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How Flipper likes to Gaslight  

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Author: bladeslap   Date: 6/5/2022 3:24:48 PM  +4/-0  

Flipper and his possie of misinfomers keep touting that "Joe Biden withheld money from Ukraine to help his son"

Well, flipper, the senate republicans don't agree with you. But, when you're unable to admit you're wrong and misinformed, you keep parroting the same lines...

Fact check: Biden leveraged $1B in aid to Ukraine to oust corrupt prosecutor, not to help his son

The claim: Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine to assist his son, Hunter Biden

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.

Despite a recently concluded investigation by Senate Republicans that found no wrongdoing by the Bidens, claims to the contrary have continued to circulate on social media.

"VP Biden threatened to withhold 1 billion dollars from Ukraine to save his son's job," reads a meme posted to Facebook by Secure America Now. The meme has been shared more than 9,000 times since Oct. 18.

Secure America Now did not respond to a request from USA TODAY for comment.

Joe Biden leveraged aid to remove top prosecutor as part anti-corruption efforts

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.

Mike Carpenter, who served as a foreign policy adviser to the then-vice president, told USA TODAY that Shokin "never went after any corrupt individuals at all" and "never prosecuted any high-profile cases of corruption." 

Pooty, go back to your falt-earh conspiracy forums or grow up and research what you post. You waste our time

 


 
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How Flipper likes to Gaslight +4/-0 bladeslap 6/5/2022 3:24:48 PM