Posted on 09/23/2020 5:48:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
A bombshell report from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) and the Committee on Finance makes a series of damning new allegations against Hunter Biden, the son of Democrat presidential nominee.
The investigation launched after Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) publicly raised conflict-of-interest concerns about the sale of a U.S. company to a Chinese firm with ties to Hunter Biden a month before Congress was notified about a whistleblower complaint that was the catalyst for Democrats impeachment of President Donald Trump. The Senates investigation relied on records from the U.S. government, Democrat lobbying groups, and interviews of numerous current and former officials.
The report outlined the following key findings from the investigation:
In early 2015 the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Bidens office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Bidens role on Burismas board. Kents concerns went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues, Furthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.
In October 2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Bidens position on Burismas board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.
Although Kent believed that Hunter Bidens role on Burismas board was awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, the Committees are only aware of two individuals Kent and former U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein who raised concerns to Vice President Joe Biden (Hochstein) or his staff (Kent).
The awkwardness for Obama administration officials continued well past his presidency. Former Secretary of State John Kerry had knowledge of Hunter Bidens role on Burismas board, but when asked about it at a town hall event in Nashua, N.H. on Dec. 8, 2019, Kerry falsely said, I had no knowledge about any of that. None. No. Evidence to the contrary is detailed in Section V.
Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland testified that confronting oligarchs would send an anticorruption message in Ukraine. Kent told the Committees that Zlochevsky was an odious oligarch. However, in December 2015, instead of following U.S. objectives of confronting oligarchs, Vice President Bidens staff advised him to avoid commenting on Zlochevsky and recommended he say, Im not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals.
Hunter Biden was serving on Burismas board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency) when Zlochevsky allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraines prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to shut the case against Zlochevsky. Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter joined Burismas board), and, after learning about it, he and the Resident Legal Advisor reported this allegation to the FBI.
Hunter Biden was a U.S. Secret Service protectee from Jan. 29, 2009 to July 8, 2014. A day before his last trip as a protectee, Time published an article describing Burismas ramped up lobbying efforts to U.S. officials and Hunters involvement in Burismas board. Before ending his protective detail, Hunter Biden received Secret Service protection on trips to multiple foreign locations, including Moscow, Beijing, Doha, Paris, Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Mexico City, Milan, Florence, Shanghai, Geneva, London, Dublin, Munich, Berlin, Bogota, Abu Dhabi, Nairobi, Hong Kong, Taipei, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Johannesburg, Brussels, Madrid, Mumbai and Lake Como.
Andrii Telizhenko, the Democrats personification of Russian disinformation, met with Obama administration officials, including Elisabeth Zentos, a member of Obamas National Security Council, at least 10 times. A Democrat lobbying firm, Blue Star Strategies, contracted with Telizhenko from 2016 to 2017 and continued to request his assistance as recent as the summer of 2019. A recent news article detailed other extensive contacts between Telizhenko and Obama administration officials.
In addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Bidens and Archers board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds.
Archer received $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, the same day Vice President Joe Biden appeared with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsemy Yasenyuk and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russias actions in Crimea.
Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.
Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden.
Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and the Peoples Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow.
Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.
The report also stated that the investigation found that the Obama administration knew that Hunter Bidens position on Burismas board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.
They will ignore this as fast as they can......................
Trump should put out this tweet:
I hope Hunter Biden reported all this FOREIGN INCOME on his 1040!...........................
Good point. Not to mention "Black Privileges" Obama utilized.
Wana bet that Chris Wallace never mentions this?
Get Durham on the case. That is sure to get results!
/sarc
REALITY CHECK: Hillary was a "shoo-in"......why worry about a paper trail?
Yep, probably have a report this summer /s
I have followed this from the beginning and read a fair amount about it. There are some European journalists who have written some interesting pieces on this as well. The American media has totally ignored this story. John Solomon has done some great work on this story.
For those interested I would encourage you to look at it and make up your own mind.
The “impeachment” attempt by Pelosi and Schiff was an effort to avoid this Senate report and sabotage efforts by others to learn the truth about what is in this Senate report and other similar investigations that have never started. I believe this scandal was why certain powerful people wanted Biden to be the nominee (i.e. - it is just politics). My opinion.
