https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/15/remember-biden-bribe-allegation-doj-now-says-it-was-made-up/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.
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"For several months, Comer in particular publicly pushed for the release
of an FBI interview form documenting the allegation — an allegation
provided to the bureau by an informant who claimed to have been told
about the bribe by a Ukrainian businessman. Grassley slowly leaked out
new details from the interview document, such as a claim that there
might be telephone recordings of the parties involved in the alleged
bribe, including President Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Eventually, Grassley released the whole document.
As it turns out, the Justice Department was working on the verifiability
of the allegation. On Thursday, it unsealed an indictment: The informant
who alleged that he’d been told about the bribe had allegedly made the
whole thing up."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/13/gop-biden-allegation-analysis/

"Both because Trump was facing impeachment and because his team believed
that Biden was vulnerable on the issue, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani continued to seek derogatory information about Biden in Ukraine. This
was worrisome to federal law enforcement, which warned the Trump White
House that Giuliani might be a vector for Russian misinformation... At
the beginning of 2020, Barr established a process for vetting
information about Ukraine, clearly in part because of concern that
Giuliani’s information would trigger wild goose chases. The U.S.
attorney responsible for vetting the information, Scott Brady, met with Giuliani soon after.

Reporting suggests that the bribery allegation was brought to the FBI’s attention by Giuliani...

Regardless, the bureau spoke with a confidential source in June 2020
about the allegation, generating the FD-1023 document Comer and Grassley
are seeking. That source, whose identity the bureau is eager to protect,
is someone who had been paid by the bureau for information in the past
and is considered credible — though that of course doesn’t extend to the Burisma executive with whom the source spoke. It’s the executive who
alleged the bribery, money purportedly offered in part to halt the investigation of Burisma by Shokin.

An investigation, remember, that doesn’t appear to have existed."

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