A former Ukrainian prosecutor has stated he was dismissed while investigating corruption linked to Burisma and matters involving Hunter Biden. In his memoir, “Biden’s Corruption and War,” Viktor Shokin provides a firsthand account of the events that led to the impeachment of a sitting U.S. president in 2019.
Shokin’s book challenges years of assurances that Joe Biden’s role was entirely above board.
According to Shokin, then-Vice President Joe Biden threatened to withhold U.S. loan guarantees unless Ukraine fired its prosecutor general. In a video recorded at the time, Biden reportedly said: “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” and added, “And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
The clip has been replayed for years because it sounds, at minimum, astonishingly cavalier—a sitting vice president openly boasting that American leverage forced the removal of a foreign prosecutor.
