{"id":127690,"date":"2022-08-08T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=127690"},"modified":"2022-08-08T10:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:43:51","slug":"gop-accuses-biden-admin-of-stonewalling-hunter-biden-obama-w-h-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=127690","title":{"rendered":"GOP Accuses Biden Admin of Stonewalling Hunter Biden, Obama W.H. Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_127691\" style=\"width: 1546px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127691\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Barack-Obama-1536x843.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"843\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Barack-Obama-1536x843.jpg.webp 1536w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Barack-Obama-1536x843.jpg-300x165.webp 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Barack-Obama-1536x843.jpg-1024x562.webp 1024w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Barack-Obama-1536x843.jpg-768x422.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-127691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Martin Walsh<br \/>\nConservativebrief.com<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are demanding access to communication records between President Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, and the Obama White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe top Republican on the House Oversight Committee pressed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for information on the shady foreign dealings of first son Hunter Biden \u2014 accusing the White House of thwarting the panel\u2019s probe in order to protect the president,\u201d the New York Post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/06\/rep-james-comer-claims-white-house-stonewalling-on-hunter-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRep. James Comer (R-Ky.) claimed in a letter to Yellen that the Biden administration may be preventing the release of suspicious activity reports related to Hunter Biden. The reports, known as SARs, are generated by banks that flag suspiciously large transactions and are meant to guard against money laundering,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration is restricting Congress\u2019 access to SARs, and Committee Republicans are investigating whether this change in longstanding policy is motivated by efforts to shield Hunter Biden and potentially President Biden from scrutiny,\u201d Comer wrote. \u201cThough the Committee requested documents and information \u2018no later than June 8, 2022,\u2019 the Department of the Treasury has provided no documents or information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, several Republican members of the House Oversight Committee penned a letter and sent it to the Biden Administration demanding they be given access to any and all communication records between Hunter Biden and the Obama White House.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the Republicans said that Hunter must be investigated amid concerns that \u201che is continuing to profit off\u201d his father\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHunter Biden\u2019s connections throughout the Russian sphere of influence have now become especially relevant in the fast-moving and developing Russian war in Ukraine,\u201d the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHunter Biden\u2019s dealings have not gone unnoticed, and a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe begun under the Obama Administration has expanded to include a wide variety of potential violations and crimes. According to the New York Times, Hunter Biden is currently under investigation by the DOJ for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and possible criminal tax evasion and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business relationships in Ukraine and Russia and the current international landscape, we are concerned about whether Hunter Biden continues to profit off his status as President Biden\u2019s son as well as whether foreign adversaries may be attempting to exploit questionable business dealings. NARA may possess documents relevant to this investigation from then-Vice President Biden\u2019s tenure,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter calls out Joe Biden and accuses him of lying about his involvement in Hunter\u2019s business dealings. The lawmakers said that \u201cthe evidence is now clear\u201d that he wasn\u2019t just aware, he was likely involved.<\/p>\n<p>They requested:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>All documents and communications between the Executive Office of the President or Office of the Vice President and members or associates of the Biden family referring or relating to Russia or Ukraine from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All documents and communications from or within the Executive Office of the President or Office of the Vice President referring to Elena Baturina or Yuri Luzhkovfrom January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All documents and communications in the custody of NARA referring or relating to\u00a0Hunter Biden and Ukraine or Hunter Biden and Russia; and<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All documents and communications between then-Vice President Biden\u2019s office and\u00a0any State Department employee referring or relating to Hunter Biden and his business\u00a0dealings in Russia and\/or Ukraine.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden family has for decades profited from Joe Biden\u2019s positions of public trust. Hunter Biden has particularly benefitted from his father\u2019s success in politics, from managing a Ukrainian energy conglomerate to selling cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to connecting his father to Kazakhstani oil oligarchs, and preventing a Romanian real estate tycoon\u2019s conviction for bribery charges,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/obama-hunter-64956\/\">https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/obama-hunter-64956\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}