James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has requested that the National Archives and Records Administration turn over documents and communications from Vice President Joe Biden’s tenure that overlap with his son Hunter Biden’s commercial activities in Ukraine.
In a letter sent to NARA on Thursday, Comer requested pseudonymous communications sent or received by Joe Biden.
The committee wants “any document or communication in which a pseudonym for Vice President Joe Biden was included either as a sender, recipient, copied or was included in the contents of the document or communication, including but not limited to Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and JRB Ware.”
According to the New York Post, Biden used these aliases in emails recovered from Hunter’s infamous laptop.
Additionally, Comer seeks “any document or communication in which Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, or Devon Archer was included either as a sender, recipient, copied, or was included in the contents of the document or communication.”
Archer and Schwerin were corporate associates of Hunter.
In a news release, Comer noted, “Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling. We already have evidence of then-Vice President Biden speaking, dining, and having coffee with his son’s foreign business associates.”
🚨 BREAKING 🚨@RepJamesComer is requesting all unredacted documents and communications from @USNatArchives in which:
▪️Then-VP Joe Biden used a pseudonym
▪️Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, or Devon Archer is copied
▪️And all drafts of then-Vice President Biden’s speech delivered… pic.twitter.com/GUPWvPFTuq
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) August 17, 2023
Comer also requests all revisions of Biden’s 9 December 2015 speech to the Ukrainian Rada.
Archer testified before the Oversight Committee last month that he and Hunter traveled to Dubai to attend a Burisma board meeting days before Biden’s speech. Mykola Zlochevsky and Vadym Pozharsky, both of Burisma, were also present.
Archer stated that during one of the meetings, the executives asked Hunter to “call D.C.” regarding the pressure they were experiencing from Ukrainian prosecutors.
“They requested Hunter, you know, help them with some of that pressure,” Archer said. “You know, government pressure from Ukrainian government investigations into Mykola.”
Five days after that call, Biden gave his speech in Ukraine, saying, “The office of the general prosecutor desperately needs reform.”
Therefore, Comer is likely attempting to determine if phrases about reforming the office of the general prosecutor were added to Biden’s speech after the phone call.
Viktor Shokin, who was investigating potential malfeasance at Burisma at the time, oversaw this office.
Biden was the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, while Hunter earned $1 million per year as a member of Burisma’s board of directors.
The elder Biden demanded that the then-president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, dismiss Shokin or lose $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.
In January 2018, at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting, Biden spoke with pride about the events.
“I said, ‘I’m telling you, you’re not getting the $1 billion. … I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” he recalled telling Poroshenko.
“Well, son of a b****, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” he added.
MUST WATCH: Here's Joe Biden in 2018 bragging about using his power to hold up $1 BILLION in U.S. loans unless Ukraine fired the prosecutor investigating Burisma – a corrupt Ukrainian oil company paying his son $50,000 a month.
Biden needs to explain his conflict of interest! pic.twitter.com/bDhaKjFNZN
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) September 25, 2019
In 2020, a whistleblower alleged to the FBI that Joe and Hunter Biden each received a $5 million bribe from Burisma during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president.
In June, Biden laughed off the allegations, saying, “Where’s the money?” He then added, “I’m joking. It’s a bunch of malarkey.”
Comer wrote in his letter to NARA:
“The Committee seeks to craft legislative solutions aimed at deficiencies it has identified in the current legal framework regarding ethics laws and disclosure of financial interests related to the immediate family members of Vice Presidents and Presidents — deficiencies that may place American national security and interests at risk.
“The Committee is concerned that foreign nationals have sought access and influence by engaging in lucrative business relationships with high-profile political figures’ immediate family members, including members of the Biden family,” the chairman added.