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''[[Politico]]'' reported on '''[[Biden family corruption]]''' on August 2, 2019:
 
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[[File:Biden text.png|right|300px|thumb|Biden family text with Hunter telling his sister Naomi that thier "Pop" Joe Biden received 50% of the Burisma [[kickback]]s.<ref>https://thespectator.info/2020/10/15/unlike-pop-joe-biden-i-wont-make-you-give-me-half-of-your-salary-video/</ref>]]
 
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{{quotebox-float|The day the Bidens took over Paradigm Global Advisors was a memorable one.
 
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In the late summer of 2006 [[Joe Biden]]’s son Hunter and Joe’s younger brother, James, purchased the firm. On their first day on the job, they showed up with Joe’s other son, Beau, and two large men and ordered the hedge fund’s chief of compliance to fire its president, according to a Paradigm executive who was present.
 
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After the firing, the two large men escorted the fund’s president out of the firm’s midtown [[Manhattan]] office, and James Biden laid out his vision for the fund’s future. “Don’t worry about investors,” he said, according to the executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing fear of retaliation. “We've got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”
 
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At the time, the senator was just months away from both assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and launching his second presidential bid. According to the executive, James Biden made it clear he viewed the fund as a way to take money from rich foreigners who could not legally give money to his older brother or his campaign account. “We've got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company,” the executive remembers James Biden saying.<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407</ref>}}
 
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Beginning just before Joe Biden’s ascendancy to the Vice Presidency, [[Hunter Biden]] was traveling to [[Beijing]] meeting with Chinese financial institutions and political figures would ultimately become his investors. Finalized in 2013, the investment partnership included money from the Chinese government, social security, and major state-owned banks a veritable who’s who of Chinese state finance.<ref>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/10/23/267736-n267736</ref>
 
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The records show that Hunter Biden and his family were involved in a vast financial network that connected them to foreign nationals and foreign governments across the globe. Hunter Biden and [[Devon Archer]], in particular, formed significant and consistent financial relationships with the corrupt oligarch [[Mykola Zlochevsky]] during their time working for Burisma and their firms made millions of dollars from that association while Joe Biden was vice president and the public face of the [[Obama administration]]’s Ukraine policy. [[Rosemont Seneca Thornton]], an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, received $3.5 million in a wire transfer from Elena Baturina, who allegedly received illegal construction contracts from her husband, the former mayor of [[Moscow]].  Biden and Archer’s work with [[Chinese]] nationals connected to the [[Communist]] regime illustrate the deep financial connections that accelerated while his father was vice president and continued after he left office.
 
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CEFC China Energy had reported assets of $263 billion in 2015. Its chairman, Ye Jianming, was arrested by the CCP in February 2018 and has never been heard from since.  Patrick Ho, who headed a "think tank" funded by Ye and whom Hunter calls "the spy chief of China," was arrested in New York for bribing UN and African officials three months earlier. Hunter was paid $1 million to represent Ho. Ye had extensive business relations with Hunter and Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother, gave them credit cards with a $100,000 limit, a personal gift o Hunter of a 2.8 caret diamond valued at $50,000.  In a recording made sometime after Ye went missing, Hunter is heard speaking in an agitated tone,
 
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{{quotebox|"I get calls from my father to tell me that ''[[The New York Times]]'' is calling, but my old partner, Eric [Schwerin<ref>Owasco P.C. was incorporated in January 2006; Eric Schwerin was a governor and executing officer, and Hunter Biden was an agent. In December
 
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2019, both Schwerin and Hunter Biden rescinded those affiliations with Owasco. See [https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_dc/EXTUID_2684079/events Events for Owasco P.C.], OpenCorporates,</ref>], who literally has done me harm for I don’t know how long, is the one taking the calls because my father will not stop sending the calls to Eric. I have another ''New York Times'' reporter calling about my representation of Patrick Ho – the f****** spy chief of China who started the company that my partner, who is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing. The richest man in the world is missing who was my partner. He was missing since I last saw him in his $58 million apartment inside a $4 billion deal to build the f****** largest f***** LNG [liquified natural gas] port in the world. And I am receiving calls from the Southern District of New York from the U.S. attorney himself. My best friend in business, Devon [Archer], has named me as a witness, without telling me, in a [[criminal]] case — and my father [Joe Biden], without telling me."<ref>https://www.bitchute.com/video/rMm4RvH5TTud/</ref>}}
 
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'''January 2009'''
 
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*'''20 January.''' [[Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.]] sworn in as 47th [[Vice President of the United States]].
 
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'''June 2009'''
 
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*'''25 June.''' Hunter Biden, [[Chris Heinz]], stepson of [[John Kerry]] from Rosemount Seneca. The firm partners with the Thornton Group run by Devon Archer, and the Bank of China, to form Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) in China.<ref>https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/</ref>
 
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*'''7-9 April.'''  Hunter was introduced by Michael Lin (also Chun-Liang Lin, Chun Liang and Junliang 林俊良) to China’s most powerful government controlled financial institutions.  Hunter was introduced as the chairman of Rosemont Seneca and the second son of the US Vice-President, and the purpose of his visit was to “deepen mutual understanding and explore the possibility of commercial cooperation”.<ref>http://archive.is/NGyD4</ref>
 
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:*Hunter met with Gao Xiqing, General Manager and Chief Investment Officer of China Investment Corporation (CIC); Equity Assets Department (Industrial Investment Department) of the National Council of Social Security Fund person in charge Ji Guoqiang; Vice President Cui Yong of China Life Asset Management Co. Ltd.; Peng Zuogang, General Manager of Postal Savings Bank of China; Zhang Lei, Founder of Hillhouse Capital, Wei Xin, Chairman of Founder Group, and Xia Yangjun, Vice President of Founder Group.
 
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::*Hunter met with Gao Xiqing (高西庆), the then CPC Secretary and general manager of CIC, a Chinese sovereign wealth fund backed by the Ministry of Finance (MOF).  Gao is a Chinese finance industry veteran with experience working in New York, and who would go on to become the Minister of Finance after managing CIC one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. Rosemont Seneca via BHR would go on to partner with CIC subsidiary companies such as the Bank of China.  MOF is the national executive agency of the central government which administers macroeconomic policies and the national annual budget.
 
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::*The National Council for Social Security Funds (全国社会保障基金理事会) or SSF was established by the Central Committee of CCP and the State Council, and manages the National Social Security Fund. On April 7, HUNTER met with Ji Guoqiang (冀国强) head of the SSF’s equity assets department. Ji’s official CV shows in 2009 he attended the CCP’s Central Party School (中央党校) (CPS), the higher education institution which specifically trains [[CCP]] cadres. Xi Jinping was CPS president during Ji’s time there. Ji is now a Tianjin Standing Committee member and its United Front minister. The Tianjian government is an owner of Bohai Industrial Investment partnering with Rosemont Seneca, and its subsequent entities, in BHR Equity.
 
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::*China Life Insurance (Group) Company (中国人寿保险（集团）公司) (China Life), is a stateowned enterprise (SOE), and China’s largest life insurer. China Life owns China Life Asset Management Co Ltd (中国人寿资产管理有限公司), China’s largest asset manager, and is controlled by and a holding company for MOF. Cui Yong is now the CCP Secretary and CEO of China Life. China Life was a key stakeholder in Bohai Industrial Investment the key partner in BHR.
 
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::*Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC 中国邮政储蓄银行) is the banking arm of the State Post Bureau (国家邮政局), and provides financial services to small business and rural or low-income customers. PSBC was a key minority shareholder on Bohai Industrial Investment partnering with BHR.
 
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::*Zhang Lei (张磊) founded the leading private equity firm Hillhouse Capital. Zhang is also a former Yale graduate in 2005, who started Hillhouse in 2005 with seed capital from the Yale Endowment.  Hillhouse was an early Tencent backer, and more recently of video conferencing software Zoom.  Zhang is a multi-billionaire who is affiliated with several China friendly government and non-governmental organizations ([[NGO]]s), some of which are linked with the United Front’s foreign influence activities.
 
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:::*Zhang is also a Governing Board Member of the China-United States Exchange Foundation CUSEF (中美交流基金會), which aims to “improve communications and enhance understanding between the peoples of China and the US”, and was founded by the former Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Tung Cheehwa GBM (董建華).  Tung is now a Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中国人民政治协商会议) (CPPCC) vice-chairman.  The CPPCC is a CCP led advisory committee and the highest ranked entity overseeing the United Front, according to a 2018 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review report.147 The same report says that the CUSEF has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying for China-U.S. relations as a registered foreign agent, and is involved in Chinese government influence operations, having collaborated with the CAIFC on multiple projects.  CUSEF paid public relations firm Brown Lloyd James $20,000 per month to arrange various activities aimed at making the U.S. information environment friendlier to Beijing, according to 2011 disclosures filed under the [[Foreign Agents Registration Act]].
 
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::*Founder Group (北大方正集团有限公司) was originally a hi-tech spin off from Peking University (PKU), which later expanded into real estate and investment, and is allegedly backed by He Guoqiang (贺国强), the former secretary of the [[Central Commission for Discipline Inspection]] and [[Politburo Standing Committee]] member (2007 – 2012).  The Founder Group is a politically important state linked company currently leading the Chinese push for semiconductor self-sufficiency.
 
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*'''12-13 April.'''  Vice President Biden met with then CCP General Secretary and Chinese President [[Hu Jintao]] at the Nuclear Security Summit in [[Washington, D.C.]].
 
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*'''19 January.'''  Wanxiang founder Lu met with Obama.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mil45jgig/lu-guanqiu-2/#2be2dd6049b7</ref>
 
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*'''18-20 April.''' Hunter visited leading Taiwan banks and financial institutions, along with Thornton Chairman James Bulger and CEO Michael Lin.<ref>https://archive.is/wip/vbMm6</ref>
 
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[[File:Conlon to Hunter.png|right|350px|thumb|"We need to get these guys to an event or something where they get to just formally meet your Dad."]]
 
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:*[[FOIA]] records show Hunter visited China again in April 2011.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Hunter-Biden-travel-June-2020-FOIA.pdf</ref>
 
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*'''23 June.''' An email thread from Sean Conlon to Hunter Biden states:<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/biden-biz-partner-leverages-joe/</ref>
 
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{{quotebox-float|"So we have engagement letter if they get other 10 bonds they have a face value of 10b. While it is far fetched Devon said he talked to his professor and these get traded. We get 10% in fees. We need to get these guys to an event or something where they get to just formally meet your Dad. For follow on they can talk to [[Chief of Staff]]. Let me know how soon we can do that. V brief. If Nagi get that done we get more bonds to move. Regards your hard working partner in Positano! Sean”}}
 
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:Per subsequent e-mails, “each bond is worth over $2.1 billion.”
 
