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Giuliani associate sanctioned over foreign interference in 2020 election

By Anna Massoglia and Karl Evers-Hillstrom
September 10, 2020

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/09/giuliani-associate-sanctioned/

The Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach over his alleged attempts to interfere with the 2020 presidential election by planting misleading accusations of corruption against Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Derkach is linked to the Kremlin and is the son of a former KGB officer. He worked with President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani to supply conservative news outlets with dirt on Biden and his son, Hunter. Derkach also sent information about the former vice president to Senate Republicans investigating the Bidens, prompting U.S. intelligence officials to warn lawmakers not to participate in foreign influence campaigns.

Trump has insisted that Russia is not trying to boost his campaign, but multiple Trump administration agencies have said the opposite. The Treasury Department on Thursday labeled Derkach “an active Russian agent for over a decade” and indicated that he “waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives” to influence the upcoming 2020 election. The Treasury’s designation will freeze Derkach’s assets in the U.S.

Derkach publicly released edited tapes portraying a false narrative of conversations between Biden and former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko. As vice president, Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine unless Poroshenko fired the nation’s top prosecutor whom Western nations criticized as being corrupt. Derkach also tried to spur “corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the United States designed to culminate prior to election day,” according to the Treasury Department.

Trump appeared to bring up Derkach’s tape earlier this week at a Labor Day press conference at the White House, telling the press corps, “he’s right on tape and you don’t want to cover it. You should be ashamed of yourselves.”

OpenSecrets’ Foreign Lobby Watch database sheds some light on Derkach’s foreign influence campaign. From February through July, Derkach contracted with a firm called Global Management Association Corp in an attempt to set up meetings with the White House and members of Congress.

Derkach met with Giuliani and claims they “discussed available information on international corruption and the need to investigate it in the United States.” Planned activities in Justice Department records filed in April included “meeting with US officials” but the foreign agents did not disclose making any U.S. government contacts for Derkach before the contract ended, according to his most recent FARA filing on Aug. 15.

Giuliani, who spoke at the Republican National Convention last month, has reportedly come under scrutiny from federal prosecutors for failing to register as a foreign agent. He also worked with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman to allegedly funnel foreign money to pro-Trump super PAC America First Action. Foreign influence laws aren’t often enforced, but in 2018 a jury convicted former Trump campaign official Paul Manafort for failing to register as a foreign agent of the Ukrainian government in 2018, among other charges.

The firm Derkach worked with, Global Management Association Corp., is little more than a rebranded shell company that served as a Russian-linked oil company’s foreign agent to buy Ukrainian polling data in 2019. Andrii Artemenko, an associate of Giuliani and business partner of Erik Prince who came under scrutiny during the Mueller probe, ran Global Management Association Corp using the name “Andy Victor Kuchma.”


Artemenko previously collaborated with Michael Cohen, Felix Sater and Michael Flynn to push for a plan to lift U.S. sanctions on Russia. Artemenko’s wife, Oksana Kuchma, who is listed as an officer on records for many of his companies, incorporated what appears to be a new company in Florida called K & D III LLC in 2019 but it has kept a low profile and its function is not yet clear. One of the officers on the new company is Sergey Knyazev, is the chairman of the Ukrainian National Police and who met with Trump in 2018.

House Democrats impeached Trump late last year over charges that he solicited foreign interference from Ukrainian officials to help his reelection bid. The Senate acquitted Trump on a near party line vote.

Former top Department of Homeland Security official Brian Murphy filed a whistleblower complaint Wednesday alleging that acting secretary Chad Wolf told him to stop providing assessments of Russian interference in the 2020 election. Murphy said those orders came from Robert O’Brien, Trump’s national security adviser

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President Donald Trump’s lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks to journalists outside the White House on July 1, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

ZooOga:
Unbelievable!

LMAO check out the maskless MAGA cult run to get a spot for their dear leader as the gates open in Minden, Nevada


https://twitter.com/FirenzeMike/status/1304947856407760896

https://twitter.com/i/status/1305240638561095683

ZooOga:





https://twitter.com/i/status/1305240638561095683

The hustle is real.

If this woman had won the nomination on the platform of democrats, the fake Christians on Nairaland would have tagged the democrats Satan loving.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8726583/Transgender-Satanist-anarchist-wins-Republican-nomination-New-Hampshire-county-sheriff.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

Goodvibes007:
If this woman had won the nomination on the platform of democrats, the fake Christians on Nairaland would have tagged the democrats Satan loving.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8726583/Transgender-Satanist-anarchist-wins-Republican-nomination-New-Hampshire-county-sheriff.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

In this news attacking christianity the nominee is a transgender, a man who identifies as a woman.
The republicans did not support this candidate , won the nomination unopposed.
The incumbent is a 4 time democrat , no other republican was interested in the seat.
The republicans referred to the nominee by the gender at birth ie him.
He is a satanist , says fucck the police. Does not seem to hold republican ideals all the same.
Definitely not winning this seat.
Republicans dont want to defund the police, dont necessarily outlaw gender changes but tolerate individual freedoms, he is a RINO at best and most likely a democrat .

