As one of the Biden campaign’s national co-chairs and a potential Senate candidate, Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester hailed Hunter Biden in 2016 for his “generous contribution” to her campaign and requested that he inform her “on the Ukraine,” emails reveal.
Blunt Rochester previously held the same position for Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. He was designated co-chair along with a number of other individuals, including Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. She is anticipated to announce her candidature for the vacant Senate seat in Delaware this month, according to Politico.
As previously revealed by Fox News Digital, Hunter assisted Coons as an outside adviser during his successful 2010 Senate run, making Blunt Rochester at least the second campaign co-chair with connections to the troubled first son.
Senator Chris Coons, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, and Vice President Biden (Getty Images))
Blunt Rochester wrote Hunter a letter of appreciation for his contribution to her campaign months before she defeated Republican Hans Reigle in the general election.
She wrote on February 5, 2016, “I just told Brian that I saw your contribution online.” “I can’t say enough thanks.You are aware that running for any office is difficult. Being on your team means a lot to me.
By the way, Brian will probably let you know that I’ll be in Washington, DC, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Before President Biden’s speech on student debt relief at Delaware State University on October 21, 2022 in Dover, Del., Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., left, and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., centre, shake hands next to Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del. (Getty Images/Anna Moneymaker))
Less than an hour later, Hunter answered with the message, “Let me know what more I can do- lets do a fundraiser in the second quarter down here in DC.”
Blunt Rochester thanked Hunter again for the donation ten days later, on the evening of February 15, 2016, and requested if he might update her “on the Ukraine.”
According to FEC records, Hunter gave Blunt Rochester’s campaign four contributions totaling $3,000 in 2016.
She wrote, “Thank you once more for your kind donation to my campaign. “Your assistance meant the world to me. Brian suggested that I contact you to ask if you could give me an overview of the Ukraine. Is someone in charge of managing your schedule, or should I call you several times?
As one of the Biden campaign’s national co-chairs and a potential Senate candidate, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester hailed Hunter Biden in 2016 for his “generous contribution” to her campaign and requested that he inform her “on the Ukraine,” according to emails.
“Let me know when you have time,” Hunter said.
“Are you available on Friday at any time or tomorrow after 2:00?” Blunt Rochester enquired on February 17, 2016.
After an hour, Hunter responded and said he would be willing to talk about Ukraine the following week.
He wrote, “I will be in my World Food Programme Board retreat through Friday. Let’s try sometime the following week. beyond Ukraine I’d want to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis with you. I just visited refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon, and the conditions there are terrible. Please inform me.
Blunt Rochester said, “FYI, I worked on a USAID supported project in Jordan for three months in 2002. What is happening in the area piques my attention.
The executive of Hunter’s now-defunct investment company Rosemont Seneca Advisors, Joan Mayer, was provided the email exchange by Hunter, and she was instructed to phone Blunt Rochester.
Requests for comment from Fox News Digital were not answered by the Biden or Blunt Rochester campaigns.
On May 15, 2023, in Philadelphia, Jill Biden, the first lady of the United States, watches her granddaughter Maisy Biden graduate from the University of Pennsylvania alongside her brothers Hunter and Ashley Biden. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
One day after Hunter congratulated the head of the Ukrainian energy business Burisma Holdings for his “extravagant” birthday presents, an email exchange with Blunt Rochester began.
According to a report published on Wednesday by Fox News Digital, the son of the vice president at the time reportedly received lavish gifts from the company’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, in addition to the more than $50,000 per month Hunter earned while serving on the board of Burisma from April 2014 to April 2019. This was less than two months before the top Ukrainian prosecutor who was looking into Burisma was infamously fired.
In a letter dated February 4, 2016, Hunter expressed his gratitude for the “beautiful birthday gifts” that he deemed to be “far too extravagant but much appreciated.”
Hunter Biden praised a senior executive from Burisma Holdings for birthday presents he deemed “far too extravagant.” (The Fox News)
The Obama administration lobbied for Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor who was at the time looking into Zlochevsky, to be fired from his position. The Obama White House released a readout of Vice President Biden’s phone call with Ukrainian President Poroshenko at the time less than two weeks after Hunter expressed gratitude for the gifts from Zlochevsky, saying, “The Vice President also commended President Poroshenko’s decision to replace Prosecutor General Shokin, which paves the way for needed reform of the prosecutorial service.”
Longtime business associate of Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, forwarded him a news story the day before the readout that mentioned Poroshenko calling for Shokin’s resignation in his statement.
End of March 2016, Schwerin sent Hunter another story with the headline “Ukraine’s parliament sacks corruption-tainted prosecutor,” which was a reference to Shokin.
Hunter Biden received an AFP item regarding Viktor Shokin’s dismissal via email from Eric Schwerin. (Fox News)
Late in March 2016, Shokin was let go, and the prosecutor who took his place closed the case. Later, in 2018, Joe Biden boasted in front of the camera that as vice president, he had successfully persuaded Ukraine to fire Shokin.
‘I’m telling you, you’re not receiving the billion dollars,’ I said. ‘You’re not getting the billion,’ I said. It will be roughly six hours before I depart from here. ‘I’m leaving in six hours,’ I murmured as I turned to face them. According to a recording of Biden’s statements to the Council on Foreign Relations, if the prosecutor is not sacked, you won’t get the money.
“Well, son of a b—. He got fired. (Laughter.)” And they appointed a person who was reliable at the time.
However, Biden associates insisted that his action was unrelated to his son and was instead related to the administration’s worries about corruption in Ukraine. Biden was in charge of anti-corruption initiatives and U.S.-Ukraine policy at the time as former President Obama’s vice president.
