News Analysis A 2016 State Department email obtained by Just The News confirms the U.S. government was provided information by a Ukrainian source saying that Burisma—the Ukrainian energy firm that gave Joe Biden’s son Hunter a lucrative position on its board—allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office. The author of the newly released email, State Department official George Kent, testified at President Donald Trump’s 2020 impeachment but never mentioned or disclosed the explosive information from his November 2016 email. The email, which was alluded to in a Sept. 18, 2020, Senate Homeland Security report but hadn’t been publicly released until earlier this month, states that Kent, who at the time of his email was the deputy chief of mission in Kyiv, Ukraine, had been told by Ukraine’s deputy general prosecutor that Burisma had paid a $7 million bribe to end a 2014 corruption investigation into the …