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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on September 22, 2019, 09:27:35 pm
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Lindsey Graham calls for DOJ to investigate 'the Biden-Ukraine connection'
by Jerry Dunleavy
| September 22, 2019 04:49 PM
Sen. Lindsey Graham called on the Justice Department to investigate “all things Ukraine†Sunday amid controversy about a secretive whistleblower complaint likely regarding a phone call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president.
The South Carolina Republican and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he was, “hoping that the Department of Justice will look at the Biden-Ukraine connection the way that we looked at Trump-Russia connection†in a Fox News interview, and called for DOJ to appoint an investigator. Graham also brought up Republican claims that Ukrainian officials tried helping Hillary Clinton win in 2016.
Biden bragged in 2018 that, as vice president, he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Ukraine did not fire its top prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani alleged for months that Biden wanted Shokin fired because Shokin reportedly undertook an anti-corruption investigation into Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings, which employed Joe Biden’s lobbyist son Hunter as a board member starting in 2014, reportedly paying him $50,000 a month. The Biden camp countered that Shokin was widely seen by the U.S. and Europe — and inside Ukraine — as ineffective, corrupt, and a hindrance to Ukraine’s progress. Ukraine’s parliament removed Shokin in 2016.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-calls-for-doj-to-investigate-the-biden-ukraine-connection (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-calls-for-doj-to-investigate-the-biden-ukraine-connection)
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...and on the other hand we have old Mittens drooling, hoping that this will somehow bring down Trump!
“If the President asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out,†Romney’s tweet read.
https://www.deseret.com/2019/9/22/20878623/trump-ukraine-whistleblower-mitt-romney (https://www.deseret.com/2019/9/22/20878623/trump-ukraine-whistleblower-mitt-romney)
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...and on the other hand we have old Mittens drooling, hoping that this will somehow bring down Trump!
“If the President asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out,†Romney’s tweet read.
https://www.deseret.com/2019/9/22/20878623/trump-ukraine-whistleblower-mitt-romney (https://www.deseret.com/2019/9/22/20878623/trump-ukraine-whistleblower-mitt-romney)
Well Romney should watch the video where Biden tells the Ukrainian leader if he doesn't fire the prosecutor that they won't get the Aid that was promised. That was a threat we can all watch and understand. He used his power as VP to pressure a foreign government to fire a prosecutor who was involved in prosecuting the company his son worked for. Its there for everyone to see. Obvious that Joe Biden has an ethics violation that should exclude him from any further consideration for POTUS.
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Hunter Biden was on the board of a gas company. The gas company case was closed before other counties and the US brought about the removal of the prosecutor of ongoing cases.