I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, nah, I’m not going to - or, we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. So they said they had - they were walking out to a press conference. And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor. 23, 2018: I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. The former vice president, who is now running for president, said the incident occurred during a visit to Kiev.īiden, Jan. We know this because Biden boasted about it last year during an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations. would withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees if Ukraine failed to address corruption and remove its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin. Let’s review what we know - and don’t know - about the Bidens and Ukraine.Īs vice president, Biden went to Ukraine and told the government that the U.S. And if you don’t fire the prosecutor, we’re not giving you $2 billion in loan guarantees,” or whatever he was supposed to give. Then he said, “If you fire the prosecutor, you’ll be OK. Trump: Biden, he calls them and says, “Don’t you dare prosecute, if you don’t fire this prosecutor” - the prosecutor was after his son. loan guarantees unless Ukraine dropped its investigation into Hunter and fired the prosecutor. There’s no evidence that Hunter was under investigation. Trump twisted the facts when he said that the then-vice president threatened to withhold $2 billion in U.S. The president pivoted to 2020 - implying that a potential 2020 rival, Joe Biden, intervened while he was vice president to halt an investigation in Ukraine of his son, Hunter. Hunter Biden and UkraineĪt one point, Hilton raised Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” asking the president whether former White House aides should be allowed to lobby for foreign companies. In a wide-ranging interview that aired May 19 on “ The Next Revolution,” Trump and the show’s host, Steve Hilton, discussed foreign policy, international trade, the economy, politics and more.
But federal data show that China purchased nearly $27.2 billion in U.S. farmers hurt by the trade war, because that’s “the most money that China has ever paid” for U.S. The president said he will provide $15 billion in assistance to U.S.Trump said of North Korea: “They haven’t had any tests over the last two years - zero.” It’s true that they haven’t had any nuclear tests or long-range missile tests, but North Korea has tested short-range missiles twice this month.
There’s no evidence that Biden was under investigation, although he was a board member for a company whose owner was under investigation. Trump claimed Joe Biden, as vice president, pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who “was after his son,” Hunter Biden.President Donald Trump, in a lengthy interview on Fox News, made several statements that were false, misleading or not supported by the evidence:
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