Here are the exact words from the prosecutor forced to step down by Biden. I have selected the key parts from Viktor Shokin’s sworn affidavit which he outlines:
“(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”
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After reading that affidavit, I wonder why other FReepers have not put out those words like I have?
I looked up this Firtash fellow. It looks like the Obama regime got him indicted with bogus charges (ultimately thrown out by an Austrian court) . If Firtash agreed to testify against Trump they were willing to dismiss the charges! ( In other words not only trying to dig up dirt on Trump but quite likely to make it up out of thin air! Another attempt to frame Trump fail?)