4 Mar 2020 8:50 pm
Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office.
A newly unearthed letter from 2016 shows that Republican senators pushed for reforms to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office and judiciary, echoing calls then-Vice President Joe Biden made at the time.
CNN's KFile found a February 2016 bipartisan letter signed by several Republican senators that urged then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to "press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary."
The letter shows that addressing corruption in Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office had bipartisan support in the US and further undercuts a baseless attack made by President Donald Trump and his allies that Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire then Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to stop investigations into a Ukrainian natural gas company that his son, Hunter Biden, sat on the board of.
There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden, nor is it clear whether Hunter was under investigation at all.
So I looked into that link, and what I found was this.
The transcript from a Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Ukraine from 2016.
Ron Johnson was a member of that committee.
Both Biden's name and the fired prosecutor's name (Shokin) came up in that hearing.
