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Hunter Biden and President Bidens national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, served together on the board of the Truman National Security Project, a liberal foreign policy think tank, for roughly two years before Sullivan joined the presidents campaign in 2020.

Hunter, who started serving on the board in 2012, and Sullivan both served on the Washington-based nonprofits board between 2017 and early 2019, according to internet archives captured by the Wayback Machine.

During that time, Hunter was also serving on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity fund BHR Partners. The federal investigation into Hunter's foreign business dealings, which is still ongoing, also launched during the same time frame in 2018.

Prior to joining theTruman National Security Project, Sullivan served as then-Vice President Bidens national security adviser in the Obama administration, where he traveled to multiple countries with the elder Biden, including China.

A video from the Obama administration's archived website shows Sullivan was on the same infamous Asia trip where Hunter Biden and his daughter accompanied then-Vice President Biden on Air Force Two. During the China portion of the trip, Hunter arranged a brief handshake in the U.S. delegation's hotel lobby between his father and Jonathan Li, Hunter's Chinese business partner who ran the Chinese private-equity fund Bohai Capital. Less than two weeks after Biden arrived in China, BHR Partners was registered.

HUNTER BIDEN'S BUSINESS PARTNERS, ASSISTANTS VISITED WHITE HOUSE OVER 80 TIMES WHEN BIDEN WAS VP

President Biden's National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (Left) and Hunter Biden (Right) (Getty Images)

Sullivan also had multiple roles with Hillary Clinton, including chief foreign policy adviser during her failed 2016 presidential campaign and deputy chief of staff when she was secretary of state, where he traveled to 112 countries with her.

During the Clinton campaign, Sullivan notoriously pushed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative to reporters. He told members of the House Intelligence committee in a December 2017 interview that prior to the 2016 election he briefed reporters on his suspicions.

"[B]asically we sat with them and walked through what we understood to be the case from in terms of the DNC hack and leak, what we believed to be the case with respect to Russian involvement," Sullivan said, "and then what we thought the upshot of this was, which is you now have the start of a much more aggressive phase of an intelligence-led operation by foreign power, and there's likely to be more as we go forward, and people should really pay attention to this."

Sullivan went on to say he questioned why Russia would want to get involved. He first recognized that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Clinton "didn't have the greatest of relationships" but then outlined for reporters his reasons for suspecting Trump's campaign.

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Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., on Thursday accused Sullivan of repeatedly lying to the American people and called for his immediate resignation.

"Jake Sullivan has a lot to answer for," Hawley, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee,told Fox News Digital. "He has repeatedly lied for perceived political gain whether that be about the Russia Collusion hoax or the Hunter Biden laptop. And now hes Bidens national security adviser? He should resign immediately."

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., grills Colleen Shogan, nominee to be Archivist of the United States, about her twitter feed during her confirmation hearing in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington on Tuesday, February 28, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., another Judiciary Committee member, accused Sullivan of leading the effort to "push the Trump-Russia collusion hoax."

"Jake Sullivan led the effort to push the Trump-Russia collusion hoax as a top advisor to the Clinton campaign, and encouraged the mainstream media to smear Hillarys political opponent," she told Fox News Digital. "Given his history serving with Hunter Biden and working for the Biden campaign, it would not be surprising if Jake Sullivan was also involved in attempts to discredit Hunter Bidens laptop."

"This is yet another troubling data point that affirms why an independent counsel needs to be appointed to ensure a fair and thorough investigation," Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., also a Judiciary Committee member, told Fox News Digital.

"Its obvious that there is a connection between Hunter Biden and Jake Sullivan when they previously served on the board of the Truman National Security Project," added Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who sits on theCommittee ofOversight and Accountability.

"As we are continuing to investigate the Biden family, it comes as no shock that Hunter Biden keeps colluding with foreign countries and asks for help trying to cover up his mess, using his dads appointees to help him in the process," she said. "The Durham Report was right the FBI should have never investigated the Trump campaign. Although, its obvious who they should investigate instead: the Biden crime family."

White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan served as a foreign policy adviser for the Clinton campaign. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Fox News Digital asked the White House if Sullivan ever discussed Burisma, BHR Partners, or any other business matters with Hunter, or whether Sullivan played any role in orchestrating the public statement signed by intelligence officials during the 2020 election claiming Hunters laptop was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital's inquiry.

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Sullivan served as a foreign policy adviseron Bidens 2020 campaign alongside now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has been accused of playing a role in orchestrating the since-debunked letter that critics say helped shape the outcome of the election.

