In a sign of life for the corruption-focused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment</a> inquiry, a top House Republican investigator said on Thursday that he issued a new subpoena that seeks bank records tied to members of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s family.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY), who is leading the probe, announced the development in an interview on <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/comer-announces-new-subpoena-biden-family-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox Business</a> but declined to share the target of the subpoena.
&#8220;This morning, I issued a subpoena, for targeted financial information from a certain financial institution related to Jim Biden, Sarah Biden and Hunter Biden,&#8221; Comer said.
&#8220;This is a result of, many of the documents that Devin Archer turned over,&#8221; Comer continued, referring to a Biden family business partner who told congressional investigators how the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/intimidated-biden-brand-helped-ukrainian-company-survive-hunters-ex-associate-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden &#8220;brand&#8221;</a> helped the president&#8217;s family do business abroad.
Jim Biden, who also goes by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Biden</a>, is the younger brother of the president. He recently came up in a POLITICO report that alleged he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-gop-raises-alarm-over-biden-familys-alleged-business-with-qatari-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doing business with</a> Qatari officials.
Sarah Biden is the wife of Jim Biden, and Hunter Biden is the adult son of President Biden. He is facing two criminal trials over gun and tax charges and is also receiving congressional scrutiny over his foreign business dealings.
In a <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1791077463952384179" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posts</a> to X sharing a clip of the interview, Comer added, &#8220;We know the Biden family set up over 20 shell companies &amp; raked in over $24 million from China, Russia, and other foreign adversaries.&#8221;
He also said, &#8220;Today&#8217;s subpoena will help further expose the Biden family&#8217;s influence peddling schemes, the intentionally complicated web of LLCs formed by the Bidens to enrich themselves, &amp; the central role Joe Biden played in the business dealings.&#8221;
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Concluding his comments, published in bold font, Comer <a href="https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1791077539965784290" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>: &#8220;Bank records don&#8217;t lie.&#8221;
President Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declines-invite-to-testify-for-impeachment-inquiry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">turned down</a> an invitation from Comer in April to give testimony for the impeachment inquiry. His special counsel, Richard Sauber, claimed the probe was &#8220;over&#8221; and insisted the oversight panel turned up evidence showing that Biden &#8220;has done nothing wrong.&#8221;
Comer told anchor Maria Bartiromo on Thursday that &#8220;hopefully we can prepare to close this investigation and present our findings to the American people,&#8221; adding that the impeachment inquiry is in its &#8220;final stages.&#8221;

James Comer

Comer Announces New Subpoena Targeting Bank Records Linked To Biden Family Members

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U.S. House of Representatives

House staffers are poring over the transcript of last week&#8217;s deposition with President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s younger brother, James Biden, to track down inconsistencies with assertions made by other witnesses, top Republican investigators said on Sunday.
The lead impeachment investigator, Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY), appeared with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6347624091112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221;</a> for an interview with Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo to provide an update on the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Although James Biden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/james-biden-business-deals.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied in his opening statement</a> that Joe Biden had any involvement in his business activities, Comer said two witnesses with business ties to the Biden family, Devon Archer and Tony Bobulinski, and other associates have made claims that clash with what James Biden testified.
&#8220;They all say the same thing, that the Biden family capitalized off of Joe Biden. And with Jim Biden, he said some things that aren&#8217;t consistent with other people who we have interviewed, with other amounts of evidence that we have in the form of text messages and e-mails,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;And, right now, as we speak, Maria, our staff is going over, reviewing all that to determine whether or not Jim Biden, in fact, told the truth in his transcribed interview.&#8221;
Jordan said his &#8220;big takeaway&#8221; from the deposition with Jim Biden was &#8220;who are you going to believe? Jim Biden, who multiple times has changed his story, Jim Biden, who had multiple business ventures that failed, Jim Biden, who had multiple people he still owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to, or Tony Bobulinski, whose story has not changed, who&#8217;s been a successful business guy, and who came forward and said certain things that Jim Biden just totally disagreed with?&#8221;
He added that Jim Biden said his brother Joe Biden &#8220;never met with Tony Bobulinski. Tony Bobulinski has said that for four years and been forward about that. So I don&#8217;t think Jim Biden was necessarily square with us in this interview. And, as Chairman Comer mentioned, that&#8217;s why the staff is going back through the transcript and figuring out exactly what he said and where that disagrees with what we know to be true.&#8221;
While President Joe Biden has insisted the impeachment inquiry is <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/12/13/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-baseless-house-republican-impeachment-stunt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a political charade</a>, House investigators are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-announce-new-date-for-hunter-biden-deposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to press forward with deposing Hunter Biden, the president&#8217;s son, on Wednesday.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, said James Biden &#8220;explained repeatedly and unequivocally that Joe Biden has ‘never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in his business activities,’ and that Joe Biden never took any official action to benefit his business ventures.&#8221;
He also argued that James Biden&#8217;s deposition corroborated <a href="https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-member-raskin-s-statement-on-transcribed-interview-with-james-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;a mountain of evidence&#8221;</a> showing no wrongdoing by the president and called on Republicans to end the impeachment inquiry.

