UPDATE: Title updated at 7:58 PM to add “alleged”.
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi presented key evidence at the Senate impeachment trial that included a video of former Vice President Joe Biden stating, “They said, you have no authority. You’re not the president. The president said-I said, call him. I Said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b***. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time” Watch her statement and the video below:
THREAD: Pam Bondi just completely exposed the Biden connection to corrupt Ukrainian Gas Company Burisma. pic.twitter.com/dh9kIN1WvW
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 27, 2020
Additionally, Bondi lays out the context of the situation in regard to Ambassador Yovanovitch and Burisma, “Ambassador Yovanovitch was confirmed in July of 2016 as the Obama Administration was coming to a close. In September 2016, a Ukrainian court cancels the oligarch Zlochevsky’s arrest warrant for lack of progress in the case. In mid-2017, Burisma announces that all legal proceedings against it and Zlochevsky have been closed. Both of these things happened as Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma,” Bondi said. “Around this time, Vice President Biden leaves office. Years later now, former Vice President Biden publicly details what we know happened: his threat to withhold a billion dollars in loan guarantees unless Shokin was fired.”
She continued, “What he didn’t say on that video according to the New York Times, this was the prosecutor investigating Burisma. What he also didn’t say in the video was that his son was being paid significant amounts from the oligarch, owner of Burisma to sit on that board. He [Hunter] stays on the board until April 2019,” Bondi said.
According to a Fox News article regarding Burisma, “It was founded in 2002 by oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, who was closely aligned to the now-exiled former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Zlochevsky served as the minister of ecology and natural resources from July 2010 until April 2012 and then as deputy secretary for economic and social security until February 2014 when the notoriously pro-Russian Yanukovych was forced to flee to Moscow. Soon after, Zlochevsky himself absconded when Ukraine’s prosecutor general put him on the country’s watch list and opened numerous probes into his practices and multitude of businesses, flanked by allegations of money laundering and tax evasion. Moreover, questions have long swirled as to how he granted licenses for the development of mineral deposit extraction during his government post.”
The remainder of the trial depends on if senators debate about calling other witnesses. Then, the trial could last until February, or if they reject that option, the vote on whether to remove President Trump could occur this week. Sixty-seven senators must find Mr. Trump guilty in order to remove him from office.
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