Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumInside Joe Biden's brawling efforts to reform Ukraine -- which won him successes and enemies
Vice President Joe Biden was losing his temper, dressing down the president of Ukraine in front of a group of high-level advisers and officials from both countries inside a regal complex at the United Nations.
Dont give me this bullshit, Biden bellowed in the September 2016 encounter, according to an aide who was present, unloading on Petro Poroshenko after Biden felt he was making excuses for failing to root out corruption involving the countrys state-owned gas company.
Theres nothing that happens in Ukraine you dont know about, Biden continued. If something like this happens again, Im done with you.
The public humiliation of Poroshenko illustrated the unusually aggressive approach employed by Biden, the Obama administrations chief Ukraine envoy, to bring the small but strategically important former Soviet republic closer to the West. It was an approach that yielded successes but also earned Biden and his aides a slew of enemies and detractors in Ukraine, and it may now have boomeranged to hurt his 2020 presidential campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-joe-bidens-brawling-efforts-to-reform-ukraine--which-won-him-successes-and-enemies/2019/10/19/34178618-f1cf-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)can take on Trump, has never seen Joe really bear his teeth and get in someone's face.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
highplainsdem
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden