Obama White House was peppered with questions about Hunter deal trends now
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Former President Barack Obama's White House was peppered with questions about Hunter Biden when he joined Ukrainian gas company Burisma's board and kept track of coverage of his Navy Reserve dismissal for cocaine use.
On Wednesday, Politico's Playbook reported on newly released emails from President Joe Biden's tenure as vice president, which were put out by the National Archives as part of a lawsuit filed by American First Legal, a group founded by hard-right Trump immigration adviser Stephen Miller.
In one highlighted exchange, a Russian TV producer named Natalya Usenko who worked for the NTV network praises Hunter Biden's work with Burisma in an email to the vice president's office and then asks for an interview with Joe.
'Mr. Hunter Biden has recently become a member of Committee of Directors of Burisma company. We would like to congratulate him and wish him good luck!' she wrote. 'Would you be so kind to help us to organize an interview with Mr. Joseph Biden so that he could tell us his attitude towards and tell us if it will influence the foreign policy of the USA.'
Shailah Murray, then Biden's communications director, commented to colleagues: 'What a charming letter!'
