Please recall that Shokin was the corrupt prosecutor America - not Joe Biden - America and the EU wanted Ukraine to remove from his position in order to clean up their government. Whether that was right or wrong is a different question. The point is, it wasn't Joe Biden's rogue decision or "second channel" on a personal crusade. Also, and this is very important, Shokin had quit investigating Burisma, and the push to oust him would have likely led to renewed investigation into Burisma.Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was in contact with secretary of state Mike Pompeo in the months before the US ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled, according to a cache of documents released by on Friday.
The state department released the documents to the group American Oversight in response to a freedom of information lawsuit. They show that Pompeo talked with Giuliani on 26 March and 29 March.
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“We can see why Mike Pompeo has refused to release this information to Congress. It reveals a clear paper trail from Rudy Giuliani to the Oval Office to secretary Pompeo to facilitate Giuliani’s smear campaign against a US ambassador,” [Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight,] said.
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The documents released late on Friday also include a report, apparently on Trump hotel stationery, that appears to summarise an interview on 23 January 2019 with Ukraine’s former prosecutor general, Victor Shokin. The summary says Giuliani and two business associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were present.
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In the document, Shokin claims he was removed from his position under pressure from Biden.
The Guardian
One thing, I think Ambassador Yovanovich can look forward to reassignment when Trump is run out of Dodge.
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Better yet.
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