Part of that is not fact. It's fiction. Yes Biden boasted about his role in holding up a $1 billion loan from the Internatonal Monetary Fund to Ukraine unless the country's prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, were fired.
Biden also falsely claimed he was arrested for participating in a civil rights demonstration. And that his son Beau was killed in the Iraq war. And that he used to be a trucker. And that Golda Meir wanted him to be the go between for disputes between Israel and Egypt. And that he was against the war in Afghanistan from the very beginning. And that you're not going to get COVID if you're vaccinated, when at the time (after the Omicron wave) that was ridiculous.
He might not have have graduated from the University of Delaware or Syracuse law school if he didn't plagiarize other people's work. That's a habit he continued into his political career. Biden's most memorable political speeches included verbiage he lifted from British politician Neil Kinnock.
Biden's a compulsive liar. And he may be losing his mind.
The IMF, the EU, the State Department and the White House all wanted to get rid of Shokin. He would have gone with or without Biden. And he was removed months after Biden's boast (i.e. lie) about the $1 billion loan.
Where's the evidence that Joe Biden received $5 million from Burisma?
Still, as DNinja says, Biden looks like a boy scout by the side of Donald Trump. The solution is simple. Kick Trump to the curb and nominate another Republican to run in the general election.
Originally Posted by Tiny
oh my goodness
yes you have it right that joe biden is a congenital liar and braggart
and yes his lies revolve around several things-
his past "accomplishments and life experiences",
his lies to further his electability including his plagiarisms, his braggings and his lies about his sons, including hunter and his involvement with hunter's influence peddling and not to mention the manner his son died
he always attempts to state his lies about himself in a self deprecating manner to take the edge off the bragging - but it is a lie to begin with so nothing makes sense with this idiot
what ever makes you claim trump is worse than biden? certainly not in selling his office
now as to the burisma affair, you claim the whole thing about the prosecutor and hunter and joe's involvement is a fiction
the strange coincidences of the whole thing including the suspect character of both joe and hunter makes it very difficult to think the coincidences were innocent
and what makes the "coincidences" even more suspect is that joe biden has lied about every statement he has made concerning the whole thing, and has changed his story repeatedly
devon archer, in a 3 hour transcribed sworn interview allows the following:
1. he and hunter and two burisma executives met in dubai on dec 4, 2015
2. at that meeting hunter was told by one of the burisma dudes, zlonchevsky, that burisma needed help from the united states government to deal with pressure from viktor shokin, prosecutor
3. hunter was told to call :d.c."
4. 3 days later joe biden goes to ukraine - the travel had been previously planned
5. biden was originally planning to unveil an extra 1 billion in loan guarantees to help ukraine's economy
6. but on his plane ride to ukraine, he changed his mind and on Dec 8, he gave a speech about how corrupt shokin was.
7. during the December 2015 trip, joe biden threatened the ukrainian government that the u.s. would withhold loan guarantees if ukraine did not fire shokin
but december 2015 was not the start of the corruption:
mike mccormick, a 15 year staffer under obama, with 6 of them working with biden, tells the following tale:
he overheard conversations involving joe biden, aide jake sullivan and the press on Air Force Two before a trip to Kyiv, Ukraine, on april 21, 2014.
biden's reasons for his trip included talking up U.S. investment in the ukrainian energy sector
this was just days after hunter joined the board of burisma,
hunter joined the board of burisma on april 18, 3 days before biden went to ukraine and talked up an energy sector investment
the critical piece, that hunter was on the board, was not made public until May 12.
Months later, and well after the trip, Congress allocated $50 million to Ukraine's energy sector
funny thing- the investment was for fracking, while biden and obama were shutting down american oil exploration, biden was trying to pass out tax payer money for it in ukraine
mccormick says the events suggests that biden funneled american money to ukraine to "enrich" himself and his family, using his influence and american money to aid hunter's energy "career"
and the left merely says everyone wanted shokin fired...oh yeah?
one of the latest defenses by the main stream media for joe is that the money hasnt been traced to joe
well as jonathan turley says, an 80 year old man, already comfortable with government pensions etc, receives benefit by his children and grandchildren receiving benefit, taking care of his family is a joe biden benefit
and money was mysteriously paid to grandkids etc
leaving aside for a moment hunter's grousing that "i have to pay my father's bills" and his emails that say he paid his father $50k a month rent, and 10% for the big guy.... biden benefited when hunter and his brother and his grandkids benefited
the dimocrats were left with trying to protect joe with their own illusion, that hunter was selling the "illusion of access", phrasing a dim congressman made up in the hopes it would give cover to joe and their media could spin that out to america