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*'''17 August.''' Vice President Biden visited China for a five-day trip, meeting Chinese Foreign Minister [[Yang Jiechi]]. 
 
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:*'''Hunter and [[Bohai Harvest RST]] enjoy direct access to the [[Politburo]] via Yang Jiechi''' who is now a member and director of the Office of Foreign Affairs for the CCP.
 
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:*VP Biden held talks with Xi Jinping, then Chinese Vice-President. At the meeting Biden said the US
 
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{{quotebox-float|“fully understands that [[Taiwan]] and [[Tibet]] issues are China's core interests, the U.S. will continue to resolutely pursue the one China policy, the U.S. does not support ‘Taiwan's independence’, and the U.S. fully recognizes that Tibet is an inalienable part of the [[People's Republic of China]].”}}
 
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:'''Biden’s words are verbatim from China’s official standpoint on Taiwan and Tibet.''' Biden has spent more time in private meetings with Xi than any other world leader, including 25 hours of private dinners with Xi and one interpreter.<ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref>
 
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:*Biden also met with General Secretary Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People, the same state building where the Thornton/Rosemont Solebury/SLLF delegation met with the Director General of the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee in 2008.<ref>http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zmgx/t850947.htm</ref>
 
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:*Biden said that a strong, prosperous and successful China that plays a bigger role in global affairs is in the interests of the US and the world at large. Biden urged the two nations to properly handle sensitive issues, boost people-to-people exchanges, economic cooperation, dialogue and consultations in regional and global affairs to rise to challenges facing the international community. Again, Biden used Chinese government speak on US-China relations in stark contrast to his language used in the late 90’s during the [[Clinton administration]].
 
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*'''20 August.''' VP Biden delivered a speech at Sichuan University, where he said:
 
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{{quotebox-float|“China’s development and prosperity are in line with the interest of the U.S”}}
 
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:in comments on the university’s website.<ref>http://en.scu.edu.cn/info/1065/3043.htm</ref> The Obama White House records published a transcript of the speech during which Biden said
 
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{{quotebox-float|“Let me be clear -- let me be clear: I believed in 1979 and said so and I believe now that a rising China is a positive development, not only for the people of China but for the United States and the world as a whole…In order to cement this robust partnership, we have to go beyond close ties between Washington and Beijing, which we’re working on every day, go beyond it to include all levels of government, go beyond it to include classrooms and laboratories, athletic fields and boardrooms.”}}
 
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:A few months after Biden’s Sichuan trip, Devon Archer and Michael Lin worked with a Sichuan Chemical, a large Sichuan state-owned company to set-up a major potash deal (that never materialized) for Prospect Global, a listed US company at the time, that soon delisted and no longer appears to be in business. It is unclear if the purpose of the deal was to just deliver Archer millions of dollars in compensation, to talk up the Prospect Global stock, or if it resulted in Sichuan Chemical transferring millions of US dollars to the US (either for capital flight purposes or to be directed to US politicians such as Biden and Kerry).
 
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*'''5 November.''' Emails from a Hunter Biden business partner lay out in detail how Vice President Joe Biden’s son and his colleagues used their access to the Obama-Biden administration to arrange private meetings for potential foreign clients and investors at the highest levels in the [[White House]]. These emails outline how a delegation of Chinese investors and Communist Party officials managed to secure a private, off-the-books meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/16/exclusive-this-is-china-inc-emails-reveal-hunter-bidens-associates-helped-communist-aligned-chinese-elites-secure-white-house-meetings/</ref>
 
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*'''17 February.''' Vice President Biden met with then Vice-President [[Xi Jinping]] in [[California]].<ref>https://qctimes.com/news/national/on-a-photo-of-biden-with-chinese-president-xi-jinping/article_0dde172b-d5b8-5681-8e0c-37d7a8f5ce62.html</ref>  By Joe Biden's count, he met with Xi for a rough total of 25 hours in 2011 and 2012.<ref>https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/06/bidens-china-policy-starts-building-stronger-america/166555/</ref>  One topic of discussion was access for US film companies in the China market.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-07-17/joe-biden-money-hollywood-studios-china</ref>
 
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*'''19 February.''' Hunter Biden's Seneca Global Advisors advised GreatPoint, a US energy technology startup in receiving an equity investment of USD 420 million and project funding of USD 1.25 billion from Wanxiang Group (万向集团) <Wanxiang>, the largest foreign venture capital investment into the US that year.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/3904f888-e8ef-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55</ref>  The two parties agreed to jointly-develop a coal-to-natural gas facility in [[Xinjiang]]. The signing ceremony was attended by senior US and Chinese government officials, including [[Xi]].<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204792404577229501058611924</ref>
 
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:*Wanxiang founder Lu Guanqiu (鲁冠球), had met with Obama in January 2011, and employed Obama’s ally, former Chicago Mayor [[Richard Daley]].10 Hunter had previously worked for Richard’s brother [[Secretary of Commerce]] [[William Daley]], as Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination.11  William Daley was Obama’s former [[Chief of Staff]] (2011 - 2012).
 
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:*Wanxiang is a long-established and politically well-connected industrial conglomerate based in Hangzhou, where Lu knew Xi from Xi’s days as Zhejiang CPC Secretary in the early 2000s (and Xi’s father in the 1980s).
 
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[[File:Hunter Biden Bohai.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|Hunter Biden, right, flew to China in 2013 aboard Air Force Two, with his father, Joe Biden, left, December 4, 2013.  10 days late Hunter Biden signed a $1.5 Billion deal with the [[People's Liberation Army|Chinese military]].<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-s-trip-china-son-hunter-2013-comes-under-new-n1061051</ref>]]
 
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*'''11 April.''' Hunter Biden becomes a director of Enable and Invest UK Limited.<ref>[https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/document-api-images-live.ch.gov.uk/docs/PWrDVl8WDucoSw_a_HpLGMfHJi1L1LggyF0ELzvTqEk/application-pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAWRGBDBV3OIL6CDS7%2F20201022%2Feu-west-2%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20201022T140007Z&X-Amz-Expires=60&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEEQaCWV1LXdlc3QtMiJIMEYCIQDllraWIrJgMV2HwIRYXFVP%2FdIjVyWqkBVb6ZPzGtP0YQIhAJFKTkz9KRECe8Glu9rTDPu%2BtkksKRsH63R9wI7QqtPXKr0DCI3%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEQAxoMNDQ5MjI5MDMyODIyIgyFU8uWvywKc49wjHsqkQM9nrcDSnBV%2BLR4Hry%2BCxcgHGZET689I6aXuBe3bwnXh9TifS%2FRQjH%2BtXYZPTQiqTRGFSD4jhKVlTV0L28b13iRfU8DTWiX3g9dyD%2BFXa8pLhGlqverxB8s40CoDTdlqVHDkCISiW3MLjTBKlfan6a5FpEzq6S3kW4ySKb7%2FSc9ChN6aJxfW%2FkfqifmAYIkA1Exnx8G4L75ovQtKSemj1GFkqnt5%2Bn4oqI6oxv8ijCfjvrhn4uR5QitsJ6NkqEimEcZdU%2F1epca%2FipqxaiiNph6dj7yQNzqi6imUVg%2B1BQ56PSTs91GjbeXAJXgIoJB15YZzvhorscfXPKP%2BbOB42HnTlbOiyvPfW3EwH0%2FRSMiow6FeH%2Bu3QQdxn8xa1GJ%2Bz9uV3Jbn0sY9b2ipIsjOZOCEYQWv3pnGuo2qNECiRIS%2BeUMfbcdKzzkeIo22Apt1QWcK7VUm7KDSML4N16y95bPwpU6%2FJgJdzTdtBwpK9wuWgAD1IgDGW%2FYEZ1B9%2FXPwJWnxtHQm2V%2FyVgm1NsjP%2BtrRTCJ18X8BTrqAYYJE55EEHKcSZH0zlYVnGfz2Vr9UVSxhy%2FFcNnx6eBZgpjtvKPLI56mpmJPQyJFCXkF762RA0efRST3WSHu%2Bsd1pd6HKRPOVou4yAlgJ8q9WYRqcYsRu7fN4bZORboA3mADR6zeapw0clbiWtx4STIp7OwZ%2FmHmUseUnvptTtl8DJO1DmG%2BGe9eKookYKA7LGDrhQ8CcZ2VigSNC3Z%2FT2mGW2df4U%2Fs9GyTG77aRA6SDunCGMsMrFnqCZZYHJM%2B3MhQ5%2F%2BFdBhaRHVFUDm%2FXnw3Hn3bZIgDvw1I41PwW3hXXA3v4pPYNQcVOw%3D%3D&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=febc52edc9e962492c822c396596ce820c63d26a9d1d04d96ca4f641222421f0]</ref>
 
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*'''4 December.''' Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, visit Beijing.<ref>https://youtu.be/Eg6SP0ugUrk</ref>  The Bidens walked away after this trip as 30% owners of a $1.5 billion investment fund.  They offered nothing to the Chinese Comminists by way of consideration but their services as [[lobbyist]]s and door openers. 
 
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*'''16 December.''' [[Bohai Harvest Rosemont]] (BHR) was incorporated in [[Shanghai]] according to State Market Regulatory Administration records.<ref>[https://www.qcc.com/firm/1a7250b750eef9e9adbd39a6d97bee4d.html The State Administration for Industry and Commerce at the time]</ref>
 
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*'''5 January.''' Email chain between Biden partners Jason Galanis, Devon Archer, and Bevan Cooney discuss how to open a bank account for Elena ("Yelena") Baturina, the wife of the mayor of Moscow.  Archer says, "Establish US banking relationship was the goal she gave me."<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/480818011/PDF-7-2014-01-05-JPM-Here-We-Come#download</ref>
 
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*'''21 January.''' Jason Galanis emailed Devon Archer: “We weaseled a JPM [JP Morgan] account for the [[USSR]] women’s shot put champion."<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biden-elena-baturina-devon-archer-russian-oligarch-money-launder/</ref>
 
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*'''13 February.''' ROSEMONT SENECA BOHAI, LLC incorporated in [[Delaware]].<ref>https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5481769</ref>
 
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*'''14 February.''' Elena Baturina, the wife of the mayor of Moscow, wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton.
 
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*'''16 February.''' Devon Archer wrote to an associate of Elena Baturina: “It looks as if we’ll be able to accelerate the Banc of California account opening while [Baturina] is with us in New York early this week as well."
 
