Understanding Connections Between Jeffrey Epstein, Cryptocurrency, and Brock Pierce (and Disney, Bill Gates, Clinton, and Trump)

     Brock Pierce, a former child actor, ran for president of the United States as an independent in 2020, achieving ballot access as a write-in candidate in one state. As a child, Pierce had appeared in Mighty Ducks 2, and a film called First Kid, in which he played the son of the president. Both films were distributed by Disney.

     When he was a teenager, Pierce got caught up with D.E.N. (Digital Entertainment Network) and its founders Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley. Collins-Rector was accused of sexual abuse of a minor. Subsequently fled to Britain, tried to marry an 18-year-old boy, and then fled again to France and then to Belgium and changed his name.

     Pierce is now a Bitcoin investor and a cryptocurrency promoter, who says he regrets being involved in the Collins-Rector fiasco. Pierce insists that he never witnessed any abuse. Pierce reportedly told Collins-Rector to settle the lawsuit against him out of court.

     The informational graphic below was created to help those researching Brock Pierce - and reading the articles listed in the sources at the bottom of this article - to understand the connections between Pierce, Disney, Jeffrey Epstein, cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin), Bill Gates, the Clintons and Donald Trump, and other people and things.

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Sources

     1. “The Strange Saga of Jeffrey Epstein’s Link to a Child Star Turned Cryptocurrency Mogul”, Hollywood Reporter, 9-18-19

     http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/strange-saga-jeffrey-epstein-s-link-brock-pierce-1240462/




     2. “Brock Pierce: The Hippie King of Cryptocurrency”, Rolling Stone, 7-26-18

     http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/brock-pierce-hippie-king-of-cryptocurrency-700213/




     3. “Found: The Elusive Man at the Heart of the Hollywood Sex Abuse Scandal”, Buzzfeed News

     http://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/found-the-elusive-man-at-the-heart-of-the-hollywood-sex-abus





     4. “A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin”, by Matzutt, etc

     http://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf







     For more information, please watch my July 2021 video “Was John McAfee Tracked Down Through His Cryptocurrency Activity?” at the following link:

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIe6CsyXJPg

Created Between July 12th and 23rd, 2021

Written and Published on July 23rd, 2021

Explaining Dylan Ratigan's Suspicions About the Total Cost of U.S. Federal Bank Bailouts in 2020

     On March 25th, 2020, the U.S. Senate passed a version of the C.A.R.E.S. Act (which stands for Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security). Two days later, Trump signed a modified version of that bill into law.

     On March 25th, former M.S.N.B.C. host Dylan Ratigan appeared as a guest on Jimmy Dore's podcast to explain the total cost of the bill and the economic consequences of Coronavirus and Covid-19.
     The video of that interview is available here:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgOQn4Asa0

     The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of the C.A.R.E.S. Act at just $1.76 trillion. Unfortunately, however, there doesn't appear to be widespread consensus about whether the total cost has amounted to $1.76 trillion or $2.2 trillion. In mid-April, TheHill.com reported that the bill would cost $1.76 trillion, not $2.2 trillion. Wikipedia puts the total cost at $2.2 trillion.

     The total cost of the C.A.R.E.S. Act is certainly confusing, and needs to be discussed and debated more. Especially considering Dylan Ratigan's view on the matter. Ratigan stated on Jimmy Dore's show that he believes the total cost of C.A.R.E.S. is a whopping $14 trillion!

     If this is accurate, then the C.A.R.E.S. Act could be a repeat - an echo - of the 2008-09 financial crisis. During that time, American economic researchers were debating whether the true cost of the bailouts was either $2.1 trillion, or $10.2 trillion, or $12 trillion, or $29.6 trillion.

     Some even used the bailouts as an opportunity to point out the increasing entanglement of American banks with European banks involved in the European sovereign debt crisis. This is important because most American's have never heard the phrases "Major Fiscal Exposure" and "Major Reported Fiscal Exposure". Exposure refers to the decrease in a government's value, and/or to the risk that a government's cash flow could suffer (as a result of currency fluctation and other factors).
     For the purposes of this article, I make reference to the term "exposure" to refer to the total cost of the federal government's long-term spending plans, for as long into the future as it has planned to spend (with both funded and unfunded liabilities included).

     The United States federal Government has planned $4 trillion or more each year over the next 75 years. This amounts to a 75-year exposure of $300 trillion or more. Some people are aware that this is a problem; that's because we have "unfunded liabilities" that result from not knowing how to fully pay for all of that spending.

     We certainly don't want an echo of 2008-2009, and we certainly want to make sure that the government stays fully funded (but doesn't grow too large and unwieldy) in the years to come.





