Viktor Shokin interview - Fox News 8/26, 8 PM eastern

[Winston]

"As we have said many times before, the President was not in business with his son," Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel's office, said in a statement last month. "As we have also said many times before, the Justice Department makes decisions in its criminal investigations independently, and in this case."

That's actually funny. What a load of horseshit. Hahahaha.

The DOJ is independent from the WH.

 

[trouble13]

Nancy Mace has openly accused Joe Biden of running a child sex trafficking ring, so I'm not sure she's the sterling authority you think she is.

Link?

 

[RaleBulgarian]

I've set up a recording for this Brian Kilmeade interview with Shokin tomorrow. Bret Baier had a good segment today, with clips of the interview, and a little of what Shokin is saying about the Bidens. The Kilmeade interview was arranged with the help of Miranda Devine. An interpreter had to be used so it takes a minute to get used to the multiple voices. Interestingly, this is the very first person who has even asked Shokin for an interview.

Former Ukraine prosecutor makes explosive claims against Joe and Hunter Biden in new interview

EXCLUSIVE: Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin told Fox News he was fired in 2016 to prevent him from probing Burisma, the company where Hunter Biden worked.

www.foxnews.com

Fake newz interviews corrupt, fired former Ukrainian Prosecutor General.

More idiot right wing propaganda for idiot right wingers.

“On March 29, the Ukrainian Rada finally approved the resignation of Ukraine’s disreputable Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. He was voted out with an overwhelming majority of 289 votes, including 114 of the 134 deputies of the Poroshenko Bloc. On February 16, Shokin was forced to submit his letter of resignation in connection with the failed vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

The amazing thing is not that he was sacked but that it has taken so long. President Petro Poroshenko appointed Shokin to the role in February 2015. From the outset, he stood out by causing great damage even to Ukraine’s substandard legal system. Most strikingly, Shokin failed to prosecute any single prominent member of the Yanukovych regime. Nor did he prosecute anyone in the current government.

Shokin skillfully blocked reform. He was in charge of implementing the 2014 law on prosecution, which the European Union had insisted on for years. It aimed to reduce the role of the prosecutors, who were absurdly superior to judges in the Soviet legal system that persisted in post-Soviet Ukraine. The law also involved a reevaluation of all prosecutors with the intention of weeding out corrupt and incompetent prosecutors. Shokin manipulated the process so successfully that the old prosecutors prevailed and minimal renewal occurred.

For these reasons, Shokin has stood out as the most obvious obstacle to judicial reform. US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt called for his ouster in all but name in a speech last September, and Vice President Joe Biden did so explicitly during his visit to Ukraine last December.

To an outsider, it seems strange that Shokin was allowed to do so much damage for so long, but he has clearly enjoyed Poroshenko’s full confidence and is even godfather to one of Poroshenko’s children.

The reason for the delay became clear today. Minutes before his demise, Shokin sacked Deputy Prosecutor General Davit Sakvarelidze, who has actually fought corruption. Vitaliy Kasko, another young deputy prosecutor general, gave up and resigned in mid-February, understanding that the prosecutor general’s office could not be reformed from within. As a consequence, Shokin has cleansed it from young intruders who want to prosecute wrongdoing. First Deputy Prosecutor General Yuriy Sevruk, a reliable old Shokin hand, has become acting prosecutor general.

The ousters of Sakvarelidze and Kasko are more significant than the long-overdue retirement of the 64-year-old Shokin. These two young prosecutors became famous for arresting the top prosecutor in Kyiv after finding vast amounts of cash, gold, and precious stones in his office. Shokin responded by prosecuting them for this and Kasko just had his assets frozen. Shokin has also instigated a case against a leading anticorruption activist in Kyiv, Vitaliy Shabunin, and the Poroshenko Bloc has expelled two deputies, Mykola Tomenko and Yegor Firsov, from parliament under a controversial law it recently adopted. Their crime was their protests against corruption.

While few will miss Shokin, his belated ouster is unlikely to help the battle against corruption in Ukraine. Instead, a fight against anticorruption activists has been launched. What a sordid story to say the least.“

Shokin’s Revenge: Ukraine’s Odious Prosecutor General Fires Honest Deputy Before Parliament Sacks Him

On March 29, the Ukrainian Rada finally approved the resignation of Ukraine’s disreputable Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. He was voted out with an overwhelming majority of 289 votes, including 114 of the 134 deputies of the Poroshenko Bloc. On February 16, Shokin was forced to submit his...

www.atlanticcouncil.org

 

[trixare4kids]

Link?

She said they were profiting from it, but not running it as the above poster accused.

