Congressional Democrats are waging a full-fledged disinformation campaign to derail the Biden Burisma probe with less than 100 days until Nov. 3.
Congressional Democrats are waging a full-fledged disinformation campaign to derail the Biden Burisma probe led by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa on the Finance Committee and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Earlier this month, top Democrat lawmakers demanded an FBI briefingaccusing the Russians of providing information to Senate Republicans for their years-long investigation into the Biden family’s multiple conflicts of interest at the upper echelons of government. The investigation began in 2017, long before former Vice President Joe Biden launched a 2020 campaign for the presidency in 2019.
More explicitly, the Biden campaign charged Johnson with being a Russian agent by serving as “party to a foreign influence operation against the United States” in a memo reviewed by NBC, the news operation the colluded with a foreign left-wing think tank in an attempt to de-platform The Federalist just a month ago.
While the letter addressed to the FBI this month signed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, and Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner fails to address the Johnson-led probe directly, two sources who reportedly reviewed a classified addendum say the Republican probe is a primary area of concern, according to Politico.
“We are gravely concerned, in particular, that Congress appears to be the target of a foreign interference campaign, which seeks to launder and amplify disinformation in order to influence congressional activity, public debate, and the presidential election in November,” Democrats wrote, charging Johnson’s investigation with using materials supplied by the Kremlin to undermine the upcoming presidential election now less than 100 days away.
Johnson denied the unfounded allegations coming from the Democrats who served as the lead perpetrators of the great Russia hoax accusing President Donald Trump and members of his campaign of the same charges. That culminated in a more than two-year special counsel investigation that found not one person on the Trump campaign, let alone Trump himself, was acting on behalf of the Russian government to subvert American interests in the 2016 election.
“They’re simply wrong,” Johnson told Politico. “And Schiff is the last person to talk.”
Republicans intimately familiar with the details of the Grassley-Johnson probe told The Federalist that all material reviewed by those conducting the investigation has originated from records within government agencies and the Democratic public relations firm Blue Star Strategies, in addition to current and former U.S. government officials. Republicans cited one exception, which related to a limited records request from former Ukrainian diplomat Andrii Telizhenko pertaining to contacts with Democratic National Committee contractors, meetings with the Obama White House, and work history with Blue Star Strategies, a Hunter Biden-linked firm that has been subpoenaed for important information.
“After months of Democrat-led attempts to derail and marginalize the committee’s work, the Biden campaign and Democrat leaders are now engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign targeting our investigation,” said Johnson spokesperson Austin Altenburg. “Chairman Johnson will not be deterred in his efforts to find the truth and provide that information to the American people.”
Questions surrounding the Biden family’s suspicious overseas activities have circulated for much of the last half-decade. They intensified with greater media scrutiny in the wake of Joe Biden’s entrance into the crowded Democratic primary in April last year, along with the amplified spotlight that came from Democrats’ recent impeachment attempt.
While serving as the “public face” of the Obama White House’s policy towards Ukraine in 2014, then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, began raking in upwards of $50,000 a month on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company notorious for corruption. A Federalist analysis of Hunter Biden’s pay reveals he was being showered in excess compensation nearly double the salaries of the board members of exponentially larger corporations within the same industry. Biden possessed no prior experience in the energy industry.
Hunter Biden’s questionable foreign activity began earlier and extends to China, where the younger Biden boarded Air Force Two on a government trip to the east Asian adversary with his father and participated in a series of meetings with Chinese businessmen. What followed included a set of transactions that would benefit Hunter Biden’s firm, BHR. That included an approval for a business license in China and a joint acquisition of the Michigan motor company Henniges with a Chinese corporation, marking “The biggest Chinese investment into US automotive manufacturing assets to date.”
Still, congressional Democrats seeking to block Republican attempts to answer questions related to the arrangements sparks even more questions over what Democrats are attempting to hide.
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Two top Republican senators spearheading an investigation into the Biden family’s conflicts of interest while serving at the upper echelons of government blasted Democrats Tuesday for attempting to derail the Senate probe with fewer than 100 days until a presidential election.
Congressional Democrats, desperate to shut the three-year investigation down over fears that it might damage their presidential nominee’s chance to capture the White House this fall, have launched a disinformation campaignby accusing Senate Republicans of accepting help from the Russian government, a favorite tactic.
Earlier this month, Democrat leadership demanded an FBI briefing over claims of Russian intelligence guiding the investigation run by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. It’s a charge Republicans intimately familiar with the matter vehemently protest. Republicans involved with the probe told The Federalist all information in this case over the last three years has come from U.S. agencies, and current or former U.S. officials, with one exception: a records request from a former Ukrainian consultant named Andrii Telizhenko with Blue Star Strategies, a Biden-linked firm.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that your interest in understanding ‘the national security and counterintelligence implications of foreign election interference’ is one-sided and highly political,” the pair of Republican senators wrote in a letter addressed to Democratic Sens. Gary Peters of Michigan and Ron Wyden of Oregon.
Grassley and Johnson went on to note that no such briefings were requested over the course of Democrats’ farcical investigations alleging President Trump to be a Russian agent. Those relied on actual Kremlin disinformation paid for the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, known as the Steele Dossier.
“The Steele Dossier is the very definition of election interference, yet we hear no objections from you,” the Republican senators noted.
The Biden campaign went one step further to shut down the Senate investigation that began in 2017, long before former Vice President Joe Biden launched a bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination in April of last year. Last week, the campaign released a memo charging Johnson of being a Russian asset “party to a foreign influence operation against the United States.”
“Biden’s campaign prefers to knowingly repeat false information so the liberal media will keep reporting on it,” Grassley and Johnson wrote. “Continuing to repeat false information, including apparently classified information, will not make the allegations true.”
For the first time, the two senators also addressed what happened during a March briefing that culminated in the cancellation of a subpoena vote requesting records from Telizhenko over discrepencies in staff notes, opting to subpoena the Democrat firm Blue Star Strategies instead. Still, the FBI gave the green light for the investigation to move forward.
“As you are fully aware, the FBI advised all of us during a March 2020 staff briefing that there was nothing to preclude the continuation of our investigation,” they wrote, blaming inaccuracies from Democrat staff notes for the discrepancies that led to the subpoena adjustment.
This is far from the first time Democrats have tried to delegitimize the GOP-led investigation. In February, Wyden oddly complained about government agencies complying with records requests that confirmed the presence of suspicious activity reports from the Treasury Department about Hunter Biden’s overseas businesses. At the time, Grassley and Johnson called it “strange that any senator would complain about Congress receiving responses to oversight requests in a timely manner.”
Read Tuesday’s full letter here.