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The Biden Justice Department and its various arms were fighting to keep a document alleging that Biden had accepted a $5 million bribe hidden from the public. That’s the same DOJ that is ordinarily more than happy to leak materials involving Trump and conservative targets to the media. The DOJ and the FBI ignored a congressional subpoena and only contempt charges provided limited access to the Biden bribe document.
The FBI claimed that it was following DOJ policy to protect confidential sources. Except that the supposed concern for the confidential source would suggest that Biden is not only guilty, but that the money trail leads to some dangerous people. And yet little follow-up work appears to have been done on the investigation.
The apparent contents of the bribe document leaked once members of Congress were given access to it.
President Joe Biden was allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter Biden sat on the board, a confidential human source told the FBI during a June 2020 interview, sources familiar told Fox News Digital.
The FD-1023 form, dated June 30, 2020, is the FBI’s interview with a “highly credible” confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he or she had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, starting in 2015. Fox News Digital has not seen the form, but it was described by several sources who are aware of its contents.
The Burisma executive sought the advice of the confidential source, a business professional, on gaining U.S. oil rights and getting involved with a U.S. oil company, the sources familiar with the document said. The Burisma executive was speaking with the confidential source to “get advice on the best way to go forward” in 2015 and 2016.
According to the FD-1023 form, the confidential human source said the Burisma executive discussed Hunter’s role on the board. The confidential human source questioned why the Burisma executive needed his or her advice in acquiring access to U.S. oil if he had Hunter Biden on the board. The Burisma executive answered by referring to Hunter Biden as “dumb.”
The Burisma executive explained to the confidential source that Burisma had to “pay the Bidens” because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma, and explained how difficult it would be to enter the U.S. market in the midst of that investigation.
The confidential source further detailed that conversation, suggesting to the Burisma executive that he “pay the Bidens $50,000 each,” to which the Burisma executive replied, it is “not $50,000,” it is “$5 million.”
“$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden,” the Burisma executive told the confidential human source, according to a source familiar with the document.
A source familiar said according to the document, the $5 million payments appeared to reference a kind of “retainer” Burisma intended to pay the Bidens to deal with a number of issues, including the investigation led by Shokin. Another source referred to the arrangement as a “pay-to-play” scheme.
We already have clear evidence of a pattern of corruption in which a large complicated network of shell companies were used to funnel money to members of the Biden family. We already know Hunter Biden got a major pay cut after daddy left the room. Nobody seriously believes that Hunter’s board membership at Burisma was anything other than an influence-buying operation with a guy whose chief asset was his last name.
Biden is denying everything.
Congressional Republicans who read an FBI informant file accusing President Biden of a role in a $5 million bribery scheme said Thursday that it involved the Ukrainian company Burisma — but Biden tauntingly retorted, “Where’s the money?”
“It’s a bunch of malarkey,” Biden told a Post reporter when asked about the bribery claim hours after FBI Director Christopher Wray agreed to let rank-and-file House Oversight Committee members read a June 2020 document in a bid to avoid being held in contempt.
That’s a good question.
If Biden is hiding income, that’s an actual crime. Not just a process crime.
The DOJ has shrugged this off, meanwhile, Trump is being indicted on what appears to amount to a process crime. After 8 years of false allegations and claims of foreign payments that failed to show a single cent actually being paid to Trump for political influence from abroad (remember the failed Alfa Bank smear?), he’s being indicted for something that every high-profile politician has done, retain classified documents, not on the act itself, but as a process crime emerging from the witch hunt over it.
Much as in 2016, when Hillary Clinton got a pass over mishandling classified documents, there’s a glaring double standard here that is at the heart of the weaponization of the DOJ against political opponents of the Left.
Today (Friday, 6/9), my local paper (The Seattle Times) has SIX articles on the Trump indictment and NONE on the Biden bribery allegations. It also has an article on the Ken Paxton case and a cartoon mocking Republican concerns about trans surgeries being performed on children.
What is Seattle like nowadays? I’ve read that it has a bad homeless problem ind increased crime.
I lived there back in the 90s and it was the most beautiful city I ever lived in. Lake Union, Lake Washington, Puget Sound and all the green trees. And it was the first place I ever had a latte. There was good Thai food there, too.
I was born here in 1950. Until the 90s, it was a “purple” area, not clearly left or right. Now, homelessness and addiction and shoplifting are rampant, and it is hard-core left. I only stay because I’m getting older, and my kids are still in the area.
Oh, sorry, buddy.
Its shameless what lefties keep doing to our once fine cities. When I lived in Seattle the city council came out in the black every year. I hear it’s in debt now. And I loved how it had/has coffee carts all over the city. And the parks are beautiful. I used to rent canoes from the university and paddle around Lake Washington. There’s nothing like that here in San Jose.
Funny, everyone has known about the bribe for years, they even had him on tape and video talking about it. Hmmm, maybe that was incipient senility that made him so careless as to allow himself to be taped?
If you are talking about the same tape I’m thinking of, Biden was bragging about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired after he (Biden) threatened to withhold millions in US foreign aid to the Ukraine. I don’t recall any mention of a personal bribe, and I can’t imagine Biden openly mentioning it.
That’s why he took the $5 million bribe … that was the pay-off for getting the prosecutor fired … A win-win for Burisma and the Bidens … Tiem to appoint a Mueller investigation into Joe and Hunter’s business dealings … and time for the impeachment proceedings to begin …
That wasn’t a bribe! Biden threatened the Ukraine official that he would withhold one billion dollars in US aid from Ukraine if the prosecutor wasn’t fired.
That’s “blackmail” not bribery.
Bribery, extortion, and about 100 other federal crimes. Blackmail is when someone threatens to reveal another person’s crimes.
Senility and scorn for the public.
Biden was bragging about getting the prosecutor looking into Burisma fired.
Yes different bribe ( in other direction that time)! Reason he chats about that one on video is Hubris. Already then they felt that 100% they owned media, courts, DOJ.
And they did.
Bribes, schmibes.
These are retainers, which important people routinely present to one another to induce pleasant moods. Kind of like potheads sharing cannabis. They can stop anytime they want. They just don’t want to.
But it’s their money and they’re free to pay it and accept it, as they please.
Unlike you. You are not above the law. Not till you produce a retainer.
Then you are. Those are the rules.
The Dept of Injustice Biden, Bragg and Soros are the real enemy
Biden might be lowest form of life on the planet but at some stage you have to take it to him with something more than a geriatric egomaniac who is still remarkably infatuated with himself given his inflated years.
I got that in a fortune cookie.
“Your prices will drop”, no matter how money Trump prints to pay for his debt.
“Because in the end they’re not coming after me they’re coming after you”, says Trump heaving a Mar-a-Lago sigh of relief.