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Fact Check: AP Says Biden Getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired to Protect Hunter Is ‘False Narrative’
Breitbart ^ | 25 Jan 2020 | Robert Kraychik

Posted on 01/25/2020 7:57:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The Associated Press (AP) described the matter of Joe Biden’s leveraging of U.S. foreign aid to pressure Ukraine to fire a prosecutor investigating corruption at Burisma — a Ukrainian energy company upon whose board of directors Hunter Biden sat — in order to protect his second son as a “false narrative.”

The AP echoed similar news media outlets’ mischaracterization of the above-mentioned event, including the New York Times, Snopes, NPR, USA Today, Vox, and the Washington Post.

In a column identifying differing perceptions of political goings on being related to varying news media consumption patterns, the AP dismisses Joe Biden’s admission that he threatened to withhold U.S. foreign aid from Ukraine if Ukrainian officials did not fire then-prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

The AP claimed, “[T]hose who followed a conservative media diet were much more likely to believe the false narrative that former Vice President Joe Biden called for a Ukrainian prosecutor’s removal to protect his son from being investigated.”

In January 2018, Joe Biden joined a discussion panel at the Council on Foreign Relations and admitted his pressuring of Ukraine to terminate Viktor Shokin in his former capacity as vice president and “point person” on Ukraine (transcript via RealClearPolitics):

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...

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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The AP echoed similar news media outlets’ mischaracterization of the above-mentioned event, including the New York Times, Snopes, NPR, USA Today, Vox, and the Washington Post."

Thanks for the list of your democrat butt-boys AP. You could add CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC but I suppose thats just understood among the DNC's group think specialists.

61 posted on 01/26/2020 2:39:53 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dear Fake News

Please explain why we have video of what the Biden camp directed you to call a “false news narrative”?

What “vital US interest” was Biden protecting when he threatened to withold $1 billion in aid?

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/27/flashback_2018_joe_biden_brags_at_cfr_meeting_about_withholding_aid_to_ukraine_to_force_firing_of_prosecutor.html

Oh the Biden campaign told you he was corrupt?

Did you verify it? No of course that would be “journmalism” something you are totally allergic to.

So let us assume that even if it was true what is the relevance?

A supposedly “corrupt prosecutor” was employed by Ukraine. In what way would that have any bearing what so ever on $1 billion in US Military aid to the Ukraine?

The two are completely unrelated issues.

The Prosecutor would have nothing at all to do with how the US Aid was used. He would be completely out of the loop on it.

It is an utterly absurd argument on the face of it! However, because the Democrat Fascist Party gave them their orders, the Fake News is, again, just doing what they were told.


62 posted on 01/26/2020 2:42:40 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: MNJohnnie

Oh look this. The Swamp knew about Biden’
s corruption LONG before the call they are all whining about

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived

The
Joe Biden’s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived


63 posted on 01/26/2020 2:52:12 AM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: kalee

For later


64 posted on 01/26/2020 3:28:41 AM PST by kalee
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To: Luke21

And in other “news” from the Associated “press”, the Japanese did not bomb Pearl Harbor, the Challenger did not explode, Jack Ruby did not kill Oswald and that woman in China was not eating bat soup.


65 posted on 01/26/2020 3:48:30 AM PST by laconic
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To: arthurus

See!


66 posted on 01/26/2020 4:38:37 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: arthurus

Me too BTW


67 posted on 01/26/2020 4:38:49 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Hunter = false narrative"

Perhaps in the sense that it wasn't just Hunter, but Kerry Jr, Pelosi Jr and Romney Jr as well. He was shielding a lot of payola.

68 posted on 01/26/2020 5:02:32 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: kiryandil
"“false narrative” is one of the Media phrases that lets you know the manure truck is about to dump its load."

Yep! At least they used their Thesaurus; they didn't say, "debunked".

69 posted on 01/26/2020 5:05:00 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Mr Soprano -

I am trying to pin down the date that obozo anointed Joe to be his Ukraine foreign policy point man. It is around early 2014.

