1. Hunter Biden did do something wrong
As recently as May of this year, President Joe Biden defended his son, claiming that he did nothing wrong. &# 8220;First of all, my son's done nothing wrong. And it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him,” Biden told MSNBC. Yet, Hunter Biden’s now defunct plea agreement, negotiated by his lawyers and the Department of Justice, directly contradicts his father’s claims. In that deal, Hunter Biden had agreed to plead guilty to cheating on his taxes by failing to pay what he owed on millions in income in 2017 and 2018 alone. The deal also included a diversion agreement for the first son to avoid prison time for lying on a federal background check form. According to the plea agreement, during the time that the younger Biden is alleged to have committed tax crimes, he was raking in millions of dollars from foreign sources, including a $1 million yearly salary from Burisma Holdings in Ukraine and millions more from Chinese sources, most prominently from CEFC China Energy and its founder Ye Jianming.
2. Viktor Shokin was a threat to Burisma
Since Hunter Biden’s work for the board of Burisma, and his father Vice President Joe Biden’s role in pressuring Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating the company for corruption, came to light, the story told by Biden and his aides—and parroted by the media—was that the prosecutor Viktor Shokin was not a threat to Burisma or that he was fired because he was not properly investigating the company. However, Hunter Biden’s own communications, internal Burisma documents produced by Blue Star Strategies, and Devon Archer’s testimony to Congress all call this narrative into question. In fact, these sources show that Burisma was acutely concerned about Shokin’s investigation and wanted it shut down. During the 2020 presidential election, CNN fact-checked President Donald Trump’s asserted that Shokin was investigating Burisma when Joe Biden pushed for his ouster. 8220;He ended up seizing the assets of, of, Nikolai (Mykola Zlochevsky)… house and cars, a couple of properties and, and Nikolai actually never went back to Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his assets,” he continued.
3. Joe Biden changed “official” US policy
A longtime first Trump impeachment narrative and Biden team defense for Joe Biden’s involvement in the ouster of Viktor Shokin while his son worked for a company the prosecutor was investigating revolved around the claim that Biden was only executing official U.S. policy. During the 2020 election, Joe Biden claimed he “did nothing wrong” when he called for Shokin’s firing. &# 8220;I carried out the policy of the United States government in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. This narrative has been contradicted by evidence. In August, Just the News published documents it obtained that showed internal State Department and European Union determinations in late 2015 that Ukraine had “made sufficient progress on its reform agenda” and that “the anti-corruption benchmark is deemed to have been achieved” in Ukraine, respectively, with regard to the Prosecutor General’s office then headed by Viktor Shokin and before then-Vice President Biden called for his removal.
4. Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden’s business partners
In August, President Biden snapped at Fox News correspondent Peter Doocey when he asked about Devon Archer’s testimony that Joe Biden met and spoke with Hunter Biden’s business associates. &# 8220;I never talked business with anybody. 8220;How do I go to Beijing, halfway around the world, and not see them for a cup of coffee?” Biden rhetorically asked the magazine, referring to his business partners. The saga of that laptop itself underscores Team Bidens' fluid approach to the truth. When it was first revealed that the crack-addled Hunter abandoned it at a Delaware repair shop, Anthony Blinken, then part of his father's election campaign, lobbied 51 former intelligence officers to sign a letter claiming the laptop was "Russian disinformation."
5. Hunter Biden did make millions from China
In a debate before the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden indignantly asserted that his son made no money from his business dealing in China. &# 8220;My son has not made money from China. Yet, Hunter Biden’s own failed plea agreement negotiated with the Justice Department contradicted his father’s claims. The following year, he would go on to receive even more: $2.6 million. Hunter Biden also received more payments from entities linked to Ye Jianming, CEFC Infrastructure Investment (US) LLC and from sources connected to Ye for the legal representation of his deputy Patrick Ho, who was arrested in the United States on bribery charges.
On Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer released new evidence showing a $200,000 payment to Joe Biden in 2018 from his brother, James, in connection with the failed healthcare company Americore. This conflicts with Joe Biden's previous claims that he "never discussed with my son, or my brother, or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses period" and that he never talked to his brother about Americore specifically. According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans 'based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections," Comer said in an Oversight Committee post to X. Comer provided bankruptcy court documents and a record of the check exchanged between the brothers. On the same day, James Biden wrote a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account to Joe Biden," Comer added. While significant circumstantial evidence built up over time that Joe Biden benefited from his family's endeavors while he was the Vice President, and afterwards a public figure, this is the first piece of concrete evidence that Joe Biden recieved direct payments from family members.
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