Staff Looking At Whether James Biden ‘Told The Truth’ In Deposition, House GOP Investigators Say

Staff Looking At Whether James Biden 'Told The Truth' In Deposition, House GOP Investigators Say

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Jim Jordan

James Biden said that his brother, President Joe Biden, did not have any involvement with his business dealings during a Wednesday interview with House lawmakers.
James was questioned for eight hours as part of the impeachment inquiry into whether President Biden was involved in efforts to benefit from his power and influence around the world. The president has repeatedly denied any involvement in his family&#8217;s business dealings, though Republicans have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-threatened-chinese-business-partner-for-payment-i-am-sitting-here-with-my-father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented evidence</a> challenging those statements.
&#8220;I have had a 50-year career in a variety of business ventures. Joe Biden has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in those activities,&#8221; James <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/21/congress/james-biden-interview-00142454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;None. I never asked my brother to take any official action on behalf of me, my business associates, or anyone else.”
Republicans said that aspects of James’s testimony were contradicted by the evidence presented.
&#8220;Let me say this. So there are a lot of things that Mr. Biden is saying that are directly contradicted by documents,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/james-biden-contradicted-himself-testimony-brothers-involvement-family-business-gop-lawmakers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) said he didn’t think James was telling the whole story when denying business ties between the Biden family. 
&#8220;He&#8217;s certainly said some things that make me wonder if he&#8217;s &#8230; maybe conveniently forgetting something? I don&#8217;t know, but some of his answers just don&#8217;t make a whole lot of sense,” Jordan said. 
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James reportedly said he was not involved in a deal with Hunter and associates Rob Walker, Tony Bobulinski, and James Gilliar. However, a source told Fox News that he was then shown a document showing an agreement he had signed with them, which he claimed he didn’t remember. 
During the interview, James disputed <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/18/the-biden-name-how-the-presidents-brother-became-embroiled-in-a-hospital-fiasco-00141868" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> showing that he focused on his relationship with his brother when applying to work for the hospital chain Americore. He <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/21/congress/james-biden-interview-00142454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> his brother “played no role, was not involved with, and received no benefits from my work with Americore.” 
Just days before, POLITICO reported that James had told Americore executives in 2017 that his brother would promote the company during a presidential campaign if the company could successfully expand rural health care. He also reportedly said he wanted to give Joe Biden equity in the company.

James Biden Deposed By House Oversight Committee As Impeachment Inquiry Continues

James Biden Claims President Was Not Involved In Family Business Dealings

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House Oversight Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) outlined where the Committee&#8217;s investigations into the Biden family currently stand during an interview this week, saying that they have subpoenaed bank records from President Joe Biden&#8217;s brother, James Biden.
Comer made the remarks during an interview with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on his &#8220;Verdict&#8221; podcast when asked by co-host Ben Ferguson to speak about Biden&#8217;s brother.
Comer said that he believes Biden&#8217;s brother has &#8220;probably committed just as many crimes as Hunter Biden&#8221; and that the only reason there are not more headlines about him is because he didn&#8217;t leave a laptop full of alleged evidence like Hunter Biden did.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been able to subpoena his bank records,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I can tell you, there&#8217;s a lot of questions we have for James Biden. That&#8217;s why he received a subpoena.&#8221;
Comer said he thinks that James Biden could have potentially committed &#8220;securities fraud&#8221; with his <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-biden-settles-loan-lawsuit-tied-to-rural-hospitals-bankruptcy-11664236240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">role</a> at Americore Health LLC.
&#8220;We know from court records, this Americore Health is in federal bankruptcy court,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They obviously have accused Jim Biden of a lot of things so this is all public record. And it shows that it wasn&#8217;t just Hunter Biden, this was the whole Biden family.&#8221;
Comer spoke about all the shell companies that congressional investigators have uncovered that have alleged ties to the Biden family, saying that banks filed suspicious activity reports (SAR) because they recognized that the Biden family was a powerful political family and that &#8220;they&#8217;re getting wires from our enemies around the world.&#8221;
&#8220;So, shell companies, they&#8217;re not real businesses,&#8221; Cruz noted. &#8220;This is not a dry cleaner. This is not a gas station. They&#8217;re no employees, they&#8217;re no paychecks. They&#8217;re not a business in any sense. This is a legal entity, and it&#8217;s a legal entity created to send money to, and it&#8217;s what is often used for money laundering. It&#8217;s what&#8217;s often used to hide the source of the money.&#8221;
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Comer said that the Biden family has had &#8220;170 suspicious activity reports&#8221; filed against them, which he called &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221;
&#8220;I was the director of a bank for over a decade, never has anyone received more than one or two that was affiliated with my bank,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the fact that this family got 170, from six different banks, on dozens of different accounts showed that there&#8217;s something bad going on here, because the banks are notifying the Treasury [that they] believe the vice president&#8217;s family are involved in some type of fraud.&#8221;
Comer then talked about an email that the Committee released last week that &#8220;showed the thought process&#8221; behind a SAR from a bank examiner&#8217;s perspective involving the Biden family.
&#8220;The bank examiner said, wait a minute, you [said] this account is pretty much dormant,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know what this company is, all we know is that the president&#8217;s son owns it. He got a $5 million wire from China.&#8221;
Apparently the Bidens said that the money was a loan, which the bank found suspicious.
&#8220;No one would loan anyone $5 million without having some type of loan documentation,&#8221; Comer said. &#8220;So, then he said, we fear this could be a bribe, because we know China influences politicians through vulnerable family members. And we&#8217;ve seen in the news where his ex-wife said he was on drugs, he was in financial trouble. We believe this could be a real national security threat. So that&#8217;s as serious of an email I&#8217;ve ever seen from a major bank examiner.&#8221;
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Oversight Chairman Comer Outlines State Of Probes Into Biden Family

