Focusing on Republican Priorities

Floor Speech

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Mr. FALLON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Utah. I couldn't think of a better person to serve as vice chair.

Mr. Speaker, the Democrat from Maryland, who is also the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, is claiming hypocrisy when talking about Hunter Biden not being asked to testify publicly, but rather to testify behind closed doors.

If you want to talk about hypocrisy, the ranking member should find a mirror because when the Democrats were in the majority and they wanted President Trump and his American allies to testify, they wanted to have them testify behind closed doors.

To be honest, I don't think Hunter Biden wants to testify publicly because he is going to have to explain quite a bit.

First of all, what business were you in? What product or service did you provide or sell?

I think he would also have to explain why he got $24 million, and counting, from sleazy foreign businessmen, oligarchs, and corrupt politicians.

He will have to explain why Yelena Baturina, who was married to Yuri Luzhkov, who has now passed away and was the mayor of Moscow--he was described by Michael McFaul, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia under Barack Obama, as the poster child of corruption.

Yelena Baturina gave Hunter Biden, Joe's son, $3.5 million. Then, interestingly enough, a few months later had dinner with Joe Biden, the then sitting Vice President.

When President Biden's administration sanctioned some Russian oligarchs, she was conveniently left off the public list.

What did Hunter Biden do for Ms. Baturina?

We don't know.

What about Kazakhstani nationals, Kenes Rashikev and Karim Massimov?

Massimov used to be the Prime Minister, he is now in jail. His right- hand man is Rashikev. Rashikev wired to Hunter Biden $142,300. The very next day, Hunter happened to purchase a Porsche in New Jersey for--say it with me now--$142,300. His own business partner, Devon Archer and best friend at the time, had no idea why he got that money. We don't know either.

We would like to ask him privately and publicly why? What did you do for them?

Mr. Speaker, interestingly enough, those two gentlemen also had dinner with none other than sitting Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Coincidence?

Scratch your head.

How about Vadym Pozharsky and Mykola Zlochevsky? Who are these guys?

One is the CFO, and one is the CEO of Burisma, which was an energy company out of Ukraine. They hired Hunter Biden, the then son of the sitting Vice President, to be on their board of directors. They paid him a million dollars a year. They paid him and Devon Archer in total nearly $3.5 million.

What experience did Hunter Biden have in the energy sector prior to that hiring?

I would like him to answer that question. We know the answer, which is none. Zero. Bubkes. He was given all that money. Why?

We have an FD-1023. What is that?

That is a form for confidential informants that the FBI agents fill out when they have human sources that give them information. It just so happens that this informant--because an FD-1023 is only as good as the source--and this source, according to the FBI, was impeccable. They have been working with him for 10 years and giving him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Every bit of information he has ever given them has checked out.

What did he say?

He said that Hunter Biden received a $5 million bribe and so did his father, Joe. It makes sense because why? Who gave him the bribe?

It was Mykola Zlochevsky, the CEO of Burisma.

Why did he need to give him $10 million?

Because he wanted to get the prosecutor in Ukraine off his back. What happened?

We know what happened because Joe Biden bragged about it. He got that prosecutor fired. He withheld a billion dollars of loan guarantees to Ukraine until he was fired.

What was that prosecutor doing? I don't know. He was going after Zlochevsky. He seized two homes, a Porsche, and a plot of land that he owned. He did get fired a few months thereafter and Ukraine got their billion dollars.

That prosecutor, when he was fired, the President of Ukraine called Joe Biden and said: Hey, he has done nothing wrong. In fact, we were happy with the job he was doing. You wanted him fired, so he is gone. It all fits together, these pieces of the puzzle.

We would ask him about the WhatsApp message that wasn't supposed to be released. He said: I am sitting here with my dad. He was shaking down a Chinese businessman.

Was he really with his dad or was he lying to that fellow? Is he lying to us now?

We don't know.

Will he give up his geolocation?

When you got these phones now, they know where you are. If you voluntarily give it up, we can find out for sure.

Was he with his dad at that moment?

We don't know.

Will he do that?

Mr. Speaker, what the American people need to know, once and for all is: Is the President of the United States corrupt? Is he compromised? Is he a national security threat?

The Committee on Oversight and Accountability, at least on the Republican side, is going to find that out for the American people to make sure justice is served.

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