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Joe Biden on Defending Democracy

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Cited on HN 4 times, 2019–2020, never outright recommended score 0
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

HN cites it mainly critically, for a clip in which Biden talks about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.

A Council on Foreign Relations event where Joe Biden and Michael Carpenter discuss their Foreign Affairs article on defending democracy against Kremlin interference.

1 citations · 3 critical · Interviews · intermediate · news from the time

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@anon9001 Oct 2019 Cites it
on HN thread Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads
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I know HN isn't really the place for this, but since you asked and I did a fairly deep dive into this just to know what's going on, here's what seems to have happened, complete with evidence to the contrary: From Wikipedia [link] : > Shokin claimed in May 2019 that he had been investigating Burisma Holdings.[28][29][30][31] However, Vitaliy Kasko, who had been Shokin's deputy overseeing international cooperation before resigning in February 2016 citing corruption in the office, provided documents to Bloomberg News indicating that under Shokin, the investigation into Burisma had been dormant.[32] Also, the investigation into Burisma only pertained to events happening before Hunter Biden joined the company.[33] I believe that's true, and the cited sources seem to check out, and predate this whole scandal. It's worth noting that a lot of these Ukrainian politicians are pretty sketchy and they have a big problem with corruption, so there are other geopolitical interests at play with these Ukrainian political figures. To be sure I'm not being duped by Wikipedia, I find Google News searches for articles about the key players in any controversy that were published before the MSM started caring give a way clearer picture of what's going on. It can help you figure out who's spinning what. It's helpful to know that Shokin was widely condemned for being a corrupt prosecutor that, ironically, wasn't pursuing corruption cases against political allies. From March 2016: [link] It's pretty c
@povertyworld Sep 2019 Pushes back
on HN thread The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write
So, shouldn't you be in favor of the investigation into Biden? Since that is exactly what he did. "This plane's leaving in about 6 hours. If the prosecutor [investigating his son's firm] isn't fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch, got fired!" 52 minutes in: [this video]
@tomjakubowski Oct 2019 Pushes back
on HN thread Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?
Biden openly bragged about getting Shokin fired, though not under oath, and he stopped short of saying it was to protect his son. [this video] edit: phone brain skipped over the "on his behalf" part of the sentence, I thought that they'd said there was no evidence Biden even pressured the government to fire Shokin.

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