Trump Is Pressuring Ukraine to Smear Clinton and Biden

[Zippyjuan]

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/trump-giuliani-ukraine-smear-biden-russia.html


In 2016, Donald Trump’s campaign learned Russia was working to help him win, and many of its members actively sought to exploit that assistance. In 2020, now possessing the powers of the Executive branch, it’s pressuring a foreign government to assist Trump’s reelection campaign. The effort consists of Trump’s agents lobbying Ukraine to smear his political rivals.

The smear campaign is being run by Rudy Giuliani, who — perhaps operating on the theory that a massive scandal boasted about in the media by its perpetrators is less damaging than one uncovered by investigators — is broadcasting his scheme. “There’s nothing illegal about it,” he tells the New York Times. “Somebody could say it’s improper.”

Well, yes, they could. It’s grossly, terrifyingly improper.

Giuliani is trying to get Ukraine to pursue two investigations: one against the last Democratic presidential nominee, and another against the leading candidate to be the next one. The first is based on murky charges that have circulated on the right that Hillary Clinton’s campaign conspired with Ukraine to gin up the Russia investigation. (This presumes that without Clinton starting it, there was no serious evidence to investigate Trump’s connections to Russia, which is absurd on its face.)

The second is based on charges that, during his time as vice-president, Joe Biden improperly used his power to benefit his son, Hunter. The Times laid out this accusation in a lengthy report last week. The charge is that Hunter Biden was working for a Ukrainian energy company that was being threatened with prosecution, and Joe Biden demanded Ukraine fire the prosecutor.

But Bloomberg News investigated this claim and thoroughly debunked it. Bloomberg reveals that the prosecution of Hunter Biden’s client had already been shelved at the time Joe Biden was calling for the prosecutor to be removed. And, as the Times acknowledges, the prosecutor Biden called on to be fired was widely considered to be corrupt, and the Obama government supported the prosecution of Hunter Biden’s client anyway. There is no quid, no pro, no quo in this story. Biden acted completely in line with administration policy, and his actions had no bearing on his son’s interests.

So why would Ukraine pursue baseless charges? Because its government has a strong interest in mollifying Trump. The Times reported last year that Ukraine halted its cooperation with the Mueller probe because it couldn’t risk provoking Trump. “The cases are just too sensitive for a government deeply reliant on United States financial and military aid, and keenly aware of Mr. Trump’s distaste for the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into possible collusion between Russia and his campaign, some lawmakers say.”

Having used that leverage defensively to get Ukraine to withhold cooperation into the probe of his campaign, Trump is now using it offensively, to gin up charges against his targets. His involvement and interest in the effort is transparent. During one of Giuliani’s meetings with Ukrainian officials, he “called Mr. Trump excitedly to brief him on his findings.” Giuliani tells the Times that his work has Trump’s “full support,” and he is making the president’s interest extremely clear to Ukraine’s government. “I’m going to give them reasons why they shouldn’t stop [the investigation] because that information will be very, very helpful to my client,” he says.

Trump is already burbling excitedly about the project. “I’m hearing it’s a major scandal, major problem,” Trump said on Fox News. “I hope for [Biden] it is fake news. I don’t think it is.”

Unlike the Russia scandal, this episode is one that Trump’s reelection campaign can undertake with the benefit of advance planning and some lawyering (Giuliani being at least technically a lawyer, or at least having the benefit of legal counsel he can consult). On its face, there is nothing illegal here. Trump is leveraging his power as president to compel a dependent foreign government to smear the opposition party. It’s just something no president has ever thought to do before. The powers legally available to a corrupt president and a party that has turned a blind eye to his violations of governing norms may be more terrifying than anybody has considered.

[TheCount]

You won't believe what his investigators are finding out in Hawaii.

[TheTexan]

Oooh scandalous!!

This election cycle is already starting to heat up nicely! At this rate it'll be the most exciting & action-packed election season of all time :cool:

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[Swordsmyth]

LOL

Ukrainian embassy confirms DNC contractor sought Trump dirt in 2016. (https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/441892-ukrainian-embassy-confirms-dnc-contractor-solicited-trump-dirt-in-2016)




As Donald Trump (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump) began his meteoric rise to the presidency, the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington to coordinate ongoing anti-corruption efforts inside Russia’s most critical neighbor.
The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), the FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).