"Two House Oversight Committee lawmakers, both Republicans, who were granted access to the “suspicious activity reports” involving President Joe Biden’s family have since accused the family of being involved in “prostitution rings.”

It’s not entirely clear what’s meant by this, but the assumption is that it involves the president’s scandalous youngest son, Hunter, who’s known for cavorting with hookers."

The first lawmaker to speak out was House Oversight Committee member Nancy Mace, who posted the following video to Twitter on Monday:

Lawmakers say new evidence shows ‘Biden family was profiting from a human trafficking scheme that included prostitution’

Two GOP lawmakers who reviewed the Biden family's financial records have since accused the family of being involved in "prostitution rings."

www.bizpacreview.com

 

[RaleBulgarian]

I would think the House Committee needs to obtain Shokin's testimony and add it to the piles of mounting evidence against this president.

From your source above,
"During the interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade – set to air Saturday at 8 p.m. – Shokin said it is his "firm personal conviction" that he was fired because then-Vice President Biden and Hunter were bribed. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ousted Shokin in 2016 – he was hired a year prior – due to Shokin's alleged corruption and pressure from the U.S. government led by Biden." "I have said repeatedly in my previous interviews that Poroshenko fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma," Shokin said in the interview."

Are you really oblivious to the complete falsity of the shit you’re posting, or are you deliberately posting complete bull shit?

There are numerous reliable and verifiable sources that disprove Shokin’s lies.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Corrupt official ousted with the help of various countries including the U.S and the state department, spear-headed by Joe Biden...and this disgraced, corrupt prosecutor is still talking shit about Biden.
wow, big news! You remember Rudy was trying to get this guy to give them fake crap on Biden years ago right?

This desperation is embarrassing for the nation. Trump and co literally tried a non-violent coup, to steal the 2020 presidential election, among a wide range of other crimes, and you're here posting this old corrupt guys phony accusations against a guy how rightfully, as part of U.S. foreign policy efforts, got this guy removed?

Seriously?

How can anyone of sound mind vote Republican right now, it's beyond me, given what's been going on in the Trump era. Send a message to these clowns that you want your party back... a party that panders to big corporations and the wealthy, sure, but also does some other somewhat decent things occasionally. Oh, and doesn't TRY TO STEAL THE ****ING ELECTION.
(or other crimes, 91 or so charges).

The democrats rushed to used Michael Cohen, a confessed liar, a man who committed many crimes that had nothing to do with Trump. His NYC Taxi medallian crime was among the biggest crimes he was charged with. Yet the left felt it was more than ok to trust Cohen when it came to testifying against Trump. How selective.

 

[Integrityrespec]

"As we have said many times before, the President was not in business with his son," Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House counsel's office, said in a statement last month. "As we have also said many times before, the Justice Department makes decisions in its criminal investigations independently, and in this case."

That's actually funny. What a load of horseshit. Hahahaha.

I suppose Al Capone wasn't techniquelly in business with all the small businesses he extorted money from in protection payments. Al wasn't convicted for the many crimes associated with his crime family, he was convicted of income tax crimes. Joe was the center piece of anything that Hunter had to offer for sale. Hunter had no value of his own other than daddy.

 

[Grandpappy]

The democrats rushed to used Michael Cohen, a confessed liar, a man who committed many crimes that had nothing to do with Trump. His NYC Taxi medallian crime was among the biggest crimes he was charged with. Yet the left felt it was more than ok to trust Cohen when it came to testifying against Trump. How selective.

And who could forget Micheal Avenatti, the anti Trump hero who could be the next POTUS? Only now he's in jail. Oh, well. Does CNN still love him?

 

[j brown's body]

The reason why Shokin hasn't been brought out of the moth balls until now is because he's a corrupt piece of shit and not worth the time of day. He should probably be in prison himself.

FOX and the GOP have to re-hash the same old discredited stories to keep the narrative going. Keep the base worked up.

Sad!

 

[trouble13]

She said they were profiting from it, but not running it as the above poster accused.

"Two House Oversight Committee lawmakers, both Republicans, who were granted access to the “suspicious activity reports” involving President Joe Biden’s family have since accused the family of being involved in “prostitution rings.”

It’s not entirely clear what’s meant by this, but the assumption is that it involves the president’s scandalous youngest son, Hunter, who’s known for cavorting with hookers."

