Ukrainian Prosecutor Joe Biden FIRED for Investigating Hunter’s Burisma Just Exposed $350 BILLION in U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Meant for Ukraine Going Straight to Globalist Networks

Viktor Shokin

Former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the official Joe Biden publicly threatened and forced out of office in 2016, claims in his book Biden’s Corruption and War: The True Story of the 1 Billion Dollar Prosecutor that hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars connected to Ukraine were recycled through political interests and “globalist networks.”

According to a Blaze Media column citing Shokin’s first-person account, massive sums of U.S. aid intended for Ukraine were recycled through political and globalist networks.

He alleges $350 billion in American taxpayer money was diverted into these opaque channels amid the chaos of war. Arms deals were tainted by corruption.

Wartime disorder allegedly facilitated trafficking of Ukrainian women and children. The book paints the conflict itself as a vehicle for enrichment and influence far beyond the battlefield.

Shokin was the prosecutor general investigating Mykola Zlochevsky and Burisma Holdings, the same corrupt energy company that put Hunter Biden on its board and paid him an eye-watering salary for “expertise” he didn’t have.

Shokin says his office was moving against the company, seizing assets, and getting uncomfortably close to the Biden family connections. That’s when the pressure campaign from Washington intensified.

Joe Biden later famously boasted about it on video: he told Ukrainian officials they weren’t getting the billion dollars unless the prosecutor was gone. “Well, son of a bitch, he got fired.”

Biden called himself the “Vice King” in Ukraine circles for a reason. Shokin’s book details the meetings, the influence over then-President Petro Poroshenko, and the coordinated effort that ended his tenure.

According to Blaze:

Shokin presents a stark thesis: He argues that the war in Ukraine became a vehicle for corruption and hidden agendas extending far beyond the battlefield.

Among his most explosive allegations are claims that $350 billion in U.S. taxpayer money was recycled through political and globalist networks, that arms arrangements were tainted by corruption, and that wartime chaos facilitated the trafficking of Ukrainian women and children.

Those are grave allegations. They come from a man who says he paid a personal price for getting too close to uncomfortable truths. But they remain allegations, and the book should be read as Shokin’s case — not as independent proof of every charge.

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Shokin in the book gives his account of the pressure campaign that ended with his removal.

He writes that Joe Biden was known in Ukraine as the “Vice King” and portrays the vice president as wielding extraordinary influence over then-President Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian government.

The book lays out names, dates, meetings, and episodes that Shokin says connect the Burisma investigation to the effort to fire him.

The Gateway Pundit previously covered Shokin’s account in August 2023.

In that interview, Shokin said it was his “firm personal conviction” that his dismissal resulted from the Burisma investigation. He characterized the threatened withholding of the loan guarantee as corruption, although he also said he did not want to present unproven facts as established evidence.

We also reported in 2019 on allegations involving missing IMF and American funds connected to Ukraine and PrivatBank.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/ukrainian-prosecutor-joe-biden-fired-investigating-hunters-burisma/

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BREAKING: Federal Judge Clears The Way For President Trump To End Somali TPS After 35 Years

 A federal judge has cleared the final courtroom barrier standing between President Trump and the end of a “temporary” immigration program that survived for 35 years.

U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs on Friday granted the federal government’s motions to lift the administrative stay blocking the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Somalia.

She also denied the challengers’ emergency request to postpone the termination and impose a preliminary injunction. The ruling allows the administration’s January termination decision to move forward.

The breaking court result was confirmed Friday afternoon:

This is a major immigration win for the Trump administration.

The program was created by Congress to provide temporary protection from removal and work authorization when conditions in a foreign country make return unsafe. Somalia received its first designation in 1991, and repeated extensions kept it alive for more than three decades.

The U.S. District Court’s order says the legal challengers failed at the most important stage of the preliminary-injunction test: showing they were likely to win their case.

Judge Burroughs concluded that TPS recipients do not have a protected property right to future extensions because the decision to continue or terminate a country’s designation is discretionary. She also ruled that ending the designation does not itself detain or remove anyone, though it can make former beneficiaries subject to future immigration enforcement.

The judge acknowledged that the challengers had made a “strong case” regarding statements they argued showed racial hostility. But she said the Supreme Court’s June ruling in Mullin v. Doe left no path for finding that their race-based claim was likely to succeed.

The court also rejected the argument that the DHS secretary lacked legal authority to terminate TPS. Burroughs concluded that Congress’s creation of DHS and the following reorganization transferred that power from the attorney general to the homeland security secretary.

