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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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Are you going to believe your lying ears and eyes or listen to our gaslighting?
Lying rascals at AP.
They lie with impunity.
Oh. Okay. So why would he want the prosecutor investigating corruption at Burisma fired?
Not just lying rascals at AP.
Lying entire Media, the entire Democrat Party, and half of the Republicans in the Senate deny that Joe did anything wrong.
Who cares?
Nobody listens to what they have to say and they haven’t changed a voter’s mind in years.
Trump reaches 60 million people in 2 seconds with the click of a button on twitter.
We still look at old media here as the go to because we’re, well, old :)
I don’t know anyone under 40 that goes to the msm site for their news
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Per John Solomon:
One Investigation of Hunter’s company was still open. One closed due to a Technicality, that routinely and frequently are re-opened by one short form by authorities, a form that was being filed.
Joe Biden knew the Prosecutor was Investigating Burisma.
And who’s going to pretend Hunter and Dad don’t talk on 20 hour flights?
Are they going to say there’s no history of Joe propping up family to the tune of Millions with Companies that Joe can enrich or ruin?
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Fact Check: AP is a lying bag of crap.
Let’s see: Democrat corruption is justified because they’re the good guys.
And how dare Trump question it, much less than expose it!
Just because it is on video doesn’t mean there is any credible evidence it occurred. What were we thinking?
How convenient!
I guess all these “fact-checkers” are going to be sorely disappointed when Trump’s campaign puts Biden’s bragging about forcing the firing of the prosecutor by threatening to withhold US aid on high-frequency repeat cycle. Think they’ll begin to get a grip on reality then?
Thats gonna be a toughy for moonbat world.
Both can be true. The guy was corrupt and Biden wanted him gone to protected Jr. Everybody is corrupt in Ukraine and Russia. It’s part of their post Soviet culture and just how they roll.
AP is a complete joke.
I don’t trust the republicans with this, either. Everyone in DC is dirty or has a relative that is dirty, skimming off the Billions “influencing” shitholes all around the world. I just want to know how many US taxpayer dollars Burisma received through Ukrainian loans guaranteed by their good old uncle Sam. Is it really that hard to tell me?
We didn’t go $22T in debt overnight and there is no end in sight to the “non-governmental agency” gravy train.
This Ukraine mess is the tip of the sleazy iceberg of the deep state’s goal of one world governance.
The A Pee has your lying, corrupt back, “Cornpop” Joe.
A defense fund for Trump has purchased billboard space near Times Square and they are going to be running the Biden video in a loop, both sides with closed captioning. I think it begins this week if it hasn’t already. This is being paid for with donations.
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