The agenda suggested the purpose was training and coordination. But Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long — during the meetings and afterward — to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President Joe Biden’s family (https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived) and one that involved a lobbying firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump.
U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii Telizhenko, then a political officer in the Ukraine embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting.
Telizhenko, who no longer works for the Ukraine embassy, said U.S. officials volunteered during the meetings — one of which was held in the White House’s Old Executive Office Building — that they had an interest in reviving a closed investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions.
That 2014 investigation was led by the FBI and focused heavily on GOP lobbyist (https://www.businessinsider.com/manafort-russia-backed-politicians-ukraine-opposition-bloc-yanukovych-trump-2017-11) Paul Manafort (https://thehill.com/people/paul-manafort), whose firm long had been tied to Trump through his partner and Trump pal, Roger Stone (https://thehill.com/people/roger-stone).
Agents interviewed Manafort in 2014 about whether he received undeclared payments from the party of ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin (https://thehill.com/people/vladimir-putin), and whether he engaged in improper foreign lobbying.
The FBI shut down the case without charging Manafort.
Telizhenko said he couldn’t remember whether Manafort was mentioned during the January 2016 meeting. But he and other attendees recalled DOJ officials asking investigators from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (https://nabu.gov.ua/en) (NABU) if they could help locate new evidence about the Party of Regions’ payments and its dealings with Americans.
“It was definitely the case that led to the charges against Manafort and the leak to U.S. media during the 2016 election,” he said.


That makes the January 2016 meeting one of the earliest documented efforts to build the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative and one of the first to involve the Obama administration’s intervention.
Spokespeople for the NSC, DOJ and FBI declined to comment. A representative for former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice did not return emails seeking comment.
Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, told me he attended some but not all of the January 2016 Washington meetings and couldn’t remember the specific cases, if any, that were discussed.
But he said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election (https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/434892-senior-ukrainian-justice-official-says-hes-opened-probe-into-us-election). Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the U.S.-friendly NABU, after Manafort was named Trump’s campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.”
Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media. “Look, Manafort’s case is one of the cases that hurt me a lot,” he said.
“I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort.
“For me it was the first call that something was going wrong and that there is some external influence in this case. And there is some other interests in this case not in the interest of the investigation and a fair trial,” he added.
Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case.
“Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public,” he recalled.
Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gregory-craig-former-obama-white-house-counsel-indicted-for-offering-false-statements-related-to-ukraine-work-in-latest-mueller-fallout/2019/04/11/f9aa260e-5c53-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html?utm_term=.ab965f925928), such as former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig, also received money from Yanukovych’s party. But the Americans weren’t interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”
Manafort joined Trump’s campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016.
NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the campaign in August 2016.
A Ukrainian court in December concluded (https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/publication-of-manafort-payments-violated-law-interfered-in-us-election-kyiv-court-rules.html) NABU’s release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine’s parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (https://thehill.com/people/hillary-clinton)’s campaign.
The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting, he said, involved Burisma Holdings (https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?privcapId=59556166), a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden (https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden)’s son, Hunter, as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to an American firm tied to Hunter Biden in 2014-15, bank records show (https://www.scribd.com/document/404001731/Rosemont-Seneca-Partners-Court-File).
Telizhenko said U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Ukraine’s chief prosecutor (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/political-stability-in-the-balance-as-ukraine-ousts-top-prosecutor.html) in March 2016, as I previously reported. The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.

