A former close associate of Hunter Biden told Congress that President Biden was aware of his son’s business dealings and even discussed the “outlines” of those arrangements after he left the White House in 2017. The associate claims that members of the Biden family “sold” Mr. Biden’s eldest name to foreign entities for tens of millions of dollars, dangling the prospect of access to the family patriarch.
“For nearly four years, I have tried to tell the American people the truth about serious corruption at the top of their government,” his associate, Tony Bobulinski, told the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, which are leading the impeachment inquiry into the government. president.
Mr. Bobulinski worked with the younger Mr. Biden at one of the Biden family’s many consulting firms. That company — SinoHawk Holdings — involved the president’s older son and younger brother, James Biden, and aimed to develop infrastructure, energy and technology partnerships between U.S. companies and entities in communist China.
“I want to be very clear: Based on my direct personal experience and what I subsequently learned, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ being sold by the Biden family,” Mr. Bobulinski said at House. Accused investigators. “His family’s foreign influence peddling operations – from China to Ukraine and elsewhere – sold out to foreign actors who sought to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the US government. »
“Joe Biden was more than a participant and beneficiary of the family business; he was an enabler, even though he was protected by an elaborate plan to maintain plausible deniability,” he continued.
Mr. Bobulinski, who is a Navy veteran from a family with a long tradition of career military service, made national headlines for the first time just hours before a 2020 presidential debate. He appeared on camera to detail his relationship with the first son and how he believed the Biden family was engaging in a corruption scheme. He was also the first to allege that money from foreign entities was set aside by Biden associates for “the Big Guy,” who Mr. Bobulinski says is the president.
“I am making this statement to set the record straight on the involvement of the Biden family – Vice President Biden, his brother Jim Biden and his son Hunter Biden – in dealings with the Chinese,” Mr. Bobulinsky. said at the time. “I heard Joe Biden say he never discussed business with Hunter. It’s wrong. I have direct knowledge of this because I have dealt directly with the Biden family, including Joe Biden.
Mr. Bobulinski blamed the “so-called mainstream media” and the federal government for not taking his accusations seriously all these years. He said he met the eldest Mr. Biden in 2017 to discuss his and his first son’s budding relationship with a Chinese energy company, CEFC. Members of the Biden family received millions of dollars as the company, which had close ties to the Chinese government, pursued energy contracts in the United States.
“Joe Biden knew about the CEFC transaction, permitted it and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began,” Bobulinski says. “Indeed, the U.S. government and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York identified CEFC as a known surrogate for the Chinese Communist Party as early as 2016.”
The federal prosecutions in Manhattan had connected CEFC to an international system of corruption which existed well before the meeting of MM. Bobulinsky and Biden. A Chinese national, Patrick Ho, tried for years to bribe senior government officials in Chad and Uganda to facilitate energy deals for CEFC by funneling money through U.S. nongovernmental organizations. He went so far as to offer the Chadian president $2 million hidden in gift boxes in order to win contracts from his government for the CEFC.
Mr. Bobulinski said he met with the president, who was then a private citizen, “several times” in California to discuss the CEFC deal. “The only reason Joe Biden met with me privately at the Milken Institute Global Conference and sat me at his head table was because I was a business associate of the Biden family,” says -he.
Mr. Bobulinski says Congress must investigate Mr. Biden’s involvement in his son’s foreign dealings, calling it a “high crime and misdemeanor,” and prosecutors should also look into the president’s involvement.
“Under U.S. corruption laws, political office holders can be held as liable as their immediate family members who directly receive money. This is common sense and the Americans understand it,” says Mr. Bobulinski. “The facts we will discuss today appear to me to present troubling evidence, which these committees should fully investigate, regarding possible violations by Joe Biden of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. »
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told The Sun he expects to hear from more key witnesses in the coming weeks as he pursues Mr Biden’s impeachment. Next on Mr. Comer’s schedule is an appearance by the president’s younger brother, James Biden, which the Sun first reported. exclusively reported. He will appear on February 21.
A week later, the first son will make his much-anticipated appearance before impeachment investigators, which he is trying to do to dodge During months.
