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Over the past few years, President Joe Biden’s administration and its most ardent supporters have consistently denied the growing accusations that his son, Hunter Biden, leveraged his father’s political clout as a former senator and vice president to benefit foreign business partners and companies.
However, in a suspiciously timed development, the Biden-Harris administration has seemingly acknowledged that Hunter did seek favorable treatment from the U.S. government on behalf of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where he controversially held a board position while his father was vice president.
This revelation reportedly stems from a series of heavily redacted emails released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed several years ago, conveniently surfacing just days after President Biden concluded his challenging re-election campaign.
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In 2021, The New York Times reported that it had submitted a FOIA request to the State Department regarding any documents related to Hunter Biden’s alleged requests for U.S. government assistance on behalf of his foreign business partners.
Initially, the request was denied, but a lawsuit ultimately compelled the gradual release of thousands of documents over several months. However, most of these documents were heavily redacted and unreadable.
Among the released documents was a series of emails from July 2016, which disclosed that Hunter had contacted then-U.S. Ambassador to Italy John Phillips in a letter seeking assistance in arranging a meeting between the president of Tuscany at the time, Enrico Rossi, and Burisma officials. This meeting was intended to discuss a proposed geothermal energy production project.
A Commerce Department official at the U.S. Embassy in Rome was assigned to respond to Hunter’s request, but wrote to another unidentified U.S. official, “I want to be careful about promising too much. This is a Ukrainian company and, purely to protect ourselves, U.S.G. should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the [Department of Commerce] Advocacy Center.”
The Times noted that the released emails coincide with other emails at the time that were found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop, including one from former business partner Eric Schwerin to an Italian business associate that explained, “Burisma is hoping that some of its executives can get a meeting with the president to…
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