Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

FLASHBACK, 2018: Joe Biden Brags At CFR Meeting About Withholding Aid To Ukraine To Force Firing...
Real Clear Politics ^ | Friday, September 27, 2019 | Tim Hains

Posted on 10/20/2019 5:32:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

FULL TITLE: FLASHBACK, 2018: Joe Biden Brags At CFR Meeting About Withholding Aid To Ukraine To Force Firing Of Prosecutor

In this clip from a January 2018 appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations, former Vice President Joe Biden seems to brag about threatening to withhold military aid to Ukraine as a pressure tactic to force the firing of a prosecutor he did not like.

In September 2019, House Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump over a whistleblower's accusation that he threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine as a pressure tactic to force the Ukrainian government to investigate allegations that Joe Biden's son Hunter benefited financially from the firing of that same Ukrainian prosecutor.





JOE BIDEN, 23 JANUARY 2018: And that is I’m desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of Kiev in terms of corruption. They made—I mean, I’ll give you one concrete example. I was—not I, but it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I got all the good ones. And so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders to—convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. 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.



(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; clowncar; delaware; joebiden; joeclowncarbiden; putinsbuttboys; russia; ukraine

1 posted on 10/20/2019 5:32:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

when did Trump instruct the DOJ to investigate this?


2 posted on 10/20/2019 5:34:49 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA—dj2-CY&feature=youtu.be


3 posted on 10/20/2019 5:35:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when the election goes their way.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Was this a quid pro quo of the Obama administration?


4 posted on 10/20/2019 5:38:45 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I hope people eventually understand that this is a clear confession of a crime under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It is illegal to offer an incentive to officials of foreign governments to act in ways that are a violation of their sovereign laws. Whatever reason Biden thought he was using to justify this is irrelevant. Even if Hunter had never worked in the Ukraine this would still be a crime because the prosecutor, Shokin, was coerced into resigning by Poroshenko when he knew he had done nothing wrong. The US was asking him to prosecute Dmitry Firtash without any evidence against him just to keep him out of the Ukraine. Biden used the ironic excuse that he was corrupt but never explained that these false stories were spread by US sources precisely because Shokin was NOT corrupt. Shokin has documents from his superiors that support his refusal to prosecute Firtash.

If the US can just decide who is or is not corrupt in any third world nation and bribe the country’s officials to do our bidding we have abandoned any pretense of legal foreign policy. The reason we don’t do this is that two can play this game and other countries can use our crimes against us in defending themselves from the same acts in our courts.


5 posted on 10/20/2019 6:15:09 PM PDT by Dave Wright
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Architect of evil. So, the ayatollahs were right about this scum. American POS ALERT! San Franciscan sidewalk crappers have more integrity.


6 posted on 10/20/2019 6:54:12 PM PDT by PGalt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

“former Vice President Joe Biden seems to brag about threatening to withhold military aid to Ukraine as a pressure tactic to force the firing of a prosecutor he did not like.”

There’s no “seems” to it, Tim. Slow Joe explicitly threatened to without the money unless the guy axed the prosecutor looking in to Burisma.


7 posted on 10/20/2019 7:08:47 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

8 posted on 10/20/2019 7:15:05 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum

BTW, 80% of small businesses closed in Ukraine since 2015.


9 posted on 10/21/2019 10:28:26 AM PDT by NorseViking
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson