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More than a year after its competitor reported on alleged corrupt ties between Hunter Biden and foreign entities and governments, The New York Times is jumping on the bandwagon.
The paper has filed suit against the State Department to obtain emails related to the president’s son in a probe to determine whether there is any undue foreign influence on President Joe Biden.
“The New York Times has sued the State Department for allegedly dragging its feet in handing over emails from Romanian embassy officials connected to Hunter Biden and his famed former business associate Tony Bobulinski,” the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.
“The lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, seeks emails dating 2015 to 2019,” the outlet continues. “The Times alleges that the State Department is failing to address its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in a timely manner. When the Times asked when the State Dept. would get around to the request, the paper was told to expect an answer on April 15, 2023, according to Politico.”
“The Times appears to be looking into whether embassy personnel did any special favors on behalf of business officials, including the president’s son and Bobulinski. Joe Biden was serving as vice president for two of the years the emails cover, 2015-2016,” the piece continued.
In October 2020, just a few weeks before the Nov. 3 election, the New York Post reported on bombshell emails gleaned from a computer laptop Hunter Biden allegedly abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware. According to the paper’s reporting, the emails revealed ties between Hunter, foreign figures from Ukraine, and how he introduced them to his then-vice president father, though Joe Biden in the past had denied such meetings.
The Post reported:
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.
Subsequent Post reporting, which was suppressed at the time by social media platforms and written off by others in the left-leaning media as ‘Russian disinformation,’ indicted further potentially corrupt ties between the Bidens and foreign entities.
In addition, a book just published by investigative author Peter Schweizer accuses the Bidens of having improper ties to Chinese companies that are at least partially linked to the Chinese Communist government.
One mainstream outlet, Politico, eventually conceded that the information on the laptop was indeed valid, not planted by Russian intelligence. But that came nearly a year after The Post’s reporting and after, of course, Biden was elected president.
Subsequent reporting has also surfaced in recent months indicating potentially troublesome ties between the Biden family and foreign governments now on the radar: Ukraine and China.
Republicans attempting to find out more about these potentially problematic links have also been stymied by the Biden administration.
“It’s just like pulling teeth to get answers from the Executive Branch, particularly on this subject. But the public is entitled to this information,” Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said during an interview with Fox News last month.
In a piece published on Tuesday, The Post’s editorial board called for a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden:
In 2018, the US attorney in Delaware began quietly investigating Hunter Biden’s financial activities. The probe was slowed in 2020 as the presidential election approached — and now it’s February 2022. How much longer will the feds take?
At this point, we have to wonder if any investigation would still be underway were it not for the laptop Hunter abandoned in 2019 and The Post’s reporting [of] it.
It’s tricky for any Justice Department to investigate the president and his family. And this one has already shown clear signs of politicization, with Attorney General Merrick Garland himself playing along with a White House cabal eager to put the fear of the FBI in parents who want to speak their minds at local school-board meetings.
It’s past time for Garland to explain why he hasn’t named a special counsel.
