The Hill: Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.
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. read more
Awww what the…. that’s only about $3M, pocket change!
THIS JOE SUCK
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
If Biden has some sort of pysch issue that causes him to touch women of all ages when being in stressful situations I’d say to any woman (of any age) to make sure there’s a piece of furniture, door or other people between Biden or themselves at all times.
Anyway, this could be worse then the whole “inappropriate touching and hair-smelling mess going on now) especially if the ex-prosecutor gets to testify about the investigation of Hunter Biden’s employer. I suspect that this will be the fatal nail in Biden’s run.
Is Biden an easy target for everyone because he’s a privileged white man?
True for progressives, I think. But not for Conservatives. No, no. We target him because he’s a creepy, perverted, plagiarizing, demented, condescending, Liberal sh!tbag asshole.
Stand-up, Chuck! Show us your shotgun!
Jimmy, you forgot “corrupt”.
Joey Biden: he’s a Creepy, Groping, Hair Sniffing, Plagiarizing, Crooked Son Enabling, White Privilege Apologizing, Gaffe Producing, Three Time Loser. He’s got more lost baggage than the Titanic. How could he not be a good thing for Trump’s re-election. Run, Joey, Run!
There is a reason Biden is not living at the Obama house.
@Brown Eyed Girl: I am remiss! I guess I was thinking that my last three words covered everything. But you and Marco are adding meat to Joey’s bones!
Marco, Biden is the only one with the kind of resume you listed who suffers from a complete lack of self-awareness. Anyone else would be grateful they got as far in life as they have and call it quite. But, we are talking about Biden so there is that chance he will run.
If he runs I would send Obama a thank you card for such a gift with the note- This is your legacy- Hillary lost, all of your advances undone and your right hand man outed as a clown. May you live to seen 8 years of Pence after Trump serves another 4.
John Kerry has a step son who is in on the gas deal…
AG Barr?
DOJ, show us how that two tiered justice system works.
Biden, Too Big to prosecute, just like Hillary, Bill and Obama’s Crew.
The corrupt untouchables.
Biden has been promoted by the voters and Obama well past his intellectual ability.
Brown Eyed Girl: Corrupt doesn’t even begin to describe Creepy, Groppy Joe. I am convinced that a close examination of Joe Biden’s years as a Senator won’t do him in, because his MBNA entanglements in Delaware were too many years ago. His son’s business dealings are another matter. If his former friends in the clown car call him out on this in the next couple of weeks, he might find another excuse to stay out of the race.
Pelopidus: You are right about Joey’s complete lack of self-awareness. He forgets how his assumption of Neil Kinnock’s family history blew back on him when he was first running for President in 1988. Biden’s son, Hunter, doesn’t need this kind of attention. This would be enough to dissuade a normal man to keep out of the line of fire. But, thankfully, Joey is abnormal.
This is what Creepy Joe needs:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/01/amazon-caught-selling-nauseating-sex-doll-which-comes-tied-up-and-gagged-9085818/