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*'''April.''' Investigators in the [[U.K.]] open a [[money laundering]] and [[fraud]] investigation of Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of [[Burisma Holdings]].
 
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*'''16 April.''' ''[[Forbes]]'' reports [[Trump-Russia]] mastermind [[John Brennan]] visits [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb</ref>
 
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*'''18 April.''' Hunter Biden is hired to the board of Ukraine's largest energy company, Burisma Holdings.<ref>https://archive.is/LqxDr/</ref><ref>http://www.dw.com/en/who-are-hunter-bidens-ukrainian-bosses/a-17642254</ref><ref>https://archive.is/Aza4U</ref><ref>https://archive.is/IDha1</ref> It is owned by oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky, one of several subjects of the U.K. and Ukrainian corruption probe.
 
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*'''21-22 April.''' Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine,<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/joe-biden-obama-officials-influenced-ukraine-to-advance-own-interests_2896259.html</ref> offering his political support and $50 million in aid for the new shaky government.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/world/europe/biden-ukraine.html</ref>
 
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*'''2 May.''' '''Odessa Trade Unions House massacre'''. At least 42 Ukrainians are murdered by Ukrainian nationalists, most burnt alive in the Odessa Trades Union Building. Some sources say as many as 116 were killed, but a smaller number is reported for Western media. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from Windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.<ref>http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/videos-photos-odessan-massacre-done.html</ref> Shortly before, pro-Russian extremists killed two pro-Ukrainian activists.<ref>http://2maygroup.blogspot.de/2016/01/chronology-of-events-may-2-2014-in.html</ref>
 
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*'''7-8 May.''' Hunter visited China for the fifth time, for undisclosed reasons, according to FOIA records.
 
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*'''13 May.''' During a [[State Department]] press conference, Matt Lee of the ''[[Associated Press]]'' grilled spokesperson Jen Psaki about Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board.  Lee asked Psaki,
 
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{{quotebox|Lee: “Does this building diplomatically have any concerns about potential perceptions of conflict or [[cronyism]] – which is what you’ve often accused the Russians of doing?”<br>Paski: “No, he’s a private citizen."<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4819961/hunter-biden-ukraine-joe-biden-conflict-interest-13-2014</ref>}}
 
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*'''14 May.''' ''[[Washington Post]]'' columnist Adam Taylor writes:<ref>https://archive.is/wip/HcOgj</ref>
 
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{{quotebox|"The appointment of the vice president’s son to a Ukrainian oil board looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst. No matter how qualified Biden is, it ties into the idea that U.S. foreign policy is self-interested, and that’s a narrative Vladimir Putin has pushed during Ukraine’s crisis with references to [[Iraq]] and [[Libyan war|Libya]].}}
 
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*'''6 June.''' Joe Biden visits Ukraine.
 
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*'''August.''' Ukraine's Prosecutor General, Vitaly Yarema, opens an investigation of Zlochevsky. A lawyer for Burisma claims that an investigation was closed in September 2016.
 
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*'''August.''' A photo taken in the Hamptons showed Biden playing golf with Hunter and Archer.<ref>https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-hunter-biden-seen-golfing-with-ukraine-gas-company-exec-back-in-2014-photo-shows</ref>
 
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*'''3 October.''' Biden delivered a speech in which he said “I want China to succeed, it’s in our interest they succeed economically.”<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/10/03/remarks-vice-president-john-f-kennedy-forum</ref>
 
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[[File:Biden payments.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Documents show payments from Burisma to Hunter Biden.<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/06/breaking-source-reveals-hunter-biden-took-off-the-books-payments-from-burisma-aided-by-fbi-coverup/</ref><ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/12/here-are-the-payments-to-hunter-biden-leaked-from-ukraine/</ref><ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-served-as-ceremonial-figure-on-burisma-board-for-80000-per-month/</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leaked-bank-records-confirm-burisma-biden-payments-morgan-stanley-account</ref>]]
 
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*'''10 November 2014 to 16 November 2015.''' BURISMA HOLDINGS LIMITED transacted 45 money transfers through MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY LLC in the sum of 3.5 mln US Dollars. The recipient of the money transfer is the company Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC (belongs to Devon Archer).
 
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:*The Ukrainian General Prosecutors reported,
 
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{{quotebox-float|According to the Department of Financial Monitoring (Counter-intelligence) of [[Latvia]], the following sums of money were obtained from Busima Holding Limited ([[Cyprus]]) to the account of Burisma Holding Limited (Cyprus) which is open at AS PrivatBank in Latvia: money transfer of 14 655 982 US Dollars and 366 015 EUR from the company “Wirelogic Technology AS”, and 1 9 64 375 US dollars from “Digitex Organization LLP” based on the credit agreements. (Note: credit agreements here mean “intra-company” transactions to decrease the taxes to be paid or “credit agreement” also serve as means of hidden dividend payments).
 
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Further, the part of the sums described above, the money was transferred to Alan Apter (302 885 EUR), Alexander Kwasniewski (1 150 000 EUR), Devon Archer and Hunter Biden.}}
 
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*'''4 November''' Email chain between Devon Archer, Jason Galanis, and Bevan Cooney.
 
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[[File:Zuckerberg-Biden-Archer.png|right|300px|thumb|Feacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a deal with Devon Archer and Mark Zuckerberg. "HB's dad" is used to pitch the deal.]]
 
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{{quotebox-float|From Devon Archer: This is great. I will have some edits shortly. One big is that Zuckerburg [sic] is investing in the Veterans vertical. We'll own 50% of the business at BTC Global holdco we're investing in but he's going to own the vertical of PTSD in his and partners for profit foundation.<br><br>
 
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From Jason Galanis: [[Facebook]] [[zuckerberg]]???<br><br>
 
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From Devon Archer: Yes. They are in discussions we'll be privy to once we lock up an agreement and enter diligence.<br><br>
 
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From Devon Archer: quick turn...I want to be overt but not commit to the positions / titles yet. But we will suggest Hunter Chair the non profit and I Chair the for Profit. I don't think we actually want Hunter CEO of anything. But maybe.<br><br>
 
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From Jason Galanis: thats your domain. i dont know him, nor the subtlties of that world. also youre mr EQ.
 
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i saw i spend [sic] Jin’s name wrong in the attached. woops.
 
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we good otherwise? natives and unions i guess….plus government relations etc.
 
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i didnt put all the investor type protectioni n [sic] this like drag along tag along, antidilution or preemptive rights. we’ll get to that. any investor would.
 
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i wanted to focus on the “other currency” we are bringing to the table….direct adminstration pipeline.
 
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maybe we should also remind of [[Joe Biden|HB’s dad]]’s union relationships to justify the ask??<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/481802650/2014-11-04-Currency-HunterCEO-DadsUnionRelationships-Zuck</ref>}}
 
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:*Galanis, Archer and Cooney were convicted on '''28 August 2018''', on [[fraud]] and [[conspiracy]] charges related to a $60 million bond offering for the Wakpamni tribe in [[South Dakota]].
 
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*'''21-22 November.''' Joe Biden visits Ukraine.
 
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===2015===
 
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{{Anchor|CEFC China Energy}}
 
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[[File:Image cefc 2016 05 05.png|right|350px|thumb|CEFC China Energy had assets of $263 billion in 2015. Its chairman, Ye Jianming, was arrested by the CCP in February 2018 and has never been heard from since. An employee of Ye, Patrick Ho, was arrested in New York for bribing UN and African officials. Hunter Biden was paid $1 million to represent Ho. Ye had extensive business relations with Hunter and Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother, and gave them credit cards with a $100,000 limit. Hunter also personally received a 2.8 caret diamond gift from Ye valued at $50,000.]]
 
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:{{See also|Obamagate timeline 2015}}
 
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According to an article in The New York Times, ''A Chinese Tycoon Sought Power and Influence. Washington Responded,'' an aid to Ye Jian Ming (Ye Jianming), founder of CEFC China Energy Co. Ltd (CEFC) and chairman of the board for the China Energy Fund Committee (CE Fund, which held special consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council<ref>https://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:CEFCHK/%E8%8D%89%E7%A8%BF01</ref>), first met with Hunter Biden in 2015.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html Alexandra Stevenson, David Barboza, Matthew Goldstein, and Paul Mozur, A Chinese Tycoon Sought Power and Influence. Washington Responded.], THE NEW YORK TIMES (Dec. 12, 2018),</ref>
 
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'''February 2015'''
 
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*'''10 February.''' Viktor Shokin takes over as Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
 
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'''May 2015'''
 
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*'''May 2015 to December 2015.''' Elena Baturina, the wife of the mayor of Moscow, wired an additional $241,797 to the $3.5 million wire transfer already made in February 2014 to a bank account for Rosemont Seneca Thornton.
 
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'''June 2015'''
 
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:{{See also|FISA abuse timeline}}
 
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*'''June or July.''' '''[[Sara Carter]]:''' U.S. Amb in Ukraine allegedly told Prosecutor to handle ‘Biden investigation with white gloves’<ref>https://saraacarter.com/u-s-amb-in-ukraine-told-the-prosecutor-to-handle-biden-investigation-with-white-gloves/</ref>
 
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:*[[Shokin]] attempted to continue the investigations into [[Hunter Biden]] but on or around June or July of 2015, the U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey R. Pyatt told him that the investigation has to be handled with white gloves, which according to Mr. Shokin, that implied do nothing. Shokin was fired in April 2016, and his case was “closed by the current Prosecutor General [[Yuriy Lutsenko]].”
 
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*'''2 June.''' Senate voted to pass the USA Freedom Act, at a vote of 67–32. [[John Carlin]] — informed the [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]] that the USA Freedom Act would allow for the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance to continue for another six months as part of a transition period, despite the fact that it had ‘officially’ shut down on May 30, 2015.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/congress-surveillance-reform-edward-snowden</ref>
 
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:*Eric Ciaramella meets with Alexandra Chalupa at the White House. Also present were Alexandra Sopko, who at the time was a special assistant and policy advisor to the director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which was run by [[Valerie Jarrett]], and Alexa Kissinger, a special assistant to Jarrett.<ref>https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/</ref>
 
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*'''4 June.''' Facebook Chief Operations Officer Sheryl Sandberg emails John Podesta, "I still want HRC to win badly. I am still here to help as I can."<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19070#efmACIAD6</ref>
 
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<!--*'''8 June.''' [[Maria Butina]] approaches [[Patrick Byrne]], CEO of Overstock.com, at the [[Las Vegas]] Freedom Fest.
 
