Top Romney Adviser Worked With Hunter Biden On Board Of Ukrainian Energy Company
As Democrats and the media remain fanatically obsessed with assembling some form of a “quid pro quo” from the infamous Trump-Zelensky phone call, new details have emerged regarding Burisma, the company for which Hunter Biden worked and the company that Ukraine’s top prosecutor had been investigating before Vice President Joe Biden had the prosecutor fired via a months-long pressure campaign. According to web archives, top Mitt Romney adviser Joseph Cofer Black, who publicly goes by “Cofer Black,” joined Burisma’s board of directors while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board.
According to The New Yorker, Hunter joined Burisma’s board in April of 2014 and remained on it until he declined to renew his position this past May. Meanwhile, according to Burisma’s website, Black was appointed in February of 2017 and continues to serve on its board.
The timelines would indicate that Black and Biden worked together at Burisma, and indeed, web archives from late 2017 show Black and Biden listed simultaneously on the board.
Black joined the CIA in 1974 and eventually climbed the ranks to become director of the National Counterterrorism Center from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed him ambassador at large and coordinator for counterterrorism. He later worked at Blackwater as a vice chairman before joining Romney’s campaign as a “special adviser” on Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team in October of 2011. In 2017, Black joined the board of Burisma.
It’s looking increasingly probable that Burisma, the subject of a series of corruption allegations in the past, has been smartly buying Western complacency by slapping a few famous names on its board
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gee, Mitt never mentioned`this. Another exCIA guy. Joined Burisma right after President Trump was inaugurated.
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February 06, 2020, 08:30 AM
Sigmund
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Originally posted by pbslinger:
...I'm quite relieved that the vote for acquittal is over, and with only one surprise. That BS is behind us and DT, and we can move on to more important things.
I too hope this is over, but I expect the Dems to create new crimes, open new investigations, and find new witnesses until Trump leaves office in five years.
February 06, 2020, 09:16 AM
PASig
President Trump will address the nation at 12 noon ET today, Thursday Feb 6th from the White House.
I really hope he has some choice words for all the Democrats, including that piece of shit Mitt Romney.
Maybe he will have a big industrial shredder and will make a big point of feeding the two articles of impeachment into it.
February 06, 2020, 10:22 AM
Elk Hunter
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Originally posted by PASig: President Trump will address the nation at 12 noon ET today, Thursday Feb 6th from the White House.
I really hope he has some choice words for all the Democrats, including that piece of shit Mitt Romney.
Maybe he will have a big industrial shredder and will make a big point of feeding the two articles of impeachment into it.
Wouldn't that be great?!?!?!?
Elk
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FBHO!!!
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February 06, 2020, 10:25 AM
PASig
Didn't President Trump endorse and campaign for Mitt Romney when he ran for Senator?
What a backstabbing, bitter piece of shit he turned out to be.
Trump does NOT let betrayal go, ever. I expect him to declare total war on Romney from this point forward.
February 06, 2020, 10:56 AM
ensigmatic
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Originally posted by PASig: Didn't President Trump endorse and campaign for Mitt Romney when he ran for Senator?
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
February 06, 2020, 11:03 AM
ensigmatic
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Originally posted by PASig: President Trump will address the nation at 12 noon ET today, Thursday Feb 6th from the White House.
It's now 12:03 EST and I'm not seeing it on any local station here in SE Mi.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
February 06, 2020, 11:08 AM
Jimbo Jones
"My fellow Americans...Schiff, Nadler, and Pelosi are whining assholes. I win. They lose. Those who supported them can go suck failure."
-end of speech
And that Marie Yovanovich is out in public saying Trump undermined the country. JUST GO THE FUCK AWAY AND STAY THERE!!! YOU ARE IRRELEVANT AND ALWAYS WERE!!! NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS!!!
--------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves.
February 06, 2020, 11:18 AM
sigmonkey
quote:
Originally posted by ensigmatic:
quote:
Originally posted by PASig: President Trump will address the nation at 12 noon ET today, Thursday Feb 6th from the White House.
It's now 12:03 EST and I'm not seeing it on any local station here in SE Mi.
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February 06, 2020, 11:21 AM
sjtill
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With the 2020 U.S. presidential election officially under way (well, sort of, after Iowa), it is a moment to assess the state of the competition. The first conclusion is startling: As if one weren’t enough, we now know the Democrats are competing against two Donald Trump s.
