To say this report has been widely shared on conservative media would be an understatement; but something just doesn’t sniff right.
[Tweet Below: Samantha Power in Ukraine, October 2, 2024]
The essence of the reports is that Ukraine officials discussed a scheme to receive money from USAID, essentially from the CIA, then launder the money through fake Ukraine ‘clean energy programs’ using various front groups, eventually culminating with the money being transferred to the Joe Biden reelection effort. That’s the gist of the report.
However, as much as this story is of great interest to me, for reasons outlined below, there are multiple red flags which should indicate serious caution needs to be applied.
First red flag. Every single report about the issue links back to the original John Solomon report, written mostly by Jerry Dunleavy. [SEE HERE]. There is no follow-up reporting from any other outlet or source on this exceptionally explosive claim.
Second red flag. Despite the report centering around a “declassified intelligence intercept” under review by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, there is no citation for the interpretation of the information itself. There is no visibility into a declassified report, which if genuinely declassified would be easy to share with readers.
The absence of citation for the core claim, while simultaneously stating the information has been declassified, is a significant flag. This type of reporting relies on the reader accepting the interpretation of the author who chooses -without saying why- to keep it hidden.
Third red flag. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has not commented on the declassified originating information, nor on the reporting or interpretation of it by Solomon. This is not to say the reporting itself is inaccurate, but simply to note that no one is going on the record to substantiate it; and again, the information is hidden.
Fourth red flag. If the core information was accurate, it would be attacked (spun and shaped) in a defensive posture by the leftist media who have direct contacts with allied intelligence officials who would know about it. When an explosive IC claim is ignored by leftist media (NYT, WaPo, Politico, et al) generally that means they want to see the narrative advance or be emphasized. This posture of advancement is generally made when information is being wrongly interpreted, and that plays positively toward their interests.
Fifth red flag. The originator of the interpretation, in this case Solomon & Dunleavy, are careful in wording choices to leave as much deniability as possible for downstream discussion, questions and interpretations. The infamous, ‘well we didn’t say that specifically’, when questioned later on.
This story is of great interest to me personally because in real time throughout 2024 I was tracking USAID Administrator Samantha Power, knowing full well she was an operative for the larger intelligence apparatus (CIA).
I wrote about Power’s real time travels to Georgia (Tbilisi), Slovenia, Moldova, Romania, Poland and Hungary, as she was setting up election interference operations in each of the countries.
What do Georgia, Moldova, Slovenia, Romania, Poland and Hungary have in common? They were/are the site of very important election and/or referendum outcomes for the EU/U.S. State Department and EU/U.S. Intelligence Apparatus.
Controlling election outcomes was the entire reason Samantha Power was involved in those countries. USAID was funding the groups in each country that were in alignment with the Dept of State/EU/CIA outlook.
In support of what Solomon/Dunleavy have outlined, the possibility of corrupt Ukraine officials working with USAID to launder funds back to the 2024 U.S. election just makes buckets of Occam’s Razor sense.
Additionally, against the backdrop that multiple Ukraine energy sector officials have been charged with corruption, and the fact that the scheme outlined by Solomon involves the Ukraine energy sector – again, it just makes sense.
All of the elements for an outline of a Ukraine/USAID partnership toward shaping the U.S. presidential election outcome simply aligns with a lot of facts and circumstantial evidence that is very visible. However, the red flags cannot be easily ignored.
Bottom Line: There is a lot of ancillary information and circumstantial evidence supporting what John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy have outlined. However, if the information is indeed “declassified”, then why is it kept secret without explanation? Therefore, the premise is tantalizing, perhaps exceptionally explosive, but proceed with caution.
I am not sure what to make of John Solomon. Is he trustworthy or just another journalist with clickbait headlines?
Sometimes he makes sense and other times I scratch my head.
Disinformation agent in my humble opinion. King of tick tock the clock.
I thought that was Hannity? Remember, the “boomerang” every other night. He’d get Lindsey on there squawking about how they were going to get to the bottom of things and set things right while he ran out the clock and took great pains to make sure nobody was ever held accountable. The BOOMERANG that never happened.
