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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Biden and others wanted to fire a prosecutor who was NOT investigating Burisma.
How was Joe Biden, as Vice President of the United States, in going out of his way to help get this terrible Ukrainian prosecutor fired for not investigating corrupt oligarchs and companies INCLUDING BURISMA - how was that supposed to help his son, who sat on Burismas board at one point?
Joe Biden did the right thing knowing that he and his son would come under scrutiny, knowing that this could potentially hurt his own political career. He did his job, unlike that terrible prosecutor (and unlike criminals and hacks like Trump, Barr, Giuliani, and Congressional Republicans - among others). Thats the bottom line.
Dont let anyone tell you otherwise.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)If it's true, Trump has been chasing a red herring...again
ArtTownsend
(439 posts)The then-vice president issued his demands for greater anti-corruption measures by the Ukrainian government despite the possibility that those demands would actually increase not lessen the chances that Hunter Biden and Burisma would face legal trouble in Ukraine.
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/25/i-wrote-about-the-bidens-and-ukraine-years-ago-then-the-right-wing-spin-machine-turned-the-story-upside-down/
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)The Democrats MUST call in Risen to testify
ArtTownsend
(439 posts)unblock
(52,196 posts)These people are nuts and will believe whatever nonsense foxnews cares to push into their feeble minds.
MissMillie
(38,549 posts)They're not interested.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)I just posted the story on facebook
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)vote for JOE...whom dump fears most.
Hav
(5,969 posts)because as far as we know, there was no reason for it. This is pretty much a fantasy conspiracy theory on the level of pizza gate. Circumstances meshed together with total nuttery. "At worst", the company could have been investigated by a prosecutor who actually did his job for actions that happened before Hunter joined the company.
It is indeed important to remind people that there were no investigations happening at the time Biden wanted the corrupt prosecutor gone. At the same time, and I may not understand the OP correctly, in the absence of any evidence, let's not start with insinuations that there was cause for fear of scrutiny for either Biden or his son.
Biden did his job as a representative of the US Government and he acted in accordance with and under guidance of the Obama Administration. He could talk about what he did on the record in public, there was no need to transfer recordings of these talks to secure servers, hidden away from the public.
Yet, Trump's base is this deluded that they believe that the video showing Biden talking about this is proof for corruption and his plot to retaliate against the prosecutor. They really believe that someone would be so stupid and arrogant to talk about and admit their crimes in public.
I'm not joking, they really believe that they have literal video evidence of this crime.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)...investigation. If I got the timeline straight, there was an investigation into the guy that is the CEO of Burisma, as an individual and then the case went dead for 2 years before that board was ever formed. And Hunter himself was NEVER the subject of any investigation, EVER, period. When the Obama administration and basically the ENTIRE FREE WORLD demanded that this prosecutor be dismissed, the only way that was related to the Biden's is that Joe happened to be the guy that had deliver the message. Any why not? Biden is the guy that told Milosevic that he would see him rot in the Hague (which he in fact did). That kind of thing was Joe Biden's wheel house.