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi">FBI</a> agents secretly recorded James Biden, who is President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s younger brother, as part of a bribery investigation into a group of Mississippi lawyers more than 15 years ago, according to a report published on Sunday.
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/17/james-bidens-dealmaking-caught-fbi-tapes-unrelated-bribery-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a> detailed how the FBI caught James Biden on tape in 2007 chatting about possible deals with associates of Mississippi trial attorney Richard “Dickie” Scruggs, including the creation of a new consulting firm. By 2008, in the months before Joe Biden was elected vice president, Scruggs and his associates <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/business/03scruggs.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded guilty</a> to charges in a scheme to pay a $40,000 bribe to a state judge and they served prison time.
Neither Joe Biden nor James Biden ever faced accusations of wrongdoing or charges in the case, emphasized the report, which relied on interviews, court records, and materials collected by &#8220;<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/190714/the-fall-of-the-house-of-zeus-by-curtis-wilkie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fall of the House of Zeus&#8221;</a> author Curtis Wilkie. The FBI declined to comment on the report when pressed by The Daily Wire.
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Still, the revelations come as House investigators examine the business dealings of President Biden&#8217;s family members as part of a corruption-focused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment</a> inquiry. James Biden, along with Joe Biden&#8217;s son Hunter, has been subpoenaed for a deposition. President Biden, who is seeking re-election next year, has accused House Republicans of &#8220;attacking me with lies&#8221; and &#8220;choosing to waste time on this baseless political stunt&#8221; that is &#8220;not supported by facts.&#8221;
The ties between Scruggs and the Bidens stretch back several years, per the Washington Post report, including a boat trip with James Biden and flying Joe Biden on his private plane to a fundraiser. Scruggs paid a firm run by James Biden and his wife Sara $100,000 in 1998 for advice on passing a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/18/us/tobacco-bill-overview-senate-drops-tobacco-bill-with-98-revival-unlikely-clinton.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tobacco bill</a>. Though Joe Biden, then a U.S. senator from Delaware, threw his support behind the legislation, it <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/18/us/tobacco-bill-overview-senate-drops-tobacco-bill-with-98-revival-unlikely-clinton.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did not pass</a> through Congress.
Paul Fishman, a lawyer for James and Sara Biden, told the news outlet, &#8220;Jim Biden’s consulting work has never involved speaking with or providing access to his brother for this or any other client.&#8221; Scruggs reportedly claimed he did not know whether James Biden discussed the tobacco legislation with his brother. &#8220;But I hope he did,&#8221; he added. And though Scruggs insisted Jim Biden was &#8220;never untoward about his influence,&#8221; Scruggs conceded he &#8220;probably wouldn’t have hired him if he wasn’t the senator’s brother.&#8221;

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FBI Secretly Recorded President Biden’s Brother James: Report

FBI Secretly Recorded President Biden's Brother James: Report

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U.S.

House Republicans investigating the Biden family for corruption said on Friday that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> was “stonewalling” their request for documents related to alleged loans he provided to his brother James Biden. 
The claims from the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability come after Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-comer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Comer</a> (R-KY) said <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bank-records-show-biden-received-laundered-money-from-china-comer-says">bank records show</a> that the president received $40,000 in laundered Chinese money. House Republicans have asked for more documentation on the loans, but say they have so far been refused. 
“The White House today made clear to us that President Biden is refusing to hand over loan documents for any ‘loans’ he provided to his brother, James Biden,” a statement posted to X by the Oversight committee said. “We’ve exposed nearly a quarter of a million of dollars that James Biden sent to Joe Biden as ‘loan repayments’ that were funded by laundered China money and influence peddling schemes.”
“Is this what ‘the most transparent administration in history’ is supposed to look like?” the post added. “We won’t be stopped by the President’s stonewalling. We’ll continue to follow the money, expose President Biden’s corruption, and deliver accountability.”
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According to Comer, a $40,000 check written to Biden by his sister-in-law Sara originated from Northern International Capital, a Chinese company affiliated with Chinese conglomerate CEFC. Eventually, it made its way to James and Sara Biden after going through a series of Hunter Biden-linked entities. James and his wife, Sara, then sent Joe Biden a $40,000 check as a “loan repayment.”
Comer and House Republicans have questioned the nature of the reported $40,000 check and another $200,000 check also referred to as a loan repayment. 
Democrats <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/fact-check-evidence-supports-democrats-case-that-joe-biden-made-a-personal-loan-to-his-brother/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have argued</a> that the loans were just between James and Joe Biden, while Republicans have said that the money used to pay the president back originally came from China. 
“It’s certainly plausible that this payment where James and Sara used funds from China was indeed a loan repayment to Joe. But even if this $40,000 check was a loan repayment from James Biden, it still shows how Joe benefited from his family cashing in on his name – with money from China no less,” Comer said this week. 
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Republicans <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1720842266535690713" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have said</a> that the legacy media has ignored the story, saying that there would be accountability. 
“It’s time for Corporate Media to wake up and report on one of the biggest scandals in U.S. history,” the Oversight committee said Saturday. “President Biden and the Admin he promised would be the most transparent in history continue to stonewall us at every turn. There will be accountability.&#8221;

President Biden Departs The White House For Maine

House Republicans Say Biden ‘Stonewalling’ Over ‘Loan Repayment’ Docs ‘Funded’ By Laundered Chinese Money

