An FBI source, a Burisma deal and the Bidens Congressional Republicans recently released an FBI document from 2020 that makes a shocking allegation about President Biden — that he and his son Hunter were involved in a foreign bribery scheme with a Ukrainian business executive. The four-page document that the Republicans released, an FD-1023 form, is the kind used to record information from a person the FBI considers a "confidential human source." The claim is fueling GOP demands for an impeachment inquiry, though there is no evidence the bribery claim is true. While the document recounts conversations that cannot be independently verified, The Fact Checker can shed light on a business transaction described in those conversations, comparing the document's account with publicly available information. The transaction concerned the alleged desire of Mykola Zlochevsky, the chief executive of the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, to purchase a U.S.-based company. Hunter Biden at the time was on the board of Burisma. It's a complicated tale but what we found is that the deal — the subject of speculation by conservative news organizations — does not match up with the account provided in the document. You can read our full report by clicking this link. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Biden loves to retell certain stories. Some aren't credible. President Biden, like many politicians, likes to tell stories — stories that attempt to connect his life experience with his audiences and make up an essential part of his persona. Sometimes the stories turn out to be largely true — but others stretch the truth. In a detailed report, we provide an accounting of some of his favorite stories that cannot be verified or seem false, including: - a fire in 2004 that he says nearly burned down his house
- a heartwarming but implausible story about an Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri
- seeing two well-dressed men kiss each other in the early 1960s
- claims of being arrested for civil rights activities
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