Email Hidden for 5 Years Declared Hunter Biden ‘Undercut’ US Efforts to Fight Ukraine Corruption

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Email Hidden for 5 Years Declared Hunter Biden ‘Undercut’ US Efforts to Fight Ukraine Corruption

In the waning days of the Obama administration, then-U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission to Ukraine George Kent sent an email to top State Department officials in Washington to alert them that Hunter Biden’s business dealings were undermining the embassy’s attempts to fight corruption in the country.

By; Western Journal, February 2022:

Just the News editor John Solomon obtained a copy of the Nov. 22, 2016, email, which he reported had been classified as “confidential” by then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. He noted that “confidential” is the lowest level of secrecy.

This email, hidden from the public for five years, shatters a key Democratic narrative — and it sure would have been helpful if Kent or Yovanovitch had spoken truthfully about it during their testimonies before Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff’s sham impeachment inquiry of then-President Donald Trump in 2019 over a phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. It’s pretty clear it wasn’t Trump who abused his power.

At that time, Solomon wrote, he had filed “multiple” Freedom of Information Act lawsuits to obtain State Department documents about the Ukraine business activities of Hunter Biden and his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, yet he failed to receive a single document.

One of the recipients of Kent’s email was Jorgan Andrews, then-deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. One or two other recipient names are redacted. The subject line read: “Re: Zlochevskiy Meeting request – Herbst, Atlantic Council, and Blue Star.”

Mykola Zlochevsky was the owner of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. You will recall Hunter Biden and his business partner, Devon Archer, had been offered seats on the company’s board where they earned exorbitant salaries although neither had any relevant experience in the energy industry. Archer joined Burisma in April 2014 and Hunter Biden the following month. (This sequence of events is detailed in a Senate report.)

In 2014, Joe Biden had been tasked by then-President Barack Obama to assist the Ukrainian government in fighting the corruption that has always plagued the country. The Democratic Party line at the time was that Hunter Biden’s position with Burisma did not affect these efforts.

In his email, Kent detailed Burisma’s long history of corruption, which included confirmation by Ukrainian prosecutors of a $7 million “bribe to shut the [criminal investigation] case” against the company.

“The real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter’s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine,” he wrote.

Kent Email by The Western Journal

“Ukrainians heard one message from us, and then saw another set of behavior, with the [Biden] family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules in the oil/gas sector,” Kent noted.

Solomon said other emails in the chain, which he did not provide, indicated that State Department officials were concerned about allegations of corruption surrounding Archer, who was eventually convicted of corruption.

One official wrote, “I should note that there were two American members of the Burisma board: Hunter Biden and Devon Archer. Archer was recently indicted in a federal fraud case.”

Clearly, these emails should have been provided to both the Trump legal team and House lawmakers during the 2019 impeachment proceedings.

On Tuesday, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio appeared on Just the News’ self-titled news show and mounted a strong defense of Trump throughout the first impeachment. He told Just the News that, to the best of his knowledge, neither lawmakers nor Trump’s legal team had received this email.