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First Lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-got-shut-out-of-lsu-locker-room-pregame-and-it-was-all-joe-bidens-fault" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden&#8217;s</a> ex-husband claimed on Wednesday that members of the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ties-that-blind-biden-family-friend-reportedly-worked-for-prosecutor-when-hunter-probe-began" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden crime family</a>&#8221; threatened him after their divorce, arguing that they were now targeting former President Donald Trump in the same fashion.
Bill Stevenson married Jill Biden in 1970 — their divorce was finalized in 1975 — and he told Newsmax host Greg Kelly that Frankie Biden had been the one to approach him after the divorce, apparently threatening him over a piece of property that Jill wanted to retain.
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&#8220;This is when my problems started,&#8221; Stevenson told Kelly during Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast. &#8220;In 1982, they lost the house, and Jill had to come to the lawyer&#8217;s office and sign off the deed of a house in downtown Newark [Delaware].&#8221;
Stevenson <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/jill-bidens-ex-husband-slams-biden-crime-family/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> that it had not been the house where they lived together or a beach house that he co-owned with friends, but that it had been worth around $35,000 &#8211; $40,000 at the time and had since gone up dramatically in value.
&#8220;Here is where the problem was,&#8221; Stevenson continued. &#8220;Frankie Biden of the Biden crime family comes up to me and he goes, &#8216;Give her the house, or you&#8217;re going to have serious problems.&#8217; I looked at Frankie, and I said, &#8216;What, are you threatening me?'&#8221;
But a short time later, Stevenson said that he believed the Bidens made good on that threat. &#8220;Needless to say, about two months later, my brother and I were indicted for that tax charge for $8,200. [I] could not believe the power of Joe Biden and the Department of Justice. I couldn’t believe it.&#8221;
Kelly mentioned President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden then, noting that he was facing only two misdemeanor charges over $2 million in unpaid taxes and comparing that to the two felony charges leveraged against Stevenson and his brother for a bill under $9,000.
&#8220;I was on the wrong side of them and they have literally come after me for 35 years in a row. One little thing after another,&#8221; Stevenson said.
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&#8220;I can’t let them do this to a president that I love and respect. I can’t let them do this to our country,&#8221; he said, referencing Trump. &#8220;This is why I’ve come forward. This is the only reason I’ve come forward. It’s like I said, nothing about the divorce, no bitterness, but Jimmy, Frankie, and President Biden are very dangerous, and it’s tragic. I can’t let them do what they did to me to President Trump. I can’t do it.&#8221;

President Biden Departs The White House For Camp David

Jill Biden’s Ex Says Joe’s Brother Threatened Him After Divorce: ‘I Was On The Wrong Side Of Them’

First Lady's Ex Says Biden Brother Threatened Him After Divorce: 'I Was On The Wrong Side Of Them'

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Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/antony-blinken" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Antony Blinken</a>&#8216;s links to members of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s immediate family go beyond just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, but he denied their business dealings came up in conversation.
<a href="https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1655965367867691008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">As pointed out</a> by RealClearInvestigations reporter Paul Sperry on Tuesday, Blinken estimated during a December 2020 interview with Senate investigators that he met with James Biden, one of the president&#8217;s brothers, several times over the past couple decades.
&#8220;Oh, over the course of the, roughly, 20 years that I&#8217;ve worked for the president-elect, hard to say. A dozen,&#8221; Blinken said, according to a <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/2020-12-22-Blinken%20Interview%20with%20Exhibits%20-%20updated%20-%20reduced.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently released transcript</a>.
Like Hunter Biden, James Biden has come under scrutiny over the years due to lucrative financial dealings across the globe, as was explored in a <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 POLITICO Magazine article</a> titled &#8220;Biden Inc.&#8221; looking into how Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;family fortunes have closely tracked his political career.&#8221;
When asked about Joe Biden&#8217;s brother, Blinken said his discussions with James Biden did not touch on Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings. He also denied talking about James Biden&#8217;s business dealings in the same line of questioning.
Republican lawmakers have already begun to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-start-calling-for-blinken-to-resign-over-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">express doubt</a> about Blinken&#8217;s level of honesty during that interview focused largely on a time when Joe Biden was vice president. This is because Blinken said he did not have email communications with Hunter Biden while serving as deputy secretary of state during the Obama-Biden administration, but Fox News reported Blinken did use a personal email account to correspond with Hunter Biden about <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-wife-emailed-frequently-hunter-biden-raising-questions-role-laptop-cover-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scheduling a meeting</a> in 2015 when the then-vice president&#8217;s son was on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings.
Blinken said he was not aware of Hunter Biden&#8217;s association with Burisma at the time and claimed the only topic he could remember discussing with Hunter Biden when they ended up meeting at the State Department in July of 2015 was how the death of Hunter Biden&#8217;s brother Beau Biden due to brain cancer was affecting the Biden family.
Several members of the Biden family are likely to get mentioned during a press conference House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) plans to hold on Wednesday. Comer urged the Justice Department over the weekend <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-urges-feds-not-to-indict-hunter-biden-before-wednesday" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not to indict Hunter Biden</a>, who may soon be charged with tax- and gun-related crimes, until Republicans have a chance to present evidence showing how a &#8220;web&#8221; of LLCs is being used by foreign adversaries to improperly pay members of the Biden family in exchange for favors.
Earlier this year, Comer announced that subpoenaed financial records dating back to Joe Biden&#8217;s time as vice president showed <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/politics/house-gop-memo-biden-family/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1 million in indirect payments</a> from a Chinese energy company to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-start-calling-for-blinken-to-resign-over-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his son Hunter Biden</a>, James Biden, daughter-in-law Hallie Biden, and an unknown “Biden,&#8221; adding fuel to concerns about influence peddling and business schemes.
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A spokesperson for Hunter Biden pushed back on the &#8220;baseless right-wing conspiracy,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/politics/house-gop-memo-biden-family/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">telling CNN</a> that the president&#8217;s son &#8220;received his portion of good faith seed funds&#8221; as part of a joint venture and then shared this money &#8220;with his uncle, James Biden, and Hallie Biden, with whom he was involved with at the time, and sharing expenses.” President Biden, who has sought to distance himself from the business dealings of his family members, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-denies-1m-payments-family-hunter-associate-despite-bank-records-not-true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected the GOP&#8217;s findings</a>, too.
Blinken, who served as an adviser to Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 presidential campaign, has also denied soliciting what became a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials suggesting the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> laptop story could be part of a Russian disinformation operation just weeks before the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2020-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020 election</a> after former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell said a conversation they had prompted the effort.
&#8220;With regard to that letter, I didn&#8217;t — it wasn&#8217;t my idea, didn&#8217;t ask for it, didn&#8217;t solicit it,&#8221; Blinken said during an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/secretary-state-blinken-denies-role-hunter-biden-russian-disinfo-letter-wasnt-my-idea" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview last week with Fox News</a>. Asked if he accepts that the Hunter Biden laptop story was not Russian disinformation, Blinken said he would not be <a class="c-link" href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/secretary-state-blinken-denies-role-hunter-biden-russian-disinfo-letter-wasnt-my-idea" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.foxnews.com/media/secretary-state-blinken-denies-role-hunter-biden-russian-disinfo-letter-wasnt-my-idea" data-sk="tooltip_parent">&#8220;engaging in politics&#8221;</a> while focused on the job of being the nation&#8217;s top diplomat.