AbdulSleeky:




Trump's fake peace deals.

You Trump fans are very crazy. Imagine your house being on fire and instead of quenching the fire, you are cleaning chairs in your backyard.

Israel is literally occupying Palestine and causing war crimes. Trump's answer is to empower isreal by completing international business deals that were already started without him.

Trump's own country (USA) is in turmoil and unrest. He is doing peace deals for other countries, who dont even need the peace deals because they are already peaceful between each other.

Buhahaha, I can't. This is so true

Goodvibes007:
If this woman had won the nomination on the platform of democrats, the fake Christians on Nairaland would have tagged the democrats Satan loving.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8726583/Transgender-Satanist-anarchist-wins-Republican-nomination-New-Hampshire-county-sheriff.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

Self righteousness of Christians who support the GOP is sickening especially that they support a character like Trump, thats how Jerry Falwell was condemning left while he was doing worst in his home

Black church leaders demand apology for Trump campaign ad

https://religionnews.com/2020/09/13/ame-church-leaders-demand-apology-for-trump-ad/

Leaders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the pastor of an AME congregation in Wilmington, Delaware, are condemning a Trump-Pence campaign ad that uses footage of Joe Biden kneeling in the sanctuary of a Black church, describing it as racist and demanding an apology.

The Rev. Silvester S. Beaman, pastor of Bethel AME church that is featured in the digital spot released Wednesday (Sept. 9), said it encourages viewers to see Black church leaders and their flocks as “thuggish rule breakers.”

“The ad is overtly racist and offensive on numerous levels,” Beaman told Religion News Service on Saturday (Sept. 13). “It is a racist attack on the African American church, and because it was an attack on the Christian church, it should be offensive to every Christian and person of faith.”

Beaman was joined by leaders of the AME denomination, who are preparing a statement decrying the ad to be released on Monday.

"This ad subtly incites white terrorism against people of color and attacks the Black Church and Black people for refusing to bow down to the idol called white supremacy," read a draft of the statement provided to RNS.

The advertisement mostly featured scenes from protests against police killings that roiled several American cities this Spring and summer, emphasizing violent clashes between demonstrators and riot police.

But as the advertisement ended, it cut to slow-motion footage of former Vice President Biden kneeling at Bethel in front of a group of Black leaders, including Beaman. It was followed by a slide that read “Stop Joe Biden and his rioters” before an audio clip of Vice President Mike Pence said “you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America” accompanied the sound of cackling.

The footage was taken from Biden’s visit to Bethel back in June, when he met and prayed with a group of Black clergy and community leaders in the aftermath of demonstrations decrying the death of George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis.

Beaman said the ad signals that “white folk in general and Trump’s base should fear the Black church,” and “that Black church leaders and thus members of the Black church are “thuggish rule breakers.”

“That is an erroneous depiction and it is offensive,” he said.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1303849643386773504

Kachills:

Really childish people all over the place. I'm most likely done with this forum.

It's futile trying to engage with brick walls. Just passing by. Been done with this thread since eons. Let them fantasize with their emotional dreams...after all, it's free to dream.

Qstorm:
So many fuckwits still follow fake news. I have no idea how they get through life being so dumb. The news is fake, operation mockingbird! Wake up you dumb dweebs.

You can't fix stupid. Delusion is the brain child of propaganda that emotionally charged simpletons are wired to believe, imbibed and elicit. That's how you create zombies who are alive but are dead to reality.This thread is crawling with them, and it's easy to spot them--by their fruits--throwing tantrums in place of logical rebuttals and coherent views. Pathetic.

Qstorm:
So many fuckwits still follow fake news. I have no idea how they get through life being so dumb. The news is fake, operation mockingbird! Wake up you dumb dweebs.

Isn't it funny when a very stupid fellow thinks he can deduce if others are dumb.
You are literally the most stupid poster on this thread. The fact that you believe soo much rubbish from the internet is proof that your education through life is invalid.

Go and read up on the stupid psychology of conspiracy theorists and look yourself in the mirror and see the reflection of a clown.

You are a fool who thinks that there are government run pedophile rings in the "deepstate" and that trump is the man to eradicate it. Not only is this proof of the height of your stupidity, it's also very funny because if there was truly a pedophile ring, trump will clearly be the ring leader.

the fact that you will look upon a moron_ like trump and think he is a character that gives a damn about people's moral shows just how much of an idiot you are. Stupid Q anon conspiracy believer.

