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The Hillary Clinton emails, the Justice Department investigations, and Biden’s allegedly corrupt behavior: The Trump camp is pondering recipes for the success of the last round of the US election campaign.
Donald Trump is once again trying to find incriminating stories about his rivals.
The “New York Post” tabloid reported in large print on Wednesday alleged secret emails from Hunter Biden that would prove that years ago he invited a Ukrainian business partner to the United States and introduced him to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden. to have. The Murdoch family-owned “Post” claims to have received the emails from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney has been trying for some time to unearth incriminating material about the Biden family in Ukraine. .
Old heated accusations
The “Post” story heats up old accusations, according to which Father Biden, as vice president of the United States, took action against the then Ukrainian attorney general Viktor Schokin, because he had investigated allegations of corruption against the Burisma gas company. Hunter, Biden’s son, had a high-paying position on Burisma’s board of directors. The matter is more than tenuous, if only for the simple reason that Schokin was targeted by the Americans and other donor countries because he was not taking action against rampant corruption.
During his expedition to Ukraine, Giuliani relied on a well-known Moscow agent and a former employee of the Ukrainian embassy in the United States, whose visa was recently canceled by the State Department. Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, who has meanwhile been accused of fraud and who, according to the “Wall Street Journal”, along with his Chinese mentor Guo Wengui on suspicion of dishonest machinations, is also involved in the affair with the alleged emails from Biden. Target is reported from the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Biden’s story now also worries the Senate Homeland Security Committee, where Republicans have a majority. It looks fluffy and is reminiscent of the allegations made against Hillary Clinton’s speech in 2016. At the time, it was said without proof that she had used her position as Secretary of State to “acquire” donations to the Clinton Charitable Foundation from officials of foreign governments in exchange for favors.
At the heart of the Biden affair is a computer and incriminating emails, which inevitably evoke parallels to 2016. This time they are supposed to be messages from a top Burisma executive, who reportedly thanked Hunter Biden in 2015 for introducing him to his father. . According to the Post, this proves that Joe Biden lied when he said he never spoke to his son about his overseas business.
The computer is said to have come from a repair shop in the state of Delaware, where the Bidens reside. It is said that it was later seized by the FBI, but the merchant was able to make a copy of the hard drive, which now ended up in the New York tabloid and the Senate Committee through Giuliani.
Even before the “scandal” became known through the Biden emails, President Trump had personally increased the pressure on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to publish old Clinton emails to get this story back on. headlines. Although Clinton has not held the post for nearly eight years, Pompeo is said to have promised to comply with the request. It’s unclear what new insights Pompeo and Trump hope to gain from this, but the president likely believes that just heating up the story will cause his supporters to rage against Clinton again and thereby excite him for him.
Conscientiously, without voting tactically
Trump had less luck with Attorney General William Barr, who apparently told Republicans in Congress that the “investigations against investigators” in the Russia affair would not yield scandalous results until the date of the election. It appears that John Durham, who is leading the investigation, chose to be guided by the requirements of a scrupulous investigation, not by political wishes and the electoral calendar.
As the Washington Post reports, another investigation has come to an end to no avail. It is about “unmasking” US citizens in telephone conversations with foreigners who were intervened as part of counterespionage. Republicans had accused members of the Obama administration of having carried out such an unmasking for political reasons, for example to accuse Trump’s first security adviser, Michael Flynn, of lying. Joe Biden was also mentioned. Apparently, the investigation now concluded that nothing inadmissible had occurred.
