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Showing posts with label Ukraine Corruption. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Leftists Lie – Zelenskyy Lies – Putin Lies AND Especially MSM Lies

 


John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© March 23, 2022

 

Today’s cross posts focus on MSM bait-n-switch – aka LYING – primarily as a mouthpiece for Dem-Marxist liars who have less a wellbeing for America AND MORE a whatever it takes to remain in power to complete America’s transformation AWAY from the heritage of America’s Founding.

 

First up is the NWO Report pick up of an Infowars piece of Joe Rogan noticing the Left once vilified Ukraine as the most corrupt nation in world AND YET today CORRUPT Zelenskyy is a hero. Although the title theme is Rogan, the post’s best feature isa video by Paul Joseph Watson mocking Zelenskyy’s so-called democracy as more a reflection of autocratic dictatorship.

 

(TAKE NOTE: I neither defend Russian thug Putin nor WEF ONE-WORLDER Zelenskyy – neither are good for Americans!)

 

Next up is Dan Bongino’s 3/21/22 video looking corrupt Dem-Marxists supporting a corrupt Ukraine.

 

Then a few posts on Biolabs in Ukraine once denied to exist but now PROVEN to exist with a bit of still unproven U.S. Bioweapon Research speculation. As one Social Media commenter asked, “Why would the U.S. Dept. of Defense be funding either pathogen research or old Soviet Bioweapon destruction for OVER a decade and not some other civilian hazardous/infectious disease agency in the Ukraine?” A legitimate question in my opinion amidst all the denials and lukewarm admissions.

 

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Video: Rogan Exposes How West Has Done a Complete 180 On ‘Corrupt’ Ukraine

 

Joe Rogan Show (NWO Report Photo)

 

By Steve Watson

Posted by Nwo Report

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NWO Report

March 22, 2022

 

They were talking about the massive corruption of Ukraine, and how horrible it was over there. And now, all of a sudden, they’re looking at it like they’re heroes.”

 

Joe Rogan noted on his podcast that the Western narrative on Ukraine has flipped 180 degrees in a few weeks from the country having a horrible corrupt government to being heroic allies against the Russian scourge.

 

“I have this screenshot that someone sent me,” Rogan stated, “about the way the people on the left were talking about the Ukraine situation before the war.”

 

He continued, “This is one of the things that’s so weird is that they were very disparaging of Ukraine, and they were talking about the massive corruption of Ukraine, and how horrible it was over there.”

 

“And now, all of a sudden, they’re looking at it like they’re heroes. The same exact people. This is what’s confusing,” the host added.

 

Rogan then read out points from the screenshot he referenced wherein Ukraine was labeled “the most corrupt nation in Europe” with an “increasingly corrupt and authoritarian” leader who is seeking to deepen an “alliance with the far right”.

 

“We’re supposed to just veer away from the narrative that was being pushed just a couple years ago,” Rogan asserted.

 

Rogan also went on to point out how insane it is that Facebook and other social media platforms are officially sanctioning violent rhetoric against Russians, exclaiming “What the f*ck is that? What is that?”

 

Watch:

 

Rumble VIDEO: left-wing media coverage of Ukraine was disparaging before the war and how it drastically changed.

[Posted by teamQ

Published March 21, 2022

 

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[Blog Editor: Both NWO Report & Infowars use the Youtube  version Paul Joseph Watson video. Since I am always suspicious that Youtube will censor Conservative viewpoints, I’m using the Bitchute version below. Here is the original Youtube link]

 

Bitchute VIDEO: A STRANGE FORM OF DEMOCRACY

[Posted by BANNED.VIDEOInfowars

First Published March 22nd, 2022 07:21 UTC

 

It's OK when we do it!
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Rumble VIDEO: Ep. 1729 The Explosive Ukraine Scandal You’re NOT Hearing About - The Dan Bongino Show

Posted by The Dan Bongino Show

Published March 21, 2022

 

 

For show notes, visit https://bongino.com/ep-1729-the-explosive-ukraine-scandal-youre-not-hearing-about

 

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The truth about those US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine

 

By Leon Wolf

March 14, 2022

Blaze Media

 

 

Zelenskyy - Photo by Laurent Van der Stockt for Le Monde/Getty Images [Screen Capture from Blaze Media]

 

In case you haven't noticed, there has been quite the controversy in the last week about whether Ukraine does or does not have biological research facilities that were funded, at least in part, by the United States military. The accusation has been the subject of some absurd fact-checks by our corporate media and accusations of "Russian disinformation" from our government.

