Biden responded. “I followed the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine.
Somebody needs to ask him how he did that ?
So, according to Joe Biden at CFR January 2018 :
“And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t.I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. 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. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time. “
I am pretty sure that never happened.
For Joe Biden’s CFR “well, son of a bitch” story to even work with all the correct characters in place, he had to be talking about his Ukraine visit the week of 12/6/2015.
(From the WH VP schedule of 12/06/2015: “On Sunday morning, the Vice President will depart Wilmington, Delaware en route Kyiv, Ukraine. “)
(From the WH VP schedule of 12/08/2015:The Vice President delivers remarks at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Session Hall of the Verkhovna Rada of UkraineOpen Press)
The only days his story could have worked was 02/16/2016 or 03/29/2016.
Shokin removal from office timeline:
16 February 2016: Shokin submitted a letter of resignation.
17 February 2016: an official states he has taken a paid leave".
19 February 2016: press secretary Sviatoslav Tsegolko wrote they had received an official letter of resignation from Shokin
16 March 2016: official of the prosecution office stated that Shokin had resumed his work.
28 March 2016: protesters called for Shokin's firing.
29 March 2016: Shokin was formally dismissed by a parliamentary vote.
Joe Biden did not visit Ukraine on any day in March 2016 or any day in February of 2016. (according to the Official WH VP schedule taken from here:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog?page=32)
Joe Biden remarks 12/07/2015 re: loan and aid
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/07/fact-sheet-us-assistance-ukraine“With this announcement, the United States now has committed $2 billion in loan guarantees and nearly $760 million in security, programmatic, and technical assistance to Ukraine since the end of the Yanukovych regime in 2014. “
The 3rd 1 billion loan guarantee didn’t take place until after 31 March 2016 in Wash. D.C.. By this time, Shokin was gone.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/31/readout-vice-president-bidens-meeting-president-petro-poroshenko-ukraine
“The Vice President welcomed the efforts of President Poroshenko to form a stable, reform-oriented government, and stressed that this step, as well as the enactment of needed reforms, are critical to unlocking international economic assistance, including the third $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee.“
Biden did go to the Ukraine a lot. He might have mixed up his stories. But the only way his story comes close to working is if he was talking about the meeting in D.C. 03/31/2016, but Shorin was already gone.
Joe Biden is full of sanitary canal water....