Telizhenko’s claim that the DOJ reopened its Manafort probe as the 2016 election ramped up is supported by the DOJ’s own documents, including communications involving Associate Attorney General Bruce Ohr, his wife, Nellie, and ex-British spy Christopher Steele.
Nellie Ohr and Steele worked in 2016 for the research firm, Fusion GPS, that was hired by Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to find Russia dirt on Trump. Steele wrote the famous dossier for Fusion that the FBI used to gain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie Ohr admitted to Congress that she routed Russia dirt on Trump from Fusion to the DOJ through her husband (https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/430717-the-family-secret-bruce-ohr-told-rod-rosenstein-about-russia-case) during the election.
DOJ emails show Nellie Ohr on May 30, 2016, directly alerted her husband and two DOJ prosecutors specializing in international crimes to the discovery of the “black ledger” documents that led to Manafort’s prosecution.
“Reported Trove of documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Black Cashbox,” Nellie Ohr wrote to her husband and federal prosecutors (https://www.scribd.com/document/407637358/NellieOhr5-30-16email) Lisa Holtyn and Joseph Wheatley, attaching a news article (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html) on the announcement of NABU’s release of the documents.
Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, who had a soured business relationship with him. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele.
The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which the FBI asked Deripaska (https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/404061-russian-oligarch-justice-department-and-a-clear-case-of-collusion) if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.
Previously, Politico reported (https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446) that the Ukraine Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton’s campaign through a DNC contractor. The Ukraine Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from the DNC staffer to find dirt on Manafort but denies it provided any improper assistance.
Now we have more concrete evidence that the larger Ukrainian government also was being pressed by the Obama administration to help build the Russia collusion narrative. And that onion is only beginning to be peeled.
But what is already confirmed by Ukrainians looks a lot more like assertive collusion with a foreign power than anything detailed in the Mueller report (https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf).

More at: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-ho...ssia-collusion (https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion)


A member of the Ukrainian parliament accused in his home country of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was identified in congressional testimony in October as a source for opposition research firm Fusion GPS.

Nellie Ohr, a former contractor for the Washington, D.C.-based Fusion GPS, testified on Oct. 19 that Serhiy Leshchenko, a former investigative journalist turned Ukrainian lawmaker, was a source for Fusion GPS during the 2016 campaign.
“I recall … they were mentioning someone named Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian,” Ohr said when asked who Fusion GPS’s sources were, according to portions of Ohr’s testimony confirmed by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Ohr, whose husband is Justice Department official Bruce Ohr (https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/15/bruce-ohr-steele-oleg-deripaska/), testified that she was not aware of Leshchenko’s source information, but that she knew he was providing information to Fusion GPS, where she worked between late 2015 and the 2016 election.


“His source information I am not aware of,” Nellie Ohr testified.
“You were just aware that he was a source of –” one lawmaker began to ask.



“Yes,” Nellie Ohr interjected.
“ Glenn Simpson? Or was it a source of or both?” the lawmaker asked.
“I’m not aware of a difference between them, just a source of Fusion GPS,” said Nellie Ohr, a Russia linguist who previously worked for the CIA’s open source research unit, Open Source Works.
Nellie Ohr did not describe the Leshchenko-Fusion GPS source relationship in greater detail, so it is not clear whether the Ukrainian lawmaker was paid, how he transmitted information to Fusion or who at the firm he maintained contact with.
Nellie Ohr did not testify whether she handled information from Leshchenko or if she provided it to her husband, who served as associate deputy attorney general and director of the Justice Department’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
Fusion GPS did not reply to a list of detailed questions about Leshchenko. One of the firm’s co-founders, Tom Catan, replied “Strictly FYI” in an email, copying others at Fusion GPS. He did not answer follow-up questions.

More at: https://truepundit.com/nellie-ohr-uk...on-gps-source/ (https://truepundit.com/nellie-ohr-ukrainian-lawmaker-was-fusion-gps-source/)

[dannno]

So... investigating somebody for something they did is smearing them?

That sounds like when they tried to tell us that Russia uncovering emails about Hillary cheating in the election was Russia meddling in the election..

Then after all that phony Trump/Russia collusion BS we hear for almost 3 years, Trump is fully exonerated. But the media doesn't call that a smear, even in hindsight.

Another reason why the media is dying, they are transparently full of shit.

[Zippyjuan]

So... investigating somebody for something they did is smearing them?

That sounds like when they tried to tell us that Russia uncovering emails about Hillary cheating in the election was Russia meddling in the election..

Then after all that phony Trump/Russia collusion BS we hear for almost 3 years, Trump is fully exonerated. But the media doesn't call that a smear, even in hindsight.

