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Newly declassified State Department memos show the U.S. embassy in Ukraine was deeply concerned by a lobbying campaign being waged by the Hunter Biden-connected Burisma Holdings gas firm and its allies, describing one contact shortly before the 2016 election as “aggressive, threatening, bullying.“The memos — released to Just the News and the conservative Citizens United watchdog under separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits — show State officials were acutely aware of the sensitivities of rebuffing a pressure campaign carried out by the Ukrainian natural gas firm that had hired then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son.
For instance, the embassy’s deputy economic counselor sent an email two weeks after Donald Trump won the presidency in November 2016 detailing efforts by Burisma’s founder Nikolay Zlochevsky to clear his company of long-pending corruption allegations.
It noted …