Former Vice President Joe Biden just casually dropped a bombshell admission that he

personally and directly intervened in Ukraine's governance, boasting on stage

during an event hosted by the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) that he got a
high Kiev government official removed essentially at the snap of his fingers.

"I looked at them and said: �I�m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not
fired, you�re not getting the money,�" Biden said at the CFR talk on Tuesday, in
what was a follow-up to prior admissions revealing that the United States actively
asserted behind the scenes control of Ukraine's post-Maidan government, to the
point that US officials even dictated who would occupy high offices in the war-torn
country.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and then Vice President Joe Biden in Kiev,
Ukraine, January 16, 2017. Image source: Reuters via The Indian Express.

Biden confirmed what was only previously hinted at through an anonymous senior
official who spoke to The New Yorker in 2016. It was revealed then that Ukraine's
Prosecutor General, which the equivalent office to the US Attorney General, was
removed only after the Obama administration threatened to withhold 1$ billion in
loan guarantees.

The prosecutor general at the time, Viktor Shokin, was previously supported by the
US and much of the EU, but as The New Yorker described, "after initially supporting
Shokin, U.S. and E.U. officials soured on him." Washington suddenly viewed Shokin,
who had served two decades within the Prosecutor General's office as corrupt and
unwilling to initiate crackdown in major financial scandal cases involving high
profile figures.

Ukraine's chief prosecutor serves a term of six years and can only be appointed and
dismissed by the president with parliamentary consent; however in the case of
Shokin, Joe Biden boasted before the CFR audience that he told Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko and former Ukrainian prime minister Arseny Yatsenyuk sometime in
late March 2016, "I�m telling you, you�re not getting the billion dollars," unless
they immediately sacked Shokin. To the glee of his CFR listeners who laughed
audibly, Biden added, "Well, son of a bitch. He got fired!"

Indeed the threat of withholding what had been the third installment of a massive
loan package desperately needed to help prop up the new pro-EU/US Kiev government
resulted in Viktor Shokin being hastily removed from his post by Ukrainian
parliament on March 29, 2016 - within the very month Biden made the ultimatum
(Shokin had initially promised he would willingly resign in a February letter, but
resumed his work through March). Poroshenko then officially and formally dismissed
Shokin on April 3, 2016.

But it appears that it was somewhat of an open secret as Shokin became widely
referred to among Ukrainians as "the billion-dollar man". It was also a time in
which Biden and other US officials were constantly in direct communication with
President Poroshenko, talking foreign aid and loan packages, and presumably
according to Biden's latest admission, how he should run his government.

Biden had previously disclosed in his personal memoirs that he �had been on the
phone with either Poroshenko or� Yatsenyuk, or both, almost every week� for months
attempting to guide nearly every major decision of the Poroshenko administration
after the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych in the 2014 coup d'�tat which inaugurated
the Ukraine crisis.
As a reminder, in 2014 - not long after Ukraine's US-endorsed and facilitated
presidential coup - Joe's son Hunter joined the board of directors of Burisma
Holdings, the largest private gas producers in Ukraine, incorporated in Cyprus, a
European tax haven.

Elsewhere in Tuesday's talk, Biden revealed that the Obama White House "spent so
much time on the phone making sure that everyone from� [former French president
Francois] Hollande to [former Italian prime minister Matteo] Renzi wouldn�t walk
away" from anti-Russian sanctions.

We certainly hope that Biden continues to open his infamously big mouth as he will
only further confirm (primarily through his penchant for boasting and self-
congratulating) that the US version of events whether in Ukraine, Syria, or other
parts of the world (spontaneous "democratic revolutions" championed by political
figures who happen to take their dictates from Washington, etc...) is nowhere close
to the reality.

* * *

Below is the full segment containing former VP Biden's Ukraine confessions during
Tuesday's CFR speech:

Joe Biden: "Do I think they�re�I think the Donbas has potential to be able to
be solved, but it takes two things. One of those things is missing now. And that is
I�m desperately concerned about the backsliding on the part of Kiev in terms of
corruption. They made�I mean, I�ll give you one concrete example. I was�not I, but
it just happened to be that was the assignment I got. I got all the good ones. And
so I got Ukraine. And I remember going over, convincing our team, our leaders
to�convincing that we should be providing for loan guarantees. And I went over, I
guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev. And I was supposed to announce that there was
another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from
Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state
prosecutor. And they didn�t."