     Let's review the numbers, to keep them all fresh in our heads before we go over what Ratigan said about the total cost.
     The low estimate of the total cost of the C.A.R.E.S. Act (given by the Congressional Budget Office) is $1.76 trillion.
     The high estimate of the total cost of the C.A.R.E.S. Act is $2.2 trillion.
     The Paycheck Protection Program (P.P.P.), which followed the C.A.R.E.S. Act., had a total cost of $349 billion.
     This puts the total cost of the C.A.R.E.S. Act and the P.P.P. combined, at somewhere between $2.09 trillion and $2.549 trillion.






     Dylan Ratigan stated that the total cost would be more like $14 trillion.

     Ratigan says that the combined cost would be about $14 trillion, because it is his understanding that the combined cost of all the late March and early April spending by the federal government, the Department of the Treasury (which sells bonds and securities to finance the debt), and the Federal Reserve Bank (the central bank that loans money to banks), would end up being approximately $14 trillion.

     That estimate is based on the following three claims, which Ratigan made on the show:

     1. The Federal Reserve Bank said that it would offer $1 trillion of overnight loans, every day until the end of March. Ratigan explained that these loans achieve what is called "back-stopping". In a back stop, a bank or investment firm commits to providing a last-resort support, such as a security in a securities offering, in order to guarantee that a company or bank will raise the money it intends to raise. The purpose of these overnight loans would be to, as Ratigan said, "make sure the banks have what they need to do what they want", by which he meant it makes sure the banks have the money they need to put where they think they need to put it. Ratigan said the Fed was giving banks $4 trillion to do what they want, so presumably these payments took place on March 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st.
     2. The Federal Reserve Bank is offering $1 trillion in 14-day loans, each week. It is unclear from Ratigan's statements whether this began on March 25th, or the 27th, or on a different date. Ratigan said that the bank also wanted to "put up $4 trillion in loan guarantees", so presumably there were, or there were supposed to be, four weeks in which $1 trillion per week was available to banks in the form of two-week loans.
     3. The Federal Reserve Bank (or perhaps the Treasury, it was unclear) "wants to put up $6 trillion directly." It is unclear what Ratigan meant by "put up".





     To put Ratigan's claims in perspective, and to help explain them better, we'll now look at where the claims about multi-trillion bailout costs are coming from.

     This article from CNBC, from June 2020, said the Federal Reserve hadn't come close to spending $2.3 trillion:
     http://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/24/the-fed-said-it-could-supply-the-economy-with-2point3-trillion-it-hasnt-come-close-so-far.html

    But this New York Times article from March 26th discusses a $4 trillion figure:
     http://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/business/economy/fed-coronavirus-stimulus.html

     I regret not being able to provide more information on Ratigan's 3rd point (about the $6 trillion that the Fed wants to "put up directly"). And it would seem that no reputable news source would admit to a much higher cost. But that all depends on whether you consider the New York Times, C.N.B.C., or Dylan Ratigan, a more reputable source for news.







     I wish I could provide a more in-depth analysis of these figures, but that is all the information which I am able to glean about the topic. I provide this information here, to concisely explain Ratigan's views, and to bring together as many statistics as possible regarding the total cost of the C.A.R.E.S. Act and the 2020 bailouts.

     I apologize if any information is inaccurate or incomplete.

     My hope is that other readers and researchers can use this information, fact-check it, and message me to discuss and debate the real total cost. If you would like to e-mail the author, e-mail Joe Kopsick at jwkopsick@gmail.com

Chart comparing the sizes of the 2008-09 bailouts and the 2020 bailouts,

and several other government budget statistics.

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Written and Published on September 6th, 2020

Image Series Regarding Sexual Assault Allegations Against Presidential Candidates

Click on the link below to learn more about which candidates

have the best chances of being elected president, and why:

http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/07/2020-us-presidential-candidates.html

Images created between April 16th and August 20th, 2020

First two images originally appeared in

"Can We Please Elect a President Who Isn't a Sex Offender?: Presidential Candidates Poster",

published to this blog on April 16th, 2020.

That blog entry can be viewed at the following link:

http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/04/can-we-please-elect-president-who-isnt.html

2020 U.S. Presidential Candidates, Arranged by the Number of States in Which They'll Have Ballot Access

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Note:

I previously reported that Vermin Supreme was running a write-in candidate. That is incorrect.

He endorsed Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party's nominee, at the party's national convention.

However, seven states (those shown in green) will likely accept write-in votes

for any American who's eligible to be seated in the White House.