The first lawmaker to speak out was House Oversight Committee member Nancy Mace, who posted the following video to Twitter on Monday:

Lawmakers say new evidence shows ‘Biden family was profiting from a human trafficking scheme that included prostitution’

Two GOP lawmakers who reviewed the Biden family's financial records have since accused the family of being involved in "prostitution rings."

www.bizpacreview.com

Maybe that's why that poster has yet to provide a link to support their fake claim

 

[BitterPill]

I would think the House Committee needs to obtain Shokin's testimony and add it to the piles of mounting evidence against this president.

From your source above,
"During the interview with Fox News' Brian Kilmeade – set to air Saturday at 8 p.m. – Shokin said it is his "firm personal conviction" that he was fired because then-Vice President Biden and Hunter were bribed. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ousted Shokin in 2016 – he was hired a year prior – due to Shokin's alleged corruption and pressure from the U.S. government led by Biden." "I have said repeatedly in my previous interviews that Poroshenko fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma," Shokin said in the interview."

I hope it happens soon.

Even Newsmax is going on-and-on about the vicious, black-hearted Fani forcing Trump to get a mugshot just to curry favor with Biden and his son, Hunter, in an effort to be the next AG.

There are even credible reports on Truth Social that the black-hearted Fani has an on-again, off-again lesbian relationship with VP Harris during which, when not otherwise occupied, they often discus stealing children to mine for adrenochrome, but not a word of the scandal on the MSM.

I wish something dramatic would come up to reset the news cycle, maybe a giant asteroid striking Manhattan or a huge tsunami taking-out Seattle.

MAGA.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

OMG!!



Come on Righties, this is now getting embarrassing.

Fox news, famous for spin, interviews a disgruntled and proven corrupt Shokin and you are NOW all aglee with thinking you have something new on Hunter?

 

[Cardinal]

Link?

Let the crazy wash over you...

 

[trouble13]

Let the crazy wash over you...

She did not say what you claimed.

 

[jnug]

And a NY Post piece on the topic, from today.

This is an interesting bit from the upcoming Shokin interview.

"In a second clip of Kilmeade’s interview with Shokin, the former prosecutor claimed that Joe Biden was responsible for Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which occurred in early 2014, before Hunter Biden joined Burisma.

“Everybody knows that it was because of Joe Biden’s actions that Russia was able to claim Crimea without firing a single shot, which of course eventually led to a full-scale war that is currently underway,” Shokin said.

The full explanation of Shokin’s claim was not immediately clear

The very essence of a CT.

Biden did play a significant role in the Obama administration’s early efforts to “reset” relations with the Kremlin, but his focus on Ukraine grew after the annexation of Crimea.

Democrats say that investigations of Biden’s alleged role in his family’s foreign business dealings amount to a political smear and impeached then-President Donald Trump in late 2019 for pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation of the Biden family.

Democratic impeachment managers argued that Trump was wrong to perceive corruption in Shokin’s ouster and said that his removal was a widely sought goal of the US and Western European countries."

Fired Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin says he believes Bidens were bribed

Former Ukraine prosecutor general Viktor Shokin said in a new interview that he believes that President Biden and his son Hunter received bribes in exchange for forcing him out of office in early 2…

nypost.com

 

[Callen]

since we’re doing dodgy fellows with Eastern European names:

‘A wild goose chase’: Giuliani associate urges House GOP to abandon Biden probe

Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian businessman, said there has never been any evidence that the president or his son Hunter interfered with Ukraine's politics, "only conspiracy theories."

www.nbcnews.com

“All of us were really pushing [former Ukrainian president Petro] Poroshenko that he needs to do something, because the prosecutor was not following any of the corruption issues. He was really bad news,” said an EU diplomat involved in the discussions. “It was Biden who finally came in [and triggered it]. Biden was the most vocal, as the US usually is. But we were all literally complaining about the prosecutor.” Mr Shokin had been appointed prosecutor-general of Ukraine in February 2015, but the discussions in Washington and EU capitals about pushing for his removal started as early as April after he failed to follow through on a burst of expected early anti-corruption moves, one former US Treasury official said. Mr Biden entered the fray in December 2015, placing Mr Shokin’s removal at the top of his agenda on a visit to Kiev. “I know how the idea to have Shokin fired came up, and it wasn't Biden. His direct involvement came late in the game,” the former US Treasury official said.

Envoys pushed to oust Ukraine prosecutor before Biden

EU and US officials dispute Trump’s claim former vice-president acted to protect son

www.ft.com

It won't matter. They won't even read it and if they do they will say it is untrue statements made by Biden apologists. The various committees will not call anyone who actually was there or has factual information about the coordinated efforts to oust Shokin. Tey will aslo coventiently forget about the GOP Senate report. They also won't care who is behind Shokin going public. I would look to the Trump ally who paid for the lawyers of two of the men who testified to the committee for that answer. They will believe what Shokin says because they so desperately want to believe Biden is corrupt and it will be well reinforced by RW media.