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*''New York Times'' publishes leak that thwarts efforts to locate Caliph [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/world/middleeast/us-raid-in-syria-uncovers-details-on-isis-leadership-and-finances.html</ref>-->
 
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[[File:2thumb-5-1-300x202.jpg|right|300px|thumb|As Trump rode the escalator to announce his candidacy, polls showed Hillary Clinton's collusion with Russia over the [[Uranium One deal]] was her biggest vulnerability.  Deputy Attn. Gen. [[Sally Yates]] was taking steps to ban the Inspector General from oversight of the DOJ-National Security Division and hide  [[FISA abuse]].]]
 
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*'''9 June.''' Obama lawyers asked [[FISA court]] to ignore public court's decision on spying.<ref>https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/obama-fisa-court-surveillance-phone-records </ref>
 
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*'''11 June.''' Obama denies lethal aid to Ukraine.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/world/europe/defying-obama-many-in-congress-press-to-arm-ukraine.html</ref>
 
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*'''16 June.''' Donald Trump announces candidacy for president.
 
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<!--:*Sidney Blumenthal deposes behind closed doors by House Benghazi Committee for nine hours over several days.
 
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*'''22 June.''' House Benghazi Committee releases 60 emails sent to Clinton by Blumenthal, including some regarding Libya.-->
 
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*'''23 June.''' Biden met with State Councilor Yang Jieche at the 2015 U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED 中美战略与经济对话) held in Washington D.C.
 
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:*On the same day, the 30% stake in [[BHR]] held by Rosemont Seneca Thornton (RST) was split into two separate holdings. The new holding of the US partners are now split between Rosemont, Seneca, Bohai LLC and Thornton Group LLC.
 
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*'''26 June.''' [[IC]] Inspector General Charles McCullough III notified [[DNI]] [[James Clapper]] and the [[Senate]] of the potential leak of classified information from May 22, 2015, when one of Hillary Clinton's e-mails released by the State Department should have been marked as classified.<ref>https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/Hillary%20R.%20Clinton%20Part%2004%20of%2032/view</ref>
 
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:*Hillary Clinton internal polling reports:
 
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{{quotebox|Secretary Clinton's top vulnerability tested in this poll is the attack that claims as Secretary of State she signed off on a deal that gave the [[Russian Federation|Russian government]] control over [[Uranuim One scandal|twenty percent of America's uranium production]], after investors in the deal donated over one hundred and forty million dollars to the [[Clinton Foundation]]. Half of all likely voters (53%) are less likely to support Clinton after hearing that statement and 17% are much less likely to support her after that statement.<ref>https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails//get/818</ref><ref>https://medium.com/@brandondegraff/did-russia-meddle-in-the-us-elections-eb272533afb4</ref>}}
 
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*'''30 June.''' Sen. Chuck Grassley writes to member agencies on the [[Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States]] (CFIUS) regarding the acquisition of Uranium One, an owner of U.S. based uranium assets, by Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ), which is a subsidiary of Russia's state energy corporation, Rosatom. “Reports further indicate that between 2008 and 2010, Uranium One and Former UrAsia investors donated $8.65 million to the Clinton Foundation. During this period of time, Uranium One’s legal hold on the [[Kazakhstan]]-based uranium deposits was in doubt. Allegedly, Uranium One executives contacted U.S. Embassy officials in Kazakhstan to help ensure the validity of their mining licenses. According to the ''New York Times'', the State Department cable explaining the circumstances was copied to Secretary Clinton, among other individuals. In 2009, when the validity of the mining licenses was at issue, the Chairman of Uranium One, Mr. Ian Telfer, donated $1 million to the Clinton Foundation via his family charity called the Fernwood Foundation. In the same year, ARMZ acquired a 17% state in Uranium One and the parties sought an initial CFIUS review. In June 2010, Rosatom, via ARMZ, sought majority ownership in Uranium One. According to news reports, Mr. Telfer donated $250,000 to the Clinton Foundation during this crucial time. In total, Mr. Telfer donated over $2 million through 2013."
 
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<!--*'''June.''' [[George Papadopoulos]] reaches out to [[Corey Lewandowski]] for job in Trump Campaign.
 
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*'''June.''' Obama receives first briefing on Trump ''per'' Mary Anne Marsh on ''Justice with Judge Jeanine'', 31 March 2017.<ref>https://youtu.be/R1XIUv7IYiA </ref>-->
 
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<!--*'''Summer.''' [[Mitch McConnell]], [[John Boehner]], [[Richard Burr]], [[Devin Nunes]], [[Harry Reid]], [[Nancy Pelosi]], [[Dianne Feinstein]] and [[Adam Schiff]] allegedly informed by FBI of Russian spearfishing of the DNC.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-democrats-hack/exclusive-congressional-leaders-were-briefed-a-year-ago-on-hacking-of-democrats-sources-idUSKCN10N00D?utm_source=applenews</ref>-->
 
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'''August 2015'''
 
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*'''7 August.''' ''Kiev Post Op-ed:'' '''[[Olga Bielkova]]:''' Biden's candidacy would be good news for Ukraine.<ref>https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/olga-belkova-bidens-candidacy-would-be-good-news-for-ukraine-395281.html</ref>
 
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*'''27 August.''' Quinnipiac Poll: Biden runs better than [[Hillary Clinton]] against top [[Republican]]s while Clinton lead shrinks,<ref>https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2274</ref> as ''New York Times'' is investigating Biden links to Ukraine.
 
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'''September 2015'''
 
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*'''15 September.''' '''BHR and AVIC Auto acquired US automotive supplier Henniges Automotive with a 49% share and 51% share respectively''', according to a press release.  Henniges described the deal as “one of the largest acquisitions by a Chinese company of a U.S.-based automotive manufacturing company in history”.<ref>https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bhr-and-avic-auto-acquire-henniges-automotive-300143072.html</ref>
 
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:*AVIC Auto, which is described in the press release as BHR’s joint venture partner, is a subsidiary of AVIC.
 
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:*AVIC (Aviation Industry Corporation of China 中国航空工业集团公司) is a Chinese '''state-owned aerospace and defense conglomerate''' with nearly a half million employees across all its different divisions involved in everything from military aircraft to robotics. AVIC in one form or another has regularly appeared on the US entity list over the years and alleged '''[[espionage]] activities against the US military'''.
 
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:*AVIC is overseen by the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council of China, the manager of all state-owned enterprises.
 
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:*In 2015 it was 'accused of selling China’s fifth-generation jet fighter J-31, which is allegedly based on '''stolen technology in relation to the US made F-35'''.
 
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*'''17 September.'''  Biden met with Yang Jieche once more, this time in [[Los Angeles]], where Yang was acting as Xi Jinping's “Special Representative”.<ref>https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1298449.shtml</ref>
 
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[[File:Chalupa-ciaramella.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Democrat operative [[Alexandra Chalupa]] (left) Deep State informant [[Eric Ciaramella]] (right).<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/huge-cia-whistleblower-eric-cairamella-worked-with-dnc-operative-alexandra-chalupa-in-creation-of-trump-russia-collusion-hoax/</ref>]]
 
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'''October 2015'''
 
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*'''21 October.''' Joe Biden drops out of presidential race.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/joe-biden-not-running-2016-election/index.html</ref> while ''New York Times'' investigation into Biden links to Ukraine continues.
 
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'''November 2015'''
 
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*'''9 November.''' [[Eric Ciaramella]] invites [[Alexandra Chalupa]] into the Obama White House.<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html]</ref><ref>https://archive.usukraine.org/coalition/report-wh-press-conf-events.shtml</ref><ref>https://archive.usukraine.org/coalition/report-wh-press-conf-events.shtml</ref><ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/wp-content/uploads/current-pdf/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2015-47.pdf</ref>  Ciaramella held the positions of [[National Security Council]] director for [[Ukraine]] and director of Baltic and [[Eastern Europe]]an Affairs in the Office of Vice President Joe Biden.<ref>http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/wp-content/uploads/current-pdf/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2015-47.pdf</ref> <ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/03/exclusive-peter-schweizer-joe-biden-steered-1-8-billion-to-ukraine-while-his-son-bagged-sweetheart-deal-from-their-government/</ref>
 
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'''December 2015'''
 
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Sundance of the conservativetreehouse.com summarizes:<br>'''December 2015 through April 2016''':  The first phase leading into ‘[[Spygate]]’ is the period of time where opposition research of the republican candidate field was taking place.  It is in this period where [[Fusion-GPS]] hired CIA Open Source researcher [[Nellie Ohr]], wife of DOJ-NSD official [[Bruce Ohr]], to do research.<br>In the background of this time period the FBI and NSA [[FISA abuse]] was occurring by unknown FBI contractors.<ref>[https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/03/08/doj-political-surveillance-from-the-irs-in-2011-to-the-fisa-court-in-2016/ DOJ Political Surveillance – From the IRS in 2011 to the FISA Court in 2016], Posted on March 8, 2020 by sundance. theconservativetreehouse.com</ref>
 
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[[Patrick Byrne]] begins reporting on [[Maria Butina]] more frequently to the FBI.  Byrne became suspicious of the FBI motives because he warned FBI officials of a potential that his efforts, his reputation and those who trust him, may result in Butina gaining entry into campaign confidences.  The FBI agents told Byrne that was exactly the intent; people high up in the FBI wanted Ms. Butina to gain deep access into the Trump campaign.  Mr. Byrne became suspicious of a corrupt political motive, but didn't say anything at the time.
 
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*'''2 December.''' [[Dmitry Firtash]] announces hid intention to return to Ukraine to address the General Assembly of the Federation of Employers (FEU).
 
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:*Joe Biden, President Poroshenko, and Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov took steps to prevent Firtash's return.<ref>[https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement Affidavit of [[Viktor Shokin]] on Biden shakedown], September 4, 2019.</ref>
 
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*'''3 December.''' ''Politico'' reports:''A Ukrainian oligarch’s foiled homecoming: The U.S. and the government in Kiev want Dmytro Firtash behind bars.''
 
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:*"Ukraine's Internal Affairs Minister Arsen Avakov announced on Sunday that, after consulting with U.S. officials, he instructed Ukrainian police to detain Firtash should he attempt to enter Ukraine."<ref>[https://www.politico.eu/article/firtash-poroshenko-ukraine-oligarchs-corruption/ A Ukrainian oligarch’s foiled homecoming], By LINDA KINSTLEr, ''Politico,'', 12/3/15.</ref>
 
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[[File:Azov Battalion.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Members of the Azov Battalion with the NATO flag (left) Azov mascot (center) and [[Swastika]] (right). The NATO flag represents [[globalism]]; the ''[[Cyrillic]]'' A3OB in the center spells AZOV; and the swastika represents the Obama administration's [[OUN]], [[Russophobe]] allies in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.salon.com/2014/02/25/is_the_us_backing_neo_nazis_in_ukraine_partner/</ref>]]
 
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:*Photos of armed paramilitary groups were posted on Avakov's [[Facebook]] page; ''Politico'' reported the "commander of Ukraine’s nationalist Azov Battalion, said that his volunteer fighters would arrest Firtash themselves if government forces failed to do so. He later posted a Facebook photo of his armed men waiting at Kiev's Borispol airport.
 
