Earlier this month, during a meeting in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut delivered a pointed message to Zelensky, Solomon reported.

“Murphy made clear —  by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by Giuliani to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including Biden’s family,” Solomon noted.

After the Kiev meeting, Solomon noted that Murphy  had “boasted that he told the new Ukrainian leader that U.S. aid was his country’s ‘most important asset’ and it would be viewed as election meddling and ‘disastrous for longterm U.S.-Ukraine relations’ to bend to the wishes of Trump and Giuliani.”

“I told Zelensky that he should not insert himself or his government into American politics. I cautioned him that complying with the demands of the President’s campaign representatives to investigate a political rival of the President would gravely damage the U.S.-Ukraine relationship. There are few things that Republicans and Democrats agree on in Washington these days, and support for Ukraine is one of them,” Murphy  told Solomon, confirming what he told Ukraine’s leader.

Solomon wrote: “The implied message did not require an interpreter for Zelensky to understand: Investigate the Ukraine dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and you jeopardize Democrats’ support for future U.S. aid to Kiev.”

In January 2016, the Obama White House invited Ukraine’s top prosecutors to Washington under the guise of fighting corruption in the Eastern European country.

“The meeting, promised as training, turned out to be more of a pretext for the Obama administration to pressure Ukraine’s prosecutors to drop an investigation into the Burisma Holdings gas company that employed Hunter Biden and to look for new evidence in a then-dormant criminal case against eventual Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, a GOP lobbyist,” Solomon reported.

After the Washington meeting, a new round of Democratic pressure was exerted on Ukraine — “this time via its embassy in Washington,” Solomon wrote.

“Valeriy Chaly, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States at the time,  confirmed to me in a statement issued by his office that, in March 2016, a contractor for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) pressed his embassy to try to find any Russian dirt on Trump and Manafort that might reside in Ukraine’s intelligence files.

“The DNC contractor also asked Chaly’s team to try to persuade Ukraine’s president at the time, Petro Poroshenko, to make a statement disparaging Manafort when the Ukrainian leader visited the United States during the 2016 election.  

“Chaly said his embassy rebuffed both requests because it recognized they were improper efforts to get a foreign government to try to influence the election against Trump and for Hillary Clinton.”

The pressure from Democrats continued as Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine if Poroshenko did not fire the country’s chief prosecutor, who was investigating the firm employing Biden’s son.

“Ukraine would have been bankrupted without the aid, so Poroshenko obliged on March 29, 2016, and fired Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin,” Solomon wrote.

At the time, Biden was aware that Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma, the firm employing Hunter Biden,  after a December 2015 New York Times article.

Solomon noted: “What wasn’t known at the time, Shokin told me recently, was that Ukrainian prosecutors were preparing a request to interview Hunter Biden about his activities and the monies he was receiving from Ukraine. If such an interview became public during the middle of the 2016 election, it could have had enormous negative implications for Democrats.”

(Ed. note: There is no implication that Hunter Biden is guilty, only that he was under investigation. Other sources say the younger Biden received a salary of $50,000 a month. Joe Biden should applaud the inquiry. If it turns out nothing is wrong, it should help his presidential nomination campaign).