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Democrats Stealing Billions in Ukraine Aid?

&NewLine;<p>When the Republicans recently called for an audit of the billions of dollars approved by the government as an aid for Ukraine&comma; Democrats were quick to oppose and vote down the proposal&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>This reaction raises the question&colon; what are the Democrats hiding here&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Since Russia started its military operation in Ukraine in February this year&comma; the Biden administration has taken over &dollar;67 billion of taxpayer money to send to Ukraine in its fight against Russia&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The majority of Republican lawmakers have agreed with the Biden administration on providing Ukraine with heavy economic and military aid&period; But that agreement was not reciprocated by the Democrats when it came to checking where and how that money was spent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>On Tuesday &lpar;December 6&rpar;&comma; the Democrat-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s proposal to audit the Ukraine aid&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The proposal was voted down 26–22 with every single Democrat voting against it&comma; fueling the suspicion about the potential abuse of the money by the left-aligned establishment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It didn’t take skeptics to question the rushed aid to Ukraine worth billions of dollars almost immediately after the Russia-Ukraine military conflict started&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In May&comma; geopolitical analyst Paul Antonopoulos wrote in <em>BLiTZ<&sol;em> that the aid money sent to a corrupt country like Ukraine would likely be stolen in corruption schemes orchestrated by Ukraine’s military&comma; oligarchs&comma; and government officials&period; While American conservatives continued to question the transparency of the Ukraine aid&comma; mainstream media largely ignored them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Last month&comma; however&comma; <em>The Gateway Pundit<&sol;em> published an explosive story about billions of dollars transferred to Ukraine in aid and then laundered back to Democrats in the U&period;S&period; via the FTX Crypto Currency system&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The story reported&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><em>The FTX crypto company gave at least &dollar;40 million to Democrat candidates and causes in the midterms&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The story caused mainstream media and Democrats to quickly step forward in denial&period; But the questions and suspicion surrounding the Ukraine aid remained&comma; leading to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s proposal for an official audit&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Commenting on her proposal’s rejection by the Democrats&comma; Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the vote makes it official that the Democrats are against transparency for the American people for an audit of Ukraine&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She expressed her determination to pursue the audit under a Republican-controlled House in January 2023&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But we take over in January&excl; This audit will happen&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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