 

The truth is: Yes, there are indeed biological research facilities in Ukraine that have been funded by our government. We don't have any way to know whether these facilities were conducting research that was intended to produce weapons or not, but we do know that if the pathogens housed in these facilities escaped, they would be just as deadly as an intentionally produced bioweapon.

 

The controversy began when the Russian government tweeted the following accusation:

 

Specifically, the Russian government stated that it found evidence of a "military-biological programme" that was funded by the United States Department of Defense and that was being cleaned up during the course of the invasion.

 

Promptly, the United States government leapt into action to dispute this contention with the assertion that the United States military does not, and never has, funded a "biological weapons" program and claimed that this accusation was part of a "Russian disinformation" campaign. This assertion was dutifully repeated by the government's stenographers in the corporate media.

 

Amazingly, the seminal "fact-check," written by USA Today, argued that there were no "biolabs" funded by the military, even while acknowledging the existence of such labs. The "fact-check" notes that the United States and Ukraine did have such labs, but that they were to "prevent the proliferation of dangerous pathogens and related expertise and to minimize potential biological threats" and further explicitly stated that the United States was providing funding to those labs, albeit for the purpose of "making repairs, updating equipment and purchasing supplies" at those laboratories.

 

At the risk of overstating the obvious, if the military is "purchasing supplies" at these laboratories, to say nothing of "updating equipment" or "making repairs" at these laboratories, it is funding them.

 

In a remarkable off-camera briefing held last week, the Defense Department further spoke about these claims. In that briefing, an unidentified "senior Department of Defense official" said, among other things:

 

A few key points about the Department of Defense's Cooperative Threat Reduction Program Biological Threat Reduction Program activities in Ukraine this is part of the Department of Defense's Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. Through that program, we have invested approximately $200 million in Ukraine since 2005, supporting 46 Ukrainian labs, health facilities, and diagnostic sites. DOD's CTR program began its biological work with Ukraine to eliminate the remnants of the Soviet Union's illegal biological weapons program left in the Soviet successor states after the USSR fell. There are no DOD bioweapon labs in Ukraine or anywhere else in the world.

 

The first and most obvious point to make about this statement is that it is an admission that: a) these laboratories exist, and b) we have given them a lot of money. Now, the unnamed senior official follows this up with two red herrings. First, the senior official asserted that our cooperation with Ukraine on this project began as an effort to eliminate the bioweapons program that was being carried on by the Soviet Union. Assuming that is true, it has nothing to do with our efforts that began in 2005, some 14 years after the Soviet Union fell. Second, the official asserted that "there are no DOD bioweapon labs" anywhere in the world.

 

Let's assume that this assertion is true, because it seems to be all that either the DOD or the press is focusing on. Assume that nowhere in Ukraine is a laboratory that has the express purpose of creating or proliferating a bioweapon. Fine. The assertion is simply not responsive to the charge that was actually made by the Russian government, which was that they found evidence of a "military-biological programme" that was funded by the United States Department of Defense. That assertion is demonstrably true and has been confirmed as true by our government. Now, our government says, and I have no reason to disbelieve it, that the purpose of those labs was not to create a bioweapon. But that doesn't mean, in this case, that what the Russian government said was false.

 

We know some of what the government was doing in Ukraine from documents that were released by Wikileaks. In a 2008 cable, it was revealed that Andrew Weber of the OSD/CTR (the same Department of Defense agency referred to in last week's briefing) held a discussion with Ukrainian officials about the need to create one central laboratory in Ukraine that would house its most dangerous pathogens because, among other reasons, "the U.S. seeks to consolidate the strains/pathogens that could be used by terrorists on human or agricultural targets."

