5) February 2015: Senior State Department official George Kent raised concerns about the perception of a conflict of interest regarding Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board.
6) October 2015: Senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with then-Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma Holdings’ board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.
7) November 2015: Burisma hired Blue Star Strategies, a Democrat lobbying firm, linked to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and instrumental in Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin’s firing.
8) October 4, 2018: Bud Cummins, a former federal prosecutor, first reported bribery allegations to then-New York U.S. Attorney Geoff Berman in an email claiming he had evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s Ukrainian employer “in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Joe Biden.”
9) October 12, 2018: Hunter Biden, a drug user, applied to buy a handgun.
10) October 2018: Hunter Biden’s gun was thrown by his wife, Hallie, into a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone. The Secret Service claims it has no record of its agents investigating the incident.
11) August 2019: Released documents made public as a result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and investigative reporting brought public attention to the Biden family business in the Obama administration.
12) November 15, 2019: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote a letter to the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to obtain Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on individuals and entities, including Hunter Biden, Burisma, and others.
13) December 2019: FBI gains possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
14) December 8, 2019: Former Secretary of State John Kerry tells a reporter he has no awareness of Hunter Biden on Burisma’s board during his time at the State Department.
15) June 30, 2020: FBI has FBI informant form that the “big guy” was involved in a $5 million influence peddling scheme.
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16) July 13, 2020: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Rep. Nancy Pelosi (R-CA), and Rep. Adam Schiff (R-CA) sent a letter to the FBI to express a purported belief that Congress is the subject of a foreign disinformation campaign.
17) (Unknown) 2020: Former Attorney General William Barr conveyed the form to U.S. Prosecutor David Weiss.
18) September 2020: Intelligence officials warn big tech platforms about “Russian disinfo.”
19) October 14, 2020: The New York Post reported on the “laptop from hell” and a few days later, Politico published the letter declaring the laptop reporting Russian disinformation, citing 51 intelligence officials.
20) October 2020: The FBI “
made an institutional decision to refuse to answer direct questions from social media companies about the laptop’s authenticity — despite months of constant information sharing up to that time.”
21) October 23, 2020: Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski told two FBI agents that Joe Biden stood to earn a 10 percent cut from Hunter and Jim Biden’s CEFC China Energy Co. joint venture.
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22) February 2023: Former Obama White House stenographer Mike McCormick
submitted a tip to the FBI that “Joe Biden committed crimes in Ukraine in a conspiracy with [current national security adviser] Jake Sullivan.”
23) July 20, 2023: Sen. Chuck Grassley
made public an FBI informant form alleging that
Mykola Zlochevsky, bribed Joe and Hunter Biden