Joe Biden’s Ukraine Defense Falls Apart, by Jonathan Turley

Joe Biden probably shouldn’t have bragged that he got the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma fired. From Jonathan Turley at jonathanturley.org:

Below is my column in the New York Post on new evidence contradicting the account of President Joe Biden on his role in forcing the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin. Biden’s boast about forcing the termination could become a defining moment in the corruption scandal.

Here is the column:

President Barack Obama famously warned fellow Democrats in 2020, “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.”

The warning was ignored by many as an almost brotherly reference to Biden’s habit of making false claims (like being arrested when seeking to see Nelson Mandela) or his continual verbal gaffes.

Biden has always had a certain penchant for bragging, whether it’s claiming a dead man told him he reached a million miles on Amtrak, being a cross-country trucker or fighting off some “bad dude” named Corn Pop.

But one of those bravado moments may have revealed more than vanity.

Ironically, it’s the one controversial story that appears entirely true.

In a 2018 interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, Biden bragged that he unilaterally withheld a billion dollars in US aid from the Ukrainians to force them to fire prosecutor general Viktor Shokin.

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One response to “Joe Biden’s Ukraine Defense Falls Apart, by Jonathan Turley

  1. Was it a Freudian Slip by Brandon?
    With oldsters some days they are sharp and other days just out of it with short attention span and unable to follow the plot.
    Collated war porn videos last night with modern RF Katyusha style rocket trucks, drones that fly right into the foxhole and trench works, firefights with rifles and MG, a commando small boats on the w water gun battle at dusk (!) there were also some on the ground videos of the Prigozhin crash and one was just brutal showing the burning bodies.
    Fun Trivia-The smiling decorated officer in the classic Panzer General II victory screen is Major Walther Possl of the Gross Deutschland Division.

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