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@MichaelThau in trying to reconcile Biden story about leaving in six hours and chronology of Biden trips to Ukraine, I think that we need to consider possibility that Biden fabricated details - as he did in war story episode brilliantly satirized by @Steynonline
video.foxnews.com/v/607994974000…
@MichaelThau @steynonline 2/ Biden's trip of Dec 7, 2015 is too early. The US Embassy in Kyiv has "read outs" on Biden visits and telephone calls, of which there are astonishing number with (bland) documentation.
ua.usembassy.gov/news-events/?s…
@MichaelThau @steynonline 3/ None of the "read outs" on Biden's meetings or telephone calls with president (Poroshenko) or prime minister (Yatseniuk) record Biden's threats on firing Prosecutor Shokin. Nor were there CIA leaks about Biden's threats.
@MichaelThau @steynonline 4/ Shokin resigned on March 29, 2016 rferl.org/a/ukraine-shok…

Biden visited Ukraine on March 31, 2016 two days later ua.usembassy.gov/news-events/pa…
@MichaelThau @steynonline 5/ so Biden's visit of March 31 is too late to have occasioned Shokin resignation of March 29.
@MichaelThau @steynonline 6/ Biden had a telephone conversation with Poroshenko on March 22 ua.usembassy.gov/readout-vice-p…

Is it possible that Biden threatened Poroshenko in that telephone call, later conflating telephone call with March 31 visit?
@MichaelThau @steynonline 7/ interesting Russian news story suggests that there were several months involved in Biden threats, not six hours
@MichaelThau @steynonline 8/ lost in all of this is that (as I mentioned previously) Shokin froze all of Zlochevsky's assets in Ukraine on Feb 2, 2016 - Zlochevsky is Hunter Biden's patron - so that case was anything but "dormant" as universally claimed in US media and by Kasko, rival Ukrainian prosecutor
@MichaelThau @steynonline 9/ within hours of Shokin being fired, high-powered Democrat strategists (Blue Star Strategies) including Clinton's former deputy chief of staff and high-powered former Obama DOJ lawyer John Buretta arrived in Kiev to fix Zlochevsky's problems with new prosecutor general
@MichaelThau @steynonline 10/ negotiations went until the waning minutes of the Obama administration. On Jan 17, 2017, while most Obama admin officials were busy with resistance in Washington, Biden was in Ukraine. ua.usembassy.gov/remarks-vice-p…
@MichaelThau @steynonline 11/ only five days earlier, Burisma had announced the termination of all legal proceedings against Zlochevsky
en.interfax.com.ua/news/economic/…
@MichaelThau @steynonline 12/ a few days later, John Buretta, the former Obama DOJ lawyer representing Zlochevsky, gave an interview about settling the cases
burisma-group.com/eng/media/atto…
@MichaelThau @steynonline 13/ so while US media blames Shokin as being insufficiently active on Burisma case, it was Shokin who seized Zlochevsky assets and was fired by Biden, while it was senior Democrat operatives and a former Obama admin lawyer who fixed Zlochevsky's problems with Shokin's replacement
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