The first Trump is the person elected 45th president of the U.S. by voters in November 2016. That is the Trump who delivered the State of the Union speech, an enumeration of his policies and a look at the content of his re-election campaign.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi tears up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address, Feb. 4. Photo: michael reynolds/Shutterstock But there’s another Donald Trump, the “Trump” of the Democratic Party’s imagination—a Darth Vaderish emperor of evil, whose speech House Speaker Nancy Pelosi methodically tore to pieces, as if summoning an ancient curse that would finally make “Trump” melt into a puddle before her.
“Trump” is the character Bernie Sanders calls “the most corrupt president in history” or in Mike Bloomberg’s TV ads is “an angry, out-of-control president.”
While the rest of the country went about its business the past three years, the Democrats and much of Washington’s media have tried to reimagine the U.S. presidency as a kind of Star Wars trilogy between the forces of good and rank evil.
The first episode was “The Russian Collusion Narrative” in which “Trump” conspires with the head of the Russian Empire to destroy American democracy. The second installment, taking up where the Mueller cliffhanger left us, was “Obstruction of Justice,” which after the “Collusion” blockbuster had a strikingly short run.
Then came the “Trump” trilogy’s final installment: “Impeachment,” with headliners Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler. The box office for “Impeachment” was awful, and it ended up getting 52 thumbs down in the U.S. Senate.
Like a Hollywood studio over-invested in sequels, the Democratic Party has bet the ranch and its chances of winning the presidency on the American people concluding from this saturation that they are in the grip of “Trump.” And that’s not going to change.
Speaker Pelosi ostentatiously tearing up Mr. Trump’s speech was a symbolic act of “Trump” repudiation, but she probably did further damage to the party’s brand by in effect dismissing and insulting the stories of undeniable personal triumph we’d just heard. That was a miscalculation.
But Nance the Ripper showed us more than that. All the separate policies and issues identified in the president’s speech—jobs, the economy, energy, health care, trade, Iran, the aspirations of minorities—are generally regarded as the normal business of politics. But normal politics has become irrelevant to the party’s strategy.
However ham-handed Mrs. Pelosi’s gesture, there is always method in her madness (in that, she and her “Trump” nemesis are twins).
After Mr. Trump won the 2016 election, surely Mrs. Pelosi saw that her seething, unhappy party wasn’t a pretty picture. The Democrats needed to invent the one-dimensional monster called “Trump,” to divert the attention of the American people from the fact that their own party was deeply divided between the Sanders far left and the Clinton center-left, a division that inexorably produced the political pileup we just witnessed in Iowa.
As of late Wednesday, Pete Buttigieg, an articulate chameleon, appeared to be tied for delegates with Bernie Sanders—the lucky loser of 2016 who became the American left’s standard-bearer. But the bottom fell out in Iowa for Joe Biden and the party’s center. One flawed caucus won’t decide the nomination, but the lesson of the party’s division is clear: Move left, or lose.
_________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne
February 06, 2020, 11:24 AM
Balzé Halzé
The President looks majorly pissed.
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February 06, 2020, 11:29 AM
oddball
"We went through Russia Russia Russia, it was all BULLSHIT."
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 06, 2020, 11:34 AM
sdy
Mitch, you did a fantastic job
re DEMs: these people have gone stone cold crazy
February 06, 2020, 11:48 AM
nojoy
“maybe she prays to someone else” LOL One of the many lines of the day.
February 06, 2020, 11:50 AM
PASig
He is showing righteous anger today right now and justifiably so. GO GET 'EM!
How can any of our (usually hiding) Trump haters and trolls here STILL think this was not a whole lot of bullshit?
February 06, 2020, 12:12 PM
sjtill
Trump’s love fest with his Senate and Congressional supporters: he’s riffing even better than at his rallies. Love it!
_________________________ “ What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.”— Lord Melbourne
February 06, 2020, 12:20 PM
PASig
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Originally posted by sjtill: he’s riffing even better than at his rallies. Love it!
Oh, the media HAAAAAAATES when he does this. I think he does it to piss them off!
I like it too because he's speaking his mind and not reading a canned speech.
