REVISITING MY DECEMBER 2019 ARTICLE ON THE CONSPIRACY TO REMOVE A PRESIDENT
Thanks to a few brave whistleblowers, Senator Chuck Grassley obtained and has now released the FBI (FD-1023) form accusing Joe Biden and Hunter Biden of coercing Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky into paying them $5 million to remove Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin. Here’s Grassley’s tweet announcing the release.
On December 19, 2019, in an essay titled The Conspiracy to Overthrow an American President, I discussed the interest Trump took in Joe Biden and his son Hunter’s activities in Ukraine. Trump had learned that Hunter accepted a board seat on Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings in 2014, which gave the appearance of a political favor to Joe, who was at that time the Vice-President of the United States. But there was something else. There was laptop belonging to Hunter, which former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was in possession of, that revealed a global web of corruption by the Biden family that involved elements in Ukraine.
This is a complex web of facts about which I have only touched on a small piece of in my writings. But this piece alone should have, at the very least, prevented Biden from ever occupying the White House. If you scroll down in my December 2019 essay, you’ll find a video of Biden admitting to an audience during a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in January 2018 that he threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless leadership fired a prosecutor he did not like. Biden brags, “I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
That prosecutor’s name was Viktor Shokin. After Biden’s ultimatum, Shokin was indeed removed from his position as Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, and Yuriy Lutsenko appointed in his place, the man Biden describes in that video as “solid.” Hunter left Burisma in April 2019. Given Joe Biden’s influential role in US policy towards Ukraine, those around former president Barack Obama worried that the Vice-President’s involvement with Burisma would compound the appearance of a conflict of interest and undermine the establishment’s desire to install Biden in the White House after having disposed of Trump on account of the Russian collusion hoax, a piece of the coup that ultimately fell through. Moreover, critical focus on Ukraine might potentially draw attention to the coup the CIA had organized with fascistic elements in Ukraine to draw Russia into a proxy war with NATO, a plot that was eventually successful. (See my February 27, 2022 article for background on this History and Sides-Taking in the Russo-Ukrainian War.)
In July 2019, Trump froze $391 million in military aid to Ukraine shortly before a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the current dictator of that country, which is presently at war with Russia. During the conversation, Trump asked Zelensky to initiate an investigation into the Bidens. This incident led to a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump, as it was alleged that he might have used US foreign aid and the Ukrainian government in a quid pro quo to harm Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. It was in essence an establishment-organized reframing of the Ukrainian situation by shifting suspicion from Biden to Trump. In fact, what Trump was doing was acting on his duty as chief magistrate of the federal government to determine whether a former high-ranking government official, namely Biden, had engaged in a quid pro quo with a foreign leader to cover up criminal activity involving his family.
Recall that in July 2019, a whistleblower complaint was filed by a member of the US intelligence community. The complaint alleged that Trump had engaged in improper conduct during a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky on July 25, 2019. In response to the whistleblower’s complaint and the release of the phone call transcript, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump on September 24, 2019. The House of Representatives drafted and approved two articles of impeachment against Trump, the first charging him with abuse of power for soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 US presidential election, the second accused him of obstructing Congress by refusing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. The Senate trial took place in the Senate in January 2020 with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding. On February 5, 2020, the Senate voted on both articles of impeachment. To convict and remove Trump from office, a two-thirds majority vote (67 senators) was required. The Senate acquitted Trump on both charges. The vote was almost entirely along party lines, with only one Republican, Senator Mitt Romney, voting to convict Trump on one of the articles.
In Grassley’s actions, we can see the other side of Biden’s collusion with corporate powers in Ukraine and why Trump was right to make that phone call to Zelensky—again, it was his duty. The facts are that Shokin was looking into Burisma, and Hunter Biden was brought onto the Burisma board despite having zero experience in this field (energy) in order to leverage his father against that prosecutor to stop that investigation. Here is Grassley’s tweet containing the PDF files of FBI (FD-1023) so you can read them for yourself.
Based on information from the FBI’s confidential human source, it is alleged that executives at Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, brought Hunter Biden onto their board with the intention of gaining protection from potential issues through his father, then-Vice President Biden. During that time, Burisma was facing a corruption investigation in Ukraine, led by Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. According to reports, Burisma CEO Mykola Zlochevsky claimed, using the Russian crime slang “poluchili,” that he was coerced into paying $5 million to both Hunter Biden and Joe Biden. He stated that he possesses text messages and recordings indicating that he made these payments to ensure Shokin’s dismissal from the investigation. Zlochevsky mentioned having seventeen recordings in all, fifteen with Hunter Biden and two recordings with Joe Biden, along with documents that contained financial records related to the arrangement.
