And in Ukraine? Reporting by John Solomon at The Hill:“In 2013, then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden flew aboard Air Force Two to China. Less than two weeks later, Hunter Biden’s firm inked a $1 billion...deal with...the Chinese government’s Bank of China...later expanded to $1.5 billion.” https://t.co/nEvBagIRIe— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) May 12, 2019
Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor.Trump associate Paul Manafort is in jail today because of his conviction on charges related to Ukraine. Why does Joe Biden's son get a pass? And why does former Vice President Joe Biden openly brag about his role without any scrutiny?
In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat.
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Ukrainian officials tell me there was one crucial piece of information that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia.
The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money.
Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was fired as general prosecutor, he had made “specific plans” for the investigation that “included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden.”
If Biden was a Republican Democrats in Congress would be issuing subpoenas for the banking records of his grandchildren as they threaten to do with Trump. To say this is a double standard is an understatement.
Surely, as Democrats have said the past two years no one has anything to fear from an investigation if they have done nothing wrong. Those accused, or even under suspicion, in matters relating to Trump have spent tens of thousands on lawyers to protect themselves from the onslaught of prosecutorial and Dem investigation zealotry. If Biden and family have done nothing wrong, then let's appoint a Special Prosecutor to look into it. While we are at it, examine the obvious conflicts of all the Dem 2020 candidates. That's fair isn't it?
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