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Timetable of Events Concerning 2016 Elections, Ukraine Involvement & Massive Illegal Activity TIMETABLE OF EVENTS CONCERNING 2016 ELECTIONS, UKRAINE INVOLVEMENT & MASSIVE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY Many Americans will find it hard to believe what is documented below. Intellectually honest skeptics should check sites like Judicial Watch that have obtained government documents and email exchanges via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits and sworn testimonies of Ukrainians obtained by Rudolph Giuliani. Fact checking sources such as Google, Wikipedia, Snopes, Media Bias Fact Check, Facebook, TV, and print media actively suppress or misrepresent facts that undercut their political agendas. First, evidence has been uncovered by various investigative journalists and FOIA requests that give evidence to of massive coordinated corruption by Democratic Party operatives (DNC) and the Federal bureaucracy. Crimes uncovered include bribery, extortion, and money laundering. This chronological summary concerns the use of the services of officials of a Communist/Socialist government (Ukraine) and high ranking officials in the US government in 2016 to try to help Hillary Clinton win the 2016 election and the cover up of criminal activity, including by Joe Biden. Second, the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and ‘Deep State” senior Federal ‘jobs for life’ bureaucrats in the Obama White House including the FBI, CIA, Justice and State Departments have attempted to and are continuing to try to remove from office a dully elected president, Donald Trump, because he is trying to stop such corruption and their long self-serving practices. President Trump’s team and others, in looking for the origins of the Russian collusion narrative, have uncovered individuals involved in massive criminal activity during and after the Obama administration. 1,000 YEARS OF UKRAINIAN HISTORY in 350 WORDS This is needed only so that the reader understands why it has been one of the most corrupt governments in the world. Since about 1000 AD, Ukraine has been known as the ‘breadbasket’ of Europe. It has the most fertile agricultural lands in the world and was usually the prize acquisition of invading empires. In the 10th & 11th centuries, Ukraine was the largest and most powerful country in Europe. The Mongol invasion destroyed country in the 13th century. For the next seven centuries it was usually under the control of foreign powers. WW1 – Western Ukraine was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 250,000 soldiers fought for the Central Powers. Eastern Ukraine had 3.5 million fight for Tsarists Russia as they were under Tsarists control. 1917- 1921 - Ukraine fought for its independence. 1.5 to 3.5 million Ukrainians died as Communist, under Trotsky, defeated Ukraine, and it became part of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (USSR) for the next 69 years. 1932-33 – USSR Communist dictator Stalin had somewhere between 6 to10 million Ukrainians murdered, mostly starved to death, in response to Ukrainian landowners resistance to give up their private property, principally land. This, the second largest genocide in recorded history, but is left out of virtually all history textbooks, as are most socialist government atrocities. 1939-45 - WW II - Ukrainians fought for the USSR against Germany; for Germany against the Russian dominated USSR, and for themselves against both to gain their independence. President Franklin Roosevelt essentially ceded Stalin all of Eastern Europe at Yalta in the Crimea in 1945, thus essentially condemning over 100 million people to slavery under the Russian dominated USSR. When it was part of the 15 Soviet Republics, Ukraine produced 40% of the entire USSR GNP, excluding Russia. In order to maintain its status as a world power, Ukraine is the one satellite country that Russia could not afford to lose control over after the USSR collapse in 1990. Ukraine, in addition to its agriculture, also has significant natural gas, oil, coal, iron ore, and other important mineral wealth as well as significant diversified heavy industry in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, which Russia invaded in 2014 after Ukraine’s pro-Russian president fled to Russia after massive demonstrations against him. UKRAINIAN INDEPENDENCE 1990 – With the collapse of the the USSR, Ukraine declared its independence and again became the largest independent country in Western Europe. 1990-2019 – For the past 19 years, the entrenched Communists in Ukraine continued to control the government bureaucracy, the media, the courts, and the elections apparatus, so massive electoral fraud by the Communists always resulted in a ‘former’ Communist leader being elected president until 2019. The plundering of the country continued, mostly by former high ranking ‘ex-Communist’ officials, many of whom are its corrupt billionaire oligarchs today. Most attained their wealth by buying formerly government owned companies for a small fraction of their real worth. The Ukrainian GNP dropped by 60% in the 1990’s and the population dropped from 55 to 42 million as many citizens left when they had the opportunity. As in most highly centralized socialists countries, only a few at the top have benefited. 