Their aims were profit
Oh and by the way also…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — As Rudy Giuliani was pushing Ukrainian officials last spring to investigate one of Donald Trump’s main political rivals, a group of individuals with ties to the president and his personal lawyer were also active in the former Soviet republic.
What were they doing? Relief work? Technical advice? Helping?
Their aims were profit, not politics. This circle of businessmen and Republican donors touted connections to Giuliani and Trump while trying to install new management at the top of Ukraine’s massive state gas company. Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies, according to two people with knowledge of their plans.
They were in Ukraine to trick or strongarm Ukraine into letting them take control of Ukraine’s massive state gas company so that they could have more money. That’s what they were in Ukraine for. That’s what they were “active” in.
The wrong guy won the election so their plan fizzled.
But the effort to install a friendlier management team at the helm of the gas company, Naftogaz, would soon be taken up with Ukraine’s new president by U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, whose slate of candidates included a fellow Texan who is one of Perry’s past political donors.
Rick Perry was there to help Trump’s friends and donors profiteer off Ukraine. Drain the swamp much?
Well, when you’re draining anything, the stuff you drain has to go somewhere. Ukraine is as good a place as anywhere to drain something to.
Mind you, they’re really not so much draining anything as they are putting in new alligators that aren’t supposed to bite them.
(In keeping with iknklast’s thought that actual swamps are valuable, useful, beneficial places, I think a more apt analogy would be draining a toxic waste dump or sewer, though even actual sewers are also valuable, useful, beneficial places…)
Draining an abscess?
Clearly you’ve all misunderstood this “draining the swamp” thing.
“The swamp” is Democratic politicians, donors, activists, or supporters getting anything they want, and/or simply continuing to breathe and exist.
Republican politicians, donors, activists, and supporters profiting off of the United States government is simply good patriotic business.
Hope that helps clear things up.