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highplainsdem

(49,004 posts) Wed Oct 14, 2020, 01:37 PM Oct 2020

Jonathan Chait, NY Mag, takes apart the NY Post story

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/biden-emails-burisma-rudy-giulliani-russian-hackers-ukraine-new-york-post.html

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Jonathan Chait, NY Mag, takes apart the NY Post story (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2020 OP

A morsel, a snippet, anything? ornotna Oct 2020 #1

This LakeArenal Oct 2020 #2

ornotna

(10,803 posts)

1. A morsel, a snippet, anything?

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Oct 14, 2020, 01:39 PM

Oct 2020

LakeArenal

(28,820 posts)

2. This

Reply to ornotna (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 14, 2020, 01:43 PM

Oct 2020

The primary lie in the Post’s account is the claim that Burisma was being investigated by the Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who Biden demanded be fired. If that were true, it would suggest a quid pro quo: Burisma hires Biden’s son Hunter, Biden demands firing of prosecutor investigating Burisma. The Post, echoing the Trump campaign’s disinformation, claims “Biden later bragged about forcing Ukrainian officials to fire a state prosecutor who was investigating Burisma.”

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