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brooklynite

(94,552 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:24 PM Jun 2020

Former Ukrainian president says Biden never pressed him on Burisma

Source: Politico

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko denied Sunday that former Vice President Joe Biden ever approached him about Burisma Holdings, a gas company Biden’s son Hunter was a board member of.

“My absolutely clear answer: no, never,” Poroshenko told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on “Fareed Zakaria GPS.“ “But I also cannot accept that, neither President Obama nor President Biden — Vice President Biden, nor President Trump, nor Vice President Pence never press[ed] me.”

Poronshenko became president of Ukraine in 2014, the same year that Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, a gas company based in Kyiv. At the time, Vice President Biden was working with the others in the Obama administration to help reform policy and root out corruption in Ukraine. Hunter Biden served on the board until early 2019.

President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have claimed, without corroborating evidence, that when he was vice president, Joe Biden inappropriately pressured Ukraine to remove a prosecutor who had launched an investigation into Burisma in order to protect his son.



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/21/ukraine-president-hunter-joe-biden-burisma-331779

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Former Ukrainian president says Biden never pressed him on Burisma (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2020 OP
Ha ha ha ha ha! fleur-de-lisa Jun 2020 #1
Broadcast this from the ROOFTOPS!!! Bayard Jun 2020 #2
Guess Faux Noi$e and hate Radio will ignore... Lock him up. Jun 2020 #3

fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)
1. Ha ha ha ha ha!
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 02:11 PM
Jun 2020

And the hits to the Dumpus just keep on coming.

I think Ukraine sees the writing on the wall. Dump will lose “very strongly” in November.

Happy EmptysBurg Address Day.

Bayard

(22,069 posts)
2. Broadcast this from the ROOFTOPS!!!
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 03:44 PM
Jun 2020

Totally blows up that lie, as well as, rethugs current investigation into Hunter Biden.

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