By Cortney O'Brien | Townhall.com
Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
In a new report from the Senate Homeland Security and Finance Committees, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) found that Hunter Biden's position on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings interfered with the Obama administration's Ukraine policy. At the time Hunter sat on the board, his dad was vice president and in charge of U.S. policy toward Ukraine.
At least two members of the
Obama administration raised concerns at the time. One of those individuals
was State Department official George Kent, who said that Hunter's work at
Burisma made it "very awkward" for all U.S. officials pushing an
anticorruption agenda in Ukraine. But his concerns went unaddressed.
Hunter Biden - Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
The committees' report also found "millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals." U.S. Treasury Department records “show potential criminal activity relating to transactions among and between Hunter Biden, his family, and his associates with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh and Chinese nationals.”
In conclusion:
The findings are serious. And
now-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden should answer questions about it
before voters head to the polls. Yet Democrats like Governmental Affairs
Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters argue that Johnson’s investigation "has divided
our Committee at a time when our constituents are counting on us to work
together."
Peters added how
"unconscionable" it is that the chairmen "are continuing to
advance false information intended to undermine our democratic process at the
expense of the bipartisan work we should be doing to protect our national
security." He sent Johnson a letter Tuesday night demanding the release of
all transcripts related to the investigation.
The Biden campaign argued that
the Republicans who took the lead on the report are wasting time.
"As the coronavirus death
toll climbs and Wisconsinites struggle with joblessness, Ron Johnson has wasted
months diverting the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Committee away from any oversight of the catastrophically botched federal
response to the pandemic, a threat Sen. Johnson has dismissed by saying that
'death is an unavoidable part of life,'" Biden campaign spokesperson
Andrew Bates said in a statement. "Why? To subsidize a foreign
attack against the sovereignty of our elections with taxpayer dollars - an
attack founded on a long-disproven, hardcore rightwing conspiracy theory that
hinges on Sen. Johnson himself being corrupt and that the Senator has now
explicitly stated he is attempting to exploit to bail out Donald Trump's
re-election campaign."
Biden has treated his son's
Ukraine scandal in similar fashion. Anytime a reporter brings it up (which to
be honest hasn't been that often), he dismisses it as nonsense.
Ask Tim Murtaugh, Trump's 2020
communications director, and he has a much different take on the new Senate
bombshell.
“The Senate investigation’s explosive new
revelations about the Biden family profiting from Russia, China and other
foreign sources while Joe Biden was vice president amount to stunning levels of
corruption and breathtaking breaches of America’s national security. While
Biden was vice president, his son Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer
from the billionaire wife of the former mayor of Moscow, individuals who are
undoubtedly connected to Vladimir Putin. Chinese nationals also lavished Hunter
and other members of the Biden family with money, giving Hunter and Biden’s
brother James credit cards for a $100,000 international shopping spree. But the
mysterious $142,300 wire transfer from a Kazakhstan businessman through a
Latvian bank and a company in Singapore has to take the cake. These bombshells
are in addition to new information regarding Hunter’s sweetheart gig on the
board of a corrupt Ukrainian gas company that bribed a Ukrainian prosecutor.
“Page 17 of this report reveals that Joe Biden flat
out lied when he said he had never spoken with Hunter about his foreign
business dealings. After a State Department official raised concerns with Vice
President Biden about it in the West Wing of the White House, Biden spoke with
Hunter about it and Hunter contacted the official.
“For what possible reason could all of these foreign
countries and entities be shoveling money at people named Biden, if not to
influence official U.S. policy? American journalists have a responsibility to
relentlessly question Joe Biden about all of this, in detail, and to call out
his attempts to cover up this potentially criminal activity. Regardless of
whether Biden is forced to face the music, this is further evidence that if Joe
Biden wins, China and many other foreign interests with a financial stake in
the Biden family win too.”
This Detail in the Hunter Biden Report Again Exposes the Media's Insane Double Standard
By Katie
Pavlich |Townhall.com
Source: (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
As Leah reported earlier, the Senate Homeland Security and
Finances Committee released a lengthy and preliminary report about Hunter
Biden's foreign business dealings.
Among other serious conflicts of interest and shady
practices, the report states Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million
wire transfer from the wife of Moscow's mayor.
Hunter
Biden and his associate, Archer, had a financial relationship with Russian
businesswoman Elena Baturina. Baturina is the former wife of the late Yuri Luzhkov,
who was the mayor of Moscow and was fired in 2010 by then-Russian president
Dmitry Medvedev over corruption allegations. Baturina became Russia's only
female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of
Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor. According to reporting,
"Luzhkov used his position as mayor to approve 20 real estate projects
that were built by a Baturina-owned construction company and ultimately
generated multibillion-ruble profits for his family.” In addition, a Russian
investigation led to a criminal case against the former head of the Bank of
Moscow, Andrey Borodin, who “allegedly used money from the Moscow City Budget
to lend money to shell companies, which ultimately transferred $443 million to
Baturina.”
On
Feb. 14, 2014, Baturina wired $3.5 million to a Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC
(Rosemont Seneca Thornton) bank account for a “Consultancy Agreement
DD12.02.2014. Rosemont Seneca Thornton is an investment firm co-founded
by Hunter Biden that was incorporated on May 28, 2013 in Wilmington, Del. According to The Financial Times, Thornton
Group, a Massachusetts-based firm. In June 2009, Biden co-founded Rosemont
Seneca Partners with Archer and Christopher Heinz. The Thornton Group's website
statutes that it has offices in Boston and Beijing, lists Rosemont Seneca
Partners among its list of alliance and clients, and includes photographs from
multiple events attended by Hunter Biden.
Given how Democrats and the media have falsely beaten the
drum of "Russian collusion" between President Trump and the Russian
government for years, you'd think their allies in the media would be
highlighting this point. After all, they continue to claim Russia is a serious
threat to the 2020 presidential election. Alas, they are not.
