Democrats Say Document From Trump impeachment Probe Rebuts GOP Claims About A Biden bribery Scheme

When asked to detail contacts between then-Vice President Biden and his office from 2013 to 2019, Zlochevsky wrote (in all caps): “No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement.” When asked whether Biden or his staff assisted Burisma in any way with business deals or meetings, he wrote, “NO.”

At the time, Parnas forwarded the entire document to Giuliani and another attorney, Victoria Toensing.

Democrats say the questionnaire provides critical context that casts doubt on allegations by Republicans that Biden profited off of his son’s business ventures or even received a bribe from a foreign national. In early May, Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said a whistleblower informed them that the FBI had a document known as an FD-1023 that included an unverified allegation from a human source who said Biden, when he was vice president, was involved in a bribery scheme involving a foreign national.

When asked to detail contacts between then-Vice President Biden and his office from 2013 to 2019, Zlochevsky wrote (in all caps): “No one from Burisma ever had any contacts with VP Biden or people working for him during Hunter Biden’s engagement.” When asked whether Biden or his staff assisted Burisma in any way with business deals or meetings, he wrote, “NO.”

At the time, Parnas forwarded the entire document to Giuliani and another attorney, Victoria Toensing.

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Democrats say the questionnaire provides critical context that casts doubt on allegations by Republicans that Biden profited off of his son’s business ventures or even received a bribe from a foreign national. In early May, Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said a whistleblower informed them that the FBI had a document known as an FD-1023 that included an unverified allegation from a human source who said Biden, when he was vice president, was involved in a bribery scheme involving a foreign national.

He added that the FD-1023 contains “unsubstantiated, second-hand hearsay allegations” and that the confidential source behind the information “explicitly noted that it is not unusual for Ukrainian business executives to brag and show off and that he could not offer any opinion supporting the veracity of the allegations he was relaying.”

Comer, in response, did not comment on the substance of the questionnaire Zlochevsky had filled out and instead called on Raskin to join him in calling for the FBI to make the FD-1023 form public.

“This record is not part of the material Rudy Giuliani provided the FBI,” he said. “This unclassified record stands on its own and memorializes a confidential human source’s conversations with a Burisma executive dating back to 2015. The Burisma executive claims then-Vice President Biden solicited and received a $5 million bribe in exchange for certain actions.

“The executive also claims he didn’t pay ‘the big guy’ directly but used so many bank accounts that it would take 10 years to unravel. … Ranking Member Raskin is rapidly losing credibility as he continues to aid and abet the Biden family coverup.”

Source – NBC News