Mueller is now investigating Victor Pinchuk’s $150,000 donation to the Donald J. Trump Foundation. What they don’t mention is that he has given up $25 million to the Clinton Foundation
Robert Mueller is now investigating a $150,000 donation that Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk made to President Trump’s charity in 2015. The history Victor Pinchuk has with the Clinton Foundation is far shadier than a one time small speaking fee (to Trump’s foundation) years ago could possibly be. Pinchuk donated millions to the Clinton Foundation, and shortly after, Hillary’s State Dept. gave him the green light to sell to Iran in contravention of US sanctions. Is Mueller saying that the Ukrainians rigged the election? That Trump was bought and paid for by the Ukrainians, the enemy of the Russians??? From The Washington Examiner:Emails show a Ukrainian businessman and major Clinton Foundation donor was invited to Hillary Clinton’s home during the final year of her diplomatic tenure, despite her spokesman’s insistence in 2014 that the donor never crossed paths with Clinton while she served as secretary of state. Victor Pinchuk, who has given up to $25 million to the Clinton Foundation, appeared on the guest list that was sent between Dennis Cheng, an executive at the foundation, and Huma Abedin, then Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the State Department, ahead of a June 2012 dinner. Abedin noted in a subsequent email that the gathering would be hosted in Clinton’s home. From The New York Times:Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have built a sprawling network of powerful friends around the globe, one that could aid Mrs. Clinton’s chances were she to seek the presidency. But those relationships often come with intersecting interests and political complications; few people illustrate that more vividly than the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk. A steel magnate and major contributor to the former president’s foundation, Mr. Pinchuk was in frequent contact with Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, at meetings arranged by a Clinton political operative turned lobbyist, Douglas E. Schoen. And now Mr. Pinchuk is at the center of a trade dispute that places him at odds with steelworkers in Pennsylvania and Ohio, precisely the kind of union workers Mrs. Clinton would need to appeal to in a presidential campaign. Mr. Pinchuk’s relationship to the Clintons became the subject of scrutiny last summer when American steel makers filed a case alleging that Ukraine — and by extension Mr. Pinchuk’s company, Interpipe Ltd. — and eight other countries had illegally dumped a type of steel tube used in natural gas extraction, an industry whose growth has provided one of the few bright spots in the United States manufacturing sector. |