I want note here that I was telling people about this almost a year before the 2020 election. This was before Emma-Jo Morris, writing for the New York Post (See my October 14, 2020 review of that event: New York Post Drops a Bombshell on the Biden Campaign), who testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government yesterday, exposed the Hunter Biden laptop, which, based on a federal subpoena showing the FBI was in possession of the material her story was based on showing that the government knew about it as far back as December of 2019, the same month and year I published my article on Freedom and Reason—without the benefit of the FBI subpoena. To be sure, it was a circumstantial case, but then the most solid cases are. You don’t need smoking guns or witnesses when you work scientifically. Nothing in the physical universe or in nature provides an observer with a document or a witness explaining what is going on. One determines such things based on the evidence indicating causal relationships. Smoking guns and witnesses only confirm what you already knew.
This is not to diminish Morris’ exposé, which did provide a smoking gun, reporting censored by social media platforms and legacy media, and in which several dozen intelligence agents, including five former CIA directors who, in an historic act of disinformation perpetrated against the American people, lied through their teeth in an open letter to suggest the laptop was Russian disinformation. Those intelligence officials knew that the claim made in that letter wasn’t true. The social media companies knew it wasn’t true. The legacy media knew it wasn’t true. As was shown yesterday during the hearings, the FBI confirmed to Twitter in 2020 before the election that the laptop was real but covered up the details to protect Joe Biden.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate that open letter by intelligence officials concerning the Hunter Biden laptop and Russian disinformation published on October 19, 2020, just weeks before the 2020 US presidential election. If you are not yet convinced that there is a permanent political establishment undermining the integrity of our electoral system, this should do it—if you are a rational being. The letter was signed by fifty former senior intelligence officials alleging that the laptop was potentially tied to Russian disinformation efforts. Some of the notable signatories included John Brennan, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Michael Hayden, former Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Leon Panetta, former Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines – Former Deputy Director of the CIA.
What were the intelligence officials determined to confuse the public about? What is on that laptop? The laptop, abandoned at a computer repair shop in Delaware, contained a trove of emails and personal documents, as well as photographs and video, indicating criminal behavior and corrupt dealings involving Hunter Biden and foreign entities, particularly in Ukraine and China, activities that include his father, Joe (the “Big Guy”), and Hunter’s uncle, James. The notorious open letter did not provide direct evidence of Russian involvement but cited several factors that raised suspicions, such as the timing of the laptop’s emergence and the suspicious circumstances surrounding its discovery. The letter stated that the signatories believed that the leak of the laptop’s contents “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation.” It also cautioned the public and the media to be vigilant and not to spread potentially manipulated or false information without thorough verification.
The disinformation campaign continues and has even been take up by artificial intelligence. As you know, I have been beta-testing a few AI systems. I just asked ChatGPT to tell me about the letter and it did. I then asked for a list of the signatories. The chatbot’s response: “I apologize for the confusion, but there seems to be a misunderstanding. As of my last knowledge update in September 2021, there was no ‘open letter by intelligence officials’ concerning the Hunter Biden laptop and Russian disinformation that was signed by 50 former senior intelligence officials or any specific number of intelligence officials.” The chatbot lies and then tells me to consult the very media sources that covered up the laptop story.
We then had this exchange:
I enjoyed seeing Morris gloating yesterday about her vindication by mainstream media concerning her reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop after a concerted effort by deep state and the legacy and social media to censor her work and diminish her as a reporter, all part of a major prong in a color revolution to oust a president the establishment didn’t like and install in his stead a devoted operative in the project to quash populist-nationalism and pursue war in Ukraine. Morris’ gloating was well-deserved and my hat is off to her. I want to take a moment to gloat, as well. My progressive friends and family, as well as colleagues, were so disturbed by what I was talking about in the run-up to the 2020 election that they wondered aloud what was wrong with me. “What’s wrong with Andy?” Nothing. What’s wrong with you? They were wrong and I was right, as has so often been the case over the last several years.
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Note: Consider how sharp he is here. Did something happen between 2018 and 2020? Or is Sleepy Joe Biden an act? Is he trying to manufacture plausible denial if ever his lifetime of corruption comes to light by feigning a dead and desiccated Incan king? Well, it has come to light. You have a front row seat to something—of what I am unsure. Will he resign and be replaced? Or will we continue to be told there is nothing to see here? Whichever it is, you will know now more clearly than perhaps you ever did that there is a permanent political establishment that is working the levers to advance the managed decline of the American Republic. That establishment is in cahoots with the Democratic Party. Wake up to the truth. America will not survive but a few more rounds of this party in power.
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This the most shameful and sociopathic American foreign policy adventure of my lifetime, at least that I am aware of. And I doubt Biden was the only American politician on the take: Clinton, Graham and McCain were all balls deep in it. Obama had to have known and approved.