Has Biden Lied About Ukraine All Along? Hundreds of Pages of Uncovered Memos Provide Details

[Billiejeens]

Amid the current ruckus regarding Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Ukraine, two things have been taken for granted.

The first is that when then-Vice President Biden threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless they fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, it’s because Shokin was deeply and irredeemably corrupt. No matter who Shokin was investigating, nobody in the West would miss him.

Second, even if Shokin had investigated Burisma — the Ukrainian energy company which had given Biden’s son Hunter a $50,000-a-month sinecure on its board — that investigation had ended by the time he was fired. Thus, there’s no potential for either corruption or a conflict of interest on the former vice president’s part.


However, new documents uncovered by investigative reporter John Solomon cast doubt on both of those bedrock assumptions.


Has Biden Lied About Ukraine All Along? Hundreds of Pages of Uncovered Memos Provide Details

 

[Billiejeens]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

 

[Baron]

 

[MarathonMike]

This is where old Joe can use his failing mental faculties to full advantage. "Uh what? Ukreene? Doesn't ring a bell."

 

[OldLady]

Amid the current ruckus regarding Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Ukraine, two things have been taken for granted.

The first is that when then-Vice President Biden threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless they fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, it’s because Shokin was deeply and irredeemably corrupt. No matter who Shokin was investigating, nobody in the West would miss him.

Second, even if Shokin had investigated Burisma — the Ukrainian energy company which had given Biden’s son Hunter a $50,000-a-month sinecure on its board — that investigation had ended by the time he was fired. Thus, there’s no potential for either corruption or a conflict of interest on the former vice president’s part.


However, new documents uncovered by investigative reporter John Solomon cast doubt on both of those bedrock assumptions.


Has Biden Lied About Ukraine All Along? Hundreds of Pages of Uncovered Memos Provide Details

I got excited--thought you were going to show us some of those records, but all you did was repeat the Solomon op ed which is being treated like gospel when Solomon is as partisan as the best of them. Solomon is relaying Burisma's and Shokin's side of the story. Of course they're going to say it's fake news and blame it on Biden. What do you expect?

 

[OldLady]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Let's see those documents, John.

 

[Stratford57]

Has Biden Lied About Ukraine All Along?

The question is: has ever Biden NOT lied? Democrats seem to lie as soon as their lips start moving.

 

[Billiejeens]

Amid the current ruckus regarding Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Ukraine, two things have been taken for granted.

The first is that when then-Vice President Biden threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless they fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, it’s because Shokin was deeply and irredeemably corrupt. No matter who Shokin was investigating, nobody in the West would miss him.

Second, even if Shokin had investigated Burisma — the Ukrainian energy company which had given Biden’s son Hunter a $50,000-a-month sinecure on its board — that investigation had ended by the time he was fired. Thus, there’s no potential for either corruption or a conflict of interest on the former vice president’s part.


However, new documents uncovered by investigative reporter John Solomon cast doubt on both of those bedrock assumptions.


Has Biden Lied About Ukraine All Along? Hundreds of Pages of Uncovered Memos Provide Details

I got excited--thought you were going to show us some of those records, but all you did was repeat the Solomon op ed which is being treated like gospel when Solomon is as partisan as the best of them. Solomon is relaying Burisma's and Shokin's side of the story. Of course they're going to say it's fake news and blame it on Biden. What do you expect?

You have mischaracterized Solomon completely.
What's fake
Blame what on Biden?
Do you not understand the story at all?

 

[OldLady]

Amid the current ruckus regarding Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Ukraine, two things have been taken for granted.

The first is that when then-Vice President Biden threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless they fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, it’s because Shokin was deeply and irredeemably corrupt. No matter who Shokin was investigating, nobody in the West would miss him.

Second, even if Shokin had investigated Burisma — the Ukrainian energy company which had given Biden’s son Hunter a $50,000-a-month sinecure on its board — that investigation had ended by the time he was fired. Thus, there’s no potential for either corruption or a conflict of interest on the former vice president’s part.


However, new documents uncovered by investigative reporter John Solomon cast doubt on both of those bedrock assumptions.


Has Biden Lied About Ukraine All Along? Hundreds of Pages of Uncovered Memos Provide Details

I got excited--thought you were going to show us some of those records, but all you did was repeat the Solomon op ed which is being treated like gospel when Solomon is as partisan as the best of them. Solomon is relaying Burisma's and Shokin's side of the story. Of course they're going to say it's fake news and blame it on Biden. What do you expect?

You have mischaracterized Solomon completely.
What's fake
Blame what on Biden?
Do you not understand the story at all?

I thought I had. Please explain what I got wrong?

Burisma's attorneys said the information against them was all inaccurate. Shokin said he was fired because Biden was protecting Burisma for his son Hunter. If you read Solomon's article carefully, even he is careful to say that the hundreds of documents he has MAY show that things were not as portrayed by the US. He's not reporting any smoking gun. It's innuendo by the crooks in this scenario.