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell testified to the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees last month that Blinken, as President Bidens then-campaign senior adviser, "played a role in the inception" of the statement, which Blinken has denied.

Fox News Digital recently reported Blinken and his wife, Evan Ryan, were in communication with Hunter several times throughout the Obama-Biden administration. In July 2015, Hunter met with Blinken at his State Department office.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Hunter Biden (Getty Images)

Sullivan was recently accused by former White House official Mike McCormick of being a "conspirator" in the Biden family's "kickback scheme" in Ukraine when Biden was vice president.

McCormick, who worked as a stenographer for the White House for 15 years, accused Biden funneling money overseas to "enrich" himself and his family and using his own influence to aid his son's rookie energy career.

Sullivan denied the allegations, telling reporters that he had nothing to do with such an operation.

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While the committee members find their informant and assemble what Im sure will be mountains of evidence detailing Bidens crime-doing, lets consider past GOP promises that have worked out great.

House GOP reveals new details in alleged Biden family dealings

Rep. James Comer released new details on the investigation into allegations the Biden family received millions of dollars from foreign entities.

Wochit, Wochit

Ive got great news: President Joe Biden is for sure going to prison!

How do I know this? Because Republican lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee have said they have an airtight case against Biden, and theyll get down to the business of imprisoning him just as soon as they locate their key informant, whom they now say is missing.

Unfortunately, we cant track down the informant, GOP Rep. James Comer told Fox News on Sunday. Were hopeful that the informant is still there.

Were all very hopeful! And we certainly have no reason to doubt Republican claims of vast criminal wrongdoing by Biden. Just last week, the oversight committee released a preliminary report on its four-month-long investigation that showed, definitively, what Fox News Steve Doocy described as no evidence that Joe Biden did anything illegally.

GOTCHA, SLEEPY JOE! We all know what criminal masterminds like Biden are best at: Not leaving evidence that shows they did anything illegally. Checkmate.

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While the committee members try to locate their informant, who is definitely a real human person who exists, and assemble what Im sure will be mountains of evidence detailing Bidens crime-doing, lets consider past Republican promises that have worked out great.

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On Monday, special counsel John Durham released a report detailing his four-year investigation into the investigators who investigated former President Donald Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump himself had promised Durhams work would reveal the crime of the century.

In February of last year, Trump told Fox News: "Durham is also coming up with things far bigger than anybody thought possible. Nobody ever thought a thing like this would be even discussed, let alone an act like this committed.

The things nobody ever thought would be discussed were apparently so much bigger than anyone thought possible that Durhams four-year investigation yielded a whopping two acquittals and one guilty plea resulting in a former FBI lawyer getting sentenced to one-year of probation. Undoubtedly the libs will think twice before again committing the crime of the century.

Durhams report also SLAMMED the FBI and the Justice Department, saying: This report does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out. KA-BOOM!

By comparison, what did the two-year investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller yield? A measly 34 people indicted, leading to seven guilty pleas and five prison sentences. And the people sentenced included total no-names like Trumps 2016 campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen and longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone. Michael Flynn, Trumps former national security adviser (is national security adviser even that big a deal???), pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, but was pardoned by Trump prior to sentencing.

Basically, a total nothing-burger.

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So Biden had better be shaking in his loafers right now, because hes about to join the likes of Hillary Clinton behind bars. (I realize the her in Lock her up! remains decidedly not locked up, but Im sure it will happen any day now. Those chants couldnt have all been for nothing.)

And lets not forget the impeachment, criminal prosecution and locking up of former President Barack Obama, whose many crimes were vaguely detailed over and over by Republicans on Fox News. Im confident the justice they claimed would surely come for Obama will be coming any minute now, unless its out there hiding alongside the House Oversight Committees Biden informant. (Has anyone checked to see if theyre in Hunter Bidens laptop? Definitely the first place Id look.)

Anyway, we know Republicans under Trump promised to do away with Obamacare, and that is a thing that for sure happened. Also, Trump built the border wall and Mexico paid for it just ask him.

Indisputable evidence the 2020 election was rigged will be coming out any day now, presumably alongside the Obamacare-replacement health-care plan Trump promised to deliver in two weeks sometime in 2020 and many times thereafter.

