![]() It also suggests a third channel of 2020 disinformation moving from East to West, one that's separate from the previously known efforts that went through Giuliani and Alexander Smirnov, another FBI informant with ties to Russia and Eastern Europe. The Hunter-Burisma material that was presented in January 2019, and again on the thumb drive given to Pompeo's aide in May 2019, appears to be the earliest known case of Burisma-related disinformation of foreign origin being ingested and apparently taken seriously by members of the US intelligence community. ![]() One month later, in April 2019, Hunter abandoned his laptop at a Delaware repair shop, eventually leading to a wave of revelations in October 2020 that included information about his business dealings in Ukraine. It was during that month that Rudy Giuliani gave Pompeo a folder of Hunter Biden material that he obtained from Ukraine, and the right-wing investigative reporter John Solomon began publishing a series of columns about Hunter Biden and Burisma in The Hill. While questions about the propriety of Hunter Biden's lucrative Burisma work in Ukraine were raised by The New York Times as early as 2015 and explored in a 2018 book by the conservative author Peter Schweizer, they didn't explode into the forefront of the political conversation until March 2019. The Rollie presentation sheds new light on the timeline of efforts by Russia and by operatives for Donald Trump to seed allegations about Joe Biden's relationship to Burisma with the media and government authorities. Rollie confirmed to Business Insider he had prior contact with the FBI. Also included were some Ukrainian-language backup materials that BI hasn't reviewed. Nevertheless, according to a disclosure prepared by the FBI whistleblower Johnathan Buma, Rollie's handler, the material was taken seriously enough to be passed on to FBI agents in Delaware who were investigating Hunter Biden. President Joe Biden's first name is repeatedly misspelled as "Josef." They contain no evidence of criminal activity. Rollie's slides offer a labyrinthine wire chart, clippings from old news articles, and a potpourri of links, including to various Ukrainian and Russian websites. They accuse Hunter Biden and his business associates of engaging in money laundering, tax evasion, and fraud. ![]() He denied that he gave anyone a thumb drive at the Claremont Institute event.īusiness Insider has obtained a copy of slides that accompanied Rollie's January 2019 presentation. "I'm not interested in the past," Rollie said when asked over WhatsApp about the briefing. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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