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, there is evidence that he used the U.S. government’s influence to pressure Ukraine into ousting its top prosecutor in order to protect American financial interests. Documents uncovered by Politico after the 2018 midterm elections revealed that in 2016, the Obama administration threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees unless the Ukrainian government removed its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. The evidence showed that VP Biden was at times heavily involved in conversations about the issue, including a meeting with then-President Petro Poroshenko in which Biden threatened to withhold the loan guarantees unless Ukraine moved quickly to remove the prosecutor. According to the documents, at the meeting, Biden proposed that he and Poroshenko make a joint announcement about Shokin’s removal. In the documents, Poroshenko’s office wrote: “If Shokin is not fired by the end of the day, then there will be an announcement from the U.S. that the loan guarantee will not be provided.” In the end, Shokin was fired, and the billion-dollar loan guarantee move forward.