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Blinken Says He Met With James Biden ‘A Dozen’ Times, Denies Business Talk

House Republicans pushed a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Bank-Records-Memo-3.16.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> Wednesday alleging an energy company linked to the Chinese Communist Party previously funneled more than $1 million in payments to at least three family members of President Joe Biden.
Investigations from the House Oversight Committee claim a recent subpoena of bank records from John Robinson Walker, a Biden family associate, and his company Robinson Walker, LLC used his business to transfer money from the Chinese State Energy HK Limited, a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy, to Biden family members, including the Hunter Biden (son), James Biden (brother), Hallie Biden (daughter-in-law), and a fourth “unknown Biden” from 2015 to 2017.
According to the New York Post bombshell <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/comer-reveals-new-biden-family-member-who-got-china-cash-prez-dined-with-her-friday/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, he and the president&#8217;s brother James earned at least $4.8 million from the CEFC China Energy between 2017 and 2018.
“The Committee is concerned about the national security implications of a President’s or Vice President’s immediate family members receiving millions of dollars from foreign nationals or companies without any oversight,” the memo reads from the office of committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY). “Current financial disclosure laws and regulations do not require non-dependent family members to provide any information to the public.”
Comer’s office published the memo amid the chairman making rounds in the media circuit, saying the new evidence of influence peddling runs deep into President Biden’s family tree.
“At the end of this, I think we’re gonna see there are probably six or seven Biden family members that were involved in various business schemes around the world,” Comer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-believes-6-or-7-biden-family-members-involved-in-foreign-business-schemes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night.
According to the memo, less than two months after then-Vice President Biden left office under the Obama administration in 2017, the Chinese state energy company wired $3 million to Robinson Walker, LLC. However, Walker’s business allegedly only had a balance of $159,000 at the time of the transfer.
Following the wire, the committee memo says Walker’s company transferred on March 1, 2017, $1,065,000 to European Energy and Infrastructure Group (EEIG) in Abu Dhabi, which is affiliated with James Gilliar, a business partner of Hunter Biden that has been previously involved in other foreign transactions dealing with the Biden family. Gilliar’s affiliated company allegedly received roughly the same $1,065,000 on March 2, 2017.
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Less than a week later, Biden family members and their companies began receiving incremental payments over a period of approximately three months, the memo claims.
On November 5, 2015, the memo says that Walker’s LLC received nearly $180,000 from an unknown company with an overseas bank account. It adds that Walker transferred $59,900 from the business account to his personal checking account the next day, which went to a bank account for “Robert Biden” three days later.
Committee members say the new evidence involving Walker’s company and Biden family financial records raises concerns about the timing of the Chinese energy company wiring $3 million after Biden left office in 2017.
It is unclear if Biden family members provided services to the Chinese energy company, however, the questions of why an unknown holder for the “Biden” bank account received $70 million in payments or Hallie Biden received nearly $25,000 from the LLC while she worked as a school counselor remains.
Hallie Biden is the widow of the president&#8217;s late son Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015. She began dating Hunter Biden from around 2016 to 2019.
“The American people deserve transparency into the extent of the Biden family’s influence peddling, and we intend to deliver legislation that will preclude family members from capitalizing on their relatives’ public office,” the memo reads.
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White House spokesman Ian Sams dismissed the committee&#8217;s findings as an &#8220;attack&#8221; on the president&#8217;s family members.
“After a disgusting attack lamenting that the President’s deceased son Beau was never prosecuted while he was alive, Congressman Comer has now decided to go after Beau’s widow,” Sams said, according to The New York Post. “Instead of bizarrely attacking the President’s family, perhaps House Republicans should focus on working with the President to deliver results for American families on important priorities like lowering costs and strengthening health care.”
President Biden has denied having involvement in the business dealings of his son Hunter and brother James. Federal prosecutors are investigating Hunter Biden over his foreign business dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine, tax affairs, and more.
Though Hunter Biden has said he expects to be cleared of wrongdoing, Republicans have raised concerns about influence peddling, especially any that may include the president, spurred in part by findings on an abandoned laptop.
“What we’re finding out . . . is this Biden family business scheme involved a lot of members of the Biden family, none of whom had any experience in Chinese energy or Ukrainian energy deals,” Comer told Fox Business on Thursday morning.
Comer said he is so far familiar with about 12 or 13 transactions, and his team plans to request more bank records. “We’re making a lot of progress in this investigation, and it doesn’t look good for the Biden family,” he added.
Hunter Biden&#8217;s legal team defended the pay-outs in a statement to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0WDSaX-uSA">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;Hunter Biden, a private citizen with every right to pursue his own business endeavors, joined several business partners in seeking a joint venture with a privately-owned, legitimate energy company in China,&#8221; a spokesperson for Biden&#8217;s legal team said.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-archives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Archives and Records Administration</a> (NARA) intends to release hundreds of emails referencing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> and his foreign business deals unless stopped by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a>.
NARA executive Susan Donius sent a <a href="https://www.archives.gov/files/foia/pra-notifications/pdf/bidenvp/rn-labvp-2023-022.pdf">letter</a> to the White House late last month warning that the records agency is preparing to release emails in response to an open records request unless the White House intervenes. The emails are from 2014 when President Joe Biden served as vice president to former President Barack Obama.
Both men’s respective legal teams have been notified and given 60 days to assert privilege over any of the information slated to be released in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, according to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-white-house-archives-privilege-foia-hunter-burisma-ukraine-emails-2022-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insider</a>, which first reported the existence of the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/files/foia/pra-notifications/pdf/bidenvp/rn-labvp-2023-022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NARA letter</a>.
The letter references a slate of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. One of those requests focused on records related to the president’s son Hunter and brother James and their foreign business dealings. NARA is preparing to release 185 emails in whole and 75 others with redactions in response to the request.
“The Biden Vice Presidential records to be opened are email messages from May 2014 to December 2014 that include the company name ‘Burisma,’” a summary of the FOIA request says.
“Several of the email messages are press inquiries regarding the announcement of Hunter Biden joining the board of directors of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Limited in May 2014 and the Office of Vice President’s responses to those inquiries. There are also email messages containing news articles compiled by White House staff which include articles referencing Hunter Biden and his role with Burisma,” it continued.
Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma in 2014 despite lacking any experience in the energy sector. He made as much as $83,333 a month for the role. His role at the company set off speculation that Burisma brought on the Biden scion to gain influence with the Obama administration. At the time, then-Vice President Biden was heading the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
Hunter Biden <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35y9k/hunter-biden-admits-his-last-name-has-opened-basically-every-door-for-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a 2019 interview that being a member of the Biden family has likely allowed him to take advantage of many opportunities he would not have had otherwise. He later <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-wouldnt-take-burisma-job-again-insists-it-wasnt-unethical" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” that he did nothing wrong in taking the job with Burisma, but the trouble it has caused for his family, especially his father, was not worth the pay.
“Did I make a mistake by taking a seat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company? No. Did I display a lack of judgment? No. Would I do it again? No. I did nothing unethical,” he wrote.
President Biden has repeatedly claimed that he never spoke with his son about Hunter’s foreign business dealings. That claim was seemingly contradicted in June by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-spoke-with-hunter-about-dealings-with-chinese-oil-tycoon-voicemail-reveals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release</a> of a 2018 voicemail found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
“Hey pal, it’s dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call,” President Biden, then out of office, told Hunter in the recorded message. “Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you. I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good. I think you’re clear. And anyway if you get a chance give me a call, I love you.”
The voicemail references an article from The New York Times on dealings Hunter had with a Chinese businessman, Ye Jianming, the chairman of the Chinese energy giant CEFC.

