Republicans signed letter supporting the Ukraine reforms Biden was pushing, appearing to undermine the president's unsubstantiated claims
A bipartisan group of lawmakers echoed then-Vice President Joe Biden’s push for anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine, including within the country’s office of the prosecutor general, according to a 2016 letter unearthed by CNN.
The letter ― also signed by Sens. Ron Johnson , Mark Kirk , Chris Murphy , Jeanne Shaheen , Richard Blumenthal and Sherrod Brown ― appears to undermine President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that there was “quid pro quo” when then-Vice President Biden withheld aid to Ukraine to push the country’s leaders to fire its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin.
Biden wasn’t the only person calling for Shokin’s removal from office. Members of Congress , European leaders and international organizations were all pushing for the notoriously corrupt prosecutor to be fired. “The United States, the European Union, the I.M.F., and Ukraine’s leading reform figures were all pressing for Viktor Shokin to be removed from office because he was one of the biggest obstacles to fighting corruption in the entire country,” Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates told HuffPost in a statement.
“I don’t know what’s true, I don’t know what’s not true,” Johnson said while discussing some of the issues referenced in the letter he wrote with Grassley. “If something happened, the American people should know. If something didn’t happen, the American people need to know so we can get this behind us. It’s about uncovering the truth.”
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