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#127886
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.

The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.

An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.

The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.
#127887
Supposedly, the hard drive was given to the FBI last December, and apparently nobody either looked at it or cared about it because Biden is a Democrat and Dems are above the law.

It has photos showing him with a crack pipe, and that seems germane because it goes to the question of why an addict wold be paid 83,000 dollars per month, and the answer is crystal clear from the email -- because his father was an important official.
#127897
"Supposedly, the hard drive was given to the FBI last December, and apparently nobody either looked at it or cared about it because Biden is a Democrat and Dems are above the law."-johnflubs

Once again dimwit johnforbes is claiming that the Trump Justice Department is corrupt. Go figure.

By the way, the entire civilized world wanted that corrupt Ukrainian ousted. Why you are pretending there is anything wrong with what Biden did in that case is a mystery. He did the right thing for America and you know it.

Trump, however, didn't do the right thing and traded away America's interests for personal political gain. But you don't care about that. Instead, you are beating another dead horse that even Trump and Barr couldn't find anything wrong with.

Is the entire Trump administration simply incompetent? Is that what you're saying, johnny? Okay, I can see that.
#127900
It is unknown what happened.

Some reporting suggests there was interest in Hunter in terms of the age of Ukraine prostitutes, but apparently the hard drive would have been kept secret in order to protect the Bidens before the election?

It is difficult to sort out what really happened, but Hunter arranged a 1 million retainer, and was trying to arrange millions more from China outfits for introductions to power players in D.C.

There are also suggestions that Hunter gave half to the family and "his guy" or sometimes called "the big guy."

Would an employee really need to be Fearless Fosdick or Sherlock Holmes to find this material of vital importance to the fitness of Joe Biden?
#127901
"Some reporting suggests there was interest in Hunter in terms of the age of Ukraine prostitutes, but apparently the hard drive would have been kept secret in order to protect the Bidens before the election?"-johnflubs

Again, what possible motive does the Trump Justice Department have to protect Joe Biden from criminal acts?

That you seriously believe this is a possibility only shows that you believe the Trump Justice Department is corrupt. Then call out Trump for its corruption, johnny.

"Would an employee really need to be Fearless Fosdick or Sherlock Holmes to find this material of vital importance to the fitness of Joe Biden?"-johnflubs

No, they wouldn't, so the Trump/Barr Justice Department either has nothing on Joe Biden or they are corrupt and incompetent. You're blathering on about stuff that only makes Trump look bad, and that's not what he needs right now, dummy. He needs you to say something positive about him, not your accusations of corruption and incompetence.

Beyond that, who gives a rat's ass if Hunter was interested in prostitutes in another country? Hunter is not running for anything. You're wasting your time with bullshit rumors and innuendo from your handlers again, dimwit. By your own admission you have no evidence. But if you don't trust Trump and Barr to pursue valid cases, then you should announce your belief in their corruption. Don't just continue to whine about it.
#127902
But that department is not a monolith.

Career bureaucrats like Strzok and Page and McCabe and Ohr set out to stop Trump from being elected and, failing that, from governing.

They used a fake dossier to lie to the FISA court, wiretap Trump, and also to start the two years of the fake Mueller probe.

It will be very interesting to learn what they did when presented with that hard drive -- investigate it, or hide it to help Biden.

With an election approaching, one would think it would have interested people whether Biden had been using his VP gig to get money via Hunter.

Democrats don't care, of course, but hopefully somebody in "investigation" or "justice" would?
#127909
With an election approaching, one would think it would have interested people whether Trump had been using his P gig to get money via innumerable scams and kickbacks, like his D.C. hotel. The latest is his incomprehensible and irresponsible peddling of Regeneron without any knowledge of the drug. Someone is paying him to do it, either now or in the future.

Republicans don't care, of course, but hopefully somebody in "investigation" or "justice" would?

But with Trump and Barr in charge for almost four years of what johnforbes considers a corrupt organization, I won't hold my breath.
#127910
It is a combination of things.

In any federal bureaucracy, you have a layer of clerks who couldn't care less about politics and are just collecting a salary.

Then you have folks doing jobs, and they soldier on despite extrinsic events.

Then you have upper level bureaucrats who tend to lean Left.

Then you have the political appointees of every president.

But it is is puzzling that Hunter's laptop (and they do have it, not some fake) was in custody since Dec 2019 and apparently kept quiet, which could only help Joe's campaign.

Puzzling.
#128019
So the people who believed that Hillary was running a pedofile sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn't have a basement.....are now going to get us to believe some loonietard QAnon story how Hunter Biden flew from California to Delaware and then abandoned his computer at a shop that was run by a Trump supporter who just happened to be a friend of Ghouliani................

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