Republicans claim the president has profited from his son’s business dealings overseas – but haven’t yet turned up proof

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  • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    ton of bribery and corruption stuff related to Ukraine

    Would you mind expanding on this? That was my actual question; the actual “investigation” being political theater is obvious even to members of Congress of both “parties”

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      I mean for one thing his ties to Burisma through his son and god knows how many other shady dealings in Ukraine, though to be fair probably half of Congress has their fingers in the dirty pie of Ukraine and profiting one way or another. But the fact that we now know for a fact that he pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor looking into the very corruption the Bidens were involved in takes it one step further.

      • Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor looking into the very corruption the Bidens were involved in

        Interesting, turns out they actually are asking questions about that…

        https://www.aol.com/weather/comer-digs-questions-biden-treatment-144459279.html

        Meanwhile, other sources say this firing definitely was about ousting corruption in Ukraine (despite that this makes no sense in 2023 especially given the very obvious nature to everyone that Nazis are running rampant)

        • MaxOS [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Biden, his staff, and other U.S. officials and experts have repeatedly said that Biden acted in line with U.S. policies to root out corruption in Ukraine when he conditioned a $1 billion loan guarantee in part on Shokin’s ouster.

          Didn't they impeach Trump for doing pretty much the exact same thing?