National Archives To Release Hundreds Of Emails On Hunter Biden Unless White House Intervenes

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CBS&#8217; Catherine Herridge reported Thursday that over 150 financial transactions tied to Hunter Biden and James Biden were &#8220;flagged as concerning&#8221; by banks in the United States.
&#8220;CBS News has learned more than 150 financial transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden&#8217;s global business affairs were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks for further review. Some of those concerns included large wire transfers,&#8221; Herridge tweeted early Thursday morning along with a link to her <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-republican-probe-business-dealings-james-biden-chuck-grassley/">report</a>.
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CBS News has learned more than 150 financial transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden&#39;s global business affairs were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks for further review. Some of those concerns included large wire transfers. <a href="https://t.co/zURiLL4zt3">https://t.co/zURiLL4zt3</a>
&mdash; Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1512028386968973314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Herridge reported that critics have largely kept the focus of investigations on President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter and his allegedly <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/white-house-stands-by-claim-that-hunter-biden-did-not-profit-off-chinese-business-deals-docs-show-his-companies-made-millions/">shady international business dealings</a> — but that further scrutiny has linked the president&#8217;s brother, James Biden, to a number of transactions that banks flagged as &#8220;concerning.&#8221;
&#8220;We have people with the Biden name, dealing with Chinese business people that have a relationship to the Communist Party. I think James Biden was very much a part of this,&#8221; Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told Herridge.
From Herridge&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-republican-probe-business-dealings-james-biden-chuck-grassley/">report</a>:
<blockquote>Bank records released by Republican senators this week indicate James Biden&#8217;s company, the Lion Hall Group, received payments from a Chinese-financed consulting group in 2018, before his brother Joe announced he was running for president. Grassley says that same year James Biden and the president&#8217;s son, Hunter, received monthly retainers totaling $165,000 — $100,000 to Hunter and $65,000 to James.
Grassley said his team obtained the records directly from the bank where the consulting group did business. He has spent three years investigating and described James and Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings as &#8220;very concerning.&#8221;</blockquote>
Grassley has been investigating <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/remarks/grassley-johnson-discuss-investigation-into-biden-family-foreign-financial-entanglements_-part-1">foreign business dealings</a> involving several members of <a href="https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/remarks/the-biden-family-investigation_part-iii-james-biden">the Biden family</a> for several years, and he released a report in 2020 along with fellow Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) alleging that James Biden and his wife Sara Biden &#8220;tapped into a line of credit Hunter set up with a Chinese business executive to purchase more than $100,000 in airline tickets, hotels and restaurants.&#8221;
The most recent records released by GOP lawmakers appear to confirm that Hunter Biden and the Chinese executive signed off on a line of credit for $99,000 in 2017.
&#8220;CBS News has also learned more than 150 financial transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden&#8217;s global business affairs were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks for further review. Some of those concerns included large wire transfers,&#8221; the report continued, clarifying that being flagged for review did not necessarily point to either guilt or innocence. &#8220;Such banking reviews could point to deeper problems — or they could prove innocuous. Information shared with CBS News does not indicate the outcome of the banking reviews.&#8221;
CBS also noted that, according to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/business/deutsche-bank-trump-kushner.html">New York Times report</a>, transactions tied to former President Donald Trump and his family members had been flagged for similar reviews several years earlier.

