I am really surprised at Senator Grassley. It is all Republican theatrics orchestrated by Trump.
Viktor Shokin was a corrupt Prosecutor General and removed from office by the Ukraine legislature. At the time Shokin was in office there were still strong Russian influences in Ukraine. That Russian influence was corruption. Shokin refused to follow that line of corruption in the country and it was viewed by the legislature as a violation of his oath in office.
At the time Ukraine wanted a trading relationship with the EU. The businessmen in Ukraine wanted that market opportunity to open. The EU saw what Shokin was doing and refused to allow any contracts or treaties to be drawn up because of the corruption.
The USA is part of NATO. The EU is part of NATO. With Ukraine wanting to establish trade relationships with the EU, the USA used leverage to force the issue. It had nothing to do with Burisma. The fact Hunter Biden has a relationship with Burisma is happenstance.
The then Vice President Biden was acting in the very best interest of NATO. It is all verifiable. Hunter’s relationship with Burisma has and still has nothing to do with the leverage used by the USA to end the corruption with the Ukraine Prosecutor General Shokin. Shokin was basically Putin’s puppet within the Ukraine government.
What surprises me is Grassley. He appears to be Trump’s puppet within the USA Senate. AND. The idea Grassley would want it to have happened differently. Is Grassley Anti-NATO as Trump is? Certainly he is not anti-Ukraine, is he? Biden acted on priorities that were NATO policy.
Curious. Very. Very. Curious.
