That disgusting excuse for a congressman, Adam Schiff, has already rejected a batch of witnesses that the Republicans wanted to call during the impeachment hearings. One of them is Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden.
Think about that. The act passed by Congress that calls for American aid to Ukraine conditions that aid on there being improvements within Ukraine with regard to fighting corruption. The President has to find that such improvements have been made before releasing the aid. Hunter Biden may or may not be the poster boy for corruption in Ukraine. We don't know. We do know that he was hired for the board of directors by the Ukraine's largest natural gas company Burisma, even though Hunter had no knowledge of the natural gas industry and couldn't even speak Ukrainian. We also know that Burisma paid Hunter a huge amount to be on the board; Hunter was getting twice what outside directors of Exxon/Mobil (the world's largest oil and gas company get paid.) We also know that the owner of Burisma is an oligarch who fled Ukraine in order to avoid prosecution. We also know that representatives of Burisma used Hunter Biden's name in their dealings with the US State Department in efforts to get favorable treatment. In short, we know that there are a lot of indicators that there was corruption involved in Hunter's being hired by Burisma. And it isn't just any ordinary corruption, it would be corruption by the family of the vice president of the USA.
But it gets much worse. Joe Biden has admitted (and there is video tape of this) that he threatened the government of Ukraine that over a billion dollars in American foreign aid to Ukraine would be cut off unless the Ukrainian state prosecutor was fired immediately. The Ukrainian government complied and fired that state prosecutor. Documents recently uncovered confirm that when Joe Biden got the state prosecutor fired, he was in the middle of an investigation of Burisma, the company that had hired Hunter Biden. That means that the Vice President of the United States seems to have used a threat to cut off American aid to Ukraine in order to protect the company that had hired his son. That would be corruption of a major sort, and it would be a criminal act by Biden.
Impeachment is supposedly all about an unproven claim that President Trump told the Ukrainians that he would not release aid to Ukraine unless that country did an investigation of the Bidens. Now there's no actual evidence of Trump ever saying anything like this to the Ukrainians. The transcript of the call between Trump and the Ukrainian president (which forms the centerpiece of the who impeachment investigation) says nothing at all about aid being withheld. Indeed, the Ukrainians weren't even aware that aid had been held up for weeks after the Trump phone call. Still, it's important to know what Hunter had told his father about his position with Burisma and about the status of the investigation of Burisma by the state prosecutor before Joe Biden got that prosecutor fired. Was Biden acting to protect his son or just what was he doing?
It's very important to hear from Hunter, if we are ever to understand what Trump was doing. Remember, Trump was required by law to make sure that corruption in Ukraine was being fought before he released the aid.
Schiff doesn't want this testimony from Biden because he knows that it could embarrass Joe Biden and the Democrats and could provide a fair reason for Trump to have done everything about which the Democrats complain. There's no valid reason for Schiff to refuse to let Hunter be called as a witness.
It's disgusting to watch the Democrats try to pervert justice in this manner.
Think about that. The act passed by Congress that calls for American aid to Ukraine conditions that aid on there being improvements within Ukraine with regard to fighting corruption. The President has to find that such improvements have been made before releasing the aid. Hunter Biden may or may not be the poster boy for corruption in Ukraine. We don't know. We do know that he was hired for the board of directors by the Ukraine's largest natural gas company Burisma, even though Hunter had no knowledge of the natural gas industry and couldn't even speak Ukrainian. We also know that Burisma paid Hunter a huge amount to be on the board; Hunter was getting twice what outside directors of Exxon/Mobil (the world's largest oil and gas company get paid.) We also know that the owner of Burisma is an oligarch who fled Ukraine in order to avoid prosecution. We also know that representatives of Burisma used Hunter Biden's name in their dealings with the US State Department in efforts to get favorable treatment. In short, we know that there are a lot of indicators that there was corruption involved in Hunter's being hired by Burisma. And it isn't just any ordinary corruption, it would be corruption by the family of the vice president of the USA.
But it gets much worse. Joe Biden has admitted (and there is video tape of this) that he threatened the government of Ukraine that over a billion dollars in American foreign aid to Ukraine would be cut off unless the Ukrainian state prosecutor was fired immediately. The Ukrainian government complied and fired that state prosecutor. Documents recently uncovered confirm that when Joe Biden got the state prosecutor fired, he was in the middle of an investigation of Burisma, the company that had hired Hunter Biden. That means that the Vice President of the United States seems to have used a threat to cut off American aid to Ukraine in order to protect the company that had hired his son. That would be corruption of a major sort, and it would be a criminal act by Biden.
Impeachment is supposedly all about an unproven claim that President Trump told the Ukrainians that he would not release aid to Ukraine unless that country did an investigation of the Bidens. Now there's no actual evidence of Trump ever saying anything like this to the Ukrainians. The transcript of the call between Trump and the Ukrainian president (which forms the centerpiece of the who impeachment investigation) says nothing at all about aid being withheld. Indeed, the Ukrainians weren't even aware that aid had been held up for weeks after the Trump phone call. Still, it's important to know what Hunter had told his father about his position with Burisma and about the status of the investigation of Burisma by the state prosecutor before Joe Biden got that prosecutor fired. Was Biden acting to protect his son or just what was he doing?
It's very important to hear from Hunter, if we are ever to understand what Trump was doing. Remember, Trump was required by law to make sure that corruption in Ukraine was being fought before he released the aid.
Schiff doesn't want this testimony from Biden because he knows that it could embarrass Joe Biden and the Democrats and could provide a fair reason for Trump to have done everything about which the Democrats complain. There's no valid reason for Schiff to refuse to let Hunter be called as a witness.
It's disgusting to watch the Democrats try to pervert justice in this manner.
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