There's a glaring loophole in Trump's and Giuliani's allegations of corruption against Joe Biden
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- President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, are aggressively defending their calls for Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, for corruption.
- Biden pushed in 2016 for Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who led an investigation into the founder of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company whose board Hunter Biden sat on until recently.
- Trump and Giuliani claim Biden pressed for Shokin's ouster to stymie the investigation into Burisma.
- But there's a huge loophole in those claims: government officials and Ukrainian anticorruption advocates told The Wall Street Journal that Shokin had hampered the investigation into Burisma long before Biden even stepped into the picture.
- In other words, Biden was doing the opposite of what Trump and Giuliani are implying: he was trying to oust a prosecutor who was slow-walking the investigation into Burisma, rather than actively targeting the company.
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The latest fixation in Trumpworld is former vice president Joe Biden and his work in Ukraine while his son, Hunter, was on the board of a Ukrainian gas extraction company.
The matter catapulted into the spotlight last week after it surfaced that an intelligence official filed a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump. At the center of the complaint was a phone call Trump had with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump admitted to discussing Biden.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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