The Timing is Very Coincidental

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sent a letter today to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking for documents associated with contacts among former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, officials of the Obama administration, and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Graham’s letter lays out that on February 4, 2016, then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin announced a seizure of property from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma Holdings, LLC. His home was raided and the property seized on February 2, 2016.

The senator also pointed out that on the same day Shokin announced the seizure, Hunter Biden began “following” then-Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Twitter. Blinken had been a long time advisor to the Vice President, and the Twitter interactions could possibly have initiated conversations involving Shokin’s investigation into Burisma. This was also during the same time period that Hunter Biden served as a board member to Burisma.

According to records that Graham had received from media sources, there were a series of phone calls between the Vice President and Ukrainian President Poroshenko that took place on February 11, 18, and 19 of 2016, and one other on March 22, 2016. Subsequently, only seven days after that last call in March, Prosecutor General Shokin was removed from office on March 29, 2016.

Lindsey Graham’s List

In order for Graham to answer questions on the allegations that Vice President Biden played a part in terminating the Prosecutor General to stop the effort of investigating the company that was employing his son, the senator has specifically requested the following:

1.)All documents and communications, including call transcripts or summaries, related to the Vice President’s phone calls with President Poroshenko on February 11, 18, and 19 and March 22 of 2016, especially with respect to whether Vice President Biden mentioned the Prosecutor General’s investigation into Burisma.

2.)All documents and communications between the Vice President and his office and President Poroshenko and his office after the raid on Mr. Zlochevsky’s home on February 2, 2016, until the dismissal of the Prosecutor General on March 29, 2016.

3.)All documents and communications related to a meeting between Devon Archer, a business partner of Hunter Biden, and Secretary of State John Kerry on March 2, 2016.