Mary Margaret Olohan
Social Issues Reporter
October 05, 2019 4:34 PM ET
Advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden reportedly said they knew his 2018 comments on Ukraine would be problematic.
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate spoke on corruption at a 2018 Council on Foreign Relations event in Washington, D.C., where he recounted a trip he made to Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2015, BuzzFeed reported.
Biden described telling former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that Ukraine’s prosecutor general must be fired or the U.S. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees — a story which three former Biden officials knew would be problematic, they told BuzzFeed on condition of anonymity.
“I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours,’†Biden reportedly told the crowd. “‘If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch.â€
“He got fired,†Biden added, amidst laughter from the audience.
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