<Remember, the “boomerang” every other night.>
That reminds me…
The inventor of the ‘Boomerang Grenade’ died yesterday in an explosion 🙂
The same as a stick, when thrown, it doesn’t return.
Remember how many times John Solomon and Sarah Carter were on Hannity with “breaking news” during the 45 term, including election questions? This was routine!!
100%!
Regardless of Solomon, if Sammy Powers was even on the same continent of any nation who’s policies were contrary to permanent DC, she was pushing dirty US taxpayer money. Period
Great media guru Tucker Carlson claims he is one of them members of the “managed” news media. I always read him with an eye to see what the administration really wants me to also know and frame. A source and input to add to the mix.
<I am not sure what to make of John Solomon.>
Solomon had his wisdom teeth removed a while ago 🙂
It really smarted when I had my wisdom teeth removed…….
In my best Wordmanish
I thought of him as a gold digger yet I sometimes think Solomon is out of his mine.
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Solomon had election fraud information he held on to for more than 3 yrs. He’s a useful tool.
“Limited Hangouts” need a place for them to be hung out. That’s what John Solomon specializes in.
The USAID/Ukraine/US-Election story is reporting on things that were discussed. There isn’t any concrete proof the people involved actually followed through. Not enough to stand up against the “beyond reasonable doubt” standard in court anyways.
The story is explosive. But likely won’t result in anybody going to jail. That’s what the leakers are probably counting on when they fed the story to Solomon.
The mainstream media will ignore it. The rightwing media will obsess over it. But nobody will go to jail.
“But nobody will go to jail.” Hmmm. But then, when do they ever?
The Kabuki Theatre continues. And IMO Solomon is a key actor, always has been, with misinformation being an accurate depiction of his part and purposely written into the play.
Ukraine is ’Money Laundering’ on a vast scale.
Ukraine President Zelenskyy is a ’Money Laundering’ criminal.
“……………Zelenskyy is a ’Money Laundering’ criminal.”
A criminal amongst the criminals, he is a puppet. Think of him as the monkey in the “laundromat” that empties the coin boxes. He then turns the bulk of the money over to his masters, keeping a banana or two for himself.
I value this perspective.
Optimism layered with well seasoned caution..
Appreciate your words of cautions SD. That goes with a lot of “reporting” these days on all sides and is especially pertinent with a war ongoing.
Like you, I want so much to believe this to be true but will wait for the declassified background to validate.
Why did Samantha Powers unmask so many FISA reports naming US citizens collected in the CIA surveillance data, during the very 11th hours of the Obama administration? Who used that information? Hundreds of names were unmasked.
I read years ago that Powers gave her pass codes to other people, but this might have been her trying to skip the blame.
Samantha Power claimed under oath she did not participate in the unmasking of any intelligence reports.
The citations at the heart of that issue originate to a log-in ID and a workstation access in the State Dept. Mrs Power claims it was not her.
Just an fyi…. The issue was never resolved.
FYI, I log onto USG computers near every day. Letting someone else log on as me. i.e. using my credentials, is a criminal offense. I remember that information and her testimony. What she claimed happen is jail time for someone. Another instance of black-letter law being ignored.
They read my post-it note password…
“Samantha Power claimed under oath………..”
How can you tell if Samantha Power is lying?
The stratified squamous epithelium on her face is moving.
Why didn’t it get resolved?
Rinos and corrupt judges?
Where do they find people like Samantha Powers are they cultivated in a CIA underground lab, all of these liberal women have the same “look”. she gives me the creeps, did so much damage in the EU thru USAID.
Recruited at universities.
Yes. And through targeted recruitment looking for the kind of person who would have no reservations whatsoever about using any devious means available to interfere in a nation’s elections in order to prevent someone the Deep State didn’t like coming to power. Our own nation included.
Ex-CIA (now Virginia governor) Abigail Spanberger.
The picture that Sundance posted with Powers giving “support” to the women in the
Red (predictably) jacket?
It is the quintessential example of staged. Insincere. Opportunistic. Maudlin, fake,
cloying, willful, deliberate, manipulative, ersatz, fake.
You could do a CT scan on either of these women, and not find a sincere bone in
their bodies.
