Biden furious over Trump's reported Ukraine inquiry

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Asked earlier by reporters after a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, about reports that Trump wanted Biden's son Hunter to be investigated by the Ukrainian government, Biden offered only a brief comment defending his son.

The president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has previously raised questions that Biden, as vice president, had pushed for the ouster of former Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, who had investigated a private Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Group. Hunter Biden was a board member of Burisma.

Biden has previously said he wanted Shokin out as prosecutor general because he wasn’t doing enough to investigate corruption. The former vice president in March 2016 called on Ukraine’s Parliament to dismiss Shokin, or the United States would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees, according to the New York Times. Shokin was voted out by parliament, but no evidence showing Biden intentionally tried to benefit his son has surfaced.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/biden-son-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

WASHINGTON — It was a foreign policy role Joseph R. Biden Jr. enthusiastically embraced during his vice presidency: browbeating Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government to clean up its act. And one of his most memorable performances came on a trip to Kiev in March 2016, when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.



Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2017 in Kiev, Ukraine. The renewed scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine is entangled in politics on both sides of the Atlantic.


Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s son, served on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation.

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All the current information has been public for months

State Department facilitated Rudy Giuliani's secret meeting with Ukrainians about Joe Biden

Giuliani backed out of a trip to Ukraine to dig Biden dirt — and met with Ukrainian officials in Spain instead

Igor Derysh
August 22, 2019

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/22/state-department-facilitated-rudy-giulianis-secret-meeting-with-ukrainians-about-joe-biden/

The State Department assisted President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in setting up a meeting with a Ukrainian official to “strongly urge” the new administration in Ukraine to launch an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.



Ukraine Isn’t Having Rudy Giuliani’s Biden Conspiracies

Even Giuliani’s top Ukrainian ally now says his claims about Hunter Biden have no basis in fact.

By Alison Durkee
May 16, 2019

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/ukraine-isnt-having-rudy-giulianis-biden-conspiracies

What do you call recycled stories with added outrage? Oh yeah, FAKE NEWS.

[vitterd]

Ghuliani is one fuxcked up brain dead hack.

[jt315]

Ghuliani is one fuxcked up brain dead hack.

Lol . This story is falling apart right before your very eyes .

[VeggieDog]

Did Uncle Joe's teeth fall out again?

[vitterd]

Lol . This story is falling apart right before your very eyes .

Did you even read what the above story says. Lmao. Even his top ally in Ukraine says his story about Biden has no basis.

[d2bets]

Did you even read what the above story says. Lmao. Even his top ally in Ukraine says his story about Biden has no basis.

Doesn't need a basis. Trump is just desperate to smear Biden because he knows he can't beat him.

[RoyBacon]

Remind me, did you fuggers need a basis for opening up the Russian hoax?

You guys made this witch hunt thingy the new norm. Get used to it. A special prosecutor will be appointed if Sleepy gets the nomination.

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Doesn't need a basis. Trump is just desperate to smear Biden because he knows he can't beat him.

BIDEN: I’ll beat him like a drum.

[d2bets]

BIDEN: I’ll beat him like a drum.

[DwightShrute]

BIDEN: I’ll beat him like a drum.

Trump would easily kick his ass

[vitterd]

Trump would easily kick his ass

Lmao.

Fox poll

Biden 52-38

Fox!!!! Bwaaaaahhhh. Trump will lose to any dem candidate but will get crushed by Biden

[15805]

Lmao.

Fox poll

Biden 52-38

Fox!!!! Bwaaaaahhhh. Trump will lose to any dem candidate but will get crushed by Biden

There’s really no legitimate explanation as to why Hunter got this deal with the energy company,
other than the fact his father was responsible for doling out money in Ukraine itself.

Burisma Holdings, appointed Biden’s son, Hunter, to its board of directors in 2014, and
reportedly paid him more than $3 million during a 14-month period!

This is no skeleton in Uncle Joe’s closet. It’s a raw cadaver, and it stinks to high heaven,
despite the mounds of dirt piled on top of it by the national media.

Joe Biden might soon be looking back on the inappropriate touching allegations with regret. Not regret for
his actions, but regret that public attention so quickly drifted off to other, more damaging scandals.

This whistleblower fiasco when the dust settles it won't hurt Trump, but it will be devastating
to Biden! The strange part of this episode is that the Biden's performance was entirelyout in the open.
If Mrs. Clinton were to have won the election this sordid episode & the even more sleazy deals
arranged for Biden's son fledgling private equity firm with China would never have seen the light of day.

[RoyBacon]

There’s really no legitimate explanation as to why Hunter got this deal with the energy company,
other than the fact his father was responsible for doling out money in Ukraine itself.

Burisma Holdings, appointed Biden’s son, Hunter, to its board of directors in 2014, and
reportedly paid him more than $3 million during a 14-month period!

This is no skeleton in Uncle Joe’s closet. It’s a raw cadaver, and it stinks to high heaven,
despite the mounds of dirt piled on top of it by the national media.

Joe Biden might soon be looking back on the inappropriate touching allegations with regret. Not regret for
his actions, but regret that public attention so quickly drifted off to other, more damaging scandals.

This whistleblower fiasco when the dust settles it won't hurt Trump, but it will be devastating
to Biden! The strange part of this episode is that the Biden's performance was entirelyout in the open.
If Mrs. Clinton were to have won the election this sordid episode & the even more sleazy deals
arranged for Biden's son fledgling private equity firm with China would never have seen the light of day.

To find corruption always follow the money.

Board members of the most successful and largest companies are in the $250k a year range. So why was Biden jr paid $3 million that we know of?

Hmmmmmm.... do ya reckon it may have ACTUALLY been a payment to the Biden crime family?

[L8night]

Donnie lies again....

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Biden and Ukrainian Oil a Hoax From the Very Beginning

R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings

Posted on May 21, 2014
by Richard Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/r-hunter-biden-declare-owns-new-ukrainian-employer-burisma-holdings.html

Isn’t that a bit fishy? Why do you say that?

Because he’s the vice-president’s son! That’s a coincidence. “This is totally based on merit,” said Burisma’s chairman, Alan Apter.

He doesn’t sound very Ukrainian. He’s American, as is the other new board member, Devon Archer.

Who? Devon Archer, who works with Hunter Biden at Rosemont Seneca partners, which is half owned by Rosemont Capital, a private equity firm founded by Archer and Christopher Heinz.

Who? Christopher Heinz … John Kerry’s stepson.

I think Putin’s propaganda people can take a long weekend; their work is being done for them. What do you mean?

Hasn’t Joe Biden pledged to help Ukraine become more energy independent in the wake of its troubles with Russia? Well, yes.

And isn’t Burisma, as a domestic producer, well positioned to profit from rising gas prices caused by the conflict? Possibly, but Hunter Biden is a salaried board member, not an investor. According to anonymous sources in the Wall Street Journal, neither Rosemont Seneca nor Rosemont Capital has made any financial investment in Burisma.

So it’s not fishy at all? No one’s saying that.

Do say: “Somebody needs to get involved in Ukraine’s corporate governance, and it might as well be a clutch of rich, well-connected American dudes with weird first names.”

Don’t say: “Thanks, Dad.”