspect him of being a pedophile, cannibal, and/or a Satanist, himself, as well.


4. Are James Alefantis and John Podesta Cannibals?

     John Podesta also has protruding canine teeth, which make him look like a vampire with fangs. Yet that is not the only thing that causes people to think he drinks blood, or eats human beings, or worships Satan or the Devil.

     Podesta is also a trained cook; he cooks Italian food, including pasta. His emails, regarding making pasta with “walnut sauce” caused researchers to suspect that he was actually talking about raping girls, because closed vulvas kind of look like walnuts. He learned to cook, in part, because his mother Mary was known for hosting lavish dinners to entertain politicians. It’s possible that Podesta may be using code words (like “walnut”) to secretly communicate about either raping children, eating human beings, or maybe even both at the same time (i.e., raping, then killing a child, and then cooking and eating the child). That’s why some people believe that John Podesta cooks and eats people.

     Researchers suspect that "walnut sauce" is some kind of code phrase, because criminal real estate and mortgage mogul Herb Sandler was found to have emailed Podesta asking if Podesta found a handkerchief that he left. Sandler said that there was a "map" on the handkerchief, and that it was black and white. Researchers believe that "map" refers to a semen stain, and that the color black signals interest in sadomasochistic sex. Information about "pedophile code symbols" was gleaned from the F.B.I.'s guide to pedophile code symbols, UrbanDictionary.com, and users of 4chan and Reddit (and other sites) who informed researchers about common slang regarding sexual fetishes and homosexual sex acts.

     Additionally, Alefantis and Podesta have pig farming in common; Alefantis’s friends Kent Ozkum and Will Morrow own Whitmore pig farm, and James has visited. A man calling himself Matthew Yglesias, who claims to be John Podesta’s former employee, wrote that Podesta has experience killing pigs, in a July 2009 article entitled "Killer of Pigs" on InternetFoodAssociation.WordPress.com.

     Researchers whom have noted that serial killer Robert Pickton disposed of his victims by feeding them to pigs, believe that Pickton’s crimes may have inspired and informed John Podesta (and possibly also Alefantis). Researchers sometimes cite Wizard of Oz to explain the danger that pigs pose; the reason why Dorothy’s friends rush to save her when she falls into the pig pen, is because the pigs would have begun to try to eat her immediately, otherwise.

     Researchers have also documented Instagram posts by Alefantis which show large industrial refrigerators, the purpose of which are unclear.

     But even if the allegations of cannibalism are just bunk, suspicions that he’s a pedophile are not just founded on nonsense. John Podesta may have abused actual children.


5. Are James Alefantis and John Podesta Pedophiles?

     There are numerous suspicious things to note about John Podesta’s family. For one, his mother Mary Kokoris-Podesta adopted twenty-five children, in addition to John and Tony; this was published in Kokoris-Podesta’s obituary in the Chicago Sun-Times. John’s brother Tony is linked to child-molesting former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert; they were photographed together in Camp Nose, in Japan. It’s possible that the photo was taken while they were in the military together, and it was likely taken in the 1960s.

     John and Tony Podesta’s adopted siblings include Heather Podesta (who produces film and television shows), and Brian Podesta (who works at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a non-governmental agency). Brian is one of John’s adopted siblings, in addition to Alex Podesta, an artist who dressed in a white bunny costume. The white rabbit costume is a possible allusion to fertility, and/or to Playboy Bunnies, and/or to the white rabbit character in Alice in Wonderland, which was written by Lewis Carroll. Podesta’s other twenty-two adopted siblings are not as well known to most researchers.

     [Note Regarding possible symbolism of Alex Podesta’s rabbit costumes: Alice author Lewis Carroll’s real name was Charles Dodgson, and he took actual photographs of topless young girls (possibly some of the first photos of their kind). The “White Rabbit” has also become a symbol representing people who are looking for clues into conspiracy theories. If the costumes refer to Playboy Bunnies, it could be a reference to pedophilia, because Hugh Hefner was photographed being served by a girl, dressed as a Playboy Bunny, who was only about nine years old; moreover, Sonny and Cher dressed their daughter Chastity as a Playboy Bunny when she was only three. Incidentally, Sonny was an adult when he began his relationship with Cher when she was still a teen.]

     Another thing about John Podesta, which merits concern, is that he has the nickname “Skippy”, and that it is an alter ego of Podesta, representing his angry side. On September 5th, 2000, The New York Times published an article titled “In a Lobby-Happy Washington, Politics Can Be Even Thicker Tha Blood”, written by Robert Pear and John Broder. They wrote, “Colleagues say, half-jesting, that he [John Podesta] has an evil twin named Skippy, who is invoked to bring order to an unruly White House.” [Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/05/us/in-a-lobby-happy-washington-politics-can-be-even-thicker-than-blood.html]

     Podesta's relatives and nickname are not the only creepy things about him. Researchers believe he was involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.


6. What Do the Podestas, Alefantis, and Sigmund Freud Have to Do with the Disappearance of Madeleine McCann?

     For one, Scotland Yard released composite police sketches of “suspicious persons” possibly involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who went missing in Portugal in 2007. An Australian television news program even showed the police sketches on-air. The photographs look suspiciously like she could be Ghislaine Maxwell (Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend and accomplice) with a shorter haircut, and John and Tony Podesta. There is even a police sketch showing a man, who looks like John Podesta, carrying a child.

     Researchers who accessed John Podesta’s email history, through Wikileaks, from around that time, note that emails from before May 2007 are missing. Researchers suggest the emails were deleted. Madeleine disappeared on May 3rd, 2007. John Podesta has admitted to going to Portugal that year, but he claims that he was not anywhere near the scene of the crime at the time of the disappearance; he says that he was in Portugal after the disappearance.

     Researchers have noted a possible connection between James Alefantis and the country of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance. Alefantis’s restaurant, Comet Ping Pong, is close to another pizza restaurant, called Besta Pizza. “Besta” turns out to be the Portuguese word for “beast”. This has caused researchers to suspect that Besta Pizza was given its name as a conscious nod to the Devil, or to Satan. Moreover, Comet Ping Pong’s exterior decorations – which feature stars and crescent moons – possibly represent the maleficent god Baphomet (depicted as pointing at those symbols, with the right hand raised and the left hand lowered).

     Pizzagate researchers cited the F.B.I.'s Operation Innocent Images project, to prove that Besta Pizza’s logo – a triangular pizza slice with a spiral triangle on it – resembled a known pedophile code symbol. The fact that the F.B.I. had released a guide to pedophile symbols - which include spiral triangles and spiral hearts - was known to British press as early as early 2016, months before the Pizzagate theories went public.