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*'''6 December.''' VP Biden meets with Poroshenko in [[Kiev]].
 
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*'''7 December.''' [[Peter Strzok]] texted [[Lisa Page]] that [[Jonathan Moffa]] was waiting for his job interview.
 
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*'''8 December.''' '''''[[New York Times]]'' completes its investigation in the [[Biden-Ukraine scandal]].'''
 
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:*'''''Joe Biden, His Son and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch'''''
 
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:*Hunter Biden, Burisma Holdings, and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine's ecology minister under former President [[Viktor F. Yanukovych]] before Hunter's boss, Zlochevsky, embezzled $5 Billion and became a fugitive from justice.
 
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:*Zlochevsky hired Hunter Biden in 2014 while Vice President Biden oversaw U.S. loan guarantees to Ukraine.
 
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:*Burisma is Ukraine's largest oil and gas produce; Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors.
 
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:*Hunter Biden was paid $166,000 a month, which was split with the nephew of [[Whitey Bulger]].
 
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:*Zlochevsky, a former Ukraine ecology minister, was under investigation by the new administration for embezzlement.
 
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[[File:Joe Biden at CFR meeting 2018 2.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Biden at the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] admitting to [[quid pro joe]]: "‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired."<ref>https://haciendapublishing.com/articles/deep-dark-secrets-rich-famous-and-powerful-cliff-kincaid</ref>]]
 
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:*Biden, in his own words, threatened Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that Biden would withhold $1.8 Billion in aid unless [[Viktor Shokin]], the prosecutor investigating his son, Hunter, was fired:<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>
 
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{{quotebox-float|"'You’re not getting the billion'. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref name="thehill.com">https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref><ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref>}}
 
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:*VP Biden addresses Ukrainian parliament (Rada) in Kiev.<ref>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/12/09/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-ukrainian-rada</ref>
 
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:*Writing in the ''New York Times'', James Risen says of the vice president’s trip to Ukraine:<ref>https://archive.is/wip/C0oKr</ref>
 
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{{quotebox-float|"The credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son, Hunter Biden, with one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings, and with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine’s ecology minister under former President Viktor F. Yanukovych before he was forced into exile."}}
 
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*'''9 December.''' [[Amnesty International]] reports [[Obama]] armed [[ISIS]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/08/politics/amnesty-international-isis-weapons-u-s-/index.html</ref>
 
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<!--*FBI Director [[James Comey]] replaces head of FBI Counterintelligence Division at Washington Field Office with Charles Kable.-->
 
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*'''10 December.''' [[Michael Flynn]], [[Jill Stein]], and [[Joseph Mifsud]]<ref>page 5, item 16. Document states December 17, 2015, but the context appears to be speaking about the same event. https://t.co/aTzO3WiTGJ?amp=1</ref>  attend RT dinner in Moscow with Putin.<ref>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/jill-stein-says-nothing-happened-at-her-dinner-with-putin/</ref>
 
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*'''15 December.''' Vadim Mikerin, Director of the subsidiary Tenex, sentenced in [[extortion]] and [[money laundering]] scheme.<ref>Joel Schectman, U.S. sentences Russian nuclear official to four years for bribe scheme, Reuters (Dec. 15, 2015). The “Megatons to Megawatts” program converted uranium from thousands of Russian nuclear warheads for civilian use in U.S.nuclear power plants.</ref>
 
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{{Quotebox-float|"In 2015, [[Papadopoulos]] joined the London Center of International Law Practice as the director of the Center for International Energy and Natural Resources Law and Security. Papadopoulos focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean as well as the Caspian region.<br>In 2015, he spoke to a business and energy convention in Israel, explaining the complex market for natural gas in the region. At the conference, he touched on issues of U.S.-Israel-Russia relations in an interview with Natural Gas Europe.<ref>https://www.naturalgasworld.com/united-states-russia-gas-east-mediterranean-27020</ref>}}
 
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*'''23 December.''' FBI Director Comey names [[Bill Priestap]] as assistant director of Counterintelligence Division.<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/e.w.-priestap-named-assistant-director-of-the-counterintelligence-division</ref>
 
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*'''19 January.''' Eric Ciaramella hosts [[Andriy Telizhenko]], a political officer in the DC Ukrainian Embassy at the Obama [[White House]] to discuss killing the Hunter Biden investigation and reviving allegations against [[Paul Manafort]] which the [[FBI]] dismissed in 2014.
 
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*'''April.''' '''Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said Amb. Marie Yovanovitch gave him a "Do Not Prosecute" list with Hunter Biden's name on it.''' ''[[The Hill]]'' reported,
 
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*'''4 April.''' Hunter Biden met with President [[Barack Hussein Obama]] in the [[Oval Office]].
 
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*'''16 April.''' Hudson West III was incorporated.  Hudson West III changed ownership at some unknown point.  After that change, ownership was divided between Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco PC (50%) and Coldharbour Capital LLC (50%).  Although ownership in Coldharbour Capital is equally divided between two individuals, Mervyn Yan and Tian Zhang, it has a business address identified as the address of Gongwen Dong (aka "Kevin").
 
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*'''May.''' Devon Archer and five others were arrested and criminally charged in a scheme to defraud investors and a tribal entity of millions of dollars.<ref>[ https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/seven-defendantscharged-manhattan-federal-court-defrauding-native-american-tribe-and Press Release, U.S. Dep’t of Just., Seven Defendants Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Defrauding A Native
 
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American Tribe And Investors Of Over $60 Million] (May 11, 2016).</ref>
 
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*'''December.''' Hunter Biden and his wife, Kathleen, file for divorce. The divorce becomes official '''April 14, 2017'''. Sometime when Biden is “in the middle of the divorce,” he meets the Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jian Ming {''alternate spelling Ye Jianming''). As [[CNN]] described,<ref>https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/12/asia/patrick-ho-ye-jianming-cefc-trial-intl/</ref>
 
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{{quotebox-float|“at its height, Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy, aligned itself so closely with the Chinese government that it was often hard to distinguish between the two.”}}
 
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*'''19 January.''' Eric Ciaramella invites Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau [[NABU]] director [[Artem Sytnyk]] to the White House. [[Artem Sytnyk]] was convicted in December 2018 of interference in the U.S. presidential election along with [[Serhiy Leshchenko]] in a Ukrainian court. [[Stynyk]] and Leshchenko gave Chalupa and Ciaramella official documents critical of [[Paul Manafort]], leading to Manafort's resignation as Trump's campaign manager.  Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska suing Manafort over a failed Ukrainian cable TV investment.
 
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*'''February.''' '''Two weeks into Trump presidency.''' NSC staffers Eric Ciaramella and [[Sean Misko]] (who later joined Adam Schiff's congressional staff in 2019) openly discuss removing President Trump at a White House National Security Council meeting called by National Security Advisor [[Michael Flynn]].<ref>[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/01/22/whistleblower_was_overheard_in_17_discussing_with_ally_how_to_remove_trump_121701.html Whistleblower Was Overheard in '17 Discussing With Ally How to Remove Trump], By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations, January 22, 2020.</ref>  Paul Sperry reported:
 
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“After Flynn briefed [the staff] about what ‘America First’ foreign policy means, Ciaramella turned to Misko and commented, ‘We need to take him out,’ ” the staffer recalled. “And Misko replied, ‘Yeah, we need to do everything we can to take out the president.’ “
 
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*'''9 February to 12 April.'''  A Hudson West V Bank of China (BoC) account received three incoming wires totaling $27,917,665 from an entity called Kaiyan US Fund III LP and one wire for $100,000 from a company called Foxwood Asset Management Co. Limited.  Both Kaiyan US Fund III LP and Foxwood Asset Management Co Limited have addresses in Beijing.
 
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::*As an example of the size and scope of the networks involving Gongwen Dong, Senate investigators found that between 23 October 2017, and 20 December 2018, Hudson West I, for which Gongwen is also listed as an account signer, received incoming wires totaling over $114 million and sent outgoing wires totaling over $113 million.  Between Jan. 25, 2018, and Dec. 28, 2018, Hudson West Aggregator, another LLC associated with Gongwen that was involved in three transactions with Hudson West V, received incoming transfers totaling more than $3 million and sent outgoing transfers totaling more than $13 million.  Investigators examining these transactions by Gongwen Dong and his associates explained:
 
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[[File:Biden the Big Guy.png|right|350px|thumb|The Smoking Gun email.<ref>https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2020/10/22/joe-biden-was-the-big-guy-getting-10-of-deal-with-chinese-businessman-says-participant-in-the-deal-n267149</ref>]]
 
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*'''May.''' Ye Jian Ming and Hunter Biden meet privately at a hotel in [[Miami]]. Biden says he offered to use his contacts to help “identify investment opportunities for Ye’s company CEFC China Energy, in liquefied natural gas projects in the United States.” After the dinner, Ye sends a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter’s hotel room with a card thanking him for the meeting.
 
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[[File:CEFC Biden3.png|right|350px|thumb|Joe Biden figures prominently in an investment pitch by Hunter Biden and associates to CEFC China Energy. CEFC is owned by the Bank of China and the People's Liberation Army of China.<ref>https://100percentfedup.com/new-hunter-biden-business-group-touted-joe-bidens-friendly-relations-with-columbias-president-in-investment-pitch-to-communist-chinese-firm/</ref>]]
 
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*'''1 May.''' Hunter Biden texts message to Tony Babulinski:
 
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*'''2 May.''' Joe Biden met with Tony Babulinski at the Beverly Hills Hilton to discuss Sinohawk partnership with CEFC China Energy.<ref>https://youtu.be/udkQ6W2Y78k</ref>
 
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*'''13 May.'''  Remuneration package outlined in email for partnership between Ye Jian Ming, chairman of CEFC and the Biden family.
 
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*'''Summer 2017.''' Hunter Biden begins negotiating a deal for Ye Jian Ming's company CEFC to invest in a liquefied-natural-gas project in [[Louisiana]]. Ye tells Biden that he’s worried about federal authorities’ looking into one of his business associates, Patrick Ho. Hunter agrees to represent Ho as his lawyer.
 
