Despite President Joe Biden’s repeated assertions that his son, Hunter, is “the smartest guy I know,” there are indications that others may disagree. Recently, Hunter Biden engaged into a plea agreement for tax and gun-related offenses, some of which involved his failure to report income from his work in Ukraine.
The information left on Hunter Biden’s laptop when it was dropped off at a computer repair shop is still being examined, and a Senate committee is now releasing a document from the Biden administration.
The document, which details the 2020 conversation between FBI officials and “the informant,” was made public by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and other Senate Oversight Committee Republicans, according to Western Journal.
“For the better part of a year, I’ve been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme,” Grassley said in a statement.
“While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers,” he said.
“What did the Justice Department and FBI do with the detailed information in the document? And why have they tried to conceal it from Congress and the American people for so long? The Justice Department and FBI have failed to come clean, but Chairman [James] Comer and I intend to find out,” said Grassley.
Although the document is filled with information, there is one statement that lends Hunter Biden the “smart” label. Zlochevsky thought little of Hunter Biden, except for the fact that he had to be on board.
Western Journal states:
In the FD-1023 document detailing an unverified conversation with an informant, the informant told FBI investigators that although Zlochevsky believed his dog “was smarter” than Hunter Biden, the son of the current U.S. president should be retained on the Ukrainian energy giant’s board of directors because he could influence matters in the United States.
The informant — referred to in the document as “CHS,” or confidential human source in FBI parlance — said he met with Burisma officials in Kyiv in 2015 or 2016 to advise them on purchasing an American-based energy business for $20 million to $30 million in order to enter the U.S. market and issue an initial public offering there.
Western Journal continues:
The informant “asked why they (Burisma) needed to get CHS’s assistance regarding the purchase/merger of a US-based company when Biden was on their board. [Burisma CFO Vadim] Pojarskii replied that Hunter Biden was not smart, and they wanted to get additional counsel.”
The informant alleged he later met with Zlochevsky in Vienna to discuss the business roughly two months later, in 2016. During that meeting, the document says, “CHS asked Zlochevsky why Burisma would pay $20-30 million to buy a US company for IPO purposes when it would be cheaper to just form a new US-entity, or purchase a corporate shell that was already listed on an exchange. Zlochevsky responded that Hunter Biden advised Burisma it could raise much more capital if Burisma purchased a larger US-based business that already had a history in the US oil and gas sector.”
Zlochevsky then reportedly said “it cost 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden.)” The informant said this would “complicate matters,” the document states, and quotes him as saying they should hire “some normal US oil and gas advisors” because it wasn’t the Bidens’ area of expertise.
“Zlochevsky made some comment that although Hunter Biden ‘was stupid, and his (Zlochevsky’s) dog was smarter,’ Zlochevsky needed to keep hunter Biden (on the board) ‘so everything will be okay,’” the document stated. “CHS inquired whether Hunter Biden or Joe Biden told Zlochevsky he should retain Hunter Biden; Zlochevsky replied, ‘They both did.’”
So, there seems to be blatent contradiction of Joe Biden’s statements concerning his son’s intellect. ON Stephen Colbert’s late-night show, the president stated of Hunter, “I’m not concerned about any accusations made against him. It’s used to get to me. I think it’s kind of foul play, but look, it is what it is, and he’s a grown man. He is the smartest man I know, I mean, from a pure intellectual capacity. And as long as he’s good, we’re good.”
Previously, in October 2020, Biden called Hunter the “smartest guy I know” in a Zoom event with Oprah Winfrey, according to the New York Post.
The smartest guy our president apparently knows would go on to write in his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” that he didn’t remember the sexual relationship that led to the birth of his illegitimate daughter and “spent more time on my hands and knees picking through rugs, smoking anything that even remotely resembled crack cocaine” during that period, so much so that he had “probably smoked more parmesan cheese than anyone, anyone that you know,” Western Journal notes.