Back in January, USCIS made the administration’s position unmistakable:

The Federal Register records DHS’s finding that Somalia no longer met the statutory conditions for TPS after the department reviewed country conditions and consulted other federal agencies.

DHS argued that the armed conflict had changed substantially since 1991 and that the violence no longer fully prevented Somali nationals from returning safely. The department also cited national-security, public-safety, fraud, immigration-integrity and foreign-policy concerns.

The official notice estimated that 1,082 people had approved Somalia-based TPS as of December 8, 2025, while another 1,383 applications were pending. It set March 17 as the termination date, but Burroughs placed that action on hold just days before it was due to take effect.

The legal landscape changed on June 25.

In Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court held that the TPS statute’s judicial-review bar blocks courts from considering statutory challenges to a homeland security secretary’s designation and termination decisions. The majority specifically noted that Somalia’s supposedly temporary designation had remained in effect for 35 years.

Burroughs allowed the challengers’ direct constitutional theories to be heard, but found that none was likely to succeed. Because likelihood of success is the controlling requirement for emergency relief, their request failed even though the judge said the other hardship factors favored them.

The White House had celebrated the original termination as an America First action when it was announced:

Friday’s ruling does not by itself order anyone deported, and former TPS beneficiaries may have another lawful status or an individual claim to relief. It does remove the broad administrative stay that prevented DHS from implementing the countrywide termination.

The challengers filed a notice of appeal the same day, so more litigation is likely. But unless an appeals court issues new relief, the stay is gone and President Trump’s administration can finally carry out the termination announced seven months ago.

A program labeled temporary lasted from George H.W. Bush’s presidency through six administrations.

President Trump moved to restore the word to its plain meaning, and the federal court has now cleared the way.

Temporary means temporary — even after 35 years.

https://100percentfedup.com/breaking-federal-judge-clears-way-president-trump-end/

Friday Executive News Summary

Dems finally oppose spending money, no actions taken by the WNBA, suppressors now available without registration, State Department ends all DEI training, and more.

Dems finally oppose spending money … on White House ballroom
The Trump administration will spend at least $900 million constructing the White House ballroom, about three times the original estimate. The president has repeatedly promised that private donations would pay for the East Wing modernization project, although taxpayers could still cover the cost of security components. However, because the administration bypassed Congress, Senate Democrats are demanding an audit, citing concerns about how Donald Trump is handling transparency and accountability. Previous administrations have worked with Congress for renovation and changes to the White House grounds. A court in DC ruled that Trump needs congressional approval to proceed. That case will likely move to the Supreme Court.

Lots of words said, no actions taken by the WNBA
A WNBA task force met this week to discuss recent developments concerning transgender athletes. In an extraordinary display of inaction, they said in a statement: “Today’s meeting covered a wide range of topics, including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate and vitriol directed at players online. … There are no immediate eligibility matters affecting the WNBA and we strongly denounce the bad-faith efforts to use these topics to demean or marginalize others.” Essentially, all that means is that while they have criticized Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, they haven’t kicked them out of the draft either. The WNBA has effectively kicked the can down the road, even though it must eventually make a definitive decision. Taking the middle road will lead to some very messy consequences.

Suppressors now available without registration
For the first time in over 90 years, two gun owners legally purchased suppressors for their firearms without National Firearms Act registration and approval. The landmark moment came at midnight on Thursday after Gun Owners of America and Silencer Shop won a landmark legal victory over the federal government. Before the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025, purchasing suppressors, sometimes called silencers, without NFA registration was punishable by 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The OBBBA reduced the taxes on suppressors and certain firearms to $0, which GOA and Silencer Shop successfully argued invalidates the NFA’s registration and approval requirements because there is no underlying tax. Texas congressional candidate Brandon Herrera and Texas State Representative Wes Virdell purchased the suppressors.

Seven-year-old Ohio boy tortured to death by trans group
Last Thursday, Cincinnati police were horrified to discover seven-year-old William Evans dead in the closet of his “family” home. William had been killed by blunt trauma to the head, but there were also signs of trauma to his face, torso, back, and upper and lower extremities. He showed signs of water and burn torture, and sexual abuse has not been ruled out. It was “one of the most disturbing examples of child abuse that I’ve witnessed,” said veteran homicide detective Kyle Smith in court. William’s mother, Kaitlin Evans, and her trans-identifying male partners, Nessa Keaney and Kirby Rankin, have been charged with the heinous crimes. William’s father, “Tara Jane” Evans-Ellis, who also identifies as trans, was apparently not involved in his son’s torturous death. Evidence suggests William was being groomed to identify as trans himself.

