Busy investigating 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat nominee Joe Biden from allegations of Ukrainian corruption, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) face unrelenting attempts by the Democrat-friendly press to discredit the investigation. At the heart of the investigation is establishing whether or not Biden engaged in corruption while running former President Barack Obama’s anti-corruption efforts in the Ukraine. To the pro-Democrat media looking to discredit Johnson and Grassley’s probe, one fact remains: Joe’s 50-year-old Hunter landed a $83,000 a month job on the board of Burisma Holdings Board. Hunter has admitted to ABC’s Good Morning America Oct. 15, 2019 that it was probably bad judgment to take the Burisma Holdings Job. In that same interview, Hunter admitted that without his father he wouldn’t have gotten the job.
No matter how much the press wants to shield Joe, it’s an impossible fact to avoid that Joe landed Hunter a lucrative job on Burisma’s board. Democrat-friendly press wants to divert attention to 74-year-old President Donald Trump’s 76-year-old personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who was asked by Trump to investigate Biden’s corruptioin in Ukraine. One of Giuliani’s Ukrainian contacts was Andriy Derkach, a member of Kiev’s parliament who supplied evidence to Johnson and Grassley. With new reports about possible Russian hack-attempts on Biden’s political consulting firm, the media has gone after Derkach, calling him the son of a former KGB agent. Biden’s campaign has gone after Derkach because he supplied Johnson’s Senate committee with an audiotape of Joe making deals with 54-year-old former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko while running Obama’s anti-corruption task force.
Anti-Trump media has tied Derkach to Russian intelligence, hoping to discredit anything he supplies Johnson’s committee. When you consider that Trump was impeached for asking questions about Biden’s corruption to 42-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the media does everything possible to blame Trump for Ukrainian corruption. Trump simply asked Zelensky if he had any information about how Joe got his son Hunter an $83,000 a month job over a four-year period. Hunter received the lucrative job on Burisma’s board without any experience in energy, Burisma being a natural gas company. So any nonpartisan analysis would conclude that Joe used his position to land his son a high-paying job. Whatever Derkach’s background, he produced tapes that had Joe making deals for a $1 billion loan in exchange for firing 67-year-old Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.
Discrediting Derkach is the last remaining firewall between Joe and Ukrainian corruption. Biden’s handlers have done everything possible to tie Derkakch to the Kremlin, but, more importantly, a theory that Ukraine tried to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. Democrats point to Derkach producing an audiotape of Biden and Poroshenko. Whatever was said in those tapes, Biden confirmed in remarks made to the Council of Foreign Relations Sept. 27, 2019 that he threatened to withhold funds to Ukraine in exchange with getting Shokin fired. Democrats and the media explain Biden’s admission as he was doing his job to get rid of a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor. But Biden’s detractors point to a quid pro quo, to stop Shokin from investigating Hunter’s employer. Democrats and the media want to say that questioning Biden’s actions in Ukraine is election interference.
It’s not election interference to examine a candidate’s track record on any issue. Yet the Biden campaign and complicit media have said that Johnson and Grassley’s committee seeks to interfere with the 2020 election because they’re looking into Biden’s past transactions while Obama’s Vice President. Biden’s campaign has done everything possible to discredit Derkach, tying him to the Kremlin, in an effort to dispute the tape recording provided to Johnson’s committee. Democrats and the media say anything Derkach provided Johnson’s committee was Russian disinformation, a convenient way of denying that Biden did anything shady in Ukraine. No one in the anti-Trump media admits that getting his son Hunter an $83,0000 a month job in a corrupt Urkainian energy company is highly suspicious, whether you believe Derkach currently works for Russian intelligence.
When you look at the media’s obsession with Giuliani and Derkach, it’s an egregious attempt to discredit any damning information that comes out of Ukraine about Biden. It’s obvious that Hunter got his lucrative job because of his father, not on his work resume. Creating a Russian conspiracy theory out over Biden’s role in Hunter’s job does not change the basic facts found by Johnson and Grassley. No matter how much Democrats and the press want to protect Biden, there’s no getting around what happened with Hunter working for Burisma Holdings for nearly four years. It’s not Russian disinformation when a U.S. official asks favors of a head of state or foreign government to help his unemployed son. “Facts are stubborn things,” said John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States. No matter how much smoke the Biden campaign blows, the facts are the facts.
