Republicans are hyping Viktor Shokin’s new Fox News interview about the Bidens and Burisma. But it reinforced reasons to doubt his account.
“No, we were told that it was bad, and we don’t want a new prosecutor, and Shokin was taken care of,” Archer recently told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.he was investigating Burisma — one of the few data points Republicans use to ostensibly legitimize their assertions about Biden.
But working with our colleagues in Ukraine, The Fact Checker determined this was largely a technical reinstatement of a court order that had been in place for at least a year. The case — which began in 2014 — was transferred in December 2015 away from Shokin’s oversight to another prosecutorial entity, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine , which is funded with U.S. and European aid and received technical support from the FBI.
None of this was broached in depth with Shokin, the man who seemingly could have shed light on the evidence that calls his claims into question. Yet again, the claim that he was actually investigating Burisma was thrown out there into the conservative-media ether for people to draw their own conclusions about President Biden’s actions. Shokin even lent credence to the idea that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden engaged in bribes, despite saying, “I do not want to deal in unproven facts,” and offering no substantiation. (There remains
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