Judicial Watch announced on Friday it received five pages of records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) that show then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter received a May 26, 2016, email detailing a scheduled “8:45 am prep for a 9 am phone call with Pres Poroshenko,” who was the president of Ukraine. Joe Biden’s email address is the alias [email protected], Hunter Biden’s email account is disclosed as [email protected]. (Hunter Biden was on the board of the controversial Ukrainian firm Burisma at the time.)
The email, with the subject line “Friday Schedule Cards” was sent by John S. Flynn, who was Joe Biden’s assistant:
Boss–8:45 am prep for 9 am phone call with Pres Poroshenko. Then we’re off to Rhode Island for infrastructure event and then Wilmington for UDel commencement. Nate will have your draft remarks delivered later tonight or with your press clips in the morning.
Respectfully,
John
The email also contains information on U.S. military troops under the heading “Daily US Troops Update”:
# US Troops Died in Iraq/Afghanistan: 6,745
# US Troops Wounded in Iraq/Afghanistan: 52,392
US Troop Levels:
Afghanistan (Security Assistance, Advisory and CT): 10,000
Iraq (Security Assistance): 4,000
The email was obtained thanks to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the National Archives for Biden family records and communications regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications between the Bidens and several known business associates (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives (No. 1:23-cv-01432).
In August 2023, James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight Committee called on the National Archives to provide then-Vice President Joe Biden’s records regarding his duties that overlapped with his son’s activities in Ukraine. Chairman Comer is pursuing communications in which Joe Biden used a pseudonym, as well as those in which Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, or Devon Archer are copied.
“This is another smoking gun. It blows out of the water the notion that there was any distance between Joe and Hunter Biden on the Burisma influence-peddling scandal,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Judicial Watch has nearly a dozen Freedom of Information Act lawsuits regarding records concerning Biden corruption issues, including:
In March 2023, the Archives had released only 1,276 pages of over 8,000 records about the unprecedented document dispute and raid on the home of former President Trump.
In October 2022, Judicial Watch sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for all communications between the Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the search warrant which precipitated the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022.
Also in October, Judicial Watch sued the Barak Obama Presidential Library for Obama White House records about the 2016 “Russia Collusion Hoax.” The records, which by law were not available under FOIA until five years after President Obama left office, are held at the Library, which is part of the National Archives system.
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