FTA:

Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Hunter Biden, said his client "asked various people," including the U.S. ambassador to Italy at the time, John R. Phillips, whether they could arrange an introduction between Burisma and the president of the Tuscany region of Italy, where Burisma was pursuing a geothermal project.

"No meeting occurred, no project materialized, no request for anything in the U.S. was ever sought and only an introduction in Italy was requested," Mr. Lowell said in a statement, calling the outreach by Mr. Biden a "proper request."

His outreach to the U.S. Embassy in Rome on behalf of Burisma, which has not been previously reported, echoes other episodes for which he has been criticized for implicitly leveraging his father's political clout to try to advance his foreign business.

A White House spokesman said the president was not aware when he was vice president that his son was reaching out to the U.S. Embassy in Italy on behalf of Burisma.

A person familiar with the timing said the release of the Italy documents was planned by the State Department weeks before the president announced his decision and was cleared by the White House the week before Mr. Biden decided to drop out.

The State Department is notoriously slow when it comes to releasing public records. Its backlog of nearly 19,000 FOIA requests - some of which date back many years - at the end of fiscal year 2022 was the third largest in the federal government, according to a report issued by the Government Accountability Office this year.

Ivanka received Chinese patents after her father became President and she became a White House official. Her husband leveraged a personal friendship developed during his work as one of Trump's foreign policy advisors into a $2 Billion investment from the Saudi PIF - against the wishes of the board itself, overruled by MBS. Yet Hunter Biden going through established channels, asking for help in setting up a meeting towards the benefit of the company he then worked for and NOT getting any assistance is influence peddling? The NYT makes clear that there was no connection between Hunter's request and his father's position as VP. The only thing scandalous here is the libelous headline smearing someone that wasn't involved at all.

What, exactly is the "it" that your current alias thinks occurred?

That Hunter reached out to a U.S. government entity for assistance with Burisma. "That" happened.

But what also happened was that Biden got no assistance from the embassy. That also happened.

Here's something else that happened: Jared went to the Saudi PIF asking for funds to manage and was rebuffed and told to go packing since he had ZERO experience in fund management. Then Jared went to his friend MBS who overruled the fund's managers and authorized a $2 Billion investment with his company.

THAT my friend is influence peddling. Something that didn't happen with Hunter Biden's request and denial, something his father was never even informed of. Influence was not peddled.

Are we clear now?

"But Trump!!!!!!

Thread over.

Actually, there isn't one single reference to Donald Trump in any of the above posts before Lamp's, after yours.

Now THAT's a strawman - creating something yourself to criticize others through false inference.

Mission Accomplished!

negate Biden's

Kindly show us where Joe Biden has been corrupt because it certainly isn't this story that has no connection to Joe whatsoever.

Just doing another drive by without stopping to comprehend the details outside of a false title. Come on Bell, you're better than that.