AntonToo
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Coat tails can be ignored, but not a vice president committing open blackmail.
Baloney, the Feds do it all the time with foreign aid as well as funds to the States. Politicians can't do it to enrich themselves or solicit aid in an election.
A president, Sec. of State, etc., can negotiate legal concessions from other countries, by withholding aid.
But NOT a Vice President.
He does not have that authority.
And clearly getting the Ukrainian Inspector General fired, was not for US interests, but for the interests of Burisma Holdings instead.
And that makes it illegal as well.
Sure looks like he had the authority from the President to use the US funds like that. Why can't the President delegate that authority to the VP?
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."
Explainer: Biden, allies pushed out Ukrainian prosecutor because he didn't pursue corruption cases
That does not make sense because Viktor Shokin was not just a prosecutor, but the the Inspector General, the most trusted man in the entire country. There was no one in the Ukraine government who was more honest.
If he were corrupt as a prosecutor and did not pursue cases where he had been bribed not to, how do you explain why Biden would be afraid of him investigating Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings? A dishonest prosecutor who fails to prosecute corruption is not a threat to honest people who have nothing to hide. The only ones who fear investigations are those who are corrupt and have something to hide.
Stop making up pure bullshit. Sholkin was corrupt according to just about anyone that dealt with Ukraine.
IMF, DoS, Ukrainian anti-corruption watch groups and HIS OWN DEPUTY quit in protest of the corrupt swamp.
That deputy was reinstated under new president(unlike Sholkin), which implicitly means current Ukrainian President also believes Sholkin deserved to be removed.
So what the fuck makes you think he WASN’T corrupt?
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