Hunter Biden Was Middleman Between Ukrainians And Democratic Lobbyists Currently Under Investigation

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ists-currently-under

The smartest guy Joe Biden knows, Hunter Biden, acted as a middleman between Ukrainian energy giant Burisma and two Democratic lobbyists currently under investigation for failing to disclose their work for the scandal-plagued company, according to the Washington Free Beacon's Chuck Ross.

Biden and colleagues at the private equity firm Rosemont Seneca helped Burisma Holdings hire Blue Star Strategies, a firm owned by former Clinton administration officials Sally Painter and Karen Tramontano. Biden's emails show he played a bigger role than anyone had known in arranging Blue Star's consulting work for Burisma. Neither Biden nor the Blue Star founders registered their work under the Lobbying Disclosure Act or the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Biden's work as a middleman could also explain why federal prosecutors began scrutinizing Blue Star's work for Burisma. Republicans have scrutinized Biden over his work for the company, one of Ukraine's largest natural gas producers, as well as with various Chinese companies. Federal prosecutors are also investigating Biden over his tax affairs and foreign business dealings. -Free Beacon

According to Politico, federal prosecutors began investigating whether Blue Star during its probe into Hunter's taxes, and have been looking into whether the company violated foreign agent laws by failing to disclose their work for Burisma - including meeting with US government officials to advocate on behalf of the Ukrainian company whose president.

Putting the pieces together... last December we learned from diplomatic memos that then-Vice President Joe Biden's office was warned in 2015 that the Ukrainian oligarch who hired his son, Hunter, was deemed corrupt - and that the US Justice Department had gathered evidence to support that conclusion, according to Just The News.

"I assume all have the DoJ background on Zlochevsky," wrote former US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in Kiev in a 2015 letter to Biden's top advisers, referring to Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky.

"The short unclas version (in non lawyer language) is that US and UK were cooperating on a case to seize his corrupt assets overseas (which had passed through the US)," Pyatt added, noting that the asset forfeiture case against the Ukrainian billionaire "fell apart" when individuals in the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office "acted to thwart the UK case."

The memos, released last week by Senate committees investigating Hunter Biden, also reveal that the US Justice Department was involved in the 2014 asset forfeiture brought against Zlochevsky in the UK, right as Hunter Biden was hired to sit on the board of Burisma.

Multiple State officials have attested to the awkward appearance of conflict of interest posed by Hunter's position on the board as the United States led efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine. In a September, 2015 speech, Pyatt railed against Ukrainian prosecutors for thwarting the UK asset forfeiture case against Zlochevsky.

Pyatt was recently deposed by investigators for the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee about the Ukraine controversy. Though his staff had reported an alleged Burisma bribe and believed the Bidens' conduct in Ukraine created an apparent conflict, Pyatt said he never felt compelled to raise such concerns with the vice president.

"So you never gave thought of raising a concern to the Vice President about this board position his son had?" a Senate investigator asked Pyatt during the deposition back in September.

"No," the ambassador answered. "He's the Vice President of the United States, and it would have been wildly out of place for me to raise something like that, especially insofar as it had zero impact on the work that I was doing." -Just The News

What's more, Hunter's partner Devon Archer also served on the board of Burisma starting in May 2014 - where the pair was "tasked with finding investment projects for Burisma in the United States and Europe and boosting the company's reputation." The two earned over $80,000 per month to serve.

Burisma hired Blue Star in late 2015 to try to kill bribery investigations into Burisma's owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, a former minister of ecology and natural resources. Zlochevsky was under investigation in the United Kingdom for allegedly paying bribes to secure drilling contracts in Ukraine.

Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi emailed Biden and his partners on Nov. 2, 2015, with a list of "deliverables" he hoped Blue Star could provide the Ukrainian company. Pozharskyi said he wanted Blue Star to arrange for U.S. officials to express support for Zlochevsky. He said the "ultimate purpose" of the initiative was to shut down cases against Zlochevsky in Ukraine.

Biden responded on Nov. 5, 2015, telling Pozharskyi that he was confident Painter and Tramontano would deliver on the project and that Burisma should sign a contract with Blue Star. -Free Beacon

Meanwhile, let's not forget that according to evidence from Hunter Biden's laptop published by the New York Post, Biden didn't just know about his son's business dealings in Ukraine and elsewhere, he participated in them.

https://freebeacon.com/democra...deral-investigation/

https://thelibertydaily.com/th...everyone-is-missing/

bottom line of the article:

It’s clear Joe Biden is not running the country. He’s being handled. It’s also clear that Jill Biden and Kamala Harris are fighting to see who is doing the handling.

Which one is sitting in America’s driver’s seat?

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https://thelibertydaily.com/th...everyone-is-missing/

bottom line of the article:

It’s clear Joe Biden is not running the country. He’s being handled. It’s also clear that Jill Biden and Kamala Harris are fighting to see who is doing the handling.

Which one is sitting in America’s driver’s seat?