     After this information was exposed, Ohio-based reporter Ben Swann - known for his exposure of the intentional misreporting about the viability and popularity of Ron Paul's presidential efforts - produced the first televised news show segment regarding Pizzagate. Ben Swann reported that Besta Pizza had changed its logo  removing the spiral triangle – after allegations that it was a Satanic symbol, became known to Besta’s owners. This means that Alefantis may have other devil-worshiping businessmen friends in the area.

     Whether John Podesta and James Alefantis are working together or not, Podesta may still be working with his brother Tony, Ghislaine Maxwell, and/or Clement Freud, to harm children. The Podestas are allegedly friends of Clement Freud.

     British Member of Parliament Clement Freud (a descendant of Sigmund Freud) was reported to be a friend of Madeleine’s parents, Gerry and Kate. In June 2016, the Daily Mail reported that the now deceased former M.P. was vacationing just a mile or so away from the McCanns on the day of the disappearance, and befriended Gerry and Kate, the girl's parents, while they searched for their missing daughter. M.P. Freud was exposed as a child molester after his death.

     Sigmund Freud, himself, has been accused of ignoring some of his patients’ reports of sexual abuse at certain ages, by distracting them with his insistence that something else sexual must have happened to them, additionally, prior to the incidents they reported. Thus, it’s possible that Sigmund Freud covered up (or ignored) valid sexual abuse claims; making him a “pedophile enabler”. And it’s possible that Clement Freud carried on this “family tradition” by assisting in the abduction of Madeleine McCann from her vacation home, or at least carried it on with the girls he reportedly molested. [Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/15/sir-clement-freud-met-investigating-child-abuse-allegations]


7. Is There Any Proof That John Podesta Abused Kids, Aside from the Madeleine McCann Theory?

     It's not only Madeleine McCann whom John Podesta may have abused.

     Pizzagate researchers obtained audio of a man screaming at a child and demanding that the child call him “dad”. The man screams "You will call me your father". Before calling the man “dad”, the child guesses “Skippy” (Podesta's nickname), and also "John". The man is also heard singing the theme song from the children's television show Caillou, which includes the lyrics "I grow stronger every day". The man sings the part of the theme song which contains the lyrics "I'm just a kid who's four", and then he sings "I'm John Podesta".

     Researchers believe the man in the audio was John Podesta; some citing the man's having sung what sounds an awful lot like "I'm John Podesta", others doing voice comparisons between that audio and audio of Podesta in a parking lot telling a reporter to “get lost”.

     The audio of the man screaming, was associated with a grainy, purple-ish video which may depict a shower; although it’s not clear whether the video had anything to do with the audio. This audio/video clip is known to researchers as the "Fatherhood" clip. Whether the child was a boy or a girl is unclear; the author of this article personally believes that the child sounds like a girl, somewhere between the ages of five and nine years old.

     Andrew Breitbart tweeted, “How prog-guru John Podesta isn’t household name as world class underage sex slave op cover-upperer defending unspeakable dregs escapes me” on February 4th, 2011. Just under one year and one month later, Breitbart collapsed while jogging, supposedly from a heart attack.


     People who researched the John Podesta e-mail leaks (from Wikileaks) also discovered the existence girls named Emerson, Ruby, Maeve, and Evie; granddaughters of Tamera Stanton Luzzatto. Luzzatto emailed Podesta and others, saying that three of those girls would be in a heated pool "for entertainment".

     Tamera Stanton Luzzatto was one of Hillary Clinton’s senior aides. She also worked for the Pew Charitable Trusts, and as an aide to West Virginia Senator David Rockefeller. Luzzatto is married to David Leiter, who once served as an aide for John Kerry.

     Luzzatto had a blog - called “Evie’s Crib” (named for her youngest granddaughter) - where she typed creepy things about her granddaughters and posted photos of them. Researchers suspect that she was selling photos of them, or possibly even selling the girls themselves.


8. "The Jewish Angle": Who is Tamera Stanton Luzzatto, and What Does it Have to Do with Blood Libel?

     Tamera Stanton Luzzatto is descended from the Jewish-Italian Luzzatto family. One of that family’s most famous members was Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (who lived from 1707 to 1746).

     Another probable relative of Tamera Luzzatto is Sergio Luzzatto, an Italian book reviewer. In 2007, Sergio Luzzatto's review for the book Pasque di Sangue (which translates to "Bloody Passover") was published in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra. The book, written by Israeli professor of history Ariel Toaff, reportedly asserts that "fundamentalist Ashkenazic Jews" killed several Christian babies between 1100 and 1500. Sergio Luzzatto praised the book for exposing that information.
     [Source: https://forward.com/news/10085/blood-libel-scholar-pulls-book-pledges-funds-to-a/]
     While it's not clear how closely Sergio and Tamera are related, nor whether they know each other, this is a startling admission, especially coming from a Jewish Israeli (i.e., Professor Toaff). Dr. Amos Luzzatto - another probable relative of Sergio and Tamera - criticized Sergio's book review and Toaff's book. 
     [Source: https://www.pressreader.com/article/281852934100717?srsltid=AfmBOorYM0jIZasy7nmNDiUsc5Y2A1ysHEtFx_6e9tyLTno0h0I5lqUj]
     It seems that the issue of whether Jews killed Christian children in 1100s-1400s Europe is dividing the Luzzatto family.
     

     One of the most famous examples of Christian children allegedly being murdered by Jewish people, between 1100 and 1500, was the "Rape of Trent" incident.

     The “Rape of Trent” scandal, in Renaissance-era Italy, eventually became known as the “Blood Libel Claim”, and raised concern among Jews that the claim held wider implications upon all Jewish people in general; in particular, claims of child rape, child murder, and sacrifice of Christian children. Jews became – and rightfully remain – concerned about this wider paranoia, because some Jewish people – in the city of Trent, Italy – were forced to convert, and even tortured and executed if they did not, due to the aftermath of this incident.

     The “Rape of Trent” was a 1475 incident in which a three-year-old Italian Christian boy named Simonino was murdered. He was found in an underground Jewish ritual bath. On March 26th, 1475, Simonino’s dead body was found in a “water cellar” which was used, in part, for “ritual bathing”, on a property that included “a hall that functioned as a synagogue”.
     [Source: https://archive.org/details/trent147500rpoc] This property was owned by a Jewish man named Samuel; his last name is unknown.

     Curiously (not that this has anything to do, directly, with John or Tony Podesta) the person who received the initial report of the discovery of the boy’s body – from Samuel – was “the podesta”. Podesta is an Italian term for a position of authority in government, which basically translates to “the powerful one”, “the one who possesses the power”, or “the one who is able”.

