Talk:Alexandra Chalupa

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Under the segment for the "FEC Complaint" the previous edit contained this: "Like the 2017 complaint, it is largely a mischaracterization of the 2017 Politico article detailing her research efforts." with this link to a Fox News article on the FEC complaint concerning the DNC specifically. Aside from the editorializing Wikipedia entry, I believe that this person did not understand what was being published in this article concerning Vogels tweet. It makes it seem as if Vogel made a tweet in response to this FEC complaint and that he was calling it out, saying that Chalupa was not representing the DNC so this whole this would be moot, which is all completely wrong.

First off, this specific FEC complaint was filed in 2019 while the Vogel tweet linked to in the article is from 2017. His tweet was just a brief recap of his 2017 Politico article that was comparing and contrasting the Trump/Russia collusion allegations with the Chalupa and DNC/Ukraine allegations.

Second, his tweets were NOT trying to claim that Chalupa essentially did anything wrong. He is saying that she presented herself to the Ukrainian embassy as an independent investigator with no ties to any group, especially the DNC. This lines up with the later claim by ambassador Chaly that no one of the embassy knew of her connection to the DNC.

Here is the full 2017 tweet thread from Vogel that was used for the reference for this information.

https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/885181638929526785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E885181638929526785%7Ctwgr%5Edf39e2f0e0c9634544c871a21b94cd63676174f1%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdnc-hit-with-fec-complaint-for-2016-research-into-manafort Friedbyrd (talk) 02:06, 18 August 2023 (UTC)