...only with Biden's approval, as the transcript indicates.Poroshenko picked Lutsenko. Not the other way around, as your transcript demonstrates.Biden: Well, I’m on Air Force Two and think we are going to stay connected. We just took off and I’m hoping this connection will stay open. [connection interrupted…] Tell me that there is a new government and a new Prosecutor General. I am prepared to do a public signing of the commitment for the billion dollars. Again, I’m not suggesting that that’s what you want or don’t want. I’m just suggesting that that’s what we are prepared to do. And again, it wouldn’t be finalized until, you know, the IMF pieces are written.Right. Quid Pro Joe merely held back a $1 billion US treasury backed loan guarantee, which was tied to $30 billion in other loans, until Ukraine changed their law requiring the PG to have a law degree and appointed Lutsenko as Prosecutor General.Biden didn't install Lutsenko.If they wanted to root out massive corruption why would they install Lutsenko, who had recently served prison time for corruption, never went to law school, and had recently got out of prison early at the behest of Hunter's fellow Burisma director?Not really. He simply made unfounded accusations. Wanted Shokin to ignore his oath of office and violate peoples' rights. He refused to do the Obama administration's corrupt bidding.Ukraine was a big point on their foreign policy. Putting Biden in charge gave it additional weight.Got any evidence of that? Biden was the Obama administration's point man in Ukraine. Why the VP? Hmmm.....That did not happen.It certainly appears that he was involved in a bribery and extortion scheme to get a prosecutor fired on behalf of Burisma. And it involved $1 billion of US taxpayer money.In other words we are going to harass a American citizen just because his father is running for President. He should fight this subpoena as his private records are just that. Private. Republicans are okay with Trump refusing to respect subpoenas but their overreaching subpoenas should be honored.
You can prove this?
Talk to the State Dept. They wanted Shokin gone before Biden ever heard of him.
George Kent’s testimony before Congress lays out exactly why the State Dept was sick of Shokin. It lays out why they wanted him removed.
And you are dodging the question. You said that the State Department wanted Shokin gone before Biden ever heard of him. Got any proof of that?
Yeah. George Kent’s testimony.
What they wanted Shokin to do was to let the anti-corruption bureau root out the massive corruption in his office. That’s not violating civil rights. That’s helping Ukraine become a functional democracy.
How does that work to eliminate corruption? Shokin was never even charged with corruption and Biden's "solid guy" had recently got out of prison for corruption and is currently wanted on more corruption charges.
Both you and I know that Quid Pro Quo Joe Biden is a corrupt piece of shit.
He installed his puppet into the PG office via extortion.
Show me where Biden demanded anyone specifically be appointed PG.
Poroshenko: Extremely strong motivation. One of the possible candidates was leader of my fraction – Lutsenko, who is the public figure. If you think that the political motivated figure would be not very good from your point of view, I recall this proposal. I do not propose, because nobody knows that I want to propose Lutsenko. In this situation I take all the political motivated figures out from this process.
Biden: All right, well, look, let me, let me, when you and I finish speaking, let me huddle with my team, talk over what you and I just talked about. I agree with you, there is a sense of urgency here.
Poroshenko offered to withdrawal the corrupt Lutsenko as a candidate, but Biden obviously approved of him.
After all, Lutsenko owed Burisma a "solid" because they got him out of prison early which is obviously what Biden meant when he said Lutsenko was "solid".
Biden: Well, let me, let me get in contact with the Justice Department and pursue that. I’ll get his name. And let me find out where that is, because it is in our interest, obviously, to provide professional assistance as quick as we can. So this gets up and started it in the right direction. So I will move on as soon as we hang up. I’ll put that in train and I’ll get back to you as to what we are, what I am able to do.
Poroshenko: Absolutely. Second.. Thank you very much indeed, that is exactly what I’m looking for. The second thing is that I want to thank you that you give me your word that immediately when we change the legislation and I appoint the new Prosecutor General, and it would be Yuriy Lutsenko as we agreed on our previous meeting in Washington and when it happen, we can have this loan guarantee and thank you very much…
Biden was the ultimate authority over it, obviously. Without his approval, they don't get the fucking money.
we change the legislation and I appoint the new Prosecutor General, and it would be Yuriy Lutsenko as we agreed on our previous meeting in Washington and when it happen, we can have this loan guarantee and thank you very much…
Are you fucking dense, colfax?
They changed the fucking law to make Biden's "solid" Lutsenko eligible by dropping the requirement that the PG, the top prosecutor in the land, at the very least have a fucking law degree.
WTF?
What would you say if Trump nominated a guy to be Attorney General with no fucking law degree, who has never practiced law, who just got out of prison for corruption at the behest of a Burisma director?
Understandably, the Ukranian people were pissed.
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