"I had no knowledge of my son Hunter's business dealings"

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oh, for heavens sake, did i say that?

Joe and Hunter Biden used a visit to Sandy Hook memorial service to set up secret meet with Chinese over $10m-a-year deal, new emails reveal


Hunter Biden used Joe Biden's appearance at a Sandy Hook memorial service to arrange a meeting between his dad  and his Chinese business partners, new texts reveal.

The messages come from a fresh tranche of documents released by Congress on Wednesday, given to them by IRS agents who investigated the First Son.

On December 12, 2017 Hunter wrote on the Chinese messaging app WeChat to Liu Yadong, a top executive at Chinese oil giant CEFC, to arrange a meeting with his father.


Hunter Biden used Joe Biden's appearance at a Sandy Hook memorial service to arrange a meeting between his dad  and his Chinese business partners, new texts reveal.

The messages come from a fresh tranche of documents released by Congress on Wednesday, given to them by IRS agents who investigated the First Son.

On December 12, 2017 Hunter wrote on the Chinese messaging app WeChat to Liu Yadong, a top executive at Chinese oil giant CEFC, to arrange a meeting with his father.

The texts to set up a meeting with Joe came after months of negotiation about the Biden family's involvement in the deal with the Chinese government-linked company, in exchange for $10 million a year.

In July 2017 Hunter sent 'threatening' texts to CEFC official Runlong Zhao demanding he follow through on the $10 million deal, and noting his father's involvement.

'I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,' Hunter wrote, in text messages obtained by the IRS investigators and published by Congress last year.

Weeks later, on August 3, 2017, Hunter texted CEFC associate Gongwen 'Kevin' Dong that he wanted a '[$]10 M per annum budget' and that 'the Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the [CEFC] Chairman wants from this partnership.'

At the time Joe Biden held no government post. He had left the vice-presidency the previous year and wouldn't be elected president until 2020. 

The new whistleblower documents released on Wednesday also appear to show that in November 2017, Hunter set up a group text conversation on the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp with his father and uncle, who was also a partner in his multi-million-dollar deal with CEFC.

Hunter marked one of the contacts in the three-person WhatsApp group as 'Jim Biden' and the other as 'Dad'.

Along with Yadong's WeChat messages about setting up a meeting with Joe, the House Ways and Means Committee published a photo of Yadong's business card, which describes him as CEO of CEFC Global Strategic Holdings, with an address at the United Nations Plaza in New York City.

Yadong helped run CEFC's sham charity, used by its chief Patrick Ho to funnel bribes to foreign officials. Ho was convicted of the bribery in 2018.

Joe Biden gave a different version of events back in 2018:

WASHINGTON — President Biden denied Wednesday that he interacted with his relatives’ foreign business associates — despite photos and other evidence of him doing so — as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on authorizing an impeachment inquiry.

Biden denounced as “lies” reports that he met with son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden’s contacts despite confirmation he interacted while vice president with their Chinese, Kazakhstani, Mexican, Russian and Ukrainian associates.

“I did not. And it’s just a bunch of lies. They’re lies. I did not. They’re lies,” the 81-year-old president said in response to a question from The Post.

Biden’s blanket denial is contradicted by records from Hunter’s abandoned laptop, as well as published photos and numerous witness recollections.

Of course, Biden can no longer remember that he’s president*, let alone his son’s name, or having ever met with Hunter’s business associates, but still, it’s not a good look.

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*2022, 2023

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