Judge tosses DOJ’s antisemitism suit against Harvard
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns on Thursday dismissed the Justice Department’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard University. The DOJ alleged that Harvard had violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act when it failed to address antisemitic hostility on campus following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel. “Without diminishing any concern arising from these occurrences, the court finds them, singly and collectively, to be too isolated and episodic to support a plausible inference that any institutionalized noncompliance with Title VI persists at Harvard to this day,” Stearns reasoned. The DOJ charged that Harvard had been “deliberately indifferent” to antisemitic harassment of Jewish students. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon disagreed with Stearns’s decision, saying that the DOJ is exploring next steps to hold Harvard to account.

State Dept. ends all DEI training
DEI became “embedded in the institutional culture of the Foreign Service,” especially during the four years of the Biden administration, and the State Department just announced it has ended practices that had become demoralizing and distracting to the department’s core mission. DEI materials, trainings, and readings that were forced upon the instructors and foreign service officers were ideologically extreme and “shamefully denigrated” the U.S. Trainings on “systemic racism”; Black Lives Matter terminology, including DEI and “allyship” in discussions with foreign governments; and how to be antiracist in humanitarian aid are just a few of the examples of the ideological inculcation the State Department is wiping away. These changes stem from the department’s full review of its training materials and personnel practices with the goal of eradicating DEI from the federal bureaucracy and “restoring merit, rigor, and accountability to the Foreign Service.”

Illegal transshipment costs U.S. billions of dollars
The White House reported that China has collaborated with more than 40 separate countries to illegally ship goods to the U.S. under the flag of a third-party nation. Referred to as the “Great Transshipment Scam,” the crime was done to bypass the large tariffs levied on China over the past decade. The practice specifically takes goods from China and repackages them to appear to be from a nation with lower tariffs. As a result, it is estimated that the U.S. lost $19 billion to $26 billion in tariff revenue. In response, AI detection software is being created to trace shipments to their source and aid U.S. Customs and Border Protection in catching illegal shipments. It’s another wrinkle in the economic war between the U.S. and China, and another step toward loosening the ChiComs’ grip on the American market.

Trump turns to the private sector to take down cybercriminals
On Wednesday, Trump signed a memo encouraging private companies to play a pivotal role in cybersecurity, launching offensive attacks against foreign criminal organizations. The president has previously promised to move such power from the government to the private sector. The policy shift comes after growing concern over cyberattacks from artificial intelligence. The memo creates a framework for companies to work with federal, state, and local agencies to gather information about and address enemies. Companies will still work under the supervision of the federal government. The memo states that the partnership “will enhance our ability to counter TCO threats and combat transnational cybercrime, fraud, and other predatory schemes against American citizens.”

USS Abraham Lincoln
The USS George Washington departed Vietnam last week, heading toward the Middle East to relieve the USS Abraham Lincoln after more than eight months at sea with limited port calls. This scheduled rotation comes amid reports of poor mental health among the sailors aboard the USS Lincoln, with at least two attempting to jump overboard. Other reports of food shortages, water contamination, and mail service interruptions have circulated and have been highlighted by Democrats opposed to the Iran war. War Secretary Pete Hegeseth responded that the conditions on the USS Lincoln had been “completely misrepresented,” and the commander of Naval Surface Forces has met with the families to address their concerns. The USS Lincoln has been at sea for 241 consecutive days, breaking the previous record of 206 days set by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during the COVID pandemic. The deployment, set to end in May, was extended due to the war with Iran.

Transportation Dept. now requires English language for railway engineers, conductors
Proficiency in English will now be required for all railway conductors and engineers following a new regulation from the Transportation Department. “Whether you’re operating an 80,000-pound big rig or a massive freight train, you need to be proficient in our national language — English,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy explained. “If you aren’t, you create an unacceptable safety risk.” This rule will ban Mexican-crewed trains from traveling beyond a 10-mile border zone. Duffy noted that these new rules were “commonsense steps” to ensure greater operational safety across the nation’s transportation industry. The Federal Railroad Administration noted that an average of 31 trains travel daily between the U.S. and Mexico. The FRA expressed concerns over Mexico’s training and certification requirements, stating, “This disparity in qualification requirements and level of government oversight represents a safety risk.”

https://patriotpost.us/articles/129940-friday-executive-news-summary-2026-08-14

US Sees Biggest Day of Executions in Years

The U.S. has officially had its most prolific day of capital punishment in over a decade.