Appleyard:


You can't fix stupid. Delusion is the brain child of propaganda that emotionally charged simpletons are wired to believe, imbibed and elicit. That's how you create zombies who are alive but are dead to reality.This thread is crawling with them, and it's easy to spot them--by their fruits--throwing tantrums in place of logical rebuttals and coherent views. Pathetic.

Another brain-dead deluded person.

Typical of stupid conspiracy theorists to think that every normal thinking person who doesn't subscribe to their foolish delusions is uninformed. people whose belief in stupid theories will make them foolishly feel an aura of arrogance when the're are deeply ignorant.

Conspiracy theorists will believe so much unbelievable unproven rubbish and in their stupid minds, start looking down on people who don't believe their drivel as a way to justify their rubbish. Foolish psychos.

Appleyard:


It's futile trying to engage with brick walls. Just passing by. Been done with this thread since eons. Let them fantasize with their emotional dreams...after all, it's free to dream.

Just look at this moron_. Between you and the democrat supporters, who is dreaming, you deluded imbecile_?

Every single data shows trump bleeding supporters. Large establishment republicans are publicly endorsing Biden and pulling more support towards him from independent and swing voters especially, not to talk of the actual republicans who will be voting Biden. trump's support keeps shrinking on a daily basis. more and more damaging scandals keep trumping up (pun there).

2018 saw a very huge record turnout from the democrats for a typical midterm. It's only gonna get bigger and when more people vote, democrats win, you know why? Because every single normal empathetic, logically reasoning human being is bound to lean democratic. Not stupid, apprehensive, suspicious denigrates.

tell me now between us who is dreaming, someone who looks at the data that all show trump losing badly, hears and sees how inept and corrupt the trump lead administration is, looks and sees how stupid his supporters are and realizes trump is in for a heavy defeat or a conspiracy theory believing nutbag who overlooks all physical evidence and thinks extraterrestrial aliens would come from Mars and vote for Trump. You are the poster child of delusion.

this is nice, thank you for this. I never knew fox was solely propagated as a propagander outlet.

kofimoses:


Just look at this moron_. Between you and the democrat supporters, who is dreaming, you deluded imbecile_?

Every single data shows trump bleeding supporters. Large establishment republicans are publicly endorsing Biden and pulling more support towards him from independent and swing voters especially, not to talk of the actual republicans who will be voting Biden. trump's support keeps shrinking on a daily basis. more and more damaging scandals keep trumping up (pun there).

2018 saw a very huge record turnout from the democrats for a typical midterm. It's only gonna get bigger and when more people vote, democrats win, you know why? Because every single normal empathetic, logically reasoning human being is bound to lean democratic. Not stupid, apprehensive, suspicious denigrates.

tell me now between us who is dreaming, someone who looks at the data that all show trump losing badly, hears and sees how inept and corrupt the trump lead administration is, looks and sees how stupid his supporters are and realizes trump is in for a heavy defeat or a conspiracy theory believing nutbag who overlooks all physical evidence and thinks extraterrestrial aliens would come from Mars and vote for Trump. You are the poster child of delusion.

2018 saw 18 seats that Republicans were leading in election night only for more ballots to be harvested the following days until the 18 were flipped

DissTroy:


Heck! They aren't even parallels: Obama's brother stood outrightly with Trump and campaigned for him OPENLY, Trump's sister just criticized him SECRETLY and was revealed in a leaked audio.

Now go back to stringing beads of falsehood from the journalistic junkyard you call "CNN".

In as much as i loathe and despise your aggression on salford, I do admire your fine colloquialism and garrulous verbose.
It portrays a literate mind which is why I'm a bit surprised and curious as to your political leanings and ideology.

I believe we could be civil in our exchanges, so pray tell what are your personal ideologies?

Are you religious? Are you philosophically liberal or conservative socially? What are your most trusted sources of information? What personally draws you to a figure like trump?
Let's start from there. Awaiting your response.

Trump is the greatest foreign policy President America has ever had. The dude is a genius at foreign policy
Chew on that, Libidiots

basilico:


2018 saw 18 seats that Republicans were leading in election night only for more ballots to be harvested the following days until the 18 were flipped

Firstly, it's no hidden knowledge that far more democrats vote by mail and mail ballots take more time to counts. I don't like to deal in conspiracies and assumptions.