 

This illustrates the problem with the government's straw man protestations that it does not fund bioweapon labs. Unlike other potential weapons of mass destruction, there is no functional difference between the danger associated with biological materials that are collected for peaceful purposes and materials that are collected for illicit, non-peaceful purposes. If a terrorist breaks into a nuclear power plant, they can't make off with a functioning nuclear bomb. However, if they break into a biological research facility that houses a dangerous pathogen that is being kept for the purpose of, say, vaccine development, they now have a fully functioning dangerous pathogen.

 

It probably (hopefully) is true that the Ukrainians are not housing dangerous pathogens in order to develop bioweapons on the U.S. taxpayer's dime. However, after we have just come through a two-year pandemic that has taken millions of lives and may well have been started due to a leak from a laboratory that was trying to develop a coronavirus vaccine, that may come as cold comfort to people who are justifiably concerned about the safety of those pathogens during the course of the scorched-earth campaign the Russian military is now conducting.

 

By the way, the initial Russian accusation did not just say the program existed, it said that there was an "emergency cleanup" under way that was trying to eradicate the program. This is, frankly, good news. It's exactly what should be happening.

 

Absolutely no one would begrudge the Ukrainians an aggressive research program into chemical and biological agents, given Russia's nasty history with poisons and pathogens — a history that includes the probable attempted assassination of Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko by the Russian government in 2004. And, given that the Russian military is now carpeting Ukraine with explosive devices, with apparently little care or ability to deliver those devices with precision, it is entirely appropriate for a cleanup operation to be under way to ensure that those pathogens are not inadvertently released.

 

But the United States government should be saying that, in order to ensure that our credibility remains intact on the world stage after the sad and senseless invasion of Ukraine is over.

 

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The Facts Concerning the U.S. Funded Biolabs in Ukraine

 

 

Biolab with Pathogen Warning Sign

 

By  Col. Lawrence Sellin

Mar 17, 2022 

America Out Loud

 

There are between 11 and 15 key U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine, some of which store and conduct experiments with dangerous pathogens, including samples of Soviet-era bioweapons.

 

Nevertheless, so far, there is no evidence that those biolabs in Ukraine violated the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention or have produced offensive biological weapons.

 

I have read all the main, publicly-available information about them, including the documents submitted to the United Nations by Russia.

 

Like other similar critiques, Russia declares guilt by innuendo.

 

People need to understand that the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention allows for defensive research using dangerous pathogens.

 

Let’s use anthrax as an example.

 

It is not a violation of the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, for example, to grow anthrax, conduct experiments on anthrax, or store anthrax.

 

I worked in a Biosafety Level-3 facility at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland.

 

In that facility, anthrax was grown in fermenters. Experiments were conducted with the anthrax bacteria and with its toxins. The anthrax was used to devise detection and identification systems and prepare medical treatment for and protection against anthrax infections, such as vaccines.

 

Various anthrax strains were stored at Fort Detrick for future experiments comparing different strains or to conduct forensic analysis of natural or man-made outbreaks of anthrax. That included samples of anthrax used by the Soviet Union to generate its biological weapons in order to prepare defensively for a potential attack.

 

All of that is allowed under the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

 

Those who say there is a thin line between defensive and offensive anthrax research are uninformed.

 

I can attest that there are distinct differences in the skills and methodologies needed for defensive and offensive anthrax research.

 

Defensive anthrax research is done with what we call “wet” anthrax, that is, anthrax in culture. Anthrax as a bioweapon has to be specially prepared and tested in a dry form as individual spores capable of widespread aerosol distribution. Wet anthrax is not a very effective bioweapon.

 

Unfortunately, the facts concerning the Ukraine biolabs have been obscured by propaganda from the United States, Russia, China, and the European Union, as well as efforts by news organizations and individuals to either downplay or exaggerate the facts. [Emphasis Blog Editor’s]

 

The published activities of the Ukraine BSL-3 facilities focus on detection, identification, and storage of anthrax and other pathogens, activities very similar to what we did at Fort Detrick. There is nothing in any of the documents I have seen so far that would indicate weaponization or anything that would violate the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention.

