OPINION | This article contains the author's opinion.
In an alarming development, House Republicans say there is “collusion” between Hunter Biden’s business allies and then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office.
This is a https://www.analyzingamerica.org/2023/09/696451/
of evidence in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
The collusion occurred in relation to the handling of messaging about Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
"To borrow a phrase the media loved in the Russia, Russia, Russia investigation, the walls are closing in on Joe Biden." @LaraLeaTrump exposes the collusion between then-Vice President Joe Biden's office receiving official statements from Hunter Biden's business partner. pic.twitter.com/lMK7q9bu7R
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) September 8, 2023
Records show that on Dec. 4, 2015, a Biden family business associate named Eric Schwerin offered “talking points” to the vice president’s office about Burisma.
On the same day, Hunter called his father to discuss the growing corruption investigation into the Ukrainian firm.
House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said, “There is evidence of collusion in the efforts to spin media stories about Burisma’s corruption while Vice President Biden was publicly pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine.”
“Suspiciously, Hunter Biden’s associate had a media statement on Burisma approved by Vice President Biden himself the same day Hunter Biden ‘called D.C.’ for help with the government pressure facing Burisma,” he added.
“Joe Biden never built an ‘absolute wall’ between his family’s business dealings and his official government work—his office doors were wide open to Hunter Biden’s associates,” Comer said.
Comer has asked the National Archives and Records Administration to provide:
The “complete and unredacted versions of all documents from records on Hunter Biden, James Biden, and their foreign business dealings.”
“Communications to or from the Executive Office of the President (including but not limited to the Office of the Vice President) to, from, copying or regarding Eric Schwerin, Devon Archer, Vuk Jeremic, John Robinson ‘Rob’ Walker, or Jeffrey Cooper.”
“Communications to or from then-Vice President Biden’s aides Bedingfield, Michael Carpenter, Kathy Chung, Amos Hochstein, Colin Kahl, and Alexander Mackler to, from, copying or regarding Hunter Biden or James Biden.”
“Executive calendars created for then-Vice President Joe Biden dating from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.”