A top Republican has torn into a ‘damning’ photo of Biden with a Hunter-linked aide on Air Force Two while they were flying to Ukraine to demand prosecutors drop the Burisma Holdings investigation.
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik slammed the image of the then-Vice President with Amos Hochstein, Biden’s current special presidential coordinator, which was taken on December 6, 2015.
Hochstein was allegedly in communication with Hunter’s associates at Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings when the first son was serving on the firm’s board.
Biden was threatening to withhold $1billion in US aid if they did not fire their top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin. He was sacked three months after the December 2015 trip to Ukraine.
Hochstein still works in the Biden administration. A damning Republican Senate report in 2020 said he repeatedly warned that Hunter’s position on the Burisma board would spark conflict of interest allegations.
Emails that surfaced in 2020 also suggested Burisma board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi was in contact with Hochstein.
Pozharskyi flagged to Hochstein’s office how tax legislation in Ukraine would impact the energy sector, in which they were a major player.
In the image, Hochstein is seen briefing Biden. According to Stefanik, this shows the ‘Biden Administration not only knew of Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings, but also that Joe Biden was intimately involved.’
Stefanik told Fox News Digital in a statement: ‘This damning picture of then Vice President Joe Biden on Air Force Two en route to Ukraine talking with Amos Hochstein is just further evidence that Biden and senior officials in the Biden Administration not only knew of Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign business dealings, but also that Joe Biden was intimately involved while Vice President.
‘At the time of this photo, Hochstein was in communication with Hunter Biden and Burisma where Hunter served on the board.
‘We also know that this photo was taken on Air Force Two ahead of Joe Biden’s now infamous meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, where Biden threatened to have aid withheld if a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma was not fired.
‘All evidence points directly to Joe Biden being deeply compromised.
‘House Republicans will leave no stone unturned in our investigations into Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence peddling scheme.’
