Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s fact-checker, gave President Joe Biden four Pinocchios for lying about his son Hunter Biden‘s income in China.
The WaPo considers four Pinocchios as whopping out-and-out lies.
Kessler cited two instances in which Biden denied his son earned money in China.
During a presidential debate on October 22, 2020, Biden informed moderator Kristen Welker, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China. I have not had … the only guy who made money from China is this guy [referring to Trump]. He’s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China.”
In a debate on September 29, 2020, Trump said to Biden, “Once you became vice president [Hunter Biden] made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow and various other places,” to which Biden responded, “That’s not true.”
Kessler wrote:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELBut now, nearly three years later, Biden’s assertions have been directly rebutted by Hunter himself. In court testimony last week, the younger Biden acknowledged that he in fact had been paid substantial sums in China — the first official confirmation that this was the case.
He went on to say, “What is clear is that Hunter Biden did receive ‘a dollar from China.’”
Hunter’s admission occurred “shortly before” lawmakers were scheduled to interrogate his former business partner, Devon Archer, according to Kessler.
Kessler then went over what he called the “facts” about Hunter’s previous business connections in China.
He stated that Hunter traveled on Air Force Two [the vice president’s plane on the then-vice president’s official trip to China in 2013, and that, according to Hunter, he used the trip to connect with a Chinese business partner, whom he even introduced to his father.
Kessler observed that Hunter joined the board of BHR (Bohai, Harvest, and Rosemont), a newly founded financial advisory firm whose partners included Chinese organizations, including the one he recommended to his father.
The goal was to raise $1.5 billion, but they fell short, according to Kessler. He reported that Hunter later bought a 10% stake in the organization in charge of the fund, but his lawyers claimed he sold it once his father was elected president.
Kessler noted that after Biden left office, Hunter inked a deal with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy in 2017, and that documents found on his laptop revealed that CEFC and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s brother, James, over the course of 14 months.
Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter business partner, said an email recovered on Hunter’s laptop regarding a planned collaboration arrangement with CEFC that stated 10% would be “held by H for the big guy,” was a reference to Joe Biden.
“What wasn’t clear until now was how much money Hunter Biden personally received from these deals,” noted Kessler.
According to Kessler, Hunter admitted last week, when being questioned by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, that he made roughly $2.4 million in 2017 and $2.2 million in 2018, ”most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.”
Under interrogation, he admitted to earning slightly under a million dollars in 2017 from a firm he founded called Hudson West with the CEO of a Chinese business conglomerate, and an extra $644,000 from CEFC later that year.
He further stated that he received $500,000 in director fees from the Ukrainian natural gas and oil company Burisma, as well as $70,000 from Romanian business interests.
Hunter confirmed receiving a “million dollar payment” for legal fees for Patrick Ho, a CEFC official who was later indicted in connection with a conspiracy to bribe African politicians, on March 22, 2018.
Kessler also pointed out that both Democrats and Republicans agreed that Devon Archer testified behind closed doors that Hunter put his father on speaker phone with business associates about “20 times over the course of a decade” — despite Biden’s claim that he had “never spoken to” his son about his business dealings.
Democrats and the White House both maintained that those incidents did not constitute a “substantive” dialogue.
According to a Biden staffer, when Biden made his fraudulent assertions, he was “addressing a barrage of false attacks by Donald Trump.”
Kessler admitted that Biden’s phrasing was imprecise, but stated, “The fact remains that Biden, during the debate, denied his son had made money in China. In court last week, his son has said he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese business deals.”
The misinformation fake news media allowed Joe Biden to lie about the money coming in from China to the Biden Crime Family. Their complicity allowed Biden to win the White House. The big question now is what else did they allow?