Sources include:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election

http://medium.com/@Chris_Powell/2020-alternative-party-ballot-access-updated-a87e3a8f4f3

Originally Created and Published on July 31st, 2020

Images Updated, Replaced,
and Additional Images Created and Published,
on August 14th and 20th, 2020,

and March 16th, 2021

Full List of Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's Sexual Assault and Harassment Accusers

Twenty-Six Adult Women Who Came Forward Against Trump Regarding Serious Sexual Crimes

Twenty-Five Women Who Directly Accused Trump of Rape, or Sexual Abuse or Harassment:
1. Kristin Anderson

2. Mariah Billado

3. Lisa Boyne

4. E. Jean Carroll

5. Rachel Crooks

6. Tasha Dixon

7. Jessica Drake

8. Jill Harth

9. Cathy Heller

10. Samantha Holvey

11. Juliet Huddy

12. Victoria Hughes

13. Alva Johnson

14. Karen Johnson
15. Ninni Laaksonen

16. Jessica Leeds

17. Mindy McGillivray

18. Jennifer Murphy

19. Cassandra Searles

20. Natasha Stoynoff

21. Bridget Sullivan

22. Temple Taggart

23. Ivana Trump (nee Zelnicova, Trump's ex-wife; alleged rape)

24. Karena Virginia

25. Summer Zervos

One Woman Who Indirectly Accused Trump:
1. Maria Farmer (did not allege direct abuse by Trump; only alleged involvement w/ Epstein)


One Woman Who Came Forward Against Trump As an Adult, Claiming Abuse While Underage

1. Katie Johnson (one of the former Jane Does)

[Author's Note: It was reported here earlier that Maria Farmer was underage when she was raped by Trump. However, that was incorrect. Farmer was about 25 when assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and Farmer observed Ivana Trump riding in limos with Ghislaine Maxwell and herself (enough to know that the Trumps were involved in Epstein's activities), but Farmer did not directly accuse Trump of raping her. The Aquarian Agrarian regrets the error.]

Nine Adult Women Who Came Forward Against Biden for Unwanted Touching, Inappropriate Sexual
Conduct, and Forceful Fondling

1. Caitlyn Caruso

2. Allie Coll
3. Jessica Leigh Collins

4. Lucy Flores

5. D.J. Hill

6. Sofie Karasek

7. Amy Stokes Lappos

8. Alexandra Tara Reade

9. Vail Kohnert-Yount

Two Underage Girls Who Were Seen Being Touched Inappropriately by Biden, But Have Not Come Forward

1. Caroline Bennet (Colorado Senator Michael Bennet's daughter)
2. Maria Piacesi (Montana Senator Steve Daines's niece)

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     The author felt it necessary to include the image here nonetheless, in the interest of promoting full disclosure regarding the whole range of claims and accusations which have been levied at Mr. Trump.

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Political Questionnaire: Are You a Joe Kopsick Voter? #1

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Can We Please Elect a President Who Isn't a Sex Offender?: Presidential Candidates Poster

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Links to All of My Articles, Posts, Videos, and Memes About Coronavirus / CoViD-19 and Related Topics

Author's Note
     (written on July 28th, 2021)

     What follows is a list of all of the articles, videos, and memes and other posts to Instagram, which I created and produced in 2020 and 2021.

     Since my YouTube channel was taken down in early 2021, some of the YouTube links lead to videos that have been removed. Those links will be replaced with links to active videos as soon as possible.

Early Reactions to Reports About the Virus

Meme mocking Bloomberg for fear-mongering about the virus

http://www.instagram.com/p/B9aj1QzgBfQ/?igshid=1oe44074c5b64

Dam I built in a river of shit-water
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9c6TLEgnTM/?igshid=orffi83i00fk

Bats
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9szyM0Aa-0/?igshid=kvs4howdepyt

Examining a Possible Xenophobic Motive in Coronavirus Scare

Germophobia
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9xqWXNgQVZ/

Nazi propaganda film
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9svdLZgzz_/?igshid=14uc10asxp382

Shortages, Nazism, racism, typhus
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9sHmR5gPZH/?igshid=x11kjpuse16z

Dehumanization, animalization, extermination
http://www.instagram.com/p/B91BqkfA0AJ/






Taking This Crisis As an Opportunity

School strikes
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9r_bxxAGJp/?igshid=mywjq9sfr6u1

Great time to wash your hands, stop non-consensual touching, stop touching money
http://www.instagram.com/p/B92bLoygVUr/

White people spread disease by domesticating animals and doing bestiality
http://www.instagram.com/p/B92dLZygfsx/

Government hyping up deadliness of virus

https://www.instagram.com/p/B95qYHigk6z/








Comments on Government's Attempts to Solve the Problem

Voter suppression
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9w-GGOASVK/

Government, Wall Street cashing-in on the American people's disposable income
http://www.instagram.com/p/B90cuG9gLB-/

Comments on the UBI as a temporary fix to the virus
http://www.instagram.com/p/B93qjGsgHVs/









Posts From Between March 19th and March 23rd

The virus as an opportunity to learn about food science
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9_c_PFAL-U/
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9_giI8gAVD/
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9_ld43golg/

Mortality statistics (world, China, Italy, U.S.) as of March 21st, 2020
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-BfOMMgyha/

On government trapping people, and baiting and bribing people with basic income
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-DGrlkgVU5/
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-DJPrXA1mJ/

Comment on Americans' ordinary health standards
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-FjzOLAPZc/

