A State Department email with some shocking classified contents has been “kept from public view for more than five years.” That’s no surprise, considering that it warned federal officials that Hunter Biden and his Burisma deals “undercut” U.S. efforts to fight corruption.
Email warned Washington
Federal officials have been trying real hard, for the past five years, to hide an interesting email from not just the public, but Jim Jordan, too.
Written at the end of the Obama-Biden administration, by “a top U.S. State Department official in Kiev,” the message advised the beltway honchos “that Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine ‘undercut‘ U.S. efforts to fight corruption in the former Soviet republic.”
Just the News managed to get their hands on it but that wasn’t easy. Dated November 22, 2016, the email was composed by none other than former embassy official George Kent, “one of the Democrats’ star witnesses in their first effort to impeach former President Donald Trump.” Our Ambassador to Kiev at the time, Marie Yovanovitch, classified the message but at the lowest level, “confidential.” Coincidentally, Yovanovitch is another Democrat impeachment witness. Even so, that particular communication “was not produced as evidence to House lawmakers during impeachment.”
When conservative Ohio lawmaker Jim Jordan got wind of the newly surfaced message thread, he was furious. Trump’s impeachment defense team could have used that. “This is frightening. And the fact that we didn’t have this information during the impeachment, I think is maybe the biggest concern. I mean, the President of the United States is defending himself from a ridiculous impeachment process that the Democrats bring on him, where he wasn’t allowed to be in the depositions, wasn’t allowed to have his counsel there.” The thing that really cheeses him off is “and now we find out wasn’t allowed to have information that he’s entitled to have to put on his defense.”
“I mean, frankly, we Republicans who were in the rooms in that bunker in the basement of the Capitol, we’d have liked to have this information that you just described, and other information that wasn’t available to us as well, that you’ve written about.” The State Department also unlawfully failed to produce the email or even “acknowledge the existence of the document to the court” when Just the News sued them for FOIA act non-compliance.
They were specifically asking for “records on Hunter and Joe Biden’s dealings in Ukraine.” The most important thing, the outlet points out, is that “the email’s stark message directly conflicts with the narrative the mainstream media, State Department witnesses and Democratic congressmen gave the public two years ago.”
Hunter Biden’s cozy job
State Department officials apparently lied under oath “when they insisted Hunter Biden’s lucrative job with the allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company” had “no impact on U.S. efforts to fight corruption in that country.” They simply ignored the conflict of interest. Kent told an entirely different tale in his email.
“The real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine.” The “multiple high-ranking officials in the State Department in Washington” who got the message, buried it as deep as they could.
There was “intense pressure” from Burisma supporters, Kent wrote in the email, “to rehabilitate the Ukrainian company’s corrupt reputation and to get Ukraine prosecutors to drop their criminal investigations of the company.”
He told his bosses that he personally had confirmed that “Burisma officials had paid a $7 million ‘bribe‘ to make one of the cases against the company disappear.” The bribe was passed “at a time when Hunter Biden was serving on the Burisma board” for “more than $3 million.” Even though he knows nothing about the company’s interests. His buddy Devon Archer made out like a bandit, too.
“Ukrainians heard one message from us,” Kent typed in the long suppressed email, “and then saw another set of behavior, with the [BIden] family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules in the oil/gas sector.”
One of the message recipients dropped names. “I should note that there were two American members of the Burisma board: Hunter Biden and Devon Archer,” an official wrote back. “Archer was recently indicted in a federal fraud case.“