     The most similar modern-day incident, which relates to the Rape of Trent, was the so-called “Jew tunnels” incident from January 8th, 2024. On that day, riots broke out at the Temple of Chabad-Lubavitch, at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (which happens to be the World Headquarters of the House of Chabad-Lubavitch, the largest, wealthiest, and most prominent branch of Zionist Jews).

     Those riots involved Hasidic Jews hurling pews at New York City police officers, after a citizen filmed a Jewish man crawling out of a tunnel onto street-level, and presented it to police. A non-Jewish man who lived nearby, later posted a video, to social media, claiming that he had heard people moving below his apartment which he had been told was the building’s basement.

     Those riots occurred because the attendees of that temple were upset that the police had discovered secret tunnels which had been built underground, as an illegal extension to the temple. The temple’s fight with the city, regarding additions and construction, has been ongoing and publicized.

     Researchers were concerned that children may have been involved, because they discovered images of soiled mattresses, which temple attendees claimed were there for the purpose of muffling the sound from construction. Researchers skeptical about this claim, believed that the mattresses may have been used to muffle the sounds of child rape.

     While that matter is still unclear, it is worth noting that the mattresses are not the only thing about the Chabad-Lubavitch tunnels incident which provoke suspicion. For one, the tunnels were reportedly concreted-over, after the incident, which means a lot of evidence was probably destroyed. Moreover, discarded children’s strollers were also found underground. The people at the temple claim that the strollers were just down there because the tunnel served as a convenient storage location, but researchers have their doubts as to the veracity of those claims.


9. "The Ukrainian Angle" and "The Russian Angle": What Pizzagate Has to Do with Joe and Hunter, Burisma, and the Russo-Ukrainian War

     Of course, none of this should serve to imply that all Jewish people are pedophiles, nor child abusers, however. The Podesta family is Roman Catholic, Alefantis’s religion is unclear, Hillary Clinton is a Methodist, whether John Podesta and Marina Abramovic are Satanists has yet to be determined. There are a whole bunch of people, connected to Pizzagate, who are not Jewish. But plenty of them are; for example, Tamera Stanton Luzzatto, and possibly James Alefantis.

     I say none of this in order to promote the “Blood Libel Claim”; I only say it in order to stop certain individuals, who happen to be Jewish, from using the fact that Jews have historically been persecuted, to justify failing to launch investigations against Jewish individuals suspected of child sexual abuse.

     Aside from the “Jewish angle”, the “Ukrainian angle” must be explored as well. For one, Tamera Luzzatto’s husband, David Leiter, not only worked for John Kerry; he was also a lobbyist for Burisma, the “Ukrainian” energy firm headed by Americans and actually headquartered in Cyprus. Kerry’s stepson, David Heinz Kerry, worked on Burisma’s board, and left when Hunter Biden arrived (possibly because Hunter Biden arrived; it’s not clear).

     This happened right before the 2020 leaks of the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop (which included photos from his phone). Those leaks revealed that Hunter's ex-wife had described his new girlfriend as a “CHILD”, and revealed photos of Hunter Biden next to drugs on a table, and also next to a young lady with black hair, wearing a thong, who looked very skinny and possibly also underage. It’s possible that the girl was trafficked for sex, deliberately, from either Ukraine or Russia.

     The Hunter Biden photo leaks also revealed Hunter laying on a couch, with several girls' bare feet on his clothed torso. The girls in the photo are about twelve or thirteen years old, and possibly include Hunter's daughter. But even if Hunter's girlfriend is technically of age to give consent, and he didn't abuse his daughter or any of her friends, it's still possible that Hunter is committing sex trafficking.

     The Hunter Biden photo leaks revealed that Hunter has a large tattoo of the Finger Lakes, on his back. For an unknown reason, one of the lakes is drawn incorrectly. Author and disease researcher Leonard "Len" Horowitz believes that this tattoo is a reference to the NXIVM cult (pronounced "nexium" / "NEK-see-um"). The cult was reportedly headquartered in eastern New York State (in the towns of Albany, Colonie, and Half Moon), but Horowitz believes that the cult was also active in western New York, near the Finger Lakes. Horowitz also suspects that the cult performed ayahuasca ceremonies there.

     Joe Biden is also a pedophile. On January 3rd, 2015 - while ceremonially swearing-in Republican Montana Senator Steve Daines - Joe Biden pinched the right nipple of Maria Piacesi, the daughter of Daines's sister Christine Piacesi. Maria was about eight years old when this happened. This was broadcast live on C-SPAN 2. A researcher named Johnathan Pessetti reached out to Maria, via TikTok, and she confirmed that Biden pinched her, and that people around her wouldn't do anything about it. The author of this article (Joe Kopsick) reached out to the D.C. Police, and they asserted that, in order for them to do anything about it, the girl's parents would have to come forward.

     The D.C. Police believe that C-SPAN 2 is not responsible for transmitting child abuse material, in the act of broadcasting Biden's pinching of that girl, live on national television. Some researchers suspect that Biden enlisted his Secret Service staff to help him get away with groping girls and women. Additionally, Joe Biden reportedly welcomed people to his home, in a manner which caused them to walk up to his pool, to find that he was swimming nude.

     There is also a photograph of Biden, taken in the 1970s, which depicts Joe Biden staring at the mid-section of a young girl, while covering his crotch. Researchers who believe Biden is a pedophile say he was covering an erection. It's also possible that the reason why Joe Biden holds girls close to him, while standing behind them, is so that he can take that opportunity to "grind" his penis against their backs.

     The Podesta Group provided lobbying work to the European Center for a Modern Ukraine (E.C.M.U.), in 2011-2012. The E.C.M.U. is a Brussels-based think tank which is allegedly controlled by the Ukraine, and it is sympathetic to the anti-N.A.T.O. Party of Regions. Thus, the Democratic Podestas are not the only political figures associated with the E.C.M.U.; the think tank was created by Republican Paul Manafort, and by Rick Gates. Manafort worked to “Westernize” the Party of Regions, receiving $12.7 million for doing so. The party is associated with Viktor Yanukovych, and with Nikola Zlochevsky, the Ecology and Natural Resources Minister who founded Burisma in 2002.

     Moreover, Marina Abramovic – friend and possible “art” student of Tony’s brother John – has been filmed in Ukraine, participating in exhibits which support the Zelensky regime. These exhibits were named “This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom”, and “Crystal Wall of Crying”.

