An executive at Ukraine’s Burisma gas company, where Hunter Biden was paid over $50,000 a month while his father was Vice-President, evidently made seventeen audio recordings of his conversations with both Hunter and Joe Biden. Yesterday, Sen. Chuck Grassley said that the executive made the tapes “as a sort of insurance policy” in case he “got into a tight spot.” Further, a politicized FBI has apparently been doing all they can to hide the existence of the recordings.
Joe Biden has bragged about the muscle that he had applied to Ukraine’s government in March 2016 for the firing of Ukraine’s top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating corruption at Burisma. Biden related how he had threatened that the US would cancel a $1 billion loan guarantee to Ukraine unless the government submitted to his demand. [See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG0nAT9xOHk] Since the US had spent $5 billion, as Victoria Nuland claimed, to overthrow Ukraine’s government and install the new guys, Biden might have viewed it as the US’s right to specify who should be in office and who should be pushed out.
The existence of the recordings was exposed by a “highly credible” confidential source of the FBI who had dealings with Burisma executives, beginning in 2015. The FBI reports of the source have been buried by the FBI for years. In May, Sen. Grassley and Rep. James Comer, on behalf of the Senate and House Oversight Committees, respectively, cited an FBI whistleblower who had earlier this year reported that the FBI was deep-sixing any investigation into the charges that VP Biden had taken bribes. The FBI documents on the recordings, and a lot more, were known to the whistleblower. However, the FBI first denied the existence of the documents and then ignored a subpoena from the Congress. Only after Sen. Grassley threatened to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress did the FBI deliver a redacted version last week.
