John Solomon is an investigative reporter; a real one, not a shill reciting his “news” organization’s party line.
Mr. Solomon has consistently uncovered invaluable information about the Biden Burisma scandal…which most mainstream media, in their effort to protect Joe Biden and Democrats in general, have buried so deep you’d need to burrow to China and then launch a rocket ship from there to find it.
Here are excerpts from his latest commentary – which not only explain why Hunter Biden should be testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, but make any attempt to prevent that testimony from occurring decisive proof that the “impeachment inquiry” is a complete, 100% partisan travesty. (The bold print is mine):
A State Department official who served in the U.S. embassy in Kiev told Congress that the Obama administration tried in 2016 to partner with the Ukrainian gas firm that employed Hunter Biden but the project was blocked over corruption concerns.
George Kent, the former charge d’affair at the Kiev embassy, said in testimony released Thursday that the State Department’s main foreign aid agency, known as USAID, planned to co-sponsor a clean energy project with Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas firm that employed Hunter Biden as a board member.
At the time of the proposed project, Burisma was under investigation in Ukraine for alleged corruption. Those cases were settled in late 2016 and early 2017. Burisma contested allegations of corruption but paid a penalty for tax issues.
When asked why he intervened, he answered: “”Because Burisma had a poor reputation in the business, and I didn’t think it was appropriate for the U.S. Government to be co-sponsoring something with a company that had a bad reputation.”
Another State official has reportedly testified he tried to warn Biden’s office that the Burisma matter posed a conflict of interest but was turned away by the vice president’s aides.
And internal State memos I obtained this week under FOIA show Hunter Biden and (his associate Devon) Archer had multiple contacts with Secretary of State John Kerry and Deputy Secretary Tony Blinken in 2015-16, and that Burisma’s own American legal team was lobbying State to help eliminate the corruption allegations against it in Ukraine.
Hunter Biden’s name was specifically invoked as a reason why State officials should assist, the memos show. A month after Burisma’s contact with State, Joe Biden leveraged the threat of withholding U.S. foreign aid to force Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who at the time was overseeing the Burisma probe.
Is there any doubt whatsoever that Hunter Biden should – must – be asked to testify at the so-called “impeachment inquiry”?
Or that, by burying this, and other similar information about Hunter Biden and Burisma over the past year, most of our mainstream media are either astonishingly obtuse, astonishingly derelict as journalists, or intentionally trying to hide it from the public on behalf of Biden and the Democrat Party.
I’ll leave it to your good sense to decide how many of the above three are applicable.