Another reason why the media is dying, they are transparently full of $#@!.

The alleged events were already investigated and found to be groundless. It is fake news.


But Bloomberg News investigated this claim and thoroughly debunked it. Bloomberg reveals that the prosecution of Hunter Biden’s client had already been shelved at the time Joe Biden was calling for the prosecutor to be removed.

[dannno]

The alleged events were already investigated and found to be groundless. It is fake news.

This is not fake news, this is already widely known and accepted:


The first is based on murky charges that have circulated on the right that Hillary Clinton’s campaign conspired with Ukraine to gin up the Russia investigation.


And sorry if I don't trust Bloomberg to get the full scoop on the Biden situation.

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/7/1855957/-The-scandal-Trump-was-counting-on-to-bring-down-Biden-is-already-falling-apart


For several years, Hunter Biden was on the board of a company called Burisma Holdings. The biggest investor in that company was Ukrainian businessman Mykola Zlochevsky, and at one point Zlochevsky was under investigation by the top Ukrainian prosecutor. In 2016, Joe Biden paid a visit to Ukraine and, along with other demands, complained that the prosecutor was corrupt and needed to go. Those are all facts.

For Giuliani, this is clear evidence that Joe Biden wanted the prosecutor canned so he would stop investigating the meal ticket of Hunter Biden. And for the Times, this was enough to run a story highlighting Joe Biden’s visit to Ukraine and indicating that Hunter Biden “had a stake” in the prosecutor being dismissed.

Only … there’s that’s time thing. Not only did Biden’s pressure concerning the prosecutor not come until after U.S. and Ukraine allies had made the same demand based on broad evidence that the prosecutor was corrupt; Biden didn’t visit Ukraine until a year after that same prosecutor had “shelved” the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma. According to Ukrainian officials, there was no investigation to stop and “no pressure from anyone in the U.S.” to close the case. In fact, it now seems very much that the prosecutor was protecting Burisma even though both the U.S. and the U.K. wanted an investigation. Biden was demanding the removal of the one man standing in the way of that investigation.


Biden’s demand that Ukraine crack down on corruption or face the possibility of losing U.S. foreign aid came at a point when corruption in the former Soviet state was rampant and when the U.K. was already demanding removal of the same prosecutor. The ouster of the prosecutor was also not something Biden came up with on the spot. In making the demand, Biden was essentially reading a document that had already been drafted by officials at the State Department who had been concerned about the prosecutor for months, explicitly because he was not following up on an investigation into Zlochevsky that had been requested by the U.K.

So the truth is that Biden was asking for the removal of a corrupt official who was not investigating his son, not investigating the company with which his son was connected, and not investigating the man who owned much of that company. If anything, Biden was demanding that the guy who was protecting Burisma be removed. The Bidens, father and son, had nothing to gain from dismissing the prosecutor. Hunter Biden did not have a “stake” in the outcome. These statements from Ukraine are consistent with earlier statements from both Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.

[Swordsmyth]

"We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do,” the Trump lawyer asserted.

“There’s nothing illegal about it,” he added. “Somebody could say it’s improper. And this isn’t foreign policy — I’m asking them to do an investigation that they’re doing already and that other people are telling them to stop. And I’m going to give them reasons why they shouldn’t stop it because that information will be very, very helpful to my client, and may turn out to be helpful to my government.”

In 2016, Biden reportedly threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees unless the country removed a top prosecutor, who was later voted out.

More at: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/443057-giuliani-traveling-to-ukraine-to-push-for-investigations-that-could

[Swordsmyth]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/7/1855957/-The-scandal-Trump-was-counting-on-to-bring-down-Biden-is-already-falling-apart
You've never heard of revenge?

[Swordsmyth]

Rudy Giuliani late Friday said he does not plan to go to the Ukraine because of concerns about who he would be dealing with there."I've decided ... I'm not going to go to the Ukraine," Giuliani told Fox News Friday night. "I'm not going to go because I think I'm walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president ... in some cases enemies of the United States, and in one case an already convicted person who has been found to be involved in assisting the Democrats with the 2016 election."

