A closed probe is revived. Joe biden s 2020 ukrainian nightmare. Biden persuaded ukraine to fire its prosecutor while he was investigating a natural gas firm that employed biden s son on its board.
Biden who was spearheading the obama administration s ukraine work was at the center of these efforts and threatened to withhold 1 billion in loan guarantees from ukraine if shokin wasn t fired. Ukraine to investigate leaked tapes with ex president biden ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskiy says prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into leaked tapes that allegedly feature. President donald trump and his allies have been promoting allegations that a potential 2020 rival former vice president joe biden improperly intervened in the affairs of ukraine to protect his.
Joe biden is facing scrutiny for his role in firing a ukraine prosecutor due to his son hunter s ties to a ukrainian natural gas company called burisma holding. Joe biden notoriously threatened to pull 1 billion in funding for ukraine if ukraine s president did not fire the prosecutor looking into burisma the corrupt company paying hunter biden. Whether there was any evidence of wrongdoing mattered as little as the substance of hillary clinton s.
According to the plan ukraine would announce a blockbuster investigation of joe biden. Biden the presumptive democratic presidential nominee has been formally listed in a criminal case for the crime of firing ukraine s former prosecutor general viktor shokin in exchange for dropping an investigation into his son hunter who was a board member at burisma from 2014 to 2019. Ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskiy has said that leaked recordings of phone calls allegedly between joe biden and former president petro poroshenko would be investigated by the country.
Edited recordings of the calls were played at a news. Leaked phone conversations between joe biden and then ukraine president petro poroshenko have been made public by a ukrainian lawmaker.
