Long before he became president, Democrats had set their minds on impeaching Trump. Months before the election, the media was openly discussing how Dems might impeach him after a win. It was just a matter of time until they took over the House in 2019 to come up with a justification for impeaching him. Strangely enough, they started an impeachment investigation based on a conversation between Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine.
The accusations on whistleblower Eric Ciaramella, who presented his allegations to Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) office in 2019, were the basis for those charges. Democrats charged that Trump was trying to negotiate a deal with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, in which Trump demanded that Zelenskyy look into Joe Biden’s corruption within Ukraine in exchange for Trump not stopping military assistance.
Democrats claim it was a crooked attempt to sway the 2020 election. Democrats accused Republicans of politicizing the impeachment process because the charges were so flimsy, but since they controlled the Senate and House, it was their last opportunity to remove him before the election. Thus, they acted.
Newly discovered emails, however, demonstrate Ciaramella’s substantial ties to the Biden family’s participation in Ukraine, which Trump wished to look into.
“Recently obtained emails from former Vice President Joe Biden’s office reveal that the ‘whistleblower’ who sparked President Trump’s first impeachment was very involved in the political moves behind Biden-family business within Ukraine that Donald wanted probed,” writes Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations.
Ciaramella worked as a national security analyst for the office of then-Vice President Biden four years before the publication of his accusations against Trump. At the time of Biden’s famous promise to withhold US aid from Ukraine, he remained close to him until the dismissal of Viktor Shokin, the nation’s prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings, where Joe Biden’s son held a lucrative board post.
There was little focus on Hunter Biden’s questionable employment contract with Burisma or any other evidence connecting Joe Biden to his family’s commercial endeavors; instead, Ciaramella’s criticism of Trump’s alleged quid pro quo swiftly eclipsed it. After being under the radar for a while, further evidence of the Biden family’s criminality in connection with Ukraine has also come to light as part of the House investigation into President Biden’s impeachment.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, asserts that the impeachment trial might have utilized relevant information to clear Trump. “Trump was claiming that the Bidens had a conflict of interest, and the evidence may have refuted Biden’s story and demonstrated his son’s involvement in the Shokin dismissal.”
“The recent release of WH emails and images from the National Archives has just shed light on Ciaramella’s participation, including high-level contacts with top Biden staffers and Ukrainian prosecutors.” According to the emails, Ciaramella wrote, “Yikes,” expressing disbelief at Biden’s decision to withhold $1 billion in aid from Kyiv, citing the abrupt change in U.S. policy. They also demonstrate how he became involved in White House communications about the management of negative news following Hunter accepting a lucrative position on Burisma’s board.”
However, there is no proof that Ciaramella voiced concerns over the dubious business dealings Biden personally observed—a stark contrast to 2019. In one case, Alexander Vindman, a White House colleague, informed him of an “improper” phone contact that had occurred between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, which spurred him into action. During the conversation, Trump asked Zelensky to investigate Burisma and Hunter Biden’s business roles. According to several former congressional investigators, Ciaramella successfully covered up a crisis that was considerably more serious than the one that led to Trump’s impeachment. Furthermore, when he filed his complaint against Trump, he neglected to mention that he could have a conflict of interest due to his involvement in the case that Trump had Zelensky look into. Major media outlets continue to tightly conceal the identity of the then-33-year-old Ciaramella as the impeachment “whistleblower,” a fact that RealClearInvestigations was the first to reveal.”
With bogus allegations connecting Tony Bobulinski, a former business colleague of Hunter Biden, to Trump, Democrats have attempted to discredit Bobulinski’s incriminating evidence. However, Ciaramella has very deep party ties.
“In 2014, the same year Burisma hired Hunter, Ciaramella was working under CIA Director John Brennan when President Obama appointed Biden as his point man on Ukraine,” says Sperry. “As a prominent advisor on important Ukrainian topics, Ciaramella worked closely with Biden and his staff at the White House the following year, when the CIA assigned him there.” Ciaramella has long advocated for aid to Ukraine.”
Ciaramella ought to be on the House Oversight Committee’s witness list for the Biden impeachment probe, although it is unclear at this time.
Author: Steven Sinclaire
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