President Joe Biden seems to love to play the game of plausible deniability when it comes the shady business practices of his son, Hunter.
But a newly released investigative report from a publication you’d never assume would trash the Biden family just dropped a shocking bombshell linking Hunter Biden to using U.S. diplomatic resources for his personal gain… all under his dad’s watch.
On Tuesday, The New York Times dropped an damaging article revealing that Hunter Biden requested help from the U.S. Embassy in Rome to secure a lucrative deal for the Ukrainian gas giant, Burisma, whose board he famously sat on.
And the kicker? It all went down in 2016 while Joe Biden was vice president.
Here’s a snapshot of the Times report:
“The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member.
Embassy officials appear to have been uneasy with the request from the son of the sitting vice president on behalf of a foreign company.
“I want to be careful about promising too much,” wrote a Commerce Department official based in the U.S. Embassy in Rome who was tasked with responding.
“This is a Ukrainian company and, purely to protect ourselves, U.S.G. should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the D.O.C. Advocacy Center,” the official wrote. Those acronyms refer to the United States government and a Department of Commerce program that supports American companies that seek business with foreign governments.”
In layman’s terms? Hunter Biden solicited U.S. government assistance in securing a contract that benefited him financially.
He’ll never admit it. But sure looks like it happened according to the records released by the Times.
Looks like Trump was right (again)!
It is confirmed that Hunter Biden solicited U.S. government assistance in securing a contract for Ukrainian gas company Burisma while Biden was Vice President! pic.twitter.com/PGnzLHt35S
— Javon A. Price 🇺🇸 (@JavonAPrice) August 14, 2024
Coincidently, why wasn’t this released before Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race?
The Times report says it was clerical.
“A State Department spokeswoman suggested that the timing was coincidental, noting that the department had released batches of documents in each of the last three months, before the tranche revealing Mr. Biden’s outreach to the U.S. Embassy in Rome.
A person familiar with the timing said the release of the Italy documents was planned by the State Department weeks before the president announced his decision and was cleared by the White House the week before Mr. Biden decided to drop out.
The State Department is notoriously slow when it comes to releasing public records. Its backlog of nearly 19,000 FOIA requests — some of which date back many years — at the end of fiscal year 2022 was the third largest in the federal government, according to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office this year.”
But a CNN panel debated the issue today, and they raised some serious eyebrows with the timing of the release.
“One of the other things The New York Times reports here is that this document was suddenly shaken loose from the U.S. bureaucracy of the week that President Biden dropped out of the race,” CNN host Kasie Hunt said. “They claim it’s a coincidence.”
The project never got off the ground.
According to Fox News, Hunter Biden asked several people if they could arrange an introduction between Burisma and the president of the Tuscany region of Italy, where the company was pursuing a geothermal project, Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell said.
“No meeting occurred, no project materialized, no request for anything in the U.S. was ever sought and only an introduction in Italy was requested,” Lowell said.
Lowell told the Times that the outreach by Biden was a “proper request.”
Coincidence or not, nobody can ignore yet another connection between Hunter Biden trying to use his father’s political connections to secure personal, financial gain.