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Responding to Lt. Col. Vindman about my Ukraine columns … with the facts | John Solomon Reports yourself, I'm posting the first 2/3rds; follow the dates to see how they contradict Reuters:
Fact 1: Hunter Biden was hired in May 2014 by Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, at a time when his father Joe Biden was Vice President and overseeing US-Ukraine Policy.
Here is the announcement. Hunter Biden’s hiring came just a few short weeks after Joe Biden urged Ukraine to expand natural gas production and use Americans to help. You can read his comments to the Ukrainian prime minister
here. Hunter Biden’s firm then began receiving monthly payments totaling $166,666. You can see those payments
here.
Fact 2: Burisma was under investigation by
British authorities for corruption and soon came under investigation by
Ukrainian authorities led by Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
Fact 3: Vice President Joe Biden and his office were alerted by a
December 2015 New York Times article that Shokin’s office was investigating Burisma and that Hunter Biden’s role at the company was undercutting his father’s anticorruption efforts in Ukraine.
Fact 4: The Biden-Burisma issue created the appearance of a conflict of interest, especially for State Department officials. I especially refer you to State official George Kent’s testimony
here. He testified he viewed Burisma as corrupt and the Bidens as creating the perception of a conflict of interest. His concerns both caused him to contact the vice president’s office and to block a project that State’s USAID agency was planning with Burisma in 2016. In addition, Ambassador Yovanovitch testified she, too, saw the Bidens-Burisma connection as creating the appearance of a conflict of interest. You can read her testimony
here.
Fact 5: The Obama White House invited Shokin’s prosecutorial team to Washington for meetings in January 2016 to discuss their anticorruption investigations. You can read about that
here. Also, here is the official agenda for that meeting in
Ukraine and
English. I call your attention to the NSC organizer of the meeting.
Fact 6: The Ukraine investigation of Hunter Biden’s employer, Burisma Holdings, escalated in February 2016 when Shokin’s office raided the home of company owner Mykola Zlochevsky and seized his property.
Here is the announcement of that court-approved raid.
Fact 7:
Shokin was making plans in February 2016 to interview Hunter Biden as part of his investigation. You can read his interview with me here, his sworn deposition to a court
here and his interview with ABC News
here.
Fact 8:
Burisma’s American representatives lobbied the State Department in late February 2016 to help end the corruption allegations against the company,
and specifically invoked Hunter Biden’s name as a reason to intervene. You can read State officials’ account of that effort
here
Fact 9: Joe
Biden boasted in a 2018 videotape that he forced Ukraine’s president to fire Shokin in March 2016 by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid. You can view his videotape
here.
Fact 10:
Shokin stated in interviews with me and ABC News that he was told he was fired because Joe Biden was unhappy the Burisma investigation wasn’t shut down. He made that claim anew in this sworn deposition prepared for a court in Europe. You can read that
here.
Fact 11:
The day Shokin’s firing was announced in March 2016,
Burisma’s legal representatives sought an immediate meeting with his temporary replacement to address the ongoing investigation. You can read the text of their emails
here.
Fact 12:
Burisma’s legal representatives secured that meeting April 6, 2016 and told Ukrainian prosecutors that “false information” had been spread to justify Shokin’s firing, according to a Ukrainian government memo about the meeting. The representatives also offered to arrange for the remaining Ukrainian prosecutors to meet with U.S State and Justice officials. You can read the Ukrainian prosecutors’ summary memo of the meeting
here and
here and the Burisma lawyers’ invite to Washington
here.
Fact 13:
Burisma officials eventually
settled the Ukraine investigations in late 2016 and early 2017, paying a multimillion dollar fine for tax issues. You can read their lawyer’s February 2017 announcement of the end of the investigations
here.
Fact 14:
In March 2019,
Ukraine authorities reopened an investigation against Burisma and Zlochevsky based on new evidence of money laundering. You can read NABU’s February 2019 recommendation to re-open the case
here, the March 2019 notice of suspicion by Ukraine prosecutors
here and a May 2019 interview
here with a Ukrainian senior law enforcement official stating the investigation was ongoing. And
here is an announcement this week that the Zlochevsky/Burisma probe has been expanded to include allegations of theft of Ukrainian state funds.
Fact 15:
The Ukraine embassy in Washington issued a statement in April 2019 admitting that a Democratic National Committee contractor named Alexandra Chalupa solicited Ukrainian officials in spring 2016 for dirt on Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in hopes of staging a congressional hearing close to the 2016 election
that would damage Trump’s election chances. You can read the embassy’s statement
here and
here. Your colleague,
Dr. Fiona Hill, confirmed this episode, testifying “Ukraine bet on the wrong horse. They bet on Hillary Clinton winning.” You can read her testimony
here.
Fact 16:
Chalupa sent an email to top DNC officials in May 2016 acknowledging she was working on the Manafort issue. You can read the email
here.
Fact 17:
Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington, Valeriy Chaly, wrote an OpEd in The Hill in August 2016 slamming GOP nominee Donald Trump for his policies on Russia
despite a Geneva Convention requirement that ambassadors not become embroiled in the internal affairs or elections of their host countries. You can read Ambassador Chaly’s OpEd
here and the Geneva Convention rules of conduct for foreign diplomats
here. And your colleagues Ambassador Yovanovitch and Dr. Hill both confirmed this, with Dr. Hill
testifying this week that Chaly’s OpEd was “probably not the most advisable thing to do.”
Fact 18: A
Ukrainian district court ruled in December 2018 that the summer 2016 release of information by Ukrainian Parliamentary member Sergey Leschenko and NABU director Artem Sytnyk about an ongoing investigation of Manafort
amounted to an improper interference by Ukraine’s government in the 2016 U.S. election. You can read the court ruling
here. Leschenko and Sytnyk deny the allegations, and have won an appeal to suspend that ruling on a jurisdictional technicality.
Again, U.S. media, congressional Democrats, FBI, CIA, and Rosenstein's DOJ have shown NO interest in the scope of Ukraine meddling in 2016, and the DNC and Clinton's "coordination and conspiracy" of it, just like they ignored the utter foundation of the FBI and Mueller probes; the Clinton/DNC funded Steele dossier.
Now, at least, you have ten times the information to digest than you had before.