Elon Musk
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-FWAWBAdls/

Did the reaction to the virus demonstrate that humans control the weather?
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-Fs0Q2AW-9/





Posts From Between March 24th and March 31st

Description of the book "Contagion and the National Body"

http://www.instagram.com/p/B-DntMwAsq6/

Paying security guards with toilet paper

http://www.instagram.com/p/B-FIFqcgvKj/

Pollution, airplane travel, weather, humans controlling weather?
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-Fs0Q2AW-9/

"Death of libertarianism"
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-GttVkArJc/

Advice to Democrats re: stimulus
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-J6QiRggl-/

Study the Holocaust

http://www.instagram.com/p/B-O4OkPgNIC/

Dov Charney devotes production toward health goods

http://www.instagram.com/p/B-WbLJ-gxBi/

Was a desk full of candy the cause of Coronavirus infections in Senate?

http://www.instagram.com/p/B-a32ODgjFk/

Posts from Between April 1st and April 6th

Video commenting on the probable overestimation of deaths from Covid-19
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-OWcXCghdB/

Eating bats and snakes, Joaquin Phoenix and vegetarianism
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-kPA0mANTH/

Potential cures for Covid-19
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-jcWCgg_KF/

Comment on government keeping us in the dark about "the numbers"
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-hClUwAWNC/

Criticism of too much social distancing
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-e2M4Lg4mt/
http://www.instagram.com/p/B-cL21LA5Sj/

"Coronavirus and Covid-19: Comments on Cultural, Economic, and Political Responses to the Pandemic"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-23yswMk7Qg

Posts from Late 2020 and 2021

- On Covid-19: Mask Mandates, Preventive vs. Curative Measures, Diet, and Quinine & Hydroxychloroquine (2020)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkC5kloZc-8

- My June 2021 video "Diseases, Disinfectant, and Ethnic Cleansing (Long Version)":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHztnXEbzcQ

Originally published under the title
"Links to My Videos and Instagram Posts
About Coronavirus / CoViD-19 and Related Topics"

Most posts created in March 2020
Compiled and first published on March 18th, 2020

Author's Note written on July 28th, 2021

Edited and Expanded on March 23rd and 31st;
April 6th, 2020; and July 28th, 2021

Trump and Biden vs. Bernie Sanders vs. Joe Kopsick on the Issues

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Evidence of the Trumps' and Clintons' Possible Collusion with Russia and Ukraine (Incomplete)

Table of Contents

Introduction

A. Three Possible Examples of Democratic-Russian Collusion
A1. John Podesta / Joule Unlimited / Rusnano

A2. Hillary's anti-Trump Russian bots

A3. Clintons / Podestas / Frank Giustra / Uranium One / Rosakom

B. Eleven Possible Examples of Democratic-Ukrainian Collusion

B1. Tony Podesta's work with Manafort

B2. Hillary Clinton evokes Hitler to defend Ukraine from Putin

B3. The 2014 Nuland-Pyatt call about Ukraine

B4. David Leiter's lobbying work for Burisma

B5. John Kerry's stepson's work for Burisma

B6. Joe and Hunter Biden's involvement with Ukraine and Burisma

B7. Ukrainian-American Alexandra Chalupa's work for the D.N.C. to out Manafort

B8. Ukrainian-American Alexander Vindman's testimony against Trump

B9. Ukrainian-American Marie Yovanovitch's testimony against Trump

B10. Adam Schiff's ties to Igor Pasternak, who sold weapons to Ukrainian troops

B11. Nancy Pelosi's son's alleged energy interests in Ukraine through Viscoil

C. Nine Possible Examples of Republican-Russian Collusion

C1. Former Paul Manafort client Yanukovych's refuge in, and affinity towards, Russia

C2. Oleg Deripaska's past business ties to Paul Manafort

C3. The Trump Tower meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya

C4. Trump asks Russians to find Hillary's missing emails live on C.N.N.

C5. Trump Jr. may have met with Assange or Russians

C6. Trump's anti-Hillary Russian troll farms

C7. Trump's anti-Hillary Russian bots

C8. Trump Tower Moscow

C9. Russian spy Maria Butina's infiltration of the N.R.A. and Republican Party

D. Four Possible Examples of Republican-Ukrainian Collusion

D1. Trump's campaign was briefly managed by now convicted spy for Ukraine Paul Manafort

D2. Ukrainian-Russian Konstantin Kilimnik asked Manafort for Trump campaign briefings for Deripaska

D3. Giuliani sent Ukrainians Parnas and Fruman to get dirt on Biden

D4. Trump call to Zelensky included a "cease investigation or no military aid" ultimatum and quid pro quo

Content

Introduction

     In reporting about Russiagate, "Ukraine-Gate", and the congressional inquiry into whether President Trump should be impeached, the narrative seems to focus on the "either/or", rather than on what the facts are.

