The Diplomat, The Machers, And The Oligarch

Trump, Inc.

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Don, Trump, News, Business, Jared, Ivanka, Jr, Politics, Business News, Government, Eric

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The impeachment inquiry focuses on whether or not there was a quid pro quo: Military aid in exchange for an investigation. But what if you look at the same events from a different vantage point? The business interests at play. This episode: How Rudy Giuliani's associates worked their connections to oust the U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine. How President Trump's personal interests came into alignment with the interests of an indicted foreign businessman. And how all of them have been working to discredit Joe Biden.

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0:00.0	Previously on Trump Inc.
0:06.6	Friday, October 11, 2019, Durau, Florida.
0:10.7	The president's son is giving a speech to a conference promoting pro-Trump conspiracy
0:15.8	theories inside the Donald J. Trump ballroom at the family's golf resort.
0:20.6	During his speech, the crowd starts yelling about another politician's son, Hunter Biden.
0:25.9	They're calling out, where's Hunter?
0:28.3	I'll get to that, don't you need your say.
0:51.9	Earlier that same day, Washington DC.
0:55.3	A woman with short reddish hair and a no-nonsense, charcoal-colored skirt suit, American flagpin,
1:01.6	square-ish sunglasses is resolutely striding to the Capitol.
1:06.1	She's the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich.
1:12.0	She's been called to testify about what happened to her when President Trump began to pressure
1:16.6	Ukrainians to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden.
1:23.5	Yovanovich speaks about her work pressing for the rule of law in Ukraine,
1:28.0	and how, while she was doing that, it gradually dawned on her that someone was working to undermine
1:33.9	that goal. Rudy Giuliani. Yovanovich didn't know exactly what he was doing in Ukraine.
1:41.4	She said in her testimony, he had clients in Ukraine, so that was one possible thing.
1:47.1	But he also was the president's personal lawyer.
1:50.4	She wasn't sure exactly what was going on.
1:53.0	One Ukrainian official told her about two men whose names were new to her,
1:58.0	Lev Parnas and Eager Frumen.
2:00.3	You're going to be hearing a lot about them this episode.
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