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Biden campaign releases video to explain 'what really happened in Ukraine'
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/479263-biden-campaign-releases-4-minute-video-to-explain-what-really-happened-inFormer Vice President Joe Bidens presidential campaign on Tuesday released a video purporting to explain what really happened in Ukraine as the campaign pushes back on expected GOP arguments during President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate.
In the four-minute video, Bidens rapid response director Andrew Bates calls former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin the embodiment of the corruption that has been hurting Ukraines government for a very long time and cites calls for his firing from the international community and Republican senators.
Joe Biden is the person who got him out of office. It was a monumental, international, bipartisan, anti-corruption victory, Bates says in the video, noting that Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and then-Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) all signed onto the effort.
The aide called claims by Trump that Bidens efforts to remove Shokin were an attempt to protect his son Hunter Biden from investigation horses---t, noting that Shokins removal was official U.S. policy and that Shokin "wasn't investigating" Burisma, the natural gas company on whose board the younger Biden sat.
The video comes shortly after a memo to media organizations by the Biden campaign calling on journalists not to reference allegations against Biden without also saying they have been debunked.
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In the four-minute video, Bidens rapid response director Andrew Bates calls former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin the embodiment of the corruption that has been hurting Ukraines government for a very long time and cites calls for his firing from the international community and Republican senators.
Joe Biden is the person who got him out of office. It was a monumental, international, bipartisan, anti-corruption victory, Bates says in the video, noting that Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and then-Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) all signed onto the effort.
The aide called claims by Trump that Bidens efforts to remove Shokin were an attempt to protect his son Hunter Biden from investigation horses---t, noting that Shokins removal was official U.S. policy and that Shokin "wasn't investigating" Burisma, the natural gas company on whose board the younger Biden sat.
The video comes shortly after a memo to media organizations by the Biden campaign calling on journalists not to reference allegations against Biden without also saying they have been debunked.
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Biden campaign releases video to explain 'what really happened in Ukraine' (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jan 2020
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underthematrix
(5,811 posts)1. President Obama did the same thing in 2012. I loved those videos
VP Biden's is just as awesome.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(32,787 posts)2. It a good clip!! Thx for posting
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,528 posts)3. KR!
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)4. This is a great video
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
boomer_wv
(673 posts)5. This is the right approach.
Take the lies head on and flatten them. Then come after Trump as hard as you can.
This was a big Clinton error in 2016. She wanted to not address these things and it actually helped to give them life. She was never really able to control the narrative. Biden has shown that he isn't willing to let people lie about him without making a point about it, in a very clear way.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
oasis
(49,400 posts)6. K and R
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)7. Kick
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden