The Ukrainian prosecutor Joe Biden got fired by threatening to withhold vital US financial aid says that the former Vice President was outraged after Ukrainian authorities seized the assets of Burisma - a natural gas firm owned by a notoriously corrupt oligarch who hired Hunter Biden to sit on its board.
The fired prosecutor, Victor Shokin, sat down with OAN News and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani to explain what happened when former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko told him to stop investigating Burisma.
“Yes, that’s what he told me. He came to me and said, “you are a patriot of Ukraine, we need this billion dollars. We are at war, and if you are a patriot you will close this case.“”
“My conversation with Poroshenko was in a phone call,” Shokin continued. “It was after we started seizing Burisma assets in Ukraine when Poroshenko called me and said “listen, this all has to stop already. Joe Biden’s temper is overflowing. This seizing of Burisma assets was the last straw.””
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In January, Shokin told Giuliani and others that he was removed at Biden’s request while he was investigating Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky, the former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources who. According to Shokin:
- Mr. Zlochevsky was laundering money
- Obtained assets by corrupt acts bribery
- Mr. Zlochevsky removed approximately twenty three million US dollars out of Ukraine without permission
- While seated as the Minister he approved two addition entities to receive permits for gas exploration
- Mr. Zlochevsky was the owner of two secret companies that were part of Burisma Holdings and gave those companies permits which made it possible for him to profit while he was the sitting Minister.
Shokin’s successor, Yuriy Lutsenko, confirmed Shokin’s account, said Shokin was trustworthy, and then went further to explain how Ukraine sandbags high-profile investigations such as Burisma and Zlochevsky.
“Mr. Lutsenko went on to explain that there is a unit called Specialized Anticorruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) which has under its purview National Anticorruption Bureau Ukraine (NABU) which investigates corruption cases that involved public figures from Mayors upward. He stated that the current US Ambassador protects SAP and NABU,” adding “His office has absolutely no control over SAP or NABU and can’t even ask what they are working on however they fall under his “control.”
Of note, NABU was established in October 2014 “by Mr. George Kent who was the Deputy Chief to the Mission in Ukraine.”
Lutsenko also explained that a $900,000 payment was made to Biden’s consulting firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC for consulting fees, and was for “services rendered for lobbying by Joe Biden,” according to the report.
via zerohedge
Poor Slow Joe, lol
Just like Hiliary hated when you brought up all those deleted e-mails, Joe now is upset you talk about his quid pro quo for his Son.
BUT, it’s all President Trump’s fault. lol.
Wow Democrats who are criminals against We the People only have to run for President and POOF don’t talk about their involvement in crimes.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/12/ratcliffe-obama-admin-asked-foreign-governments-to-investigate-candidate-trump/
“I want to recognize my colleague from Georgia, Mr. Johnson’s question, that he asked before. Is it ever okay to invite a foreign government to become involved in an election involving a political opponent? The answer is yes! It better be. We do it all the time. Have you that quickly forgotten how the Trump/Russia investigation proceeded? The Obama administration asked Great Britain and Italy and Australia and other countries to assist in its investigation of a person who was a political opponent from the opposite party. I keep hearing over and over again, “You can’t investigate political opponents.” We have a member of this committee [Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)] who was — as a member of this committee and the intelligence committee, investigating his political opponent, Donald Trump, at the very moment he was running to replace him as president. My colleague on the intel committee, Mr. [Joaquin] Castro, was investigating President Trump at the same time his brother [Julián] was running to replace President Trump. President Trump is the only one with the really legitimate reason to be doing it. He is the chief executive. We are in the judiciary committee, right? We do understand the Constitution, we do understand that the president as the unitary executive is the executive branch, and all power of the executive branch derives from the president. And the president can and should ask for assistance from foreign governments in ongoing criminal investigations. There was an ongoing criminal investigation into what happened in 2016. The Attorney General, [William] Barr, at the time of the July 25th call [with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky] had, long before that appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate exactly that issue. It wasn’t just appropriate, it was absolutely the president’s constitutional duty.”
Thank you Rep Radcliffe. I know you know the Constitution but the Dems you have been talking to do not.
Just curious though when Obama asked Great Britian, Australia, and Italy to investigate presidential candidate Donald Trump? I guess that’s how we got the Steele Dossier? I know it was started by Mr. Singer and then dropped once Donald Trump became the Republican candidate, and then picked up by Clinton, and also McCain gave it to the FBI thru one of his staff members. Just curious.
Also learned something new today thru your speech. Understand what a prima facie corruption case is.
“Prima facie cases are important for protecting the rights of defendants and checking the actions of police and prosecutors. Without such a system, many defendants might need to expend a lot of effort and money to go to a trial based on flimsy evidence.”
I guess Comey decided to flip this on to Carter Page and possibly General Flynn. Fisa courts I guess don’t care whether defendants have to have their lives ruined and expend lots of effort and money to get their reputations back, and there was NO trial.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/12/democrats-try-accusing-trump-of-bribery-after-dropping-it-from-articles-of-impeachment/
lol, Fartman tries to slip in bribery in the hearings.
Thank you Rep Gohmert and Rep Gaetz for setting him straight.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/13/joy-behar-biden-needs-to-get-tough-go-after-ivanka/
Hey Behar, Joe’s son is a cocaine freak who has no talent other than his father’s name. Definitely Joe should talk about Ivanka, a very established young businesswoman, who did it all by herself. Loving mother as well. How’s Hunter’s stripper baby mama doing? Yep suing Hunter for money to raise his child.
Yep Joe should definitely talk about Hunter’s role when Joe was VP. lol
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! GOD BLESS THE USA!