The House oversight continues to unearth Biden corruption.
Does that prove a pay-to-play for access to the American vice-president? It certainly would for any other instance under the FCPA or other bribery/influence-peddling statutes. If any of us engaged in this level of corruption, the Department of Justice certainly wouldn’t be shy about pursuing a prosecution.
Besides, what defense could the Bidens provide? What other purpose would foreign oligarchs spend these fortunes? Neither Hunter nor Archer had any special expertise in any of their fields. The only possible asset they could sell for the sums involved was access to The Big Guy — and VP Biden made sure they could make the sale.
This smells to high heaven, and thus far, so does the media response to it. American media outlets spent years chasing their Russia-collusion tales only to come up entirely empty. Here we have ample evidence of foreign corruption, and most of the media simply yawns at it.
They won’t cover it properly until they’ve decided it’s time for Joe to go.
[Update a while later]
More at one of the few papers willing to actually report stories unfavorable to Democrats.
[Update a few minutes later]
The Washington Post’s “fact checker” deserves four Pinocchios.
Getting a list of foreign and domestic executives and officials who bought Hunter’s fabulous paintings is also going to raise eyebrows.
As I’ve said, there’s no logical framework in which Joe Biden’s actions make any sense, other than the bribery and corruption angle.
Was Burisma corrupt?
a) Yes ->
a.1 Then why were Joe, Hunter, and Archer doing business with them?
a.2 If Burisma was corrupt, and Joe was demanding investigations, why is there not a single e-mail on Hunter’s laptop about how Hunter was doing anything about it from his $1m/year position on the board? Wouldn’t Joe have said “Hey, you should look into the massive corruption at that company you keep putting me on the phone with!” But there’s nothing.
a.3. If Burisma was corrupt and Joe fired Shokin for not investigating, how did anyone know Shokin was not investigating, since if there was no investigation how would anyone have soid evidence that Burisma was corrupt?
Does the VP of the US usually use $1 billion in foreign aid to extort a foreign leader to investigate a company without rock solid evidence? So where would such evidence have come from if Shokin wasn’t investigating? Is there an investigator that nobody has heard of yet? If the corruption was so overwhelmingly important, wouldn’t Joe decline chatting with the corrupt board about the weather?
a.4. If Burisma was corrupt and Biden thought it so critically important to use the US State Department to unite EU countries around the importance of firing him, what did his replacement do to investigate Burisma corruption? Where are the results of that investigation? So far all that’s happened is that the head of Burisma confessed to bribing foreign officials (who could that possibly be?) and paid a fine of about $1,800.
b) No, Burisma was not corrupt. If was okay for Hunter to work for them.
1.b Then why did Joe Biden claim it was corrupt and demand that Shokin get fired? Why did Biden extort Poroshenko to fire Shokin? Couldn’t Burisma sue for false claims, slander, and libel?
1.c If Burisma was not corrupt, then what was Shokin investigating, and why would Burisma’s board care if he was investigating, and why would they want him fired?
Liberals can’t answer any of these questions because none of the possible excuses make any logical sense.
What makes perfect sense is what Jim Comer’s committee alleges, that Burisma’s director wanted to get into the US energy market and needed to make an investigation go away, so he contacted the Bidens, who charged him an exorbitant amount of money ($10 million + $1 million a year for Hunter) to get the prosecutor fired. That killed the investigations into Burisma for years, and allowed it to keep raking in money.
And Comer intends to prove that this is exactly what happened, with witness testimony, bank records, FBI informants, e-mails, and any other evidence uncovered along the way.
“And Comer intends to prove that this is exactly what happened, with witness testimony, bank records, FBI informants, e-mails, and any other evidence uncovered along the way.”
And the dems will do absolutely nothing no matter how much evidence is uncovered; they will merely say “there is no smoking gun”. The impression I get from McCarthy is he isn’t sure yet he even has the votes to Impeach Biden in the House; his narrow majority apparently contains some wobbly votes still on the fence. Further “proof” is the legacy media refusing to cover the story. I have relatives who automatically disregard anything from Fox/Newmax since they don’t think they are “reputable”
From your posted link:
“Companies also may violate the FCPA if they give payments or gifts to third parties, such as an official’s family members, as an indirect way of corruptly influencing a foreign official.” FCPA – A Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Second Edition), U.S. Dep’t of Justice (Criminal Division) & U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Enforcement Division), p. 16 (emphasis added).”
In other words you are still guilty of accepting bribes even if said monies were paid to a “third party” (like 9 family members including your son). Even if Joe Biden never directly realized a penny for himself (which I doubt).