Sep 23, 2020<\/time>\u00a0 \u00a0DailyWire.com<\/div>\nA 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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0before<\/em>\u00a0Congress was notified about a whistleblower complaint that was the catalyst for Democrats\u2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump. The Senate\u2019s investigation relied on records from the U.S. government, Democrat lobbying groups, and interviews of numerous current and former officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The report outlined the following key findings from the investigation:<\/p>\n
\n\nIn 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 Biden\u2019s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden\u2019s role on Burisma\u2019s board. Kent\u2019s concerns went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues,\u00a0\u201cFurthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\nIn October 2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden\u2019s position on Burisma\u2019s board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.<\/li>\n Although Kent believed that Hunter Biden\u2019s role on Burisma\u2019s board was awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, the Committees are only aware of two individuals \u2014 Kent and former U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein \u2014 who raised concerns to Vice President Joe Biden (Hochstein) or his staff (Kent).<\/li>\n The awkwardness for Obama administration officials continued well past his presidency. Former Secretary of State John Kerry had knowledge of Hunter Biden\u2019s role on Burisma\u2019s board, but when asked about it at a town hall event in Nashua, N.H. on Dec. 8, 2019, Kerry falsely said, \u201cI had no knowledge about any of that. None. No.\u201d Evidence to the contrary is detailed in Section V.<\/li>\n 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 \u201codious oligarch.\u201d However, in December 2015, instead of following U.S. objectives of confronting oligarchs, Vice President Biden\u2019s staff advised him to avoid commenting on Zlochevsky and recommended he say, \u201cI\u2019m not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals.\u201d<\/li>\n Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma\u2019s board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency) when Zlochevsky allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to \u201cshut the case against Zlochevsky.\u201d Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter joined Burisma\u2019s board), and, after learning about it, he and the Resident Legal Advisor reported this allegation to the FBI.<\/li>\n 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 Burisma\u2019s ramped up lobbying efforts to U.S. officials and Hunter\u2019s involvement in Burisma\u2019s 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.<\/li>\n Andrii Telizhenko, the Democrats\u2019 personification of Russian disinformation, met with Obama administration officials, including Elisabeth Zentos, a member of Obama\u2019s 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.<\/li>\n In addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden\u2019s and Archer\u2019s board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds.<\/li>\n 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 Russia\u2019s actions in Crimea.<\/li>\n Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.<\/li>\n Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden.<\/li>\n Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and the People\u2019s Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow.<\/li>\n Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an \u201cEastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe report also stated that the investigation found that the Obama administration \u201cknew that Hunter Biden\u2019s position on Burisma\u2019s board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n
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