No extortion is legal. For some people. When Biden bragged in the CFR video of extorting Poroshenko/ Ukraine (withholding $billion unless their AG-equivalent Victor Shokin was immediately fired, for investigating Burisma), that was business as normal. Rumors were that Biden also extorted $5 million each for himself and Hunter from Burism…
No extortion is legal. For some people. When Biden bragged in the CFR video of extorting Poroshenko/ Ukraine (withholding $billion unless their AG-equivalent Victor Shokin was immediately fired, for investigating Burisma), that was business as normal. Rumors were that Biden also extorted $5 million each for himself and Hunter from Burisma for getting Shokin fired. (Supposedly Zlochevsky, founder of Burisma, had complained to several friends about the shakedown, but when the FBI showed up, he said he knew nothing (The correct answer in Ukraine.) And what's $10 million to an oligarch?)
One man's extortion is another man's negotiating tactic.
No extortion is legal. For some people. When Biden bragged in the CFR video of extorting Poroshenko/ Ukraine (withholding $billion unless their AG-equivalent Victor Shokin was immediately fired, for investigating Burisma), that was business as normal. Rumors were that Biden also extorted $5 million each for himself and Hunter from Burisma for getting Shokin fired. (Supposedly Zlochevsky, founder of Burisma, had complained to several friends about the shakedown, but when the FBI showed up, he said he knew nothing (The correct answer in Ukraine.) And what's $10 million to an oligarch?)
One man's extortion is another man's negotiating tactic.
Some say the US is a Mafia State?
Some that say that may be right.