Ukrainian Pols are Playing Games With Impeachment Info
MOSCOW—Just as the U.S. Congress and the world prepared to hear bombshell testimony in the impeachment hearings this week, headlines in the Ukrainian and Russian press Wednesday claimed that the government in Kyiv is opening a criminal investigation into the natural gas company Burisma and Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who sat on its board.
That would be a bombshell in itself. Trump’s pressure on Ukraine’s new president to announce such investigations is at the center of allegations that Trump abused the power of his office—even as Trump has exploited the publicity to continue smearing Joe Biden, a possible rival in the 2020 elections.
Right-wing Twitter feeds in the United States claimed not only that the investigation had been opened, but that there had been an “indictment” of Burisma’s founder—until Twitter suspended one of the sites pushing that fake news, and others quickly deleted their posts.