For four years the American public was assured that when then-Vice President Joe Biden forced the firing of Ukraine's chief prosecutor by withholding $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees in late 2015 that he was simply carrying out U.S. policy constructed by career officials.
At the time, the prosecutor was investigating the Burisma Holdings energy firm that was paying Hunter Biden $1 million a year to be on its board.
This week, Just the News released official government memos showing that U.S. policy in fact was the opposite of what Joe Biden did and that the vice president was actually urged to give Ukraine the $1 billion in loan guarantees because U.S. officials believe the prosecutor had made adequate progress in the fight against corruption.
Amos Hochstein, then-U.S. special envoy and coordinator for International Energy Affairs at the Obama State Department, raised the issue of Hunter Biden's work on Burisma's board while at a meeting with the then-Vice President Biden.
Vice President Biden calls Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reiterating that "The U.S. willingness to provide a third $1 billion loan guarantee to Ukraine contingent on continued Ukrainian progress to investigate and prosecute corruption," showing Biden to be in sync with IPC recommendations and not mentioning Shokin.
Eric Schwerin sends an email to business associate Hunter Biden, Vadim Pozharskyi and Devon Archer saying, "WSJ has gotten back to us and plans to run their article 'in the coming days.'" According to the email obtained from Hunter Biden's laptop, the paper was still attempting to get an answer from him about "The potential conflict between his father's anti-corruption message and his role on the board." The piece was set to run in the coming days to coincide with Vice President Biden's planned trip to Ukraine.
Vadym Pozharskyi and Mykola Zlochevsky urgently requests a call with then-Vice President Biden from Hunter Biden while the Burisma board was meeting in Dubai, Devon Archer, who also was on the Burisma board, later testified to congressional investigators.
https://justthenews.com/government/diplomacy/hold-shokin-firing-installment-3-timeline
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