Originally posted by: Sniper
Originally posted by: RustyTruck
Originally posted by: Sniper
All perfectly legal? Threatening to withhold a billion dollars in funding unless a government fires a prosecutor looking into a company that your son sits on the board of is perfectly legal?
That's not what happened.
"Biden's action was coordinated with other major players in the region and celebrated at the time because Shokin was widely seen as a failure.
Bloomberg reported that "the U.S. plan to push for Shokin's dismissal didn't initially come from Biden, but rather filtered up from officials at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation." In the same month Biden traveled to Ukraine, Bloomberg also reported, "hundreds of Ukrainians demonstrated outside President Petro Poroshenko's office demanding Shokin's resignation, and he was dismissed."
"This decision creates an opportunity to make a fresh start in the prosecutor general's office. I hope that the new prosecutor general will ensure that [his office] becomes independent from political influence and pressure and enjoys public trust," Jan Tombinski, the European Union's envoy to Ukraine, said in a statement when the firing was announced. The statement decried the "lack of tangible results of investigations into serious cases."
Note that the money in question was $1 billion in loan guarantees - not "billions" of dollars in aid, as Trump claimed."
Moreover, Yuri Lutsenko, a former Ukrainian prosecutor general who succeeded the fired prosecutor, told Bloomberg News that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe or Hunter Biden.
We fact-checked these allegations in May and found they did not add up. In fact, Biden's case has gotten stronger with time.
So, are you denying the fact that Shokin was preparing a corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, which Hunter Biden sat on the board of and paid Hunter Biden around $50,000 per month?
Biden said in his own words that he ordered $1B in loan guarantees to Ukraine be put on hold until Shokin was fired at a time when Shokin was preparing a corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, which Hunter Biden sat on the board of. Seems pretty obvious what happened.
The facts won't get you anywhere with these people. They are impervious to facts, truth, logic, knowledge or understanding. Best to save your breath.
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