Probably wouldn’t find a heart either!
yes in deed she has that unkept creep look…bill
They don’t wear makeup going way back to the ‘women’s liberation’ movement.
Look at who she is married to. There must be marriage brokers involved, because sexual attraction ain’t happening.
Cass Sunstein is worse and crazier than her. His mother Ann, was a well-known flake in Nashua NH
It’s the “look of evil.”
And also the look of a woman stripped of her natural love because they have aborted many babies.
Yes 5th basement of CIA headquarters is the resting bitch face stepford bot headquarters
Her hubbie Cass Sunstein is a peach too.
One thing we know for certain is that the entire Ukraine operation is just that, an operation. And it needs to be shut down yesterday.
I’m not a fan of John Solomon. He talks big but there is no follow through from him.
That’s the essence of Tick-Tock.
My first red flag? When John Solomon was mentioned.
Exactly. Same here.
He proved he was either a misinformation agent or easily mislead during President Trumps
first term in office. In my opinion.
Right, we learned about him here.
Not all conservative news people are MAGA…sure makes us appreciate the good ones. Like this one.
🦅🇺🇸💥✝️💯
“The absence of citation for the core claim, while simultaneously stating the information has been declassified, is a significant flag.”
This, coming from the guy who includes, and openly shares citations in his work, is one of the many reasons why I’m here enjoying and becoming better educated as a result of that work. Thanks Sundance.
Thanks, also…. I have been victimized by the “trust me bro” approach, too many times. Now I always want to see, and provide to you, the citation to the core claim so that we can make our own decisions about what it means.
“………and provide to you, the citation to the core claim so that we can make our own decisions about what it means.”
If I had to condense the Conservative Tree House into a few simple, clear and concise words.
“………..victimized by the “trust me bro” approach,”
I believe it was Regan that popularized the term “Trust, but verify.”
Always trust your gut, and pray for discernment.
The fourth red flag is the biggest tell.
The crypto scheme involving Brinkmann / Ukraine / US politicians sure went dark.
It did… as did Ryan Routh’s connections to Ukraine
I still wonder about the two dozen or more Bio labs in Ukraine. Who keeps a bio lab running during a war? Not too many people want to enter a bio lab to investigate it. Kinda like when in the 1970s the firefighters refused to enter the burning Zelda’s snake pit in Northern California.
Anything from Solomon is more hype than actual hard hitting news
Is Salomon the Geraldo Rivera of the 21st century?
I think most here thought this was happening, I’m just surprised they located the evidence.
I’ll be even more surprised if they successfully prosecute this and locate the other avenues the dems were using to repatriate our tax money into their coffers.
Interesting that Senator John Cornyn flew to Ukraine to meet with Zelensky.
Texas Senator John Cornyn travels to Ukraine, meets with Zelenskyy – CBS Texas
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-senator-john-cornyn-travels-to-ukraine-meets-with-zelenskyy/
To close his account?
🤭
WTF?
He’s not getting enough $ from the republican $ machine for his fight against Paxton; Thune & co. Are realizing funding him thru the primary is a Losing $ venture.
So he’s trying to recoup some of that “Ukrainian Support” ($), for his political survival. We can be sure C is telling Z, : if I lose, and Paxton gets in…… Kiss your aid, your country and your future – Goodbye !
Paxton better increase his security
I don’t understand why the victim countries don’t block Powers and all her friends from entering their countries. Why don’t they blacklist Soros and CIA cutout money, etc?
Those countries have their own deep states.
And their own dirty politicians who are on the take.
The diplomatic term is Persona Non-grata and it’s used to deny entry to unwelcome foreign officials!
Hungary has banned Soros and his NGOs years ago.
John Solomon is a red herring talker, what he says sounds plausible, but is rotten under the skin
6th red flag. Don Jr. Hasn’t got any political or other nous at all, altho sincere in wanting to help Dad. Steps in it all the time and if you were trying to scam anyone, a great idea would be to involve him in some way.
Fredo Trump
THERE IS a REASON that ERIC Runs TRUMP ENTERPRISES…
I recall reading that Don jr. recommended Vance for VP.
Anyone recall this?
Yup. He was his biggest advocate for Dad choosing him.