     I say none of this to attack Ukrainians. The fact that the Clintons have been accused of effectively “installing” Boris Yeltsin into the presidency of Russia (by funding his campaign), should make us wonder whether there is Democratic-Russian corruption going on, in addition to Democratic-Ukrainian corruption. I have exposed corruption between both sides and both countries; in my October 2019 article “Forty-Eight American Political Figures with Ties to Ukraine”, which can be read at the following link: https://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/10/thirty-american-politicians-with-ties.html. Additionally, my November 2019 article “Evidence of the Trumps’ and Clinton’s Possible Collusion with Russia and Ukraine”, which can be found here: https://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/11/evidence-of-trumps-and-clintons.html


10. Conclusion: How to Get Real, Thorough Investigations of Alleged Child Abusers and War Profiteers

     Again, aside from possibly favoring Russian and/or Ukrainian interests over the interests of Americans, the fact that the Clintons, Bidens, Heinz-Kerrys, Manafort, and the Trumps are all Zionists, should not be lost on us. The State of Israel was recently exposed as routinely harboring American Jews, accused of sex crimes against children, who flee from prosecution in the U.S., by going to Israel.

     But this fact – and the wider Epstein scandal, about which the public is currently learning a lot – as well as the fact that Israel provided support to both Ukraine and Russia in the early days of the Russo-Ukrainian War, should all prompt American voters to ask whether the U.S., the State of Israel, and the arguably illegitimate Zelensky regime in Ukraine, could be working together.

     It seems that all of those parties may share a common goal; to destabilize eastern Ukraine and southwestern Russia, for the purpose of impoverishing its people to the point that they are hungry enough, and desperate enough, to sell their own children into sex slavery, for the enjoyment of Westerners.

     Whether that’s the intention or not, that seems to be what has become the result of their collaboration, anyway. Especially judging by the size of Hunter Biden's "child" girlfriend's ribcage.

     These concerns are valid, they are connected, and they reveal widespread abuse in our government, across multiple political parties and levels of government. We need to be asking a lot more questions, looking into things a lot more deeply, and demanding a lot more investigations.

     Democrats have been afraid to expose Republican pedophilia and dealings in Ukraine, because they have been afraid that such an investigation would turn-up dirt on them. The same problem explains why Republicans will not release the unredacted Epstein black book, the flight logs, and the flight manifests. Additionally, the Republicans do not want to protect any children except for those harmed by undocumented immigrants.

     This is why the only party (or parties) qualified to investigate these matters, are independent candidates, and candidates endorsed by minor parties and "third parties". We must elect candidates endorsed by whichever viable party has had the lowest number of allegations of sexual abuse and child abuse. The only way to achieve real, thorough investigation of incidents of human trafficking which possibly involve people connected to both major political parties, will be to elect enough people who want all alleged child sex abusers thoroughly investigated, such that they constitute a majority of the elected representatives in government.

     That is how true independence, neutrality, and third-party resolution of conflicts, is supposed to work. We can do this at any time, by drastically increasing support for third parties and independents, and by lobbying for the repeal or amendment of election laws which unfairly favor existing, "grandfathered-in" parties. We can also amend our Constitution, so as to abolish the Senate (and/or the Electoral College), in a way that achieves a parliamentary-style single house. We could also add new chambers, or separations of branches. When using proper constitutional processes, anything is possible.



Written and published on July 22nd, 2025.
Edited and expanded on July 25th, 2025.

Small segments of this article originally appeared in
my first article about Pizzagate -
my November 2017 article "The Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory" -

which can be read at the following link:
https://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2017/11/pizzagate.html
[originally written and published on November 30th, 2017;
edited and expanded between December 3rd and 19th, 2017,
August 30th, 2018, and March 26th and September 6th, 2019]

Note: This article previously contained
some incorrect information about Moshe Chaim Luzzatto.
The Aquarian Agrarian regrets the error.

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Forty-Eight American Political Figures with Ties to Ukraine


Table of Contents


1. Adams, David
2. Archer, Devon
3. Biden, Hunter R.
4. Biden, Joseph R. “Joe” Jr.
5. Black, Joseph Cofer
6. Bolton, John

7. Carey, Laura
8. Chalupa, Alexandra
9. Clinton, Hillary Rodham
10. Clinton, William Jefferson “Bill”
11. Davis, Richard H. “Rick”

12. Freedman, Matthew C.
13. Gates, Richard “Rick”
14. Gucciardo, Charles
15. Giuliani, Rudolph “Rudy”
16. Giustra, Frank
17. Heinz, Christopher
18. Kent, George P.
19. Kerry, John
20. Kerry, Teresa Heinz
21. Leiter, David J.
22. Luzzatto, Tamera Stanton
23. Manafort, Paul J.
24. Mulvaney, John Michael "Mick"
25. Nuland, Victoria C.
26. Nunes, Devin
27. Obama, Barack Hussein
28. Pelosi, Alexandra
29. Pelosi, Nancy
30. Pelosi, Paul Jr.
31. Pelosi, Paul Sr.
32. Pence, Michael “Mike”

33. Podesta, John
34. Podesta, Tony
35. Pyatt, Geoffrey
36. Romney, Willard Mitt
37. Romney, Tagg
38. Schiff, Adam
39. Sondland, Gordon D.
40. Taylor, William Brockenbrough "Bill" Jr.

41. Trump, Donald J.
42. Vindman, Alexander
43. Volker, Kurt
44. Waters, Maxine
45. Weber, Vin

46. Williams, Jennifer
47. Yovanovitch, Marie
48. Zeldin, Lee



Content


     The preceding list, and the text which follows, enumerate forty-eight Americans - in legislative politics, diplomacy, law, business, and the military - who likely have ties to Ukrainian business interests (usually the energy market) and/or corruption in Ukrainian politics and/or military affairs. 
     These include persons who testified, and have stated willingness to testify, at the impeachment inquiry hearings regarding President Trump's possible collusion with Russia and/or Ukraine. Not all persons mentioned below have investments in Ukraine; but they are still worth mentioning for other reasons. For example, Alexander Vindman and Alexandra Chalupa don't have any known investments in Ukraine, but they are Ukrainian-American.
     The purpose of this article is to explain what ties - if any, and however distant - these politicians, government officials (and political campaign and party officials), businessmen, etc., have to Ukraine (or might have).

     [Note: Of anyone listed herein, John Bolton is perhaps the only one who should have been omitted. That is, outside of the individuals who are listed here due to their ties to the Uranium One scandal. But only provided that the deal to sell Uranium One to Russian company Rosakom had nothing to do with Hillary Clinton or Tony Podesta.]









