✅ Hunter Biden Fact Checks
Updated: 9/12/2023
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🐣 RT @emptywheel .@RepRaskin’s debunking of James Comer’s conspiracy theories about Joe Biden includes *19* bullet points of Republicans admitting they have no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden. Nevertheless, Hill journos continue to do process stories on impeachment.
[TextLink:] https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1701240519685247139?s=20/photo/1
✅ ⋙ OversightDems, Jamie Raskin: As the House Returns to Session, Ranking Member Raskin Releases Statement on the ‘Overwhelming Failure’ of Republicans’ ‘Top Priority’ Investigation https://tinyurl.com/3wy45r4a
// 9/11/2023; The First MAGA Congress Is Shamefully Beholden to Donald Trump and Utterly Derelict in Its Duties to the American People
✅ WaPo, Glenn Kessler (9/6): James Comer claims that Biden pseudonym email was code. That’s nonsense. https://tinyurl.com/yc5ud98r ”Comer has a tendency to mess up details or lose nuance when he shows up on television, but he really shoots himself in the foot here”: FOUR PINOCCHIOS‼️
// 9/6/2023
✅ WaPo, Glenn Kessler: An FBI source, a Burisma deal, the Bidens and details that don’t match up https://tinyurl.com/mr3tjyxs
// 8/30/2023
Politico: In talks with prosecutors, Hunter Biden’s lawyers vowed to put the president on the stand https://tinyurl.com/548aeysz
// 8/19/2023; A behind-the-scenes look at how a plea deal for the president’s son nearly came together before it fell apart.
✅ WaPo, Glenn Kessler (8/17): How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe https://tinyurl.com/3x2adweh THREE PINOCCHIOS 🍄 🍄 🍄
// 8/17/2023; “shell companies” were legit businesses; $7.5M (not $20M) to Biden for work, real estate and investments; none has been traced to Joe Biden
✅ FactCheck[.]org (8/14): Republicans Oversell Archer’s Testimony About Hunter and Joe Biden https://tinyurl.com/ywx3awwb Hunter’s business partner “Archer said he had no knowledge that Hunter Biden ever influenced his father to change any policies to further his son’s businesses”
// 8/14/2023
🐣 RT @levparnas [Jul 19] Here is my letter I sent to @RepJamesComer and the @GOPoversight, @OversightDems [link]
¤ https://twitter.com/levparnas/status/1681792307748642816?s=20
// 7/24/2023
✅ NBC: Hunter Biden attorney says WhatsApp message cited by Republicans is fake https://tinyurl.com/5efrpkth
// 6/30/2023; In a purported 2017 message to a Chinese businessman, Hunter Biden allegedly threatened retaliation from his father, who was then a former vice president.
✅ Factcheck[.]org: Republican Claims About Hunter Biden Offenses https://tinyurl.com/m6puud3j
// 6/21/2023
✅ NYT (updated Jun 20): Hunter Biden’s Tangled Tale Comes Front and Center https://tinyurl.com/3texzeey “The real Hunter Biden story is complex and very different in important ways from the narrative promoted by Republicans — but troubling in its own way”
// orig. from Jan 21, 2023
✅ WaPo, Philip Bump: The GOP ‘bribery’ allegations against Biden remain transparently thin https://tinyurl.com/2p9aee3h //➔ very weedsy, but the short answer is there’s no evidence Joe Biden took a bribe from Burisma and as is often the case, most roads lead back to Giuliani
// 6/13/2023
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✅ NPR, Greg Myre: What Were The Bidens Doing In Ukraine? 5 Questions Answered http://n.pr/2kUuHuZ
// 9/24/2019
1. So what did Joe Biden do in Ukraine?
2. What role did Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden play in Ukraine?
3. Is there any sign of wrongdoing by either Joe Biden or his son Hunter Biden?
4. How do Trump and his supporters see Joe Biden’s work?
5. What’s next?
✅ PolitiFact, Louis Jacobson: Fact-checking Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine http://bit.ly/2mqKylA
// 9/24/2019; “Half-True”
The image gets individual pieces of this assertion right — Hunter Biden was a director of the company, and Joe Biden did leverage U.S. aid to fire a prosecutor. But it overreaches by assuming that Joe Biden acted to protect the company his son was affiliated with. In reality, there was widespread agreement in the West that the existing prosecutor had to go, and it’s not clear that the company would have benefited from his ouster anyway, given evidence that its cases had long been dormant.
