Posted on 02/21/2024 11:41:50 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee said Wednesday that the Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Biden has been demolished by new revelations that Russia might have played a role in drumming up false allegations about the president’s finances.
“The impeachment investigation essentially ended yesterday, in substance if not in form, with the explosive revelation that Mr. Smirnov’s allegations about Ukrainian Burisma payments to Joe Biden were concocted along with Russian intelligence agents,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told reporters in Washington.
Republicans have leaned heavily on the declarations of Alexander Smirnov, a former FBI informant who alleged that Biden and his son, Hunter, both received $5 million in dubious payments from Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter Biden sat.
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Russia, Russia, Russia
Impeach Trump ... because Russia.
You cannot impeach Biden ... because Russia.
Hunter Biden on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma as a $million per year employee
Hunter Biden never visited Ukraine for company business during his five year tenure
By Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova, Ilya Zhegulev and Luke Baker
October 18, 2019, reuters,com Updated 4 years ago,
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KIEV (Reuters) - During his time on the board of one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden, was regarded as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name, according to people familiar with Biden’s role at the company.
Biden’s role at Burisma Holdings Ltd has come under intense scrutiny following unsupported accusations by U.S. President Donald Trump that Joe Biden improperly tried to help his son’s business interests in Ukraine.
Interviews with more than a dozen people, including executives and former prosecutors in Ukraine, paint a picture of a director who provided advice on legal issues, corporate finance and strategy during a five-year term on the board, which ended in April of this year.
Biden never visited Ukraine for company business during that time, according to three of the people. They also said that his presence on the board didn’t protect the company from its most serious challenge: a series of criminal investigations launched by Ukrainian authorities against its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, a multimillionaire former minister of ecology and natural resources.
The allegations concern tax violations, money-laundering and licences given to Burisma during the period where Zlochevsky was a minister.
Hunter Biden, 49 years old, has denied wrongdoing. In a public statement on Oct 13, his lawyer George Mesires said: “Despite extensive scrutiny, at no time has any law enforcement agency, either domestic or foreign, alleged that Hunter engaged in wrongdoing at any point during his five-year term.”
In an interview with ABC News aired Tuesday, Hunter Biden said in retrospect it may have been poor judgment to join Burisma’s board while his father was vice president, but added: “Did I make a mistake based upon some ethical lapse? Absolutely not.”
Biden, in the interview added that he didn’t discuss his business dealings in Ukraine with his father, other than one brief exchange in which his father told him “I hope you know what you’re doing.”
A lawyer for Hunter Biden didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Joe Biden has also denied any wrongdoing, saying he called for the removal of then-chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016 because of his ineffectiveness in tackling corruption in Ukraine, a widespread problem that both the United States and the European Union had long highlighted.
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Just more collusion and coordination between the true forces running our banana republic.
Don’t they have check stubs and actual physical evidence? They don’t need no stinking hearsay evidence.
Wasn’t this POS gonna die of cancer for us?
What happened to that?
Biden admitted his guilt and culpability in person at the Council on Foreign Relations meeting...on camera for all to see!
There is TONS of evidence of his corruption, taking bribes, and selling out his country beyond Burisma, but it is beyond doubt he got money from Burisma.
The DS knew their best strategy to avoid exposing ALL of their stinking corruption and treason was to take down Smirnov and fabricate charges against him. That is what we are seeing here. How can it be otherwise?
Now that is as clear an explanation as I’ve seen anywhere. Very nice, CCG.
Well, if Jamie Raskin said it, it must be true.
Trump needs to run against Biden. These hearings are not wounding him.
Instead, it's Comer every month on TV saying we got him now.
Biden is hurting himself every time he speaks.
Focus on who is giving the response to the SOTU and writing the speech for that.
Ahh… But Jill Biden was there in 2014. I know. I had my photo taken with her.
Raskin is clearly a legislative genius and one of the greatest Democrats living or dead. He literally reeks of competence and confidence. When Raskin talks, others listen carefully and take notes.
The impeachment was always dead since elected republicans support Biden and most of them do the same kickback scam.
wait what ? The RATs believe this particular case is a russian hoax ? They get to pick and choose which russian info is true and which is a hoax ? got it !
As the old saying has it, if you have a good horse, ride it. The Russian hoax has been one of the most successful propaganda initiatives in world history.
It remains to be seen if the democrats throwing out the Russian card will suffice to shield Biden from his treason.
As usual Rat-Skin is talking through his ash.
Impeaching Crime Boss Joey is a suckers* play. Just keep investigating don’t let Chuckie smother it.
As usual Rat-Skin is talking through his ash.
Impeaching Crime Boss Joey is a suckers* play. Just keep investigating don’t let Chuckie smother it.
Oh hell no. Too much other evidence.
Is Raskin really stupid or does he just play one on TV?
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