Kurt Volker recently resigned after being identified in a
whistle-blower complaint that led to the House impeachment inquiry of President
Trump. Volker, who was the U.S. Special Representative to Ukraine until
resigning, claims he tried to warn Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani that the sources
telling Giuliani that Joe Biden pressured Ukraine into firing the prosecutor
investigating the Ukrainian natural gas company that employed his son Hunter
were unreliable.
These sources included Ukraine’s former top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. And,
oddly enough, Joe Biden himself, though he now denies it. Which is itself odd
and unfortunate, since he was filmed
boasting about doing just that when he was Vice-president under Barack
Obama.
On January 23rd, 2018, at
the Council on Foreign Relations, the elder Biden said: “And I went over, I
guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to
announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten
a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action
against the state prosecutor. And they didn’t. So, they said they had—they were
walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, I’m not going to—or, we’re not
going to give you the billion dollars. They said, you have no authority. You’re
not the president. The president said— I said, call him. I said, I’m telling
you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. 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.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And
they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
Few
seem to care, however, that Biden used his lofty position in a corrupt manner
to coerce Ukraine into dropping the investigation. Or that he openly bragged
about doing so. Or that he now denies the obvious. He’s not Trump, so it
doesn’t really matter.
Unreliable
Sources? That’s usually Brian Stelter’s bailiwick. It is somewhat humorous that
Volker inadvertently labeled Joe Biden himself an “unreliable” source with this
attempt to help him. Biden’s gaffe-ridden campaign so far makes it clear that
he usually isn’t a credible source of information on just about anything. In
this case, however, we’ll believe him.
President
Trump may be impeached for a phone call he conducted with Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky. Even though Zelensky himself said Trump never attempted to coerce,
threaten, or issue a quid pro quo of any kind. But, say Democrats, don’t listen
to him, what would he know? Yet, Joe Biden might still be the Democratic
presidential nominee for 2020 even though he is on record proudly making it
clear that he did exactly what his party is baselessly accusing Trump of having
done.
Such is
the sad state of “justice” in America circa 2019.
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