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*'''July 2017 to November 2018.''' Hudson West V received wires totaling $20,310,396.79 with $20,893,505.0 leaving that same account.  All but $259,845 of the total amount transferred out of the account went to U.S. bank accounts for various LLCs, most of which were documented to be involved in the business of real estate investment and management.  Several of those LLCs are also tied to Gongwen Dong.
 
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*'''2 August.'''  Hunter Biden discussed a deal with Ye Jianming in an email chain, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative.”<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/</ref>  The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated:
 
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*'''3 August.''' In an email, Tony Bobulinski provided a letter responding to a list of questions from CEFC about the joint venture with SinoHawk. One question from CEFC was about a $5 million interest-free loan the company was making to the Biden family.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/481449464/2017-08-03-Bobulinski-email-to-CEFC</ref>  The next day, without Bobulinski’s knowledge, CEFC made the first in a series of wire transfers to a law firm for Hunter Biden.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-bobulinski-fara-china/</ref>
 
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*'''3 August''' and '''7 September.''' Hudson West III checking accounts were opened with Mervyn Yan and Hunter Biden.  Gongwen Dong was a former signer, which suggests that at one time he was associated with Hudson West III’s bank accounts and finances.
 
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[[File:Payments to Jim Biden.png|right|350px|thumb|Hunter Biden wire transfers to Jim Biden, Joe's brother.]]
 
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*'''14 August 2017 to 3 August 2018.''' Hunter Biden moved large sums of money from his firm, Owasco, to James Biden’s consulting firm, the Lion Hall Group.  Owasco sent 20 wires totaling $1,398,999 to the Lion Hall Group, a consulting firm that lists James Biden and his wife, Sara Biden, on the bank account.  This transaction was identified for potential criminal financial activity. These transfers began less than one week after CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to Hudson West III and Hudson West III sent its first payment of $400,000 to Owasco.  Most of the payments from Owasco to the Lion Hall Group had vague notes in the memo lines, 15 of which simply indicated that they were for further credit to James Biden; however, the memo line for one of the payments read “HW3,” which indicates some of the transferred money could be from Hudson West III.  When the bank contacted Sara Biden regarding the overall wire activity, she stated that the Lion Hall Group and Owasco provide international and business consulting and that the Lion Hall Group was assisting Owasco with an international client through a contract that had since terminated.  Sara Biden told the bank that she would not provide any supporting documentation, and she also refused to provide additional information to more clearly explain the activity.  Consequently, the bank submitted the account for closure.
 
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Minister of Senegal, Charged with Bribing High-Level African Officials] (Nov. 20, 2017)</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-corruption/u-s-charges-two-with-bribing-african-officials-for-china-energy-firm-idUSKBN1DK2Q6</ref>
 
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:*Ho is the General Secretary of CEFC's Hong Kong and [[Virginia]]-registered non-profit CEFC–China Energy Fund Committees with special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
 
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:*Ho makes a phone call to Jim Biden, Joe Biden’s younger brother, and asked Biden for a lawyer. Jim referred him to Hunter, who has not practiced criminal law.<ref>https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-wants-new-world-order-u-n-china-linked-ngos-secretly-paid-cash-promote-beijings-vision-145746181.html</ref>
 
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:*[[Department of Justice]] documents describe Ye Jianming as Patrick Ho’s boss and, again, note that Ye’s company supplied funding to the China Energy Fund Committee.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-three-years-prison Press Release, U.S. Dep’t of Just., Former Head of Organization Backed by Chinese Energy Conglomerate Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for International Bribery and Money Laundering Offenses] (Mar. 25, 2019).</ref>
 
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:*Ho was convicted in '''March 2019''' on charges of money laundering, conspiracy, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and was sentenced to three years in U.S. prison for his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe officials in [Chad] and [[Uganda]] in exchange for business advantages for CEFC, Ye’s company.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3 Press Release, U.S. Dep’t of Just., Patrick Ho, Former Head Of Organization Backed By Chinese Energy Conglomerate,
 
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Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For International Bribery And Money Laundering Offenses] (Mar. 25, 2019).</ref>
 
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*'''18 December.''' Patrick Ho charged in federal court with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
 
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===2018===
 
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*'''January 2018 to October 2018.''' Hudson West III sent funds directly to the Lion Hall Group. James B. "Jim" Biden, Joe Biden's brother, is the principal contact for the Lion Hall Group.  Hudson West III sent the Lion Hall Group outgoing wires totaling $76,746.15 with the memo, “office expense and reimbursement.”  These transactions illustrate a direct financial link between Hudson West III (which was connected to CEFC, the Chinese government, and Gongwen Dong) and Jim Biden.
 
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====February 2018====
 
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*'''1st week of February.''' CEFC Chairman Ye Jian Ming arrested by [[CCP]] and disappears from public sight.<ref>https://sinopsis.cz/en/cefc-economic-diplomacy-with-chinese-characteristics/</ref><ref>https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/2168239/vanished-chinese-oil-boss-linked-senior-officials-bribery-case</ref>
 
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:*In a recording made sometime after Ye Jianming, Hunter's business partner, went missing in February 2018, Hunter is heard speaking in an agitated tone,
 
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{{quotebox|"I get calls from my father to tell me that ''[[The New York Times]]'' is calling, but my old partner, Eric, who literally has done me harm for I don’t know how long, is the one taking the calls because my father will not stop sending the calls to Eric. I have another ''New York Times'' reporter calling about my representation of Patrick Ho – the f****** spy chief of China who started the company that my partner, who is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing. The richest man in the world is missing who was my partner. He was missing since I last saw him in his $58 million apartment inside a $4 billion deal to build the f****** largest f***** LNG [liquid natural gas] port in the world. And I am receiving calls from the Southern District of New York from the U.S. attorney himself. My best friend in business, Devon [Archer], has named me as a witness, without telling me, in a [[criminal]] case — and my father [Joe Biden], without telling me."<ref>https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2020/10/23/267736-n267736</ref>}}
 
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*'''8 February.''' Prosecutors revealed the existence of at least one [[FISA]] warrant against Chi Ping Patrick Ho, known as Patrick Ho.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/27/hunter-biden-patrick-ho-cefc-fara/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2680&pnespid=1exuuOFTGFeNABgzKy7PBn8oQvcwG2rZlrXvmGmb</ref><ref>https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.485530/gov.uscourts.nysd.485530.45.0.pdf</ref>
 
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*'''18 March.''' Hunter Biden receives payment of $1 million from CEFC entities (Hudson West III) for defense of Patrick Ho.<ref>Senate report, page 79.</ref>  Hunter does not practice criminal law.
 
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*'''25 May.''' The credit cards used by the Bidens for the $100,000 spending spree were closed and the last payment for the account was made.  The funds used to collateralize the account were returned in the form of a check payable to Hudson West III and Hunter Biden and deposited back into the same account from which they were initially withdrawn.
 
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[[File:Burisma-group-ukraine-ambassador.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Burisma Leadership posted this photo to Instagram of their meeting with Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch in the personal residence of the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in Kiev, October 2018 while she was denying visas for Ukrainian prosecutors to testify in the United States.]]
 
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*'''28 June.''' Devon Archer is convicted of “conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud” for defrauding investors in sham [[Native American]] tribal bonds.<ref>https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-convicted-manhattan-federal-court-fraudulent-issuance-and-sale-more-60-million</ref> A few months later he wins an appeal and a new trial is ordered.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-tribalbonds/us-judge-overturns-new-york-mans-conviction-in-tribal-bond-scheme-idUSKCN1NK341</ref><ref>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/new-tribal-bond-fraud-trial-for-private-equity-head</ref>
 
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*'''18 August.''' Hunter Biden partners Jason Galanis, Devon Archer and Bevan Cooney were convicted on [[fraud]] and [[conspiracy]] charges related to a $60 million bond offering for the Wakpamni tribe in [[South Dakota]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biden-elena-baturina-devon-archer-russian-oligarch-money-launder/</ref>
 
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*'''30 October.''' Burisma leadership meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine [[Marie Yovanovitch]] in Kiev.<ref>https://archive.is/nzHUM#selection-543.0-551.1</ref>
 
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*'''November.''' U.S. prosecutors allege that the nonprofit CEFC–China Energy Fund Committees funded by Ye Jian Ming — the man who gave Hunter Biden the 2.8-carat diamond, who no one has heard from since his arrest by the Chinese government — had used its [[United Nations]] status to offer millions in bribes to African leaders.<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/09/world/patrick-ho-corruption-china-africa/index.html</ref>  Hunter would later tell ''The New Yorker'' that he doesn’t see Ye as a “shady character at all,” and he characterized the outcome as “bad luck.”
 
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*'''3 December.''' '''Meet Andrii Telizhenko: The Man Who Will Blow the Lid Off of Mueller’s Russian Witch Hunt.'''<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/12/meet-andrii-telizhenko-the-man-who-will-blow-the-lid-off-of-muellers-russian-witch-hunt-video/</ref>
 
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[[File:Guiliani to Graham.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Excerpt of [[Giuliani]] letter to [[Sen. Graham]]. Amb. Marie Yovanovitch was denying visas to Ukrainian [[whistleblower]]s willing to testify about [[Ukrainian collusion]] to the [[Mueller investigation]] and covering up [[DNC]] and Biden corruption.]]
 
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*'''10 December.''' ''The New York Times'' reports ''Ukraine Court Rules Manafort Disclosure Caused 'Meddling' in U.S. Election''. <ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/europe/ukraine-paul-manafort.html</ref> National Anti-Corruption Bureau Director [[Artem Sytnyk]] and legislator [[Serhiy Leshchenko]] broke the law by revealing Manafort's name. The court said that the disclosure
 
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{{quotebox-float|“led to interference in the electoral processes of the United States in 2016 and harmed the interests of Ukraine as a state.” <ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/ties-to-ukrainian-national-a-unifying-theme-in-early-attacks-on-trump_2872609.html</ref>}}
 
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*'''14 December.''' ''[[The Nation]]'' reports,
 
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{{quotebox-float|"When it comes to his work in Ukraine, '''Manafort''', as former Fusion GPS researcher Graham Stack writes, '''was convicted for ‘doing the opposite of colluding with Russia.’''' In Ukraine, Manafort pushed a pro-[[Western]] agenda … Internal '''documents released by Mueller make clear that Manafort tried to steer his client''', then – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, to align with the [[European Union]] and '''away from Russia''', or, in Manafort’s own words, promote ‘the key geopolitical messaging of how “Europe and the U.S. should not risk losing Ukraine to Russia.”‘<ref>https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-russophobia-mueller-trump/</ref>}}
 
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==2019==
 
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===January 2019===
 
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'''3 January.'''  Hunter Biden texts his sister Naomi Biden:
 
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{{quotebox-float|“But I don’t receive any respect and that’s fine I guess. Works for you, apparently. I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard, but don’t worry, unlike Pop (Joe Biden) I won’t make you give me half your salary.”<ref>https://youtu.be/T0xa9GRzr58</ref>}}
 
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===March 2019===
 
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*'''9 March.''' Three weeks in advance of Ukraine's March 31, 2019 presidential election, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine in Kiev Marie Yovanovitch called for Ukraine's special anti corruption prosecutor to be removed.<ref>https://ua.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-yovanovitch-on-the-occasion-of-the-5th-anniversary-of-the-ukraine-crisis-media-centers-founding/</ref> Yovanovitvh's comments were regarded in Ukrainian media as a violation of international diplomatic convention and protocols of the duty of foreign diplomats to refrain from interfering in a host country's internal affairs, particularly in advance of an election.
 
