Yesterday, Hunter Biden announced he would be avoiding a subpoena by the House Oversight Committee. The Republicans on that committee wanted to ask Hunter about his business relationships with his father, Joe. Hunter is currently under indictment for nine charges related to tax evasion, all based on unreported income and spending from his lucrative years as his father’s alleged bagman.
Republicans voted last night to formally open an impeachment inquiry, which presumably gives them greater subpoena power.
So yesterday, Hunter showed up in Washington D.C. to grandstand. He began by announcing that he was the real victim — a victim of Republican cruelty.
Hunter Biden, according to his father, the media, and — wait for it — Hunter Biden himself, is a victim. In fact, he is the greatest victim. Were it not for his last name, he wouldn’t be prosecuted for gun charges and tax evasion. Were it not for his last name, he wouldn’t be dragged before Congress to talk about his business.
Of course, were it not for his last name, he would also likely be a homeless drug addict with no penny to his name, unpaid child support, and no life prospects at all. As Hunter once admitted, his last name was “gold” to foreign investors and his father’s job “opened doors that wouldn’t be opened up to other people.”
Hunter is not the only member of the Biden family who feels this way: Jim Biden, Joe’s brother, told potential business partners, “We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” Frank, Joe’s other brother, called the Biden name a “tremendous asset” for business. Val, his sister, said, “I had a better seat at the table because my brother is at the head of the table.”
Hunter Biden is not a victim.
He’s anything but a victim.
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But according to Hunter — a man who tried to disown his own daughter, fathered while he was a drug-addled derelict, and who urged his father to do the same to his granddaughter, all while he spent nearly a million dollars on prostitutes and the like — the whole debacle surrounding him and his dad is a witch hunt. And he says Republicans have turned his dad’s love for him into darkness.
But sometimes love can turn into darkness. Like, say, when your powerful father uses his power to clear millions of dollars for his family, using you as the family bagman, even knowing that giving you access to the family credit card allows you to fund your sex and drug addictions.
Putting aside the seamy personal situation of the Biden family, however, what we really have here is a cut and dried corruption case. Yesterday, Hunter claimed his father wasn’t financially involved in his business, saying he was not “financially involved.”
That is some pretty careful wording, meaning, he didn’t sign checks on behalf of the business. Didn’t fund it himself. Wasn’t doing the 1040s. But what about whether Joe was involved at all in Hunter’s business.
Obviously, Joe was. He always has been.
In reality, Hunter has never held a job unconnected to his father or his dad’s corruption. As a Delaware senator, Joe was very close with the vice president of MBNA, the biggest bank in Delaware. MBNA hired Hunter to a management training post. After he left MBNA, Hunter got a job with the Clinton Department of Commerce. Then, he went to work as a lobbyist for a former Biden campaign staffer named William Oldaker; during that time, MBNA paid him $100,000 per year. MBNA, for what it’s worth, made bank while they pushed Hunter’s career. According to the American Spectator, it became the “second-largest issuer of Visa and Mastercards in the country, and some analysts believe it will eventually overtake Citicorp to become the nation’s biggest credit-card bank.”
How convenient!
Hunter’s lobbying work earned him huge dollars. As per the New Yorker, “An informal arrangement was established: Biden wouldn’t ask Hunter about his lobbying clients, and Hunter wouldn’t tell his father about them. ‘It wasn’t like we all sat down and agreed on it. … It came naturally,’” Hunter said.
Hunter has been clearing family money for years on the back of Joe’s position. As he texted his daughter in January 2019, “I hope you can all do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
In November 2013, Hunter joined with Chinese investors to create a company called Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Management Co., Ltd., or BHR for short. That investment fund was controlled by the Bank of China. The next month, Joe brought Hunter with him on Air Force 2 to Beijing, where they met the CEO of BHR, Jonathan Li. The business license in China was quickly approved, and Hunter joined the board.
In May 2014, Burisma Holdings Limited, a Ukrainian natural gas and oil company, announced that Hunter Biden would join its board of directors. Joe Biden was overseeing Ukrainian policy for the White House at the time. In March 2015, Hunter organized a business dinner in Washington, D.C.; Joe stopped by to meet a high-level Burisma official, Vadym Pozharskyi.
In November later that year, Pozharskyi suggested that U.S. officials should visit Ukraine and talk with the Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, as well as President Petro Poroshenko, about Shokin’s investigations into the CEO of Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky.
That same month, Amos Hochstein, the Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs in the Obama White House, met with Hunter to talk about Burisma. Five days later on November 11, Hochstein met with Joe in the West Wing; the next day, he called Hunter again. The next month, Joe hosted a party attended by both Hochstein and Hunter.
In December 2015, Joe went to Ukraine, where he demanded that Shokin be fired, and threatened to withdraw $1 billion in International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans if he wasn’t. Two days later, Poroshenko acquiesced and committed to firing Shokin.
During this time, a confidential human source later told the FBI, Burisma CFO Vadim Pojarski said that he had hired Hunter to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” A month or two later, the source said, Zlochevsky dismissed any threats from Shokin as easily solved, saying, “Don’t worry, Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.” According to that confidential human source, Zlochevsky also said it cost $5 million “to pay one Biden” and $5 million to pay “another Biden.”
In February of 2016, Zlochevsky gave Hunter extravagant birthday gifts; then, a couple of weeks later, Shokin was fired, and Joe called Poroshenko to thank him.