Rudy G on his own podcast interviewed several Ukrainians who were part of their system during this time period and afterwards. While I do not trust any of them, they pretty much revealed the whole scheme. Direct testimony. It is hard to watch, but it is essential to understanding this story.
Rudy also has the paperwork and documents showing money transfers through a bank in Cyprus. While Rudy is a partisan for Trump, he was also an experienced US Attorney. He flatly said he has the “kill shot” aka the bank documents showing laundered money. Why would Rudy have said that a year ago and it has been ignored? Nobody sued Rudy for defamation. Documented evidence of a scheme that appears to have been conducted numerous times.
The media and social medias ability to ignore or censor true “bombshells” while focusing on fake bombshells is absolute. I bet less than 1 in 10 FReepers know about the information that Rudy gathered and it is likely that less than 1 in 1000 Americans know about it. My opinion.
Ask yourself...... what if Don Jr. or Eric had done even a sliver of this? What if they had wired money to Ukrainian prostitutes (associated with organized crime) or obtained six and seven figure wire transfers from an Oligarch tied to Russia? What if an arrested Chinese corruptocrat had been arrested by the FBI for bribing UN officials and contacted President Trump’s brother (RIP) “from jail”? My outrage at the double standard.
For those interested in all of this you have to watch Rudy’s podcasts back when he started on the Ukrainian stuff. You have to read Peter Schweizer’s books and watch interviews with him.
The rule of law in our country is dying a certain death because too many people are now above the law. The antithesis of America was that there would be a “ruling class” above the laws you and I are subjected to - it was the purpose for which a few brave men rose up against the King of England. My opinion.
This must be investigated. There is clearly probable cause for the IRS and FBI to investigate this as there are obvious tax implications for a US citizen(s) (Hunter and Archer) and probable cause that there was a pay to play influence scheme that involved over a billion dollars of taxpayer money in the Ukraine. My frustration.
Rudy G has a new show where he asks what happened to the BILLIONS of dollars given by the US government to the Ukraine. Nobody knows where the money went. Billions with a B of taxpayer money! This is not chump change folks. This is a FACT!
Think about this... billions of dollars of taxpayer money was given to the Ukrainian government accused of corruption and Hunter Biden and Devon Archer were working for an allegedly corrupt oligarch and NOBODY can say where the money went?
Johnson’s committee appears to have done a decent job on this as there were some things in there I was not aware of and I already thought this was bad before. Our own government, Trump’s government, is covering this up.
Kudos to these Senators. While I agree it will largely be ignored or dismissed as partisan games by our media and those charged with investigating this stuff, it is important that the truth be put out there and they are trying. To those criticizing them.... congress does not have “arrest powers” only DOJ does. Barr should be asked about this early and often.......
Headlines read " GOP-led committees release interim report on Hunter Biden, Burisma probe.."
Tell me they are not ANTI-TRUMP...grrrrrrrrrr
I watch OAN for the NEWS and only Tucker, Hannity, Ingrahm, Justice Jeannie, Levin. NEVER Fox NEWS.
It is time to accuse the press of being paid off.
Barr is furiously practicing his bagpipes in the hope this will all go away.
The press is part of the far left wing of the DNC. Period.
There are two massive scandals just sitting there waiting to be reported on - Spygate and the Biden’s.
Ask yourself how the media says this is just a conspiracy theory that was already investigated as a basis to ignore it!
It has never been reported on - only a few investigative journalist have put out a small part of the story.
They lie. For those who don’t understand how/why the democrats pushed Biden here is your answer. It was a defensive nomination because they will now scream that any investigation is partisan politics. Sound familiar? Yep, they did the same thing with HRC and her campaign.
AG Barr should be asked about this early and often.......
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To the millions who only pay attention to MSM news, theyll never hear about it.
Lol! Wrong thread.
The USA & many other countries world wide signed an agreement some time ago:
ANY citizen of those countries WILL be extradited to any other country in the agreement group if criminal charges are brought.
IOW-—Hunter & Joe Biden could be extradited to Ukraine if Ukraine charges them with criminal behavior.
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