Hunter Biden

But anyway, he introduced me to Burisma.

And...

Burisma, this is right after the Russians, I mean, the Russians had already taken Crimea, but they had made inroads into Donbas and Donetsk.

And remember, they were that significant incursion past Crimea into the eastern part of Ukraine.

And Burisma was the largest independent, completely independent natural gas driller in Ukraine.

And NAFGAS, which is probably one of the most corrupt organizations in the world, is the state-owned natural gas entity in Ukraine.

And one of the things that is beyond the potential of rare earth minerals, the most lucrative commodity in Ukraine, other than the level of education of the population, is natural gas.

And Burisma was under direct threat from Putin.

I mean, that's basically why Putin wants that particular part of Ukraine also is the natural resources and also the fact that he runs pipelines through Ukraine to Europe.

And there was a board member who was a guy named President Kwasniewski, who was the first democratically elected president of Poland outside Lech Walesa, after Lech Walesa, who wasn't democratically elected.

and a champion of democracy in a post-Soviet Europe, Eastern Europe.

And he was on the board and he made an argument to me that they were worth representing because I said that I would talk to them if they wanted to talk to me about representation through Boy Schiller.

And there was an enormous amount of subject matter expertise in Boies-Shiller.

There are two partners that were very steeped and that had worked both at the CIA and the State Department and in the last administration that were very steeped in Ukraine and issues as relates to Ukraine.

And that's what lawyers do.

And so I said, you should talk to them.

and they did and they and i um and they came in through me as a um you know the referring partner um uh or you know of council member you know and in in talking to them you know i i became convinced by president kofneski that i should join the board and he said look

The CEO of the company is not a... is no, you know, angel, but he's not one of the bad guys.

He's a guy that's under threat from the real bad guys.

The Dimitri Firtashs of the world who were controlling Nafta gas and, you know, was wanted up until, I think, like three days ago, you know, extradited by the United States for...