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:*the U.S. embassy in Kiev had earlier pressured the Ukraine prosecutors in 2016 to drop or avoid pursuing several cases, including one involving the Soros-backed AntiCorruption Action Centre (AntAc) and two cases involving Ukraine officials who criticized Donald Trump and his campaign manager Paul Manafort.
 
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::*Kiev embassy official George Kent wrote a letter proving Yovanovitch's meddling in Ukrainian internal affairs did indeed happen.<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/402559592/Embassy2GPLetter4-4-16</ref> State Department officials authenticated the letter. George Kent acknowledged in this Congressional testimony he signed that letter.
 
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*'''25 March.''' Patrick Ho, Biden’s former legal client, is sentenced to three years in prison for international bribery and money-laundering offenses. He was convicted of a multi-year, multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe top officials of [[Chad]] and [[Uganda]] in exchange for business advantages for CEFC China Energy Company Limited.
 
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===April 2019===
 
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*'''1 April.''' Writing in ''The Hill'', John Solomon quotes Ukrainian former prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, telling him that, before he was dismissed, he was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings, and that his plans included “interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden.”<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref>
 
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*'''25 April.''' '''How the Obama White House engaged Ukraine to give Russia collusion narrative an early boost,''' by John Solomon.<ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion</ref>
 
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:*In January 2016 the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington.  The meeting brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with Eric Ciaramella<ref>""telizhenko,andriy,g,U67540,100561,VA,1/19/16 10:57,D1101,1/19/16 12:53,,01/19/2016 12:00:00 AM,1/19/16 11:00,1/19/16 23:59,,1,KH,WIN,1/19/16 10:51,KH,Ciaramella,Eric,OEOB,230A,HARTWELL,KYLE,,,04/29/2016 07:00:00 AM +0000",,,," [https://archive.org/download/WHvisitorlogs_2010-16_surname/White-House-visitor-logs6_Sorr-Zyz.csv] [https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-white-house-visitor-logs-detail-meetings-of-eric-ciaramella/ Judicial Watch: White House Visitor Logs Detail Meetings of Eric Ciaramella.]</ref> and members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).  Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one involving Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and one involving Paul Manafort's lobbying firm, linked closely to then-candidate Trump.
 
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::*U.S. officials “kept talking about how important it was that all of our anti-corruption efforts be united,” said Andrii (Andriy, ''per'' White House visitor logs) Telizhenko, then a political officer in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington tasked with organizing the meeting. 
 
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::*Telizhenko said U.S. officials said that they had an interest in reviving a closed 2014 investigation into payments to U.S. figures from Ukraine’s Russia-backed Party of Regions.  That 2014 investigation was focused on Manafort.  The FBI closed the case without charging Manafort.
 
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::*DOJ officials asking investigators from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) if they could help find new evidence about the Party of Regions’ payments and its dealings with Americans.  “It was definitely the case that led to the charges against Manafort and the leak to U.S. media during the 2016 election,” Telizhenko said.
 
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::*Nazar Kholodnytskyy, Ukraine’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor, said he soon saw evidence in Ukraine of political meddling in the U.S. election. Kholodnytskyy said the key evidence against Manafort — a ledger showing payments from the Party of Regions — was known to Ukrainian authorities since 2014 but was suddenly released in May 2016 by the NABU, after Manafort was named Trump’s campaign chairman: “Somebody kept this black ledger secret for two years and then showed it to the public and the U.S. media. It was extremely suspicious.”  Kholodnytskyy said he explicitly instructed NABU investigators who were working with American authorities not to share the ledger with the media.  “I ordered the detectives to give nothing to the mass media considering this case. Instead, they had broken my order and published themselves these one or two pages of this black ledger regarding Paul Manafort. For me it was the first call that something was going wrong and that there is some external influence in this case. And there is some other interests in this case not in the interest of the investigation and a fair trial.”
 
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::*Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case.  “Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public.”  Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures, such as former Obama White House counsel [[Gregory Craig]], also received money from Yanukovych’s party. But the Americans weren’t interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”
 
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::*Manafort joined Trump’s campaign on March 29, 2016, and then was promoted to campaign chairman on May 19, 2016.  NABU leaked the existence of the ledgers on May 29, 2016. Later that summer, it told U.S. media the ledgers showed payments to Manafort, a revelation that forced him to resign from the Trump campaign in August 2016.
 
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::*A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU’s release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine’s parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Hillary Clinton.
 
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::*The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to Rosemont Seneca, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer's firm in 2014-15, bank records show.
 
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::*U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire [[Victor Shokin]], Ukraine’s chief prosecutor in March 2016.  The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.
 
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::*The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington confirmed that the Obama administration requested the meetings in January 2016, but embassy representatives attended only some of the sessions.  "Unfortunately, the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C., was not invited to join the DOJ and other law enforcement-sector meetings."
 
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::*Telizhenko’s claim that the DOJ reopened its Manafort probe as the 2016 election ramped up is supported by the DOJ’s own documents, including communications involving Associate Attorney General [[Bruce Ohr]], his wife, [[Nellie Ohr]], and ex-British spy [[Christopher Steele]].  Nellie Ohr and Steele worked in 2016 for [[Fusion GPS]], that was hired by Clinton’s campaign and DNC to find dirt on Trump. Steele wrote the famous dossier for Fusion that the FBI used to gain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Nellie Ohr admitted to Congress that she routed Russia dirt on Trump from Fusion to the DOJ through her husband Bruce during the election.
 
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::*DOJ emails show Nellie Ohr on May 30, 2016, directly alerted her husband Bruce and two DOJ prosecutors to the discovery of the “Black Ledger” files that led to Manafort’s prosecution.  “Reported Trove of documents on Ukrainian Party of Regions’ Black Cashbox,” Nellie Ohr wrote to her husband and federal prosecutors Lisa Holtyn and Joseph Wheatley, attaching a news article on the announcement of NABU’s release of the documents.
 
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:::*Bruce Ohr and Steele worked on their own effort to get dirt on Manafort from a Russian oligarch, [[Oleg Deripaska]], who had a soured business relationship with Manafort. Deripaska was “almost ready to talk” to U.S. government officials regarding the money that “Manafort stole,” Bruce Ohr wrote in notes from his conversations with Steele.
 
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:::*The efforts eventually led to a September 2016 meeting in which [[Andrew McCabe]] asked Deripaska if he could help prove Manafort was helping Trump collude with Russia. Deripaska laughed off the notion as preposterous.
 
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::*''Politico'' reported that the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington assisted Clinton’s campaign through [[Alexandra Chalupa]], a DNC contractor.<ref>11 January, 2017. ''Politico'' investigation reports: <small>
 
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*A Ukrainian-American operative consulting for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) met with top officials in Ukraine’s U.S. embassy to publicize ties between Trump, his top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia. (It worked.)
 
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*Ukrainian officials tried to help Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office.
 
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*Ukrainian officials “disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election.”
 
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*Ukrainian officials helped Clinton allies dig up damaging information on Trump and his advisers.
 
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*“The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to … Russia.”
 
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*According to ''Politico'':
 
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{{quotebox|“In an interview this month, at the DNC this past election cycle centered on mobilizing ethnic communities — including Ukrainian-Americans — she said that, when Trump’s unlikely presidential campaign. '''Chalupa told ''Politico'' she had developed a network of sources in [[Kiev]] and Washington, including investigative journalists, government officials and private intelligence operatives. While her consulting work began surging in late 2015''', she began focusing more on the research, and expanded it to include Trump’s ties to Russia, as well.” ''[https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446 Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire]'', By KENNETH P. VOGEL and DAVID STERN 01/11/2017.}}
 
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*According to the ''Politico'' article, Alexandra Chalupa was meeting with the Ukrainian embassy in June of 2016 to discuss getting more help sticking it to candidate Trump. At the same time she was meeting, the embassy had a reception that highlighted female Ukrainian leaders. Four Verkhovna Rada [parliament] deputies there for the event included: Viktoriia Y. Ptashnyk, Anna A. Romanova, Alyona I. Shkrum, and Taras T. Pastukh.</font>
 
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*See also George Eliason, [https://www.mintpressnews.com/beyond-the-dnc-leaks-hacks-and-treason/247674/ George Eliason: ''Beyond the DNC - Leaks, Hacks, and Treason]'', August 14th, 2018.
 
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:*According to CNN [7/12/17], DNC sources said Chalupa told DNC operatives the Ukrainian government would be willing to deliver damaging information against Trump’s campaign. Later, Chalupa would lead the charge to try to unseat president-elect Trump starting on Nov 10, 2016.
 
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::*Accompanying them Kristina Dobrovolska who was a U.S. Embassy-assigned government liaison and translator who escorted the delegates from Kyiv during their visits to Albany and Washington.
 
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::*Kristina Dobrovolska is the handler manager working Nestor Paslawsky is the surviving nephew to the infamous torturer The WWII OUNb leader, Mykola Lebed.</small></ref> The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledges it got requests for assistance from Chalupa to find dirt on Manafort.
 
