The inside story of a pivotal moment on Ukraine for VP Biden House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) this week directed House committees to begin an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, with one area of focus whether Biden, as vice president in 2015, pushed to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor to benefit his son Hunter's foreign business dealings. The body of evidence shows that the prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, failed to act against the energy company Burisma, to the distress of many senior U.S. officials who were closely tracking whether Shokin was meeting certain benchmarks. Hunter Biden was then on Burisma's board. The Obama administration's moment of decision on linking Shokin's ouster to granting a $1 billion loan guarantee has never been firmly established. In an exclusive report, The Fact Checker shows that Biden decided while flying to Kyiv in early December 2015 to use the loan guarantee as leverage to make sure Ukraine's president at the time, Petro Poroshenko, followed through with the request of the United States that Shokin be fired. You can read our full report by clicking this link. We also produced a quick guide to why the House is looking into a Biden impeachment — and how little House Republicans have found to make the case that Biden acted to benefit his son's financial interests. That report can be found via this link. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Some Trump insiders sold lots of books. Many didn't. Later this month, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, whose testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack was so central to its efforts to shed light on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will publish a book marketed as the story of "an idealistic young woman thrust in the middle of a national crisis." She joins a long list of Trump insiders who have published books about their experiences during that tumultuous presidency. We obtained data showing how 27 Trump insiders and the former president himself fared when their memoirs were printed. The most copies, 680,223, were sold by former national security adviser John Bolton. The least, 1,569, were sold by Jason D. Greenblatt, a White House aide who worked on Middle East issues. See the complete list by clicking this link. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other Ukraine fact checks | 
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