1. Adams, David

     American diplomat. Former chief adviser to Hillary Clinton at the State Department. Principal at the Podesta Group (ired by the Podesta Group after being Hillary Clinton's chief adviser). Adams's link to Ukraine is indirect; Adams met with Clinton to discuss the Uranium One deal, which may have been done in order to help Russia acquire leverage in the energy market (leverage which could be used against Ukraine).

http://observer.com/2016/04/panama-papers-reveal-clintons-kremlin-connection/
http://washdiplomat.com/events/2018/CPS-conference/speaker_bios.php
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/oct/03/who-devon-archer-ukrainian-gas-executive-playing-g/
http://splinternews.com/ukraine-gas-exec-in-trumps-nickelback-meme-is-actually-1838771764
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-hunter-biden-seen-golfing-with-ukraine-gas-company-exec-back-in-2014-photo-shows











2. Archer, Devon

American businessman, and partner of Christopher Heinz (John Kerry's stepson) at Rosemont Seneca Partners. Sat on board of Ukraine-based Burisma Holdings Ltd. (the largest energy company in Ukraine).
http://www.newsweek.com/devon-archer-trump-meme-joe-hunter-biden-1462879










3. Biden, Hunter R.


American businessman and son of Democratic former vice president Joe Biden. Sat on the board of Ukraine-based Burisma Holdings Ltd., earned $50,000 per month (or perhaps $83,333 per month, which has also been reported).


Hunter Biden's father Joe Biden was caught on film bragging about how he got Ukrainian top prosecutor Viktor Shokin to refrain from continuing investigation of Burisma while Hunter served on its board. Although threatening to withhold aid from Ukraine was part of official federal government policy at the time, Joe Biden took advantage of the legality of withholding that aid (a billion dollars in loan guarantees) in order to bring about Shokin's firing (summarizing what he said as “you're not getting the billion dollars... I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money”). Joe Biden said he did this after Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk committed to take action against state prosecutor Shokin (who was investigating $3 billion going into Hunter Biden's firm Burisma), but failed to do so, and then Biden told them that President Obama authorized Biden to make that deal.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/10/15/politifact-pelosi-romney-and-kerry-dont-have-sons-working-for-companies-linked-to-ukraine/












4. Biden, Joseph R. “Joe” Jr.


Democratic former U.S. Senator from Delaware, and former Vice President under the Obama Administration (2009-2017). Advised new Ukrainian leaders about anti-corruption while vice-president under Obama. Caught on film bragging about how he got Ukrainian top prosecutor Viktor Shokin to refrain from continuing investigation of Burisma while his son Hunter Biden served on its board. Although threatening to withhold aid from Ukraine was part of official federal government policy at the time, Biden took advantage of the legality of withholding that aid (a billion dollars in loan guarantees) in order to bring about Shokin's firing (summarizing what he said as “you're not getting the billion dollars... I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money”). Joe Biden said he did this after Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk committed to take action against state prosecutor Shokin (who was investigating $3 billion going into Hunter Biden's firm Burisma), but failed to do so, and then Biden told them that President Obama authorized Biden to make that deal.http://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-10-05/bidens-visits-to-ukraine-under-scrutiny
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-09/joe-biden-son-ukraine-gas-company
http://www.wsj.com/articles/firm-hired-by-ukraines-burisma-tried-to-use-hunter-biden-as-leverage-documents-show-11573009615
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/10/15/politifact-pelosi-romney-and-kerry-dont-have-sons-working-for-companies-linked-to-ukraine/













5. Black, Joseph Cofer

Joined board of Burisma in 2017 (three years after Hunter Biden joined the board and Christopher Heinz left). Former foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney and former C.I.A. official.
http://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/766579412/what-to-know-about-the-ukrainian-company-at-the-heart-of-trumps-biden-allegation







6. Bolton, John



     American political consultant, political commentator, diplomat, national security advisor, and attorney. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (under George W. Bush, 2005-06) and former U.S. National Security Advisor to Donald Trump (April 2018 to September 2019).
     Expressed an intent to testify that he opposed what the Trump Administration was doing in regard to Ukraine from the start, and that he felt the administration was deliberately investigating a political rival. However, also missed an impeachment deposition.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/07/impeachment-house-inquiry-has-questions-john-bolton-ukraine/4176402002/
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/bolton-giuliani-fiona-hill-testimony.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/07/impeachment-house-inquiry-has-questions-john-bolton-ukraine/4176402002/
http://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-press-secretary-stephanie-grisham-john-bolton-impeachment










7. Carey, Laura



American congressional staffer (whose staffer she is, however, is not clear, and neither is Carey's relationship to Lee Zeldin). Laura Carey wrote an email to Republican New York Congresswoman Lee Zeldin about how Carey wanted to
“discuss some Ukraine-related oversight questions” with Zeldin. Zeldin spoke to Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch after that.
http://www.nationalreview.com/news/dem-staffer-exchanged-private-emails-with-yovanovitch-contradicting-her-sworn-testimony/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/marie-yovanovitch-ukraine-emails-house-democrat-staffer-delicate-issue






8. Chalupa, Alexandra


Ukrainian-American woman who worked as a contractor for the Democratic National Committee, exposed Paul Manafort's work for Ukraine, and met with officials at the Ukrainian Embassy to attempt to find ties between Trump, Manafort, and Russia.
http://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/alexandra-chalupa-the-ukrainian-american-who-exposed-manafort.html
http://thefederalist.com/2019/10/30/anti-trump-whistleblower-worked-with-dnc-operative-who-sought-dirt-on-trump-from-ukrainian-officials/
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/441892-ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016







9. Clinton, Hillary Rodham

Obama's Secretary of State (2009-2013), 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, and wife of former president Bill Clinton (1993-2001). Received help from Ukrainian government officials as early as 2013, and later received help from them to undermine Trump and question his fitness for office.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-and-ukraine-11569881729
http://www.usubc.org/site/USUBC-Washington-Watch/usubc-washington-watch-no-4
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/12/13/russian-uranium-one-deal-and-hillary-clinton-in-the-news-again/#10b28475526d
Additionally, associate of Frank Giustra since 2005. Giustra built and sold UrAsia energy company to Canada-based Uranium One. Uranium One then sold UrAsia to Russian energy company Rosakom. Indirect link to Ukraine because the sale of UrAsia may have been done in close talks with Hillary Clinton, and/or may have been done in order to help Russia acquire leverage over Ukraine in the energy market.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/10/ukraine-alignment-hillary-clinton-began-2013-polit/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7598493/President-Trump-asks-AG-investigate-Hillary-Clinton-links-Ukraine-Steele-dossier.html
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/462658-lets-get-real-democrats-were-first-to-enlist-ukraine-in-us-elections






10. Clinton, William Jefferson “Bill”


Former president, husband of Hillary Clinton, and associate of Frank Giustra.








