Chairman Jim Jordan's opening statement for President Joe Biden's impeachment inquiry.
"This is a tale as old as time. Politician takes action that makes money for his family, and then he tries to conceal it. Never forget four fundamental facts. Hunter Biden gets put on the board of Burisma and gets paid a lot of money. Hunter Biden's not qualified.
Fact number two: to sit on the board, not my words, he said he got on the board because of the brand because of the name. Fact number three: the executives at Burisma ask Hunter Biden to help them with the pressure they are under from the prosecutor in Ukraine.
Fact number four: Joe Biden goes to Ukraine on December 9, 2015, and gave this speech attacking the prosecutor that started the process of getting that guy fired. Those facts are consistent with what the confidential human source told the FBI, and the FBI recorded in the 1023 form, the same form that the Justice Department didn't want to let this Committee see.
And all those facts all of that was further confirmed yesterday with the information that the Ways and Means Committee released from the whistleblowers Shapley and Ziegler...
Joe Biden fired the first prosecutor, and the second prosecutor came in and dropped the charges. That's exactly what they wanted to be done. And the final step is the Biden Justice Department tries to sweep it all under the rug. They slow-walk the investigation.
They let the statute of limitations lapse for the most important years, 2014 and 2015, the Burisma years when all that income is coming in. They try to put together this sweetheart deal and get it past the judge. And we learned yesterday they weren't allowed to ask about political figure one. Political figure one is the big guy, Joe Biden.
And they would have gotten away with it all except for two brave whistleblowers who sat in those seats two months ago and told their story and a judge in Delaware who said we're not going to let this happen. That's why we're here today. That's why this inquiry is so important."
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