President Joe Biden claimed yet again on Monday that he was telling the truth when he stated he “never” communicated with his son Hunter about his international business transactions — despite mounting evidence linking the elder Biden to a fraudulent influence-peddling plot, according to Republicans.
“Did you lie about never speaking to Hunter about his business dealings?” As he left a White House East Room event centered on infrastructure, Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich asked Biden.
“No,” the 80-year-old president replied, just four days after a text message from Hunter implicated him in an apparent 2017 shakedown of a Chinese government-linked enterprise.
Hunter Biden cited his father in a threatening WhatsApp text message sent to a CEFC China Energy employee on July 30, 2017.
According to prior data published in 2020 by Republican-led Senate committees, the Biden family received $5 million from CEFC, a cog in Beijing’s “Belt and Road” influence effort, within 10 days of the message.
Hunter told CEFC employee Raymond Zhao in his threatening message that he was “sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” Hunter is said to have written.
“And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.’”
Photos show Hunter Biden at his father’s home in Wilmington, Del., on the day he sent the message released by the House Ways and Means Committee, which received it from IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley, who is alleging a cover-up in Hunter’s tax fraud investigation, which resulted in a plea deal announced last week that is expected to keep the president’s son out of prison.
Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden stated that he had never spoken with Hunter or his first brother, James Biden, with whom Hunter had lucrative businesses, notably the collaboration with CEFC China Energy.
Biden said in September 2019 that he’d “never spoken” with his son about “his overseas business dealings” after declaring in August 2019 that “I have never discussed, with my son, my brother, or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses.”
Unfortunately for him, there’s now compelling evidence that says he lied.
Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski claims he met with Joe Biden about the CEFC venture in 2017, and a May 2017 email from another Hunter Biden partner, James Gilliar, outlined a 10% cut of the proceeds for the “big guy,” whom both Bobulinski and Gilliar have identified as Joe Biden.
An email from Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2017 lists Joe Biden as a participant in a teleconference discussing CEFC’s bid to purchase US natural gas.
Joe Biden is said to have been involved in a previous Hunter Biden enterprise in China.
Hunter co-founded BHR Partners with Chinese governmental organizations in 2013. BHR was registered 12 days after Hunter joined then-VP Biden aboard Air Force Two for an official trip to Beijing, according to the Wall Street Journal.
During the trip to the capital of China, Hunter introduced his father to BHR CEO Jonathan Li. Later, Joe Biden wrote letters of reference for the children of Li.
Hunter claimed in emails recovered from his previous laptop that he had to provide Joe Biden “half” of his revenue, but IRS agents were told not to look into the elder Biden’s role in overseas dealings, according to Shapley.
According to documents from Hunter’s abandoned laptop, images, and witness recollections, Joe Biden interacted with Hunter’s associates from Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, in addition to China.
Joe Biden met with his son’s business partner Devon Archer in 2014, according to visitor logs, around the same time both Hunter Biden and Archer, a convicted felon at the time, joined the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings, which paid the then-second son up to $1 million per year as his father assumed control of Obama administration Ukraine policy.
Then-VP Biden attended a meal at DC’s Cafe Milano on April 16, 2015, with Burisma boss Vadym Pozharskyi, who wrote Hunter a thank-you note the next day. In October 2020, The Post’s first world exclusive piece on Hunter’s laptop was based on that communication. Biden’s campaign vaguely rejected the meeting at the time, and the then-candidate called the reporting a “Russian plant” during the final presidential debate.
The House Oversight Committee is looking into an FBI informant’s information that a Burisma CEO paid $10 million in bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden near the end of the Obama administration.
Last month, the Oversight Committee named nine Biden family members who allegedly got money from China and a Romanian businessman convicted of corruption.
A three-person delegation from Kazakhstan, as well as Russian millionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, attended the Cafe Milano meal, which Hunter wrote to an acquaintance would be “ostensibly” about his job as chairman of the World Food Program USA.
In February 2014, Baturina allegedly paid $3.5 million to a business affiliated with Hunter Biden in search of US property investments. Baturina and another Russian billionaire who sought US property investments with Hunter Biden escaped Treasury Department penalties imposed on Russia’s business elite as a result of the 16-month-old Ukrainian war.
Hunter Biden’s legal team has not contested the message’s legitimacy, but attorney Chris Clark stated on Friday, “Any verifiable words or actions of my client, in the midst of a horrible addiction, are solely his own and have no connection to anyone in his family.”
