{"id":25075,"date":"2018-01-30T10:12:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25075"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:57:10","slug":"watch-joe-biden-brags-about-rigging-the-ukranian-political-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/01\/30\/watch-joe-biden-brags-about-rigging-the-ukranian-political-system\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rtO1OigwfVs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rtO1OigwfVs?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Yes, this is exactly what frustrates me about USA actions.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, I should do some more investigation of the background of this story.  Who was the prosecutor that got fired, and what did he do to merit firing?  However, I think the meddling complaint would hold up no matter what the answers to these questions are.<\/p>\n<p>OK, so after a miniscule amount of poking around, I came up with this <em>Russia Feed<\/em> article <a href=\"http:\/\/russiafeed.com\/joe-biden-brags-got-key-ukrainian-official-fired-exchange-money\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden brags he got key Ukrainian official fired in exchange for money<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe prosecutor general at the time,&nbsp;Viktor Shokin, was previously supported by the US and much of the EU, but as&nbsp;<em>The New Yorker&nbsp;<\/em>described,&nbsp;<strong>\u201cafter initially supporting Shokin, U.S. and E.U. officials soured on him.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Washington suddenly viewed Shokin, who had served two decades within the Prosecutor General\u2019s office as corrupt and unwilling to initiate crackdown in major financial scandal cases involving high profile figures.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering the Obama administration&#8217;s record on (the absence of) prosecuting Wall Street fraud, this may be even more ironic than the claims in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, one could do even more digging to find out what&#8217;s the real story to who Viktor Shokin really is and why we really took a sudden dislike to him.  A real investigative reporter with a sufficient amount of skepticism would not stop where I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video WATCH: Joe Biden Brags About Rigging The Ukranian Political System. Yes, this is exactly what frustrates me about USA actions. Admittedly, I should do some more investigation of the background of this story. Who was the prosecutor that got fired, and what did he do to merit firing? However, I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stevegsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25075"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25085,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25075\/revisions\/25085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}