{"id":49510,"date":"2023-03-04T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T17:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49510"},"modified":"2023-03-04T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T17:10:59","slug":"what-an-incredible-coincidence-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49510","title":{"rendered":"What An Incredible Coincidence!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/02\/unsanctioned-russians-shopped-us-land-with-hunter-biden-dined-with-joe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reported that two Russian businessmen who spent time with Hunter and Joe Biden have somehow avoided the sanctions the U.S. placed on Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Two Russian billionaires who\u00a0have managed to dodge US sanctions over Moscow\u2019s year-old invasion of Ukraine\u00a0went property shopping with Hunter Biden, dined with then-Vice President Joe Biden, and discussed \u201cfavors\u201d they might swap, sources tell The Post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>New details of Joe and Hunter Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/24\/biden-doesnt-sanction-russian-billionaire-linked-to-hunter\/\">association with Yelena Baturina<\/a> and Vladimir Yevtushenkov flesh out tantalizing clues from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/01\/hunter-biden-admits-infamous-laptop-is-his-in-plea-for-probe\/\">first son\u2019s abandoned laptop<\/a>. The sources spoke with The Post this week after the duo was yet again spared a fresh batch of sanctions announced by the Treasury Department Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cI think it\u2019s very fishy,\u201d said one source who had firsthand knowledge of the business relationship between Hunter Biden and Yevtushenkov \u2014 who is sanctioned by the UK and Australia but not by the US.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cI think he should be sanctioned,\u201d Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama, told The Post of Yevtushenkov \u2014 estimated by Forbes to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/profile\/vladimir-yevtushenkov\/?sh=667121301dce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">worth $1.7 billion<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t understand why he has not been.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A Post reporter asked President Biden Wednesday on the White House lawn for an explanation of the non-sanctioning of his son\u2019s Russian oligarch associates, but Biden didn\u2019t reply and it\u2019s unclear if he heard the question as he walked to his Marine One helicopter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Biden allies previously sought to downplay his association with Baturina and the $3.5 million. An anonymous source told the Washington Post last year that Archer was supposed to dissolve the corporate entity that received the funds, but secretly kept it in existence for his own use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>However, emails from Hunter\u2019s laptop show he was actively engaged in courting Baturina. About a month after the transfer, Archer wrote to Hunter to say he was \u201c[w]ith Yelena\u201d and an April 26, 2014, email from Hunter to Archer said \u201cwe should ask Yelena to fund a short-term development team to scope projects\u201d after an attempted real estate deal in Manhattan fell through.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Biden campaign in 2020\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/biden-campaign-says-burisma-meeting-not-on-official-schedule\/\">vaguely denied that the April 2015 Cafe Milano meetup even occurred<\/a>, saying, \u201c[W]e have reviewed Joe Biden\u2019s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.\u201d After Biden won the presidency, WFP USA\u2019s former president Rick Leach <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/6jvgC#selection-585.79-611.100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the Washington Post<\/a> that Joe Biden did attend \u2013but only briefly to meet with Greek Orthodox leader Alex Karloutsos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Joe Biden\u2019s interaction with his son\u2019s post-Soviet associates at the meal is a pillar of Republican arguments that Biden misused his official roles to financially benefit his family.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to the article for further details. It does seem as if we have a pay-for-play scheme operating out of the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, The New York Post reported that two Russian businessmen who spent time with Hunter and Joe Biden have somehow avoided the sanctions the U.S. placed on Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine. 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