If James Comer Is Correct, What Could Joe Biden’s Defense Possibly Be?

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Thursday, August 17, 2023

 

Per Representative James Comer, Vice President Joe Biden corresponded by email with Burisma and his son, Hunter, while using a pseudonym that allowed him to evade FOIA requests. Brittany notes that:

 

Among the documents of interest is a file entitled, “Email Messages To and/or From Vice President Biden and Hunter Biden related to Burisma and Ukraine.” The file exists on NARA’s website in a heavily redacted state.

 

The committee is seeking more information about an email with the subject line “Friday Schedule Card.” A document that is attached to that email indicates then-Vice President Biden had a call with then-Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.

 

Comer writes that the committee is concerned because the document was sent to “Robert L. Peters,” an apparent pseudonym used by then-Vice President Biden. Hunter Biden was the only person copied on the email to the then-vice president.

 

Comer specifically requests all unredacted documents and communications “in which then-Vice President Joe Biden used a pseudonym; Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, or Devon Archer is copied; and all drafts of then-Vice President Biden’s speech delivered to the Ukrainian Rada in December 2015.”

 

Perhaps Comer’s claim is factually incorrect. But, assuming it’s not, the obvious next inquiry is: Why? Why did Joe Biden do this? What could the innocent explanation be? Why did he deny having anything to do with his son’s business if he knew that he had sent emails under a pseudonym?

 

If this allegation is proven to be accurate, what could the defense possibly be? As with the claims that the Biden family created a network of more than 20 shell companies; that Vice President Biden joined phone calls with Hunter and his foreign business partners upwards of twenty times; and that Joe flew Hunter to China on Air Force Two to meet with one of Hunter’s CCP-connected Chinese business partners, I honestly can’t think of one.

 

Increasingly, I am of the view that the only important question here is whether Comer’s factual claims can be substantiated. If they can, there’ll be nowhere for Joe Biden to hide. We’ve gone quite quickly from “there was no connection whatsoever between Joe Biden and his son’s business” to “okay, there was a connection between Joe Biden and his son’s business, but it was innocent” to “there’s no direct proof that Biden was paid off here.” What’s next, exactly?