By It really was one of the most corrupt administrations in American history. Newly declassified CIA documents reveal that in February 2016, then–Vice President Joe Biden’s team intervened to prevent the dissemination of an intelligence report detailing Ukrainian officials’ concerns about Hunter Biden’s business activities in their country. The report, which highlighted perceptions of a “double standard” in U.S. anti-corruption efforts, was withheld at the request of Biden’s national security advisor, an action described as “extremely rare and unusual” by a senior CIA official.
Donald Trump, it appears, was impeached for asking about crimes that Biden asked the CIA to cover up.
Wrap your head around this.
President Trump was impeached over wanting to look into the crimes Joe Biden just got caught covering up. pic.twitter.com/OrHOIAU62T
— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 7, 2025
According to the documents, obtained by Just the News, the CIA report compiled reactions from senior Ukrainian officials following Joe Biden’s December 2015 visit to Kyiv. At the time, Biden was President Barack Obama’s point person for U.S. policy toward Ukraine, which was navigating the aftermath of the 2014 Maidan Revolution and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The report noted that Ukrainian officials, under then-President Petro Poroshenko, were “disappointed” with Biden’s visit, citing a lack of substantive discussions. They also “privately mused” about U.S. media scrutiny of Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation for corruption. “These officials viewed the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corruption in Ukraine as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power,” the CIA reported. The document was intended for distribution to U.S. policymakers but was halted after Biden’s team intervened. “I just spoke with VP/NSA and he would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated,” Biden’s Presidential Daily Brief briefer told the CIA. “Thanks for understanding.”
The senior CIA official, speaking to the outlet, emphasized that such intervention from outside the Intelligence Community was highly unusual. Typically, decisions about report dissemination are made internally, without external influence. The official also noted that the report met the threshold for sharing with U.S. officials involved in Ukraine policy, as it reflected the perspectives of key Ukrainian figures.
The December 2015 trip has drawn significant attention due to Joe Biden’s decision to push for the ouster of Ukraine’s chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma. Biden threatened to withhold a U.S. loan guarantee if Shokin was not removed, a move that diverged from State Department and European Union assessments that Shokin’s anti-corruption efforts were sufficient. At the time, then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt had warned Biden’s advisors that Burisma was considered corrupt and that Hunter Biden’s board position undermined the U.S. anti-corruption stance in Ukraine.
The declassified memos surfaced following a review of CIA databases initiated in late 2024. Current CIA Director John Ratcliffe, appointed in January 2025, has prioritized addressing what the Trump administration calls the “politicization” of the agency. “Mr. President, the CIA is being restructured at your direction to focus on our core mission and to eliminate the political – the well-documented politicization that has taken place in the intelligence community from bad actors in the past to focus on our core mission and to Make America Safe Again,” Ratcliffe stated at an April Cabinet meeting. The senior CIA official said Ratcliffe viewed Biden’s intervention as an example of such politicization, prompting the release of the document for transparency.
The revelations add to ongoing scrutiny of the Biden family’s ties to Ukraine, particularly Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma, which he joined in May 2014. The declassified report raises questions about the extent to which the vice president’s office sought to control the flow of information related to these dealings. And it comes amid renewed focus on what critics describe as a culture of corruption surrounding the Biden family—a pattern that did not end when Joe Biden left the vice presidency but continued through his years in the Oval Office.
In the final days of his presidency, Biden issued a wave of controversial pardons that critics called “despicable.” Biden granted clemency to numerous political allies and family members, shielding them from investigation and potential prosecution. What made these pardons especially suspect, legal experts noted, was that many were executed using an autopen rather than the president’s own signature—a practice unprecedented in modern American history. Senator Ted Cruz denounced the move as “a direct and unprecedented assault on our Constitutional order,” arguing that the president’s personal involvement is required for a pardon to be lawful. “A machine cannot perform the moral and constitutional act of mercy that belongs solely to the President,” Cruz said, warning that such conduct represented “a new level of corruption and contempt for the rule of law.”
The sequence is telling: first, intelligence suppressed to protect the family from scrutiny abroad; then, a wave of pardons and procedural shortcuts at home to insulate them from accountability. The Biden administration’s defenders call these claims partisan attacks. But to many Americans, the pattern is unmistakable—a family that profits from influence, silences those who ask questions, and rewrites the rules when caught.
The picture that emerges from these documents and decisions is not of a statesman guiding foreign policy, but of a political dynasty shielding itself from exposure. The CIA memos reveal how Biden’s staff pressured an intelligence agency to bury politically inconvenient information. The final pardons show how that same instinct to suppress, deflect, and protect endured to the very end of his presidency.
It’s probably time for Democrats to stop mocking the idea of “the deep state” when it’s now clear that Biden and those in the administration were actively directing the CIA to cover for themselves. It’s certainly not the first time a Democratic president has done so.
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