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2019-11-14 Home Front: Politix

Ukrainian company tied to Hunter Biden supported U.S. think tank, paid for trips

[Yahoo via MSN] WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian company that employed Hunter Biden paid more than $450,000 to a prominent Washington think tank, including picking up the tab for energy-related conferences as part of a campaign to burnish its image in the United States after it was accused by Western officials of corruption.

Burisma’s support of the Atlantic Council was detailed last week by the Wall Street Journal, which said the company had given the think tank $100,000 per year for three years starting in 2016. The council lists Burisma as a contributor on its website.

The Atlantic Council told Yahoo News Tuesday that in addition to the $100,000 given annually by Burisma, the company “also reimbursed speaker travel and event costs, which ... amounted to around [$50,000 to $70,000] per year.”

In the public impeachment proceedings starting Wednesday, Republicans, led by House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., will likely focus on Burisma to justify efforts by President Trump and his associates to pressure the Ukrainian government to publicly announce it was investigating the company. Republicans have already delved deep into the dealings of Burisma in closed-door depositions over the past month.

The Democrat-led impeachment inquiry in the House is based on the allegation that because Trump wanted the Ukrainians to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden — a leading rival for the presidency — he attempted “to coerce a foreign nation to engage in political investigations designed to help his campaign,” as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., put it on Tuesday.

There is also the issue of an Atlantic Council-sponsored trip that brought a dozen or so congressional staffers to Ukraine in August. The trip included Republican and Democratic staffers, but one — Thomas Eager — worked for Schiff’s Intelligence Committee, and the group at one point met with Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-14 01:24|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Appears Hunter & Co. had the travel and per diem covered nicely.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-14 01:38|| 2019-11-14 01:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Bully for Ukrainians - using American money to buy American politicians!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-11-14 04:08|| 2019-11-14 04:08|| Front Page Top

~~Laundering~~ sending US tax dollars to the Ukrainians in the form of aid, with an 'Atlantic Council' non-for-profit proviso ?

~~How innovative.~~

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-14 05:05|| 2019-11-14 05:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Unbelievable.

So Schifferbrains et al. launch a kangaroo court proceeding which results in their own leading presidential nominee's corruption aired for all to see.

This is truly something out of the Saturday morning cartoons.
Elmer Fudd shooting himself in the arse.
Wyle E. Coyote's ACME Rocket making a U-turn, with Wyle E. holding his incinerated little parasol and staring sheepishly at the audience.

Do we really deserve these shitheads?
What exactly did we do to invoke such punishment by the gods?

Posted by Lex 2019-11-14 05:49|| 2019-11-14 05:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Appears Hunter & Co. had the travel and per diem covered nicely.

With enough left over for walking around money, Kiev hookers
and blow.

Maybe even a birthday present for Dad... a restored '73 Trans Am?

Posted by Lex 2019-11-14 05:53|| 2019-11-14 05:53|| Front Page Top

#6 which results in their own leading presidential nominee's corruption aired for all to see.

Aired by whom?

None of this will be seen in the MSM. After all, those Democrat operatives with by-lines won't want to queer their own pitch.

Posted by AlanC 2019-11-14 08:34|| 2019-11-14 08:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Aired on the teevee. Replayed on YouTube.

Assuming -- a big 'if,' I know -- the networks and Google don't cut away from or otherwise bury the footage.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-14 08:39|| 2019-11-14 08:39|| Front Page Top

#8 That's right, Lex. They threw old sleepy Joe under the bus. But don't worry. Hillary is waiting in the wings.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-14 14:01|| 2019-11-14 14:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Er, I guess now it's Deval Patrick.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-14 15:17|| 2019-11-14 15:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The Atlantic Council? Soros has provided some funding to the Atlantic Council. Soros also played a role in destabilizing Ukraine in order to set it up for an asset grab. Schiff's committee didn't really do a deep dive into the corruption in Ukraine. His star chamber kangaroo court wasn't interested in that at all. Smells of part of a cover-up.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-11-14 16:12|| 2019-11-14 16:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Why...isn't it strange Amb. Bill Taylor has several connections with the Atlantic Council?

Posted by Frank G 2019-11-14 18:56|| 2019-11-14 18:56|| Front Page Top

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