 

Understandably, people assume the worst because the Biden regime lies about everything. [Emphasis Blog Editor’s]

 

Now, was it a dumb decision and bad policy to set up those kinds of labs in Ukraine funded by the U.S. Defense Department? Perhaps. Would having such labs in Ukraine lead to rogue experiments like in Wuhan or leaks? Perhaps. But those are different questions. [This Blog Editor believes these are pertinent questions rather than “different questions.”]

 

Actually, what the Biden regime may be really trying to hide is Biden family corruption.

 

Hunter Biden’s investment firm, Rosemont Seneca, had a stake in one of the prime contractors for the construction and renovations of the U.S.-funded biolabs in Ukraine, Black and Veatch.

 

Hunter Biden is also connected to the China-linked company, Metabiota, which, together with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and the USAID-funded University of California, Davis’ PREDICT program, were deeply involved with the Ukrainian biolabs, and, all of whom, have close collaborations with China.

 

Therefore, one should not discount the possibility that all of the information related to the activities conducted in the Ukrainian biolabs was finding its way to Beijing and, subsequently, to Moscow.

 

Ultimately, we may learn that the whole Ukrainian biolab program may have had less to do with bioweapons than a U.S. taxpayer-funded profit-making scheme for the corrupt Biden family and its friends. 

 

Col. Lawrence Sellin (Ret.) was a U.S. Army Reserve colonel with branch qualifications and assignments in Special Forces, Infantry, Chemical and Medical Services. He served in Afghanistan and Iraq and participated in a humanitarian mission to West Africa.

 

Sellin holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College and received training in Arabic, Kurdish and French from the Defense Language Institute. He had a distinguished civilian career in medical research and international business after completing a Ph.D. in physiology.

 

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U.S. Confirms Biolabs In Ukraine, But Anyone Saying That Out Loud Is Accused Of Treason [VIDEOS]

It is not left or right, Democrat or Republican, The media is lying.

 

 

By ZACH HEILMAN
MARCH 15, 2022

Red Voice Media

 

Putin-Ukraine Map-Pathogen Warning -- IMAGE CREDIT: ZACH HEILMAN [screen capture]

 

While the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is playing out all over social media, in real time, it appears another story has captivated Americans, the Biden administration, and the mainstream media. Approving over $13 billion in aid for Ukraine, the Biden administration is now dealing with claims that the United States helped fund secret biolabs in the worn-torn country. Although many Democrats have declared the story is nothing more than Russian propaganda, one of their own members, Tulsi Gabbard, isn’t buying the narrative. 

 

On Sunday, Gabbard, who ran for President back in 2020, uploaded a video of herself to Twitter. In the video, which is featured below, the Democrat discussed the possibility of biolabs in Ukraine and what that means for America and the rest of the world. Using COVID-19 as an example, Gabbard noted that if a pathogen leaked from one of these labs, it could mean more than just another pandemic. 

 

Rumble VIDEO: Undeniable Facts: There Are 25-30 U.S Funded Biolabs In Ukraine, 300 Worldwide - Tulsi Gabbard

[Posted by Red Voice Media

Published March 13, 2022

 

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Shortly after her tweet, Republican Mitt Romney blasted the Democrat, writing, “Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.”

 

Confused by the entire ordeal, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson discussed how the politicians consistently refuse to accept the biolabs theory when Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland stated before the Senate, “Ukraine has biological research facilities which, in fact, we’re now quite concerned Russian troops, Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of, so we are working with the Ukrainians on how we can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach.”

 

Rumble VIDEO: Tucker: The U.S. Confirms Biolabs in Ukraine, But Anyone Saying That Out Loud is Accused of Treason

[Posted by Red Voice Media

Published March 15, 2022

 

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Appearing on Fox News with Carlson, Gabbard seemed unfazed by Romney’s comments, admitting, “This is not a matter of disagreement or holding a dissenting view. This is about facts. While Senator Romney and all these different talking heads in the mainstream media are regurgitating Hillary Clinton’s slanderous talking points, the facts remain.”

 

Take a look.

