I liked the testimony of the deputy US Atty, under oath when asked if FBI had the 17 tapes.....he said he didn't want to get into it.
1023 went along the same route.
The tapes I refer to have been in existence since sometime in 2020.
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Wednesday that prosecutors have opened a criminal inquiry into leaked tapes that allegedly feature the country’s former leader discussing conditions for a $1 billion loan with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
The tapes, which are yet to be authenticated, were released on Tuesday by Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach, who long has aired unsubstantiated corruption accusations against Biden and his son, who used to serve on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
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In a Facebook statement, Poroshenko said the tapes were fabricated and described their release as part of a Kremlin-driven effort to “undermine bipartisan support of Ukraine in the United States.”
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If so they did a hell of a good job.
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Derkach alleged Tuesday that Biden promised Poroshenko in 2015-16, when both were still in office, $1 billion in loan guarantees in exchange for “keeping Burisma’s schemes and international corruption in place” by ousting then Prosecutor General Victor Shokin to prevent him from investigating the company.
But on the tape Derkach released, the two men introduced as “Vice President Biden” and “President Poroshenko” discuss replacing Shokin as a condition for the loan guarantees, but make no mention of Burisma.
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In one of the edited fragments, “Poroshenko” says he convinced Shokin to resign as a “second step” of keeping the promises he made to Biden in a bid to get the loan guarantees.
Shokin was eventually fired in March 2016.
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Derkach said he obtained the recordings from unnamed “investigative journalists” and claimed they were made by Poroshenko.
Ukraine to investigate leaked tapes with ex-president, Biden
Funny how things have changed regarding this issue.