Ahead of the 2016 elections, high-level Democrats accused then-presidential candidate Donald Trump of colluding with Russia. However, long before weaponizing Russia against President Trump, many of these Democrats used this boogeyman to enrich themselves and their families.

From Just the News. While Democrats weaponized invented Russia collusion claims in an attempt to sink President Donald Trump’s first term, in retrospect the party’s leaders have often gone soft on Russia when it wanted to reap financial or political benefits for themselves or allies.

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From the Obama-era “Russian Reset” and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Skolkovo investment project to Hunter Biden’s business in Moscow and President Joe Biden’s waiving of sanctions against a Russian pipeline, key Democratic figures reaped political and financial benefits from going soft on Moscow. …

The “Russian Reset”

After Russia’s two invasions of Ukraine, first in 2014 and again in 2022, senior Democratic leaders roundly called out Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin’s aggressive behavior, primarily targeted at the country’s smaller neighbor, Ukraine.

But in the years before Moscow’s invasion, Democrats enriched themselves politically and personally from Russian oligarchs and businesses in the region while empowering Putin with energy and technology deals that still haunt America today.

President Barack Obama, after taking office in early 2009, set in motion the merging of U.S. business interests with the Russian economy through the famous “reset” in relations between the two powers. …

The reset set the stage for several prominent Democrats and their benefactors to profit from the burgeoning business opportunities in Russia being facilitated by the Obama administration.

Hillary Clinton, Skolkovo, and a half-million dollar speaking fee

In one case, the policy of Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to support and develop Russia’s “Silicon Valley,” known as Skolkovo, may have undermined U.S. national security while the family’s Clinton Foundation pocketed donations from Russian donors. After Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine, she would later make an about-face, instigating a narrative wherein Russia allegedly interfered and deprived her of victory in the 2016 election in which she was a candidate. She called her opponent, Donald Trump, a “Trojan Horse for Putin.” …

The Skolkovo project received backing and support from Clinton Foundation donors, like Google, Intel and Cisco. Additionally, donations from Russian businessmen tied to the Skolkovo project flowed to the Clinton Foundation. …

Clinton’s spouse, former president Bill Clinton, also reaped rewards from the Russian reset, collecting a $500,000 speaking fee from a Russian investment bank, Renaissance Capital. …

The Bidens and Moscow

Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, gave an early voice to the administration’s new policy towards Russia weeks after their term in office began. “The last few years have seen a dangerous drift in relations between Russia and the members of our Alliance,” Biden said at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 7, 2009. “It is time—to paraphrase President Obama—it’s time to press the reset button and to revisit the many areas where we can and should be working together with Russia.”

Hunter Biden, the vice president’s son, and his business partners took full advantage of the new thaw, waging a concerted campaign to squeeze oligarchs in Vladimir Putin’s country for investments, an effort that ultimately paved the way for the first son to score a big payday from Burisma Holdings in neighboring Ukraine, Just the News previously reported.

Hunter Biden and his partners’ pursuit of Russian riches began as early as 2010 when the “reset” was entering full swing with payments from a Moscow-based machinery firm …

Along the way, Hunter Biden and his partners like Devon Archer discussed plans to open up a Moscow office for their Rosemont Seneca Partners firm, create a U.S.-Russia business coalition and pursue a real estate venture with one oligarch that could have topped out at $1 billion, the evidence showed. …

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(Excerpt from Just the News. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Hillary Clinton, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52783240)