New York Republican Representative Elise Stefanik asserts that a photograph from 2015 renders President Joe Biden’s claims that he was unaware of his son’s business activities hollow.
Biden has maintained for a long time that he was not involved in his son’s business dealings. Former business companion of Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, recently testified that Joe Biden met with his son’s business associates and that Hunter Biden called his father during business meetings.
According to Fox News, the chair of the House Republican Conference, Elise Stefanik, stated that a “damning picture” depicts then-vice president Joe Biden with an adviser who had ties to Hunter Biden’s enterprises.
The photo from Biden’s 2015 voyage to Ukraine shows him with Biden’s current special presidential coordinator, Amos Hochstein.
According to Stefanik, Hochstein was in contact with Hunter Biden during the time he served on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
SHOCKING: Here we have then Vice President Joe Biden being briefed by Amos Hochstein before his trip to Ukraine where he threatened to withhold aid. At the time, Hochstein was in coordinating talks between Hunter Biden and Burisma.
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“This damning picture of then Vice President Joe Biden on Air Force Two en route to Ukraine talking with Amos Hochstein is just further evidence that Biden and senior officials in the Biden Administration not only knew of Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings, but also that Joe Biden was intimately involved while Vice President,” Stefanik said.
“At the time of this photo, Hochstein was in communication with Hunter Biden and Burisma where Hunter served on the board.”
Stefanik stated that connecting the links creates a disturbing picture.
“We also know that this photo was taken on Air Force Two ahead of Joe Biden’s now infamous meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, where Biden threatened to have aid withheld if a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma was not fired,” she said.
“All evidence points directly to Joe Biden being deeply compromised. House Republicans will leave no stone unturned in our investigations into Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence peddling scheme.”
Hochstein served in the Obama administration as a special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs. Prior to assuming his present position as special presidential coordinator, he was Biden’s special coordinator for global infrastructure and energy security in August 2021.
A recently disclosed FBI form documents allegations that Joe and Hunter Biden each accepted a $5 million bribe from Burisma executives in exchange for ensuring the dismissal of the prosecutor investigating the company, Viktor Shokin.