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2022-02-04 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Classified State Dept email: Hunter Biden undercut US anticorruption efforts in Ukraine

[Fox News] A recently published email from U.S. State Department officials in Kyiv said Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine "undercut" American efforts to fight corruption within the country.

The email, obtained by Just the News, dates from Nov. 22, 2016, when former U.S. embassy official George Kent raised concern over Hunter Biden’s Ukraine dealings. Kent remarked on the "saga" surrounding a case again former Ukrainian natural resources minister and Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky. Joe Biden was still vice president at the time Kent sent the email, but Donald Trump had won the presidential election.

Kent later appeared before the House Intelligence Committee to testify during the impeachment inquiry against former President Donald Trump, during which he noted he had raised his concerns about the association between Hunter Biden and Burisma.

Kent said in his email that the "real issue" was that someone in Washington needed to engage then-Vice President Biden and say his son’s presence on the board "undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine."

Kent states that he understood Sally Painter to be working on due diligence on the issue to make the case to Hunter, but that he never heard back from her. Painter serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Washington, D.C. consultancy firm Blue Star Strategy.

The recipients of the email included Jorgan K. Andrews, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, and then-U.S. Ambassador to Kyiv Marie Yovanovitch, who classified the email.

Posted by Ulelet Snusotch7182 2022-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 Lord what a shitshow... so one of our diplomats who tried to nail OrangeMan for corruption actually knew that Biden was running a crime ring with his depraved idiot son.

And pray tell, why does the task of calling out this whore have to fall to a "someone in Washington" to "engage then-Vice President Biden"?

Kent states that he understood Sally Painter to be working on due diligence on the issue to make the case to Hunter, but that he never heard back from her. Painter serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Washington, D.C. consultancy firm Blue Star Strategy.

Who the fvck is "Sally Painter"? A "consultant," eh? Oh wait: she's that little Clintonite squirrel who made a whore's living selling her NATO membership lobbying efforts to tiny ex-Warsaw Pact country oligarchs.

A shitty little DC lobbyist.

That's who our Ambassador turns to when he needs to speak truth to his bosses? Our Ambassador can't talk to Obama?

Total shitshow. But wait -- like all slapstick comedies, the lads keep comin'... Ambassador Doormat engages not just a no-name little lobbyist but also -- get this -- the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

Engaging his department's top Narc. To investigate the VP's and now President's crack addict son.

These are the ludicrous shitheads who are driving this nation's insane Ukraine policy. For SHAME.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-04 05:04|| 2022-02-04 05:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Very interesting, but should come as a surprise to virtually no one. What is required now is a massive Trump style, Russian cover-up.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-02-04 07:35|| 2022-02-04 07:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Kent states that he understood Sally Painter to be working on due diligence on the issue to make the case to Hunter, but that he never heard back from her. Painter serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Washington, D.C. consultancy firm Blue Star Strategy.

Blue Star Strategy sells high level access to Hillary Clinton and would have formed the core of the 2017 Hillary Clinton presidential staff. That Sally Painter went from State Dept to COO of Blue Star Strategy tells you everything you need to know.

Posted by Spike Spavimble2925 2022-02-04 08:58|| 2022-02-04 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Putin laughs at our idiots, from Beijing:

MOSCOW/SINGAPORE, Feb 4 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin unveiled new Russian oil and gas deals with China worth an estimated $117.5 billion on Friday, promising to ramp up Russia's Far East exports at a time of heightened tension with European customers over Ukraine.

Russia, already Beijing's No. 3 gas supplier, has been strengthening ties with China, the world's biggest energy consumer, reducing its dependence on its traditional European energy customers.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-04 10:18|| 2022-02-04 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 As predicted, our fvcking grifters and their stupid carpetbagger games in shithole Ukraine have driven Russia into China's arms.

$117 billion, suckers.... paid in Euros. So much for your "little twig," as Hanson calls it, of big bad dollar-based sanctions

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-04 10:22|| 2022-02-04 10:22|| Front Page Top

#6 As predicted, our fvcking grifters and their stupid carpetbagger games in shithole Ukraine have driven Russia into China's arms.

You're only here to give cover to Biden for being Putin's puppet, aren't you?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-02-04 10:28|| 2022-02-04 10:28|| Front Page Top

#7 Blue Star Strategy [Sally Painter] sells high level access to Hillary

And Rosemont Seneca [Hunter Crackpipe] sells high level access to Biden

So our State Department clown in Ukraine says, Let's have a Hillary whore investigate a Biden whore.

Who investigates Hillary's Uranium One whoring?

Total clownshow.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-04 10:29|| 2022-02-04 10:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Kent states that he understood Sally Painter to be working on due diligence on the issue

"Due diligence"?
That's investment banker speak for basic financial analysis for a deal. Does the article's author mean s.t. like an actual investigation of criminal acts? Why would Hillary's / Eastern European Bandits' lobbyist be asked to do that?

to make the case to Hunter, but that he never heard back from her.

Why "to Hunter"? WTF?

You mean she was supposed to smoke crack with him and review his deals?

What's the little cvnt supposed to say -- "Sir, if you look carefully at the line items in Slide #7, you'll see that these payments might better have been wired securely from Burisma's Cyprus accounts to a Liechtenstein-based entity..."?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-04 10:49|| 2022-02-04 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Hunter Biden-linked firm offered access to Hillary Clinton to Ukrainian official, emails say
Fox News reported Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014 as it faced corruption allegations. Upon joining Burisma, Biden reportedly connected the firm with Blue Star Holdings in an effort to help them fight the corruption charges.

Posted by Spike Spavimble2925 2022-02-04 19:16|| 2022-02-04 19:16|| Front Page Top

#10 $117 billion, suckers.... paid in Euros.

Over 30 years. Less than 4 months of US trade deficit w/ China. The solution lies elsewhere.

Posted by Spike Spavimble2925 2022-02-04 19:34|| 2022-02-04 19:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Putin hails $117.5 bln of China deals as Russia squares off with West
Russia is Europe's biggest provider of natural gas, and Western countries are worried that already strained supplies could be interrupted in the event of a conflict. However, the new deal with Beijing would not let Moscow divert gas otherwise bound for Europe, as it involves gas from the Pacific island of Sakhalin, not connected to Russia's European pipeline network.

Nothing to do w/ Ukraine tensions. Nor does the deal affect Europe.

Posted by Spike Spavimble2925 2022-02-04 19:44|| 2022-02-04 19:44|| Front Page Top

#12 The sanctions will neither hurt Russia nor change its calculations. Pure theater at this point.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-04 20:41|| 2022-02-04 20:41|| Front Page Top

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