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No. No one denies it. Trump is currently around 1% above Biden on average. https://www.racetothewh.com/president/polls Only GOP disinformation is dismissed as GOP disinformation. And there's enough of it.

Again, you ignore the fact that the IMF,the EU, and the U.S. and others asked for Shokin to be fired BEFORE the dinner during which Hunter was approached for help in DC. BEFORE! Capice? You are also dishonest in the way you present Shokin. He was not one particular prosecutor who happened to be in charge of the Burisma case. He was the prosecutor general, the chief of the office which was supervising the other prosecutors and all the investigations. Not just like any other corrupt official, he was the one supposed to lead the efforsts to prosecute all the other corrupt officials and businessmen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecutor_General_of_Ukraine Ukrainian people also wanted his head https://www.unian.info/society/1170127-auto-maidan-protesters-arrived-at-poroshenkos-residence-demanding-shokins-resignation-photos.html Fired for not doing his job, just as his predecessor was fired. It's that simple! The EU, the U.S. and the IMF wanted to make sure the money they were about to give or lend to Ukraine would not en up in corrupt hands. They were against corruption, and Shokin was part of it. As to your interference claim. It's a nonsense! All institutions or States do that. They set conditions before lending or giving money, and that's their right to make sure the money is used efficiently. The IMF does that, the EU does that, the World Bank does that. And in particular, they want to make sure the money won't end up in corrupt hands instead of helping the receiving country. That's legal according to International law, and also fair. (For example, the EU recently withheld subsidies to Hungary, because Orban had introduced regulations muzzling judges and media, so that government corruption could not be denounced and punished.) Of course, you prefer to believe a conspiracy theory pushed by a serial liar, in which the IMF, the EU, the Dept. Of State, Biden, NGOs and citizens in Ukraine, would conspire to help Burisma (which was not really investigated)

What I am saying is that you have been consistently ignoring facts you don't like. Fact is that the U.S. has continuously complained about the lack of action against corruption in Ukraine, and in particular criticized the prosecutor general's office, in 2014 and 2015, including Burisma. That's fact: official statements and speeches (transcripts linked in the timeline. Burisma was cited (among others). The reason of the insistence on Burisma was caused by the fact that the prosecutor's office covered up Burisma in a lawsuit by UK, a close ally of the U.S. It was not only targeted towards Shokin. His predecessor, Yarema, has also been dismissed before him. Shokin was not just a prosecutor. Like his predecessor also fired, he was the Head of the prosecutor general's office. Shokin did not bring much improvement, and instead went after anti-corruption organisations. Testimonies have been made that the investigation into Busrisma has been laid dormant. Archer also officially testified that Burisma managers were claiming that Shokin was under control. Finally (to make it short) the dinner you cite was in December 2015, and Biden and others were already asking for Shokin to be fired, before that. So It's impossible that the decision to fire Shokin may have been caused by what was said during this dinner. There has been pressure to fire him for months before that. "John E. Herbst, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine under George W. Bush, later testified before Congress: “By late fall of 2015, the EU and the United States joined the chorus of those seeking Mr. Shokin’s removal as the start of an overall reform of the Procurator General’s Office. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke publicly about this before and during his December visit to Kyiv.” (from the timeline linked). Testimony here "By late fall of 2015", that was before the dinner you cite. https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/031516_Herbst_Testimony.pdf Timeline https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/

Projecting much, again? Are you claiming that the EU Commission, the IMF, the Dept. of State and Joe Biden have conspired in order to help Burisma?

Trouble with the thinking part? Projecting much? What is so difficult to understand? Biden was applying the official U.S. government policy, in coordination with the EU and the IMF. Candidate Trump was blackmailing a foreign government to interfere in U.S. elections, by investigating his main political opponent, without any involvement of the DOJ (as stated by Barr). Trump was curbing U.S. official policy in his personal interest as Presidential candidate.

As I have shown in a post you ignored, this is B.S. The U.S., the IMF, and EU asked for Shokin to be fired in fall 2015, before the dinner in December 2015. There can be no causal link. You also cherry-picked Archers statements. While the board was worried about the investigation, Burisma executives told them that Shokin was under control. It is also mentioned in the NYPost you linked previously: "Within Burisma, Archer said that executives told board members that Shokin was “already taken care of,” which he interpreted as meaning his threat was blunted. “That was the narrative that was fed to the board,” Archer said. “We were told that [his ouster] was bad. We don’t want a new prosecutor, Shokin was taken care of.” It corroborates what he also stated in his testimony Archer testified that the Burisma public relations team in Washington, D.C., told him at the time that the prosecutor was under Burisma’s “control” and that the vice president’s advocating for the prosecutor’s ouster was bad for the company. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/republicans-oversell-archers-testimony-about-hunter-and-joe-biden/

December 2015, you cite? That was after The U.S., the EU and the IMF asked for Shokin to be dismissed! ???? "Sept. 24, 2015 – U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt excoriates officials in the Prosecutor General’s Office for stymying anti-corruption investigations, including those involving Burisma" And "Fall 2015 – Biden, along with the EU, publicly calls for ouster of Prosecutor General Shokin for failure to work on anti-corruption efforts. John E. Herbst, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine under George W. Bush, later testified before Congress: “By late fall of 2015, the EU and the United States joined the chorus of those seeking Mr. Shokin’s removal as the start of an overall reform of the Procurator General’s Office. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke publicly about this before and during his December visit to Kyiv.” https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/ And what about this? Archer testified that the Burisma public relations team in Washington, D.C., told him at the time that the prosecutor was under Burisma’s “control” and that the vice president’s advocating for the prosecutor’s ouster was bad for the company. https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/republicans-oversell-archers-testimony-about-hunter-and-joe-biden/ It seems that what Burisma actually wanted was to prevent the dismissal of Shokin.

