Democrats colluded with Ukrainians to influence 2016 election, not Russians

Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities in January 2016 to discuss two investigations with Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).

1. In 2014 the FBI shut down an investigation in whether Paul Manafort received undeclared payments from the party of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. At the 2016 meeting in the Obama White house, the Obama officails asked Ukrainian investigators from their National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) if they could locate new evidence about the this case, in anticipation of releasing this information when Manfort joined Trump's campaign, which he did March 31, 2016. US officials then leaked this evidence to US journalists, who published it in May 2016. "Somebody kept this black ledger [evidence] secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious," said Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor. This evidence was leaked dispite Kholodnytskyy orders that evidence should remain secret during any investigation in order to ensure a fair trial. NABU also told US Journalists this evidence "showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the campaign in August 2016. A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU’s release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine’s parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign."
According to Kostiantyn Kulyk - deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s international affairs office, evidence of other US citizens receiving illegal payments was presented but the Obama team was only interested in Manafort.

2. One of the other cases involved a Ukrainian Energy company paying Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter more that $3M. U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Hunter Biden probe and allow the FBI to take it over. "The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Ukraine’s chief prosecutor in March 2016." The Biden case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.