Was this a quid pro quo of the Obama administration?
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.