![]() ![]() This hardened group included Mykola Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma. Ukraine was a pretty corrupt place, and apparently no one would take on the oligarchs. That man was fired and replaced by Shokin.īut Shokin too proved lax in pursuing such cases. He appointed one state prosecutor who failed to pursue corruption cases. The pro-Western Petro Poroshenko won the subsequent presidential election. ![]() ![]() Ukraine had, in early 2014, experienced the Maidan Revolution, or the Revolution of Dignity, in which corrupt, Putin-friendly President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted from power. Real-Earth known facts: Biden was sent to Kyiv to order that Shokin be fired for his failure to launch aggressive corruption investigations- including into Burisma. Then the indictment of Donald Trump sent Fox and Newsmax into heart attack mode, because, you see, the Deep State indicted Trump only to divert people from the mosh pit of corruption into which Biden was quickly sinking. ![]() It was revived last month by Senator Charles Grassley’s office, which said a whistleblower came forward with credible information of something or other. The allegation-that Joe Biden took a $5 million bribe from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company-is quite old. This is what is going on now with the Biden “bribery” scandal. That these records did more to exonerate Clinton than incriminate her was something the right didn’t usually mention. Those of you with elephantine memories may recall, for example, how the late discovery of private attorney Hillary Clinton’s billing records in a storage box reignited certain questions about Whitewater, producing an orgiastic frenzy of “Aha!” journalism on the right. One of the right wing’s “skills,” such as they are, is taking one little piece of fresh information that appears and using it to breathe new life into an old and discredited allegation. ![]()
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