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Posted on 10/20/2019 11:07:59 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to hear from the former top prosecutor of Ukraine who investigated a company that employed Joe Biden's son.
Graham, who is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, floated the possibility of receiving testimony from Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor general Biden bragged about helping to get fired.
"I'd like to call it the prosecutor into the United States and have him testify — the one that Biden had fired. Isn't it kind of odd that the only person that Biden wanted fired was the one investigating his son?" the South Carolina Republican told host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures.
Both President Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani claim Biden improperly used his role as vice president to pressure Ukraine to fire Shokin in 2016 to protect his son, Hunter Biden, from an investigation into Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company at which the younger Biden held a $50,000-per-month position on the board.
This stems from a 2018 video showing the elder Biden bragging about threatening to hold back $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Ukraine did not terminate Shokin from his post.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham wants to hear from the former top prosecutor of Ukraine who investigated a company that employed Joe Biden’s son.
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So stop talking about it and do it you big wuss.
Does anyone think Linda will investigate his long time pal Biden?
I don’t think so.
Why doesn’t he just do it, instead of talking about doing it.
The Trey Gowdy syndrome.......
I think lindsy risk some exposure here. He is treading water and flip-flopping all over the place, at least verbally. Yet I have not seen him call a single witness? And how many judges has he confirmed?
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There were 3 investigations of Burisma that had been started only one of which was “dormant” at the time that Biden extorted the firing of Shokin. It has also been confirmed by John Solomon of The Hill that Shokin had notified Hunter Biden that he was going to be questioned in one of the outstanding matters.
But even if this evidence of bribery under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act did not exist the question remains what was the “corruption” that Biden was told was so important that a US Vice President had to force the firing of a foreign government official? According to Shokin himself the Obama administration had been trying for months to have him bring false charges against a Ukrainian citizen for which there was no evidence of wrong doing. The Ukrainian, Dmitry Firtash, was a popular politician that favored Russian interests and Obama wanted him falsely charged so that he would be blocked from returning to Ukraine. Is this legitimate foreign policy or a further violation of the FCPA by compelling a foreign official to violate their oath and sovereign laws for the benefit of the US?
Shokin’s affidavit is available on line and it is pretty clear that Biden committed a crime against a loyal Ukrainian that Obama wanted out. Getting Hunter out of legal trouble may have just been a twofer for Joe.
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I think this might have something to do with what Graham is doing- “I’d like to call the prosecutor into the United States and have him testify — the one that Biden had fired.”
I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t know what the rules are regarding foreigners as witnesses, but I doubt Shokin can be forced to come to the US and testify unless he wants to do it...
Vice President Joe Biden's son joins Ukraine gas company
(BBC report) Burisma, a private oil and gas company in Ukraine, announced that it has appointed Hunter Biden, the youngest son of US Vice President Joe Biden, to its board of directors. The company, founded in 2002, is controlled by a former energy official in the government of deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
The move has raised some eyebrows in the US, given the Obama administration's attempts to manage the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. "Joe Biden has been the White House's go-to guy during the Ukraine crisis, touring former Soviet republics and reassuring their concerned leaders," writes the National Journal's Marina Koren. "And now, he's not the only Biden involved in the region."She says that by appointing Hunter Biden head of its legal affairs unit, "Burisma is turning to US talent - and money and name recognition - for protection against Russia".
The younger Mr Biden isn't the only American with political ties to have joined Burisma's board. Devon Archer, onetime senior advisor to current SoS John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and a college roommate of Mr Kerry's stepson HJ Heinz, signed on in April.
Mr Biden and Mr Archer are also managing partners at Rosemont Seneca Partners, a Washington, DC-based investment company. Both Mr Biden and Mr Archer have not responded to requests from reporters for comment.
In Burisma's press release announcing his hiring, Hunter Biden says: "I believe that my assistance in consulting the company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine." All this could be explained simply as a foreign energy company looking to increase its visibility in the US and spur investment. State-controlled companies currently account for 90% of Ukraine's gas production, but this year Burisma became the nation's largest private producer.
The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway adds that there may be other, less savoury possibilities:
<><> most disturbing is attempting to curry favour with the US government
<><> enlisting the services of the close family friend of SoS Kerry and the son of the vice president.
<><> Biden/Archer pitches that their "relationship network" creates opportunities for portfolio companies compound to greater outcomes for all parties.
Hemingway concludes that this seems like a "cliched movie plot": "a shady foreign oil company
co-opts the vice president's son in order to capture lucrative foreign investment contracts".
The Obama White House emphasised that vice president Biden's son's new job will have no influence on US foreign policy. "Hunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer," said a spokeswoman for VP Biden in the Wall Street Journal. "VP Biden does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company."
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Did Burisma include this pic in its corporate mailings?
but I doubt Shokin can be forced to come to the US and testify unless he wants to do it...
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Rudy already got Shokin to give sworn testimony. Linda is just pretending to be a tough guy.
*** I doubt Shokin can be forced to come to the US and testify unless he wants to do it...***
Who in their right mind would trust the US Gov’t enough to willingly come here to testify before our Corruptocrats?
I hope Rudy got the testimony on video, or Shiff and his merry band of rabid lunatics will say it never happened...
No one who isn’t going to bring their own lawyers, guns and money-as well as an armed security detail...
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