No, President Trump has not won his pressure campaign to get the Ukrainian government to manufacture dirt on his opponents.
Nonetheless, some headlines this morning are suggesting that Ukraine will review the investigation of a Ukrainian natural gas company where Hunter Biden served on the board.
The reality is subtler, and more complicated, than these stories make it seem.
The backstory here begins with President Volodymyr Zelensky’s appointment of Ruslan Ryaboshapka as the country’s general prosecutor. That position has surreally become a political football in Washington, after Ryaboshapka’s two predecessors — Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko — wound up as main characters …read more
Source:: TPM