11. Davis, Richard H. “Rick”


Former campaign manager for John McCain, political consultant. Business partner of Paul Manafort while their company Davis Manafort (later Davis, Manafort, and Freedman), which was paid to consult for arguably “pro-Russian” Ukrainian political party the Party of Regions. Burisma co-founder Mykola Zlochevsky served as the Ecology and Natural Resources Minister under Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions government.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012403383_pf.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/06/davis-ukraine-update/48840/





12. Freedman, Matthew C.



Former partner of Paul Manafort and Rick Davis at political consulting company Davis, Manafort, and Freedman. The company consulted for arguably “pro-Russian” Ukrainian political party the Party of Regions.

http://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/20/john-bolton-former-lobbyist-national-security-council-597917













13. Gates, Richard “Rick”


Former deputy campaign chairman for Donald Trump. Claimed to have told lobbyists hired by Paul Manafort that the think tank the lobbyists were representing – the European Center for a Modern Ukraine – was a front for Ukraine's government (i.e., the Party of Regions government under Yanukovych and Zlochevsky).
http://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/22/rick-gates-manafort-ukraine-1472517
















14. Gucciardo, Charles



Trump donor and pro-Trump attorney. Made half million dollar payment to Rudy Giuliani on behalf of Giuliani associate and Ukrainian-American broker Lev Parnas.











15. Giuliani, Rudolph “Rudy”


Served as Trump's lawyer, while allegedly taking the lead in initiating Trump's efforts to push Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Burisma and Hunter Biden in July 2019. Possibly under investigation for those activities. Reportedly consulted with Paul Manafort, while Manafort was in prison, over matters related to Ukraine. Also, Giuliani reportedly met former Ukrainian state prosecutor Viktor Shokin, and tried to get Shokin a pass to come visit the United States. Shokin opened an investigation into Burisma, but did not complete it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-investigation.html







16. Giustra, Frank


Built and sold UrAsia energy company to Canada-based Uranium One. Uranium One then sold UrAsia to Russian energy company Rosakom. Indirect link to Ukraine because the sale of UrAsia may have been done in close talks with Hillary Clinton, and/or may have been done in order to help Russia acquire leverage over Ukraine in the energy market.http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/12/13/russian-uranium-one-deal-and-hillary-clinton-in-the-news-again/#10b28475526d














17. Heinz, Christopher




Son of Teresa Heinz Kerry and stepson of former Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry. Board member of Burisma. Supposedly cut ties with Hunter Biden over a 2014 deal, concerning Burisma, which took place between Hunter Biden and Ukrainian “oligarchs”. Partner of Devon Archer (another Burisma board member, and American businessman) at Rosemont Seneca Partners.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/john-kerrys-son-cut-business-ties-with-hunter-biden-over-ukrainian-oil-deal











18. Kent, George P.


Senior State Department expert on Ukraine under Donald Trump (specific title: Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs) since September 2018. Testified, alongside Bill Taylor, that there was clear
quid pro quo on the July 25th, 2019 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kent also testified that the Trump Administration undermined the rule of law and deliberately pushed Kent himself out of Ukraine policy.

http://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/george-kent-transcript-released/index.html
http://www.npr.org/2019/11/07/777170751/read-testimony-of-deputy-assistant-secretary-of-state-george-kent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_P._Kent
http://www.thedailybeast.com/george-kent-testimony-state-dept-brass-told-hannity-to-stop-smearing-marie-yovanovitch










19. Kerry, John

Obama's Secretary of State (2013-2017). Stepfather of Christopher Heinz, who served on the board of Burisma. Christopher Heinz supposedly cut ties with Hunter Biden over a 2014 deal, concerning Burisma, which took place between Hunter Biden and Ukrainian “oligarchs”.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/john-kerrys-son-cut-business-ties-with-hunter-biden-over-ukrainian-oil-deal
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/10/15/politifact-pelosi-romney-and-kerry-dont-have-sons-working-for-companies-linked-to-ukraine/












20. Kerry, Teresa Heinz


Mother of Christopher Heinz, who served on the board of Burisma. Christopher Heinz supposedly cut ties with Hunter Biden over a 2014 deal, concerning Burisma, which took place between Hunter Biden and Ukrainian “oligarchs”.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/john-kerrys-son-cut-business-ties-with-hunter-biden-over-ukrainian-oil-deal
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/10/15/politifact-pelosi-romney-and-kerry-dont-have-sons-working-for-companies-linked-to-ukraine/















21. Leiter, David J.


American Democratic political consultant, and former adviser for John Kerry. Former lobbyist for Burisma (hired on May 20th, 2014, a week after it was announced that Hunter Biden would join the board). Husband of Hillary Clinton aide Tamera Stanton Luzzatto, who emailed John Podesta about her granddaughters being in a heated pool for “entertainment”, on October 8th, 2015 (the same John Podesta whose consulting firm, the Podesta Group, did lobbying work for Paul Manafort's European Center for a Modern Ukraine, two to three years prior).http://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/46736

















22. Luzzatto, Tamera Stanton


American Democratic political adviser, and former chief aide to Hillary Clinton. Wife of Burisma lobbyist David J. Leiter. Emailed John Podesta about her granddaughters being in a heated pool for “entertainment”, on October 8th, 2015. Managed Evie's Crib blog (and may have used it to let strangers pay to see her abuse her children).http://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/46736












23. Manafort, Paul J.


American political consultant and former campaign manager for Donald Trump (June to August 2016). Associate of Rick Davis and Matthew C. Freedman at political consulting firm Manafort, Davis, and Freedman, which did consulting work for arguably “pro-Russian” political party the Party of Regions (whose president Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia when the civil uprising occurred in Ukraine in 2014, and whose ecology minister Mykola Zlochevsky co-founded Burisma). Along with co-founder Rick Gates, Paul Manafort founded the (arguably pro- Party of Regions) think tank, the European Center for a Modern Ukraine (which gave the Podesta Group $900,000 for lobbying work in 2011-12). Manafort functioned as an agent of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, and Ukrainian political parties Party of Regions and Opposition Bloc. Claimed to have worked to “Westernize” the Party of Regions (in exchange for $12.7 million in undisclosed payments).http://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/paul-manafort-worked-for-ukraine-not-russia/
http://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/manafort-podesta-emails-lobbying-823868















