Ken Vogel's claim of a Biden "liability" - Nonsense, concludes a Washington Post Fact Checker piece.

[kstewart33]

The Washington Post, May 2019:

"For the purposes of fact checking Trump’s statement, though, we note that neither news organization is asserting that Biden pushed to oust Shokin to get his son out of a jam.

Bloomberg reported that “the U.S. plan to push for Shokin’s dismissal didn’t initially come from Biden, but rather filtered up from officials at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation” and that, in the same month Biden traveled to Ukraine, “hundreds of Ukrainians demonstrated outside President Petro Poroshenko’s office demanding Shokin’s resignation, and he was dismissed.”

The current prosecutor general of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, was quoted in a May 16 report, also by Bloomberg, saying “he had no evidence of wrongdoing by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden or his son.” “Hunter Biden did not violate any Ukrainian laws — at least as of now, we do not see any wrongdoing,” Lutsenko told Bloomberg. “A company can pay however much it wants to its board.”

“No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal,” the Times reported. “Some of his former associates, moreover, said Mr. Biden never did anything to deter other Obama administration officials who were pushing for the United States to support criminal investigations by Ukrainian and British authorities — and potentially to start its own investigation — into Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, for possible money laundering and abuse of office.”"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/23/fact-checking-president-trumps-wild-jabs-joe-biden/

[hlthe2b]

1. Vogel is getting 'fact-checked' all over twitter, apparently, by those in the know who are pissed

at his implications.

[Zoonart]

2. The MSM allowing this

To be turned around on Biden is beyond fucked up.
This needs to be smacked down and smacked down hard.
I am so sick of this shit.
MF45 and his criminal cartel are breaking the kaw and shitting on the Constitution every day... But lets look at Biden?! Bullshit.

[blm]

3. Responsible media figures need to hammer down the lazyminded chatterers

BEFORE this BS spreads.

[Iliyah]

4. VP Biden will be ok . . .

It's t-rump that is constantly looking over his shoulder.

[Cha]

5. Thanks, kstewart! More from the WaPo on the nyt's "reporting"..

But that has not stopped Giuliani, who tweeted last week: “how deep and how high did the alleged Ukraine conspiracy go?” He was responding to a story in the New York Times (the Times apparently not “failing” on this occasion, since Trump retweeted the paper’s story), which analyzed the theories around the Bidens’ Ukraine connection. The article ticked all the journalistic boxes, giving father and son space to deny wrongdoing, but still raised a cloud of smoke for those shouting “fire.” If a major newspaper devotes 2,500 words to conflict-of-interest questions, then those questions presumably exist. How often do you beat your wife?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/08/why-joe-bidens-alleged-ukraine-conspiracy-doesnt-hold-up/

[Scurrilous]

6. ...

[EveHammond13]

7. hillary-hater Ken Vogel now takes aim at Biden. Meanwhile trump raped his own wife.

[Polly Hennessey]

8. Ken Vogel is still Ken Vogel.

I watched the segment on Nicolle’s show. I had the impression Vogel had his panties in a wad because no one paid any attention to his May 2019 story on the Ukraine/Hunter Biden issue. Ken, baby, it might be because you were trying to smear Biden through his son. I won’t forget your Hillary hating, either.

[Cha]

9. Thanks for that.. I've never heard of

this Vogel person.. but I don't have a tv.

[BlueMississippi]

10. Ken Vogel is David Sirota's buddy -- enough said. nt

[Blaukraut]

11. Nicolle Wallace's show is the canary in the coal mine as to media spin

Once I saw Ken Vogel and their short clip of Biden being asked about his son's business in the Ukraine, I knew that this was where it was headed. Lo and behold, Chuck Todd and Brian Williams are going there, too. This was utterly predictable.

[Gothmog]

12. Vogel is an idiot and is one of the reasons why I do not subscribe to the NYT

I trust the Washington Post

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[Gothmog]

13. Other medial outlets have reviewed the claims about Biden and have these claims to be bogus

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