     Too often, questions about Democratic and Republican corruption, and collusion involving Russia and/or Ukraine, are asked in the context of: "Who's more in bed with Russia: Trump or Hillary?", or "Who's more in bed with Ukraine: Trump or Hillary?", or "If Trump colluded with Russia, then doesn't that mean the Biden issue is moot?" However, I believe that we need to review all of the facts before we ask such narrow, and potentially misleading and falsely premised, questions.
     I say this because it is possible, for example, that both of the following are true: 1) Republicans sought help with election interference from Russians; and 2) Democrats sought Russian help with election interference in the same election. It's also possible that both parties attempted to collude with Ukraine.

     I have written the following article, to explain the twenty-seven reasons why I think that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton - and officials whom have served under them and their campaigns - may have questionable (and possibly corrupt or illegal) ties with Russia and Ukraine. These reasons are based on twenty-seven allegations and accusations which have been made, or could potentially be alleged, by various actors regarding those questionable ties to Russia and/or Ukraine.
     I contend that the scandals surrounding Joe Biden's and Donald Trump's possible illegal political and business dealings with Ukraine and/or Russia should not be dealt with as separate issues. I believe that this is part of an endemic problem; a process which begins with American interference into the politics and affairs of foreign nations, continues when those foreign nations respond in kind with their own interference into our elections, and continues further when America foolishly responds with more interference.
     I believe that it will be impossible to hold both parties accountable when they collude with one another to commit crimes (as in the case of the work for Ukraine which Democrat Tony Podesta did with Republican Paul Manafort) unless and until we have not only truly independent prosecutors and private investigators, but also at least one or two "third political parties" which have customarily been shut out of joint Republican-Democratic crime planning and racketeering planning.

     I will attempt to demonstrate that, due to the sheer number of pieces of evidence suggesting the corruption of each country by each party, it is likely that all four permutations of party-country collusion have been attempted at one point or more.

     While I cannot make definite conclusions as to the accuracy of all of the allegations and accusations which I have listed below, I have included as much information as I know, and as much as I feel confident reproducing here. I am certainly not trying to say that every single one of the accusations which I have listed below are true; I am merely reporting what those accusations are, and providing additional commentary based on what else I know, and I will let my readers come to their own conclusions.

     Please feel free to comment below, or email me at jwkopsick@gmail.com, if you can think of any other examples of possible: A) Democratic-Russian; B) Democratic-Ukrainian; C) Republican-Russian; and D) Republican-Ukrainian collusion, which may pertain to the last twenty years of U.S.-Eurasian relations.

     A. Three Possible Examples of Democratic-Russian Collusion

     Three Examples of Evidence That the Hillary Clinton Campaigns, Bill Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, the Obama Administration, and Other Democrats Colluded with Russia, or Acted in Russia's Favor Inappropriately

     A1. John Podesta / Joule Unlimited / Rusnano

     John Podesta received 75,000 common shares in the energy company Joule Unlimited, and failed to disclose those shares in 2011, "divesting" himself of those shared by giving them to his daughter Megan Rouse. Russian-owned state enterprise Rusnano invested $35 million in Joule while Podesta worked there, and $200 million altogether. One of the board members of Joule Unlimited is Anatoly Chubais, known for being a Russian "oligarch".

     A2. Hillary's anti-Trump Russian bots

     Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign allegedly used Russian bots against Bernie Sanders and/or Donald Trump in 2016.

Frank Giustra

     A3. Clintons / Podestas / Frank Giustra / Uranium One / Rosakom

     Clinton associate Frank Giustra built the company UrAsia Energy Ltd., and sold it to Canada-based company Uranium One, which then sold it to Russian company Rosakom. Tony Podesta hired David Adams to consult with Hillary Clinton on the Uranium One deal, which happened under Obama's watch and Hillary's tenure as Secretary of State. People in Russia, linked to Uranium One and UrAsia, sent $145 million to the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 to give a speech in Moscow to a Russian-owned bank with links to the Uranium One deal.

     B. Eleven Possible Examples of Democratic-Ukrainian Collusion

      Eleven Examples of Evidence That the Hillary Clinton Campaigns, Bill Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, the Obama Administration, and Other Democrats Colluded with Ukraine, or Acted in Ukraine's Favor Inappropriately

Tony Podesta

     B1. Tony Podesta's work with Manafort

     Tony Podesta's Podesta Group was recruited - along with Mercury Public Affairs - by Paul Manafort and Rick Gates's lobbying firm (the European Center for a Modern Ukraine) to do lobbying work inside the United States on behalf of Viktor Yanukovych and the Party of Regions (whose ecology minister Mykola Zlochevsky co-founded Burisma Holdings Ltd.). Tucker Carlson reported that, contrary to previous reports, Tony Podesta had not been offered immunity in exchange for testifying against Paul Manafort. Why Tony Podesta escaped prosecution is therefore still a mystery.

