FriscoKid said:
Jimmy Valentine said:
FriscoKid said:
Joe Biden claimed on camera that he bribed Ukraine with 1B in aid. Why do you keep picking around the edges?
He's either a liar (well he is) or he got a dude fired that was investigating his crackhead son. And even giving all that, the main request to Ukraine, for help, was working with DOJ on an open investigation.
Let's get back to Mueller though. No collusion/No obstruction. You promised this board that is was coming.
I can post a bunch of links again showing you the answer to this question.
You can post links where Joe Biden didn't demand that a prosecutor be fired, that had an open case on the company that his kid worked for? That would be breaking news and change the whole narrative. I'd love to see them!
Reuters 2016
" Failure to tackle endemic corruption has derailed a $40 billion aid program that keeps the war-torn country afloat. If Yatseniuk falls, it would further delay negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for the next tranche of money, $1.7 billion, which has been on hold since October.
"Today, the General Prosecutor's office is a brake on the reform of criminal justice, a hotbed of corruption, an instrument of political pressure, one of the key obstacles to the arrival of foreign investment in Ukraine," Deputy General Prosecutor Vitaliy Kasko said in a televised statement.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN0VO1IIKyiv Post 2016
Deputy Prosecutor General Vitaly Kasko, who was given the job of cleaning up a corrupt, politically subservient and ineffective institution employing 15,000 prosecutors, quit on Feb. 15.
In this farewell press conference, Kasko cited corruption and sabotage by General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin in combatting corruption and instituting the rule of law.
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/kyiv-post-plus/criticism-fierce-as-anti-corruption-prosecutor-kasko-resigns-citing-obstruction-by-shokin-408136.htmlOrganized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project 2016
Public uproar followed when Shokin and his former deputies, Volodymyr Huzyr and Yury Stolyarchuk, allegedly tried to cover up for Korniyets and Shapakin. Mustafa Nayyem and Serhiy Leshchenko, lawmakers from the Petro Poroshenko bloc, said that the three top prosecutors had been pressuring Sakvarelidze and Kasko to drop the corruption cases, which Shokin denies.
https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/4929-ukraine-deputy-prosecutor-general-resigns-citing-corruptionThe Irish Times 2016
The European Union has welcomed the dismissal of Ukraine's scandal-ridden prosecutor general and called for a crackdown on corruption, even as the country's political crisis deepened over efforts to form a new ruling coalition and appoint a new prime minister.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/eu-hails-sacking-of-ukraine-s-prosecutor-viktor-shokin-1.2591190%3fmode=ampKyiv Post 2016
Both Shokin, appointed by President Petro Poroshenko in February 2015, and Sevruk have been criticised by the public for failing to prosecute any major cases, including those on the murders of over 100 protesters during the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014. They also failed to prosecute the cronies of ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych.
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/reform-watch/parliament-sacks-prosecutor-general-shokin-410909.htmlNew York Times 2016
"The United States and other Western nations had for months called for the ousting of Mr. Shokin, who was widely criticized for turning a blind eye to corrupt practices and for defending the interests of a venal and entrenched elite. He was one of several political figures in Kiev whom reformers and Western diplomats saw as a worrying indicator of a return to past corrupt practices, two years after a revolution that was supposed to put a stop to self-dealing by those in power."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/political-stability-in-the-balance-as-ukraine-ousts-top-prosecutor.amp.htmlBBC News 2015
"Mr Shokin has been criticised for what his opponents say is his inability to bring any corruption cases to court."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-34710373Ukraine Weekly 2016
"Mr. Shokin lasted 13 months, also with no major accomplishments to speak of, other than organizing the September 17, 2015, spectacle in Parliament in which video evidence was demonstrated allegedly showing Radical Party National Deputy Ihor Mosiichuk demanding bribes for his political services."
http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/shokin-dismissed-as-procurator-general/Kyiv Post 2015
AutoMaidan activists accuse Shokin of sabotaging all high-profile investigations, including corruption cases against incumbent and former top officials and the investigation into the murder of over 100 protesters during the EuroMaidan Revolution.
Shokin also faces accusations of derailing his deputy Davit Sakvarelidze's reform, which envisages hiring new prosecutors in a competitive and transparent process. He has also reportedly failed to declare luxury property, according to recent journalistic investigations.
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/protesters-drive-to-poroshenkos-mansion-to-demand-dismissal-of-shokin-401106.htmlAljazeera 2015
"Since he was appointed as prosecutor general by Poroshenko in February, Shokin has not brought any cases of corruption to court involving Yanukovich or his partners. Nor has he prosecuted the hundreds of high-level corruption cases that have been brought to his office by Ukraine's parliamentary committee on preventing and combating corruption."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/features/2015/12/ukraine-government-corruption-151206133110489.htmlVice 2016
"The fight against corruption, it has to have clear rules if somebody broke the rules, they have to take responsibility for that," said Klitschko. But the onus, he said, was on the country's widely-maligned general prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.
"It's a problem, because the people expect, they [were] told [there would be] a fight against corruption, but it is illusion," he said. "Who is in jail?"
Klitschko's comments come amid increased scrutiny from Ukraine's Western allies, including the US, for failing to follow through on prosecutions after the Maidan revolution in early 2014.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/kz9p39/kievs-heavyweight-boxing-champ-mayor-wants-to-knock-out-corruption-in-ukraineAll of these sources show that Shokin was fired for not investigating corruption. If Shokin wasn't investigating or prosecuting corruption, then he wasn't investigating or prosecuting Burisma.