Biden had a clear conflict of interest as his actions were definitely protecting the company his son worked for and got a significant income from.
Start with the fact that the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Ukrainian government has announced it has investigated Hunter Biden’s activities and there is no case there. Finish with the backwards timeline that the investigation Joe Biden allegedly shut down ended well before Biden demanded the corrupt prosecutor be removed.
This is a smokescreen to deflect from the efforts of Donald Trump to once again get foreign assistance to smear his opponents.
As Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb) said tonight after reading the Whistleblower report… “this is no time for Republicans to be circling the wagons.”
The prosecutor Biden worked to have removed (with the support of several allies) reported that he found no wrong doings by the company Hunter worked for, and the investigation had been dormant for a year.
Why would Biden want to remove a guy who claimed hunter’s company did nothing wrong?
The case was still open, it was only dropped after he was fired.
Because he was using the file to blackmail individuals in the company.
The man Biden worked to remove and the behest of the administration was no investigating his son’s company and had declared them free of fault.
Yes he was and the case was still open.
Who was? the prosecutor? Link?
threatening to withhold 1 billion + in aid unless a prosecutor is fired
yeah thats legit
Kyiv Post…Shonkin’s home town newspaper paints an entirely different picture of his firing…
thats the presidents duty
do you have a link?
mine say it was closed.
Where in the constitution does it say the president should ask foreign leaders to investigate his political opponents?
In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat.
Interviews with a half-dozen senior Ukrainian officials confirm Biden’s account, though they claim the pressure was applied over several months in late 2015 and early 2016, not just six hours of one dramatic day. Whatever the case, Poroshenko and Ukraine’s parliament obliged by ending Shokin’s tenure as prosecutor. Shokin was facing steep criticism in Ukraine, and among some U.S. officials, for not bringing enough corruption prosecutions when he was fired.
But Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia.
The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money.
Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was fired as general prosecutor, he had made “specific plans” for the investigation that “included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden.”
First, according to Solomon, the pressure was applied from late 2015 up to Shokin’s firing, indicating that this was a significant priority for Biden. Second, while Shokin’s unpopularity may have stemmed from the fact that he wasn’t investigating enough corruption, the vice president neglected to mention one anti-corruption probe Shokin actually was undertaking at the time of his firing: A probe of natural gas corporation Burisma Holdings, a company that sported Hunter Biden — the then-veep’s son — as a board member.
“U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia,” Solomon noted in the Monday report.
“The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money.”
The new prosecutor general noted that board members can legally pay themselves for work done under Ukrainian law, but only if that work is beneficial to the company. Prosecutors never determined whether that was the case in the Bursima-Rosemont Seneca arrangement because, well, the prosecutor who was looking into it was fired.
faithful execution clause
if you need any other knowledge let me know
Those are opinion pieces.
What do you think you’ve been posting?
You guys had a cow when you claimed (without evidence) that obama used the power of his office to subvert Trump.
Now it’s a duty of the president?
The Obama administration unlawfully used the full power of the US Intel agencies and DOJ to go after a political opponent based on the fabrications in the Steele Dossier.
Mueller himself said “no dossier, no investigation”.
now now… let’s stick with the topic
