The Ukraine just blew up one of the republican lies. This one about Hunter Biden.
I remember one of the far right radical extremists put up a thread about this when it started insinuating that it was something new and Biden would be put in prison.
It's not a new investigation. It was an investigation into the old investigation. Which both investigations came to the same conclusion. Hunter and Joe Biden didn't do anything illegal or wrong.
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You far right radical extremist liars need to find a new lie.
Audit probed energy company Burisma, of which Biden was a board member from 2014-2019
www.theguardian.com
Who said anything about hunter Biden being investigated? I knew he was subject to the matter, but they’re investigating joe Biden, not hunter biden. Hunter wasn’t the one who held up aid to oust Viktor shokin, the AG who was investigating burisma at the time. The same guys burismas lawyers in the US petitioned the state department to fire (...lets stop and think why would a foreign business under investigation petition the US state department to fire a prosecutor in their own country?) and then joe pressured Ukraine to do so a couple of days later. Those same burisma lawyers are the ones who later admitted to making things up about shokin, just to cover their ass. While shokin was being ousted the president of Ukraine told Biden, “I asked for his resignation even though he did nothing wrong.”
No they're not you idiot.
Joe Biden was doing the bidding of the Obama Administration, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and NATO, when he went to the Ukraine. He was ASSIGNED the job fool.
THE ENTIRE TRUMP CONSPIRACY, IS RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA. ONLY IDIOTS AND SUCKERS BELIEVE JOE BIDEN DID ANYTHING NEFARIOUS.
This isn’t when he went to Ukraine. Wtf are you talking about? Viktor Shokin was the guy the Obama Admin wanted put in charge and they praised him. Shokin was in charge for a few months, did some massive raids and seizures against the Burisma oligarch. Shokin then wants to interview hunter Biden, and the rest of the board. Then Burisma lawyers in the US petition the US state department to oust Shokin. Then Biden tells pres of Ukraine he’s going to hold up aid if shokin isn’t ousted. There is no evidence of corruption against Shokin. Only thing cited is that he was moving too slowly, which is a strange argument since he was only in charge for a few months.
All of this is documented. The question isn’t about whether or not it’s legal for hunter Biden to be a member of a board. Boards exist, people need to be on them. That type of nepotism is certainly disturbing, and it’s pretty obvious that hunter Biden was selected to act as a shield. But it’s still legal. The question is what is Shokins alleged “corruption”? That’s all Biden has to show to shut up any of his detractors on this. Forcing the hand of a DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED government to oust one of their top officials against their will is a pretty drastic and an almost unprecedented move. “Moving too slow” is not corruption, nor does it make sense because he was making “moves”, and he was only in charge for a few months. And investigations like these take months to carry out. If Biden, or whoever else, can’t show how or why Shokin was corrupt and what they knew at the time...then the only obvious motivation for Biden to ask for shokin’s ousting it’s to protect his son/burisma as well as avoid a political headache of his son being on the board of a corrupt Ukraine oil company.
“Myth: Ukraine’s investigation into Burisma Holdings was no longer active when Joe Biden forced Shokin’s firing in March 2016.
The Facts: This is one of the most egregiously false statements spread by the media. Ukraine’s official case file for Burisma Holdings, provided to me by prosecutors, shows there were two active investigations into the gas firm and its founder Mykola Zlochevsky in early 2016, one involving corruption allegations and the other involving unpaid taxes.
In fact, Shokin told me in an interview he was making plans to interview Burisma board members, including Hunter Biden, at the time he was fired. And it was publicly reported that in February 2016, a month before Shokin was fired, that Ukrainian prosecutors raided one of Zlochevsky’s homes and seized expensive items like a luxury car as part of the corruption probe. You can read a contemporaneous news report about the seizure
here.
Burisma’s own legal activities also clearly show the investigations were active at the time Shokin was fired. Internal emails I obtained from the American legal team representing Burisma show that on March 29, 2016 – the very day Shokin was fired – Burisma lawyer John Buretta was seeking a meeting with Shokin’s temporary replacement in hopes of settling the open cases.
In May 2016 when new Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko was appointed, Buretta then sent a letter to the new prosecutor seeking to resolve the investigations of Burisma and Zlochevsky. You can read that letter
here.
Buretta eventually gave a February 2017 interview to the Kiev Post in which he divulged that the corruption probe was resolved in fall 2016 and the tax case by early January 2017. You can read Buretta’s interview
here.
In another words, the Burisma investigations were active at the time Vice President Biden forced Shokin’s firing, and any suggestion to the contrary is pure misinformation.”