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The National Archives is set to hand over nearly 1,800 emails to House Republicans as part of their ongoing investigation into allegations of corruption involving President Joe Biden and his first son, Hunter Biden, as well as other members of their family.
The emails will be turned over to the House Oversight Committee in response to a request from Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) as part of the GOP-led impeachment inquiry into the president.
“Among those documents are 1,799 emails and attachments, totaling more than 60,000 pages, the Washington Examiner reported. The emails include messages to and from then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter involving Ukraine and energy firm Burisma,” Just the News reported.
The outlet noted further: Burisma has long attracted Republican attention, largely due to allegations that the firm paid off both Hunter and Joe to stifle a probe from then-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the firm. Earlier this year, an unclassified FBI document outlining the alleged scheme based on confidential human source information went public.
Then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the start of the impeachment inquiry in September. He did so, however, without holding a chamber-wide vote, which Republicans are expected to hold this week.
Last week, the House voted to launch a former impeachment inquiry into Biden. Reuters was among other news outlets to report at the time that “House Republicans have so far failed to produce evidence tying Biden’s actions as vice president to his son’s businesses,” which is false, per GOP lawmakers.
Republicans have been saying for months they have uncovered a wealth if evidence that appears to support their contention that Biden benefitted financially from business deals made by his son. In addition, one of the allegations involves an alleged $5 million bribe from a Ukrainian official while Biden was vice president.
In September, during a House Freedom Caucus press conference, an incredulous Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) tore into a reporter who asked what evidence House Republicans had to begin the inquiry.
“What actual evidence do you have as opposed to allegations to show to the American public that would merit an actual impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden and prove that today isn’t just about some of you?” a reporter asked off-camera.
“Oh, I don’t know,” interjected Perry as the reporter went on to suggest Republicans were simply “enacting political revenge” after Democrats impeached then-President Donald Trump.
“This isn’t about political revenge. We have the bank accounts we can see, ma’am. You can see that the homes that the Bidens own can’t be afforded on a congressional or Senate salary. You also understand that it’s not normal for family members to receive millions of dollars from overseas interests,” Perry responded, growing increasingly animated and agitated.
“Those things aren’t normal. That’s not normal. Have 20 shell country companies, these things are not normal. And it alludes to not only just widespread corruption, but money laundering, if not influence peddling itself,” he continued.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the leading Republican on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, told Just the News last week that “banks filed at least six reports concerning Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings that flagged President Joe Biden’s home address in Delaware and raised concerns about possible criminal activity involving money laundering or human trafficking,” the outlet reported.
He also said “that the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS) chronicled about $12 million in transactions over several years, some of which passed through Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Del., home where he had allowed his son to stay,” the outlet noted further.
Johnson asserted that Joe Biden would likely have been aware that his son was utilizing his home as a business and banking address if for no other reason than postal mail arriving at the location.
“There’d be so much activity coming into his address, in this case, Hunter Biden’s businesses, that he obviously would have to be aware,” Johnson said of the current Oval Office occupant. “So, again, I just use the word obvious. It has been so obvious for so long that Biden Inc. is a corrupt enterprise. And that this president is corrupt, that he is compromised.
