Former Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland and former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin have made statements suggesting that former Vice President Joe Biden interfered in a bribery investigation in Ukraine involving his son Hunter Biden and Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Ltd. McFarland claims that Biden admitted to pressuring the Ukrainian government to fire the investigator or risk losing $1 billion in aid. Shokin, speaking through an interpreter, says he was fired for investigating Burisma at Biden’s insistence. Shokin believes that Joe and Hunter Biden took bribes, but he was fired before he could gather evidence. McFarland argues that there is a clear connection between Shokin’s termination, the investigation into Burisma, and the subsequent aid to Ukraine, suggesting that American national security was compromised in the process.
