{"id":1271578,"date":"2022-02-04T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271578"},"modified":"2022-02-04T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T20:52:33","slug":"report-classified-2016-email-reveals-senior-state-official-was-concerned-about-hunters-ukrainian-business-dealings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-classified-2016-email-reveals-senior-state-official-was-concerned-about-hunters-ukrainian-business-dealings\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Classified 2016 Email Reveals Senior State Official Was Concerned About Hunter\u2019s Ukrainian Business Dealings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-classified-2016-email-reveals-senior-state-official-was-concerned-about-hunters-ukrainian-business-dealings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1271578&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hunter-Biden-George-Kent-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A recently revealed classified e-mail from 2016 indicates that at least one United States official raised concerns that Hunter Biden\u2019s business activities in Ukraine could pose a problem for the U.S. and Eastern European nations\u2019 ability to crackdown on Ukrainian corruption. In 2016, George Kent, a senior ranking state department official, emailed his superiors in the Obama administration his concerns that then-Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s son\u2019s dealings in Ukraine could \u201cundercut\u201d U.S. anti-corruption efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The email was sent on November 22, 2016, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/russia-and-ukraine-scandals\/classified-state-department-email-declared-hunter-biden\">first obtained and reported<\/a> by Just The News:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter\u2019s presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine,\u201d Kent wrote multiple high-ranking officials in the State Department in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The email also indicated that Hunter was on the board when Burisma allegedly paid what Kent described as a $7 million \u201cbribe,\u201d though it is unclear if Hunter knew about it. Regardless, Kent also wrote that the perceived double-standard was worrisome and would send mixed messages to the Ukrainian people:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cUkrainians heard one message from us,\u201d Kent wrote, \u201cand then saw another set of behavior, with the [Biden] family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules in the oil\/gas sector.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s dealings with Burisma were a factor in the 2020 election, as President Donald Trump and his campaign accused the Biden family of improperly using Joe\u2019s political offices in making money aboard. Burisma is an energy company, and Hunter had little to no experience in the energy industry before getting job at Burisma while his father was the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Just The News also noted that beyond Kent\u2019s concerns, another issue raises by the discovery of said e-mail is the fact the State Department never acknowledged its existence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>It was classified \u201cconfidential,\u201d the lowest level of secrecy, by then-U.S. Ambassador to Kiev Marie Yovanovitch, another of the Democrats\u2019 impeachment witnesses, and was not produced as evidence to House lawmakers during impeachment. Contrary to federal law, the State Department failed to acknowledge the existence of the document to the court or to Just the News in its multiple Freedom of Information Act lawsuits against the State Department seeking records on Hunter and Joe Biden\u2019s dealings in Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Just The News also pointed out that the e-mail contradicts what many Democrats were saying regarding Hunter\u2019s business efforts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Most importantly, the email\u2019s stark message directly conflicts with the narrative the mainstream media, State Department witnesses and Democratic congressmen gave the public two years ago, when they insisted Hunter Biden\u2019s lucrative job with the allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings \u2014 while creating the appearance of a conflict of interest \u2014 had no impact on U.S. efforts to fight corruption in that country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kent, the diplomat who sent the e-mail, was featured prominently as an expert during the first impeachment of Trump.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recently revealed classified e-mail from 2016 indicates that at least one United States official raised concerns that Hunter Biden\u2019s business activities in Ukraine could pose a problem for the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}