Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says the Burisma executive who allegedly bribed Joe Biden kept 17 audio recordings of phone calls as an “insurance policy.”
According to a ‘highly credible’ whistleblower, an FD-1023 internal memo created in 2020 based on information from a highly paid FBI informant apparently details a $5 million ‘arrangement’ to exchange money for decisions politics between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
In a bombshell speech to the Senate on Monday, the Iowa lawmaker cited what was allegedly redacted in FBI filing FD-1023 on the alleged payment.
Grassley said the foreign national had 15 phone call records with Hunter and two with Joe.
He claims they were kept as an ‘insurance policy’ in case the foreign national found himself in a ‘hard spot’.
Grassley said the foreign national had 15 phone call records with Hunter and two with Joe
The form also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved with Burisma by employing Hunter Biden, Grassley continued.
The senator also criticized the FBI for finally agreeing to show lawmakers a redacted version of Form FD-1023 ‘on the same day’ the Justice Department announced a 37-count indictment of the former President Donald Trump for alleged mishandling of classified records.
Trump is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Miami.
“Two standards of justice in this country will upend our Constitutional Republic,” Grassley told the Senate.
“Thanks to the political infection in Biden’s Justice Department and the FBI, we’re well on our way to making that happen.”
Republicans issued a subpoena for Form FD-1023 last month and FBI Director Chris Wray was given a strict May 30 deadline to turn over the unclassified document, which he did not not comply.
After a long back-and-forth between the FBI and congressional Republicans, including a threat to hold the director in contempt of Congress, Wray finally cleared the form for lawmakers to view in a secure setting last week.
After reviewing the document last week, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters that the charges in the form “suggest a pattern of corruption” consistent with findings that the committee has made public.
It’s called ‘money laundering,’ he said, saying it was part of a pattern of more than $1 million in Romania-related payments to the Biden family revealed last month.
However, Grassley criticized the FBI for showing “disrespect” to Congress in the way it authorized the reading of the document.
“The FBI has asked Congress to review a redacted unclassified document at a classified facility,” the senator criticized.
“Based on the facts known to Congress and the public, it is clear that the Justice Department and the FBI will use every resource to investigate Candidate Trump, President Trump, and former President Trump,” the official said. senator.
He went on to say that the agencies haven’t had the “same laser focus” on the Biden family.
Grassley added that he wanted everyone to remember, that he had read the full, unredacted version of the form, and that he would continue to press the FBI for transparency with the American people.
The “confidential human source” behind the form’s claims is a “trusted and highly credible informant” who has been used by the FBI for more than 10 years and has been paid more than six figures, the Republicans said.
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Additionally, the FBI file is currently being used in an ongoing investigation by the Delaware Department of Justice into Hunter Biden’s finances.
Republicans also told DailyMail.com that Biden’s whistleblower in the alleged bribery scheme now fears ‘someone could kill them if anyone finds out who they are’ for bringing potentially damaging information to light. on Joe Biden when he was vice president.
The FBI confirmed to DailyMail.com last week that it would allow lawmakers to view the document.
“The FBI has continually demonstrated its commitment to working with the Committee to fulfill its request, from scheduling briefings and appeals to allowing the President to review the information in person. The FBI remains committed to cooperating in good faith with the Committee.
In early May, Republicans led by Comer and Grassley released a report exploring more than $10 million received by members of the Biden family from foreign actors, including $1 million in previously undisclosed Romania-related payments. , and a “web” of 20 companies created while President Joe Biden was vice president and pushed anti-corruption efforts overseas.
