Posted on 09/09/2023 11:45:10 AM PDT by george76
If there’s one thing we can say about Joe Biden it’s that he’s a boastful jerk who can’t keep his mouth shut. Over the years, Dems and the media have tried to spin Joe’s arrogance into endearing “gaffes.” Let’s be clear — Joe is not a lovable guy who occasionally misspeaks; he’s an arrogant loudmouth who believes he’s better than everyone else. This character flaw has landed him in hot water multiple times. His blend of pathological lying, rude comments, and excessive bragging always backfires on him. Case in point: his on-camera boast about successfully pressuring Ukraine to fire Prosecutor Shokin.
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That revelation became a Pandora’s box for Joe Biden that he never saw coming. However, his administration had a strategy: they chose to frame the ousting of this Ukrainian prosecutor as a matter of U.S./European policy, suggesting that Joe was merely carrying out directives.
All nonsense, according to a report from Miranda Devine at the New York Post, who reports that Despite Biden’s claim, “Europeans WEREN’T trying to oust Ukraine prosecutor targeting Hunter’s firm”.
The European Commission praised Ukraine’s Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin for his efforts to fight corruption in a December 2015 progress report published nine days after then-VP Joe Biden demanded his ouster.
The report flies in the face of Biden’s claims that the European Union joined his demands that Shokin be removed for being corrupt and obstructing anti-corruption reforms.
In fact, the Dec. 18, 2015, progress report, obtained by the New York Post, says that the European Union was satisfied that Ukraine had achieved “noteworthy” progress, including in “preventing and fighting corruption,” and thus was eligible for visa-free travel in Europe.
The European Commission noted that Shokin had just appointed the head of a specialized anti-corruption prosecution office, which it described as “an indispensable component of an effective and independent institutional framework for combating high-level corruption.”
And of course, there’s a Victoria Nuland angle: she lied to cover Biden’s tracks.
More from Devine:
The State Department memos included a personal letter from top US official Victoria Nuland to Shokin telling him that Secretary of State John Kerry was “impressed” with Shokin’s progress.
But Biden, Nuland and others later claimed that the then-VP was simply carrying out official US policy and that European officials agreed that Shokin was corrupt and needed to be removed.
“It was a policy that was coordinated tightly with the Europeans, with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank. But not only did we not see progress, we saw the [Prosecutor General’s Office] go backwards in this period,” Nuland, now Biden’s undersecretary of state, told the Senate Homeland Security and Accountability Committee in 2020.
So did this clown from the Atlantic Council:
Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, told the Wall Street Journal in 2019, “Everyone in the Western community wanted Shokin sacked … The whole G-7, the IMF, the EBRD [the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development], everybody was united that Shokin must go, and the spokesman for this was Joe Biden.”
However, none of the European bodies cited ever called specifically for Shokin’s removal or even mentioned his name.
Instead, two months after Biden’s pressure campaign began, bodies such as the IMF issued statements generically criticizing Ukraine’s “slow progress” in fighting corruption.
Meanwhile, Solomon reports that another influential international body was singing the praises of Ukraine’s corruption-busting reforms during Shokin’s tenure.
So, it seems everyone under the sun believed Shokin was doing an excellent job tackling corruption, except for Joe Biden. Why the exception? Most likely because Shokin was diving into the extensive corruption at Burisma, where Biden’s troubled son Hunter was conveniently “employed.” Even weirder is why the entire establishment lied to cover Simple Joe’s tracks. Time for accountability.
“Victoria Nuland inadvertently destroyed Joe Biden’s Ukraine coverup”
Makes it quite OBVIOUS why this Administration is so obsessed with Ukraine, even though it means ending the reign of the US and Europe being a great powers...now the world has moved on with us, with BRICS taking over for the G20, to the point that China and Russia don’t even send their leaders to the G20 anymore.
Joe Biden is the most dangerous politician out there except for Eric Holder.
Joe is dangerous not by himself but the people who are surrounding him.
He truly believes he is President in the vein of FDR.
He lives in a fantasy world.
Nuland ought to be in jail for engaging in a coup
Does it, though? Look where he is and where We the People are. I think it's backfiring on someone--but it ain't him.
He can be dangerous by himself too. Example: remember his constant referral to his first wife who tragically died in a car accident? He will also say his daughter was killed also. Notice how he never mentions the little girl’s name? Why, I wonder...because she was just a toddler (13 months) and frankly, she didn’t rate as a real person yet. But that’s just the beginning. After a few years had passed from the tribulation of the accident old Joe began reciting a “sure to bring tears to your eyes” lie that the man who was driving the other vehicle was drunk and he caused the accident. After a long time of maligning this poor man’s good name his daughter sued and won. All she asked for was a personal apology and a court order that he never repeat the lie again. The man was a hardworking farmer who never drank and the police report already placed the blame on his wife who failed to yield right of way. She was holding the little girl in her lap and the child was crushed against the steering wheel. It was 1972. (Not sure what laws applied to child car seats.) Joe had met his present wife a month earlier. I’m sure she was a big source of comfort for him. A wicked little man is Joe Biden and he did it all by himself when he still had all of his satanic marbles.
BINGO!
There...fixed.
btt
Victoria Nuland, along with Vindman, was one of the main instigators behind the plan to impeach Trump for attempting to look into Biden’s corruption in Ukraine. I suspect the reason she was so insistent that Trump not look too deeply into the issue is because she had been involved in the corruption in Ukraine during the Obama administration. She has been working hard to undermine our nation’s security for some time now. I wonder what regime she is/has been working for for the past twenty years? One in particular, or whichever is the highest bidder at the time?
But is Biden being controlled by Obama/Soros? Given his apparent lapses due to dementia it would make sense he was under their control and that would be even more scary.
FTA
Joe Biden’s a boastful jerk who can’t keep his mouth shut.
A** kissing Dems and media suckups spin Joe’s arrogance into “endearing gaffes.”
Let’s be clear —
<><>Joe is not a lovable guy who occasionally misspeaks;
<><>he’s an arrogant loudmouth who believes he’s better than everyone else.
<><>his character flaws landed him in hot water multiple times.
<><>he’s a mix of pathological lying, rude comments, and excessive bragging.
<><>his self serving boasts are ludicrous.
<><>his dirth of parental skills are a debacle called Hunter.
One coup?
There were no seat belt laws in 1972, the first mandatory seat belt law came from New York in 1984. The use of child car seats followed state by state as each state adopted seat belt laws.
Thanks. Good to know.
Open gitmo and fill it with these treasonous bastards all of them. Treat them all like the j6
Her name was familiar but I didn’t recall who she was/is. Found the following:
Ambassador Victoria Nuland was designated Acting Deputy Secretary [State Department] by President Biden effective July 29, 2023. She also serves as Under Secretary for Political Affairs and was senate-confirmed in that position in April 2021.
Prior to that, she was Senior Counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm based in Washington, DC. She was also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Distinguished Practitioner in Grand Strategy at Yale University, and a Member of the Board of the National Endowment for Democracy.
A U.S. diplomat for 33 years, Ambassador Nuland served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from September 2013 until January 2017 under President Obama and Secretary Kerry. She was State Department Spokesperson during Secretary Hillary Clinton’s tenure, and U.S. Ambassador to NATO during President George W. Bush’s second term, 2005-2008.
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