Clearly, Republicans are on a winning streak, as evidenced by Trump winning the last presidential election and the GOP Red Wave sweeping America in the 2022 midterm elections. So President Biden has ample reason to be concerned about this VERY SERIOUS Republican investigation into nefarious things they want to believe he did.

While the committees expansive preliminary report shows that Biden family members made lots of money from a variety of foreign sources while Biden was vice president, it fails to make any allegation that Biden or any relative committed a crime.

In other words: Republicans have Biden right where they want him! You never specify the crimes a person is guilty of you just allege they are guilty of those crimes and let peoples imagination do the rest.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson explained as much on Fox News: You have to infer these things, youre not gonna get necessarily get hard proof.

Enjoy your final days in office, President Biden, for you will soon be presumed convicted of a multitude of criminal presumptions based on conceptualized evidence wished into existence.

All courtesy of todays Republican Party, which never lets facts get in the way of imagined victory.

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The scale of destruction in Ukraine is a scene millions of people across the world never saw comingbut a former President of the United States said he feared a Russian invasion would one day come.

Bill Clinton, the U.S.s 42nd president, recalled at a New York conference this week the moment he realized Russian president Vladimir Putin had designs to take over its neighbor.

Appearing alongside his wife Hillary at an event in New York, Clinton said Putin confronted him over a deal made with former Russian president Boris Yeltsin.

The U.S.-brokered deal saw Russia pledge to respect Ukrainian territory in exchange for Kyiv relinquishing its nuclear power.

Clinton said Putin told him in 2011 he didnt agree with the deal: He saidI dont agree with it. And I do not support it. And I am not bound by it. And I knew from that day forward it was just a matter of time.

It is not the first time Clinton has reflected on the deal made in 1994. In April he revealed he has a personal stake in the Ukraine war, as he felt terrible for his part in persuading the country to give up its nuclear weapons.

The agreement also set the stage for Ukraines later inclusion in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear-weapon state.

Clinton told Irish broadcaster RTE: None of them [Ukrainians] believed that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons.

Clintons mistrust of Putin was echoed by his wife Hillary, the presidential hopeful of 2016 who was defeated by Donald Trump.

[Putin] is in what he views as a righteous struggle to undermine Western democracy and reinstitute, as much as he can, the Russian empire, she said. So hes not going to stop.

During their appearance, the Financial Times reported, the pair urged Western forces to continue to support Ukraine.

Its an argument Hillary Clinton has made in the past, telling nonprofit Vital Voices: I think we need to be very clear in sending a message to Putin that were going to do everything we can to make sure he does not succeed in Ukraine.

And, at some point, given the losses in his military, given the losses of his military leadership, given the turmoil within his intelligence and security forces, because they told him what he wanted to hear, and it didnt work out, I think that theres more to be seen about what happens inside the Kremlin as this unfolds.

Hillary argued that to bring the issue to a close, Ukraine must either defeat its invaders or at least regain the eastern territories it lost last year.

They need leverage. I wouldnt trust him [Putin] at a negotiating table under any circumstances, unless Ukrainiansbacked by ushave enough leverage, she said.

Hillary also believes the Wests support of Ukraine has deterred a similar move by Chinese President Xi Jinping: invading Taiwan.

If Putin had invaded Ukraine without consequence, it would have emboldened Ji, she said. Instead, he witnessed sanctions on Russia: I think before the Russian invasion, there was a good chance he would have moved on Taiwan within two to three years. I think that timetable has been pushed back.

It was a sentiment echoed this week by Robert OBrien, a former national security adviserto the Trump administration.

He told Japanese newspaper the Yomiuri Shimbun he believes China intends to invade Taiwan within a year or two, and that the U.S. and Japan need to be proactive in offering support.

If the U.S. and its allies do not provide Taiwan with the weapons it needs to defend itself, and give it the diplomatic muscle that Taiwan needs to prevent the Chinese from believing that they can invade Taiwan without consequence, we could be in a very dangerous situation in Taiwan, he warned.

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Increasingly in Washington, the question is not whether Chinas Peoples Liberation Army will invade Taiwan its when.

Ask three different people about when it will happen, and you will get three different answers. Earlier this year, retired Indo-Pacific Commander Adm. Philip Davidson reiterated his earlier assessment that China could launch military action in 2027. Gen. Mike Minihan, the commander of U.S. Air Mobility Command, made a splash in January when he sent a memo to his officers that the U.S. could be at war with the PLA within two years. Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations, was even starker in his own projection last fall: The Chinese could give the go order in 2022 or potentially 2023.

