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Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory

Political conspiracy theory

This article is about the conspiracy theory that the firing of Viktor Shokin was an attempt by Joe Biden to protect Hunter Biden. For the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden's laptop, see Hunter Biden laptop controversy. For allegations of corruption by the Bidens, see United States House Oversight Committee investigation into the Biden family.

The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of false allegations that Joe Biden, while he was vice president of the United States, improperly withheld a loan guarantee and took a bribe to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor generalViktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son, Hunter Biden, who was on the Burisma board.[1] As part of efforts by Donald Trump[2] and his campaign in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, which led to Trump's first impeachment, these falsehoods were spread in an attempt to damage Joe Biden's reputation and chances during the 2020 presidential campaign, and later in an

Does Marie Yovanovitch Have a Net Worth of $17 Million?

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Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has a net worth of $17 million.

On Nov. 15, 2019, former U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified before the U.S. House Intelligence Committee in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Shortly after, some of Trump's defenders took to social media apparently to discredit her testimony, claiming that the ambassador's net worth far exceeded her salary, insinuating because of some illicit means:

We have found no evidence to corroborate this claim.

Those making the claim have offered a wide range of figures. We also found that this claim did not originate with a credible financial news outlet, such as Forbes, and that the websites publishing this information have offered no evidence.  Furthermore, while this claim implies some sort of wrongdoing on her part, no one has offered any information about how she supposedly built her alleged fortune.

In other words, this claim appears to have been conjured

Angela Merkel delayed Ukraine's NATO bid over Russia fears, memoir reveals

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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has justified her efforts to delay Ukraine's bid for NATO membership during her time in office, citing fears that Russia could retaliate, according to excerpts from her upcoming memoir published in German weekly Die Zeit.

Merkel, who was German chancellor for 16 years, described her hesitation over supporting Ukraine's Membership Action Plan, or MAP status, for joining NATO at a key summit in Bucharest in 2008, where membership for the country was eventually halted.

In her memoir, Merkel said she felt that Ukraine's desire to join NATO should be balanced with security concerns for the military alliance as a whole. She wrote of her concern about Ukraine's ties to Russia, especially the Russian Black Sea fleet based in the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which Moscow later illegally annexed in 2014.

Merkel said she thought it was an "illusion" that MAP status for Ukraine would protect the country from Russian President Vladimir Putin, or that

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