Biden-Ukraine Scandal Update

Yesterday, John Solomon reported that District Court Judge S. V. Vovk (Kiev, Ukraine) has ordered that the previously identified “unnamed American citizen” in Viktor Shokin’s case will now be designated as “citizen of the United States of America Joseph Biden, former U.S. Vice President.”

Shokin’s case began last February, when the court ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigations to investigate Shokin’s claim that he was forced to resign in spring 2016 because then-VP Biden had pressured his government to get rid of him.

In the one minute 2018 video above, Joe Biden bragged at a Council on Foreign Relations event that he had succeeded in getting Shokin removed by threatening to withhold $1 Billion in loan guarantees the Ukrainians desperately needed.

“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, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

Bits & Bytes

COVID-19: C-SPAN May 18, 2020 [7:09] – During a press conference, the president talked about hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).

“You’d be surprised at how many people are taking it — and especially the frontline workers, before you catch it — the frontline workers, many, many are taking it.“

“I happen to be taking it,” he continued, saying that he began taking HCQ “a couple of weeks ago.” He took one dose of azrithromycin at first then HCQ and zinc daily since.

The president said, “I think it’s good, I’ve heard a lot of good stories. And if it’s not good, I’ll tell you right. I’m not going to get hurt by it. It’s been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, for other things.“

President Trump went on to say that “a lot of doctors take it” and told the story of a New York physician who wrote him a letter saying that he has prescribed the drug to hundreds of patients along with zinc and azrithromycin and “I haven’t lost one” to the coronavirus.