The circumstantial evidence surrounding the alleged acceptance of a $5 million bribe by President Joe Biden while he was vice president could lead to an impeachment inquiry, George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News.
Turley notes that the Biden brand was all about influence peddling and that the Biden family and potentially even the president profited from his son’s and brother’s business arrangements.
The only product produced by Hunter Biden’s business dealings was access to Joe Biden. The creation of multiple front companies to hide where money transfers originated from is Money Laundering 101.
Joe Biden was the Product Hunter Sold
“The Bidens don’t gamble. That was the message from Hunter Biden in new emails released this week. As Hunter explained in an email to Devon Archer (who supplied damaging evidence this week to the House on the Biden influence-peddling efforts): “I don’t believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman,” Turley writes in a Fox News Digital column. “The ‘Super’ is Che Feng, a Chinese businessman with close ties to the Chinese government and someone under criminal investigation for corruption. Lotteries are for suckers. Influence peddling, however, was a sure thing for the Bidens.”
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy told Fox News, “if you are selling the illusion of access, that’s fraud.”
“These people are only paying the Bidens because of Joe Biden; there’s no other reason to pay,” McCarthy said. “This nonsense that they were buy Washington rather than buying the Bidens, Hunter tells Tony Bobulinski, I think they have this in a recording or an email. I can’t remember which he says, ‘These people want to be in business with the Bidens.’ Bobulinski is complaining that Hunter doesn’t really do any work … and Hunter is off doing stuff and he’s getting a big cut of the profits … But they want to be in business with the Bidens.”
McCarthy continued: “Burisma could have gotten any number of Washington insiders who knew anything about the energy business. They didn’t need that. They needed a Biden because Joe Biden was the one who was running the Obama administration’s policy to Ukraine, so it’s a million little instances here that it’s obvious here that what they are buying here is the influence and access of the Bidens. The power there only comes from one person.”
Devon Archer Testifies The Burisma Bought the Biden Name
Archer seemed to corroborate McCarthy’s assessment during his congressional deposition on Monday, saying Burisma was buying Hunter Biden’s “very powerful name.” He contradicted the Democrat’s spin about why Hunter Biden included his father on a phone call with Burisma executives. Archer noted he believed that the only reason that Burisma boss Mykola Zlochevsky and his deputy, Vadym Pozharsky, wanted to talk to Joe Biden was because they were “facing government pressure” from Ukraine’s government.
The FD-1023 noted that Zlochevsky alleged that he had given Joe Biden a $5 million bribe to get rid of Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin because he was breathing down his neck.
Turley ridiculed New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman’s spin about what Archer had said.
“In responding to the new evidence by Archer, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., appeared close to hyperventilation in demanding that all investigations stop immediately. Goldman has been widely mocked for his spin on the calls of Joe Biden just being a dad and chatting with his son’s friends. It was apparently more of a slumber party and the old man was just exchanging ‘niceties,’” Turley said. “The demand to end any further investigation is becoming not only more hysterical from many Democrats but more insulting for voters. Polls show that citizens recognize this for what it is: corruption.”
If Republicans want a compelling impeachment case they will have to figure out how to get to Zlochevsky himself.
John Rossomando is a defense and counterterrorism analyst and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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