Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman and the Great Naftogaz ‘Quid Pro Quo’

“Take her out”. That line from an audio record­ing of Pres­i­dent Trump that rocked the polit­i­cal world in DC on the final day of the Democ­rats’ impeach­ment case against Trump in the Sen­ate impeach­ment tri­al in part because it made clear that the whole #UkraineGate scheme was up and run­ning by at least as ear­ly as April 2018. As we’re going to see in this post, per­haps the most sig­nif­i­cant aspect of this leaked audio arriv­ing at this moment is that it’s a time­ly reminder that there is an entire chap­ter of the #UkraineGate sto­ry that’s been large­ly ignored up to now. The Naftogaz chap­ter. That’s what this post is going to cov­er: the basic facts about this Naftogaz side of the #UkraineGate sto­ry. The basic sor­did scan­dalous facts.