Biden Burisma Bombshell: Newly Discovered Email Exposes Potential Problem for VP Biden
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- CBNs Eric Philips joins usnow with more on this story.
Hi Eric.- Hey Jenna and John.
Well, that "Post" report seems to contain
never before seen emails,
that may confirm ameeting between Joe Biden
and an executive with theUkrainian gas company, Burisma.
That is the company thatreportedly paid Hunter Biden
$50,000 a month to sit onits board of directors,
while his father was VP.
Now both Bidens insist however,
they never discussed Hunter'sbusiness dealings in detail.
- Biden and his sonare stone cold crooked.
- [Eric] It's a tune the President
has been singing for some time,
insisting Hunter Biden
profited on business interestsin Ukraine improperly,
while his father was Vice President,
and the Obama administration'spoint person on Ukraine.
A question asked directly to Hunter,
during this exclusive "ABCNews" interview, one year ago.
- I wanna get to the heart of it,
did you and your fatherever discuss Ukraine?
- No, as I said, the only time,
it was after a news account,and it wasn't a discussion
in any way, there's no butto this, no we never did.
- Your dad said, "I hope,you know what you're doing."
- [Hunter] I hope youknow what you're doing.
- And you said, "I do."- And I said, "I do."
And that was literallythe end of our discussion.
- [Eric] The "New York Post" report shows
an email dating back to 2015,
indicating Hunter arranged a meeting
between his father andthe Burisma executive.
The April 2015 email readsin part, "Dear Hunter,
Thank you for inviting me to D.C.,
and giving me an opportunityto meet your father,
and spend some time together."
That timing would havebeen just months before
then Vice President Bidenpressured Ukraine's government
to fire a prosecutorinvestigating Burisma.
A year earlier, another emailfrom that same executive
asked Hunter how he couldquote, "Use his influence
to benefit Burisma."
This, amid claims thatHunter was not well versed
in natural gas nor Ukraine.
- I think that I had as much knowledge
as anybody else who wason the board, if not more.
- If your last name wasn't Biden,
do you think you would have been asked
to be on the board of Burisma?
- I don't know, I don'tknow, probably not.
- The Biden campaign is firing back,
saying Joe Biden carriedout official U.S. policy
toward Ukraine, andengaged in no wrongdoing.
Staffers also claimed
that after reviewing theVice President's schedule
from back then, no suchmeeting between him
and the Ukraine executive happened.
And I should mention thatthe controversial emails
were discovered on a laptop,
that was dropped at a repairshop in Delaware, back in 2019.
Also, the Senate Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committee
is investigating the emails,and their point of origin,
Jenna and John.