Remember Eric Ciaramella? He’s the Ukraine whistleblower who lobbed a report sent to Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) office in 2019, which set off the first Trump impeachment effort. It’s where the whole drama started between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and the perfect phone call where the crux of the charge against Trump is that there was an attempted quid pro quo arrangement: Zelensky would investigate Biden’s alleged felonious activities during the Burisma investigation, where a top Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was fired, in return for the United States not cutting off military aid.
With the backdrop of the 2020 election, Democrats alleged Trump was trying to get foreign actors to interfere in our elections. It was a circus that lasted weeks, distracting us from focusing on preparing for the coronavirus pandemic that was to be unleashed the following year.
Hunter Biden was on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, for which he had zero experience. It was a no-show job, and the fee he was earning was quite steep. Burisma was paying top dollar for government access and a legal shield. They got that, and the main allegation is that Biden wanted Shokin gone to keep the gravy train going. In 2014, Biden oversaw US policy implementation in Ukraine, and he boasted about getting Shokin fired since he threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid. Biden admitted to the very crime the Democrats accused of Trump, but you know why no one attacked him. New emails point to another allegation: Ciaramella had deep ties to the Biden family’s interest in Ukraine, considered a point person on some, and might have covered up the shady deeds in the process. At any rate, Real Clear Investigations’ Paul Sperry couldn’t help but highlight the irony: the man who got Trump impeached could be the one who might be forced to testify in Biden’s impeachment: