Said there was nothing nothing to see it was a sham this is fiction in their trial memorandum the house managers describe this as baseless now why did they say that why did they invoke Biden or burry smih over 400 times the reason they needed to do that is because they
Are here saying that the President must be impeached and removed from office for raising a concern and that’s why we have to talk about this today they say sham they say baseless because they say this because if it’s okay for someone to say hey you know what maybe there’s something here worth raising
Than their case crumbles because they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no basis to raise this concern but that’s not what public records show here are just a few of the public sources that flagged questions surrounding this very same issue the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent Hunter Biden’s former business associate an ABC White House reporter Good Morning America ABC The Washington Post the New York Times Ukrainian law enforcement and the Obama State Department itself they all raised this issue we would prefer not to be talking about this we would prefer not
To be discussing this but the house managers have placed this squarely at issue so we must address it let’s look at the facts in early 2014 Joe Biden our vice president of the United States led the United States foreign policy in Ukraine with the goal of rooting out
Corruption according to an annual study published by Transparency International during this time Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in the entire world in Ukraine there’s a natural gas company called burry smih Purisima has been owned by an oleg are named Macola sole chefs key here’s what happened very
Shortly after Vice President Biden was made us point man for Ukraine his son hunter Biden ends up on the board of Purisima working for and paid by the oligarch sole chefs key in February 2014 in the wake of anti-corruption uprising by the people of Ukraine so Jeff’s key flees the country
Please Ukraine so Jeff’s key the oleg are is well known George Kent the very first witness that the Democrats called during their public hearings testified so Jeff’s key stood out for his self dealings even among other oleg arcs house managers didn’t tell you that ambassador Kurt Volker Fogler explained that barrese Mahad
A quote very bad reputation as a company for corruption and money laundering in quote house managers didn’t tell you that barrese mo was so corrupt that george kent said he intervened to prevent us aid from Co sponsoring an event Woodbury smih you know what this event was it was a child’s contest and
The prize was a camera they were so bad ‘very smih that our country wouldn’t even co-sponsor a children’s event with Purisima in March 2014 the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office opens a money laundering investigation into the oligarch so Jeff’s key and his company burry smih the very next month April 2014 according
To a public report hunter Biden quietly joins the board of verissimo remember early 2014 was when Vice President Biden began leading Ukraine policy here’s how hunter Biden came to join briefs miss board in April 2014 he was brought on the board by Devin Archer his business partner Devin Archer was
College roommates with Chris Hines stepson of Secretary of State John Kerry all three men hunter Biden Devin Archer and Chris Hines had all started an investment firm together public records show that April 16 2014 Devin Archer meets with Vice President Biden at the White House just two days
Later on April 18th 2014 is when hunter Biden quietly joins Purisima according to public reporting remember this is just one month after the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office opened a money-laundering case into burry smih Hunter Biden joins their board and not only 10 days after hunter Biden joins
The board British authorities seize 23 million dollars in British bank accounts connected to the oligarchical chaps key the owner of Rhys my did hunter Biden leave the board then no the British authorities also announced that it had started a criminal investigation into potential money-laundering didn’t hunter
Buy and leave the board no what happened was then only then did the company choose to announce that hunter Biden had joined the board after the assets of burries MA and his oligarch owners Olszewski were frozen and a criminal investigation had begun hunter Biden’s decision to join burry smih raised Flags
Almost immediately one article from May 2014 stated the appointment of Joe Biden’s son to the Board of Ukrainian gas firm Purisima has raised eyebrows the world over even an outlet with bias for Democrats pointed out hunter Biden’s activities created a conflict of interest for Joe Biden the article
Stated the move raises questions about a potential conflict of interest for Joe Biden now even Chris Hynes hunter Biden’s own business partner had grave concerns he thought that working with Maurice ‘ma was unacceptable this is Chris Hines he was worried about the corruption the geopolitical risk and how
Bad it would look so he wisely distances himself Hunter Biden and Devin archers appointments to Purisima he didn’t simply call his stepfather Secretary of State and say I have a problem with this he didn’t tell his friends hey guys I’m not getting on the board I don’t want
