Did he affect US policy when his dad was the VP?
I am not sure. Did hunter's relationship with Burisma and Nikolai Zlochevsky prompt Biden to use $1 billion in US-Ukraine aid to fire the prosecutor investigating him?
One billion is nothing to sneeze at. We could exert a lot of leverage with a nation like Ukraine, by using that aid money, and yet all we did with it was demand they fire Viktor Shokin.
Shokin's inaction prompted international calls for his ouster and ultimately resulted in his removal by Ukraine's parliament.
Without pressure from Joe Biden, European diplomats, the International Monetary Fund and other international organizations, Shokin would not have been fired, said Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Corruption Action Centre in Kiev.
"Civil society organizations in Ukraine were pressing for his resignation," Kaleniuk said, "but no one would have cared if there had not been voices from outside this country calling on him to go."
Is any of the above true?
Shokin worked for the Government of Ukraine. He had only been the Prosecutor General of Ukraine for just over a year.
With all the leverage that $1 billion freaking damn dollars in foreign aid provides, and we blew it all on getting this one man fired??? Sorry, but we could have gotten Ukraine to do a lot more than just fire that guy, with that $1 billion.
Skokin was probably fired, and replaced with a man Joe Biden called "solid," so his son Hunter could escape a criminal investigation, and prevent a huge scandal from tarnishing the Obama administration.