by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

After Clinton’s attempt to hide one tiny blue cum-stained dress, which was a failure by the way and the reason that impeachment was able to move forward in the House when he was President (without physical evidence nobody would have believed it, but oops — there was physical evidence!) it should have been obvious to everyone that if you get caught with your hand in the cookie jar, and especially when wire transfers are involved, which are both irrefutable and unable to be altered as nobody ever lets you get away with forging a bank statement the Democrats appear to have indeed attempted exactly that with their impeachment gambit.

Specifically, the Ukraine government has “leaked” (ha ha ha) documents that implicate not only Hunter Biden but members of John Kerry’s family in the receipt of millions — right at or about the time that Joe Biden threatened to pull a billion dollars in funding unless the prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired.

Now that’s not “statecraft”, since the issue there was not a function of a trade of one government policy or benefit for another.  That would be legitimate, but that’s not what was in play here; this was a looting operation, as has been going on for a very long time in the Ukraine, and the beneficiaries and those hired in an attempt to deflect the investigation were all private American citizens with connections to powerful politicians and State Department members.

That is corruption folks.

This was always my assumption in terms of what was really going on with Biden and friends at Burisma, of course, as I’ve repeatedly stated.  But now there’s what appear to be hard documentary proof that not just Hunter Biden but John Kerry’s family and Kerry himself were involved.

Let’s be clear: Assuming these documents are real, and it appears they are, they implicate the entire Obama Senior level of the former Administration including the Vice President himself and, likely, President Obama himself in a corrupt scheme to enrich specific US individuals including but not limited to at least some of the principals!

This violates so many laws I can’t even begin to list them and wildly exceeds any corruption that has been uncovered in previous administrations, including that of President Nixon.

Indeed at minimum this activity likely implicates FCPA as well as money-laundering statutes, both of which are serious felonies.  Never mind that there’s a formal treaty with Ukraine requiring extradition between our nations for criminal acts, so whatever crimes were committed in Ukraine by these individuals in this scheme, if any (and I bet there were) the parties could be forcibly extradited there to stand trial up to and including President Obama himself.

This is why the Democrats have their hair on fire trying to bury the lede.  The latest is that they’re claiming the Ukrainian sources are “lying.”  Well, the Ukrainian sources may be lying about this or that but wire transfer records are truth.  No bank will ever let you get away with forging a bank statement since if they do they eat the money that was allegedly there but really isn’t, or the other end does!

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