A good article in of all places: The Intercept (re: Biden)

[OKNancy]

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/10/rumors-joe-biden-scandal-ukraine-absolute-nonsense-reformer-says/

THis is from May.

A Republican Conspiracy Theory About a Biden-in-Ukraine Scandal Has Gone Mainstream. But It Is Not True.

In an interview with The Intercept, Daria Kaleniuk, an American-educated lawyer who founded Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, expressed frustration that two recent front-page stories in the New York Times, on how the conspiracy theory is being used to attack Biden, failed to properly debunk the false accusation. According to Kaleniuk, and a former anti-corruption prosecutor, there is simply no truth to the rumor now spreading like wildfire across the internet.

The accusation is that Biden blackmailed Ukraine’s new leaders into firing the country’s chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, to derail an investigation he was leading into a Ukrainian gas company that the vice president’s son, Hunter, was paid to advise.

The truth, Kaleniuk said, is that Shokin was forced from office at Biden’s urging because he had failed to conduct thorough investigations of corruption, and had stifled efforts to investigate embezzlement and misconduct by public officials following the 2014 uprising.

Properly debunking this particular conspiracy theory is easier said than done, though, since it is set in Ukraine, a country with byzantine political intrigue at the best of times, and these are not the best of times. The rivalries between political factions in Kiev are so intense that even the country’s new anti-corruption agencies are at each other’s throats.

The rest at the link

[OKNancy]

1. Now I remember the NYTimes article referenced in the article

by Ken Vogel. It was roundly criticized.

[Thekaspervote]

2. You know I read that too, but decided not to post it since it's not seen as reliable. At least here

[OKNancy]

4. Not so much as not reliable, but extremely biased

Far left in outlook

[Thekaspervote]

8. Oh..well thx...didn't know that

[elleng]

3. Thanks

[emmaverybo]

5. I recall coming across this information before--that it was the prosecutor whose behavior was

suspect, not Biden or his son, and thus Biden had urged his removal. Just another false narrative
about Biden that people who want to will believe.

[TheRealNorth]

6. There are two sides to every story....

One side is what Fox News reports and the other side is the truth.

[sheshe2]

7. Thank you!

[Celerity]

9. did not see you had already posted this