The Democrats say there was no Ukraine interference in the election. The Ukrainians say otherwise in 2016, starting with Leshchenko. "A Trump presidency would change the pro-Ukrainian agenda in American foreign policy,” Mr Leshchenko, an investigative journalist turned MP, told the Financial Times. “For me it was important to show not only the corruption aspect, but that he is [a] pro-Russian candidate who can break the geopolitical balance in the world.”   http://radiolemberg.com/ua-articles/ua-allarticles/ukraine-s-leaders-campaign-against-pro-putin-trump Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, is backed by the pro-western government that took power after Mr Yanukovich was ousted by street protests in 2014.  If the Republican candidate loses in November, some observers suggest Kiev’s actions may have played at least a small role. Anton Shekhovtsov... "Ukraine’s anti-corruption activists have probably saved the Western world,” Anton Shekhovtsov... Natalie Jaresko, a US-born Ukrainian and former State Department official who served for a year as Ukraine’s finance minister, fired off a volley of tweets to US officials. In one, she challenged former Republican presidential candidate John McCain: “Please assure us you disagree with statement on Crimea/Ukraine. Trump’s lies not position of free world, inc Rep party.”   Brilliant Natalie Jaresko left her tweets up. Archive material. https://mobile.twitter.com/njaresko/status/760113448986480640 For her part, Nuland passed out cookies to anti-Yanukovych demonstrators at the Maidan square, reminded Ukrainian business leaders that the U.S. had invested $5 billion in their “European aspirations,” declared “fuck the EU” for its less aggressive approach, and discussed with U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt who the new leaders of Ukraine should be. “Yats is the guy,” she said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk. https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/13/the-mess-that-nuland-made/ I'll throw this link in too because of Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-California).Rohrabacher worked, lobbied with, for Rinat Akhmetshin (Russian GRU, attended Trump tower meeting Don Jr.), Glenn  Simpson, Fusion GPS (Simpson worked for the Russians),to try to undo the Magnitsky Act on behalf of pro-Putin elements.  Comey knew. Senator Grassley wrote him asking for answers. One being why Simpson never registered with FARA. Comey really never answered. Obstruction of justice? Does any ever answer Grassley? Court documents, Grassley letter in link. https://heavy.com/news/2017/07/rinat-akhmetshin-russian-spy-trump-jr-intelligence-officer-spy-fusion-gps-natalia-veselnitskaya-denis-katsyv/ On Facebook, Arseny Yatseniuk, the former prime minister, warned that Mr Trump had “challenged the very values of the free world”. Arsen Avakov, interior minister, called the candidate’s statement the “diagnosis of a dangerous marginal”.   Adrian Karatnycky, a senior fellow at Washington’s Atlantic Council think-tank, said it was “no wonder that some key Ukrainian political figures are getting involved to an unprecedented degree in trying to weaken the Trump bandwagon”.   *  Kiev moved beyond verbal criticism when Ukraine’s national anti-corruption bureau and Mr Leshchenko — who has a reputation for being close to the bureau — published the ledger showing alleged payments to Mr Manafort last week.   [a] former Yanukovich loyalist now playing a lead role in the Regions party’s successor, called Opposition Bloc, let loose a string of expletives. He accused western media of “working in the interests of Hillary Clinton by trying to bring down Trump”.   Seems fitting to end with black ledger Leshchenko. [Mr] Leshchenko said events of the past two years had locked Ukraine on to a pro-western course. The majority of Ukraine’s politicians, he added, are “on Hillary Clinton’s side”.  http://radiolemberg.com/ua-articles/ua-allarticles/ukraine-s-leaders-campaign-against-pro-putin-trump