✅ FactCheck.org, Eugene Kiely: Trump Twists Facts on Biden and Ukraine http://bit.ly/2liUTjn
// 9/24/2019; Hunter Biden
✅ CNN, Daniel Dale: Fact check: What Trump has been getting wrong on Biden and Ukraine http://cnn.it/2mZxIef
// 9/23/2019; Hunter Biden
✅ PolitiFact, Louis Jacobson and John Kruzel: Trump’s Ukraine call, a whistleblower and the Bidens: What we know, what we don’t http://bit.ly/2mSDu14
// 9/23/2019; Hunter Biden
✅ WaPo FactChecker, Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo: Fact-checking Trump’s latest claims on Biden and Ukraine http://wapo.st/2muacWl No there there.
// 9/23/2019; Hunter Biden
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DailyBeast, Anna Nemtsova: Ukraine Likely to Reopen Probe of Hunter Biden Firm: Sources http://bit.ly/2mwUXfi
// 9/24/2019; President Zelensky came to office vowing to fight corruption, and it looks like he’ll open a lot of cases shut by shady prosecutors. But the focus is on Ukraine, not the U.S.
🐣 RT @jennycohn1 It is important to understand that the Trump regime is LYING when it says that prosecutor Shokin—who Biden & the EU called out—wanted to investigate Burisma’s corruption. It was the opposite. Shokin enabled Burisma’s corruption by refusing to turn over evidence to the UK. 1/ 📌 https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1176333122507440129?s=20
// 9/23/2019; Hunter Biden
AP, Stephen Braun and Lynn Berry: The story behind Biden’s son, Ukraine and Trump’s claims http://bit.ly/2kUQBOR
// 9/23/2019
MMFA, Courtney Hagle and Bobby Lewis: Debunking lies about Trump, Biden, Ukraine, and the whistleblower http://bit.ly/2l05I9O research contributed by Courtney Hagel and Eric Kleefeld
// 9/23/2019
💙💙 🔆 WaPo, Philip Bump: Trump has been openly trying to leverage Ukraine to his political benefit for months http://wapo.st/2m6eRxr
// 9/20/2019
💙💙 🔆 DailyBeast, Anna Nemtsova: Ukrainian Official: Trump Wants Dirt ‘To Discredit Biden’ http://bit.ly/2mrtjR4
// 9/20/2019
Politico: Biden wages war on Hunter-Ukraine reporting http://politi.co/2lx49jR
// 9/24/2019; ‘You saw what happened to Hillary in 2016 with all of the ridiculous coverage about her emails. That’s not going to happen with us. We learned.’
WashingtonExaminer, Joseph Simonson: Business efforts of Biden brother and son prompt new questions over influence peddling http://washex.am/
// 8/15/2019
Politico, Ben Schreckinger: Biden Inc. http://politi.co/2mGFxoQ
// Over his decades in office, ‘Middle-Class Joe’s’ family fortunes have closely tracked his political career.
// 8/2/2019
NewYorker, Adam Entous (7/1): Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign? http://bit.ly/2kx7q28
// 7/1/2019, background
VanityFair, Rachel Dodes: Hunter Biden Is the Best Thing That Could Happen to Joe Biden http://bit.ly/2mHGsW0
// 6/27/2019; If Biden is in fact the Democratic nominee in 2020, his son’s messy personal life might actually be an advantage.
Bloomberg: Ukraine Prosecutor Says No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Bidens http://bloom.bg/2kJF6tz By Daryna Krasnolutska , Kateryna Choursina , and Stephanie Baker
// 5/16/2019
● Hunter Biden, Burisma not targets, despite Giuliani’s pleas
● Long-running investigation said to focus on another Ukrainian
Law&Crime, Jeremy Smith: Ukrainian Prosecutor Rains on Giuliani’s Parade, Says There’s No Evidence the Bidens Broke the Law http://bit.ly/2mFSpvK
// 5/16/2019
FreeBeacon, Brent Sched: Hunter Biden’s China Deal Partners Include Mobster Whitey Bulger’s Nephew, John Kerry’s Stepson http://bit.ly/2l6jJmn
// 5/13/2019
TheIntercept, Robert Mackey (May): A Republican Conspiracy Theory About a Biden-in-Ukraine Scandal Has Gone Mainstream. But It Is Not True. http://bit.ly/2muqizk
// 5/10/2019
TheAtlantic, Peter Nicholas: Trump’s Biden Plan? It Could Get Dirty. http://bit.ly/2l6doaz
// Should Biden remain atop the 2020 field, Donald Trump and his allies may attack the former vice president’s family.
// 5/2/2019
NYT, Kenneth Vogel and Iuliia: Biden Faces Conflict of Interest Questions That Are Being Promoted by Trump and Allies http://nyti.ms/2lsdSrL
// 5/1/2019
