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In his own words, with video cameras rolling, hethreatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that theObama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees,sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’timmediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, Ithink it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in sixhours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled telling Poroshenko.“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event, insisting that President Obama was in on the threat.