TLDR: So Fox News broke news that Joe Biden likely took a $5 million bribe, and urged the firing of a prosecutor that was investigating the Bidens. The company, a Ukrainian oil and gas firm called Bursima, provided the funds and paid off both Hunter Biden and the POTUS. The source for this is a source that remains anonymous but is regarded as highly reliable to the FBI, and the same source to date has been paid $200k by the FBI to provide info to the agency. Full transcript below.
EXCLUSIVE: President Joe Biden was allegedly paid $5 million by an executive of the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where his son Hunter Biden sat on the board, a confidential human source told the FBI during a June 2020 interview, sources familiar told Fox News Digital.
The sources briefed Fox News Digital on the contents of the FBI-generated FD-1023 form alleging a criminal bribery scheme between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national that involved influence over U.S. policy decisions.
EXCLUSIVE: PERSON ALLEGING BIDEN CRIMINAL BRIBERY SCHEME IS 'HIGHLY CREDIBLE' FBI SOURCE USED SINCE OBAMA ADMIN: SOURCE
The FD-1023 form, dated June 30, 2020, is the FBI's interview with a "highly credible" confidential source who detailed multiple meetings and conversations he or she had with a top Burisma executive over the course of several years, starting in 2015. Fox News Digital has not seen the form, but it was described by several sources who are aware of its contents.
An FD-1023 form is used by FBI agents to record unverified reporting from confidential human sources. The form is used to document information as told to an FBI agent, but recording that information does not validate or weigh it against other information known by the FBI.
Hunter Biden gets off plane with president
President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, step off Air Force One, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at Hanpeepee Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
The Burisma executive sought the advice of the confidential source, a business professional, on gaining U.S. oil rights and getting involved with a U.S. oil company, the sources familiar with the document said. The Burisma executive was speaking with the confidential source to "get advice on the best way to go forward" in 2015 and 2016.
According to the FD-1023 form, the confidential human source said the Burisma executive discussed Hunter’s role on the board. The confidential human source questioned why the Burisma executive needed his or her advice in acquiring access to U.S. oil if he had Hunter Biden on the board. The Burisma executive answered by referring to Hunter Biden as "dumb."
The Burisma executive explained to the confidential source that Burisma had to "pay the Bidens" because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma, and explained how difficult it would be to enter the U.S. market in the midst of that investigation.
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The confidential source further detailed that conversation, suggesting to the Burisma executive that he "pay the Bidens $50,000 each," to which the Burisma executive replied, it is "not $50,000," it is "$5 million."
"$5 million for one Biden, $5 million for the other Biden," the Burisma executive told the confidential human source, according to a source familiar with the document.
A source familiar said according to the document, the $5 million payments appeared to reference a kind of "retainer" Burisma intended to pay the Bidens to deal with a number of issues, including the investigation led by Shokin. Another source referred to the arrangement as a "pay-to-play" scheme.
Sources familiar told Fox News Digital that the confidential human source believes that the $5 million payment to Joe Biden and the $5 million payment to Hunter Biden occurred, based on his or her conversations with the Burisma executive.
The confidential source said the Burisma executive told him he "paid" the Bidens in such a manner "through so many different bank accounts" that investigators would not be able to "unravel this for at least 10 years."
The document then makes reference to "the Big Guy," which, has been said to be a reference to Joe Biden.
The Burisma executive told the confidential source that he "didn’t pay the Big Guy directly."
President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden leaves following services at St. Edmond Catholic Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on April 15, 2023. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital has learned that the confidential human source has been used by the FBI as a regular, reliable source of information since 2010 and has been paid approximately $200,000 by the bureau.
Sources said the Burisma executive appears to be at a "very, very high level" of the company. One source familiar suggested the confidential source could be referring to the head of Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, but said the name of the Burisma executive is redacted in the document.
Biden has acknowledged that when he was vice president, he successfully pressured Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin. At the time, Shokin was investigating Burisma Holdings, and at the time, Hunter had a highly-lucrative role on the board receiving thousands of dollars per month. The then-vice president threatened to withhold $1 billion of critical U.S. aid if Shokin was not fired.
"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,’" Biden recalled telling then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. Biden recollected the conversation during an event for the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018.
"Well, son of a b-word, he got fired," Biden said during the event. "And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."
Biden allies maintain the then-vice president pushed for Shokin's firing due to concerns the Ukrainian prosecutor went easy on corruption, and say that his firing, at the time, was the policy position of the U.S. and international community.
