As Vice President, Joe Biden Bullied Ukraine Into Firing Prosecutor Investigating Company That Employed His Son, Report Says

In 2016, while he was still vice president, Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko into replacing the country’s top prosecutor by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.

Biden was ostensibly working to get Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin removed because he wasn’t tough enough on corruption within the country, but the Ukrainian prosecutor was also, at the time, investigating a company on whose board Biden’s son Hunter sat. Last year, Biden bragged at a foreign policy event about his threats to the Ukrainian president but left out the part about his son’s company being investigated.