Clinton’s campaign funded and promoted false Russia smears about President Donald Trump, and his relationship to Russia. This helped to divide the nation. Ironically, they included information they received from a Russian citizen while they were demonizing Trump for his Russian connections. There are thousands more deluded Democrats that believe the Russia collusion myth. Joe Biden helped to feed that myth, claiming that Trump’s presidency was a “gift to Putin,” and that he would “stand up” to Putin. That hasn’t worked out so well.
Meanwhile, Democrats and the liberal media largely ignore any real questions related to Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s business associations including with Russians, Chinese, and Ukrainians connected to their respective governments. Joe Biden lies on this subject and Democrats as well as liberal media don’t hold him responsible. For example, Joe lied during the campaign, claiming that his son didn’t make any money related to China–when indeed he made millions.
We’ve reported extensively on some of those associations, but there’s more.
Hunter was Joe’s vice-president when he met at least four Russian oligarchs during a Moscow meet and greet that lasted two days. Telman Ismailov, an oligarch currently wanted by the NY Post for murder, is included in this list, according to the NY Post.
According to the Moscow Times, the meeting took place at the Moscow headquarters for AST Group on February 17, 2012. It was his huge holding company that once had a publishing house and a tour agency.
Russian authorities accused Ismailov of paying $2million for the assassination of two entrepreneurs a decade earlier. Agence France-Presse reported. Vladimir Savkin, a shopping mall magnate and Yury Brilev, founder of Lyublino Motors, were both bumped off on the Novorizhskoye highway in Moscow, allegedly over a business dispute with Ismailov, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s primary federal investigations agency.
A lawyer for Ismailov did not respond to request for comment from The Post about either the alleged murders or the Hunter Biden meeting, but told Radio Free Europe that the charges were bogus and “a result of political and economic persecution by the Russian Federation.” In February he was granted asylum by Montenegro.
Now, why would anyone just throw cash at Hunter Biden to “invest” in his company, unless they thought they were getting something for it? What we’ve seen in the other cases is that “something” was sometimes meetings with VP Joe Biden and the perceived influence/power that they might get from that. This begs the question: What were these Russian oligarchs thinking they would get from this deal?
“The only reason someone — other than a crack dealer or a hooker — would want to meet Hunter Biden is to get to his dad,” said Jim Hanson, president of the Security Studies Group. “They were selling access, it was their business model. The Biden family was involved in capitalizing on Joe’s political career.”
The Post lists the names of other oligarchs and their proximity to Putin.
The other billionaire oligarchs penciled into Hunter Biden’s calendar — which The Post found on a hard drive Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware computer repair store in April 2019 — included Sergey Chemezov, the CEO of the Russian state owned conglomerate Rostec (formerly Rostekhnologii); Vladimir Yevtushenkov, President of the Russian Holding company Sistema; and Samuel S. Karapetyan, a Russian real estate baron. [….]
Since the 1980s when both were young KGB agents in East Germany, Chemezov and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been friends. He was sanctioned by the United States in 2014 after Russia’s invasion of Crimea and again in 2022 over their subsequent attempt to overrun the rest of the country. Spain seized his super yacht in March.
Karapetyan — who Forbes has dubbed a “king of Russian real estate” — is known to be close to Putin and the owner of a 285-foot super yacht called Ace, has not been sanctioned by the United States.
Yevtushenkov has been sanctioned by both England and Australia over the current war in Ukraine — though has also not faced punishment from the U.S. He has been married to Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and widow of Yuri Luzhkov.
Baturina wired $3.5 million for a “consultancy agreement” with an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden in 2014, a report released by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R.Iowa), and Ron Johnson, (R.Wis.), in 2020 allegations. Hunter Biden denied being a cofounder.
Yevtushenkov continued the conversation with Hunter at the Ritz Carlton in New York City’s Central Park, on March 14, 2012. A rep for Yevtushenkov previously told The Post the meeting was “part of a routine business trip to the US to scout potential investment opportunities.”
It raises questions, more so than Clinton’s and Democrats trying to denigrate Trump with, about what the nature of certain relationships were and whether/how Biden was compromised by them. Republicans claim that they’ll be investigating all of this more thoroughly if they win back the Senate and House. One more reason to get out and vote, if you didn’t have enough reasons already.
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