{"id":78060,"date":"2021-05-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78060"},"modified":"2021-05-27T05:18:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:18:21","slug":"bagmans-groove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78060","title":{"rendered":"Bagman’s Groove"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Value propositions<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Ukrainian energy company that was paying President Biden\u2019s son Hunter $1 million a year cut his monthly compensation in half two months after his father ceased to be vice president.<\/p>\n

From May 2014, Burisma Holdings Ltd. was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board, invoices on his abandoned laptop show.<\/p>\n

But in an email on March 19, 2017, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi asked Hunter to sign a new director\u2019s agreement and informed him \u201cthe only thing that was amended is the compensation rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The board member’s access to the White House had been amended a bit, too, and it’s difficult to imagine Hunter’s, ahem, skill set was particularly valuable to a Ukranian energy company when his dad was a private citizen. There’s more:<\/p>\n

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Documents on the laptop also show that Hunter invited [Burisma executive Vadym] Pozharskyi to meet then-vice president Biden at a dinner in Washington DC in April, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That would be the laptop that dare not speak its name about seven months ago. While we’re not sure what was on the menu at that dinner, there were just desserts:<\/p>\n

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In December 2015, Biden flew to Kiev and strong-armed the Ukrainian government into firing its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma at the time, including seizing four large houses and a Rolls-Royce Phantom belonging to the company\u2019s owner Mykola Zlochevsky.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And there was more:<\/p>\n

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Three months later, Shokin was forced out of office, and nine months later, all legal proceedings against Burisma were dropped. Joe Biden has said in the past that Shokin wasn\u2019t doing enough to crack down on corruption and that the push had nothing to do with Hunter\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the future Leader of the Free World said this:<\/p>\n

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In a 2018 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, VPBiden bragged that he had threatened to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees for Ukraine unless Shokin was sacked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI looked at them and said, \u2018I\u2019m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you\u2019re not getting the money.\u2019 Well, son of a bitch. He got fired,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Correlation is not causation, but son of a bitch, it sure has an aroma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Value propositions: The Ukrainian energy company that was paying President Biden\u2019s son Hunter $1 million a year cut his monthly compensation in half two months after his father ceased to be vice president. From May 2014, Burisma Holdings Ltd. was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board, invoices on his abandoned laptop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,369,20,434,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-leftymoney","category-campaign-20","category-democrats","category-mr-d","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78061,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78060\/revisions\/78061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}