This is the old Burisma thing. Seems the years have gone by, but the far right is still banging on this drum. They say it is proof that Biden is corrupt and should be arrested, not Trump.
Interesting how different people can look at the same event and see exactly the opposite things. Bless us both. Many of you believe what Biden did was very wrong and what Trump did was not. I'm in a boat sailing the opposite direction, believing Trump violated his office, not Biden.
Could we discuss this? Trump withheld money from Ukraine that that country needed for weapons in attempt to get Ukraine to come up with dirt on one of his political foes -- Joe Biden, no less. But, wait, isn't it Biden we are told withheld money in an act of bribery? Did he? No. Biden withheld money because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin needed to be fired because he wasn't doing enough to investigate corruption. Biden didn't want Shokin fired because he was investigating corruption, like the far right would have you believe. And, the desire to have Shokin removed originated not with Biden, but with other officials. One reason those U.S. officials wanted Shokin removed was that he was not investigating Hunter Biden's Burisma enough.
Shokin was viewed as being so corrupt that there was a public protest (the same month as Biden's speech in which he said he was withholding money from Ukraine), hundreds of people gathering outside the presidential quarters demanding the president (this was a president before Zelenskyy) be removed from office. Though President Trump praised Shokin in the telephone conversation with Zelenskyy, this Shokin clearly was not one of the good guys. He needed to be ousted. Biden's joining his voice with those of so many others in calling for Shokin to be removed was good thing, not a bad one. It was a case of Biden fighting corruption, not supporting it.
Ukraine was known as one of the most corrupt places on earth. Viktor Shokin was much of the problem. He had been brought in to investigate all the corruption, but he wasn't doing anything. Among other things he should have been investigating, he wasn't investigating the company Hunter Biden worked for. Everyone was upset.
The same month Biden went before the Council of Foreign Relations and bragged about what he had done -- getting rid of Shokin, the people assembled in front of the presidential palace to protest against Shokin. This same Shokin was praised by President Trump in his phone call to Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Imagine, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich and everyone else calling for Shokin to be fired, and Trump fires Yovanovich, instead, and praises Shokin. That's what happened.
And there's the rest of the story, all the details the far right doesn't want you to know. To this day, they spew lies against Biden while it was there own man who was guilty of bribing Ukraine.
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