Joe Biden smiled and chuckled before darting down a White House hallway as he recently faced bribery charges in Burisma from his time as vice president.
“Are there any tapes where you take bribes, President Biden? Is that true?’ a New York Post reporter investigated when Biden, 80, left an event with US diplomats in the White House East room.
Stopping as he walked away, Biden was seen to grin awkwardly, chuckle to himself, and then shake his head as he continued to walk away without answering the question.
According to a “highly credible” whistleblower, an internal 2020 FBI FD-1023 memo describes a $5 million “arrangement” for an exchange of money for policy decisions between then-Vice President Biden and a foreigner, who referred to Joe Biden as the ‘Big Guy’.
Joe Biden walks with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken just before he grinned and chuckled when asked about Burisma
The memo recently resurfaced during a speech by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa after the FBI allowed lawmakers to see a redacted informant file related to Congressional investigations into Biden, his son Hunter, and the Ukrainian company. Burisma.
In a bombshell speech on the Senate floor Monday, GOP Senator Grassley accused the FBI of redacting information about the tapes from the FD-1023 informant file.
Grassley said the director has 15 recordings of phone conversations with Hunter and two with Joe. It remains unclear whether the FBI has possession of the alleged tapes.
Before Grassley’s speech earlier this month, at a joint White House press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Biden said shrugged when asked about allegations of the corruption of his family.
Reporters shouted questions as the two prepared to leave the stage after spending 40 minutes answering four pre-selected journalists.
And when asked about the allegations, he said: ‘Where’s the money? It’s a joke. It’s a lot of malarkey.’
Reporters also questioned Biden about the charges against former president and Biden’s political rival, Donald Trump.
As Biden continued to walk away from the mob, another reporter could be heard asking for comment on Trump’s allegations regarding classified documents — to which the president replied with a defiant “no.”
The FD-1023 form was created in June 2020 after the FBI discovered information provided by Grassley in 2017. The file resurfaced when a whistleblower contacted the senator, who then told House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer.
According to a “highly credible” whistleblower, an internal FD-1023 memo from 2020 describes a $5 million “arrangement” for an exchange of money for policy decisions between then-Vice President Biden and Mykola Zlochevsky (pictured) that referred to Joe Biden as the ‘Big Guy’.
The form also indicated that then-Vice President Biden may have been involved in employing Hunter Biden in Burisma, Grassley said during the explosive speech on the Senate floor.
The senator also slammed the FBI for finally agreeing to show lawmakers a redacted version of the FD-1023 form “on the same day” that the Justice Department announced a 37-count indictment against former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling of classified documents.
Trump was arraigned in Miami on Tuesday and pleaded “not guilty” on all 37 counts.
“Two standards of law in this country will turn our constitutional republic upside down,” Grassley said Monday in the Senate.
“Thanks to the political infection within the Biden Justice Department and the FBI, we are well on our way to making that happen.”
On Tuesday, Senator Ted Cruz questioned FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate about the FD-1023 form.
Abbate told the Texas senator he would not comment on the form or its contents.
“I’m just not going to comment on information we’ve received for investigations or other matters.”
The FD-1023 form also indicates that then-Vice President Biden (left) may have been involved with Burisma and hired Hunter Biden (right)
Cruz returned fire, accusing Abbate and the FBI in general of ‘obstructing and covering up’ serious allegations of evidence of corruption of the President.”
After a lengthy back-and-forth between the FBI and congressional Republicans, including a threat to hold the director in contempt for Congress, Wray finally allowed the form to be viewed by lawmakers in a safe environment last week.
After reviewing the document last week, Comer told reporters that the allegations in the form “suggest a pattern of bribery” consistent with findings the commission has made public.
It’s been called “money laundering,” he said, saying it fits the pattern of more than $1 million in Romanian payments to the Biden family revealed last month.
Grassley, however, denounced the FBI for the “disrespect” shown by Congress in the way the document was allowed to be read.
“The FBI has had Congress review a redacted unclassified document in a classified facility,” the senator criticized.
“Based on the facts known to Congress and the public, it is clear that the Justice Department and the FBI will use all resources to investigate candidate Trump, President Trump and former President Trump,” the senator said.
He went on to say that the agencies have not had the same laser focus on the Biden family.
Grassley added that he wants everyone to remember that he read the full unredacted version of the form and that he will continue to push the FBI for transparency with the American people.
Republicans led by James Comer and Chuck Grassley released a report addressing more than $10 million Biden family members had received from foreign actors
The “confidential human source” behind the allegations in the form is a “trusted, highly credible informant” who has been used by the FBI for more than 10 years and has been charged more than six figures, the Republicans said.
In addition, the FBI file is currently being used in an ongoing investigation being conducted by the Delaware Department of Justice into Hunter Biden’s finances.
Republicans have also told DailyMail.com that the Biden whistleblower in the alleged bribery scheme now fears “that someone could kill them if someone finds out who they are” because he exposed potentially damaging information about Biden when he was Vice-President president.
In early May, Republicans led by Comer and Grassley released a report addressing more than $10 million received by Biden family members from foreign actors, including previously undisclosed $1 million in Romania-linked payments, and a “web” of 20 companies founded while President Joe Biden was Vice President and committed to fighting corruption abroad.
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Biden family associate and Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, on Monday night.
Comer wrote that Archer’s testimony is “critical” to the Republicans’ investigation, based on his deep ties to international deals with Biden family businesses – including in Ukraine.
He is due to appear on June 16 for a statement.
Comer also confirmed that at least three additional FD-1023 forms exist for Wray’s committee leadership to review in the coming days.