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===May 2019===
 
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*'''2 May.''' '''Vanity Fair: ''HUNTER BIDEN’S WORK IN UKRAINE EMERGES AS A POTENTIAL 2020 SCANDAL'''''<ref>https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/biden-ukrainian-gas-company</ref>
 
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*'''3 May.''' ''The Intercept'' reports that Hunter Biden’s investment company in China, known as Bohai Harvest RST, invested in a company called Face++, which develops facial-recognition software. That facial-recognition software is used in an app that “provides [Chinese] law enforcement with easy, daily access to data detailing the religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity used by ethnic minority Muslims living in the western province of [[Xinjiang]].”<ref>https://theintercept.com/2019/05/03/biden-son-china-business/</ref>
 
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'''August 2019'''
 
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:{{See also|Deep State coup 2.0}}
 
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===September 2019===
 
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*'''4 September.''' Former Prosecutor General [[Victor Shokin]] made a sworn affidavit outlining Joe Biden's [[obstruction of justice]] to get him fired..<ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/427618359/Shokin-Statement</ref>
 
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*'''Mid September.''' Copy of Hunter Biden laptop hard drive first turned over to FBI at the [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] field office by John Paul Mac Isaac's father.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/larry-c-johnsons-amazing-interview-john-paul-mac-issac-american-patriot-hired-fix-hunter-bidens-computers-rest-history/</ref>
 
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===October 2019===
 
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*'''14 October.''' Hunter Biden Still Holds Stake In Chinese Private Equity Firm.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/14/hunter-biden-still-holds-stake-in-chinese-private-equity-firm-his-business-partner-retains-supervisor-role/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10480</ref>
 
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*'''16 October.''' Sean Davis: Top Diplomat Testified That Obama Admin, Not International Community, Orchestrated Ukraine Prosecutor's Firing.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/16/top-diplomat-testified-that-obama-admin-not-international-community-orchestrated-ukraine-prosecutors-firing/</ref>
 
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:*CDN: Obama WH corruption: Rampant pay to play by Clinton, Kerry, and Biden.<ref>https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/obama-wh-corruption-rampant-pay-to-play-by-clinton-kerry-and-biden-123712/</ref>
 
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*'''18 October.''' Jeff Carlson: Ukraine Accusations Against Trump Put Renewed Focus On Events During Obama Administration.<ref>https://themarketswork.com/2019/10/18/ukraine-accusations-against-trump-put-renewed-focus-on-events-during-obama-administration/</ref>
 
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:*New details emerge on monthly payments sent to Hunter Biden by Ukrainian company.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/news/hunter-biden-served-as-ceremonial-figure-on-burisma-board-for-80000-per-month/</ref>
 
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::*Zlochevsky hired Hunter Biden “as a helpful non-executive director with a powerful name,” according to a ''[[Reuters]] report.  Burisma’s founder hired Biden in 2014 “to protect [the company]” in the face of potential prosecution. Zlochevsky was investigated for tax violations, money-laundering, and corruption and initially cleared of any wrongdoing. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka told reporters that 15 cases involving Zlochevsky were being reviewed.
 
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::*Hunter Biden never visited Ukraine, but participated regularly in biannual board meetings, all of which were held outside Ukraine. Sources also said Biden was appointed during a time when Burisma was seeking foreign investment, a process which Biden helped by finding lawyers for the potential deal, which ultimately broke down when war broke out in east Ukraine. “He was a ceremonial figure.”
 
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::*Hunter Biden was paid $80,000 per month.
 
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:*''[[The Blaze]]:'' Diplomat: I tried to warn the Obama administration about Hunter Biden and Ukraine in 2015, but no one would listen.<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/news/diplomat-tried-to-warn-obama-administration-about-hunter-biden-in-2015</ref>
 
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*'''19 October.''' [[Glen Beck]] interview with  Andriy Telizhenko. Telizhenko was present at the January 19, 2016 White House meeting with Eric Ciaramella and members of Obama's [[National Security Council]], FBI, State Department and Department of Justice.  Ukrainians were informed to terminated the investigation into Hunter Biden and Burisma, and to find "new evidence" on a 2014 case against Paul Manafort that the FBI has already investigated and dismissed.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R86awAp4uIw</ref>
 
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*'''24 October.''' [[NBC News]]: Hunter Biden's legal work in Romania raises new questions about his overseas dealings.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hunter-biden-s-legal-work-romania-raises-new-questions-about-n1071031</ref>
 
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:*''Washington Examiner:'' Biden twice used his position to intervene to boost son Hunter's lobbying.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-outreach-to-dhs-and-doj-overlapped-with-work-by-son-hunters-lobbying-firm</ref>
 
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*'''29 October.''' Hunter Biden's China Entanglements Spark Concern in Senate.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/agencies-give-classified-briefing-on-hunter-bidens-china-dealings/</ref>
 
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===November 2019===
 
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[[File:Biden payments.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Leaked documents show payments to Hunter Biden.]]
 
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*'''4 November.''' John Solomon: Biden lied - Burisma pressed [[State Department]] to end corruption allegations one month before Joe Biden forced firing of prosecutor.<ref>https://johnsolomonreports.com/hunter-bidens-ukraine-gas-firm-pressed-obama-administration-to-end-corruption-allegations-memos-show/</ref><ref>https://www.scribd.com/document/433389210/Bluestar-Novelli-Contacts</ref>
 
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*'''6 November.''' Hunter Biden received 46 payments from Burisma, 38 for $83,333, the total being $3.1 million.<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/06/breaking-source-reveals-hunter-biden-took-off-the-books-payments-from-burisma-aided-by-fbi-coverup/</ref>
 
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*'''13 November.''' John Solomon: The real Ukraine controversy: an activist U.S. embassy and its adherence to the Geneva Convention.<ref>https://johnsolomonreports.com/the-real-ukraine-controversy-an-activist-u-s-embassy-and-its-adherence-to-the-geneva-convention/</ref>
 
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*'''15 November.''' '''''Epoch Times:''''' '''Yovanovitch Urged Firing of Top Prosecutor Amid Ukraine's Presidential Election.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/yovanovitch-demanded-firing-of-top-ukrainian-prosecutor-amid-nations-presidential-election_3147700.html</ref>
 
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:*''Zerohedge:'' Leaked Bank Records Confirm Burisma-Biden Payments To Morgan Stanley Account.<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/leaked-bank-records-confirm-burisma-biden-payments-morgan-stanley-account</ref>
 
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===December 2019===
 
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*'''8 December.''' OAN EXCLUSIVE: Yuriy Lutsenko says Yovanovitch perjured herself before Congress.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/08/wow-oan-stunning-lutsenko-interview-outlines-marie-yovanovitch-perjury-george-kent-impeachment-motive-lindsey-graham-motive-to-bury-investigation/</ref>
 
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*'''9 December.''' Original Hunter Biden hard drive and laptop turned over to the FBI.<ref>https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/10/sen-johnson-has-the-fbi-had-the-hunter-biden-laptop-material-for-ten-months/</ref><ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2020/10/20/the-back-story-of-hunters-computer-being-found-must-read/</ref>
 
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===January 2020===
 
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*'''20 January. Evening.''' The night before the Senate impeachment trial began, investigative reporter John Solomon's car parked near the White House broken into and laptop containing notes on his Ukraine investigation and Joe Biden stolen.<ref>https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/02/02/paul_sperrys_notebook_theft_near_white_house_of_investigative_reporter_john_solomons_laptop_122236.html</ref>
 
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:*Secret Service and DC Metropolitan Police are investigating the theft which occurred in a high security area across from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building just outside the White House perimeter. The location had no security cameras, and there is no known video surveillance footage that can be reviewed. Authorities described it as one of the few “dark spots” in the area. 
 
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:*No windows were broken, and there were no other signs of forced entry. Authorities suspect the thief or thieves used an electronic jamming device to open the car door lock.  The break-in appears to be a professional job.
 
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:*House impeachment manager Adam Schiff cited Solomon no fewer than 35 times in his impeachment report. He added Solomon’s phone call history in a spreadsheet he compiled in the footnotes section of the report, which claimed Solomon reported “conspiracy theories” in ''The Hill'' to help President Trump “push false narratives” about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election in favor of Hillary Clinton, as well as Biden’s attempts as vice president beginning late 2015 to fire a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating a gas industry oligarch whose company paid his son millions of dollars.
 
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:*Solomon is reported to say that Schiff was singling him out as part of a smear campaign.
 
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===February 2020===
 
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*'''5 February.''' CTH: Grassley and Johnson Requesting Hunter Biden Travel Records From Secret Service.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/05/senators-grassley-and-johnson-requesting-hunter-biden-travel-records-from-secret-service/</ref>
 
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*'''7 February.''' Senate investigators receive Hunter Biden banking records from Treasury Dept. money laundering unit.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9TkTCU9u-I</ref>
 
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*'''27 February.''' SBI (Ukraine) Opens Case On Joe Biden's Pressure On Viktor Shokin – Lawyer.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNgKTjL7xdc</ref>
 
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===March 2020===
 
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*Hunter Biden's Overseas Protection Cost Taxpayers Four Times More Than Secret Service Details for All of Trump's Children Combined.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/hunter-bidens-overseas-protection-cost-taxpayers-four-times-more-than-secret-service-details-for-all-of-trumps-children-combined/</ref>
 
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==See also==
 
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*[[Quid pro joe]]
 
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*[[Chinagate]]
 
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*[[Democrat election fraud]]
 
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==References==
 
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==External links==
 
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*[https://youtu.be/Peedy_XZUbk Biden Family Corruption Explained In 5 Minutes], ''[[The Federalist]]'', Oct 22, 2020
 
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*[https://youtu.be/JRmlcEBAiIs RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)], Peter Schweizer, BlazeTV, Sep 4, 2020.
 
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*[https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ukraine%20Report_FINAL.pdf U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Report(HSGAC)], September 23, 2020.
 
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*[https://www.baldingsworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/KVBJHB.pdf PROJECTTIME], Typhoon Investigations, v3 Revised, October 2, 2020.
 
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*[https://www.scribd.com/document/481744219/CEFC-Investment-Outline CEFC Investment Outline], May 14, 2017
 
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*[https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2020/10/2017-05-15-12.56-Phase-one-domestic-contacts_projects-Memo-re-key-phase-one-domestic-contacts.pdf Memo re key phase one domestic contacts.docx], May 15, 2017
 
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*[https://www.scribd.com/document/481679945/2017-10-14-Biden-Bobulinski-Texts LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT OF ONEIDA HOLDINGS LLC], Oneida Holdings Operating Agreement between Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, Rob Walker, James Gilliar, and James Biden.
 
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*[https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/hunter-biden-comprehensive-timeline/ Hunter Biden: The Most Comprehensive Timeline], By JIM GERAGHTY, ''[[National Review]]'', September 30, 2019.
 
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*[https://www.glennbeck.com/research/timeline-of-corruption-bidens-nefarious-ties-with-communist-china-exposed TIMELINE OF CORRUPTION: Biden’s nefarious ties with communist China exposed], OCTOBER 21, 2020. glennbeck.com
 
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