During a recent interview, Alex Marlow, the author of New York Times bestselling book “Breaking Biden,” said during an interview on YouTube that he thinks President Joe Biden and his family, to whom he referred as the “Biden Crime Family,” would be in “handcuffs” if the United States “had a responsible Department of Justice.”
Particularly, Marlow focused on Hunter Biden’s job with Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company. Marlow, who researched that deal and others heavily for his “Breaking Biden” book, said that the deal was a “known crime” and that he had “all the receipts” to back up his allegations.
Introducing the topic, Marlow said that the Burisma example is one of the better known deals the Biden family was involved in, saying, “I’ll give you a couple examples of known crimes that the Biden family has pulled off. The first one is Burisma, which is one that you don’t need me to shed much new light on.”
Continuing, he added that the deal is nowhere near as complicated as some have made it sound, saying, “Perhaps I can distill it down to something a little more simple than some in conservative media have made it seem. Some people made it seem more complicated than it is.”
That’s when Marlow got to giving his take on what happened with Burisma, alleging, “Hunter Biden took a job with a Ukrainian energy company for $1 million a year, and he knew nothing about Ukraine or energy, as far as we can know, so that’s very odd. No one has ever asked Hunter what he’s done for this company. That should be the first question he gets when he eventually gets subpoenaed by these various committees that are finally — seems like — unearthing some of the remaining details.”
Continuing, Marlow described what was going on with corruption in the country at the time, saying, “The U.S.’s policy was that there was a prosecutor that was looking into Burisma in Ukraine that was doing a perfectly fine job. The State Department confirmed this: they thought the prosecutor was doing a good job…”
The, after describing the situation more thoroughly, he alleged that Biden threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine if the prosecutor looking into the country was not fired. He said, “…[Despite that] Joe Biden threatened the country of Ukraine that he would withhold $1 billion if they didn’t fire the prosecutor. That is a material change of U.S. policy that goes directly against Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s own State Department — and Hunter got a bag of cash in the process.”
Politifact, commenting on the incident, for reference, notes, “Vice President Joe Biden did urge Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, with the threat of withholding U.S. aid. But that was the position of the wider U.S. government, as well as other international institutions” and “We found no evidence to support the idea that Joe Biden advocated with his son’s interests in mind, as the message suggests. It’s not even clear that the company was actively under investigation or that a change in prosecutors benefited it.”
Marlow, however, alleged in contrast to Politifact that the incident was “bribery,” claiming, “This is clearly bribery, it’s clearly a crime, and you should get the handcuffs out. If we had a responsible Department of Justice, then they would have held the Biden’s accountable for this.”
Giving another example of alleged criminality in the Biden family, Marlow said, “Crime number two is Hunter Biden’s gun charge, which [appears to be] a clear crime. It’s all documented in Breaking Biden, and Hunter intended to plead guilty, but then he realized he was gonna get labeled a felon, which he would have been, and I think he decided he’s gonna take his chances on the legal system.”
Watch the interview here:
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