Radio host Michael Savage said Friday that the news media ignored what he called the "Biden Scandal," referring to the vice president's son's role in a Ukrainian natural gas company several years ago.
Hunter Biden, a former Washington lobbyist, was named to the board of Burisma Holdings, one of Ukraine's largest natural gas companies, in April 2014, while his father Joe Biden was put in charge of sending an anticorruption message to the Ukrainian government the following year, The New York Times reported.
Officials from Great Britain froze London bank accounts allegedly belonging to Burisma Holdings owner Mykola Zlochevsky, Ukraine's former ecology minister, in 2014, wrote the newspaper. The fund were unfrozen with Ukrainian prosecutors refused to provide documents for the investigation into $23 million of alleged illicit assets, noted the Times.
The American ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt called for an investigation into Ukrainian prosecutors after the incident, but never mentioned Hunter Biden's connection to Burisma, according to the Times.
Edward C. Chow, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, charged in the newspaper that Hunter Biden's involvement at Burisma undermined the Obama administration's anticorruption message in Ukraine.
"Now you look at the Hunter Biden situation, and on the one hand you can credit the father for sending the anticorruption message," Chow told the Times in 2015. "But I think unfortunately it sends the message that a lot of foreign countries want to believe about America, that we are hypocritical about these issues."
Savage charged that Hunter Biden's connection with the company did not receive the media coverage it deserved.
"There was no outcry," Savage said of Hunter Biden's involvement. "Where was Jeff Zucker (president of CNN)? Where was Jeff Zucker then? Where was CNN? Where was NBC at that time that Hunter Biden joined the Ukrainian oil company as a board member?
"Wouldn't you call that suspicious? Now, why is it that there was no outcry about nepotism or about possible influence-peddling?" Savage continued.
The BBC News reported in 2014 that Devon Archer, a former senior advisor to then Secretary of State John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and a college roommate of Kerry's stepson H.J. Heinz, joined the company's board earlier. Hunter Biden and Archer are also managing partners at Rosemont Seneca Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based investment company, the BBC News reported.
"So the bigger story here is not about Russia," Savage said on Friday. "It's about how Ukraine is controlling the Democratic Party right now. And the second large subtext to the whole story is that the Democrats who were soft on Islamofascism, because for years I have told you that it has become the Democrat-Socialist-Islamists party USA."
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