‘Unusual’ Hunter Biden email reads like a State Department briefing. Was it?

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‘Unusual’ Hunter Biden email reads like a State Department briefing. Was it?
Opinion
‘Unusual’ Hunter Biden email reads like a State Department briefing. Was it?
Hunter Biden, Joe Biden
Hunter Biden.

The White House has repeatedly refused to answer questions about the special counsel investigation into President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified material. However, a “source familiar with the matter”
told
CNN that the documents included “U.S. intelligence memos and briefing materials” about
Ukraine
, the United Kingdom, and Iran dating from 2013 through 2016. This is important, especially when we consider who might have had access to Biden’s documents.

There is likely no individual more familiar with the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop than New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, who literally wrote the book on it. On Wednesday, she said during an interview that “there seems to be a link between [Joe Biden’s] classified documents and Hunter Biden.”


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Searching the laptop for relevant material, Devine stumbled upon a remarkable
email
Hunter had sent to his business partner, Devon Archer, on April 13, 2014, that stood out from all the rest. It was intelligent, informed, significantly longer than the others, and very well-written. It sounded, in fact, a lot like a
State Department
briefing

Devine said it “looks very much like it came from a classified briefing. At least, it has the flavor of an official briefing, perhaps a classified one.”

“And it’s a very uncharacteristic email for Hunter. It’s unlike anything else. Well-written, very lengthy. It’s 1,300 words. It’s very detailed,” she explained. “It has a lot of information in it, very strategic geopolitical information about Ukraine. It lists 22 points about Ukraine, about its political situation, about the upcoming election. … It also predicted that Russia would escalate. It also predicted that the U.S. would apply sanctions very confidently. And so you wonder: Where does Hunter Biden get this information?”

Devine noted that just a week after Hunter sent this email, his father went to Ukraine to pressure them about their energy policy. And a few weeks after that, Hunter Biden became a board member for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

“So he was obviously trailing his coach. He sent this email to his business partner, Devin Archer, who also joined the board of Burisma. He’s wanting the $83,000 a month that Burisma is going to pay him, and he’s demonstrating that he’s worth it, that he has access to crucial information for Burisma,” Devine explained.

The implications of this are damning. If Devine’s theory is right and the content of Hunter Biden’s email originated from a State Department briefing, there are several important questions that need to be asked. First, how did Hunter obtain this briefing? Did his father provide it to him? Is this the type of information the Bidens were peddling abroad?

Even Sen.
Ron Johnson
(R-WI) agreed the email looked like the types of briefings lawmakers would receive prior to trips abroad, which are called “scene setters.”

“It’s just laying out all the information that we would get in an oftentimes secured briefing on a country we’re traveling to,” Johnson said. He added that Hunter’s email had a lot more detailed information than he had ever seen in a scene setter, and that it wouldn’t surprise him if the contents of the email had been classified information at the time.

Johnson explained, “Hunter was laying this out for Devon, who was going to be meeting with his father, going to be meeting with officials from Burisma, basically telling them that ‘You pay us millions of dollars, this is the kind of information you’re going to have access to.’”

Three days after Hunter sent the email, Archer met with Joe Biden at the White House. Five days later, Joe Biden would travel to Ukraine. On April 22, Archer was
appointed
to Burisma’s board of directors, followed by Hunter Biden on May 12.

Special Counsel Robert Hur, who has been tasked by Attorney General Merrick Garland with the investigation into the president’s mishandling of classified documents, must determine if the content of this email matches any of the classified documents recovered from the Penn-Biden think tank or Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.


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Hur, a Trump appointee, is a registered Republican. Let’s just hope he’s not a James Comey or Robert Mueller type of Republican.

Elizabeth Stauffer is a contributor to the
Washington Examiner
and the
Western Journal
. Her articles have appeared at MSN, RedState, Newsmax, the Federalist, and RealClearPolitics. Follow her on 
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