Trump allies sought Ukraine gas deal

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   Don Wposted 5 years ago

   Businessmen who were Trump donors, and associates of Giuliani, were reportedly lobbying the Ukrainian government to install new management at the top of the Ukrainian state owned gas company Naftogaz.
   
   These Trump and Giuliani allies reportedly appeared to have "...inside knowledge of the U.S. government’s plans in Ukraine. For example, they told people that Trump would replace the U.S. ambassador there months before she was actually recalled to Washington, according to three of the individuals interviewed by the AP..."
   
   Associated Press also reports that their source, Dale Perry, was "so concerned about the efforts to change the management at Naftogaz and to get rid of Yovanovitch [US Ambassador to Ukraine ] that he reported what he had heard to Suriya Jayanti, a State Department foreign service officer stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv who focuses on the energy industry...He also wrote a detailed memo about [Andrew] Favorov’s account, dated April 12, which was shared with another current State Department official. Perry recently provided a copy of the April memo to AP.
   
   Rick Perry, went to Kiev in May to push for a change in management at the Ukrainian company. AP reports:
   
   "There, Perry made clear that the Trump administration wanted to see the entire Naftogaz supervisory board replaced, according to a person who attended both meetings. Perry again referenced the list of advisers that he had given Zelenskiy, and it was widely interpreted that he wanted Michael Bleyzer, a Ukrainian-American businessman from Texas, to join the newly formed board, the person said. Also on the list was Robert Bensh, another Texan who frequently works in Ukraine, the Energy Department confirmed".
   
   Something else of interest that comes out of the report:
   
   "Gordon D. Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt D. Volker, then the State Department’s special envoy to Ukraine, were also in the room, according to photographs reviewed by AP".
   
   My what a tangled web we weave...
   
   https://www.apnews.com/d7440cffba4940f5b85cd3dfa3500fb2

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      Randy Godwinposted 5 years agoin reply to this

      Gordon Sondland was similar to Trump as he owned lots of hotels, He also got his position by donating a 1,000,000 dollars through 4 separate LLC's.  Typical Trump crony, Don. Trump will throw him under the bus faster than he did Cohen. 

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