During this time, Joe was apparently using a pseudonym, Robert L. Peters, to email his son, Hunter, with regard to Ukraine. Joe was also, according to Hunter’s business partner Devon Archer, routinely called into meetings on the phone so Hunter could exhibit ties with his father. Democrats have defended Joe by claiming he called only to talk about the weather — which is precisely what a racketeering head would do in order to demonstrate the viability of connection with power.
That same month (December 2015), Hunter and CEFC China Energy Company Limited Chairman Ye Jianming began communicating regarding a possible U.S. partnership. In January 2017, Ye gave Hunter a diamond worth $80,000.
In March 2017, Ye’s company wired $3 million to Robinson Walker LLC, a company owned by a Biden associate, Rob Walker. Then, Joe attended a CEFC meeting at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. In May 2017, Hunter’s business associates infamously emailed each other about creating a CEFC deal that would include “10 held by H for the big guy.” It’s worth noting that other documentation from a confidential human source also referred to Joe as the “big guy” in regards to Burisma. Former Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski similarly says that the “big guy” referred to Joe.
By July 2017, Hunter was writing to the head of a Chinese company in a WhatsApp message:
I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. I am very concerned that the Chairman has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me or that he is unaware of the promises and assurances that have been made have not been kept. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand. And now means tonight. 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. All too often people mistake kindness for weakness – and all too often I am standing over top of them saying I warned you. From this moment until whenever he reaches me. […] Ok my friend – I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. I sure hope whatever it is you are doing is very very very important.
On August 2, 2017, Hunter wrote an email explaining that the chairman — presumably Ye Jianming — had now cut a “MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT.” That arrangement was the creation of Hudson West III, LLC, an entity owned 50% by CEFC agent Gongwen Dong and 50% by Hunter. The next day, Hunter told Gongwen Dong via WhatsApp, “The Biden’s are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants from this partnership.”
In January 2019, Hunter’s then-personal assistant Katie Dodge wrote an email to personal aide to Joe Biden, Richard Ruffner, saying Joe had elected to pay Hunter’s legal bills, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, including legal fees for restructuring his JV with the Bank of China.
We know all of this only because Hunter isn’t just a bagman for his dad. He is, as we should remember, a drug-addled derelict.
The story broke wide open in mid-October 2020, when Hunter’s laptop came into public view — since he, while high as a kite, had left his laptop in a repair shop in Delaware. It contained not just pictures and video of drug use and prostitution, but also the content of emails and WhatsApp messages. The whole Biden criminal corruption story was emerging just before the election.
So Biden lied. And so did the media.
On October 22, 2020, Biden lied in open debate. Joe said, “I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life. … My son has not made money, in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about? — China. The only guy who made money in China is [President Trump].”
The American public never got the full story before the election.
That was because the FBI vaguely warned America’s largest social media services that the laptop might be Russian disinformation. So the social media services actively shut down dissemination of the New York Post’s blockbuster story. Then hundreds of former pseudo-experts on intelligence signed a letter also attesting the laptop had the hallmarks of Russian disinformation. Then Joe’s campaign suggested the laptop was Russian disinformation too.
All this time, Hunter was under active criminal investigation by the FBI. He had been since 2019. That investigation covered two separate matters: Hunter’s years-long tax evasion, and his false attestation on a gun form that he was not a drug addict.
In 2023, U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware — a man who had worked with Beau Biden and had long connections with all the power players in the state — announced a sweetheart deal with Hunter. Hunter would receive no jail time for the tax charges, and he would receive a diversion on the gun charge. The deal also included a cleverly-created proviso to immunize Hunter from all further investigation on his foreign dealings, including possible and obvious violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. That proviso was included in the diversion charge, not the tax charges.
This all blew up in public view when two IRS whistleblowers came forward to allege that the DOJ had acted to prevent the Hunter investigation from implicating Joe; not only that: They claimed that Joe Biden’s DOJ under Merrick Garland had hamstrung the investigation by refusing Weiss special counsel status and that the DOJ had implemented a sweetheart deal.
The whistleblowers were right. According to the New York Times:
Mr. Weiss appeared willing to forgo any prosecution of Mr. Biden at all, and his office came close to agreeing to end the investigation without requiring a guilty plea on any charges. But the correspondence reveals that his position, relayed through his staff, changed in the spring, around the time a pair of I.R.S. officials on the case accused the Justice Department of hamstringing the investigation. Mr. Weiss suddenly demanded that Mr. Biden plead guilty to committing tax offenses.
The deal finally blew up when the judge in Hunter’s case refused the plea deal, noting that it was completely unprecedented. To cover up the debacle, Merrick Garland then announced that Weiss would be appointed special counsel — suspiciously just in time to avoid testifying before Congress about the sweetheart deal.
Now Weiss has charged Hunter on nine tax charges. He’s likely going to jail. But just remember: He’s not going to jail because he’s a victim. And there is no way in hell that Joe was ignorant of all of this.
This is why the impeachment inquiry is gaining steam. Hunter says it’s all about politics, of course — and, as with any political act, politics are part of the game. But Hunter also says the impeachment inquiry itself is scurrilous and calls the inquiry “shameless.”
No, the only shameless one here is the guy who sells $500,000 finger paintings to his father’s donors, then refuses to pay child support, and insists any settlement involve denying his daughter the right to use the only actual asset the Biden family has: the Biden family name.
Hunter should be hit with contempt. And he will be.
The only question is how much more information will drip out that debunks every last argument Joe Biden has ever made about the innocence of his son — and his own ignorance.