     B2. Hillary Clinton evokes Hitler to defend Ukraine from Putin

     Hillary Clinton compared Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler after the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, ostensibly for moving troops into an area which, in her opinion, had been conquered, rather than annexed legally and with the approval of the international community. Clinton said that Putin's actions were "like what Hitler did back in the '30s".

Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt

     B3. The 2014 Nuland-Pyatt call about Ukraine

     A phone call between Hillary Clinton's appointee Victoria Nuland (former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs), and Barack Obama's appointee Geoffrey Pyatt (former ambassador to the Ukraine), was leaked in early February 2014 after the Ukrainian civil uprising began. On that call, Nuland told Pyatt "Fuck the E.U." and the two discussed which leaders America could potentially work with, and should essentially choose to lead Ukraine over the following years.

     B4. David Leiter's lobbying work for Burisma

     David J. Leiter - a former aide for John Kerry, and the husband of former Hillary Clinton senior aide Tamera Stanton Luzzatto - did lobbying work for Burisma Holdings Ltd..
     Leiter's wife Luzzatto once managed the blog "Evie's Crib", which may have been a child pornography site; and on October 8th, 2015, she emailed John Podesta about how her granddaughters would be in a heated pool for "entertainment".

Christopher Heinz and John Kerry

     B5. John Kerry's stepson's work for Burisma

     John Kerry's stepson Christopher Heinz served on the board of Burisma, leaving shortly after Hunter Biden joined the board.

Joe Biden and Hunter Biden

     B6. Joe and Hunter Biden's involvement with Ukraine and Burisma

     Joe Biden was the "points person" for Ukraine in the Obama Administration, at the same time when the Ukrainian civil war / civil uprising was occurring in 2014, and around the same time when Biden's son Hunter and his firm Burisma came under scrutiny. Biden was filmed bragging about getting Ukrainian state prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired after he began an investigation of Burisma (on which Hunter Biden served as a board member). In what appears to have been a perfectly legal move - with the authorization of Congress, and the permission of then president Barack Obama to act on his behalf - Joe Biden withheld military aid from Ukraine, getting "quid pro quo" in exchange for a cessation of the investigation into his son's company.

     B7. Ukrainian-American Alexandra Chalupa's work for the D.N.C. to out Manafort

     The Democratic National Committee, under the control of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign team, recruited Ukrainian-American Alexandra Chalupa as a contractor for the D.N.C. in 2016. Valeriy Chaly, former Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., stated that a D.N.C. contractor pressured the Ukrainian embassy to try to find "Russian dirt" on Trump and Paul Manafort. Chaly stated that the contractor tried to urge former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko to make a statement denouncing Manafort. Manafort was fired and convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of the Ukrainian government.

     B8. Ukrainian-American Alexander Vindman's testimony against Trump

     Alexander Vindman, a U.S. citizen who was born in Ukraine while it was part of the Soviet Union, has been accused of being a "Never Trumper" and a spy.

     Vindman listened in on Trump's July 25th, 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Vindman testified that, during that call, Trump has undermined national security by asking Zelensky to investigate the Bidens.

     Republican House member Devin Nunes asked Vindman where his fidelity lies, which could be construed to imply that Vindman is working for either Ukraine or Israel rather than the United States.

     The suggestion that Vindman could be working on Ukraine's behalf, could possibly be construed to suggest that he is also working in favor of the Democrats, but if someone were to suggest that, then it's likely that that thought could be motivated by the idea that anyone who dares to criticize Trump must be a Democrat. There does not appear to be any evidence thus far, that Vindman is working for either the Democrats or for Ukraine.

     Vindman, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, is a veteran of the Iraq War. He is the Director for European Affairs, and a "top Ukraine expert" for the U.S. National Security Council under President Trump.

     B9. Ukrainian-American Marie Yovanovitch's testimony against Trump

     Marie "Masha" Yovanovitch, the former Ambassador to Ukraine, was called to testify at the impeachment inquiry hearings about Trump's possible illegal attempt to withhold congressionally authorized military aid from Ukraine. Ukrainian officials reportedly told Yovanovitch to "watch her back" because Rudy Giuliani had plans to replace her as ambassador. Giuliani allegedly wanted Yovanovitch removed because he and Trump felt that Yovanovitch was hindering investigations into Hunter Biden and Burisma.

     Trump ordered Yovanovitch removed from her post in May 2019, two months before Trump's call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kristina Kvien replaced Yovanovitch for the following month, and the next month Kvien was replaced by Bush-era Ukraine ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. (the current ambassador as of November 2019).

     I suspect that there are Republicans, especially Trump loyalists, out there, who might accuse Yovanovitch of being a Democrat, or a "Never Trumper" - as Vindman has been described - because she has criticized Trump. That is why I have included Marie Yovanovitch's involvement in this impeachment inquiry as a potential accusation of Democratic-Ukrainian collusion.