“However, if the information is indeed “declassified”, then why is it kept secret without explanation? Therefore, the premise is tantalizing, perhaps exceptionally explosive, but proceed with caution.”
Maybe it is “click bait” for them to gain exposure, but bait to discredit “US” if we throw our support behind it only for it to be discredited and proven to be false.
“Fifth red flag. The originator of the interpretation, in this case Solomon & Dunleavy, are careful in wording choices to leave as much deniability as possible for downstream discussion, questions and interpretations. The infamous, ‘well we didn’t say that specifically’, when questioned later on.”
Lest we forget, there are still ongoing plots to remove Tulsi Gabbard from her position as Director of National Intelligence.
Good point.
“Lest we forget, there are still ongoing plots to remove Tulsi Gabbard from her position as Director of National Intelligence.”
In terms of the methods and means they have available to them, how could an alliance of RINO Republicans and Democrats in the Congress go about removing Tulsi Gabbard from her position as Director of National Intelligence. What would it take for them to do that?
Right now, off the top of my head, they go after Tulsi for NOT going after real corruption that they are revealing (at least partially).
Is’nt he a regular on ShaMe hannity? Enough said…..
Well….considering USAID as the advance team, store front and laundry for decades of brutal, murderous and destructive color revolutions, a Biden family graft distraction might be in order.
As much as the premise of the evidence makes sense, and it aligns with what we already know about Ukrainian influence peddling and money laundering for both Europe and the USA, we don’t have the core document that documents the crooks being crooked.
There are reasons why John Solomon withheld it, and I am going to assume that certain RINO Republicans (Lindsey Graham/Mitch McConnell et al) are also implicated in their own money laundering and influence peddling operations.
We all know it happened, mechanisms are of no consequence because when all is said and done, by authorization of the Congress. People are shoveling trillions upon trillions of taxpayer dollars out the door and into politician’s private pockets. We see it in Somali fraud. We see it in Hunter Biden’s strange employment record. We see Zelensky and Macron power shopping and sniffing cocaine. We see Hillary and Bill hoovering up money hand over fist while pandering with Epstein and Maxwell. We see all the politicians going over to “personally” orchestrate the shoveling in Ukraine.
We see senior citizens that can’t afford electricity, car insurance or TV or internet service because “Social Security” is broke and they keep increasing the monthly cost of Medicare and yearly health costs. We see senior citizens get a 2.8% COLA in the face of 10% inflation (for several years) and the gougers just keep on gouging while they tell us to remain independent in our own homes.
The truth. Thank you.
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I don’t care for or trust John Solomon. There’s just something about him that makes me back away. Same with Steve Bannon.
They always push a version of Hopium that NEVER pans out.
Your lack of trust is natural.
How is “Solomon” different than the Q op?
The fourth flag resonates with me. It is ALWAYS the reaction of the opposition which most measures the issue.
Trump announced his campaign by going directly after illegal aliens. If the media was silent on that, I never really would have cared about that part of his speech.
How more enjoyable now is the extinction of USAID swiftly and directly from President Trump and SOS Marco Rubio, after reading this post.
They had the Lib Euro’s money spigot dry up in a flash and a year later we still hear the wailing and grinding of teeth from our side of the pond, and especially over every single decision being made without their inclusion in the world.
Under a Trump Administration everyday is better than yesterday was. And yesterday was pretty awesome for peace, justice, liberty, freedom and my wallet.
GOD bless America, land that I LOVE.
I always seem to find something slightly amiss and questionable about John Solomon’s reporting. I seem to remember SD cautioning about this as well, quite some time ago. The red flags in this article seem to confirm this. And the addition of Donald Trump Jr into the conversation gives me even less confidence.
“Ukraine officials discussed a scheme to receive money from USAID, essentially from the CIA, then launder the money through fake Ukraine ‘clean energy programs’ using various front groups, eventually culminating with the money being transferred to the Joe Biden reelection effort.”
Red flags? Uh, yeah. But the description above focuses only on the elephant’s toenail. Power floats on the surface.
Ukraine was, is, a gigantic money laundry. Everyone has known for decades that USAID is a front for dark IC money. But when it is taken one step further, and funneled through a money laundry with no direct connection to the US, you get an intermediate layer and from there can direct the money to operations that are indefensible by American standards.
