Biden got money from Russian lobbyist before approving Russian pipeline

 Fox News:

President Biden and his allies raked in campaign cash from a top Russia lobbyist in 2020, just months before his administration’s decision to scrap sanctions on a controversial firm building a Russian oil pipeline to Germany.

Richard Burt, a managing partner at McLarty Associates and a former U.S. ambassador to Germany during the Reagan administration, ponied up $4,000 for Joe Biden in October 2020 and dropped another $10,000 in the lefty-aligned political action committee Unite The County in March 2020, FEC records show.

In addition to violating Biden’s own campaign pledge not to take lobbyist cash, the money from Burt is particularly noteworthy as he is currently directly engaged in lobbying activities for Nord Stream 2 AG.

"When Richard Burt donated to Biden Victory Fund, he failed to acknowledge that he was a registered foreign agent and was therefore ineligible to contribute," a Democratic National Committee spokesman told The Post. "Because Burt also listed a different employer than on his [Foreign Agents Registration Act] registration, he was not flagged during our vetting process."

The DNC said it returned the cash on Thursday after The Post’s inquiry.

The Switzerland-based Nord Stream 2 — controlled by an ex-East German stasi officer and close ally of Vladimir Putin — is currently engaging in sanctionable activity, according to the State Department. Team Biden raised eyebrows, however, after declining to enforce sanctions, citing U.S. national interests, Axios reported.

Critics worry the project will allow Russia dangerous influence over European energy supplies and increase their overall political leverage on the continent.
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In March, 2019, Burt gave a maximum $2,800 donation to Schiff shortly after the congressman took the reins of the powerful House Intelligence Committee.

Schiff has not commented publicly on the Biden Nord Stream 2 decision.

Both Burt and reps for Schiff did not respond to request for comment from The Post.
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Thus looks bad.  The association with Adam Schiff also looks, suspect.  Schiff was a notorious liar about the Russian collusion hoax and also pushed bogus impeachment efforts against President Trump.

It is also suspect that the same crowd pushing the Russian collusion hoax appears to be in collusion with the Russians to make Europe dependent on Russian natural gas that can be cut off at the whim of Putin.  It is another aspect of what a fraud the Russian collusion hoax was that was pushed by Schiff et.al.

It also looks like another aspect of Biden corruption that should be a campaign issue in 2022 and beyond.