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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Unclassified FD-1023 released
Date: 07/20/23 4:24 PM
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Dope1: ...Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky reportedly said, 'Don't worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.' Zlochevsky reportedly stated...

Whatcha' think you got there, exactly?

From the Grassley press release: Zlochevsky claimed to have many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired.

First, as very stable genius explained, this is nonsense. U.S. and the international community insisted that Shokin be removed from office:

At the time, the international community and anti-corruption advocates in Ukraine were also calling for Shokin to be removed from office for his failure to aggressively prosecute corruption.

But Trump has repeatedly distorted the facts about Biden's work in Ukraine to baselessly accuse his Democratic rival of seeking Shokin's removal to help his son, Hunter, who at the time was a board member of a Ukraine gas company called Burisma. He left the board in 2019.


Also, an 87-page report was released jointly by the Senate Homeland Security and Finance Committees, which stated there was no evidence "that the elder Mr. Biden improperly manipulated American policy toward Ukraine or committed any other misdeed. In fact, investigators heard witness testimony that rebutted those charges."

Grassley gave away the game in a Fox interview when he said plainly: 'We aren't interested in whether or not the accusations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not.' The republicans' objective, as sano has pointed out, is simply to flood the zone with sh!t.

BTW, Grassley's press release claims that Zlochevsky has many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired. Specifically, he claimed to have two recordings with Joe Biden and 15 recordings with Hunter Biden.

Now, as has been repeatedly explained to republicans here and back on the fool, everybody in the world wanted Shokin fired.

Also BTW, you keep telling us that president Biden is the stupidest man to ever walk the face of the earth but what, he was brilliant enough to extort millions of dollars from a business in Ukraine and keep that extortion hidden for years -- including four full years when Trump had every tool of government at his disposal?

I swear, I know you conservatives here are smart but there isn't a conspiracy theory about the Bidens that you guys don't want to marry and raise little conspiracy theories with.

factcheck.org - Trump revives false narrative on biden and ukraine
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