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Memos show parallel tracks between father, son on a corruption issue that would eventually ensnare Ukraine, the U.S. and two American presidents.

While most Americans were preparing for the November 2015 Thanksgiving holiday, top policy advisers to Joe Biden were scurrying to put the finishing touches on the then-vice presidentโ€™s upcoming trip to Kyiv where he planned to deliver a momentous shock to the U.S.-Ukraine relationship.

Just a month earlier, a task force of top State, Treasury and Justice Department officials had decided that Ukraine and its new top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, had made enough progress on anti-corruption reforms for the country to receive a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee.

They drafted a term sheet for the delivery of the new aid to then-President Poroshenko during Bidenโ€™s December 2015 trip to Ukraine, and were making plans to invite Shokinโ€™s top staff to Washington in January for a high-level meeting. Shokin himself even got a letter from the State Department declaring it was โ€œimpressedโ€ with his reform efforts.

But the vice president and his top advisers on Ukraine, including then-Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, had a very different plan that began unfolding that Thanksgiving holiday week. In fact, it was an about-face when it came to Shokinโ€™s plight, according to two โ€œgoals and objectivesโ€ memos drafted four days before Thanksgiving on Nov. 22, 2015 and obtained by Just the News.

โ€œThere is wide agreement that anti-corruption must be at the top of this list, and that reforms must include an overhaul of the Prosecutor Generalโ€™s Office, including removal of Prosecutor General Shokin, who is widely regarded as an obstacle to fighting corruption, if not a source of the problem,โ€ the memos stated.

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A U.S. intervention into the domestic affairs of an ally like Ukraine was rare and intrusive, and the meddling has had years of fallout. And it turns out, according to documents obtained years later by Just the News, that Joe Biden and his son Hunter were both intensely focused on the same prosecutor at that same moment.

By John Solomon and Steven Richards

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