The Biden administration’s narrative about the Biden family’s involvement in Ukraine is collapsing like a house of cards.
Joe Biden was really hoping this one damning piece of evidence would never be revealed.
Fired Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutor Viktor Shokin is now front and center of the investigation into the criminal bribery scheme by President Joe Biden.
This bribery scheme was outlined in the FBI’s FD-1023 form.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter were allegedly each bribed $5 million by the CEO of Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that was paying Hunter Biden for a cushy board seat.
The alleged bribes were paid to have Joe Biden use his office to get Shokin fired.
Shokin was investigating Burisma for corruption at the same time Hunter Biden served on the company’s board.
Hunter was placed on the Burisma board despite having absolutely no experience in the energy industry, and Burisma executives knew how to use that leverage.
And the alleged bribery ploy seemed to work.
Vice President Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine unless they fired Shokin.
Biden then claimed that Shokin was fired because he wasn’t aggressive enough about rooting out corruption.
But an internal memo from the European Union (EU) revealed that Shokin’s office had met its targets for prosecuting corruption, human trafficking, and organized crime only one week after Biden began pressuring Ukraine to fire him.
The European Commission, a body of the EU Parliament, issued a memo on December 18, 2015, that said the Commission was happy with the “noteworthy” advancements that Ukraine made, including “preventing and fighting corruption.”
The memo also pointed out Shokin had appointed the chief of a new anti-corruption prosecution unit that was called “an indispensable component of an effective and independent institutional framework for combating high-level corruption.”
The European Commission then urged the Ukrainian government to ensure that the unit was operational during the first quarter of 2016.
But Shokin was fired by former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on March 29, 2016, after the pressure campaign by then-Vice President Biden.
“Based on these commitments, the anti-corruption benchmark is deemed to have been achieved,” the European Commission report stated. “The progress noted in the fifth report on anti-corruption policies, particularly the legislative and institutional progress, has continued.”
On the same day the memo was issued, the EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship made a statement praising Shokin and Ukrainian officials for making “enormous progress” on reforms.
“I congratulate the Ukrainian leadership on the progress made towards completing the reform process which will bring important benefits to the citizens of Ukraine in the future,” then-EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said. “The hard work towards achieving this significant goal has paid off. Now it is important to keep upholding all the standards.”
But Joe Biden didn’t care and even bragged about having Shokin fired at a 2018 Council on Foreign Relations event.
“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 said. “Well, son of a b***h. He got fired.”
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