24. Mulvaney, John Michael "Mick"



White House Chief of Staff, and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, for the Trump Administration. Said there was no “quid pro quo” between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their July 25th, 2019 phone call, but then reversed his position (Gordon Sondland reversed his position as well), saying "get over it".http://www.foxnews.com/media/ukraine-trump-mulvaney-sondland-stirewalt
http://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/mick-mulvaney-ukraine-confession.html












25. Nuland, Victoria C.


American diplomat. Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, with the rank of Career Ambassador in the United States Foreign Service, at the U.S. Department of State (under the Obama Administration). Appointed by Hillary Clinton. Spoke to U.N. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, in a leaked February 2014 phone call, about how the U.S. should disregard the opinion of the European Union and decide who leads Ukraine after the 2014 civil uprising.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957











26. Nunes, Devin


American congressman and Republican from California. Former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, and former member of Donald Trump's transition team. Rudy Giuliani's associate, Ukrainian-American Lev Parnas, claimed that former Ukrainian state prosecutor Viktor Shokin told Parnas that Shokin had met with Nunes in Vienna, Austria, in December 2018 (a claim which Nunes denies). Shokin had previously opened an investigation into Burisma, but did not complete it.









27. Obama, Barack Hussein



Former U.S. president, 2009 to 2017. Chose “White House points person on Ukraine” Joe Biden as his running mate. Chose Hillary Clinton (whose ties to Ukraine are through Tony Podesta and Uranium One) as his first Secretary of State (2009-2013). Chose as his second Secretary of State, John Kerry, whose stepson Christopher Heinz served on the board of Burisma (leaving in 2014).

Joe Biden said in February 2018 that Obama authorized Biden to take advantage of the opportunity to use legally authorized threats to withhold a billion dollars of loan guarantees from the Ukraine, unless state prosecutor Viktor Shokin (who had begun an investigation into $3 billion going into Hunter Biden's firm Burisma) could be fired.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html




28. Pelosi, Alexandra


American Democratic writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker. Daughter of Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi Sr.. Sister of Paul Pelosi, Jr.. Tie to Ukraine is through brother Paul Pelosi, Jr..







29. Pelosi, Nancy

Democratic Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Mother of Paul Pelosi, Jr.. Tie to Ukraine is through son Paul Pelosi, Jr..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KfU5ifhqE&feature=youtu.be
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/10/15/politifact-pelosi-romney-and-kerry-dont-have-sons-working-for-companies-linked-to-ukraine/







30. Pelosi, Paul Jr.



Son of Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Paul Pelosi, Jr. has been accused by various media outlets of having ties to corruption in the Ukrainian energy market. According to public records, Paul Pelosi, Jr. visited Ukraine in 2017 as part of an American business initiative. Pelosi Jr. was a board member of Viscoil. He is also an Executive for NRG Lab and Research, which has stated interests in environmental protection. Viscoil, according to various reports, is based either in California, or Ukraine. Viscoil and NRG Lab have each been reported to possibly be based in Singapore. Either or both of the companies may have changed headquarters at some point. Paul Pelosi Jr. has denied that his business with Viscoil had anything to do with Ukraine. Pelosi's ties to Ukraine apparently stem from allegations about the hiring of a Ukrainian singer to promote the Viscoil company.
http://www.canyon-news.com/paul-pelosi-jr-alleged-ties-to-ukraine/98961
http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/10/15/politifact-pelosi-romney-and-kerry-dont-have-sons-working-for-companies-linked-to-ukraine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1KfU5ifhqE&feature=youtu.be






31. Pelosi, Paul Sr.

Husband of Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Father of Paul Pelosi, Jr. and Alexandra Pelosi. Tie to Ukraine is through son Paul Pelosi, Jr..











32. Pence, Michael “Mike”

Republican Vice President of the United States (since 2017). Was reportedly present for the July 25th, 2019 phone call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, but it was actually one of Pence's aides, Jennifer Williams.
http://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/jennifer-williams-testimony/index.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ukraine-call-transcript-read-the-document













33. Podesta, John



American Democratic political consultant. Former Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton, and former chief adviser and campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. Co-founder (with brother Tony Podesta) of the political consulting firm Podesta Group, Inc. (John Podesta has since left the company, however). Podesta Group provided $900,000 of political lobbying work for the European Center for a Modern Ukraine (which was co-founded by Paul Manafort) in 2011-12.
http://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/manafort-podesta-emails-lobbying-823868
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-podesta-russian-backed-lobbying-ukraine-manafort-mueller-russia-2017-10











34. Podesta, Tony


American Democratic political consultant. Co-founder (with brother John Podesta) of the political consulting firm Podesta Group, Inc. (John Podesta has since left the company, however). Podesta Group provided $900,000 of political lobbying work for the European Center for a Modern Ukraine (which was co-founded by Paul Manafort) in 2011-12.
http://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/manafort-podesta-emails-lobbying-823868
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-podesta-russian-backed-lobbying-ukraine-manafort-mueller-russia-2017-10










35. Pyatt, Geoffrey



Former United Nations Ambassador to Ukraine (appointed by Barack Obama). Spoke to Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland, in a leaked February 2014 phone call, about how the U.S. should disregard the opinion of the European Union and decide who leads Ukraine after the 2014 civil uprising.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957













36. Romney, Willard Mitt

Republican U.S. Senator from Utah, and 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Hired former C.I.A. officer Cofer Black (who joined Burisma in 2017) as his campaign manager. One of Romney's sons has been accused of being on the board of a Ukrainian energy company (although which one of his five sons is not clear; perhaps Tagg because he is the only Romney son with political work in his resume and he served as a surrogate for his father during his presidential campaign).
http://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/766579412/what-to-know-about-the-ukrainian-company-at-the-heart-of-trumps-biden-allegation
http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sons-top-democrats-ukraine-clinton/












37. Romney, Tagg

American businessman. One of Romney's sons has been accused of being on the board of a Ukrainian energy company (although which one of his five sons is not clear; perhaps Tagg because he is the only Romney son with political work in his resume and he served as a surrogate for his father during his presidential campaign).
http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sons-top-democrats-ukraine-clinton/











38. Schiff, Adam

     Democratic U.S. Representative from California (since 2013), and one of the lead investigators in the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, as part of his position as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. That inquiry has featured investigation into Trump's dealings with Ukraine as well as Russia.
     Schiff has been accused of associating with alleged “Ukrainian arms dealer” Igor Pasternak. Pasternak is, in fact, Kazahstan-born, and an American citizen; he is an entrepreneur and an engineer. His company, U.S.-based Worldwide Aeros Corp, manufactures airships. Pasternak has been mistakenly labeled as a “Ukrainian arms dealer”, but “Kazakh-American arms dealer” would perhaps be appropriate. Also, Pasternak's company has (according to Snopes.com) “provided military hardware to Ukrainian military troops who were fighting Russian forces in Donbas”. Additionally, Adam Schiff 
has associated with Pasternak; Pasternak hosted a fundraiser for Schiff in 2013.