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CBS Report: US Banks ‘Flagged’ More Than 150 Biden Family Business Transactions As ‘Concerning’

Although President Joe Biden has been known to angrily confront reporters for what he considers overly harsh questions, the legacy media have taken it remarkably easy on the president and his family.
While the media have circled hungrily around every potential charge facing Allen Weisselberg and remain focused on the Trump family, they have ignored multiple scandals facing Joe Biden, his son, and his brother. Here are just a few:
1. Joe Biden reportedly met with Hunter Biden’s business partners.
Emails and photographs retrieved from Hunter Biden’s laptop appear to show that then-Vice President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-email-shows-joe-biden-allegedly-met-with-top-executive-at-ukrainian-gas-company-burisma-report">met repeatedly with</a> his son’s business associates, raising issues of influence peddling.
A photograph <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/laptop-shows-joe-biden-was-with-hunter-and-his-mexican-biz-meetings/">shows</a> the then-sitting vice president meeting with Hunter and two business associates, Carlos Slim and Jeff Cooper, on November 19, 2015. The New York Post’s Miranda Divine <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/01/hunter-biden-used-joes-vp-perks-to-pursue-deal-with-carlos-slim/">reports</a> that Hunter had spent much of that year pursuing Slim to invest in a number of business options, including Cooper’s online gambling platform, Ocho Gaming.
This would be at least the second meeting Biden allegedly attended with his son’s foreign business connections while vice president. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-email-shows-joe-biden-allegedly-met-with-top-executive-at-ukrainian-gas-company-burisma-report">The Daily Wire’s</a> Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-met-with-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-associates-while-he-was-vice-president-reports">reported</a>, “Joe Biden reportedly met his son’s business associates from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan at a dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 16, 2015.”
Biden’s campaign officially denied the Burisma-linked meeting, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8838939/Joe-Biden-met-son-Hunters-Ukrainian-energy-contacts.html">saying</a>, “We have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.” The Washington Post, citing a White House official with knowledge of Biden&#8217;s schedule, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/07/hunter-bidens-laptop-april-16-2015-dinner/">reported</a> in June that the vice president dropped by to speak with Alex Karloutsos, a long-time friend who was at the event.
Although the White House has yet to comment on the latest allegations, the media seem content with their silence. While legacy media outlets offered <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=donald+trump+jr+meeting+russian&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;ei=xTbfYM3JDP6F9PwPo86y6AU&amp;oq=donald+trump+jr+meeting+russian&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANKBAhBGABQhc0BWIXNAWDSzwFoAHAAeACAAXaIAXaSAQMwLjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiNwOrL38TxAhX-Ap0JHSOnDF0Q4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">endless coverage</a> of Donald Trump Jr.’s infamous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-reasons-donald-trump-jrs-meeting-russian-lawyer-aaron-bandler">Trump Tower meeting</a>, they have <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+biden+met+with+hunter+biden%27s+business+associates&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;ei=GTffYL7qGLSE9PwPorSToAY&amp;oq=joe+biden+met+with+hunter+biden%27s+business+associates&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BwguEEMQkwI6BQguEJECOgQILhBDOgQIABBDOggILhCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6CAguEMcBEKMCOgcILhCxAxBDOgoILhCxAxCDARBDOgUIABCRAjoKCC4QsQMQQxCTAjoICAAQsQMQgwE6BQgAELEDOgoIABCRAhBGEPsBOgIIADoECAAQCjoFCC4QsQM6AgguOgoILhDHARCvARBDOgsILhCxAxCRAhCTAjoICAAQsQMQkQI6DQgAELEDEJECEEYQ-wE6BwgAELEDEEM6BwgAEEYQ-wE6CwgAELEDEMcDEJECSgQIQRgAULZYWPSvAWDOsAFoAHAAeACAAYUBiAGPMpIBBTU0LjE4mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj-2v3z38TxAhU0Ap0JHSLaBGQQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5">virtually ignored</a> Joe Biden’s reported personal meetings with his son’s business partners — although such meetings are arguably more significant: Biden allegedly attended these meetings personally, and he did so after, not before, he had been elected into public office.
2. The scandals plaguing First Brother ‘Fast Jimmy’ Biden.
It’s become a national tradition for Democratic presidents to have shady brothers, from Billy Carter to Roger Clinton to Ted Kennedy. But each of those figures caused their siblings far greater media embarrassment with fewer scandals than first brother James Biden. The 46th president’s younger brother has raised the practice of grift to a fine art.
After taking over a global investing firm in 2006, Jim Biden <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407/">told</a> the company brass, “Don’t worry about investors. We&#8217;ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.” Politico reported, citing a company executive, “James Biden made it clear he viewed the fund as a way to take money from rich foreigners who could not legally give money to his older brother or his campaign account.”
