It was a foreign policy role Joseph R. Biden Jr. enthusiastically embraced during his vice presidency: browbeating Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government to clean up its act. And one of his most memorable performances came on a trip to Kyiv in March 2016, when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.
New York Times: Biden faces conflict of interest questions that are being promoted by Trump and allies
Former US Vice President Joe Biden gives a speech at the 55th Munich Security Conference in Munich, southern Germany, on Feb. 16, 2019.
