{"id":2029027,"date":"2023-09-12T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-requests-information-from-state-department-on-bidens-actions-surrounding-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:20:03","slug":"comer-requests-information-from-state-department-on-bidens-actions-surrounding-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-requests-information-from-state-department-on-bidens-actions-surrounding-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Comer seeks State Department details on Biden&#8217;s Ukraine involvement."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fcomer-requests-information-from-state-department-on-bidens-actions-surrounding-ukraine%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=2029027&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--><h2>House Oversight Committee Chairman Requests Information \u200bon Biden&#8217;s\u2064 Actions in Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>House \u2062Oversight Committee \u2064Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">house<\/a>-republicans-demand-answers-on-pelosi-security-decisions-national-guard-deployment\/&#8221; title=&#8221;House Republicans Demand Answers On Pelosi Security Decisions, National Guard Deployment&#8221;>seeking information<\/a> from the\u2064 State Department regarding then-Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s involvement in Ukraine. Comer specifically wants details\u200d about Biden&#8217;s decision-making and\u200c actions, \u200dincluding his \u2063threat to withhold aid to the \u2064country \u200cunless it\u2064 fired its prosecutor general.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter\u2062 addressed to Secretary \u2064of State\u2064 Antony Blinken, Comer highlights a call made by Hunter Biden to &#8220;D.C.&#8221; at the \u200drequest of Burisma,\u2063 a Ukrainian\u200c energy\u2062 company where he served on\u2062 the \u200cboard. This call occurred\u200c just days before Joe Biden threatened \u200dto\u200c withhold aid to \u2063Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h3>Oversight Ranking Member Dismisses GOP&#8217;s Biden \u2063Investigation<\/h3>\n<p>Oversight Ranking Member Raskin has labeled the GOP&#8217;s investigation\u200c into Biden as a &#8220;total bust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a trip to Ukraine in December 2015, then-Vice\u2063 President Joe Biden had planned to announce an additional $1\u200b billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-dc-judge-smacks-down-motions-from-victor-shorkin-and-galaxy-bar-association\/\" title=\"Trump's DC judge rejects motions by 'Victor Shorkin' and 'Galaxy Bar Association'.\">loan \u200cguarantees<\/a> to support Ukraine&#8217;s economy.\u200b However, he changed\u200c his plans while en\u200d route to Kyiv. Instead, on\u2062 December 8, 2015, he delivered a speech criticizing the country&#8217;s prosecutor general, Viktor\u200c Shokin, for corruption.<\/p>\n<p>During this visit, Biden also warned \u2064the Ukrainian government \u2062that the United States would withhold \u200cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-plans-massive-spending-binge-on-green-energy-after-losing-taxpayers-hundreds-of-millions-on-failed-investments-report\/\" title=\"Biden Plans Massive Spending Binge On Green Energy After Losing Taxpayers Hundreds Of Millions On Failed Investments: Report\">loan guarantees<\/a> unless they\u200c fired Shokin, who was widely criticized in the \u200cWest for not \u200bdoing enough to combat corruption. The \u2063U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, along with the\u200c European Union, the International Monetary \u2062Fund, and other allies, shared\u200c the same objective.<\/p>\n<p>According to former Hunter Biden business\u200b associate Devon \u200dArcher&#8217;s\u2063 testimony, Burisma officials asked Hunter Biden to call &#8220;D.C.&#8221; before Joe Biden&#8217;s trip to Ukraine. They sought assistance with various matters, including \u2063pressure from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I looked at them and said, \u2063&#8217;I&#8217;m leaving\u2064 in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you&#8217;re\u2062 not getting the money,'&#8221; Joe Biden stated at\u2062 an event\u200d in 2018. &#8220;Well, son of a b****. He got \u200bfired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shokin was indeed fired in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The timing of these\u200c events is \u2064significant to the Committee,&#8221; Comer emphasized in his letter. &#8220;During the Committee&#8217;s interview \u200bwith Devon Archer, \u200bhe\u200b explained that by late 2015, Burisma&#8217;s corporate secretary,\u200d Vadym Pozharsky, was increasingly pressuring Hunter Biden to seek help from the U.S. government regarding pressure faced by Zlochevsky from the \u200cOffice of the Prosecutor General and abroad. The Committee is investigating \u200bthe\u200c nature of this call and \u200dthe circumstances surrounding\u200d it, including the involvement of the State Department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Comer is\u200b requesting that the State Department provide the committee with\u200c all documents and\u2062 communications related to phone \u200dcalls between Joe Biden and Ukrainian officials \u200dfrom January 1,\u2063 2014, to December 31, 2016. Additionally, he seeks all internal documents and\u200c communications pertaining\u200b to \u2063any conditions placed on the $1 billion \u2064loan\u200b guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>The question of whether Shokin was investigating Burisma has been \u2064a\u200b subject of debate. Democrats have highlighted \u200ca portion of Archer&#8217;s testimony \u200bwhere he mentioned that the &#8220;D.C. team&#8221; relayed to him that Burisma believed Shokin\u200b was under control and they did not want him removed. \u2064However, Archer also stated that he had \u2064no \u200cway to verify this information.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Tucker Carlson on X, Archer changed his stance and stated that Shokin posed a threat to \u200cBurisma. &#8220;He \u200dwas a threat,&#8221; Archer told Carlson. &#8220;He ended up seizing assets of [Burisma owner] Nikolai [Zlochevsky] \u2014 a \u200dhouse, some cars, a couple properties. And Nikolai actually never went back to\u200d Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his \u2064assets.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has asked the State Department for details on Joe Biden&#8217;s involvement in Ukraine, particularly his threat to withhold aid unless the country dismissed its prosecutor general. Comer&#8217;s letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeks information on this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2029028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029027","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=2029027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}