Biden’s Ukranian Probe
Above image: Joe Biden
The following is an excerpt from “Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukranian Nightmare” by John Solomon for The Hill
Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden
couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of
foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he
strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.
In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how
he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that
the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees,
sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t
immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
“I said,
‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I
think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in
six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the
money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.
“Well, son of a bitch,
he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,”
Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that
President Obama was in on the threat.
Interviews with a half-dozen senior Ukrainian officials confirm Biden’s account, though they claim the pressure was applied over several months in late 2015 and early 2016, not just six hours of one dramatic day. Whatever the case, Poroshenko and Ukraine’s parliament obliged by ending Shokin’s tenure as prosecutor. Shokin was facing steep criticism in Ukraine, and among some U.S. officials, for not bringing enough corruption prosecutions when he was fired.
You can read the rest of the story here: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
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