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i read the comments under the referenced robert reich article in OP. the leftist democrat comments are almost uniformly unhinged, hateful, and furiously angry at anyone who doesn't agree with them or supports trump. the 2024 election is a powder keg and i fear that keg will be ignited no matter who wins. sad for our country.....
I ignored it because you're just beating a long debunked conspiracy drum which most rational people by now know is false. But since you insist on being taken to task, here ya go. This is a sample of fact checks on this claim from legit sources.
"The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden, while he was vice president of the United States, improperly withheld a loan guarantee to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor generalViktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son, Hunter Biden."
Source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspiracy_theory"
"Explainer: Biden, allies pushed out Ukrainian prosecutor because he didn't pursue corruption cases"
Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/"
"The inherent issue with this isn't whether Mr Biden called for the sacking of the prosecutor — he did, and boasted about it in a public forum in 2018. The problem is, the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed."
Read that again. "the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed"
Got it? The timing of Trump's claim doesn't even work.
So now the onus is on you to provide CREDIBLE sources saying that Biden pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin because he was investigating his son.
You need to supply credible references which prove that he did, not cheap attempts by you to discredit these legit sources. Show us what you got, other than baseless claims by Republican liars.
He is one of the fools who predicted the economy would be destroyed if Trump became president, then admitted to being biased in his mistaken view. He sluffed it off as economists never really know what is going to happen, but that obviously does not stop him from expressing his biased views.
Read that again. "the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed"
Got it? The timing of Trump's claim doesn't even work.
Read that again???? That is of no significance whatsoever. Couldn't Burisma hire Hunter to enable it to clean up a pre-existing mess? Come on, man!
None of the Ukraine-Biden corruption has been debunked. To the contrary, it is the falsehoods from your side that have been continually debunked.
I ignored it because you're just beating a long debunked conspiracy drum which most rational people by now know is false. But since you insist on being taken to task, here ya go. This is a sample of fact checks on this claim from legit sources.
"The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden, while he was vice president of the United States, improperly withheld a loan guarantee to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor generalViktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son, Hunter Biden."
Source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspiracy_theory"
"Explainer: Biden, allies pushed out Ukrainian prosecutor because he didn't pursue corruption cases"
Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/"
"The inherent issue with this isn't whether Mr Biden called for the sacking of the prosecutor — he did, and boasted about it in a public forum in 2018. The problem is, the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed."
Read that again. "the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed"
Got it? The timing of Trump's claim doesn't even work.
So now the onus is on you to provide CREDIBLE sources saying that Biden pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin because he was investigating his son.
You need to supply credible references which prove that he did, not cheap attempts by you to discredit these legit sources. Show us what you got, other than baseless claims by Republican liars.
"The inherent issue with this isn't whether Mr Biden called for the sacking of the prosecutor — he did, and boasted about it in a public forum in 2018. The problem is, the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed."
Read that again. "the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed"
Um... yeah... that's WHY Burisma hired Hunter: to get the "Big Guy" to pressure Ukraine into getting the prosecutor to BACK OFF of Burisma.
And of course, Joe Biden did EXACTLY that by using $1 billion in US debt guarantees as leverage to force Ukraine to fire the prosecutor going after Burisma.
Quid Pro Quo. Hunter gets a high-paying job for which he's NOT qualified, and Burisma gets the US (via Joe Biden) to force Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating them.
I ignored it because you're just beating a long debunked conspiracy drum which most rational people by now know is false. But since you insist on being taken to task, here ya go. This is a sample of fact checks on this claim from legit sources.
"The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden, while he was vice president of the United States, improperly withheld a loan guarantee to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor generalViktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son, Hunter Biden."
Source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspiracy_theory"
"Explainer: Biden, allies pushed out Ukrainian prosecutor because he didn't pursue corruption cases"
Link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/"
"The inherent issue with this isn't whether Mr Biden called for the sacking of the prosecutor — he did, and boasted about it in a public forum in 2018. The problem is, the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed."
Read that again. "the investigations by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office into Burisma were into a period prior to Hunter Biden being employed"
Got it? The timing of Trump's claim doesn't even work.
So now the onus is on you to provide CREDIBLE sources saying that Biden pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin because he was investigating his son.
You need to supply credible references which prove that he did, not cheap attempts by you to discredit these legit sources. Show us what you got, other than baseless claims by Republican liars.
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