 

[trixare4kids]

“All of us were really pushing [former Ukrainian president Petro] Poroshenko that he needs to do something, because the prosecutor was not following any of the corruption issues. He was really bad news,” said an EU diplomat involved in the discussions. “It was Biden who finally came in [and triggered it]. Biden was the most vocal, as the US usually is. But we were all literally complaining about the prosecutor.” Mr Shokin had been appointed prosecutor-general of Ukraine in February 2015, but the discussions in Washington and EU capitals about pushing for his removal started as early as April after he failed to follow through on a burst of expected early anti-corruption moves, one former US Treasury official said. Mr Biden entered the fray in December 2015, placing Mr Shokin’s removal at the top of his agenda on a visit to Kiev. “I know how the idea to have Shokin fired came up, and it wasn't Biden. His direct involvement came late in the game,” the former US Treasury official said.

Envoys pushed to oust Ukraine prosecutor before Biden

EU and US officials dispute Trump’s claim former vice-president acted to protect son

www.ft.com

I'm assuming there's more to the article than the paragraph above.
Paywall precludes me from reading the above.

Shokin didn't suddenly decide to be corrupt in the time span between Oct. '15 - March '16.

In a memo from October 2015 it was noted that "Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee,” concluded an October 2015 memo from the Interagency Policy Committee (IPC), an Obama administration task force designed to evaluate Ukraine’s anti-corruption efforts."
ETA: added memo
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-08/UkraineTaskForceLoanGuaranteeMemo.pdf

 

[Galactic Spin]

I've set up a recording for this Brian Kilmeade interview with Shokin tomorrow. Bret Baier had a good segment today, with clips of the interview, and a little of what Shokin is saying about the Bidens. The Kilmeade interview was arranged with the help of Miranda Devine. An interpreter had to be used so it takes a minute to get used to the multiple voices. Interestingly, this is the very first person who has even asked Shokin for an interview.

Former Ukraine prosecutor makes explosive claims against Joe and Hunter Biden in new interview

EXCLUSIVE: Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin told Fox News he was fired in 2016 to prevent him from probing Burisma, the company where Hunter Biden worked.

www.foxnews.com

Ah yes, the corrupt swamp creature. Perfect for FOX.

 

[gbg3]

The DOJ is independent from the WH.

The whole country has that view. Biden keeps repeating it, after all, and his honesty is rock solid.

 

[Cardinal]

She did not say what you claimed.

So? Crazy is crazy. If I say that she claimed she was being controlled by alien parasites but in fact what she really claimed is that she was sent by the Gaia ethereal plane to wage vengeance on Asians for the crimes they committed against Vishnu, all I got wrong was what kind of crazy she was.

You're still depending on a verifiable lunatic to deliver the goods, so you're going to be disappointed either way.

 

[Airyaman]

A corrupt Ukrainian giving an interview on RW media while not under oath...no thanks.

 

[trixare4kids]

Are you really oblivious to the complete falsity of the shit you’re posting, or are you deliberately posting complete bull shit?

There are numerous reliable and verifiable sources that disprove Shokin’s lies.

Your nastiness is noted and dismissed.

 

[gbg3]

And who could forget Micheal Avenatti, the anti Trump hero who could be the next POTUS? Only now he's in jail. Oh, well. Does CNN still love him?

I definitely remember all the media excitement about him being potential presidential material.

 

[Galactic Spin]

A corrupt Ukrainian giving an interview on RW media while not under oath...no thanks.

How very Trumpist.

Spend half of their time complaining that Ukraine is corrupt, then spend the other half of their time tongue bathing the corruption that has been excised from Ukraine.

 

[party free]

I've set up a recording for this Brian Kilmeade interview with Shokin tomorrow. Bret Baier had a good segment today, with clips of the interview, and a little of what Shokin is saying about the Bidens. The Kilmeade interview was arranged with the help of Miranda Devine. An interpreter had to be used so it takes a minute to get used to the multiple voices. Interestingly, this is the very first person who has even asked Shokin for an interview.

Former Ukraine prosecutor makes explosive claims against Joe and Hunter Biden in new interview

EXCLUSIVE: Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin told Fox News he was fired in 2016 to prevent him from probing Burisma, the company where Hunter Biden worked.

www.foxnews.com

Just so we're clear...this is the same Shokin that both Rob Portman and Ron Johnson called to be removed, right?