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Biden's corruption led to Ukraine's destruction: fmr. Kiev diplomat

Pushback with Aaron Mate

Pushback with Aaron Maté

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4.7594 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Former Ukrainian government official and diplomat Andrii Telizhenko joins Aaron Maté to discuss how, in his view, powerful US figures including Joe Biden have used Ukraine for personal corruption and the geopolitical aim of bleeding Russia -- all to the detriment of Ukrainians. Telizhenko worked for the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office in Kyiv before moving to Ukraine's US Embassy in 2015. He went on to work for Blue Star Strategies, a Democrat-run lobbying firm that represented Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that appointed Biden’s son Hunter to a lucrative board seat. Telizhenko, who cooperated with Rudy Giuliani's effort to dig up information about the Bidens' alleged corruption in Ukraine, has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for "having directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign influence in a United States election." Guest: Andrii Telizhenko. Political consultant who was previously a Ukrainian government official and diplomat. Support Pushback: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate.

0:05.0

Joining me is Andre Telichenko.

0:08.0

He is a former Ukrainian diplomat who is sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for alleged

0:16.0

election interference related to his efforts to detail the record of the Bidens in Ukraine, which we are going to get to.

0:24.9

Andre, thank you for joining me.

0:26.6

Thank you for having the honor.

0:28.7

I want to credit Garland Nixon for this interview.

0:31.4

He has a channel on YouTube, and he recently interviewed you.

0:34.9

And you said a lot of really extraordinary things that I think people should hear.

0:39.4

And for people who are not familiar with your record, with your background, just talk to us a bit

0:43.1

about your work in Ukraine as a government official.

0:47.7

Yeah, right after the Maidan, the coup, I was appointed as a senior policy advisor to the first Deputy Prime Minister

0:55.5

of Ukraine on security issues, intelligence issues, military issues.

1:00.6

And then I was also appointed afterwards as an advisor and had a protocol to the Prosecutor

1:06.9

General of Ukraine overseeing all the international connections within the

1:11.6

Prosecut General's office and his personal political issues and was involved working with

1:17.6

U.S. Embassy, Canadian Embassy, all the G7 embassies on working with the Ukraine government.

1:23.6

Afterwards, became a diplomat at the Ukraine Embassy and worked very closely with the White House and on the U.S. elections, which when I saw the corruption involved in the interference of Ukraine involved in this, I resigned from the embassy and left after six months working there and became a political consultant, got involved working

1:45.3

with New Star Strategies, a lot of different from Washington, worked there for a year, a lobby

1:50.8

from which lobbied Burisma.

1:53.3

And that's how I saw it from the inside and when I understood what the shocking results

1:59.9

that was happening for my country, for Ukraine,

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