1991-1994 - President #1, Kravchuk (former Communist Party head). Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994 under pressure from then President Clinton and Russia. 1994-2005 – President #2, Kuchma, also a Communist. President #3 Yushchenko was his Prime Minister. 2005- 2010 - President #3, Yushchenko, another ‘former’ Communist, was elected after his opponent, the future President #4 Yanukovych, apparently had #3 poisoned during the election campaign and the Ukrainian Supreme Court overturned the initial election of Yanukovych due to massive election fraud. 2005 - Yulia Tymoshenko and her political party was instrumental in President #3 getting elected. She has a mining engineering degree and an MBA, who, in the 1990’s, became a self made millionaire in the gas industry. She led the anti-corruption ‘Orange Revolution’ (trained in non-violent resistance), and had her party endorse Yushchenko as the lesser of two evils. For almost twenty years, Yulia has been an outspoken anti-corruption leader who took on corrupt mining and gas oligarchs previously as Deputy Prime Minister for Fuel and Energy in 2001 and was arrested the same year on groundless charges of corruption and later released. She also survived an assassination attempt. Communists, always accuse their opponents of committing crimes that they have done themselves, just like Democrats did in accusing President Trump of getting Russian help to win his election in 2016 when, as you will see evidenced below, Hillary Clinton was helped by ‘former’ Ukrainian Communists. Yulia Tymoshenko is anti-communist and advocates for Ukraine to join NATO, the European Union, and getting the Russian Navy out of Ukraine. She is a democracy loving free market advocate of selling government owned industries to private citizens, but at market prices. She was considered, not only the third most powerful woman in the world in 2005, but also the most beautiful, and is reported to have the most Facebook ‘likes’ of any individual in its history. Most Americans have never heard of her, since her beliefs do not mirror that of our main stream media. 2005-2010 – President #3 Yushchenko promised reformist Yulia the Prime Minister job in return for her party’s support of #3 in the presidential race, then fired her after two years when she tried to re-take former corrupt President #2 Kuchma's ownership of a company he was sold for virtually nothing. That was too much for President #3, so he replaced Yulia with Yanukovych, the man that had #3 poisoned during their presidential campaign. 2010 – President #3 changed election laws shortly before leaving office to make it easier for massive elections fraud so that his prime minister, Yanukovych, could win the presidency in 2010. Although polls showed anti-corruption Yulia would win the presidential elections by a large margin, it appears the ‘deep state’ Communists rigged the elections so that another corrupt Communist, Yanukovych, was elected president by a small margin. 2010 - 2014 – President #4 Yanukovych, a pro Russian Putin stooge, was ‘elected’ with 47% of the vote to Yulia’s 45%. He immediately initiated a series of trumped up charges of corruption against Yulia. She was imprisoned again by the end of 2011 where she was beaten and tortured until massive peaceful ‘Orange Revolution’ demonstrations, originally organized by Yulia, caused Yanukovych to flee to Russia for asylum in February 2014. Most of Western Europe’s leadership had been pressuring Yanukovych to release Yulia from prison. There was no vocal support by President Obama. 2014 - Yulia was released from prison shortly after President #4 fled to Russia. All convictions against her were rescinded. RUSSIAN ATTEMPT TO TAKE BACK UKRAINE 2014 – February - Within days of pro-Russian Ukrainian President #4 fleeing to Russia, creating a power vacuum, Russian President Putin operatives organized pro-Russian demonstrations in the Crimea, Ukraine. It is on the Black Sea and has had a large ethnic Russian population since Stalin relocated one million Russians to Crimea and Eastern Ukraine when he was dictator of the USSR. This was to secure Crimea’s strategic importance as a warm water port for the Russian Navy. 2014 – February 27th, masked Russian troops, without insignia on their uniforms, took over the parliament of Crimea and captured strategic sites across the province. They immediately installed a pro-Russian government there. Then they arranged a quickly formed referendum for independence of Crimea from Ukraine, unsupervised and unsanctioned by the Ukrainian government, and declared its independence from Ukraine on 16 March 2014. Russia formally incorporated Crimea as subjects of the Russian Federation two days later, all done while Ukraine was without an elected president. 2014 – A few weeks later, Russian ‘volunteer’ soldiers invaded the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine to help a small group of alleged ethnic Russian Ukrainian ‘separatists.’ As mentioned above, the Donbass region is extremely rich in natural resources and has much heavy industry.
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