The US elections is reputable as one of the fairest and most transparent elections in the world.
Secondly, I will ask you to desist from making blanket statements like the one you've just made.
Bring facts from reputable sites, not rumour mongering, gossip tabloid talks.

obixcel:
Trump is the greatest foreign policy President America has ever had. The dude is a genius at foreign policy
Chew on that, Libidiots

Uchendu, after 5 years of lapping behind the Racist Pig known as Trump, not only you haven't gotten the Visa, Trump ain't getting you Biafra either. Go back to the village and restrategize. When the rubber hits the road in America, you and your ilks doesn't count.

obixcel:
Trump is the greatest foreign policy President America has ever had. The dude is a genius at foreign policy
Chew on that, Libidiots

I will admit that i view parts of his foreign policy as favourable, especially considering that all his predecessors initiated meaningless wars and trump has assuaged that a bit but it's a bit of overstretch to say he's a genius when he was literally impeached for self serving foreign policies.

I don't think i would call damaging America's relationship with historical allies such as Germany, French, Canada and Britain while simultaneously cozying up to dictatorial regimes are the brilliant workings of a stable genius.
But as i posited earlier, I admire the fact that he hasn't started any war, although arguments can be made that America pulling out may lead to unforeseen bigger problems, just saying.

kofimoses:


I will admit that i view parts of his foreign policy as favourable, especially considering that all his predecessors initiated meaningless wars and trump has assuaged that a bit but it's a bit of overstretch to say he's a genius when he was literally impeached for self serving foreign policies.

I don't think i would call damaging America's relationship with historical allies such as Germany, French, Canada and Britain while simultaneously cozying up to dictatorial regimes are the brilliant workings of a stable genius.
But as i posited earlier, I admire the fact that he hasn't started any war, although arguments can be made that America pulling out may lead to unforeseen bigger problems, just saying.

Your argument is fair at least, no insults, unlike a certain Sonofab*tch Lincoln and his cronies

obixcel:
Your argument is fair at least, no insults, unlike a certain Sonofab*tch Lincoln and his cronies

It pays to be objective in all arguments and not simply be led by sentiments.
That said, parts of trump foreign policy is the ONLY thing i kinda admire because I have long since been a staunch critic of meaningless American wars fought across the globe. Other parts of trump's administration has been an unmitigated disaster.

obixcel:
Your argument is fair at least, no insults, unlike a certain Sonofab*tch Lincoln and his cronies

For guy that calls those who disagree with Trump Libdiots, you have no credibility. Calling someone Son of a bitccch in your village is not an insult. The bottom line is that Trump think of you and your Likes as subhuman. I will vote for Biden on Nov 3rd and I dare any of you worshippers of the Orange Pig to say the same.

kofimoses:


It pays to be objective in all arguments and not simply be led by sentiments.
That said, parts of trump foreign policy is the ONLY thing i kinda admire because I have long since been a staunch critic of meaningless American wars fought across the globe. Other parts of trump's administration has been an unmitigated disaster.

Disaster? Like Best economy with its attendant lowest unemployment numbers across the board? Just before Covid 19? I disagree with you.

SonofLincoln:
For guy that calls those who disagree with Trump Libdiots, you have no credibility. Calling someone Son of a bitccch in your village is not an insult. The bottom line is that Trump think of you and your Likes as subhuman. I will vote for Biden on Nov 3rd and I dare any of you worshippers of the Orange Pig to say the same.

Yes you deserve it. That's what you've being doing from time memorial.

Funny that Joe Biden actually needs a Teleprompter to answer questions. Presidential Debate in two weeks. Will Biden need one upstage with him to face Trump?

obixcel:
Yes you deserve it. That's what you've being doing from time memorial.

I couldn't give a damn what a shorty like you think. With all your noise over 5 years, no Biafra and no Visa. Deal with that boy.

obixcel:
Funny that Joe Biden actually needs a Teleprompter to answer questions. Presidential Debate in two weeks. Will Biden need one upstage with him to face Trump?

On Nov 3rd, cast your vote in the village for the Racist Pig. Your barking doesn't go beyond Nairaland and that I will give to you.

SonofLincoln:
I couldn't give a damn what a shorty like you think. With all your noise over 5 years, no Biafra and no Visa. Deal with that boy.

Thanks, Libidiot...Next?

SonofLincoln:
On nov 3rd, cast your vote in the village for the Racist Pig. Your barking doesn't go beyond Nairaland and that I will give to you.

Teleprompter for an interview? hahahahahahahahahaha No wonder he's called ''slow Joe''

obixcel:
Teleprompter for an interview? hahahahahahahahahaha No wonder he's called ''slow Joe''

What do you know about Teleprompter ? Deal with Bubu. Trump's in mid stage dementia that took the life of his father Fred in 1999. Trump can't stand straight and he stumbles when he walks and slurs his speech. That's a classic sign of dementia. He can't drink from a little glass of water without using both hands. He's a certified pathological liar and in 50 days, his regime of hate, bigotry, xenophobia, misogyny and buffoonery will come to an end courtesy of yours truly and Tens of millions of Americans.

obixcel:
Thanks, Libidiot...Next?

Hey Mid get.