"So they said they had�they were walking out to a press conference. I said,
nah, I�m not going to�or, we�re not going to give you the billion dollars. They
said, you have no authority. You�re not the president. The president said�I said,
call him." (Laughter.)

"I said, I�m telling you, you�re not getting the billion dollars. I said,
you�re not getting the billion. I�m going to be leaving here in, I think it was
about six hours. I looked at them and said: I�m leaving in six hours. If the
prosecutor is not fired, you�re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch.
(Laughter.) He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."

"Well, there�s still�so they made some genuine substantial changes

institutionally and with people. But one of the three institutions, there�s now
some backsliding."

And a video of the full event:

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Davidduke2000 Jan 24, 2018 11:30 PM Permalink

That's exactly why the Philippines Duterte said, they give you some money and want
to control you and do what they say.

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Mustahattu Jan 24, 2018 11:26 PM Permalink

And after the US orchestrated coup, Biden jr got a cushy seat on the board of one
of the largest companies in Ukraine. This is how the rats spread around the world.
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Pandelis Jan 24, 2018 11:22 PM Permalink

biden for president ...

next election Biden vs. Trump .... take your pick

((((they))) know how to pick them ....

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francis scott � Jan 24, 2018 10:48 PM Permalink

"I am behind the curve."

The only intelligent thing Biden said in the video.

He did himself no good with this question & answer event.

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francis scott � francis scott � Jan 24, 2018 10:59 PM Permalink

I'm not sure who was in the audience there, but everyone

in the room, including the other two men on the stage, now

know with an indisputable certainty that Joe Biden doesn't

 know his ass from his elbow, probably because of incipient

dementia.

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David Wooten Jan 24, 2018 10:41 PM Permalink

Ukrainian voters take notice

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BGO Jan 24, 2018 10:39 PM Permalink

Greasy Joe. Old kook.

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Baron von Bud Jan 24, 2018 10:34 PM Permalink

This Biden bullshit is a planned distraction from the release of the secret FISA
memo. Prez Trump ordered it released and it's on the web now. Trump is following
through on his promises.
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Pumpkin Jan 24, 2018 10:20 PM Permalink

So he bribed someone with other people's money. Yeah, good job sh*t bag.
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wee-weed up Pumpkin Jan 24, 2018 10:23 PM Permalink

Of course, all those false hair plugs in his bald head...

Gives Joe The Turd a big head...

Makes him think he's a "big fukin' deal."

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PrintCash Jan 24, 2018 10:20 PM Permalink

If you can�t make it in the real world, get elected and throw your weight around.
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Concertedmaniac Jan 24, 2018 10:18 PM Permalink

After all the death and destruction caused by the CFR why don�t terrorists blow up
their meeting? Because they are the terrorists.
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44_shooter Jan 24, 2018 10:18 PM Permalink

Joe for 2020. He's such a stud..just ask him.

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Kagemusho Jan 24, 2018 10:15 PM Permalink

And the Dems have the temerity to scream bloody murder about (chimerical) 'Russian
interference' in the American political system? Fking hypocrites, all of 'em.

Putin must be laughing his ass off tonight, and calling Goofy Joe a 'dehbeel' and a
'suka blyat' for being so 'impolitic'. Biden has demonstrated just how far up
Poroshenko's ass the Establishment's arm is. Biden has single-handedly given Putin
all the ammo he needs to justify openly supplying the 'rebels' in East Ukraine.
How stupid can you get?
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Robert A. Heinlein Jan 24, 2018 10:14 PM Permalink

Obama was the worst president of all time. wtf do we have to put us this this sob.
No wonder the world hates our ass. Biden is criminal. Pure and simple. He should
have to share a jail cell with cankles. Would be justice.
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francis scott � Jan 24, 2018 10:14 PM Permalink

Biden is the moron who put Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court.

Today he refers to Putin as a thug.

 Make sure he gets the Democrat nomination and gives Trump a

second term.

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NoDebt Jan 24, 2018 10:09 PM Permalink

I hope they run him in 2020. We'll get every bit as much satisfaction voting him
down as we did Hillary.
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stizazz Jan 24, 2018 9:59 PM Permalink

Israhell Brags He Forced The USG To Finance Its Apartheid State In Exchange For
Bribes.
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dot.dot stizazz Jan 24, 2018 10:04 PM Permalink

Anybody else remember this jackass publicly bragging about his big cock in the
presence of his wife? Classy as he is smart.

