Joe Biden might have escaped justice from the Department of Justice for his willful mishandling of classified documents and other sensitive material, but now that the Hur investigation is over, the Republican-majority House Oversight Committee is demanding access to some of those documents.
In a Friday post on X, the committee suggested it was particularly interested in classified documents related to "the Bidens' influence-peddling schemes" (emphasis, House Oversight Committee).
The Justice Department must provide Congress with access to Joe Biden’s stashed classified documents to determine if they were used to help the Bidens’ influence peddling schemes.
In October, @RepJamesComer requested Special Counsel Robert Hur provide our committee with information about whether President Biden retained classified materials related to specific countries involving his family’s foreign business schemes that brought in millions for the Biden family.
The Department of Justice refused to provide this information under the guise of “an ongoing investigation.”Now that the investigation is over and the Special Counsel’s report reveals Joe Biden kept classified materials related to Ukraine and China, two countries where the Bidens made millions, the Department of Justice must provide Congress with unfettered access to these documents.
Popcorn time?
🚨 The Justice Department must provide Congress with access to Joe Biden’s stashed classified documents to determine if they were used to help the Bidens’ influence peddling schemes.
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 9, 2024
In October, @RepJamesComer requested Special Counsel Robert Hur provide our committee with…
As reported by Just the News, several of the memos found in Biden’s possession by the Hur investigation are of particular concern to the Oversight Committee because some of the retained classified documents are specifically related to countries where Hunter Biden conducted questionable foreign business dealings.
Here's more:
A review of documents uncovered by Hur’s investigation and emails recovered from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop raise questions about how Joe Biden’s official actions coincided with key initiatives by Burisma while his son served as a board member at the company.
In one binder, the special counsel’s investigators found a confidential document titled “U.S. Energy Assistance to Ukraine,” marked as a memorandum for the Vice President from his staff and dated September 17, 2014.
Earlier that year, in April 2014, Hunter Biden officially joined the board of Burisma Holdings. Hunter Biden, although having no experience in the petroleum industry, collected a $1 million yearly salary.
At the time, in the aftermath of the "Revolution of Dignity" — also known as the "Maidan Revolution" —the Obama-Biden Administration was focused on propping up Ukraine’s new, pro-Western government with economic and security assistance.
One of the key policies involved improving Ukraine’s energy security, according to a readout of an April 2014 call Vice President Biden had with new Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. President Obama had appointed Hunter’s father as his point person to manage the administration’s Ukraine policy.
By the end of April 2014, Vice President Biden visited Ukraine and promised U.S. assistance to “boost energy efficiency” and “production in Ukrainian natural gas fields” according to a Reuters report of the trip. At the time Hunter Biden joined the board, Burisma was Ukraine’s largest private gas producer.
Mindblowing. Particularly given that Joe Biden has insisted (bald-faced lied) from the beginning — and ridiculously still does —that he and Hunter never discussed the latter's foreign business dealings.
According to emails from Hunter's infamous laptop, Burisma officials were eager to take advantage of U.S. policy to promote energy independence in Ukraine. Vadim Pozharskyi, a senior Burisma official who worked closely with Hunter, visited Washington in October 2014 — and returned to Ukraine with good news for the company's board.
I would like to let you know that following my working visit to Washington DC, our Company has started cooperation with the USAID Municipal Energy Reform Project in Ukraine which aims to promote energy effieciency [sic] and decrease Ukraine's energy dependence.
Hunter Biden was copied on the email along with other board members.
Look, you don't have to be a proverbial rocket scientist to connect the dots here. Is it reasonable to assume — at the very least — that Hunter Biden was capable of peddling influence solely because of Joe Biden's position? Beyond a doubt.
Here's another question:
Is it reasonable to assume that Joe Biden wasn't involved in the above negotiations — at least to the point of getting the respective parties together? Hell no it isn't. Not in my skeptical mind, at least. Hunter Biden's D.C. connections would never have happened were it not for Daddy Joe. Again, we're not talking rocket science here.
Following the Thursday release of the Hur Report, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement posted on X:
Americans expect equal justice under the law and are dismayed the Justice Department continues to allow Joe Biden to live above it. Joe Biden willfully retained classified documents for years in unsecure [sic] locations and intentionally disclosed them yet faces no consequences for his actions. The House Oversight Committee has been investigating Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents and we have uncovered key facts that unravel the White House’s and President Biden’s personal attorney’s narrative of events.
Additionally, important questions remain about the extent of Joe Biden retaining sensitive materials related to specific countries involving his family’s influence-peddling schemes that brought in millions for the Bidens. While the Justice Department has closed its investigation, the Oversight Committee’s investigation continues. We will continue to provide the transparency and accountability owed to the American people.
If we've learned anything from Comer, it's that he's not Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy.
🚨 Chairman Comer Statement on Special Counsel Hur’s Report
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 8, 2024
“Americans expect equal justice under the law and are dismayed the Justice Department continues to allow Joe Biden to live above it. Joe Biden willfully retained classified documents for years in unsecure locations and…
Yes, Americans expect equal justice under the law. The problem is — and has been throughout the Biden presidency — that expectation has not been realized.
The Bottom Line
Every time I write an article about the Biden Family Business, at some point the same thought enters my mind: What would be the reaction on the left if this were about Donald Trump? Or Donald Jr. or Eric Trump instead of Hunter Biden?
We know the answer, of course, but it still makes me shake my damn head.
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