肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗说，他预计他在周三投票支持的传票会产生来自蓝星战略公司的电子邮件，蓝星战略公司是一家游说公司，代表亨特·拜登工作过的乌克兰能源公司Burisma Holdings。
保罗在接受采访时说保守派播客主持人查理·柯克表示，他相信这些电子邮件将证明拜登只是凭借自己的名字才被公司聘用的。“有证据表明，他们极有可能交换电子邮件，说，嘿，让我们利用亨特·拜登进入国务院，”他说。
“发现这个没有经验的年轻人不仅最近被军队开除了，而且在国际金融、国际公司、石油和天然气行业也没有经验，一年挣60万甚至100万美元，这看起来非常非常糟糕，”保罗继续说道。“事实证明，他们是在利用他的影响力，而他被聘用的唯一真正原因——每个人都知道这一点，他甚至承认——是因为他的姓是拜登。”
柯克，a新闻周刊贡献者，是保守团体美国转折点的创始人和主席。的插曲查理·柯克表演《保罗》预计将于周四上午上映。
肯塔基州参议员兰德·保罗说，他相信周三参议院委员会传唤的电子邮件会显示，亨特·拜登只是因为他的大名才被乌克兰能源公司布里斯玛控股公司雇佣的。
2019年7月，特朗普和乌克兰总统沃洛季米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskiy)之间的电话细节曝光后，拜登夫妇成为弹劾总统的一个因素。据称，在那次通话中，特朗普要求泽伦斯基宣布对拜登夫妇可能的犯罪活动进行调查。乔·拜登成功地试图解雇乌克兰检察长维克多·肖金，特朗普认为这有利于他的儿子。肖金一直在调查Burisma控股公司可能存在的腐败。
“拜登到处吹嘘他停止了起诉，”特朗普告诉泽伦斯基，要求他“调查此事”
民主党人称共和党人对亨特·拜登的持续关注分散了唐纳德·特朗普总统政府对当前冠状病毒大流行的处理。他们还认为传票是反对老拜登竞选活动的一部分，老拜登有望成为民主党2020年总统选举的候选人。
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默周三表示，传票“只是作秀，一种制造错误印象的方式。”
参议院国土安全和政府事务委员会主席罗恩·约翰逊周三为邮件请求进行了辩护。“如果那里什么都没有，我们会发现那里什么都没有，”约翰逊说。“但如果那里有什么，美国人民需要知道。”
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Sen. Rand Paul Expects Subpoenaed Emails to Show Lobbying Firm Used Hunter Biden for Access to State Department
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said he expected the subpoena he voted for on Wednesday to yield emails from Blue Star Strategies, a lobbying firm that represented Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company for which Hunter Biden worked.
Paul said during an interview with conservative podcast host Charlie Kirk that he believes the emails will prove that Biden was only hired by the company on the strength of his name. "There is evidence that they, in all likelihood have email exchanges, saying, hey, let's use Hunter Biden to get access to the State Department," he said.
"It's gonna look very, very damning to find out that not only was this young man with no experience recently kicked out of the military, really had no experience in international finance or international companies or oil and gas, making 600 grand and maybe a million dollars a year," Paul continued. "And it turns out they were trading on his influence and the only real reason he was hired—everybody knows this and he even admitted it—was because his last name was Biden."
Kirk, a Newsweek contributor, is founder and president of the conservative group Turning Point USA. The episode of The Charlie Kirk Show featuring Paul is expected to be released Thursday morning.
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said he believed emails subpoenaed by a Senate Committee on Wednesday would show that Hunter Biden was only hired by Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings because of his famous name.
The Bidens became a factor in impeachment proceedings against the president after details came to light about a phone call between Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskiy in July 2019. During that call, Trump allegedly asked Zelenskiy to announce an investigation into possible criminal activity by the Bidens. Joe Biden's successful attempts to have Ukraine's General Prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, fired were believed by Trump to have worked in his son's favor. Shokin had been investigating possible corruption at Burisma Holdings.
"Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution," Trump told Zelenskiy, asking him to "look into it."
Democrats have called Republicans' continued focus on Hunter Biden a distraction from President Donald Trump's administration's handling of the current coronavirus pandemic. They also view the subpoena as part of a campaign against the elder Biden, who is expected to be the Democratic Party's nominee for president in the 2020 election.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that the subpoena was "just for show, a way to create the false impression of wrongdoing."
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson defended the request for the emails on Wednesday. "If there's nothing there, we'll find out there's nothing there," Johnson said. "But if there's something there, the American people need to know that."
Newsweek reached out to the Biden campaign for comment. This story will be updated with any response.
