In 2019, a sitting president was impeached after pressing Ukraine to investigate matters involving Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Viktor Shokin’s explosive new book, “Biden’s Corruption and War,” offers a first-person account from one of the figures at the center of that controversy.
No freedom-loving American can forget the video of then-Vice President Joe Biden recounting how he threatened to withhold U.S. loan guarantees unless Ukraine fired its prosecutor general.
Americans deserve to know how their government uses power abroad, how foreign aid is distributed, and whether politically connected families benefit.
“Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,” Biden said. “And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
The clip has been replayed for years because it sounds, at minimum, astonishingly cavalier: a sitting vice president boasting that American leverage forced the removal of a foreign prosecutor.
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(…) Shokin presents a stark thesis: He argues that the war in Ukraine became a vehicle for corruption and hidden agendas extending far beyond the battlefield.
Among his most explosive allegations are claims that $350 billion in U.S. taxpayer money was recycled through political and globalist networks, that arms arrangements were tainted by corruption, and that wartime chaos facilitated the trafficking of Ukrainian women and children.
Those are grave allegations. They come from a man who says he paid a personal price for getting too close to uncomfortable truths. But they remain allegations, and the book should be read as Shokin’s case — not as independent proof of every charge.
[…]Shokin in the book gives his account of the pressure campaign that ended with his removal.He writes that Joe Biden was known in Ukraine as the “Vice King” and portrays the vice president as wielding extraordinary influence over then-President Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian government.
The book lays out names, dates, meetings, and episodes that Shokin says connect the Burisma investigation to the effort to fire him. (Read more: The Blaze, 8/13/2026) (Archive)