House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has outlined a schedule for David Weiss, the U.S. attorney-turned-special counsel who recently indicted Hunter Biden, the president’s son, on a firearm-related charge, to testify before the committee. Jordan revealed during a Fox News interview on Sunday that Weiss is set to appear before the House on October 18.
“David Weiss has committed to come in front of the committee on Oct. 18, so we can look forward to that,” Jordan said, as reported by Newsmax.
Jordan also provided what he claimed to be evidence connecting President Joe Biden to his son. Hunter Biden, as confirmed by his attorney George Mesires, was a board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019.
“You can boil this” question of Joe Biden’s alleged corruption “down to the Burisma situation,” Jordan noted further.
“Burisma, I think, captures it all. Hunter Biden gets put on the board; gets paid a lot of money. Fact No. 2: He wasn’t qualified to be on the board. Fact No. 3: The Burisma executives asked him, ‘Can you help us with the pressure we are facing?’ Fact No. 4: Joe Biden gets [Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin] fired — leverages American tax dollars to accomplish that,” he continued.
“And then what does the [Attorney General Merrick] Garland Justice Department do?” Jordan asked. “They try to sweep it under the rug, so much so that they allowed the statute of limitations to lapse for the most serious … felony tax concerns Hunter Biden had in 2014 and 2015. They let it lapse because those were the years that dealt with the Burisma income,” he noted further.
As the House Oversight Committee, led by Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, prepares for David Weiss’s testimony, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed last week that the first hearing for President Biden’s initial impeachment inquiry is scheduled for September 28.
These developments have taken place as the White House has called on media allies to intensify their examination of House Republicans for launching an impeachment inquiry built on what they perceive as false information.
Newsmax added:
But, according to the New York Post’s reporting, this appears to be inaccurate. The Post reports that an FBI whistleblower has alleged that then-Vice President Biden “pushed for Shokin’s ouster because he was investigating gas company Burisma.” The whistleblower also suggested that “Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky claimed he had ‘bribed’ the Bidens for $5 million each — partly to get Shokin fired.”
Following his tenure as vice president, Biden openly acknowledged what seemed to be a “quid pro quo” scenario during an event organized by the Council on Foreign Relations. He recounted how he had visited Kyiv at the direction of then-President Barack Obama and insisted on the dismissal of a prosecutor, warning that $1 billion in assistance would be withheld otherwise.
NEHLS: “Joe Biden threatened the Ukrainian President and Prime Minister to fire Shokin — if that is not quid pro quo, sir, what is? — It's bribery, and it's impeachable. Are you gonna do something about it?”
“I bet you're not. And that's why you also need to be impeached” pic.twitter.com/zCtDDC22iq
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 20, 2023