Joe Biden lies exposed.Karine Jean-Pierre last week lies again also.

[Mike M (the other one)]

(09-18-2023, 07:23 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The point here is that it counters the narrative that Biden was acting on his own. This was truly an international effort to get rid of Shokin. One of the articles mentions the head of the IMF calling for his resignation months before Biden did anything. As for his corruption, mostly the international community was saying he wasn't fulfilling his role to fight corruption. He paid lip service upon his appointment, but didn't really do anything. Here are some more contemporary articles about the issue:

https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/reform-watch/transparency-international-says-shokin-to-blame-for-failed-anti-corruption-efforts-401218.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/12/9/ukraine-new-government-same-corruption
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/25/money-still-rules-ukraine-poroshenko-corruption/
https://www.politico.eu/article/politics-of-corruption-kiev-west-friendly-states/
https://archive.kyivpost.com/article/content/kyiv-post-plus/shokin-resists-change-jeopardizes-visa-free-travel-to-eu-and-12-billion-of-aid-400948.html

As for the "after he started going after Burisma" comment, Shokin wasn't really going after them. He inherited an investigation into Burisma and by all accounts I can see, other than the one witness the GOP brought in and Shokin's comments, he was not really carrying out the investigation. Shokin's deputy even provided documents that backed up the idea that the investigation had been dormant. In addition, the investigation into Burisma was for activity that occurred prior to Hunter Biden's role in the company which means he was not personally at risk during that investigation.

Still very odd though. he was just appointed the job on Feb 10, 2015, and got approval to seize Burisma Owner's property on Feb 2, 2016. Barely a year into the job and fired in March and the claim is he didn't move fast enough on Burisma? To me this isn't a job where you should move fast on, got to make sure you dot your I's and cross your T's, mistakes lead to parachutes. Overall it was a no-win job no matter what, sucks to be him.