Always love me a good USAToday Fact Check!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/21/fact-check-joe-biden-leveraged-ukraine-aid-oust-corrupt-prosecutor/5991434002/ 

Always love me a good USAToday Fact Check! One odd thing about this fact check is 3 out of the 4 articles used to “Fact Check” are USAToday articles (you can see at the bottom). So, roughly 75% of the information used by USAToday to Fact Check a claim came from itself.

Now this article contradicts itself SLIGHTLY! Even though it fact checks the claim as FALSE it does admit that the Ukraine prosecutor was investigating Burisma, where Hunter Biden worked, for money laundering and tax irregularities. However this happened in 2014 and Joe Biden offered his quid pro quo in March of 2016.

More interestingly is to compare this article to Hunter’s interview with ABC news. Hunter admitted that he has no experience in natural gas and does not even speak the language. PERSONALLY after watching that interview the first paragraph of this article does not pass the sniff test and sounds a LITTLE shady. Hunter Biden is innocent until proven guilty and I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt BUT he is a sorry excuse for a son and the same benefit of doubt would not be offered to a Republican.

Direct Quotes:

While former Vice President Joe Biden oversaw foreign policy in Ukraine, his son Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma Holdings, the largest gas company in the fledgling democracy.

It's true that Joe Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid to persuade Ukraine to oust its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, in March 2016. But it wasn't because Shokin was investigating Burisma. It was because Shokin wasn't pursuing corruption among the country's politicians.

As European and American diplomats pressed Ukraine to clean up its corruption, they focused on Shokin's leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office, which he took over in February 2015.

As a result, Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid as "a stick to move Ukraine forward," Kupchan said. "He was acting alongside our European allies. Everybody was of a single mind that this prosecutor was not the right guy for the job."

Burisma Holdings was not under scrutiny at the time Joe Biden called for Shokin to be removed, per the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, an independent agency that has worked closely with the FBI.

In 2014, Shokin had investigated Burisma for money laundering and tax irregularities, per USA TODAY.

Based on our research, the claim that Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine to save his son's job is FALSE. The then-vice president leveraged aid dollars to persuade the country to oust its top prosecutor as part of anti-corruption efforts endorsed by other international players that were unrelated to his son, Hunter Biden.

#USA #TheChubbyCaucasianChristianClosetedConservative #HunterBiden #Biden

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