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/giuliani-urges-ukraine-investigate-democrats-154053982.html


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[spudea]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/7/1855957/-The-scandal-Trump-was-counting-on-to-bring-down-Biden-is-already-falling-apart

So Joe Biden is guilty of obstruction of justice for calling for the removal of a prosecutor investigating his son. Same same. Thanks Zip.

[William R]

Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived




https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived

[Zippyjuan]

Rudy cancels his trip to Ukraine.

http://time.com/5587640/trump-giuliani-ukraine/


President Trump's Lawyer Rudy Giuliani Threatens, Then Abandons, a Trip to Ukraine


NEW YORK — Democrats denounced a plan by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney to push Ukraine to open investigations that he hopes could benefit Trump politically, decrying it as an overt attempt to recruit foreign help to influence a U.S. election.

But Rudy Giuliani late Friday said he does not plan to go to the Ukraine because of concerns about who he would be dealing with there.

“I’ve decided … I’m not going to go to the Ukraine,” Giuliani told Fox News Friday night. “I’m not going to go because I think I’m walking into a group of people that are enemies of the president … in some cases enemies of the United States, and in one case an already convicted person who has been found to be involved in assisting the Democrats with the 2016 election.”

His statement left many unanswered questions about what Giuliani might do about his Ukraine concerns.

Earlier, Giuliani had said he would to travel to Kiev in the coming days to urge the Ukrainian government to conduct a pair of investigations: one on the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller’s recently concluded investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the other on the involvement of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son in a gas company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch.

Giuliani’s plan had seemed poised to create an unprecedented moment, that of the lawyer of the president of the United States seeking foreign assistance in damaging his political rivals. To Democrats, it was a blatant evocation of Russia’s meddling on behalf of Trump when he defeated Hillary Clinton.

“It’s stunning that the Trump administration is going down the same tragic path they did in 2016 seeking help from a foreign government again to influence an American presidential election. It’s appalling,” said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who chairs the House intelligence committee. He said Trump allies were indicating, “‘We’re going to do everything short of what’s downright criminal. Ethics don’t matter. Patriotism doesn’t matter.'”



Meanwhile, the president’s re-election campaign distanced itself from Giuliani’s efforts, saying it had nothing to do with the lawyer’s inquiry. Giuliani himself downplayed, sort of, questions about whether what he was doing was inappropriate.
More at link.

[TheCount]

Well, that was quick. Did they find Biden's birth certificate?

[AngryCanadian]

The same Rudy Giuliani that was spotted with both republicans and liberals in France at the MEK rally for the Iranian opposition.
When it comes to regime changes it seems both parties are united.

[Swordsmyth]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/7/1855957/-The-scandal-Trump-was-counting-on-to-bring-down-Biden-is-already-falling-apart
A former Ukrainian prosecutor general is speaking out after Vice President Joe Biden forced him out of his job. Speaking to ABC News (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-sidesteps-questions-sons-foreign-business-dealings-promises/story?id=63820806), former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin said he has “no doubt” Biden wanted him gone to help protect Hunter Biden’s employer.
At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings while Biden’s son Hunter was on the board earning (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/biden-son-ukraine.html) as much as $50,000 a month.
“Biden was acting not like a U.S. vice president, but as an individual,” he said to ABC News, “like the individual interested in having me removed — having me gone so that I did not interfere in the Burisma investigation.”

The connection was first revealed in author Peter Schweizer’s best-selling book Secret Empires and was featured in reports by Breitbart News.

In 2018, during a speech (https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived) to the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden bragged about strong-arming the Urkanian government.
“If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” Biden recalled saying, “Well, son of a bitch, he got fired.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/20/former-ukrainian-prosecutor-no-doubt-joe-biden-forced-me-out-protect-hunter-biden/

[UWDude]

You won't believe what his investigators are finding out in Hawaii.

this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY


The alleged events were already investigated and found to be groundless. It is fake news.


But Bloomberg News investigated this claim and thoroughly debunked it. Bloomberg reveals that the prosecution of Hunter Biden’s client had already been shelved at the time Joe Biden was calling for the prosecutor to be removed.

Oh, thank god, I guess I dont need to watch the video now.