... The timeline is all wrong - Neither Burisma nor Biden was under investigation when Ukraine was pressured into removing Shokin. Further, the EU, independent of Biden, the US, had been pushing for the same as a matter of policy. Further still, all of these people wanted Shokin replaced because he WASN'T being aggressive enough. Every source at the time confirms this, and I linked several contemporaneous articles here from various EU media sources that were published at the time.
What don't y'all understand about this???...
Because those are just claims without proof. I have yet to see a single piece of compelling evidence for the above. From what I remember, you did post ONE link to an Irish news piece with a generic complaint about corruption in Ukraine. Never seen anything linking the ouster of Shokin to, say, MMF loan, or anything concrete, like Biden's 1 billion blackmail. Yes, everybody complained about corruption in Ukraine, but that is a far cry from linking it to a single person.
So, several questions:
- if investigation into Burisma was stalled because Shokin was not aggressive enough, what happened after his ouster? The investigation renewed with a gusto? Didn't happen.
- does anyone really believe that the source of corruption in Ukraine was one guy??? Hence his ouster would end it? And a billion dollars can be freely given without fear of further corruption? Several years later, Ukraine is still #1 corrupt country in the world.
- everyone involved in the investigation of Burisma, and that is not just Ukraine and Shokin, but EU was investigating it, was perfectly aware that the son of the US vice-president is sitting on its board. And everyone involved understood how awkward would be to investigate it, if not downright dangerous (for one's career). Especially after Biden so publicly put everyone in their place with his $1 billion blackmail. Nobody had to say a word, but everyone involved understood without a question that investigating Burisma is out of the question.
- if the EU complained that they could not finalize their investigation in Burisma because Shokin was dragging his feet, why didn't they continue after his ouster? Instead they freed Burisma's frozen funds soon after Biden's blackmail.
- where were the brave leftie whistleblowers to talk to their congressman about how uncomfortable they were with the glaringly apparent VP's conflict of interest? They wouldn't betray
their guy, of course.
- if the aid to Ukraine was of such a national security importance, was it really in the U.S. national interest to withhold one.billion.dollars over a single guy!?
