{"id":2012634,"date":"2023-08-25T23:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T03:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viktor-shokin-claims-biden-pressured-government-to-fire-him-amid-burisma-investigation\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T23:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T03:03:29","slug":"viktor-shokin-claims-biden-pressured-government-to-fire-him-amid-burisma-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viktor-shokin-claims-biden-pressured-government-to-fire-him-amid-burisma-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Viktor Shokin alleges Biden pushed for his dismissal during Burisma probe."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fviktor-shokin-claims-biden-pressured-government-to-fire-him-amid-burisma-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2012634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General \u200bClaims \u200dBiden Pressured Government\u200d to Fire Him<\/h2>\n<p>Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-working-to-reassure-allies-after-alleged-top-secret-documents-leak-online\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Working To \u2018Reassure\u2019 Allies After Alleged Top Secret Documents Leak Online\">made explosive allegations<\/a>, stating that\u2062 then-Vice President Joe \u2063Biden exerted pressure\u200d on \u200cthe Ukrainian government to remove him from his position. Shokin believes that his investigation into Ukrainian oil company Burisma, where Hunter Biden served on the board, led to his \u200ddismissal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I have said repeatedly in\u200b my previous interviews that Poroshenko fired me at\u200c the insistence \u200dof the then Vice President Biden\u2064 because I was investigating Burisma,&#8221; Shokin revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Poroshenko] understood and \u200bso did\u2063 Vice \u200bPresident Biden that \u2062had I\u200b continued to oversee the \u2063Burisma investigation, \u200bwe would have found the facts \u2063about the\u2064 corrupt \u200cactivities that they were engaging in. That included\u2064 both Hunter Biden \u2064and Devon Archer and \u200dothers,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These allegations have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-country-stars-crush-billboard-charts-defy-the-woke-mob\/\" title=\"Three country stars dominate Billboard charts, defy woke mob.\">gained \u200bsignificant attention<\/a>, particularly in light of recent investigations\u2063 by \u200bHouse Republicans into the alleged corruption of the Biden family, specifically Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings. \u200cShokin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bloomberg-column-to-solve-inflation-let-your-dog-die\/\" title=\"Bloomberg Column: To Solve Inflation, Let Your Dog Die\">claims provide<\/a> further support to these investigations, as he firmly believes that the Bidens were involved in bribery.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I do not want \u200cto deal in unproven\u200b facts,\u2063 but my \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viktor-shokin-claims-biden-pressured-government-to-fire-him-amid-burisma-investigation\/\" title=\"Viktor Shokin alleges Biden pushed for his dismissal during Burisma probe.\">firm\u2062 personal conviction<\/a> is that, yes,\u200d this was the case,&#8221; Shokin asserted. &#8220;They \u200dwere being bribed. And the \u200cfact that\u2064 Joe\u200b Biden gave away \u200c$1 billion in U.S. money in exchange for my \u2064dismissal, my firing\u2062 \u2014 isn&#8217;t that \u200dalone a case of\u2062 corruption?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The White \u2063House, however, \u200bhas dismissed Shokin&#8217;s accusations as baseless, stating that \u2064his removal was due\u200b to \u200ca lax approach to corruption.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;For years, these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-say-bidens-female-led-comms-is-a-first-trump-has-that-now\/\" title=\"Media Say Biden's Female-Led Comms Is A First. Trump Has That Now\">false claims<\/a> have \u2062been \u2064debunked, and \u2063no matter \u2063how much air time Fox\u200b gives them,\u200c they will remain false,&#8221; said White House spokesman Ian Sams. &#8220;Fox\u200d is giving a platform\u200d for these\u2062 lies to a former Ukrainian prosecutor\u200b general\u2062 whose office his own deputy called \u2018a hotbed of corruption,\u2019 drawing demands for reform not only from then-Vice President Biden but also\u2063 from U.S. diplomats, international\u2063 partners, and Republican senators\u200d like Ron \u200bJohnson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Examiner \u200dhas reached out \u2062to\u200c the White House for\u200b further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin alleged that Joe Biden, as Vice President, exerted pressure on Ukraine to dismiss him. Shokin claims his investigation into Burisma, an oil company, led to his termination. In an upcoming interview with Fox News&#8217;s Brian Kilmeade, Shokin expresses his belief that his firing was connected to Hunter Biden&#8217;s involvement on Burisma&#8217;s board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}