THE DAILY WIRE
Hunter Biden sought assistance from the United States government in 2016 to help Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company where he served on the board, expand its business into Italy while his father served as vice president in the Obama administration.
Accusations that Hunter Biden, now a convicted felon, leveraged his father’s position in the White House to help him secure lucrative business deals overseas have followed the cocaine addict for many years.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that the Biden-Harris State Department released records to the newspaper late last month about Hunter Biden’s request after hiding the information from the public for years. The State Department refused to release the actual text of the letter.
The Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, was filed by the newspaper in June 2021. The newspaper filed a lawsuit eight months later after the State Department refused to release records. After another year and a half, the department tried to close the case by releasing a large trove of documents — though none that had anything to do with Hunter Biden’s contacts with the U.S. government.
The Times questioned the legitimacy of the department’s search given that it had failed to produce records that were discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop. The department continued to drag its feet until they finally released the documents on July 26, only five days after Biden announced that he was dropping out of the presidential race amid abysmal polling numbers that showed him getting crushed by former President Donald Trump.