Russia moves into Crimea in Feb-Mar 2014. In Feb 2014, Viktor Yankovych, Ukraine’s president flees/exiled to Russia where he lives today. Hunter joins Burisma in April 2014. Hunter’s lack of qualifications aside, why would VP’s son take a job (1) in a country that is on the verge of going to war with Russia and to whom obozo is trying $$$ to buy our weapons (2) where at minimum both he and his father have the appearance of an ethical issue? In 2015 (not sure on exact date) a State Dept official overseeing Ukraine policy raised concerns about Hunter in Burisma to staffer of Joe. He was turned away (if there were anytime for a whistleblower this was it, no?). Why was there no follow up to State Dept concerns by higher officials?

Burisma was under investigation since 2012 by Ukranian prosecutor Viktor Pshonka for tax evasion and corruption between the years 2010 - 2012. Shokin becomes prosecutor in 2015. US DOJ (a dept now known to provide false FISA applications) was concerned that Shokin was too close to Dmytro Firtash, who was connected to Russian organized crime. EU, bankers, wanted Shokin out too. Shokin asserts President Poroshenko asked him to wind down the Burisma investigation. I don’t have dates when this “ask” was alleged to have happened, or when Shokin first revealed this.

Joe gave his warning to President Poroshenko in Kiev in Dec 2015. When I heard it I was left w/ impression that Shokin was out by the time Joe left 6 hours later. Joe never said Shokin was fired within 6 hours, but that was my impression from his bragging. Shokin tendered his resignation in mid-Feb 2016, except he did not leave. Parliament dismissed Shokin by vote on 03.29.2016. It is reported that Joe called Poroshenko 4 times over the 8 days before the Parliament voted to voice US concerns”.

At best, Joe did not commit any crimes because the US really was concerned about Ukrainian government corruption, being tied to Russia. Nonetheless, he is unqualified to be President because he lacks the ethical temperament. His son never should have gone to Burisma,and neither of them acted as if there was a problem, especially to Joe’s VP position. At worst, there were crimes of corruption in which the VP is involved. An investigation is necessary to either clear VP Joe or to uphold the rule of law and prosecute corruption. The latter is not happening for the obvious political reasons ... one of which is that this may be a very wide spread problem in DC at all levels of government.


70 posted on 01/26/2020 5:29:59 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Even though it’s good on tape. These people truly think we’re stupid.


71 posted on 01/26/2020 5:34:16 AM PST by jersey117
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To: AnthonySoprano

Mr Soprano -

One other point. After Shokin was removed in March 2016, what was the final result, if any, of the Burisma investigation by Ukranian authorities? Maybe Solomon has written about this, I’ll have to go find out.

Trump’s lawyers made the point yesterday that when the new administration was sworn in, the corruption in Ukraine did not suddenly end.


72 posted on 01/26/2020 5:53:11 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

These organizations used to eat their own feces; since Obama they eat each other’s.


73 posted on 01/26/2020 5:57:14 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Fact Check: AP Says Biden Getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired to Protect Hunter Is ‘False Narrative’”

Over the target taking fire!


74 posted on 01/26/2020 6:17:11 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: LegendHasIt

Wait until the WuFlu turns up in the senate chambers.... /s

Really, these people are being exposed. Hours upon hours of dry lecture without the carefully edited and softball questions from the media.

It will be hard for the donkeys to run from this speech contest.


75 posted on 01/26/2020 6:25:30 AM PST by ptsal
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Fact checking” = doubling down on the big lie.


76 posted on 01/26/2020 6:29:14 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In his own words...


77 posted on 01/26/2020 8:40:22 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I really hope the White House counsel plans on using some of the information from the OAN investigatve reporting.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/28/oan-three-part-investigative-report-on-ukraine-corruption-and-biden-family-rudy-giuliani-and-chanel-rion-travel-to-ukraine/


78 posted on 01/26/2020 11:45:05 AM PST by rwa265
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Really? How can the AP call it a false narrative when Joe Biden bragged about it on TV?


79 posted on 01/26/2020 12:28:59 PM PST by 41Thunder (It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.)
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To: 41Thunder
How can the AP call it a false narrative when Joe Biden bragged about it on TV?

My question is, how can they call themselves a source of news when they lie right in our faces?

80 posted on 01/26/2020 3:41:09 PM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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