Hunter Biden’s former associate Tony Bobulinski testified that Joe Biden is “the big guy” and said the president “continues to lie” to the American people about his involvement in his son’s business dealings.
Bobulinsky, who worked with Hunter Biden to create the SinoHawk Holdings joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC, and said he met Joe Biden in 2017, provided “unwavering” closed-door testimony Tuesday before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees .
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His testimony, which was part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden, lasted more than eight hours.
A source familiar with his testimony told Fox News Digital that he said he “personally met” with Biden in May 2017 in Los Angeles on the sidelines of the Milken conference for between 45 minutes and an hour.
Fox News Digital first reported these meetings between Bobulinski and Biden in October 2020.
Tony Bobulinski, former associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, October 22, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Joe Biden, May 3, 2017, spoke at the conference, by hosting “A Conversation with the 47th Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden.”
Just days after the May 2, 2017 meeting, the now-infamous May 13, 2017 email, which included a discussion of “compensation packages” for six people as part of a trade deal with a Chinese energy company. The email appeared to identify Biden as “president/vice president based on CEFC agreement,” referring to now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co.
The email includes a note stating that “Hunter has certain expectations for the office he will develop.” An equity sharing proposal refers to “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the large? » without further details.
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Bobulinski said Tuesday that Joe Biden is “the big guy.”
Bobulinski has said, since 2020, that “the big guy” was Joe Biden. But IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who claimed politics influenced the years-long federal investigation into Hunter Biden, also said “the big guy” was known to be Joe Biden .
Meanwhile, Bobulinski testified that, from his “direct personal experience,” it is “clear” that Joe Biden was “the brand the Biden family was selling.”
“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,” Bobulinski said in his opening statement, obtained exclusively by Fox News. Digital.
Joe and his son Hunter Biden. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
“Joe Biden was more than a participant and beneficiary of the family business; he was an enabler, even though he was protected by a complex system designed to maintain plausible deniability,” Bobulinski said. “The only reason these international business transactions took place – with tens of millions of dollars going directly to the Biden family – was because Joe Biden held high office.”
Bobulinski added: “The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period. »
Bobulinski served in the U.S. Navy’s Naval Nuclear Power Training Command as a decorated master training instructor; the command’s director of technology, who holds a “Q security clearance” from the Department of Energy and the National Security Agency; and later served as a direct input officer to the command in its final Navy Physical Fitness Report.
Another source familiar with Bobulinski’s testimony told Fox News Digital that he told committee investigators that Jim Biden, the president’s brother, was never concerned about Joe Biden’s involvement in foreign trade relations of the family, saying he could invoke “plausible deniability”.
Bobulinski also told congressional lawmakers that he was never approached by the Justice Department, nor special counsel David Weiss, to answer questions or testify on anything related to the Bidens.
Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., arrives at the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing titled “Improper Litigation: Oversight of Third-Party Litigation Funding” in the Rayburn Building on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“Tony Bobulinski testified under oath that Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ the Bidens were selling to enrich the family,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said in a statement after Bobulinski’s testimony. “Joe Biden not only knew about his family’s dealings with an energy company linked to the Chinese Communist Party, he also enabled and participated in them. Tony Bobulinski testified that he believed Joe Biden committed wrongdoing and continues to lie to the American people about his participation in his family’s influence peddling schemes.
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Comer added that Bobulinski “was steadfast in his testimony today, providing facts that Democrats didn’t want to hear.”
“As such, the Democrats have shamed themselves by shouting at Mr. Bobulinski, cutting him off, belittling him and threatening him,
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
” Comer said, lambasting his fellow Democrats for “behavior that I frankly have never seen before in a transcribed interview.”
Comer said he would “soon release the transcript to provide the American people with transparency about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s shady schemes and Democrats’ efforts to smear him for speaking out.”
But the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Bobulinski “offers absolutely no testimony indicating criminal activity on the part of President Biden … or evidence that President Biden was involved in Hunter Biden’s businesses.
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Meanwhile, as Bobulinski left the Capitol on Tuesday, he turned to reporters and said, “It was a great day for the American people.”
The next witness before the committee in the impeachment inquiry will be the president’s brother, Jim Biden, on February 21. Hunter Biden is scheduled to appear for his deposition on February 28.
