Reporting from Just The News and well-respected journalist John Solomon has revealed that one of the main planks behind the first shambolic impeachment trial of President Donald Trump was propped up by a lie, leaving the entire Democrat narrative in ashes and some serious questions hanging that the Biden-Harris regime cannot allow to be answered. Two years ago, Democrat impeachment leaders alleged that the Ukrainian Prosecutor was terminated from his role in 2016 under immense pressure from then-Vice-President Biden because “State officials were widely displeased with his anti-corruption efforts” not because he was pursuing an investigation against Burisma, a Ukrainian gas firm that provided Biden’s son Hunter with a lucrative job, that he arguably was not qualified for. However, a State Department memo that were obtained by Solomon and JustTheNews through a Freedom of Information Act request show us a much different scenario. One in which very high ranking Dept. of State officials up to and including then-Secretary of State John Kerry were attesting their great satisfaction with Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin’s efforts to clean up corruption in the government.
No, Joe Biden. We haven't forgotten when you bragged about
withholding $ in order to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor
who was investigating Burisma, where Hunter Biden — your son — was a board member. pic.twitter.com/idbSzBwXZn
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) January 23, 2022
Solomon writes,
“We have been impressed with the ambitious reform and anti-corruption agenda of your government,” then-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland personally wrote Shokin in an official letter dated June 9, 2015 that was delivered to the prosecutor two days later by then-U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt.
“Nuland, now President Biden’s undersecretary of state, wrote that “Secretary Kerry asked me to reply on his behalf” to let Shokin know he enjoyed the full support of the United States as he set out to fight endemic corruption in the former Soviet republic.”
“The ongoing reform of your office, law enforcement, and the judiciary will enable you to investigate and prosecute corruption and other crimes in an effective, fair, and transparent manner,” Nuland added. “The United States fully supports your government’s efforts to fight corruption and other crimes in an effective, fair and transparent manner.”
The Memo From Hell For Joe Biden
The memo from the Dept. of State, effectively kicked the chair out from under both the ‘Russia-gate’ narrative that Democrats have sworn by (that Russia intervened in Trump’s favor during the 2016 election), and Biden’s prostrations that his actions subsequent to the termination of Shokin had nothing to do with protecting his son’s cushy ‘job’ and that Shokin was ousted for failing to perform. It also supports Shokin’s repeated claims that he was dismissed because he got too close to revealing the corruption that was rife between the administrations of Barack Obama and deposed Ukrainian President Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko.
Solomon notes that, “During the House impeachment proceedings in fall 2019 and the Senate trial in January 2020 that led to Trump’s acquittal, House Democrats repeatedly argued Trump had no basis to request an investigation and that Biden’s effort to fire Shokin was legitimate because U.S. officials and the whole of U.S. government believed Shokin was either corrupt or ineffective fighting corruption. “ Shokin for his part has vehemently denied these claims.
Assistant Secretary Nuland who conveyed the message to Shokin herself gave testimony that is direcly contradicted by the document saying, “So the initial expectation, when we began talking about the third loan guarantee, which I believe was in the summer of 2015, was that Prosecutor General Shokin make more progress than we had seen to clean up corruption inside the Prosecutor General’s Office itself,” “So by the time we get to December 2015, we’ve concluded that the PGO is not going to get cleaned up under Shokin and that there needs to be — and to encourage Poroshenko to demonstrate his commitment by replacing Shokin,”
Even more an Oct. 1, 2015 email from the task force further contradicted Nuland’s testimony stating that,
“The IPC concluded that (1) Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee and (2) Ukraine has an economic need for the guarantee and it is in our strategic interest to provide one. As such, the IPC recommends moving forward with a third loan guarantee for Ukraine in the near‐term,”
Most damningly, when Solomon and JustTheNews repeatedly sought comment from the Dept. of State to explain the discrepancies between the memo and emails and explain why the Dept. was praising Shokin right before demanding his termination, they declined to comment saying, “Thanks for reaching out,”
“However, we will decline comment.”
Republicans have already begun to pick up on the story, with Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) tweeting,