How does a decent, moral, Western civilization deal with some who walk this planet who abide by no rules and have no moral constraints, psychopaths with unlimited power and wealth at their disposal who pursue unimaginably horrific ends? We tried dealing with that directly once and got burned. Remember “America doesn’t torture”? Not gonna get caught like THAT again. So “you can’t handle the truth” is the reason d’etre for using this third party laundry.
Why doesn’t the Uke money laundry story have legs? No one wants to peer into that rabbit hole, because no one wants to see the horrors that lurk there.
And that is not even to mention international criminal organizations that would have been utilizing the same laundry for THEIR shirts. I expect it didn’t take the Ukes long to discover that “open for business” was a very lucrative position to take. Agency doesn’t like that? So what?
And yes, some here want to abolish the agency that must not be named. Not me. It’s a cold dangerous world out there, and I want that agency operating out THERE so it doesn’t come HERE. Just my two pennies.
And John Solomon is a tool to manipulate MAGA…tic..tok..boom
Soloman: ‘…plot that was discussed between senior USAID officials..to give $200-300 million to Ukraine for some “clean energy project”.
Soloman sources may be unknown but still, when you know climate action has nothing to do with weather patterns, it wouldn’t surprise….
Administrator Samantha Power And Special Envoy Kerry Announce New USAID, Private Sector Commitments to Mobilize Finance for Climate Adaptation Under PREPARE
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Today’s announcement means 31 companies and partners have responded to this Call to Action on adaptation since its launch. The 21 new commitments come from Aon, Arup, Boston Consulting Group, Blue Marble, Danone, Howden Group, IBM, Jupiter Intelligence, Milliman, Miyamoto International, Synoptic Data, Tomorrow.io, Visa, Xylem, as well as McCormick and Pula that joined during Vice President Harris’ visit to Africa in 2023. Partners joining this effort include ClimateWorks Foundation, Global Adaptation and Resilience Investment (GARI) Working Group, Lightsmith Group, MSCI Sustainability Institute, and Bezos Earth Fund. The founding companies of the PREPARE Call to Action from COP27 are Google, Gro Intelligence, Mastercard, Marsh McLennan, Meta, Microsoft, Pegasus Capital Advisors, PepsiCo., SAP, and WTW (formerly Willis Towers Watson).
Administrator Power announced that USAID, in collaboration with the State Department, is awarding the first round winners of the PREPARE Adaptation Finance Window (link is external) and launching a second round of financing for asset managers and funds. This Window, implemented through USAID’s Climate Development Accelerator(link is external), aims to de-risk private-sector-led approaches to climate adaptation in developing countries.
https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/dec-06-2023-administrator-samantha-power-and-special-envoy-kerry-announce-new-usaid-private-sector-commitments-mobilize-finance-climate-adaptation-under-prepare
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Nov. 10, 2022, 8:29
Biden to Tap Boston Consulting’s Werfel as New IRS Commissioner
President Joe Biden will nominate Danny Werfel as the next head of the Internal Revenue Service, the White House announced Thursday.
Werfel is a global leader at the Boston Consulting Group and former acting administrator of the IRS under President Barack Obama.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report/biden-to-nominate-danny-werfel-as-next-irs-commissioner
I vaguely remember reading something about the USA under the FJB admin wanting to give to Ukraine monies for climate change, green projects and thinking “Ukraine is in the middle of a war, why would climate change projects have any importance”. It comes out eventually.
Given all the red flags surrounding this story, I’m wondering why Don Jr is associating himself with it. He strikes me as a bit of a wildcard within the Trump family dynamic. I’ve heard him state that he wants to continue being involved in politics (i.e., rather than running the family business like Eric Trump.) However, because of his strong interest in politics, I’m less certain about his discernment. It’s almost like his desire to be involved or belong in that club clouds his ability to see through it.
John Solomon is a headline grabber bullshit artist. If he’s talking, it’s best to walk away. His favorite word is “bombshell.” He wouldn’t know a bombshell if it landed on his head.