According to multiple reports, a trio of states executed inmates, marking the first such day that three people were executed since 2010.

The three states were Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma, according to The Associated Press.

All three executions were to be performed by lethal injection.

Thursday’s triple execution comes amid a rise in capital punishment, particularly among a small handful of states, including Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

“You look at the country as a whole, you’ve just got this little pocket of five or six states that are using the death penalty, executing people, and a small number of states that are still imposing new death sentences,” Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told The Associated Press.

Maher also did note, however, that Thursday’s rare occurrence was more a scheduling quirk than anything else, though still described the event as “very unusual.”

According to USA Today, all three men executed Thursday were convicted of murder.

In Oklahoma, Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez was executed after being convicted of murdering his common-law wife in 2003. Cuesta-Rodriguez was the first inmate to be executed of the three, having died at 10:13 a.m. Central Time.

In Tennessee, Anthony Hines was executed for the 1985 murder of a mother of four. He died just 30 minutes after Cuesta-Rodriguez.

Lastly, in Alabama, Jeremy Williams was executed for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl. He was executed Thursday evening.

USA Today noted that there is a strong correlation between harming women and girls — as all three executed inmates on Thursday did — and receiving the death penalty. Of the 94 executions that have happened since 2024, 64 percent of the victims were women or girls.

Capital punishment in America has steadily been on the rise, according to The Associated Press.

There were 47 executions across 11 states in 2025, the highest figure on record since 2009.

Florida accounted for the largest percentage of those 2025 executions, leading the nation with 19.

Behind the Sunshine State, the trio of Alabama, South Carolina and Texas, are tied for second, with five executions apiece.

Tennessee had three, while Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arizona and Indiana each carried out a pair of executions.

Louisiana and Missouri each carried out a single execution.

https://www.westernjournal.com/us-sees-biggest-day-executions-years/

DEI Cambridge Professor Found Dead Amid Plagiarism Investigation

Cambridge University’s youngest-ever black professor was found dead at his London home on Friday.

He was just 41 years old.

After joining the university as a professor of sociology at the age of 37, Jason Arday became known as a poster-boy for DEI.

Then, last week, he resigned amid an investigation into allegations that he plagiarized part of his PhD dissertation.

At this time, we don’t know what Arday’s cause of death was.

Police are referring to his passing as “unexpected” but not “suspicious.”

NBC News reported:

A former Cambridge professor was found dead at his London home on Friday, one week after he resigned from his position at the esteemed university following accusations of plagiarism.

Jason Arday, 41, became the youngest Black professor at Cambridge when he was appointed to professor of sociology of education in 2023.

London’s Metropolitan Police said it responded to a report of a man found unresponsive inside a property at 3:12 p.m. on Friday, and the man was pronounced dead at the scene. His next of kin have been notified and are being supported by officers, police told NBC News, without naming Arday.

Authorities said his death is being treated as “unexpected, but is not believed to be suspicious.”

The case is under investigation.

In addition to being accused of plagiarism, Arday allegedly lied about his past.

The New York Post explained further:

Arday had faced allegations that he lifted more than 100 passages in his dissertation from another academic, Brunel University student Paula Zwozdiak-Myers.

Nathan Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in Belgium, published a Substack article last month detailing several examples in which Arday’s doctoral dissertation appeared to be plagiarized.

An analysis later showed more than 100 passages in his thesis reportedly appeared to be similar to or lifted from the thesis of Zwozdiak-Myers.

Arday then came under fire for allegedly falsely claiming to have held three positions at academic institutions — Ohio State University, University of Glasgow and Durham University — on his official biography page for Cambridge University.

Before launching an investigation, the school initially stood behind the professor, claiming he was a victim of a “vile campaign to undermine his credibility.”

Arday — who said he was autistic, epileptic and a former pro soccer player — had admitted to a series of errors in his work, but insisted he was not a “liar and fantasist.” 

Arday had also been accused of lying about his seemingly unbelievable list of personal accomplishments, including “running 30 marathons in just 35 days,” raising millions of dollars for charity, and playing professional snooker.

Arday, who became Cambridge’s youngest black professor at age 37, also said he had autism spectrum disorder and was nonverbal until age 11.

This CBS news clip dove deeper into the allegations Arday was facing at the time of his unexpected death:

https://wltreport.com/2026/08/14/dei-cambridge-professor-found-dead-amid-plagiarism-investigation/