19 Facts About Alexandra Chalupa

Alexandra Stephania Chalupa was born on 1976 or 1977 and is an American lawyer and academic with expertise in International Security and political warfare.

Alexandra Chalupa attended Davis Senior High School, majored in Rhetoric and minored in peace and conflict studies at UC Berkeley, and received her JD degree from UC Davis.

Alexandra Chalupa then worked for Democrats, including Congressman Vic Fazio, Phil Angelides campaign for Treasurer, and in the White House during the Clinton administration in the Office of Public Liaison.

In 2014, Alexandra Chalupa volunteered to help the Obama White House during Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, including organizing meetings for the Vice President's Office and National Security Council with Ukrainian American leaders and other stakeholders.

Alexandra Chalupa shared her concerns with Ambassador Valeriy Chaly and his aide Oksana Shulyar.

The day after the campaign announced Manafort's joining, Alexandra Chalupa briefed the DNC's communications staff on Manafort's and Trump's ties to Russia.

Alexandra Chalupa initiated a protest with other Ukrainian Americans in Manafort's hometown of New Britain, CT calling for the Republican operative to be removed from the campaign and for a street in the town named after his father to be renamed "Heavenly Hundred" in honor of the Ukrainian protestors massacred in Kyiv demonstrating against Manafort's longtime client Yanukovych, as described in Russian Roulette.

Alexandra Chalupa testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee and FEC that DNC General Counsel Marc Elias, who secretly financed the Steele Dossier, blocked her from speaking with the FBI on multiple occasions.

Alexandra Chalupa finally spoke on the phone to the agent assigned to the Democratic National Convention who took down her information and passed it on to his colleagues in counter intelligence.

On September 14,2016, after she quit the DNC weeks earlier, Alexandra Chalupa was interviewed by two agents from the FBI at her home and she asked them to conduct forensics on her electronics that she suspected were compromised by Russian hackers.

In 2019, US Senators loyal to Trump who called for investigations against Alexandra Chalupa, including Chuck Grassley, Ron Johnson, and Lindsey Graham tried to pressure the FBI Director to provide them with the contents of Alexandra Chalupa's computer and phone imagining.

The Ukrainian embassy did not collaborate with Alexandra Chalupa to expose Manafort, as Alexandra Chalupa tested under oath.

Alexandra Chalupa began repeating the story in 2019 to US right-wing media, Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and House Intelligence Committee minority chair Devin Nunes.

One of the articles included in the investigation involved Chaly, who while under pressure by Trump's associates, provided a written statement to The Hill, and claimed that Alexandra Chalupa had approached the embassy in 2016 and tried to push the embassy to assist with supplying information on Manafort, including a request to allow a journalist to ask President Poroshenko questions about Manaforts dealings in Ukraine.

Alexandra Chalupa became convinced it was Russia-linked when her car was broken into and ransacked two more times but nothing was stolen.

Alexandra Chalupa mentioned the incident to Shulyar, who told her it resembled intimidation campaigns used against foreigners in Russia.

Alexandra Chalupa began receiving death threats in the second half of 2016.

The pro-Trump super PAC Committee to Defend the President filed a similar FEC complaint against the DNC in September 2019, alleging that the DNC ordered Alexandra Chalupa to investigate Manafort and Trump.

Alexandra Chalupa responded that she would welcome the opportunity to testify and push back against the Republican narrative about her involvement with Ukrainian officials.