That @LindseyGrahamSC is willing to proceed down the path of destabilizing Ukraine by suggesting that Shokin was a "victim" & not an impediment to reform against corruption shows how despicable the Senator's "politics over all" mindset has become & how he depends on ignorance... 
@LindseyGrahamSC 2...of @LindseyGrahamSC voters to engage in the very kind of corruption that has ripped apart Ukraine for decades. The image above is NOT new. It is the cover of a Ukrainian magazine for lawyers from before Biden said a word....
@LindseyGrahamSC 3...@LindseyGrahamSC either knows the truth or has no place in government. So, if you want to know reality, here is the entire legal report on Shokin -the new @GOP "good guy" because he was a man who prosecuted and arrested political enemies and absolved.. kyivpost.com/media/pdf/LQ6.…
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 4...political allies. Who does that sound like, @LindseyGrahamSC? You are proclaiming that a man driven out of office in Ukraine because he politicized prosecutions, and made it impossible for reform to go through, is the good guy, and the reformers are the bad guys. Thats why...
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 5...so many of the members of Parliament signed a call for Shokin to be forced out. @LindseyGrahamSC how did your new hero respond? He arrested leaders of parties opposing him, which led to everyone in parliament to shut up in fear of prison if they combatted this corrupt man...
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 6...or, @LindseyGrahamSC, in the 2015 words of Yegor Sobolev,lawmaker & chairman of Verkhovna Rada’s anti-corruption committee, "After (one politician's) arrest, everyone started thinking ‘what if this happens to me tomorrow’? One of Shokin’s goals is to show to lawmakers..."
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 7...what consequences could happen to those who submit signatures for his dismissal.” Again, @LindseyGrahamSC, all before Biden said a word. Shokin, your hero, went so far as to arrest his own prosecutors who were fighting corruption....
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 8...the Congressional Research Service, referring to statements by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland at the time, laid out the circumstances....
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 9...now, the demonstration, @LindseyGrahamSC that you are trying to destabilize Ukraine through lies spewed for political reasons come from what actually led to corrupt Shokin's departure. Biden spoke in mid-December. 2 months later on Feb 4, 2016, Ukraine's Economic Minister...
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 10...Aivaras Abromavičius, resigned, saying that Ukraine - despite its commitments to reform - was suffering from ingrained corruption. Abromavičius was a key player, @LindseyGrahamSC, for the west in terms of trust for fighting corruption, and his resignation was a huge blow...
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 11...to that effort. As a result, @LindseyGrahamSC SIX DAYS later, on 2/10/2016, the International Monetary Fund announced that it was prepared to withhold not $1 billion in loan guarantees, but $40 BILLION in cash appropriated for Ukraine... theguardian.com/world/2016/feb…
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 12...Five days later, in a nationally televised address, Deputy Prosecutor General Vitaly Kasko - Shokin's second in command - resigns, saying that Shokin is blocking anti-corruption reforms. THE NEXT DAY, Shokin resigns. Now, YOU, @LindseyGrahamSC, #LeninLindsey, are acting....
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 13...purely in the interests of Russia and the @GOP. You are proclaiming that the good guys in Ukraine who fought corruption were bad, and the bad guys were good, and you know DAMN WELL what led to the Shokin resignation. No surprise, you are pro-corruption, @LindseyGrahamSC....
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 14...but the message youre sending to our ally Ukraine, which is fighting off Russians, is that WE are just as corrupt as the old Ukraine, that we declare bad buys to be good for political convenience, that we can turn on them in a flash if it helps the @GOP. @LindseyGrahamSC...
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 15..I know you have abandoned any pretense of principle, but if you allow this bogus conspiracy theory to go through - one that will rehabilitate one of the most corrupt people in Ukraine's recent history and set up a new battle between the corrupt and the anticorruption forces..
@LindseyGrahamSC @GOP 16...and for God's sake, news media, if @LindseyGrahamSC does hold these show-trials in support of the corruption in Ukraine, don't have political reporters cover & play "who's up, who's down." Have people who know about Ukraine there so the horrors of this can be spelled out.
