Ukraine

The email that started it all: did Joe meet the Burisma man?

Vadym Pozharskyi’s April 2015 thank-you note and the Café Milano dinner

RECORD / AT A GLANCE

Documented

The email is real, and Archer’s testimony puts Pozharskyi at the April 2015 Café Milano dinner Joe Biden joined. Nothing shows Burisma business was discussed or that the encounter changed anything.

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DOCUMENTED Ukraine, Burisma & Shokin

“Hunter introduced a Burisma executive to his father.”

Archer placed Vadym Pozharskyi at an April 2015 dinner Joe attended; Pozharskyi’s email thanked Hunter for the chance to meet him.

Who says it: NY Post, Devon Archer.

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  1. New York Post, 14 October 2020: Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad ↗

    The story that launched the laptop controversy, built on Vadym Pozharskyi’s 17 April 2015 email.

  2. PolitiFact, 15 October 2020: A look behind the New York Post headline about Joe Biden and Ukraine ↗

    What the Post story did and did not show at the time.

  3. Devon Archer interview, July 31, 2023 ↗

    Primary transcript, especially pages 24–36, 101–108 and 124–126. Archer describes his recollections and understanding; distinguish what he heard directly from what he inferred.

  4. ABC News: complete Archer transcript and commercial-business distinction, August 3, 2023 ↗

    Contemporaneous reporting describing two Café Milano dinners and social calls; the primary transcript remains the controlling source for wording.

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