Posted on 02/01/2022 9:02:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In 2016, Burisma Holdings was being investigated by Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin while then-Vice President Joe Biden’s Hunter sat on the company’s board making $83,000. So Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine unless they fired Shokin.
Biden argued that his actions were above board because he was carrying out the “official policy” of the Obama administration to root out corruption in Ukraine. “It was a fully transparent policy carried out in front of the whole world and fully, fully embraced by the international community of democracies,” he claimed.
But according to official memos seen by Just The News, this is not the case. Instead, these memos indicate that U.S. State Department officials were “impressed” with Shokin’s anti-corruption plan and fully supportive of his efforts—undermining a key narrative during the Democrats’ first partisan impeachment of President Trump.
During the trial, House Democrats maintained that Shokin was fired because State Department officials weren’t happy with his anti-corruption efforts, not because he was investigating Burisma. But these memos obtained by Just the News and the Southeastern Legal Foundation under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that senior State Department officials, including then-Secretary of State John Kerry, were “impressed” with Shokin’s efforts.
“We have been impressed with the ambitious reform and anti-corruption agenda of your government,” then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland personally wrote Shokin on behalf of Secretary of State John Kerry on June 9, 2015.
Nuland currently serves as Biden’s undersecretary of state.
“The ongoing reform of your office, law enforcement, and the judiciary will enable you to investigate and prosecute corruption and other crimes in an effective, fair, and transparent manner,” Nuland added. “The United States fully supports your government’s efforts to fight corruption
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The letter praising Shokin’s performance came a mere six months before Biden successfully pressured Ukrainian officials to fire Shokin. This undermines the Democrats’ impeachment narrative and Biden’s justification for Shokin’s firing. As such, this new evidence supports allegations that Biden’s effort to get Shokin fire was motivated by personal reasons.
But perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this new development is that these memos were not provided to Trump’s impeachment defense team.
I am SHOCKED!!
Not really.
But that's not meddling at all, like the bad bogeyman Putin meddles, because Biden and his war-mongering neocons are all about "Freedom!" and "Democracy!"
Butt butt orange man bad /s🙄.
The terrible thing is that the damage is already done and can’t be undone. The personal damage to President Trump and his family is lasting. The damage to the country is monumental and ongoing. Where does President Trump go to get his reputation back? How does he ever get over those two malicious “impeachments?” How does he ever get over what happened in 2020? He can’t seem to put it behind him and move forward. And the worst thing of all is that the perpetrators of the crimes against him and the nation have not and never will be held to account.
RE: Where does President Trump go to get his reputation back?
Honestly, Trump’s reputation was never lost. It’s those who pushed the sham impeachment whose reputations will be put to shame by history.
Adam Schiff should be number 1 in the Hall of Shame.
I’d comment but the Bombshell blew me up.
Bombshell and boom after boom and all the ammo is hitting an empty desert:-)
Who is surprised by this?
BOMBSHELL as in fragments of unexploded projectile or a dud so created by the MSM ignoring it long enough.
I realize no one will report on this but WOW that really is a bombshell. June was 4 months after Shokin was hired and 6 months before Biden demanded he be fired if I have the timeline correct.
Please nobody flame me cause I’m admitting up front I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I realize this undermines Biden’s defense of his actions, but how does this undermine the case against Trump?
Bombshell and boom after boom and all the ammo is hitting an empty desert:-)
...tik tok.... tik tok..... LOL
Yawn.
Nothing will come of it.
Victoria Nuland - Didn’t President Trump fire this b****???
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