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francis scott � Jan 24, 2018 9:59 PM Permalink

Old, gray Joe must be running for the Dem nomination

in 2020. Why else would he get another face lift?

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lasvegaspersona francis scott � Jan 24, 2018 10:05 PM Permalink

class act...we'll get a building named after him no doubt.

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3LockBox Jan 24, 2018 9:58 PM Permalink

Council on Foreign Relations

An unappointed unelected body that illegally meets and makes decisions.

Bloody traitors...All of them!

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devnickle Jan 24, 2018 9:58 PM Permalink

Uncle Joe. Dumb as a fucking box of rocks. Keep talking. Shouldn't you be lawyering
up yourself? Overthrowing sovereign governments and molestation are both felonies.
What did YOU know about FISA dickweed?
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IH8OBAMA Jan 24, 2018 9:57 PM Permalink

Biden is retarded. I would have fired the guy then hired him back as soon as the
money was in hand.

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Goldilocks Jan 24, 2018 9:55 PM Permalink

Ukraine On Fire ENGLISH VERSION Oliver Stone Full Documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGeqY9yK474 (1:33:51)
Clairvoyant Crow - Jan 21, 2018
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Savvy Jan 24, 2018 9:55 PM Permalink

That is US foreign aid.

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Taras Bulba Jan 24, 2018 9:55 PM Permalink

What a vile pervert!

Hunter does not stray too far from the familly's sense of "ethics" as his former
wife kicked him out of the house and divorced him-now he is involved with his dead
brother's widow.
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LetThemEatRand Jan 24, 2018 9:54 PM Permalink

Do what we say, not what we do.

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Bank_sters LetThemEatRand Jan 24, 2018 9:56 PM Permalink

Money printed by a private central bank to be paid back with interest. Biden is
such a cuck.

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agNau Jan 24, 2018 9:54 PM Permalink

"This is a big f*#^%ng deal!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HHKq9tt50O8
Potty mouth
Hush money....mafia style.....from smooth Joe.
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BarkingCat Jan 24, 2018 9:52 PM Permalink

Corrupt it was but it was theirs to resolve.

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HisBoyElroy Jan 24, 2018 9:50 PM Permalink

Hey Netanyahu, treat the Palestinian people like human beings and give back the
land illegally taken under international law or you're not getting the money.
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sheikurbootie HisBoyElroy Jan 24, 2018 9:51 PM Permalink

Fuck the Palestinians, they don't want peace. Wake up and smell the coffee
burning.
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HisBoyElroy sheikurbootie Jan 24, 2018 9:58 PM Permalink

Fuck the welfare state Jews and by the way its about 85% Jews that have been
accused of sexual deviant behavior. I guess when you get your dick mutilated and
then sucked by a rabbi at birth it affects you. Huh.

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BarkingCat sheikurbootie Jan 24, 2018 9:57 PM Permalink

Fuck Israel. Double fuck Israel. Triple fuck Israel.

There is only one country that attacked the USA military in the last 100 years.

That is Israel.

Fuck them and fuck you with a wild boar's penis.

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TheFederalistPapers Jan 24, 2018 9:47 PM Permalink

Did he also grab him by the ass or balls?

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iamrefreshed TheFederalistPapers Jan 24, 2018 9:53 PM Permalink

No, Joe prefers pre-pubescent girls.

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HisBoyElroy TheFederalistPapers Jan 24, 2018 9:51 PM Permalink

That only goes for little boys and girls.

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sheikurbootie Jan 24, 2018 9:47 PM Permalink

This is what collusion looks like. Stupid fucking retarded Democrats.

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Number 156 sheikurbootie Jan 24, 2018 9:54 PM Permalink

Joe went full retard.

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tooldog Number 156 Jan 24, 2018 11:24 PM Permalink

What do you mean went? He IS a full retard. No artificial intelligence there...

only pure natural stupidity

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Mustahattu Number 156 Jan 24, 2018 11:23 PM Permalink

He�s always been a retard.

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californiagirl Mustahattu Jan 24, 2018 11:25 PM Permalink

Isn't John Kerry's step-son also on the Burisma Board?