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The prosecutor Biden bragged about firing is talking

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In 2019, a sitting president was impeached after pressing Ukraine to investigate matters involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Viktor Shokin's explosive new book, “ Biden’s Corruption and War ,” offers a first-person account from one of the figures at the center of that controversy. No freedom-loving American can forget the video of then-Vice President Joe Biden recounting how he threatened to withhold U.S. loan guarantees unless Ukraine fired its prosecutor general. Americans deserve to know how their government uses power abroad, how foreign aid is distributed, and whether politically connected families benefit. “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” Biden said. “And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.” The clip has been replayed for years because it sounds, at minimum, astonishingly cavalier: a sitting vice president boasting that American leverage forced the removal of a foreign prosecutor. The central dispute is why. Shokin says he was removed because he was purs