{"id":2029922,"date":"2023-09-12T21:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-probe-sudden-foreign-policy-change-on-ukraine-when-biden-was-vp\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T21:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T01:21:18","slug":"house-republicans-probe-sudden-foreign-policy-change-on-ukraine-when-biden-was-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-probe-sudden-foreign-policy-change-on-ukraine-when-biden-was-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans investigate &#8216;abrupt shift in Ukraine foreign policy during Biden&#8217;s VP tenure&#8217;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fhouse-republicans-probe-sudden-foreign-policy-change-on-ukraine-when-biden-was-vp%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=2029922&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>House Republicans Investigate State Department&#8217;s Perception of Former Ukrainian Prosecutor<\/h2>\n<p>House Republicans are launching a probe into\u200c the State Department&#8217;s handling of former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2015. This investigation comes after\u2064 then-Vice President Joe Biden threatened to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-full-timeline-of-hunter-bidens-scandals\/\" title=\"The Full Timeline Of Hunter Biden\u2019s Scandals\">withhold  billion<\/a> in U.S. aid to Ukraine \u2064if Shokin was not fired.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Shokin was elevated\u200c to lead the Office\u200d of the Prosecutor General\u2063 in the midst of \u2063an ongoing,\u2062 international investigation focused on corruption surrounding\u200d Burisma\u2064 \u2014 a\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-video-links-biden-to-ukrainian-corruption-burisma-indictment-reveals-ex-president-yanukovich-illegally-obtained-7-4-billion-laundered-thru-fund-close-to-us-democratic-party\/\" title=\"New Video Links Biden to Ukrainian Corruption \u2013 Burisma Indictment Reveals Ex-President Yanukovich Illegally Obtained .4 Billion Laundered Thru Fund \u201cClose to US Democratic Party\u201d\">natural gas company<\/a> in Ukraine \u2014 and its founder, Mykola Zlochevsky,&#8221;\u2062 the letter said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Rep. \u200cJames Comer (R-KY), the chair of the \u2062House \u200bCommittee on Oversight and Accountability, requested\u2064 more context on\u2063 &#8220;certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-probe-sudden-foreign-policy-change-on-ukraine-when-biden-was-vp\/\" title=\"House Republicans investigate 'abrupt shift in Ukraine foreign policy during Biden's VP tenure'\">sudden foreign policy<\/a> changes&#8221; related to Ukraine\u200c and Shokin&#8217;s firing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Comer said that the\u2062 State Department was initially favorable toward Shokin at the beginning \u2063of 2015 but later decided to push for his firing. Comer cited a letter from\u200d State Department official Victoria Nuland\u2063 &#8220;applauding&#8221; Shokin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-directs-agencies-to-review-fight-against-global-corruption\/\" title=\"Biden Directs Agencies to Review Fight Against Global Corruption\">anti-corruption efforts<\/a>. \u2062He also pointed to a \u200cmemo from the Interagency Policy Committee that showed in September 2015 that another $1 billion loan to Ukraine would\u200b be approved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation stems from allegations that Biden influenced Shokin&#8217;s firing to protect his son, Hunter Biden, who was serving \u200bon the board of\u200d Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company facing \u2064corruption allegations.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>According\u2064 to the letter and comments from Hunter&#8217;s associate\u2062 Devon Archer, the pressure for Shokin&#8217;s termination came as Burisma\u2064 corporate secretary Vadym Pozharsky was pushing Hunter to &#8220;deliver help from the U.S. government.&#8221; Archer claimed \u2063that Hunter made a call\u200c to D.C. in December\u200d 2015 for a conversation with Burisma officials, a claim that \u200bHouse Republicans are currently investigating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Comer is requesting the \u200cState Department\u200d to provide all relevant calls, emails, and memos \u2063related to the policy on Burisma, \u200cShokin, and the billion-dollar U.S. loan\u2063 to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h3>Stay\u2064 Informed with the DailyWire+ App<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1694271417371000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0PLikBYdCi-jK-0C-P9dx2\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are investigating the State Department&#8217;s view of ex-Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2015. This comes after former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s warning to withhold $1 billion in aid unless Shokin was dismissed. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the House Committee on Oversight, addressed this matter in a letter on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":2029923,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/2029922","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}