Also, I’m struggling to follow along with Manafort’s role here, with this specific line, the allegations of Biden receiving a bribe.
Is there an article here with the same content about Manafort talked about in the video? That might be easier for me to follow the specific details.
I’ve been trying to look at specifically the narrative of the allegations of Biden himself taking a bribe by Zlochevsky, which is central to the Smirnov FBI statement.
For example, here is an OANN documentary, originally airing 8/29/20, about Biden Bribes and Ukraine, where they added 5 hours of secret tapes to the 5/19/20 Derkach tapes.
During this documentary, OANN frames the bribery as Biden bribing Poroshenko with the Billion $ loan guarantees. Same narrative looking at contemporary social media narratives.
However, in the video, Rudy is interviewed and he describes the bribe as Zlochevsky bribing Biden to fire Shokin for protection. So really, only Rudy is saying that. Which matches Smirnov, which *theoretically* Rudy has no idea about. But really only makes sense to me if Rudy is intimately familiar with Smirnov and Brady.
Remember, Rudy also stated on 2/4/20 in a podcast interview, that Biden received a bribe from “the big guy” who owns Burisma, which would be Zlochevsky.
Rudy also says in this 8/29/20 video, that the allegations have been there for “3 years”. Which would be 2017. I don’t know where he is getting that. Is he making a reference to Smirnov 2017 FBI report? A narrative from Paul Manafort which is either not public or not a viral narrative? The Biden CFR comments about, well son of a bitch l they fired the prosecutor, were January 2018. And then didn’t really get much traction on social media, until Spring 2019.
[DISCLAIMER: this is not an endorsement of OANN or Rudy Giuliani. This is an endorsement for analyzing the flow of information.]