On Thursday, The Daily Signal posted an article about an effort made by the State Department to avoid bad publicity for the Biden family before the 2020 election.

The article reports:

A former Ukrainian diplomat who was at one point set to give negative testimony about Hunter Biden’s business links appears to have wrongly had his visa to the United States revoked, according to newly released documents.

The White House Task Force on Government Transparency and Election Integrity released the information to reporters late Wednesday about the State Department and Treasury Department taking action in 2020 to revoke the visa of Andrii Telizhenko, the Ukrainian diplomat. Telizhenko had worked for the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington.

Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin had called him to testify in early 2020, shortly after the first President Donald Trump impeachment, regarding the president’s phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which Trump inquired about then-former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s links to the energy company Burisma.

Democrats accused Telizhenko of promoting Russian disinformation.

The deep state was (and is) alive and well and working against President Trump.

The article concludes:

The Democrat-led House impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in December 2019, but the Senate acquitted him in February 2020.

Johnson, then chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced in a February letter his intention to subpoena Telizhenko. But the interview did not happen after Democrats said he was spreading Russian disinformation.

In October 2020, the State Department revoked Telizhenko’s visa, and in January 2021, the Department of the Treasury sanctioned him, alleging he was tied to Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections.

Somehow I don’t think it was the Russians who were trying to influence U.S. elections.