My irony meter just exploded,
For the thousandth time, Shokin's firing was ordered by President Obama. The IMF, EU and NATO wanted him gone too.
Repeating a rumor does not make it true. The House is seeking documentation to understand Joe's sudden switch in policy, using taxpayer money, to demand the firing of Shokin in the below September 12, 2023 letter to State:
On June 11, 2015, then-
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland wrote Prosecutor
General Shokin, applauding his office’s progress in anti-corruption efforts.6 In September 2015,
then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt publicly stated “we want to work with
Prosecutor General Shokin so the [Prosecutor General Office] is leading the fight against
corruption.”7 Also in September, the Interagency Policy Committee asserted Prosecutor General
Shokin had made sufficient progress in combating corruption to warrant a third guarantee of a $1
billion loan.8 On November 5, 2015, then-Vice President participated in a call with then-
President of Ukraine Poroshenko and provided no indication that the United States’ policy
regarding Ukraine required the dismissal of Prosecutor General Shokin.9 By late 2015, however,
the removal of Prosecutor General Shokin became a condition of the loan guarantee by the
United States.10