 

Rumble VIDEO: RINO Mitt 'NEOCON' Romney Shredded With Facts By Tucker Carlson & Tulsi Gabbard

[Posted by Red Voice Media

Published March 15, 2022 

 

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Gabbard added, “They are accusing me of saying that somehow there are bioweapons labs in Ukraine. I’ve said no such thing at any point. I have said that there are biolabs in Ukraine that have received U.S. support that contain dangerous pathogens that if those labs are breached, then we in the world are facing a potential future of pandemics that this is a dangerous crisis that needs to be addressed immediately. These pathogens need to be destroyed.”

 

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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Hunter Biden Raised 'Counterintelligence And Extortion' Concerns...


A GOP Senate report incriminates Hunter Biden (yup, that is quid pro Joe’s son) in various criminal enterprises that includes a possible link to human trafficking. I would be excited except FBI Director Christopher Wray has done zero to look behind the huge billows of criminal Dem smoke to find the fire or the origin of criminal Dem fires. Meaning the Biden criminal syndicate just like the Clinton criminal syndicate will likely have no indictments. I would love to be surprised and live to see Dem criminal corruption prosecuted with equal vigor as a Conservative or Republican. Sigh… Dem-criminality can be read at ZeroHedge reporting on what should be prosecuted.

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Hunter Biden Raised 'Counterintelligence And Extortion' Concerns, May Have Participated In Sex Trafficking: Senate Report

09/23/2020 - 12:55

Update (1135ET): Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has responded to the Biden probe, saying that after Trump was impeached "for directing a scheme to extort a foreign partner to announce an investigation into Vice President Joe Biden's son," that "Trump's most willing allies in Congress quickly took up that mantle, and carried out his demand..."

Schiff accused the two Senate Committee Chairs of "promoting the same Russian disinformation," adding "the Kremlin must be very pleased."

The California lawmaker notably didn't address any of the core claims in the report.

A long-awaited Senate report on Hunter Biden's financial dealings with Ukrainian, Chinese and Russian businesses created potential "criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns," and alarmed US officials who perceived an ethical conflict of interest and flagged potential crimes ranging from sex trafficking to bribery.


The findings are contained in a joint report by the GOP-led Senate Homeland and Government Affairs and Senate Finance Committees, released just six days before the first Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and President Trump.


According to the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross, suspicious financial transactions between Hunter Biden's firms and foreign nationals from Russia and China - including a CCP-linked Chinese businessman, raised serious concerns. What's more, Hunter's seat on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma while his father served as the Obama administration point-man for Ukraine, worried State Department officials in 2015 and 2016.

One official, Amos Hochstein, told the Senate Homeland Security and Senate Finance committees that he said to then-Vice President Joe Biden in October 2015 that Hunter Biden’s position on the board of Burisma “enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.

Hunter Biden, now 50, joined Burisma’s board of directors in April 2014, shortly after his father, Joe Biden, took over as the Obama administration’s chief liaison to Ukraine. -Daily Caller

As Ross notes, while the report does not produce direct evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden, Republicans say the evidence paints a troubling picture of Biden receiving "millions of dollars from foreign sources as a result of business relationships that he built during the period when his father was vice president of the United States and after."

Hunter Biden also received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, according to the report.

And as Just The News' John Solomon writes, "Perhaps the most explosive revelation was that the U.S. Treasury Department flagged payments collected overseas by Hunter Biden and business partner Devon Archer for possible illicit activities."

The so-called Suspicious Activity Reports flagged millions of dollars in transactions from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, a Russian oligarch named Yelena Baturina, and Chinese businessmen with ties to Beijing's communist government, the report said. Senate investigators have yet to determine if the FBI or others investigated the concerns. -Just The News

"The Treasury records acquired by the Chairmen show potential criminal activity relating to transactions among and between Hunter Biden, his family, and his associates with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh and Chinese nationals," reads the 87-page report. Other transactions involving Biden-controlled firms were flagged for "potential criminal financial activity," including wire transfers to Hunter's Uncle, James Biden.

The report focuses on millions of dollars in wire payments that Hunter Biden’s firms received from Ye Jianming, the founder of CEFC China Energy Co., and Gongwen Dong, a U.S.-based associate of Ye’s.