Adam Schiff and Igor Pasternak

     B10. Adam Schiff's ties to Igor Pasternak, who sold weapons to Ukrainian troops

     Democratic U.S. Representative from California, and chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, has been accused of having business interests in Ukraine. This allegation stems from his association with Igor Pasternak, who hosted a fundraiser for Schiff in 2013.

     However, Pasternak is not Ukrainian, but a Kazakhstan-born American citizen. Pasternak has been mistakenly described as a "Ukrainian arms dealer", but he is a Kazakh-American arms dealer, manufacturer of airships, engineer, and entrepreneur.

     But on the other hand, Pasternak is not without connections to Ukraine. Pasternak's company, the U.S.-based Worldwide Aeros Corp., "provided military hardware to Ukrainian military troops who were fighting Russian forces in Donbas" (according to Snopes.com).

Paul Pelosi Sr., Nancy Pelosi, and Paul Pelosi Jr.

     B11. Nancy Pelosi's son's alleged energy interests in Ukraine through Viscoil

     Paul Pelosi, Jr. - the son of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California - has been accused by various media outlets of having ties to corruption in the Ukrainian energy market. However, Pelosi has denied that his work with Viscoil had anything to do with Ukraine.

     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.

     The allegations that Paul Pelosi Jr. has ties to Ukraine through his work with Viscoil, stems from the hiring of a Ukrainian singer to promote the Viscoil company.

     C. Eight Possible Examples of Republican-Russian Collusion

     Eight Examples of Evidence That the Donald Trump Campaign and Administration Colluded with Russia, or Acted in Russia's Favor Inappropriately

     C1. Former Paul Manafort client Yanukovych's refuge in, and affinity towards, Russia

     Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych fled to Russia as a refugee, after he lost power in Ukraine in 2014. This occurred after Paul Manafort and Rick Gates (and their lobbying firm European Center for a Modern Ukraine) recruited Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group to lobby inside the United States on behalf of the Ukrainian government, the Party of Regions, and Yanukovych.
    [Note: See D1 and D2 for information about why instances of Manafort-Ukrainian collusion might actually be more accurately described as examples of Manafort-Russian collusion.]

     C2. Oleg Deripaska's past business ties to Paul Manafort

     Russian oligarch and self-described "entrepreneur" Oleg Deripaska stated that he was invested in a small company when he had business ties to Manafort. Deripaska said that his ties to Manafort ended in 2011.
     On June 27th, 2018, Business Insider picked up a report by Reuters, which said that a court document had been released; a warrant for Paul Manafort's Virginia home. Tax returns for a company owned by Manafort and his wife, revealed that Deripaska had loaned Manafort $10 million. Deripaska financially supported Manafort's lobbying work for Ukraine in 2005 and 2006.
     Deripaska cooperated with the F.B.I. regarding the charges against Manafort. Deripaska might not be, by any means, an enemy of the United States; he helped the F.B.I. attempt to rescue C.I.A. contractor Robert Levinson from captivity in Iran (although that attempt failed).
     The suggestions that Deripaska's business ties to Manafort could spell out Republican-Russian collusion, stem not from Yanukovych's taking refuge in Russia, but from the fact that Donald Trump is favorable towards the resolution of Deripaska's financial issues. Deripaska fought what he considered an unfair imposition of U.S. sanctions against his business in Russia, through what he described as his money having been taken away as a credit and then never returned.
     The accusation of Republican-Russian collusion here, is leveled at Oleg Deripaska, as well as Konstantin V. Kilimnik, the Ukrainian-born Russian political consultant who requested that Paul Manafort give the Kremlin-linked Deripaska briefings about Trump's campaign.

      C3. The Trump Tower meeting with Natalia Veselnitskaya

     Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and others, may have been aware that Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya intended to discuss "dirt on Hillary Clinton" during the now-infamous "Trump Tower meeting" in June 2016. The stated purpose of the meeting was to discuss adoptions, which is plausible considering that Vladimir Putin banned the adoption of Russian children by Americans in 2012, and may have been concerned about the safety of Russian children in America (perhaps especially so given the chances of Hillary Clinton becoming president, and her and Obama's flawed track record at preventing and prosecuting child abductions; for example, the Laura Silsby incident in Haiti, to which Trump made public reference at the Al Smith dinner in October 2016).

     C4. Trump asks Russians to find Hillary's missing emails live on C.N.N.

     In July 2016, Donald Trump said at a press conference, broadcast live on C.N.N., "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing" (referring to Hillary Clinton's emails).

     C5. Trump Jr. may have met with Assange or Russians

     Donald Trump Jr. has been alleged to have met with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and possibly Russians as well, to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and others, by leaking their emails. The emails were indisputably leaked, but it remains unclear who hacked or cracked those emails and how they did it.

