Republican Senator. Chuck Grassley released an unclassified document Thursday that Republicans claim is significant in their investigation of Hunter Biden as they delve into the financial affairs of the president and his son.
One key asterisk: everything in it has been deemed to be unverified and debunked.
Grassley has been working alongside House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, as Republicans deepen their probe of President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, ahead of the 2024 election.
Following a partial review, this is the first time the full document is being made public. Called an FD-1023 form, it involves claims a confidential informant made in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s alleged business dealings when he served on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Top Republicans have acknowledged they cannot confirm whether the information is accurate.
“The American people can now read this document for themselves,” Grassley said.
White House spokesman Ian Sams said Thursday, “It is remarkable that congressional Republicans, in their eagerness to go after President Biden regardless of the truth, continue to push claims that have been debunked for years.”
He added that Trump’s own DOJ investigated the claims and found them untruthful.
In the four-page document, the confidential informant claims to have been involved in various meetings in 2015 or 2016, with officials from the Burisma energy company looking to do business in the US. The informant claims being told by Burisma officials about their relationship and dealings with Hunter.
One company official said they kept Hunter Biden on the Burisma board because “his dad” could protect them.
In another instance, a top company official suggested payment of $5 million to each of the Bidens as the company sought to have Ukraine’s prosecutor general at the time, removed from office.
Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the highest-ranking Democrat Congressman on the Oversight panel, said the document released by Republicans “records the unverified, secondhand, years-old allegations” that were already shown to be not true during the 2019 impeachment hearings.
“As the FBI explained, the allegations were also thoroughly investigated by Donald Trump’s own Justice Department,” Raskin wrote. That assessment was closed in August 2020 after eight months of investigative efforts, he said, and “found insufficient evidence” to warrant further investigation.
