Hunter Biden’s problems show no sign of going away
What ties together J.R.B. Ware, Robin Ware and Robert L. Peters? In 2021 the New York Post, a right-wing tabloid, reported that the three names were all pseudonyms used by Joe Biden on email when he was vice-president, including to communicate with his son Hunter. The Post turned up evidence of Mr Biden’s alter egos while searching through the contents of Hunter’s laptop hard-drive, which he had abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware in 2019. Over two years later, these email addresses constitute a new string in the Republican Party’s efforts to tie Joe Biden to his son’s questionable business practices.
On August 28th the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF), a Republican-aligned legal charity based in Georgia, announced it was suing the National Archives and Records Administration to try to force it to release 5,138 emails the archivists have identified as having come from three email addresses Mr Biden used with those pseudonyms. A day later Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, two Republican senators, asked the agency to explain what it had found in a review of the emails it promised last year in response to a freedom-of-information request the SLF previously filed. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who has been probing Hunter Biden’s activities since January, had already requested in mid-August that the emails be released to him.
Their case, in essence, is that the emails will prove that Mr Biden did in fact know in detail what his son was up to in his role between 2014 and 2019 on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian oil-and-gas firm. According to Mr Comer, one email already found on Hunter’s laptop shows that: “Joe Biden was using a pseudonym and he copied his son about a shady, shady transaction.” The rest, he inferred, would show the president intimately tied into a scheme of “influence peddling”. In particular, it would show that, as…
2023-09-11 15:49:09
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