No other presidential sibling tried to leverage their brother to cash-in on Americans suffering from the wasting disease of cancer. When Jim Biden sought to invest in Integrate Oral Care in November 2018, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/09/26/joe-biden-brother-cancer-initiative-investment-pitch-001675">reports</a> that Jim allegedly told the company he could get his brother’s Biden Cancer Initiative to promote the oral rinse that Integrate sells for use by cancer patients.
The FBI was reportedly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/james-biden-health-care-ventures-123159">investigating</a> another health care company tied to Jim Biden, Americore Health, LLC, as of March 2020.
James Biden has had similar luck throughout his charmed business life. Shortly after Joe Biden’s election to the Senate, Jim Biden’s Seasons Change night club received bank loans the terms of which could be described as unusually positive. Seven months after he became executive vice president of the fairly new entrant into homebuilding, the New Jersey-based Hillstone International, Hillstone won a <a href="https://nypost.com/2012/10/23/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother/">$1.5 billion</a> contract from the Obama administration to build housing in Iraq.
While the media <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-for-bribery-media-silent-about-hunter-bidens-anonymous-art-sales">presented</a> the business deals of President Donald Trump’s children as an impeachable violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, they have hardly reported the name of Jim Biden, much less his virtually confessed lifelong history of profiting off his brother’s office.
3. Nepotism in the Biden administration.
The Biden administration is also a family affair when it comes to appointments. High-level Biden appointees secured the hiring of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-aides-relatives-jobs/2021/06/17/ab504a22-cea4-11eb-8cd2-4e95230cfac2_story.html">numerous family members</a>, according to The Washington Post.
The little-known Biden aide Steve Ricchetti serves as a prime example, with three of his children serving in the executive branch. Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/06/14/the-ricchetti-administration-493243">reported</a> on June 14 that “J.J. RICCHETTI will be a special assistant in the office of legislative affairs. He joins his sister, SHANNON RICCHETTI, who is a deputy associate director for the White House social secretary, and one of his brothers, DANIEL RICCHETTI, who is a senior advisor in the office of the under secretary of State for arms control and international security, in the Biden administration.” (Emphases in original.)
The problem? J.J.’s record of “accomplishment consists primarily of graduating from college — last year,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/biden-nepotism-pledge-ethics/2021/06/25/9f70d070-d50f-11eb-9f29-e9e6c9e843c6_story.html">wrote</a> Walter M. Shaub Jr. in The Washington Post. Thanks to apparent family favoritism, “The Treasury Department will lack the ideas and experiences that someone with a different background (and probably better qualifications) would have brought to the job. In years to come, the nation may miss out on that individual’s contributions as yet another Ricchetti heir follows a predestined trajectory through the halls of power.”
Richetti has company. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has three relatives “serving” in the Biden administration: brother Tom Sullivan is the State Department’s deputy chief of staff for policy; sister-in-law Rose Baumann Sullivan, Tom’s wife, is HHS acting assistant secretary for legislation; and Jake’s wife, Maggie Goodlande, serves as a counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The Donilon family also struck gold during the Biden years. Biden senior adviser Mike Donilon’s niece, Sarah, is special assistant in the National Security Council’s Asia directorate (and the daughter of another Biden administration official, Presidential Personnel Office Director Cathy Russell). Mike Donilon’s brother, Tom, reportedly turned down <a href="https://www.kctv5.com/tom-donilon-no-longer-in-the-running-to-be-bidens-cia-director/article_aa717850-16e8-51d6-945e-5698b8a60568.html">consideration</a> to become CIA Director, remaining instead at the think tank of BlackRock Inc. — which is also <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackrock-emerges-as-wall-street-player-in-biden-administration-11606841207">deeply embedded</a> in the Biden administration.
President Biden appointed Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s wife, Evan Ryan, as White House Cabinet secretary, which helps coordinate the various federal agencies.
White House spokesperson Jen Psaki’s sister, Stephanie Psaki, has been hired as an HHS senior adviser on human rights and gender equity inside the department’s Office of Global Affairs.
Biden’s senior adviser, Anita Dunn, is married to Bob Bauer, who co-chairs the presidential commission on packing the Supreme Court and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-people-behind-joe-bidens-fact-check-team-have-a-history-of-lying-to-the-american-people">runs an aggressive online “fact-checking” effort</a> called Building Back Together, which is tied to the Biden White House.
Despite the abundant scent of nepotism, the media have largely ignored the story or dismissed it by engaging in whataboutism. The Washington Post reported merely that ethicists found it “disappointing that Biden didn’t shift even further from the practices of Donald Trump’s presidency, which they thought reeked of nepotism and cronyism.”
These underreported Biden administration scandals share a common thread: President Joe Biden seems to give his family, his cronies, and their families advantages that the average American would never see. That’s a story worth reporting.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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