Nah, Jill Biden is the pushy nurse who parrots to JoJo what the handlers behind the curtain deem he say and do. Kamelbrain is simply taking orders from the same unelected cabal. No one in the White House has any say whatever in where this country is headed. They're owned, lock, stock, and barrel and are little more than moronic sock puppets.

Arizona Lawmaker Responds to AG Garland: “You Will Not Touch Arizona Ballots or Machines Unless You Want to Spend Time in Arizona Prison”

Earlier on Friday, the Biden Department of Justice warned state lawmakers that if they proceeded to audit fraudulent elections they will be targeted by the Biden administration. Link

The US Constitution specifically gives the power to the states to regulate federal elections as they see fit.
You would think the Attorney General of the United States would know this.

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^^ Not that I would willingly wish more trouble on Arizona, but it would be fascinating to see what a reasonably intelligent and reasonably honest court would make of the inane gobbledygook that Garland would cook up if the question of state authority came up in a trial. The poor guy would probably be so wound up about imaginary right wing supremacists that he'd barely get to the facts of the case.

Dementia Joe in Europe, it’s just cringey watching him shuffle along at the very back of the group. Remember when Trump jumped up front and insisted on being first?

Leading From Behind

I’d like to see Garland in the old prison at Yuma.

JeebusAitchFeckinKeereist

What is Merrick Garland trying to hide… Threatens Arizona and Georgia Audits…

Seems to me 72 million angry voters is an underestimation.
If the Biden Administration DOJ tries to cease equipment and shutdown the Arizona audit, they will learn quickly that Joe does not have 81 million supporters.

Odds are not in your favor Mr. AG, best let this one play out.
Let the truth be revealed, is the best course of action.

How could seizing everything possibly be seen as anything except an admission of guilt?

They do not need to seize anything - can't they just dial up ANTIFA and have them destroy everything there? Sort of joking - but I hope AZ takes security very seriously as this escalates.

More like Biden's handlers refuse...

From the UK Daily Mail:

No joint press conference for Putin and Biden: Joe REFUSES to stand next to Russian president for questions from the media after the pair meet for 'candid' talks next week, with the White House wary the meeting will throw up HUGE differences

^^^^ Ex-vice president Biden is a no good coward. Of course he refuses to be on the same stage as someone who actually is a strong leader. Which makes that absurd Time magazine cover all the more preposterous.

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Ex-vice president Biden is a no good coward.

Yeah, all that cornpop and fistfight Trump behind the bleachers shit was the kind of bluster total cowards spout off. Really throws stuff like this isn’t sharp relief. Yapping little dog.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...infrastructure-plan/

Biden will announce during talks with world leaders at the G7 summit on Saturday a global $40 trillion infrastructure plan to “ Build Back Better for the World. ”

The White House stated that Biden would work with Congress to increase overseas infrastructure financing and coordinate funding from other G7 nations and the private sector to help fund infrastructure for low- and middle-income countries.

They cited a needed $40 trillion investment estimation by the World Bank through 2035 for their price tag.

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if you voted for Biden you are an idiot

why are we even considering paying for infrastructure in foreign countries when ours is crumbling here?

why is it that democrats (regressives) want to do everything to destroy our country but yet prop up others? wouldn't it be simpler for all of them to simply move to the overseas country they seem to like so much better?

^^ There, at least, one could argue they're countering China's Belt And Road strategy. That's how China's actually picked up a couple of ports, taken controlling positions in various raw material markets and intimidated smaller countries into compliance in international affairs.

Now, are they conscious, competent and diligent enough to pull that off? I'm not at all sure of that. Having said that, though, it'll be a foundation the good guys can build on if they can retake some kind of control in DC.

Merrick Garland is proving what a shithead justice he would have been on the Supreme Court.

As AG he is doubling the number of lawyers in the AG civil rights division.

“We will use all existing provisions ... to ensure that we protect every qualified American seeking to participate in our democracy,” Garland said

In numerous states controlled almost entirely by Republicans, there has been a rash of laws proposed and passed in the name of election integrity to make it harder to vote.

actually harder to cheat

the new laws have been pushed by many Republicans who continue to spread the baseless rumors and lies about the 2020 presidential election that former President Donald Trump started and continues to talk about.

Garland also criticized the growing number of states where Republicans who are loyal to Trump are using the falsehoods about the 2020 election to push for new rounds of audits of the results. In Arizona, Republicans in the state Legislature were the first to organize another redundant examination of the vote that has been condemned by voting experts and even Republican officials in the state as amateurish and pointless. But Trump loyalists in other states are seeking to follow suit.

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A lot will ride on what comes out of the Arizona audit

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^^ There, at least, one could argue they're countering China's Belt And Road strategy.

On that ...

That was THEN:
Victoria, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in October 2018.

This is NOW:
On Wednesday, April 21st 2021, the Australian government cancelled two agreements signed by Victoria and China on Beijing’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative, escalating the already deteriorating ties between Beijing and Canberra.

I think I recall this started with our politicians comments on the treatment of the Uyghur in Chinese western provinces.

Chinese PR and press, politics, threats and intimidation have ramped up.

Import agreements cancelled and threatened, all our OZ exports to China under intense scrute.

Bring it.