Through all the Years, There's still no Direct Evidence

Burisma, Burisma, Burisma. Republicans won't let it go. It echoes down through the years, the Republicans screaming at how corrupt, corrupt, corrupt the Bidens are. 

No, no, don't hang up. This is a story that needs repeating. Republicans need to know the full of the facts. If you let it go, well, they won't, and their version will win. The truth does not always have the loudest voice, but the loudest voice is usually taken as the truth.

So, we've got to make our voice loud.

Let's start back in the day when one Viktor Shokin was prosecutor in the land of  Ukraine. Yes, our story shall begin with Viktor, Viktor Shokin. They hired Vik to investigate crime cases, large crime cases.

But, he wasn't doing much of a job.

Much of the international community could see he was derelict of his duties. Indeed, the public could see he was derelict. They raised up in protest, filling the area in front of the presidential palace to demand that Shokin be fired.

Oh, this will need to be checked out: "He never went after any corrupt individuals at all" and "never prosecuted any high-profile cases of corruption." That's according to Mike Carpenter, an advisor to then-Vice President Joe Biden. 

Surely, there is a record of his cases. Someone should check it out to see if he did prosecute any high-profile cases.

Enter a man named Joe Biden, who, as we said, was then the vice president. Joe went a visiting to Ukraine and got himself in trouble by demanding Ukraine fire Shokin. Biden didn't like Shokin. He, just like everyone else, wanted him canned. Now, Joe had some money to give Ukraine -- $1 billion -- so he decided to leverage it. Either the Ukrainians fire Shokin, or they didn't get the money.

Yes, Biden took heat and has been taking heat ever since for "bribing" the Ukrainians. And, as the story goes, Joe sought to get Shokin fired because Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings, a company of which Joe's son -- that would be Hunter Biden -- sat on the board of directors.   

And, there is much of the tale of how Biden "bribed" Ukraine. All in a nutshell.

Time for a quote. We need to know if Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings. Word is he was and word is he wasn't. We need the truth, here.

Here's what a CNN story had to say: "While there had been an investigation of the company, Shokin's former deputy, Vitaliy Kasko, has said that it was dormant at the time of Joe Biden's intervention. (The former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, George Kent, testified in Trump's impeachment inquiry that Shokin was corrupt; the US and its allies had made a coordinated effort to oust him.)" 

Kasko would have known if the investigation had went dormant. He said it had. That is pretty good evidence. 

It all leaves you wondering, doesn't it? And, hasn't this been investigated time and time again? 

Yes.

Republican Senate committees in 2020 found no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden. Nor has the current Republican House committee investigation turned anything up as of this month, per Wikipedia.

"There's no evidence that Joe Biden got money, or that Joe Biden, you know, agreed to do something so that Hunter could get the money," one GOP lawmaker told CNN. "There's just no evidence of that."

After Shokin was fired, Ukrainian prosecutors went back and audited the old cases, including Burisma, and found no evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.

There are tons of voters who don't like Biden. That's cool. But laying an accusation on him that has no evidence behind it is not fair. Just say you don't like Biden, and leave it at that, without smearing him with false accusations.