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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTODAY pompeo met with the president of Ukraine....says not ready for white house visit.
I suspect a quid pro quo.(CNN)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday highlighted US commitment to security assistance and diplomacy with Ukraine -- two matters that have been called into question by facts that have come to light throughout the impeachment process that continues to play out in Washington.
Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, the top US diplomat also said that a visit to Washington for the Ukrainian President was not conditioned on Ukraine launching an investigation into Hunter Biden or his involvement with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. However, Pompeo did not commit to any specific time frame for that visit to occur.
"There's no condition of the nature that you described for President Zelensky to come to Washington and have that visit," Pompeo said. "It's just simply not the case."
"President Zelensky will be welcome to come to Washington when we have an opportunity to do good things for both the Ukrainian people and the American people. We'll get it done. I'm confident of that," Pompeo added.
Speaking alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev, the top US diplomat also said that a visit to Washington for the Ukrainian President was not conditioned on Ukraine launching an investigation into Hunter Biden or his involvement with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. However, Pompeo did not commit to any specific time frame for that visit to occur.
"There's no condition of the nature that you described for President Zelensky to come to Washington and have that visit," Pompeo said. "It's just simply not the case."
"President Zelensky will be welcome to come to Washington when we have an opportunity to do good things for both the Ukrainian people and the American people. We'll get it done. I'm confident of that," Pompeo added.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/31/politics/pompeo-kiev-visit/index.html
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TODAY pompeo met with the president of Ukraine....says not ready for white house visit. (Original Post)
spanone
Jan 2020
OP
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. Still trying to dig up dirt on the Bidens . . .
I'll say, allies countries have more dirt on shithole and since it is ok to ask foreign countries for dirt, Democrats should go for it . . .
C_U_L8R
(45,026 posts)2. Cmon Ukraine.
You have the evidence on Trump. Are you for corruption or against it??
call BULLSHIT! They're still squeezing Zelensky, in our faces, as usual.
turbinetree
(24,735 posts)4. So did you tell him that once his country needs more cash that your prepared to blackmail him again
spanone
(135,906 posts)5. now that it's 'legal'
turbinetree
(24,735 posts)7. Yepper spot on....................
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PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)8. Pompeo has proven himself to be as morally bankrupt, as dishonest,
and as temperamentally challenged as Trump.
The pig had to first reassure Zelensky that he didn't truly mean what he said about the American people not giving a f*** about Ukraine.
And this idiot is our top diplomat.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)9. We had to deal with that thug in Kansas as a US Rep for a few years........
Loved to vote for easing restrictions on how much mercury Coal plants could spew out seeing how him and HIS family would never have to live downwind from one.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,757 posts)10. I suspect that opportunity won't happen between now and November.