Rudy Giuliani:Trump Is Being “Framed,” Document Shows Ukrainian Prosecutor Saying Under Oath…
www.realclearpolitics.com ^ | September 29, 2019 | By Tim Hains
Posted on 9/30/2019, 7:56:13 AM by Red Badger
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani produced a copy of a sworn witness statement from the Ukrainian prosecutor at the center of this week’s impeachment inquiry: Viktor Shokin. Shokin claims that he was forced out of office as Ukraine’s top prosecutor because he was leading a “wide-ranging corruption probe” into an energy company that was paying Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, $50,000 per month to sit on its board.
The affidavit was uploaded six months ago by “The Hill” columnist John Solomon and was reportedly produced as part of an ongoing criminal case in Austria.
“Why is this less credible than the whistleblower when this is direct knowledge and the whistleblower is hearsay?” Giuliani asked in the ABC interview.
Shokin alleges that he was “staunchly politically unaffiliated” and that then-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko ordered him to resign due to pressure from Joe Biden who was threatening to withhold $1 billion in subsidies to Ukraine “until I was removed from office.”
Shokin says: “The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings…a natural gas firm active in Ukraine. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Board of Directors. I presume Burisma, which was connected with gas extraction, had the support of the US Vice President Joe Biden because his son was on the Board of Directors.”
The Biden campaign responded later Sunday afternoon with a letter to TV networks including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News to “demand” that Rudy Giuliani no longer be allowed on the air.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JpaKaWsymxgAh6VERvVThSDLf8d207ZpT4_8o_cGnmE/edit
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani produced a copy of a sworn witness statement from the Ukrainian prosecutor at the center of this week’s impeachment inquiry: Viktor Shokin. Shokin claims that he was forced out of office as Ukraine’s top prosecutor because he was leading a “wide-ranging corruption probe” into an energy company that was paying Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, $50,000 per month to sit on its board.
According to Peter Schweitzer, who wrote the book on the Biden scandal, the actual amount Hunter Biden was being paid to be an unqualified board member on Burisma was the equivalent of a bit more than $83,000 per month. Schweitzer has the documentary evidence. I don’t know where this revised $50K came from but it seems to be from the Democrats talking points, as the higher amount comes to $1 million per year. . . while $50K is only $600K per year and doesn’t sound quite as bad.
Here are parts of Viktor Shokin’s affadavit that makes clear the role the Obama Regime played in meddling in the Ukraine government. Biden was their front man in the effort. This is the link to it:
https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement
This is Victor Shokin’s Affidavat that he swore to as true:
“c)Therefor, it is clear to me that certain US officials from President Obama’s administration, in particular, the US Vice-President Joe Biden, directly manipulated the political leadership of Ukraine on false pretexts, in order to prevent DF [Dmytro Firtash] from returning to Ukraine, as they were so concerned about him re-establishing public life there.”
“d) DF did not travel to Ukrain. Vice President Joe Biden did. Where he met with President Poroshenko on 6 December and addresses the Rada on 8 December.”
“g) This instance of interference in Ukraine’s affairs by US officials to achieve US objective (barring DF’s return to public life in Ukraine) was closely followed by another instance of interference, namely forcing Poroshenko to dismiss me because my actions as General Prosecutor did not suit the interests of the US Vice-President Biden and the persons connected to him.”
“6. The circumstances of my dismissal were that I tendered my resignation to the Kada at the request of President Poroshenko. Poroshenko asked me to resign due to pressure from the US Presidential administration, in particular from Joe Biden, who was the US Vice-President. Biden was threatening to withhold USD$ 1 billion in subsidies to Ukraine until I was removed from office. After I yielded to the President’s request and submitted my voluntary resignation, Poroshenko commented about it in the media. He said that I had carried out a colossal amount of work as General Prosecutor, which is my work on reforming different bodies of the prosecutor’s office, on creating the Specialized Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office, which enabled the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine to conduct legal work, and on creating self- governing prosecution authorities.”
“7. The official reason put forward for my dismissal was that I had allegedly failed to secure the public’s trust. Poroshenko and other state officials, including representatives of the US presidential administration, had never previously had any complaints about my work, however. There were no grievances against me or any allegations that had I committed any corruption-related (or, indeed any other) criminal offenses. Biden never stated anything of the kind either. Furthermore, all sanction in respect of Yanukovich and his supporters remained in force and were not lifted whilst I occupied the post. Moreover, these sanctions were extended.”
“8. The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings (“Burisma”), a natural gas firm active in Ukraine, and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, was a member of the Boaard of Directors. I assume Burisma, which was connected with gas extraction, had the support of the US Vice-President Joe Biden because his son was on the Board of Directors.
“9. On several occasions President Poroshenko asked me to have a look at the criminal case aganst Burisma and consider the possiblility of winding down the investigative actions in respect of this company, but I refused to close this investigation. Therefore, I was forced to leave office, under direct and intense pressure from Joe Biden and the US administration. In my conversation with Poroshenko at the time, he was emphatic that I should cease my investigations regarding Burisma. When I did not, he said that the US (via Biden) were refusing to release the USD$ 1 billion promised to Ukraine. He said that he had no choice, therefore, but to ask me to resign.”
“10. When Porochenko asked me to resign, the way that he put it to me was that he was making it for the good of our country, and that I should agree, also as an act of patriotism. I agreed to tender my resignation on this basis.”
“c) It was not Poroshenko being patriotic, it was Poroshenko submitting to the demands of state officials from the US administration of President Obama for reasons of political economy and the personal interests of the US Vice President Biden, amongst others”