Conditions have always been set by international organisations or by States for providing financial aid. One recurrent condition is to fight corruption and in particular to set up a judicial system able to prevent corruption. So yes, the U.S., the IMF and the EU interfered to make sure corruption would be fought. And no, Trump did not ask Ukraine "to investigate activities at Burisma".

So now you are evoking hypothetical events involving Hillary Clinton to back your beliefs, really? Real facts: the Obama administration had been consistently criticizing Ukraine prosecutor general's office for not investigating (and even helping) Burisma before and after Shokin was nominated. Shokin was covering up Burisma, and was instead going after anticorruption organisations. The IMF also held back funds for the same reason as the U.S., and the EU also wanted Shokin to be fired. https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/ But don't let facts get in the way of a good MAGA story! ????

Giuliani got a copy of the laptop content from the start by the shop owner, and gave a copy to the NYPost one year later. They timely (shortly before elections) released information intended at smearing Biden (the emails). They have never been able to come up with worse than that. Later, the content has been accessed by other media, and the pictures from the laptop have posted on the Internet. And there would be some mysterious laptop content incriminating one of the Biden's or both? It doesn't make sense! As to the rest of your post, That's the usual 'Comers says' stuff! Says but never shows. It's always keep mysterious!

You have truncated my post in order to be able to deflect again! This is dishonest! My question was not about HC, the FBI, etc.. My question was very precise, and you never replied to it. Do you believe that Giuliani and the NYPost, despite having a copy of the laptop content at their disposal for years, have withheld evidence incriminating Hunter or Joe?

It seems that Russia has influent allies in the House!

What a joke it was! The plan had been elaborated with Netanyahu, without the participation of the Palestinians. It was giving Israel all the land it wanted (in particular East-Jerusalem and the opulent Jordan Valley), and establishing a system of Bantustans for the Palestinians.

Lol! As usual you cherry pick parts of Archers testimony and ignore the ones you don't like, and cite a misleading article from the Daily Trash. It's not "Democrats claimed the phone calls were innocent and did not involve business", It's what Archer said during his testimony! ???? As about "Though some of the items on laptop have been released to the best of my knowledge the entire contents of it have still not been made public." One question: Giuliani (who was mission by Trump to find dirt on Biden) has received the laptop full content four years ago, and the NYPost (which is always ready to make a good right-wing headline) 3 years ago. That's more than enough time to analyse the laptop content, hire forensic computer specialists, etc... Do you think they have withheld incriminating evidence against Hunter or Joe? ????

So you still have got nothing....

There is a kind of 'law of business unsustainabilty' in Thailand, which can expressed in this way: instead of finding original ideas, people tend imitate businesses already opened by others, until that particular type of business becomes unsustainable (at least by farang standards). Hence empty bars, shops, etc... and now cannabis shops. Actually, cannabis is mainly used by farangs, and not necessarily the young ones. Thai people over their 30s are not attracted by drugs, and young people who like to party prefer to get drunk or to take chemical drugs (usually made in China). So the size of the target market is limited (unless more weed smoking tourists are attracted), and offer from shops exceeds demand.

As usual, Comer cannot stop winning! ???? ‘Sexy’ Biden and family get-togethers: Comer views new email details https://news.yahoo.com/sexy-biden-family-togethers-comer-201314139.html

And to some extent, still believe it.

My assumption is that he has a direct communications channel upwards. That may be useful.

From what I understand, it would be similar to what EFTA members currently have.

That was excluded by the red lines set by UK

The report is about a proposal for a redesign of the EU, in order to take into account the significant number of accession candidates -and also the differentiated attitude of current members towards further integration. The third circle is not particularly targeted at UK. In particular, it can be conveniently used as waiting position for accession countries. The full report can be accessed here: https://institutdelors.eu/en/publications/sailing-on-high-seas-reforming-and-enlarging-the-eu-for-the-21st-century/

Could it lead to a witness tampering charge? “The worst part of the report is not, believe it or not, in my mind, the to-do lists on the back of classified documents,” the former New Jersey governor told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto on Tuesday. “The worst is when he called that assistant when she was going to go before the grand jury and said, ‘You don’t know anything about my boxes, my boxes of documents.’” “That is active witness tampering. That’s active obstruction of justice,” he added. Chris Christie Pinpoints The Very ‘Worst Part’ Of Bombshell Trump Report https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-pinpoints-very-worst-092723328.html

Have you really read my post? Neither me nor the BBC claimed that what Hunter did was not illegal (and I couldn't care less in case he would be charged). The comment was that other people have rarely been charged in similar cases, and also that one of the charge may not be constitutional. A jury will ultimately make a decision, and that's fine for me.