Article by Charlie Martin in "PJMedia":
I've been wondering for weeks just what about the famous July 25 phone call (VIP) was so threatening
to LTC-yes-that-means-Lieutenant-Colonel Alex Vindman that his reaction
to the call was to be "literally shaken" and then bring it up with
counsel, the infamous first Eric Ciaramella whistleblower, and eventually with the Democratic staff of the House Special Permanent Committee on Intelligence.
But while never revealing his name to Schiff or something.
All
along, I've been wondering two things: why was this phone call enough
to make a combat veteran visibly shaken, and where was the Macguffin.
But it was more and more clear that this wasn't just a matter of which
political side was winning, because while politics might make you mad, they don't generally make you scared.
So today, while the inquisition was putting the thumbscrews on Ambassador Sondland, ZeroHedge has a story that Burisma, through founder Nikolai Zlochevsky, has been indicted for money laundering,
including the accusation that "Hunter Biden and his partners received
$16.5 million for their 'services' as part of a money laundering
operation that also involved the [former President Viktor] Yanukovych
family is suspected, in particular, with legalizing (laundering) of
criminally obtained income through Franklin Templeton Investments, an
investment fund carrying out purchases of external government loan bonds
totaling $7.4 billion."
This is ZeroHedge, and I don't trust them 100 percent by any means, but then there's a news story on Interfax-Ukraine that covers the press conference in which members of the Ukrainian Parliament demanded an investigation.
Now
things start to stack up. We've seen that Vindman has close ties to the
previous Ukrainian government, dating back to Yanukovych and his
successor Petro Poroshenko, while this alleged money-laundering scheme
was taking place. The connection to the Franklin Templeton Fund is
interesting because John Templeton, Jr. was a major Obama campaign
donor, and Thomas Donilon, who was Obama's National Security Advisor
before Susan Rice and is now the chairman of BlackRock Investment Institute, a major owner of Franklin Templeton stock.
As
an aside, remember how it was just shocking and unprecedented for Trump
to use a personal representative? Here's a quote from Donilon's
official bio:
Mr. Donilon served as the President's personal emissary to a number of world leaders, including President Hu Jintao and President Xi Jinping, President Vladimir Putin, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Now, a little graft in the amount of a few million dollars is one thing, but $7.5 billion
is real money, and a friend in the NSC could be really helpful.
Especially with a couple friends in CIA and another one in an executive
office in the West Wing.
This
is still only based on supposition, and I'd like to see more support
for this story. But, well, what did Vindman know, and when did he know
it?
And who else knew it?