According to Republicans, Ye has “extensive” connections to the Chinese government.

The Senate report says that on Aug. 4, 2017, a subsidiary of Ye’s company called CEFC Infrastructure Investment (US) LLC, wired $100,000 to Owasco, the Biden law firm.

A month later, on Sept. 8, 2017, Hunter Biden and Gongwen Dong applied for a $100,000 line of credit under a shell company they formed called Hudson West III LLC, according to the Senate report.

Biden, his uncle James, and James’s wife, Sara Biden, accessed the account through credit cards, and spent $101,291 on what Republicans call “extravagant items,” including plane tickets, hotels, restaurants and items at Apple stores. -Daily Caller

Meanwhile, according to US government records cited in the report, concerns were raised over potential ties to sex and human trafficking rings.

"Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring," the report reads.

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson told Just The News that the sheer volume of potentially illegal activity in Hunter Biden's foreign dealings left Joe Biden vulnerable to illicit influence or extortion.


"The report raises serious questions that former Vice President Biden needs to answer. There are simply too many potential conflict of interest, counterintelligence and extortion threats to ignore," he said.

The Biden campaign has called the Senate report an effort to "subsidize a foreign attack against the sovereignty of our elections with taxpayer dollars" and to push a "long-disproven, hardcore rightwing conspiracy theory."


And of course Biden's media defenders are hard at work today:


The findings, as compiled by the Daily Wire's Ryan Saavedra:

o   In early 2015 the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Kent’s concerns went unaddressed, and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues, “Furthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.”

o   In October 2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.

o   Although Kent believed that Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board was awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine, the Committees are only aware of two individuals — Kent and former U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein — who raised concerns to Vice President Joe Biden (Hochstein) or his staff (Kent).

o   The awkwardness for Obama administration officials continued well past his presidency. Former Secretary of State John Kerry had knowledge of Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board, but when asked about it at a town hall event in Nashua, N.H. on Dec. 8, 2019, Kerry falsely said, “I had no knowledge about any of that. None. No.” Evidence to the contrary is detailed in Section V.

o   Former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland testified that confronting oligarchs would send an anticorruption message in Ukraine. Kent told the Committees that Zlochevsky was an “odious oligarch.” However, in December 2015, instead of following U.S. objectives of confronting oligarchs, Vice President Biden’s staff advised him to avoid commenting on Zlochevsky and recommended he say, “I’m not going to get into naming names or accusing individuals.”

o   Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma’s board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency) when Zlochevsky allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to “shut the case against Zlochevsky.” Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter joined Burisma’s board), and, after learning about it, he and the Resident Legal Advisor reported this allegation to the FBI.

o   Hunter Biden was a U.S. Secret Service protectee from Jan. 29, 2009 to July 8, 2014. A day before his last trip as a protectee, Time published an article describing Burisma’s ramped up lobbying efforts to U.S. officials and Hunter’s involvement in Burisma’s board. Before ending his protective detail, Hunter Biden received Secret Service protection on trips to multiple foreign locations, including Moscow, Beijing, Doha, Paris, Seoul, Manila, Tokyo, Mexico City, Milan, Florence, Shanghai, Geneva, London, Dublin, Munich, Berlin, Bogota, Abu Dhabi, Nairobi, Hong Kong, Taipei, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Johannesburg, Brussels, Madrid, Mumbai and Lake Como.

o   Andrii Telizhenko, the Democrats’ personification of Russian disinformation, met with Obama administration officials, including Elisabeth Zentos, a member of Obama’s National Security Council, at least 10 times. A Democrat lobbying firm, Blue Star Strategies, contracted with Telizhenko from 2016 to 2017 and continued to request his assistance as recent as the summer of 2019. A recent news article detailed other extensive contacts between Telizhenko and Obama administration officials.

o   In addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden’s and Archer’s board memberships, Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds.

o   Archer received $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, the same day Vice President Joe Biden appeared with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsemy Yasenyuk and addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia’s actions in Crimea.

o   Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.

o   Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden.

o   Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and the People’s Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow.

o   Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an “Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”

Imagine if this was anyone with the last name Trump?
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