Actually, I deliberately chose to use that clip, since it shows how his answer was deliberately edited to make it seem like he was boasting about getting Shokin fired for personal reasons.
He discussed his attempts to get Shokin fired in the midst of a question about the struggle to overcome endemic corruption within Ukraine. Shokin epitomized that endemic corruption, which is why the US Admin had decided by Dec 2015 that he needed to be replaced...
If you want to criticize Biden for anything in that clip it's that he deliberately exaggerated events of that day in Dec 2015. Earlier that day the US Embassy staff in Kyiv had urged Biden to press Poroshenko on ousting Shokin, following up on Amb Pyatt's warnings in a speech in Odesa 3 mos earlier. Biden made it seem like Poroshenko fired Shokin that very day, but unfortunately, Poroshenko allowed Shokin to remain as PGO for another 3 mos...
During that time, pro-US Ministers continued to resign while calling out continued hindrance and corruption by Shokin and his department. When Deputy Prosecutor Vitaliy Kasko (the most pro-US Minister) resigned in Feb 2016, he called out Shokin on live Ukrainian TV...
“Today, the General Prosecutor’s office is a brake on the reform of criminal justice, a hotbed of corruption, an instrument of political pressure, one of the key obstacles to the arrival of foreign investment in Ukraine,” Deputy General Prosecutor Vitaliy Kasko said in a televised statement.
Kasko’s move follows the exit of Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavicius, who accused vested interests, including a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko, of meddling in his ministry and trying to siphon off state funds.
Kasko’s accusation that there was merely a facade of change in the prosecution service is damaging to Poroshenko, who has resisted pressure to fire General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...orruption-as-government-teeters-idUSKCN0VO1II
Shokin held on till March ( 3 mos later that the meeting Biden described), but after anti-Shokin demonstrators took the streets on March 28, Shokin was fired the next day.
None of this (including Biden's pressure) had anything to do with Hunter Biden, since the Ukraine reformers who wanted Shokin out were battling against his continued protection of the oligarchs and the graft and corruption he continued to facilitate...
Dozens of activists gathered in central Kyiv have demanded an immediate dismissal of Ukraine's embattled Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.
www.rferl.org
It's typical Trump to try and revise history and think people are so stupid that they couldn't go back and research the actual contemporary accounts from that time. The cult believed him- they're idiots. Are you an idiot as well?