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump, pressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to launch investigations into the Biden family’s actions and business dealings in Ukraine —specifically Hunter Biden’s ventures with Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings and Joe Biden’s successful effort to have Shokin ousted.
Trump's request was regarded by Democrats as a quid pro quo for millions in U.S. military aid to Ukraine had been frozen. Democrats also claimed Trump was meddling in the 2020 presidential election by asking a foreign leader to look into a Democratic political opponent.
Joe Biden waving with Hunter Biden
President Biden, left, and his son Hunter Biden, right. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump was later impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress -- all stemming from the phone call and the question about the Bidens' dealings. The Senate voted for acquittal in February 2020.
The confidential source, according to the sources familiar with the FD-1023 form, told the Burisma executive he should "get away" from the Bidens and said the executive should "not want to be involved" with them.
A source familiar with the document told Fox News Digital that the confidential human source goes on to detail a later conversation with the Burisma executive following the 2016 presidential election. The confidential source asked the Burisma executive if he was "upset" that Donald Trump won.
WHISTLEBLOWER ALLEGES FBI, DOJ HAVE DOCUMENT REVEALING CRIMINAL SCHEME INVOLVING BIDEN, FOREIGN NATIONAL
The source said the Burisma executive told the confidential source that he was "an oracle," referring to his or her advice to "get away" from the Bidens due to fears of potential investigations into their dealings.
Sen. Chuck Grassley speaks into mircrophone during hearing
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IO). (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The House Oversight Committee had subpoenaed the FBI for the FD-1023 document. After a back-and-forth between the committee and the bureau, and amid threats of holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress, the FBI allowed all committee members to view the document in a secure setting on Capitol Hill.
Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The revelations of the document came after a whistleblower approached GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., The whistleblower said the FBI was in possession of a document – the FD-1023 form dated June 30, 2020.
The White House has maintained that President Biden has never been involved in his son's business dealings and has never discussed them with him.
Hunter Biden is currently under federal investigations for his "tax affairs." The investigation began in 2018 and was prompted by suspicious foreign transactions.
The White House declined to comment, pointing to a statement by Joe Biden Thursday calling the allegations "a bunch of malarky."
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-allegedly-paid-5-million-by-burisma-executive
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I ain’t reading all that without seeing a new Hunter Biden peepee pic
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Fake news, pal. I'm ridin' with Biden.
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yeah I aint reading all that neighbor but I respect the effort.
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I respect that. The militantly uninformed are cornerstones of our democracy.
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This would do literally nothing to launder the money. Bank transactions create permanent, auditable, known-customer transactions. It does sound like the kind of r-slurred drivel a DDR supporter would say however.
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It could be done from banks that do not have stringent AML standards in their banking, which is possible in Eastern Europe, or you know Wells Fargo if you're American.
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Tldr IDGAF KITTY lmfao!
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How is this news? I swear I heard about it like 2018/19
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It's news because it shows that:
The scope of the crime is not isolated to improper foreign influencing peddling by Hunter Biden, but also involves his father, the president.
Zelensky is likely blackmailing the president to get additional aid for Ukraine.
The FBI knew that this was occurring and sad on evidence indicating this.
Trump unironically was right to withhold aid from Ukraine in exchange for an investigation, something he was impeached for.
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Calling it now the informant is Christopher Steele.
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Peepee tape pls
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Drumpf needs a distraction
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Factcheck: This claim is both true and false.
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This claim is uninteresting, so don't read it.
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They're being intentionally vaque or misleading here. "The Biden's" were Hunter and Joe Biden's brother James. At least that's what Chuck Grassley said not too long ago.
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Trust me the only people r-slurred enough to be burisima truthers are too dumb to be reasoned with. There's a reason even house republicans are trying to backpedal.
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There's no one to primary him with. It's gonna be Biden v. Trump
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I would vote for Marianne Williamson or Kooky Kennedy over Biden at this point.
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trans lives matter
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Please DO NOT announce to the site when you are going to masturbate. This has been a reoccurring issue, and I'm not sure why some people have such under developed social skills that they think that a site full of mostly male strangers would need to know that. No one is going to be impressed and give you a high five (especially considering where that hand has been). I don't want to add this to the rules, since it would be embarrassing for new users to see that we have a problem with this, but it is going to be enforced as a rule from now on.
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