Nothing to do with this he went so far as to send an email to senior state Department officials about this issue this is Chris Hines he wrote apparently Devin and Hunter have joined the board of Purisima and a press release went out today I can’t speak to why they decided to but there
Is no investment by our firm in their company what did hunter Biden do he stayed on the board what did Chris Heinz do he subsequently stopped doing business with his college roommate Devon Archer and his friend hunter Biden Chris Heinz spokesperson said the lack of judgment
In this matter was a major catalyst for mr. Heinz ending his business relationship with mr. Archer and mr. Biden now the media also noticed the same day an ABC News reporter asked Obama White House press secretary Jay Carney about it here’s what happened Hunter Biden is not taking a position
With the largest oil and gas company in Ukraine is there any concern about leaves the appearance of a conflict there see the vice president for you to the vice president’s office I saw those reports you know hunter Biden and other members of the might and family are obviously private citizens and
Where they work is not does not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the vice president or president but I would refer you to the vice president’s office the next day The Washington Post ran a story about it it said the appointment of the vice president’s son to a Ukrainian oil board
Looks nepotistic at best nefarious at worst again the appointment of the vice president’s son to a Ukrainian oil board looks nepotistic at best nefarious at worst and the media didn’t stop questioning asking questions here it kept going here’s ABC you have to fight the cancer of corruption but then something strange happens
Just three weeks later a Ukrainian natural gas company Purisima accused of corruption appoints hunter Biden seen here in their promotional videos to their board of directors paying his firm more than a million dollars a year here’s more from ABC continue that Ukraine wasn’t the only country where hunter Biden’s business and his father’s
Diplomacy as vice president intersected it also happened in China this video shows Chinese diplomats greeting Vice President Biden as he arrived in Beijing in December of 2013 right by his side his son hunter less than two weeks later hunters firm had new business creating an investment fund in China involving the government-controlled Bank
Of China with reports they hope to raise 1.5 billion dollars in fact every witness who was asked about hunter Biden’s involvement with Purisima agreed there was a potential appearance of a conflict of interest multiple House Democrat witnesses including those from the Department of State the National Security Council and
Others unanimously testified there was a potential appearance of a conflict of interest these were their witnesses how much money did hunter Biden get for being on the board well you start looking at this bank records according to reports between April 2014 and October 2015 barista paid more than 3.1 million
Dollars to Devin Archer and hunter Biden that’s over the course of a year and a half how do we know this some of Devin archers bank records were disclosed during an unrelated federal criminal case having nothing to do with hunter Biden these bank records show 17 months Purisima wired to payments of eighty
Three thousand three hundred and $33 not just for one month for two months for three months but for 17 months according to Reuters sources report that of the two payments of eighty-three thousand three hundred and thirty three dollars each one was for Hunter Biden and one Devin Archer now
Hunter Biden was paid significantly more than board members for major u.s. fortune 100 companies such as Goldman Sachs Comcast Citigroup the typical board member of these fortune 100 companies we know they’re Titans of their industry they’re highly qualified and as such they’re well compensated even so hunter Biden was paid
Significantly more this is how well he was compensated so hunter Biden has paid over eighty three thousand dollars a month while the average American family of four during that time each year made less than $54,000 and that’s according to US Census Bureau during that time and this is what’s been reported about his
Work on the board The Washington Post said quote what specific duties hunter Biden carried out for Buri smih are not fully known in quote The New Yorker reported quote once or twice a year he attended briefer board meetings and energy forums that took place in Europe in quote when speaking with ABC News
About his qualifications to be unbury smus board hunter Biden didn’t point to any of the usual qualifications of a board member hunter Biden had no experience in natural gas no experience in the energy sector no experience with ukrainian regulatory affairs as far as we know he doesn’t speak Ukrainian
So naturally the media has asked questions about his board membership why was hunter Biden on this phone if your last name wasn’t Biden do you think you would have been asked to be on the board of Purisima I don’t know I don’t know probably not so let’s go back
And talk about his time on the board remember he joined Maurice Ford April 2014 while the United Kingdom had an open money-laundering case against Maurice m’a and its owner the oleg our consult chef Sookie on August 20th 2014 four months later the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office initiates a money
