WASHINGTON – President Biden asked House Republicans to pursue an impeachment inquiry after the Justice Department filed criminal charges Thursday against a paid FBI informant who falsely accused the Biden family of accepting $10 million in bribes from a Ukrainian oligarch. called for it to be cancelled.
Biden, 81, beamed when asked about the charges against Alexander Smirnov, 43.
Despite numerous impeachment witnesses, documents, and even photos directly linking his relative’s overseas business connections during his time as vice president, Mr. “It’s just an outrageous initiative.”
House Republicans worked hard last year to investigate Smirnov’s claims, but they were unable to substantiate his claims about conversations he allegedly had with Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of energy company Burisma Holdings. There wasn’t.
Burisma Holdings has given its eldest son Hunter Biden up to $1 million a year as a board member since early 2014, when then-Vice President Biden took control of U.S. policy toward Ukraine in the wake of anti-Russian riots. He was paid a salary of $1.
Impeachment investigators say Joe Biden routinely interacted with foreign associates of Hunter Biden and his eldest brother James Biden in various ventures from which Joe Biden made millions during and immediately after his vice presidency. Separate evidence was revealed.
Biden has repeatedly claimed he has “never discussed” business with Hunter or James Biden, and in December said he had “no interaction” with their foreign business associates. insisted.
Evidence shows that Joe Biden has interacted with Hunter and James Biden backers from Russia, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and two separate Chinese government-related ventures.
Testimony stating that Biden played a role in these relationships came from witnesses who played roles in the Biden family’s businesses, including former colleagues Devon Archer, Rob Walker and Tony Bobulinski. be.
Walker told House investigators in a Jan. 26 deposition that Joe Biden was at the Four Seasons Hotel in D.C. shortly after he left office as vice president and shortly before his family received more than a third of the $3 million. He said he participated in a meeting with Ye Jianming, chairman of CEFC China Energy. He transferred from the Chinese state-owned company in March 2017 as a “thank you” for the preparatory work he had done with the company since 2015.
A May 2017 email written by another family business partner, James Gillier, said Boblin, who is known as “the great man,” had been appointed to take a 10% share of the joint venture with CEFC. Mr. Ski testified this week. He met with Joe Biden twice in the same month about the agreement.
Hunter Biden warned a CEFC official in a July 2017 email that “I’m sitting here with my dad,” according to text messages provided to Congress by an IRS whistleblower. He reportedly threatened to retaliate if he did not. Within 10 days of that message, $5.1 million flowed into bank accounts associated with the Biden family, according to information in a 2020 report by a Republican-led Senate committee.
Joe Biden is said to have been involved in most of Hunter and James Biden’s overseas business ventures.
Archer said in July that then-Vice President Biden had coffee with his son’s partner, Jonathan Li, the incoming CEO of state-run investment fund BHR Partners, in Beijing in 2013 as part of his initial business in China. I testified.
Hunter accompanied his father on an official visit to China, and the BHR was registered within two weeks of Air Force Two’s arrival, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Archer testified that Joe Biden then greeted Lee on speakerphone and wrote college recommendations for his children. Throughout at least part of his father’s tenure as president, Mr. Hunter held a 10% stake in the company, which sought to source overseas resources for China, including cobalt for electric cars.
Archer also testified that Joe Biden, then the current vice president, attended two dinners with his son’s Eastern European and Central Asian business partners at the D.C. restaurant Café Milano in 2014 and 2015. did.
The 2015 dinner was mentioned in documents on Hunter’s discarded laptop, and the next day a Burisma board advisor sent an email to his then-second son thanking him for giving him the opportunity to meet his father. Vadim Pozharsky’s appearance is recorded.
Dinner guests included former Moscow first lady Elena Baturina, who transferred $3.5 million to a Hunter Biden-related company in early 2014, and who also briefly had ties to Hunter Biden. He invested $100 million in Archers Rosemont Realty.
Kenneth Rakishev, a Kazakh businessman who bought his then second son a $142,000 sports car, also dined with Joe Biden and posed for a group photo with him.
The impeachment inquiry raises allegations of a Justice Department cover-up to protect Joe Biden and Hunter Biden in a criminal investigation into alleged tax evasion and possible foreign lobbying crimes, following claims by two IRS officials involved in the case. is also being investigated.
