Grassley’s Biden Bribery Bombshell – The American Spectator

Well there’s a way to wake up a sleepy summer.

Here is the front-page headline from Thursday’s New York Post:

FAMILY BUSINESS

Biden $10M bribe file released: Burisma chief said he was ‘coerced’ to pay Joe, ‘stupid’ Hunter in bombshell allegations 

Ukrainian oligarch allegedly said his dog was “smarter” than Hunter Biden, but that payments needed “so everything will be okay.”

The story by Post White House reporter Steven Nelson begins this way: 

WASHINGTON — A bombshell FBI informant file containing a $10 million bribery allegation against President Biden and his son was released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, showing that a Ukrainian oligarch claimed he was “coerced” into making the payoff.

Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of natural gas company Burisma Holdings, told the FBI informant in 2016 while meeting at a coffee shop in Vienna, Austria, that “it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden,” according to the redacted FD-1023 form.

Well now.

There, plain as day, is a flat-out statement that “the owner of natural gas company Burisma Holdings” asserts he paid a $10 million bribe to the then–vice president and his son. 

And then there was this: 

Zlochevsky allegedly claimed to have 17 recordings of conversations with the Bidens — two of which involved Joe — as well as “many text messages” and two documents that the informant “understood to be” financial records of “payment(s) to the Bidens.”

And right there is just one thread in what can only be called the biggest political scandal in American history.

To recall, generally speaking the two biggest political scandals in American history are seen to be first the Teapot Dome scandal in the 1920s and second the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. (Although the Ulysses Grant administration had several back there in the 1870s.) 

In case, dear reader, you weren’t around in the day, here’s the Wikipedia description of Teapot Dome: 

The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of a seminal investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinetmember to go to prison; no one was convicted of paying the bribes.

There are still Americans aplenty who recall the 1970s Nixon-era Watergate scandal. But unlike the Teapot Dome episode, Watergate did not revolve around allegations of bribery. It was centered on an attempt by members of the Nixon administration to cover up the involvement of Nixon allies in a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

So, not unlike Teapot Dome, the blossoming Biden scandal is revolving around bribery allegations. But there’s one big difference between the two. In Teapot Dome, the bribery charges did not involve President Warren Harding. They centered on a couple of Harding Cabinet members — Interior Secretary Albert Fall and Attorney General Harry Daugherty — with both being tried for corruption and Fall being convicted.

This time around, as is now seen, the bribery allegations are exactly focused not just on son Hunter Biden but on President Joe Biden himself.

So.

Where is the special prosecutor who will be investigating Joe Biden for these bribery allegations? What is Attorney General Merrick Garland doing about this?

The answer appears to be nothing.

Which cries out for a congressional investigation. 

And perhaps an impeachment after that.