merely to serve on its board that he actually bragged about it in a 2018 speech at an event for the publication Foreign Affairs. In this speech, Biden boasts his threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loans from Ukraine if they did not agree to fire the prosecutor who happened to be investigating the company giving his son a cushy sinecure.

The prosecutor was fired, and the investigation was dropped six months later. While the investigation was just reopened last year, it has been a slow-moving process that has turned up little. At the time Biden pushed for the firing of Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor general, Shokin had plans to question Hunter Biden.

Watch Biden brag about his role in threatening to have the prosecutor fired, during a visitor contrition for having committed the crime.   United States v. Daly, 974 F.2d 1215, 1218 (9th Cir.1992).


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The district court agreed with the probation officer's report that Douglas had not demonstrated sincere acceptance of responsibility for the crime.   At the time of his arrest, Douglas indicated that he never had a gun and explained that he ran because "everyone else ran."   The probation officer reported that Douglas "essentially said nothing about his conduct and his attitude throughout the 'discussion' of this offense and did not demonstrate any degree of remorse.   In fact, he never expressed any remorse for his behavior."   In his letter to the court, Douglas said that he knew "it was wrong for me to have that