Solomon seems to have been a regular mouthpiece for what the IC wants us to know. The only plausible explanation I can come up with is that the IC is trying to warn their “friends” (who are not our friends) that the declassified memo is being used for potential prosecution. And perhaps the jurisdiction where this potential prosecution takes place doesn’t have the right judge with the right IC clearance…but is still the “right” judge to hear the case.
Just a thought.
John Solomon is a useful idiot.
I am pretty certain that most Democrat and Uniparty campaigns are funded by our US Tax Dollars via money laundering.
No doubt. USAID was discovered to be one such operation but I have to imagine there are many more like it. There are countless departments and agencies, many that people may not have heard of that are funded every year but what do they do and where does the money go?
As are most things tied to “Soros” financing.
SEIU and some teachers unions admit to funding No Kings Indivisible.
Maybe our tax dollars end up funding the hot lunches for all the seniors who show up with their pre-printed signs?
Narratives have a way of being teased out, to get other players and institutions invested in the process, and the public leveraged to demand answers. Looks to me like Solomon’s role is to float “bombshells” that Congressional Committies can then “investigate”, with the goal of building pressure to get to the bottom of it. Hard evidence probably has not been found to corroborate the scheme at this point. They want whistleblowers to emerge, witnesses to be subpoenaed, hearings to make people look guilty, etc., and a pre-text for searching financial records of various companies and non-profits. This case could end up being the typical swamp mess that frustrates us by stinking to heaven without being prosecutable (…not a shred of evidence remains…).
Hungary is a dangerous friend. President Trump most likely knows they are heavily in debt to China. Nevertheless, it seems like he is inclined to overlook the facts. I am sure China is a big player in any Hungarian election.
There were billions in US aid given to Ukraine by Biden. Zelensky then stated he “invested” millions of dollars from the aid with Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto scam and then Bankman-Fried made millions of dollars in contributions to Democrats.
We know this is true because there were specific felony counts on this arrangement in the original federal indictment charges against Bankman-Fried. Ultimately Merrick Garland stepped in and had those specific counts dropped because they clearly implicated Democrats who rec’d the funds.
Was Brinkman crypto even real, or was it all just a CIA front to move cash around?
Apparently, Bankman-Fried was a younger and less protected species than Bernie Madoff.
Maybe they know something is coming out about Joey Bribes so they leak this false story to discredit the true story.
Best plan is to wait for Sundance to confirm.
Solomon is all over RAV—all the time. He annoys me tremendously. And yes, he’s the tik tock click bait king. I’d like to see one thing he has “exclusive” reporting on where anything comes of it. Nothing to my knowledge.
Solomon is a classic agent of disinformation. There are enough good stories from him to make him credible enough for the time he spins a half truth enough to muddy the waters and drive a narrative.
This story may be used for when if it gets traction, something comes along to be dismissed and making the entire right-side as pushers of fake news. The real fake news can then go at it for months convincing people the right are conspiracy theorists…
Reminds me of 2020 play against Sidney Powell and her “Release the Kraken” and then nothing was released or happened. That story she bought and went along with destroyed her other cases that were otherwise on point.
Well, they did “Release the Kraken” but they released it on Sidney Powell!
This is not new information. It was revealed years ago that there was a round-robin of USAID money back to the Democrat party.
I’d bet John Solomon is CIA. Or a CIA asset (same difference). Not to say that Mr. Solomon is inherently evil or some such. Unlike others, I think there are probably some patriots left in that org. Problem is, their numbers seem to have dwindled to a sliver over the decades. Where Mr. Solomon’s loyalties and motivations lie is anyone’s guess at this point.
Anyhow, Sundance and his spidey senses are correct on this one. As usual.
I’ve ignored John Soloman’s “breaking stories” for years. Tik Tok
In my opionion, Sam Bankman Fried was the Ukraine money man but he is not being mentioned. Must have some real good protection from the CIA.
The day John Solomon and Sarah Carter years ago on TV said “Someone” approached them and told them not to give up and keep digging and they wouldn’t reveal anything was the day I didn’t trust him one bit.
With John Solomon involved, and the easily used Don Jr. (he was used by the Tate brothers to give their pimping an air of legitimacy) this seems to have the hallmarks of a certain three-letter-agency getting ahead of the story before the facts come out from DNI Gabbard’s deep dive.