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On Sept. 29, 2019, the right-leaning website The Gateway Pundit posted a story headlined, EXPLOSIVE REPORT: Rep. Adam Schiff Linked to Prominent Ukrainian Arms Dealer! The purported arms dealer in the story is Igor Pasternak, who is neither a prominent arms dealer nor a Ukrainian.
Soon after the Gateway Pundit story was published, Fox News primetime host Laura Ingraham boosted the same narrative on her own widely watched program. Both outlets were lashing out in defense of U.S. President Donald Trump, who is facing an impeachment inquiry spearheaded by Schiff, a Democrat from California who chairs the House Intelligence Committee.
laura ingraham was promoting this on her show.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/adam-schiff-ukrainian/
Botany
(70,516 posts)Stop posting stuff from The Onion.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)Igel
(35,320 posts)He founded a company in the Ukraine after school there, and moved the company to the US over a decade later. By birth and nationality, not Ukrainian. But it's where he spent a lot of his personal and economic life. I don't know that this was all that much of a stretch, given that anything that touches Ukraine is "Ukrainian" these days, just like anything that's passed through Russia is "Russian." I'd be more likely to describe him as "Russian" than Ukrainian, and Ukrainian rather than Kazakh. Esp. since he was based in L'viv.
I mean, there's a rich American who immigrated from Russia over 35 years ago, and every time he's mentioned he's "Russian." Sort of shorthand for "enemy of the American people," that's what that's become.
As for arms dealer, that's goofy. Granted, he has gotten DARPA and DOD funding for quite a while, but that's far from being an arms supplier. I rather like some of the Aeros designs. Not sure how they'd hold up in some circumstances, though.
Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)Had a fund raiser for Schiff in 2013. He at one time sold military hardware to the Ukraine military and other countries long before the fund raiser. He was not born in Ukraine.
That's all Fox needs to make up crap to feed the Traitor Trump lovers.
ancianita
(36,094 posts)"Investigate" or "smear" the investigators is the gaslight goal of Trump's media and henchmen from here on out.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)What else have they got? When the Liar-In-Chief is in trouble the subordinate liars have to pick up the pace. What's next, water is wet?
proud patriot
(100,706 posts)Keep, keep
Keep, keep, keep it calm
Keep, keep calm
Keep, keep it, keep it calm
Keep, keep calm
Keep, keep, keep calm
Fuck, here we go again
[Verse 1]
Heat lightning flash, but don't blink
Misleading, tranquility ruse
You're gonna happen again
That's what I think
Follow the evidence
Look it dead in the eye, you are darkness
Trying to lull us in, before the havoc begins
Into a dubious state of serenity
Acting all surprised when you're caught in the lie
We know better
It's not unlike you
It's not unlike you
We know your nature
[Verse 2]
Blame it all on the bastards when you're blowing out
Shame on you, shame on you now
No amount of wind could begin to cover up
Your petulant stench and demeanor
Calm as cookies and cream, so it seems
We're not buying your dubious state of serenity
Acting all surprised when you're caught in the lie
We know better
It's not unlike you
It's not unlike you
We know your nature
[Bridge]
Calm before the torrent comes
Calm before the torrent comes
Calm before the torrent comes
Calm before the tempest comes to reign all over
[Verse 3]
Disputing intentions invites devastation
A tempest must be true to its nature
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
[Verse 4]
Control your delusion
Insane and striking at random
Victim of your certainty
And therefore, your doubt's not an option
Blameless, the tempest will be just that
So try as you may, feeble, your attempt to atone
Your words to erase all the damage cannot
[Outro]
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
A tempest must be just that
Boomerproud
(7,955 posts)MUCH worse.
yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)We need to be on top of this, and not buy the lies...come November 2020