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"Mr. Buma's statements raise serious concerns that Republicans' impeachment campaign is continuing to amplify a disinformation effort that has its sources in the Russian intelligence apparatus and could have been exposed and silenced years ago," they said.Buma's concerns about Giuliani, a personal attorney for Trump during his presidency, center on the $300,000 his firm received from Pavel Fuks, a Ukrainian oligarch with close ties to Moscow.
They were pushing the same narrative that would, months later, turn into a Trump campaign talking point: Hunter's work for Burisma didn't just create the appearance of a conflict; it was somehow illegal.
The sources also claimed that George Soros, the billionaire who is at the center of numerous far-right conspiracy theories, was "involved in massive money laundering," according to Buma's disclosure.
Working out of the Los Angeles Field Office, Buma gives a firsthand account of a dynamic that is exactly the opposite of what has been alleged: Information about Hunter Biden was eagerly received and handed off to the case agents while investigations into Giuliani were shut down.
He says he was directly ordered to stop investigating Trump and his circle, that his best sources were closed down, and that he was transferred from his human intelligence squad to a less desirable assignment doing surveillance, one that had little to do with this skill-set or experience.
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