 

[OldLady]

Amid the current ruckus regarding Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Ukraine, two things have been taken for granted.

The first is that when then-Vice President Biden threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless they fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, it’s because Shokin was deeply and irredeemably corrupt. No matter who Shokin was investigating, nobody in the West would miss him.

Second, even if Shokin had investigated Burisma — the Ukrainian energy company which had given Biden’s son Hunter a $50,000-a-month sinecure on its board — that investigation had ended by the time he was fired. Thus, there’s no potential for either corruption or a conflict of interest on the former vice president’s part.


However, new documents uncovered by investigative reporter John Solomon cast doubt on both of those bedrock assumptions.


Has Biden Lied About Ukraine All Along? Hundreds of Pages of Uncovered Memos Provide Details

I got excited--thought you were going to show us some of those records, but all you did was repeat the Solomon op ed which is being treated like gospel when Solomon is as partisan as the best of them. Solomon is relaying Burisma's and Shokin's side of the story. Of course they're going to say it's fake news and blame it on Biden. What do you expect?

You have mischaracterized Solomon completely.
What's fake
Blame what on Biden?
Do you not understand the story at all?

I thought I had. Please explain what I got wrong?

Burisma's attorneys said the information against them was all inaccurate. Shokin said he was fired because Biden was protecting Burisma for his son Hunter. If you read Solomon's article carefully, even he is careful to say that the hundreds of documents he has MAY show that things were not as portrayed by the US. He's not reporting any smoking gun. It's innuendo by the crooks in this scenario.

Billiejeens
What did I get wrong?

 

[georgephillip]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

 

[j-mac]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

 

[georgephillip]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

How much do you know about James Risen?

James Risen - Wikipedia

"James Risen (born April 27, 1955) is an American journalist for The Intercept. He previously worked for The New York Times and before that for Los Angeles Times. He has written or co-written many articles concerning U.S. government activities and is the author or co-author of two books about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and a book about the American public debate about abortion. Risen is a Pulitzer Prize winner."

James Risen: Whistleblower Complaint Shows “Trump Is a Habitual Criminal” Abusing His Office | Democracy Now!

 

[Bush92]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

 

[georgephillip]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

Everyone who knows Sean Hannity is a lying POS.

 

[j-mac]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

Everyone who knows Sean Hannity is a lying POS.

Nonsense...What you just wrote is a clear admission that you can't argue Hannity's points, nor anyone's in here, so you resort to vulgar response to deflect...Grow up.

 

[Billiejeens]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

Is it retards?

 

[whitehall]

The poor guy might have been suffering from some sort of mental impairment for a long time but he is on tape bragging about forcing Ukraine's prosecutor out to benefit his son Hunter.

 

[j-mac]

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.


BJ -

The real reason for the move on impeachment
To dissuade people from looking further into Ukraine and Obama admin corruption.

Solomon, in a story published in The Hill on Thursday, claims files show Shokin had two open investigations on Burisma when he was fired and that Burisma’s American legal team said the assessment of Shokin as incompetent and unscrupulous may not have necessarily been accurate.

James Risen wrote about Biden and Burisma in 2015 noting the hypocrisy of Joe complaining about Ukrainian corruption while his son's company was being ineptly investigated, yet by replacing a corrupt prosecutor general with one more committed to uncovering fraud, he made it more likely corruption convictions would result.

As Risen says in this interview:

James Risen: I Wrote About the Bidens and Ukraine in 2015. The Right-Wing Media Twisted My Reporting | Democracy Now!

"And I wrote that this whole effort by Biden to get the Ukrainians to crack down was very awkward for him personally and maybe even looked at as hypocritical, because his own son, Hunter Biden, was on the board of a company called Burisma, which was a Ukrainian natural gas company, and the British Serious Fraud Office was investigating Burisma and its owner, who is a Ukrainian official, or former official, and that the British investigation had been stymied because the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office had refused to turn over documents to the British officials.

"And as a result, the British effort to freeze Burisma’s assets had been overturned by a British court because they couldn’t get any documents from the Ukrainian prosecutor.

"And the money that had been frozen in banks in London immediately went offshore to Cyprus.

"Now, Hunter Biden was on the board of the company at the time that the assets were frozen. And he was on the board of Burisma at the time that his father took this trip to the Ukraine.

"But Joe Biden went there and said, 'You’ve got to get rid of this prosecutor, and you’ve got to crack down on corruption.'

"The significance of his trip was that it was backed up by the whole Western world.

"There were several large Western countries that were demanding that the Ukraine fire this prosecutor and get — and crack down on corruption.

"His actions to demand this, the firing of this prosecutor, and to ask for a greater crackdown had the effect — the possible effect — of making his son have even greater legal peril than he did by being on the board of Burisma, because it could have led to a more aggressive investigation of Burisma."

Democracy Now? Really? Talk about out there....whew!

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

Who the fuck listens to anything from Democracy Now?

Everyone who knows Sean Hannity is a lying POS.

LOL....Man, you triggered libs are hilarious....