Question

USAID: Biden threatened to withhold a $1 billion USAID loan guarantee unless Ukraine fired the prosecutor investigating his son's company. Victoria Nuland funded the Ukrainian coup with USAID money. USAID is at the heart of the war between Ukraine and Russia.

Answer 1

This claim is misleading, if not false. There is no evidence that Biden improperly withheld a loan of $1 million for any reason concerning his son, Hunter Biden, his son's involvement in the company Burisma, or Shokin's involvement in an investigation of Burisma. According to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, Burisma Holdings was not under scrutiny at the time Joe Biden called for Shokin to be fired. The prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was viewed as corrupt and unfit for his position, which was a main factor in Joe Biden withholding this loan to pressure the government into removing Shokin from the Prosecutor General's Office. This claim seems to originate from Trump, his political campaigns, his supporters, and certain republican representatives and politicians, including his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. In short, this claim is misleading because Biden did withhold a loan to pressure the government into firing Viktor Shokin, but not because of anything to do with Hunter Biden or Burisma.

HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD440.pdf

PolitiFact | Fact-checking Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine

Trump Revives False Narrative on Biden and Ukraine - FactCheck.org

Fact v. Fiction: The Firing of Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin | The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats

Comments

good thorough fact check. I think you still could have tagged this False, as the claim is on why he did it, not if he did it.