Thread by @America1stLegal

/1🚨BREAKING – Last night, we filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit against the Biden DOJ for failing to require Hunter Biden to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Damning evidence of Hunter's activities on behalf of foreign entities below…

/2 FARA requires each agent of a foreign principal to register with the DOJ, and the DOJ to make that registration readily available to the public. To date, Hunter Biden has not registered, despite DOJ's clear awareness of his activities.

/3 After filing suit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), AFL obtained records confirming that Hunter directly represented Burisma in its dealings with the White House’s Office of the Vice President under Joe Biden.

/4 This finding—coupled with congressional investigations and reports, damning whistleblower testimony, and emails obtained from executed search warrants—make it clear that Burisma paid Hunter to influence the United States government through his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.

See a condensed timeline involving Burisma below:

/5 Devon Archer testified to @GOPoversight that Burisma hired Hunter as a board member because, while Hunter’s “theoretical” value to Burisma was “corporate governance,” the “key component of the value” he brought to Burisma was “the brand” of “the Biden family,” but then-VP Joe Biden “Obviously” “brought the most value to the brand.”

/6 @WaysandMeansGOP’s IRS “Whistleblower X,” Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, revealed that, on April 17, 2014, Burisma exec Pozharskyi emailed Devon Archer regarding the plan to “use” the “political weight” of their new directors, especially Hunter, “strategically” with a “media campaign” or “informal talks with relevant interested parties” after VP Joe Biden left Ukraine.

@GOPoversight @WaysandMeansGOP /7 On May 13, 2014, a Russian media outlet published a story raising questions about Burisma naming Hunter as a board member.

/8 In violation of FARA, Hunter intended to influence the Office of the Vice President regarding its official response to the incoming press inquiries.
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https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1631352060502220800

/9 Ziegler revealed to @WaysandMeansGOP that, on September 24, 2014, Devon Archer forwarded an e-mail to Hunter in which David Leiter of ML Strategies responded to Pozharskyi about their efforts to “alert U.S. officials who might be able to influence Ukraine to not adopt such harmful measures.”

@WaysandMeansGOP /10 In October 2014, Pozharskyi emailed Devon Archer to check in on Hunter Biden’s “progress with DHS” on a “visa issue,” and Hunter’s associate, Eric Schwerin, called John Sandweg, Obama’s then-recently retired ICE Director.

@WaysandMeansGOP /11 In April 2015, VP Joe Biden attended dinner at Cafe Milano in Washington, DC with Hunter and Pozharskyi, and Pozharskyi followed up with an email thanking Hunter for inviting him “to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spen[d] some time together.”

@WaysandMeansGOP /12 On November 3, 2015, Eric Schwerin provided Pozharskyi with an update regarding Burisma President Zlochevskyi’s “visa issue” after they, through John Sandweg, caused their contacts at DHS to search its databases.

/13 In early November 2015, Hunter and Pozharskyi made it clear that the purpose of retaining Blue Star Strategies would “implicitly” be for the purposes of targeting top U.S. officials in Ukraine “with the ultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against Nikolay [Zlochevskyi] in Ukraine.”

@WaysandMeansGOP /14 On December 4, 2015, Hunter “called his dad” when Zlochevsky and Pozharskyi asked him to call to “get help in D.C.” for pressure from Ukrainian Government investigations.

/15 That same day, VP Biden “signed off” on an official statement through his Communications Director, Kate Bedingfield, after Eric Schwerin provided edits, in response to the reporters’ inquiries about Hunter’s involvement with Burisma.

https://twitter.com/america1stlegal/status/1637917541052960768

/16 On December 9, 2015, VP Biden delivered a speech to the Ukrainian parliament demanding reform of the Prosecutor General’s Office, and he “changed the plan” regarding Obama Admin’s policy by making the renewal of a $1 billion loan guarantee for Ukraine continent upon the firing of Victor Shokin as Prosecutor General, leading to the Ukrainian parliament’s formal dismissal of Shokin in the next March.

/17 Devon Archer testified that the “theme of Burisma” was the “constant requests for help” for pressure issues—government investigations, frozen assets, visa denials— and “it’s always … can we get help in D.C.?”

/18 Devon Archer testified to @GOPoversight that Hunter placed his father on the phone at least twenty times with people he “was trying to either get business with or make contacts with or add value to.”

@GOPoversight /19 @GOPoversight’s investigation found that Hunter Biden, his family members, and his business associates benefitted at least $6.5 million from Ukrainian sources.

@GOPoversight /20 @WaysandMeansGOP’s interview of IRS “Whistleblower #1,” Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, revealed that the FBI had verified the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop as early as November 2019 and assessed “it was not manipulated in any way.”

@GOPoversight @WaysandMeansGOP /21 In August 2020, AUSA Lesley Wolf directed the FBI to redraft its FARA search warrant such a that there is “nothing about Political Figure 1 in there” (referring to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden).

@GOPoversight @WaysandMeansGOP /22 The FARA search warrant conducted on Hunter’s laptop used relevance “keywords” clearly related to this evidence:

@GOPoversight @WaysandMeansGOP /23 So far, @WaysandMeansGOP ’s investigation has linked the Biden Family influence-peddling scheme to 23 countries across four continents.

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@GOPoversight @WaysandMeansGOP /24 Despite all the evidence, and much more, Biden’s DOJ has not yet required Hunter to register under FARA and make it available to the public.

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