Former British leader defends Biden Ukraine scenario
Source: Politico
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday supported the explanation offered as to why Vice President Joe Biden pressured the president of Ukraine in 2015 to crack down on corruption.
Speaking on “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, Cameron said, “It's certainly true to say that the British view, I think in common with the American view, was that Ukraine needed to do more to tackle corruption.“
Cameron added: “Our view was, we're helping you in terms of your defense, and we're helping in terms of standing up to the Russian aggression, but you need to help us by dealing with corruption in your country and that was a common theme with all the interactions that I had particularly with President [Petro] Poroshenko.”
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Saying he didn’t “recall all of the specifics about the specific individuals,“ Cameron didn’t directly address what Biden may or may not have said as President Barack Obama’s vice president, but said that the West was working hard at that time to get Ukraine to clean up its notoriously corrupt government. The West was heavily involved in Ukraine at the time because of its ongoing conflict with Russia, which had seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, an invasion roundly condemned by the international community.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/29/david-cameron-biden-ukraine-trump-009524
Trump tweet attacking Cameron should show up any minute now...
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