WaPo are just using Daria because she was cited in the same article Pam is cherry picking from. Bondi is misleading the public, because as me and you know Shokin's firing was something much of the western world wanted as he was corrupt. Pam should probably mention all of the facts (Like....umm....the actual reason Shokin was ousted), but she didn't because she wanted to paint a different picture.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/10/fact-trump-tv-ad-misleads-on-biden-and-ukraine/
“By late fall of 2015, the EU and the United States joined the chorus of those seeking Mr. Shokin’s removal as the start of an overall reform of the Prosecutor General’s Office,” Herbst testified. “U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke publicly about this before and during his December visit to Kyiv; but Mr. Shokin remained in place.”
(Biden did not say when he made the threat to withhold U.S. assistance, but he addressed the Ukrainian Parliament in Kyiv on Dec. 9, 2015, and held out the prospect of future U.S. aid if the country rid itself of the “cancer of corruption.”)
Around this time, the International Monetary Fund also withheld financial assistance from Ukraine until it took steps to tackle corruption, and the anti-corruption group Transparency International Ukraine held Shokin “personally responsible for the breakdown in the fight against corruption in Ukraine.”
Olesia Koval, a spokeswoman for TI Ukraine, told us in an email that her group was “involved in the campaign against Shokin because of his ineffectiveness and sabotage of corruption fight, especially of the cases of grand political corruption and in particular Zlochevskyi’s case” — referring to Mykola Zlochevsky, president of Burisma.
In February 2016, Aivaras Abromavičius, the country’s economic minister, resigned to protest government corruption, prompting the bipartisan Senate Ukraine Caucus to send a letter to Poroshenko urging him “to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General’s office and judiciary.”
A month later, Shokin was removed from office.
It's not really disputed. Daria is generally correct although I would use better citation than her. They only used her, again, due to Pam's choice of article. There is a wealth of information proving the general claim correct.
Did we just go through a time warp here?
How did Daria's citation appear on the article Pam used when the Washington Post only used her because Pam quoted the article? Is this some kind of articleception?
Then you have an article quoted saying Biden did not say he made a threat when he himself clearly says in a video that he did threaten to withhold loan guarantees unless Shokin was removed.
Last you state that "you and me both know that much of the western world wanted Shokin removed". I would say most of the western world didn't even know who Shokin was unless they had some involvement with the Ukraine.
On top of that, why does it matter what much of the western world wanted, doesn't the Ukraine have the right to choose what to do, without threats from Americans?
From the way Biden tells the story they were reluctant to remove Shokin until they were threatened.
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