Laundering investigation into the same Oleg art sole chef Sookie this is one of 15 investigations into burry smih and Zell Geoff’s key according to a recent public statement made by the current prosecutor general on January 16 2015 prosecutors pickles olschewski the owner of Purisima on whose hunter Biden set on
His board on the country’s wanted list for fraud while hunter Biden’s on the board then a British court orders so Geoff skis 23 million dollars in assets be unfrozen why was the money unfrozen deputy assistant secretary Kent testified to it somebody in the general prosecutor’s office of Ukraine shut the
Case issued a letter to his lawyer and that money went poof essentially paid a bribe to make the case go away that is our strong assumption yes sir he also testified that the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office his actions led to the unfreezing of the assets after George Kent’s confirmation that
Prosecutor was out Viktor shokhin becomes the prosecutor general this is the prosecutor that you’ll hear about later the one that Vice President Biden has publicly said he wanted out of office in addition to flagging questions about previous prosecutors actions George Kent also specifically voiced other concerns this time to the vice
President’s office about hunter Biden in February 2015 he raised concerns about hunter Biden to Vice President Biden’s office in a briefing call with the national security staff of the office of the vice president in February of 2015 I raised my concern that hunter Biden status as a board member would create
The perception of a conflict of interests but house managers didn’t tell you that this is all while hunter Biden said on briefs miss board did hunter Biden stop working for a barista no did Vice President Biden stop leading the Obama administration’s foreign policy efforts in Ukraine No in the meantime Vice
President Biden is still at the forefront of the u.s. Ukraine policy he pledges a billion dollars loan guarantee to Ukraine contingent on its progress in rooting out corruption around the same time with the 1 billion dollar announcement other people raised the issue of a conflict as special Obama administration special envoy for energy
Policy told The New Yorker it raised hunter Biden’s participation on the board of Purisima he raised it directly with the vice president himself this is a special envoy to President Obama and the media had questions to December 8th 2015 the New York Times publishes an article the prosecutor general Shokan was investigating verismo
And its owner sole chef Sookie The Times report here’s their quote the credible the credibility of the vice president’s anti-corruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son hunter Biden in quote with Purisima and its owner Zoll Chomsky and it wasn’t just one reporter who asked questions
About the line between burry smih and the Obama administration as we learned recently through reporting on Fox News on January 19 2016 there was a meeting between Obama administration officials and Ukrainian prosecutors Ken Vogel journalists for the New York Times asked the State Department about this meeting he wanted more information about the
Meeting we’re us support for prosecutions of verissimo holdings in the United Kingdom and Ukraine were discussed in quote but the story never ran around the time of the reported a story January 2016 meeting between the Obama administration and Ukrainian officials took place according to a Ukrainian press report as
Translated says quote the u.s. Department of State made it clear to the Ukrainian authorities that it was linking the 1 billion dollars in loan guarantees to the dismissal of prosecutor general Viktor shokan end quote now we all know from the Obama administration from the words of Vice President Biden himself he advocated for
The Prosecutor General’s dismissal there was ongoing investigation into the oleg artists old chef ski the owner of barista at the time we know this because on February 2nd 2016 the Ukrainian prosecutor general obtained a renewal of a court order to seize the Ukrainian oligarchs assets a Kiev Post article
Published on February 4th 2016 says the oleg our sole chef ski is quote suspected of committing a criminal offense of illicit enrichment end quote over the next few weeks the Vice President had multiple calls with Ukraine’s president poroshenko days after the last call on February 4 24th
2016 a DC consultant reached out to the State Department to request a meeting to discuss parisa we know what she said because the email was released under the Freedom of Information Act the consultant explicitly invoked hunter Biden’s name as a board member in an email summarizing the call the State
Department official says that the consultant quote noted that two high-profile citizens are affiliated with the company including hunter Biden as a board member end quote she added that the consultant would quote liked to talk with Undersecretary of state Novelli about getting a better understanding of how the US came to the
Determination that the country is corrupt in quote to be clear this email documents that the US government had determined Purisima to be corrupt and the consultant was seeking a meeting with an extremely senior State Department official to discuss the US government’s position her pitch for the meeting specifically used hunter Biden’s