     C6. Trump's anti-Hillary Russian bots

     Donald Trump's presidential campaign allegedly used Russian bots and/or troll farms against the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016.

     C7. Trump's anti-Hillary Russian troll farms

     Donald Trump's presidential campaign allegedly used Russian internet troll farms against Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016.

     C8. Trump Tower Moscow

     Donald Trump may have attempted to collude with Russian actors with the intent of making a deal securing rights to construct a new Trump Tower in Moscow. These attempts were apparently unsuccessful; but even if unsuccessful, the failure to secure a deal would not exonerate Trump if his intentions were illicit.

     C9. Russian spy Maria Butina's infiltration of the N.R.A. and Republican Party

     The F.B.I. reported that Russian agent Maria Butina successfully sought ties to the Republican Party. With the help of Aleksandr Torshin and Butina's then boyfriend and political operative Paul Erickson, Butina worked to promote Russian interests in the United States, infiltrating the National Rifle Association (N.R.A.) as part of her work as an unregistered foreign agent of Russia.

[Note: I would like to urge my readers to re-read Accusation C1, in order to refresh their memories to provide context for Accusations D1 and D2.]

     D. Four Possible Examples of Republican-Ukrainian Collusion

     Four Examples of Evidence That the Donald Trump Campaign and Administration Colluded with Ukraine, or Acted in Ukraine's Favor Inappropriately

     D1. Trump's campaign was briefly managed by now convicted spy for Ukraine Paul Manafort

     In June 2016, Donald Trump's presidential campaign hired Paul Manafort as the chair of its campaign team; he served in that position until that August. Previously, Manafort - along with Rick Gates, and their lobbying firm European Center for a Modern Ukraine (E.C.M.U.) - recruited Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group to lobby inside the United States on behalf of the Ukrainian government, the Party of Regions, and Viktor Yanukovych. The E.C.M.U. was purportedly working to "Westernize" the Party of Regions.
     In early 2019, Manafort was sentenced to 43 months in prison, and additional charges increased that to nearly eight years in prison. Manafort is set to be released from prison in 2024. Rudy Giuliani reportedly consulted Paul Manafort on the topic of U.S.-Ukraine relations, while Manafort was incarcerated.
     [Note: The fact that Manafort lobbied on behalf of the Ukrainian government, does not necessarily mean that he was not serving as an agent of Russia in an indirect manner. Given the pro-Russia stances of the Party of Regions and Viktor Yanukovych, and the fact that Yanukovych took refuge in Russia after he lost power in the Ukrainian civil uprising in 2014, it seems likely that "Westernizing" the Party of Regions was not what Manafort really wanted after all (if "Westernizing" means distancing Ukraine from Russia). Ukraine was arguably under heavy Russian influence from 2002 to 2014, the period during which Yanukovych was intermittently in charge of Ukraine. This is why all examples of Trump collusion with foreign nations involving Paul Manafort, should be considered as possible examples of Republican-Russian collusion, in addition to the obvious Republican-Ukrainian collusion which it would appear to be on the surface.]

     D2. Ukrainian-Russian Konstantin Kilimnik asked Manafort for Trump campaign briefings for Deripaska

     Konstantin V. Kilimnik is a Ukrainian-born Russian political consultant. Kilimnik requested that Paul Manafort give the Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska briefings about Trump's presidential campaign.

     D3. Giuliani sent Ukrainians Parnas and Fruman to get dirt on Biden

     Lev Parnas is a Jewish-Ukrainian immigrant and U.S. citizen, and Igor Fruman is a Jewish-Belarusian immigrant and U.S. citizen. In 2018, Parnas and Fruman hired Rudolph Giuliani as a consultant for their fraudulent security business "Fraud Guarantee". Later that year, Giuliani sent Parnas and Fruman to Ukraine to find people and information that could be used to damage Joe Biden and undermine the Mueller investigation into Trump-Russian collusion.

     D4. Trump call to Zelensky included a "cease investigation or no military aid" ultimatum and quid pro quo

     On the morning of July 25th, 2019, Donald Trump called President Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine since May. Amid disputes regarding the contents of the call, and reliable sources regarding transcripts and regarding what was said during the call, Trump has been accused of ordering European Union Ambassador Gordon Sondland and others to work with Rudy Giuliani, acting as Trump's lawyer, with the intent of having Giuliani pressure American and Ukrainian officials to investigate Hunter Biden and his firm Burisma Holdings Ltd. (which is actually based in Cyprus, not Ukraine). Trump has been accused of trying to get "quid pro quo"; i.e., receive a promise and/or a Zelensky-issued public statement on Biden and Burisma, in exchange for the release of $400 million in Ukrainian military aid.

Written on November 22nd, 2019

Published on November 22nd, 2019

Some of this information was originally published in the article
"Forty-Seven American Political Figures with Ties to Ukraine",
published on October 12th, 2019,
and Edited and Expanded Between Octoober 13th and November 14th, 2019