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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the more appropriate question is .... Is it appropriate for Joe Biden to make funds to Ukraine contingent on the firing of a prosecutor.  
This is quid pro quo.

Why is the media not looking into this?  [/quote]
Because it’s a nothingburger, as you people like to say. The Ukrainian prosecutor was supposed to prosecute corrupt individuals within his Government. He didn’t do his job, which offended many law-abiding nations, including the U.S. We have no business funding blatantly corrupt regimes, so the money was withheld by the Obama administration. Perhaps you would prefer to see your tax money pissed away by corrupt countries, but most people wouldn’t. Now Trump is trying to spin this as comparable to his open bribery, and gratuitously bringing Joe Biden’s son into it. It isn’t the same at all, no matter what Fox tells you.[/quote]

The bolded seems mildly significant.

[quote]It was a foreign policy role Joseph R. Biden Jr. enthusiastically embraced during his vice presidency: browbeating Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government to clean up its act. And one of his most memorable performances came on a trip to Kiev in March 2016, when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.

The pressure campaign worked. The prosecutor general, long a target of criticism from other Western nations and international lenders, was soon voted out by the Ukrainian Parliament.

[b]Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.[/b][/quote]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/biden-son-ukraine.html[/quote]

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