Name and according to the email the meeting was set for a few days later and later that month on March 29th 2016 the Ukrainian Parliament finally votes to fire the prosecutor general this is the prosecutor general investigating the oligarch owner of Purisima on whose board hunter Biden said two days after
The prosecutor general is voted out Vice President Biden announces that the US will provide 335 million dollars in security assistance to Ukraine he soon announces that the US will provide 1 billion dollars in loan guarantees to Ukraine now let’s talk about one of the Democrats central witnesses ambassador Jovanovic in May 2016
Ambassador Jovanovic was nominated to be ambassador in Ukraine here’s what happened when she was preparing for her Senate confirmation hearing congresswoman Stefanik had asked you how the obama-biden State Department had prepared you to answer questions about Purisima and hunter Biden specifically you recall that yes out of thousands of
Companies in the Ukraine the only one that you recall the obama-biden State Department prepare you to answer questions about was the one where the vice president’s son was on the board is that fair yes so she’s being prepared to come before all of you all of you and talk
About world issues I’m going to be in charge of the Ukraine and what did they feel the only company the company that it was important to brief her on in case she got a question Parise my ambassador Jovanovic was confirmed July 2016 as the Obama administration was coming to a
Close in September 2016 a Ukrainian Court cancels the Oleg article Chomsky’s arrest warrant for lack of progress in the case in mid January 2017 verissimo announces that all legal proceedings against it and zultch upski have been closed both of these things happened while hunter Biden said on the board
Aubry smih around this time Vice President Biden leaves office years later now former Vice President Biden publicly details what we know happened his threat to withhold more than a billion dollars in loan guarantees unless Shogun was fired here’s vice-president said nice and I’m not gonna we’re not gonna give you the
Billion dollars they said you have no authority you’re not the president the president said I said call him I said I’m telling you’re not getting a billion dollars I said you’re not getting a billion I’m gonna be leaving here I think it was watch six hours I
Looked I said believing in six hours if the prosecutors not fired you’re not getting the money Oh son of a [ __ ] fired and they put in place someone who was solid at the time what he didn’t say on that video according to the New York Times this was the prosecutor
Investigating Purisima shokhin what he also didn’t say on the video was that his son was being paid significant amounts by the oligarch owner of verissimo to sit on that board only then does hunter buy and leave the board he stays on the board until April 20 1990 and
November 20 1990 Napa David saying quote he’s been unemployed and has no other monthly income since May 2019 this was in November of 2019 so we know from after April 2019 to May 20 19 through November 2019 he was unemployed by his own statement April 2019 to November 2019
Despite his resignation from the board the media’s continued to raise the issue relating to a potential conflict of interest on July 22nd 2019 the Washington Post wrote the fired prosecutor general Shokan quote believes his ouster was because of his interest in the company in quote referring to
Burry smih the post further wrote that quote had he remained in his post he would have questioned hunter Biden on July 25th 2019 three days later President Trump speaks with president szalinski he says the other thing there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son that Biden stopped the prosecution and a
Lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with this Attorney General would be great Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it looks horrible to me in quote the house managers talked about the Biden’s of recent four hundred times
But they never gave you the full picture but here are those who did the United Kingdom Serious Fraud unit Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent Chris Hines the ABC White House reporter ABC Good Morning America The Washington Post The New York Times Ukrainian law enforcement and the Obama State
Department itself they all thought there was cause to raise the issue about the Biden’s and barista now the house managers might say without evidence that everything we just have said has been debunked that the evidence points entirely and unequivocally in the other direction that is a distraction you’ve
Heard from the house managers they do not believe that there was any concern to raise here that all of this was baseless and all we are saying is that there was a basis to talk about this to raise this issue and that is enough I yield my time Thank You mr. chief justice
Majority Leader McConnell Democratic leader Schumer house managers members of the Senate this will be our last presentation before dinner next lawyer representing the president is Erik Hersman he’s a partner in the Kassovitz firm a law firm which has been representing the president for over two decades he’s a former prosecutor and trial with
Lawyer and he ran a natural gas company in the United States he is going to discuss