http://ktla.com/2019/10/18/l-a-area-rep-adam-schiff-draws-ire-of-gop-as-he-oversees-probe-into-trump-ukraine-relations/

http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/adam-schiff-ukrainian/









39. Sondland, Gordon D.


Ambassador to the European Union under Donald Trump. Said there was “quid pro quo” between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during their July 25
th, 2019 phone call, but then reversed his position (Mick Mulvaney did the same thing). The New York Times reported that Sondland said that he told Ukrainian officials that Ukraine probably wouldn't receive American military aid unless it “publicly committed to the investigations President Trump wanted”.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gordon-sondland-testimony-confirms-quid-pro-quo-trump-ukraine-2019-11
http://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/politics/gordon-sondland-kurt-volker-transcripts-impeachment-inquiry/index.html
http://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/05/sondland-reverses-himself-on-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-000318
http://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770405439/gordon-sondland-the-ambassador-whose-texts-put-him-at-the-center-of-ukraine-scan
http://www.npr.org/2019/10/17/770752655/trump-gave-giuliani-the-ukraine-portfolio-and-boxed-out-diplomats-sondland-says
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/us/politics/impeachment-trump.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/gordon-sondland-impeachment.html
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/gordon-sondland-fingers-rudy-giuliani-as-trumps-ukraine-shakedown-man/









40. Taylor, William Brockenbrough "Bill" Jr.



     American diplomat, former soldier, and State Department enjoy under Donald Trump. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (2006-2009, appointed by George W. Bush).

     Testified that there was clear quid pro quo during the July 25th, 2019 phone call between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. Testified alongside diplomat George Kent. Taylor testified that it would have been crazy to make continued aid to Ukraine contingent upon investigation of Hunter Biden and Burisma.

http://time.com/5720446/william-taylor-ukraine-quid-pro-quo-transcript/
http://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/william-taylor-ukraine-impeachment-testimony.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-07/why-william-taylor-will-be-impeachment-s-first-public-witness
http://www.vox.com/2019/11/6/20952155/william-bill-taylor-transcript-testimony-impeachment-house
http://www.c-span.org/video/?466134-1/impeachment-hearing-william-taylor-george-kent




















41. Trump, Donald J.


Businessman, and Republican President of the United States since 2017. Made a phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump allegedly threatened to withhold congressionally authorized military aid in exchange for Zelensky getting Ukrainian top prosecutor Viktor Shokin to cease his investigations into Burisma (and potentially into Hunter Biden).
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/trumps-ukraine-call-transcript-read-the-document
Additionally, Trump hired Paul Manafort as his campaign manager 13 years after Manafort's corruption in Ukraine began.
http://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/paul-manafort-worked-for-ukraine-not-russia/
http://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/13/manafort-podesta-emails-lobbying-823868




















42. Vindman, Alexander



     Ukrainian-American immigrant, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, and Iraq War veteran. Director for European Affairs and “top Ukraine expert” for the U.S. National Security Council under Trump. Listened to Trump's July 25th, 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Testified that Trump had undermined national security by asking Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.

     Vindman has been accused of being a “Never Trumper” and a spy, and there have also been conflicting and confusing reports about whether he has been fired or will be fired. To date (as of November 14th, 2019), it appears that he has not yet been fired from the National Security Council. He may be "rotated back to his own department", according to National Security Advisor Robert C. o'Brien.

http://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/alexander-vindman-national-security-council-work/index.html

http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alexander-vindman-llod/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-alexander-vindman-testimony-ukraine-call-conspiracy-a9192131.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/30/who-alexander-vindman-president-donald-trumps-top-ukraine-expert/4095387002/

http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vindman-fired-nsc/













43. Volker, Kurt



     American diplomat, former U.S. Ambassador to N.A.T.O. (for the last six months of the George W. Bush Administration and the first four months of the Barack Obama Administration). Also, former executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
     Volker texted what has been described as a “script” to a Ukrainian official, which the Trump Administration allegedly wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to use to announce investigation into the Bidens' business affairs in Ukraine (ostensibly in exchange for U.S. military aid in the form of a billion dollars in loan guarantees).



http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/gordon-sondland-fingers-rudy-giuliani-as-trumps-ukraine-shakedown-man/

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump














44. Waters, Maxine
     American congresswoman, Democrat from California. One source reported that Adam Schiff, the Pelosi family, and Maxine Waters all have investments in Ukraine; however, the accusation in regard to Waters has not been substantiated, nor has it been well-publicized.













45. Weber, Vin


Received money from Mercury Public Affairs (Company A in Robert Mueller's indictment). Mercury Public Affairs was paid by Paul Manafort's European Center for a Modern Ukraine to provide lobbying work.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-ends-investigation-tony-podesta-vin-weber-without-charges-n1058306

















46. Williams, Jennifer



     American political aide for Vice President Mike Pence. Was present for the July 25
th, 2019 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (although various media outlets reported instead that the vice president himself was present during that call; he was not). Williams said that the call was diplomatic, not political, and “normal”.
     Former Ambassador to Ukraine (Trump ordered Yovanovitch removed from her post in May 2019). Axios reported that Yovanovitch was warned to “watch her back”, by Ukrainian officials, about how Giuliani wanted to replace her (supposedly because they felt that Yovanovitch was hindering investigations into Biden and his son). Yovanovitch was called to testify as part of the impeachment inquiry into Trump's possibly illegal withholding of aid from Ukraine. Reportedly used her personal email to communicate with congressional staffer Laura Carey.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/george-kent-testimony-state-dept-brass-told-hannity-to-stop-smearing-marie-yovanovitch
http://www.nationalreview.com/news/dem-staffer-exchanged-private-emails-with-yovanovitch-contradicting-her-sworn-testimony/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/marie-yovanovitch-ukraine-emails-house-democrat-staffer-delicate-issue













48. Zeldin, Lee


   Republican U.S. Representative from New York. Received an email from congressional staffer Laura Carey regarding how Carey was hoping to chat with Zeldin to “discuss some Ukraine-related oversight questions”. Carey spoke to Yovanovitch after that.


http://www.nationalreview.com/news/dem-staffer-exchanged-private-emails-with-yovanovitch-contradicting-her-sworn-testimony/











Originally Published on October 12th, 2019

Edited and Expanded on October 13th, 22nd, 25th, and 30th,
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