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You can read that here.
UkraineTaskForceLoanGuaranteeMemo.pdf - https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-08/UkraineTaskForceLoanGuaranteeMemo.pdf
Separate of the documents, Hunter Biden's ex-business partners also testified to Congress in 2023 that Shokin’s office was, in fact, conducting an increasingly aggressive corruption investigation into Burisma Holdings, an energy firm the State Department deemed to have been engaged in bribery. They also testified that Hunter Biden and Burisma's owner, Mykola Zolchevsky, were worried about Shokin's probe just before Joe Biden flew to Kiev and pulled the loan guarantees.
“He was a threat," ex-Burisma partner Devon Archer said of Shokin, the prosecutor. "He ended up seizing assets of Mykola – a house, some cars, a couple properties. And Mykola actually never went back to Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his assets.”
The newly unearthed evidence was so compelling that even The Washington Post's fact-checker changed his tune on the scandal, saying contrary to what had been reported during the impeachment trial in 2019 Joe Biden himself conducted an "audible" on his own when he forced Shokin's firing with the threat of withholding the loan guarantees.
State Department witness testimonies conflict with their own documents.
Another 2019 Democrat narrative to hit the skids was the claims by top State Department officials that Hunter Biden's dealings with a Ukrainian company tainted by corruption allegations had no real impact on U.S. policy in the former Soviet republic.
During Trump's first impeachment in late 2019, State officials testified that Hunter Biden's acceptance of a job at Burisma at a time when his father was vice president created the appearance of a conflict of interest but did not materially impact U.S. policy in Ukraine.
But in a private, classified email obtained by Just the News years later, one of the top U.S. officials in the Kyiv embassy, Kent, told then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch at the end of the Obama administration that Hunter Biden had, in fact, impacted the U.S. anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine.
"The real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter's presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine b/c Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules," Kent wrote to Yovanovitch in the Nov. 22, 2016, email marked "confidential."
You can read that here.
KentBurismaEmailNov222016.pdf - https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-02/KentBurismaEmailNov222016.pdf
Foreign millions, and Joe Biden's admonition to 'be good to my boy'
Back in 2019 and 2020, the Bidens insisted they had not gotten rich off of Hunter Biden's foreign dealings and that Joe Biden never interacted with his son's business clients.
“There will be an absolute wall between the personal and private, and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there," Joe Biden claimed in 2019. "And I will impose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That is why I have never talked with my son or my brother, or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period."
But evidence and testimony uncovered by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer found the Biden family collected millions of dollars from Ukraine, China and other foreign locations and routinely traded on the vice president's name to win influence and deals with overseas clients,
Two former business partners of Hunter Biden, Jason Galanis and Tony Bobulinski, told Congress in 2023 that the Biden family used their name and access to the family patriarch to ink deals across the world—recounting specific times that Joe Biden was in direct contact with his son’s associates through phone calls and meetings.
Galanis testified about a specific 2014 phone call when then-Vice President Joe Biden called in to a meeting Hunter Biden had organized with Devon Archer, Galanis, and two Russian oligarchs—Yelena Baturina and her husband, the late Yuri Luzhkov, the former Mayor of Moscow—at a New York bar.
“Hunter called his father, said hello and ‘hold on, Pops,’ then put the call on speakerphone and said, ‘I am here with our friends I told you were coming to town, and we wanted to say hello’,” Galanis recounted.
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