In written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly's office says
DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa sought information from the Ukrainian
government on Paul Manafort’s dealings inside the country in hopes of forcing the issue before Congress. ...
Andrii Telizhenko, a former political officer who worked under Chaly
from December 2015 through June 2016, told me he was instructed by the
ambassador and his top deputy to meet with Chalupa in March 2016 and to
gather whatever dirt Ukraine had in its government files about Trump and
Manafort. ...
“She said the DNC wanted to collect evidence that Trump, his
organization and Manafort were Russian assets, working to hurt the U.S.
and working with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin against the U.S.
interests. She indicated if we could find the evidence they would
introduce it in Congress in September and try to build a case that Trump
should be removed from the ballot, from the election,” he recalled.
After the meeting, Telizhenko said he became concerned about the
legality of using his country’s assets to help an American political
party win a U.S. election. But he proceeded with his assignment.
Telizhenko said that as he began his research, he discovered that
Fusion GPS was nosing around Ukraine, seeking similar information, and
he believed they, too, worked for the Democrats.
Read the whole thing from John Solomon,
here.
