Joe Biden on Defending Democracy
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it mainly critically, for a clip in which Biden talks about getting a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.
What it is
A Council on Foreign Relations event where Joe Biden and Michael Carpenter discuss their Foreign Affairs article on defending democracy against Kremlin interference.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Cites anon9001 · 2019-10 · on “Facebook Now Allows Politicians to Lie in Paid Ads”
I know HN isn't really the place for this, but since you asked and I did a fairly deep dive into this just to know what's going on, here's what seems to have happened, complete with evidence to the contrary: From Wikipedia [LINK] : > Shokin claimed in May 2019 that he had been investigating Burisma Holdings.[28][29][30][31] However, Vitaliy Kasko, who had been Shokin's deputy overseeing international cooperation before resigning in February 2016 citing corruption in the office, provided documents to Bloomberg News indicating that under Shokin, the investigation into Burisma had been dormant.[32] Also, the investigation into Burisma only pertained to events happening before Hunter Biden joine
Critical povertyworld · 2019-09 · on “The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write”
So, shouldn't you be in favor of the investigation into Biden? Since that is exactly what he did. "This plane's leaving in about 6 hours. If the prosecutor [investigating his son's firm] isn't fired, you're not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch, got fired!" 52 minutes in: [this video]
Critical tomjakubowski · 2019-10 · on “Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?”
Biden openly bragged about getting Shokin fired, though not under oath, and he stopped short of saying it was to protect his son. [this video] edit: phone brain skipped over the "on his behalf" part of the sentence, I thought that they'd said there was no evidence Biden even pressured the government to fire Shokin.
Critical noworriesnate · 2020-11 · on “'You are no longer my mother': How the election is dividing American families”
Here's a video of Joe Biden bragging about threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine in order to get the prosecutor who was investigating Hunter fired. [this video]