EDITOR’S NOTE, February 16, 2024: On February 15, Justice Department Counsel David Weiss indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov on two felony counts of making a false statement and creating a false and fictitious record for claims made to the bureau. The charges are in relation to June 2020 FD-1023 form alleging President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden received a combined $10 million in a bribery scheme involving the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.
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Two days after the end of a 187-day-long ice out by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the New York Post’s Steven Nelson was part of the press pool Wednesday during President Biden’s remarks about a funding battle with Congress on the border, Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine, so Nelson jumped in afterward to press Biden on why he’s “interacted with so many...foreign business associates” of his brother Jim and son Hunter.
Nelson shrewdly caught Biden’s attention by saying he had questions about China and Ukraine and they certainly were....but not on Biden’s terms. Biden probably forgot that Nelson was the reporter who asked him on June 8 if, based on the investigation from the House Oversight Committee, he accepted bribes and sold out the country. Smart move, Steven.
He then dropped two devastating numbers for Biden amid his reelection campaign (and simply in terms of credibility with the American people): “[P]olling by the Associated Press...shows that almost 70 percent of Americans, including 40 percent of Democrats, believe that you acted either illegally or unethically in regards to your family's business interests.”
Given the dozens of liberal media puff pieces and both general and specific allegations of Biden family malfeasance, it’d certainly be higher if weren’t for such a complicit media.
At any rate, Nelson then wondered why he’s spent time with so many of his corrupt son and brother’s pals: “Can you explain to the Americans — to Americans, amid this impeachment inquiry, why you interacted with so many of your son and brother’s foreign business associates?”
Biden said he would “not...comment on that”, but then did the opposite as he said not only did he “not” meet with any of them, but such accusations are “just a bunch of lies.”
Nelson was incredulous: “You didn’t interact with any of their business associates?”
Biden stayed pat: “They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies.”
Rating: Pants on fire.
On September 26, our friends at the Washington Examiner noted that Biden met for a February 2014 lunch with Hunter’s business partners wrapped up in both Mexico and Ukraine. Further, Nelson’s Post explained that, in 2022, Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin went to the Obama-Biden White House 19 times.
In February 2014, Joe Biden met with Hunter’s business partners from Kazakhstan, including an oligarch with former Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov, who returned to that spot two months later.
Speaking of Kazakh businesspeople, Joe also stopped by a dinner with more of them on April 16, 2015 with the group having included an executive with the infamous Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
Just on those examples alone, the President’s claims are hogwash.
To see the relevant transcript from December 6, click “expand.”
Presidential remarks [via FNC’s Outnumbered]
December 6, 2023
12:51 p.m. EasternSTEVEN NELSON: President Biden, on Ukraine and also China — President Biden, on Ukraine and also China here is polling by the Associated Press that shows that almost 70 percent of Americans, including 40 percent of Democrats, believe that you acted either illegally or unethically in regards to your family's business interests. Can you explain to the Americans — to Americans, amid this impeachment inquiry, why you interacted with so many of your son and brother’s foreign business associates?
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: I’m not going to comment on that. I did not. And it’s just a bunch of lies.
NELSON: You didn’t interact with —
BIDEN: They’re lies.
NELSON: — any of their business associates?
BIDEN: I did not. They’re lies.
