Remember how quickly the Hunter Biden investigation was tamped down and then buried as his father’s presidential campaign gained a foothold? Ukraine was a big story then, and not due to Vladimir Putin’s unconscionable invasion.
The news was rife with accounts revealing how Joe Biden’s son — lacking experience in energy, an inability to speak Ukrainian and nothing to recommend him other than access to his then-Obama VP dad — was hired as a board member by Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy firm, at a $50,000 monthly salary.
Hunter Biden, a known crack cocaine addict, was on the Burisma board from 2014 to 2019 after being kicked out of the Navy Reserve in 2013 due to his drug addiction and alcoholism.* At the time Burisma was engulfed in a corruption investigation and Hunter was useful as a go-between, introducing his Vice President father to a top executive at the Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before Joe Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company. Despite creating a clear conflict of interest, the Biden’s slid with no repercussions. Although the New York Post, the nation’s oldest newspaper,** covered this major breaking news story, the Biden-supporting Arizona Republic didn’t find it worthy of coverage. Among numerous reports SRAZ posted, were these: October 15, 2020, “Biden caught in cash for influence scandal,” and December 19, 2020 “Hunter Biden admits he’s the focus of tax fraud investigation.”
The New York Post is on top of the coverage again as it provides this comprehensive report about the ongoing federal probe into Hunter Biden’s tax filings published by the New York Times on Wednesday night — finally confirming the existence of the first son’s infamous laptop. The Times requires a subscription.
* Covered extensively in the U.K.‘s Daily Mail
** Founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton