Imagine pretending this hasn't been posted numerous times
Son of a bitch
Deny this asshole .
Ok.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/09/trump-twists-facts-on-biden-and-ukraine/
But the U.S. was not alone in pressuring Ukraine to fire Shokin.
In February 2016, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde threatened to withhold $40 billion unless Ukraine undertook “a substantial new effort” to fight corruption after the country’s economic minister and his team resigned to protest government corruption. That same month, a “reform-minded deputy prosecutor resigned, complaining that his efforts to address government corruption had been consistently stymied by his own prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin,” according to a Jan. 3, 2017, Congressional Research Services report….
… Shokin served as prosecutor general under Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine who fled to Russia after he was removed from power in 2014 and was later found guilty of treason. Shokin remained in power after Yanukovych’s ouster, but he failed “to indict any major figures from the Yanukovych administration for corruption,” according to testimony John E. Herbst, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine under President George W. Bush, gave in March 2016 to a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Humiliating.
Don't forget, the parliament ousting Yanukovych ignored the rules of their constitution and parliament so they wouldn't have to have the required number of votes to remove him,
They voted Yanukovych out for the charge of abandoning his position because he literally wasn't "in" his office that he had to flee from because of death threats.
They were coming to kill him
(Thank you Victoria Nuland)
