Schiff: Biden Ukraine Scandal
Should Be Off Limits
by Tyler Durden
Sun, 05/12/2019 - 21:45
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House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Sunday that Joe Biden's Ukraine
corruption scandal should be off limits as the 2020 US election approaches,
and that President Trump shouldn't be allowed to investigate - or encourage
Ukraine to investigate.
Biden has come under fire for
a March, 2016 incident in Kiev in which he threatened to
withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees to Ukraine unless President Petro
Poroshenko fired his head prosecutor, General Viktor Shokin, who
was leading a wide-ranging corruption investigation into natural gas firm
Burisma Holdings. As it so happens, Joe's son Hunter Biden sat on
Burisma's board, and was indirectly paid as much as $50,000
per month.
'I said, ‘You’re not getting
the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours.
I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not
fired, you’re not getting the money,’" bragged Biden, recalling the
conversation with Poroshenko.
"Well, son of a bitch, he
got fired," Biden gloated.
Biden claims he didn't
know Hunter was on the Burisma board for an entire two years (Hunter reportedly
joined in April 2014, two years before Biden's threat), and that the effort to
remove Shokin had nothing to do with the "
"Shokin was fired because
he attacked the reformers within the prosecutor general’s office,"
And this should be completely
off limits to Trump, according to Adam Schiff
Schiff told 'This Week' that
Congress should take up legislation banning political campaigns from
working with foreign governments in an effort to influence US elections,
responding to news that Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, had planned to travel
to Ukraine to encourage them to further investigate the Biden matter. Giuliani
has since canceled the trip.
"Going after his son is
just a method of going after someone the president believes is his most
formidable opponent," Schiff told ABC's 'This Week.' "So let the
president go after him, but don’t seek the help of a foreign government in
your election."
In March, The
Hill's John Solomon revealed that Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy
Lutsenko has launched an investigation into the head of the Ukrainian
National Anti-Corruption Bureau for allegedly attempting to help Hillary
Clinton defeat Donald Trump during the 2016 US election by releasing
damaging information about a "black
ledger" of illegal business dealings by former Trump campaign chairman
Paul Manafort.
Trump made a comment that he
should ask Barr to investigate Joe Biden’s foreign ties and suddenly like magic
now the entire Left is saying presidential candidates shouldn’t be spied on
Meanwhile, President Trump
told Politico on
Friday that it would be "appropriate" for him to ask Attorney
General William Barr about launching an investigation into Biden, or his son
Hunter.
"Certainly it would be an
appropriate thing to speak to him about, but I have not done that as of yet. …
It could be a very big situation," said Trump during a 15-minute phone
interview Friday afternoon.
The New York Times earlier
this month reported on Giuliani’s efforts to investigate and publicize the
issue.
The president argued that the
alleged conflict of interest, or appearance thereof, was not mushrooming into
an all-out scandal because Biden is a Democrat.
“Because he’s a Democrat,”
Trump said, the report had about “one-hundredth” the impact as it would have if
he “were a Republican.” Politico
To recap; Biden didn't know
his son Hunter was on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas firm for a
full two years, before threatening to withhold $1 billion in US loan
guarantees if the President of Ukraine didn't fire the guy investigating
the Biden-linked Burisma, and Adam Schiff thinks that should be off limits
to investigate, or for voters to consider, going into the 2020
election.
Start at 52 minutes
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