Exclusive excerpts from 'Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies and the Washington Lies that Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties' by John Solomon and Seamus Bruner. These excerpts come from chapter 9, ‘The Ukraine Boomerang: Obama's Russia Failures Unleash New Chaos and Cronyism in Ukraine.'
Last month, Just the News reported that shortly after Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company landed a deal with the Obama State Department's Agency for International Development (USAID). At the time, Burisma was under multiple investigations for corruption.
Not only did the controversial Ukrainian energy firm get a deal with USAID while Hunter Biden was on the board, but Joe Biden's energy advisor, Amos Hochstein, promoted the very program which worked to legitimize Burisma amid the allegations.
As an Obama official, Hochstein testified repeatedly to Congress, urging lawmakers to help "reform" Ukraine's energy sector to mitigate Putin's advances.
Honored to sit on #Rada floor for @VP inspiring address as P @Poroshenko and @PM_Yatsenyuk listen.@GeoffPyatt pic.twitter.com/mX2HrVMLpT— amos hochstein (@amoshochstein) December 8, 2015
“@EnergyAtState: .@amoshochstein & @VP today during the #Caribbean Energy Security Summitpic.twitter.com/EiE9xp01gW”— amos hochstein (@amoshochstein) January 27, 2015
At an event hosted by the Atlantic Council (a think tank funded in part by Burisma), Hochstein warned that Russia's weaponization of energy deals was predictable and must be counterbalanced:
"When the gas was shut off from Russia to Ukraine on June 16th [2014], that was not a unique event. It happened in 2006 and it happened in 2009 and, therefore, it happened again in 2014. And there is no reason to believe it will not happen again," Hochstein said.
"The way to prevent it from happening again is to … [create] new infrastructures that can allow for energy, for gas and for other sources of energy to come into Europe from other places to compete with Russian supplies."
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6 comments:
Joe Boy needs a energy adviser and shrink too
But yet no trial, no one in prison; by the way, where is Hunter? Not even in the news since Mr. Daddy himself got caught.
This needs to be headline on Fox News. You will never get updates on Hunter or Joe's involvement in Ukraine now. But unlike the Impeachment hearings on Trump the Dems have the Biden's rapped up tight.
I guess another Ukraine citizen helping the Biden family.
I just started reading John Solomon new book.
FALLOUT
AWESOME.
That's because we have SPINLESS thumb in each other's ASS Republicans. The Democrats spend 36 million. 3 years of hearings. With no evidence. Yet the REPUBLICANS with all kinds of evidence sit on each other playing with themselves.
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