From the WaPo in a report mostly favorable to Biden there is this nugget...what I'd like to know is which lobbyists with direct access to Biden, e.g. BGR, Roberti Global, McLarty Inbound, Atlantic Council got the Nord Stream 2 decision and did any of them have a relationship with Hunter Biden
Last month's decision to withhold sanctions against the company and CEO behind the nearly completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline was particularly divisive. Critics of the pipeline, which would transport natural gas from Russia to Germany, view its imminent completion and operation as a major geopolitical coup for the Kremlin.
The State Department, in a position backed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, his deputy Wendy Sherman and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland, recommended a raft of U.S. sanctions intended to block the pipeline, without waivers for the company or chief executive, said officials familiar with the decision. |