Now, Hillary Clinton is getting into the game.

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During a discussion in New York City, the former secretary of state claimed that Chinas Xi Jinping could have ordered a strike on Taiwan in two to three years. But, she said, "I think that time table has been pushed back." She cited the Russian military's poor performance in Ukraine as a reason why Xi may be having second thoughts about starting his own war.

Is Clinton right?

Anything is possible. Xi can read the room at least as well as any other foreign leader, and its within the realm of possibility that Vladimir Putins disaster of an invasion scared him away from a Taiwan invasion or pushed him to slow down his original plans. Still, objectively speaking, a Taiwan contingency wouldnt look very similar to how Russia is prosecuting its war in Ukraine anyway. The most basic reason is geography. Ukraine is a large landmass in the middle of Europe, sharing a land border with a belligerent in Russia. Taiwan is an island roughly 100 miles east of China's coast, with rocky beaches that would make an already complicated, large-scale amphibious operation even more difficult.

The Russian army didnt have to worry about rolling over the Ukrainian border with their tanks and armored personnel carriers; in fact, Russian troops made rapid gains across Ukrainian territory during the first few days of the invasion (until they were bogged down in the suburbs outside Kyiv). The PLA wouldnt have the luxury of simply stepping over a border and making a beeline toward the capital. Instead, Beijing would be forced to mount an extraordinarily complex naval operation across a wide Taiwan Strait and hope its troops and sailors could establish a beachhead on the Taiwanese coast, assuming, of course, they can cut through the sea mines and coastal defenses the Taiwanese would no doubt set up in advance.

There's more.

Even if the Chinese were able to establish a beachhead stronghold, the work would be far from over. The PLA would need continuously to protect and sustain a lengthy (and exposed) supply-line network that would be exposed to strikes from the air, all while PLA troops would be fighting Taiwanese resistance on land. All of this would be a tough feat to pull off for an experienced military, let alone one such as Chinas that hasnt fought a conflict in more than four decades.

None of this even begins to account for the nonmilitary responses, such as financial sanctions and comprehensive export controls, the U.S., Europe, Japan, South Korea, and possibly Southeast Asia would enact in retaliation for an invasion. Xi could kiss his "rejuvenation" campaign goodbye (although it should be noted that these measures would also have terrible repercussions on the U.S. and world economies, so none of this should be taken lightly).

Did Russias headaches in Ukraine serve as a come-to-Jesus moment for Xi? Maybe. But one suspects that a war occurring thousands of miles away is far less significant to Xis calculus than the PLAs ability actually to carry out a Taiwan invasion in the first place. In fact, Ukraine may not even be on the list.

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Daniel DePetris (@DanDePetris) is a contributor to theWashington Examiner'sBeltway Confidential blog. His opinions are his own.

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OTTAWA Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Liberals to keep supporting Ukraine, arguing the battle against Russia is a battle that the whole world cant afford to lose.

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Clinton was a keynote speaker at the partys biennial convention in Ottawa Friday night and said western government should continue supporting Ukraine in anyway possible.

Ukraines fight for freedom and against Russian aggression is our fight. It is not just their fight, she said. The best way to end Putins aggression is for Ukraine to win.

Clinton said she worked with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev during her time as secretary of state and said Medvedev was open to economic innovation. But she said Putin, who was pulling the strings at the time, didnt want that kind of openness.

If youre going to encourage people to be free thinking in business. Whoa, thats a threat to the state, eventually.

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She said a win against Putin in Ukraine will also cool Chinas ambitions to potentially invade Taiwan.

She said Ukrainians should be the only ones who decide when the war ends and they should have the wests support until then.

I want you to understand youre dealing with someone who is not only narcissistic and megalomaniacal, but totally untrustworthy, she said. We have to continue to provide as much military support to Ukraine.

Clinton also turned to Canadas domestic politics and applauded the Liberal governments child care plan.

Its important in todays political world to get out there and make sure people know what youve done. $10 a day for childcare thats extraordinary, she said. The idea of a feminist set of policies of feminist economic policy is exactly where you need to be if you want to increase economic opportunity and economic output.

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Clinton was on stage alongside Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. Clinton warned her that when the election comes the government will face much more online disinformation and they should prepare.

You will be running in 2025 and you will face more online fakes fake videos of you, fake videos of the prime minister, fake videos of other leaders of the Liberal Party, she said. This is coming, so get ready, and try to prevent as much as you can, but also protect against it.

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