WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's relationship with Ukraine on Tuesday over allegations that he pressured her president to investigate allegations that former US Vice President Joe Biden threatened while in office to stop US aid to Ukraine.
The paper said that Trump is right about Ukraine in one thing: that for many years the country's policies have been in the grip of a complex and ugly conflict over corruption, and the short story is that a persecuted movement of civil society activists, journalists and liberal legislators, with sporadic support from Western governments, fought the oligarchs - many Some have ties to Russia or organized crime - the weak government officials they protect, and often reformers have been the losers.
What Trump did not explain was that he and his attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, stood with the bad guys in this conflict between the Russians, the oligarchs and weak officials, and that the false stories they tell about Joe Biden and other American Democrats are the result of this misguided alliance.
Giuliani has a record of doing business with Ukrainians close to Russia and former President Viktor Yanukovich, whom the newspaper described as a spy by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who, after being ousted in a popular uprising in 2014, was accused of plundering millions of dollars.
Corruption investigations
According to the Washington Post, Giuliani relied on his allegations on two former Ukrainian prosecutors, both enemies of the reform movement, and Western officials accused them of obstructing anti-corruption investigations.
Viktor Schocken, who was forced to quit as Attorney General in 2016 after intervention by then Vice President Joe Biden, told Giuliani that he was investigating a Ukrainian gas company that had given a position on its board to Biden Hunter, and Giuliani later passed the account. To the right-wing media.
What Giuliani concealed in his report was that Biden's intervention was part of a broad campaign by Ukrainian reformers, European governments and financial institutions to topple Shukkin, who was blocking the prosecution of corrupt officials and the oligarchs.
She noted that Attorney General Yuri Lochenko - who replaced Shukin - publicly stated later that the gas company was not under investigation at the time of Biden's intervention, and that there were no irregularities on the part of Biden or his son Hunter.
But Luchenko, too, was at war with liberal activists - including an anti-corruption NGO as well as Sergei Lishchenko, a liberal legislator and journalist - who also accused the prosecutor of obstructing corruption investigations and had the support of US ambassador to Kiev Marie Jovanovich.
By demanding an investigation into Biden and Lishchenko's "corruption", Trump and Giuliani are honestly trying to harm a potential Trump rival in the 2020 presidential election, but they are also boosting the agenda of those in Ukraine who seek to defend the corrupt oligarchs and block them. Real repair.