Washington Post Gives Joe Biden ‘Four Pinocchios’ for Saying Hunter Never Made Money in China
The Washington Post‘s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, gave President Joe Biden four Pinocchios for lying about his son Hunter Biden not making money in China.
Kessler documented two instances where Biden denied his son had made money in China.
In an October 22, 2020 presidential debate, Biden told moderator Kristen Welker: “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China. I have not had … the only guy who made money from China is this guy [Donald Trump]. He’s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China.”
In a September 29, 2020, debate, Trump told Biden, “Once you became vice president [Hunter Biden] made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow and various other places,” to which Biden responded, “That’s not true.”
Kessler wrote:
But now, nearly three years later, Biden’s assertions have been directly rebutted by Hunter himself. In court testimony last week, the younger Biden acknowledged that he in fact had been paid substantial sums in China — the first official confirmation that this was the case.
He added, “What is clear is that Hunter Biden did receive ‘a dollar from China.'”
Kessler noted that Hunter’s admission came “shortly before” lawmakers were due to interview his former business partner, Devon Archer.
Kessler also reviewed what he said were the “facts” about Hunter’s past business dealings in China.
He noted that Hunter flew on his father’s Air Force aircraft when the then-vice president was on an official trip to China in 2013, and that by Hunter’s own admission, he used the trip to connect with a Chinese business partner, and even introduced the partner to his father.
FI:LE – In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 file photo, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, waves as he walks out of Air Force Two with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden and son Hunter Biden at the airport in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)
Kessler noted that 12 days after he was in China, Hunter joined the board of a just-formed investment advisory firm known as BHR (Bohai, Harvest and Rosemont), whose partners included Chinese entities, including the partner he introduced to his father.
The goal was to raise $1.5 billion, although they fell short of that, Kessler said. He wrote that Hunter later acquired a 10 percent interest in the entity overseeing the fund, but his lawyers claimed he divested of it after his father was elected president.
Kessler noted that after Biden left public office, Hunter in 2017 inked a deal with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy, and that documents found on his laptop showed that over the course of 14 months, CEFC and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s brother, James.
Kessler also noted that a former Hunter business partner, Tony Bobulinski, said an email found on Hunter’s laptop about a proposed partnership agreement involving CEFC that said 10 percent would be “held by H for the big guy,” was a reference to Joe Biden.
“What wasn’t clear until now was how much money Hunter Biden personally received from these deals,” Kessler wrote.
Kessler wrote that last week, under questioning from U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, Hunter acknowledged he earned nearly $2.4 million in 2017 and $2.2 million in 2018, ” most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.”
Under questioning, he acknowledged that in 2017 he earned just under a million dollars from a company he formed (Hudson West) with a CEO of a Chinese business conglomerate, and then latter he earned an additional $644,000 from CEFC later that year.
He also acknowledged he earned $500,000 in directors fees from Ukrainian natural gas and oil company Burisma, as well as $70,000 from Romanian business interests.
Hunter acknowledged that on March 22, 2018, he received a “million dollar payment” for legal fees for Patrick Ho, a CEFC official who was later charged in connection with a scheme to bribe African leaders.
Kessler also noted that both Democrats and Republicans acknowledged that Devon Archer testified behind closed doors that Hunter had put his father on speaker phone with business associates about “20 times over the course of a decade” — despite Biden saying he had “never spoken to” his son about his business dealings.
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, arrives on Capitol Hill to give closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee in the Republican-led investigations into President Joe Biden’s son, in Washington, Monday, July 31, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Democrats and the White House claimed those instances did not amount to a “substantive” conversation.
A Biden aide told Kessler that at the time Biden made his false claims he was “addressing a barrage of false attacks by Donald Trump.”
Kessler conceded that Biden may have been sloppy in his phrasing, but concluded, “The fact remains that Biden, during the debate, denied his son had made money in China. In court last week, his son has said he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese business deals.”
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Dem Rep. Krishnamoorthi on Alleged Leak of Secrets to China: DOD Has to Do More to Protect Secrets
On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) reacted to two Navy sailors being charged for sharing secret information with China by stating that “low-level folks in the military have access to too much classified or protected or sensitive information,” and the Department of Defense needs to do more to safeguard American secrets.
Krishnamoorthi stated that while he has a high degree of confidence that the U.S. can defend its interests in the Pacific, China is trying to get information about American operations in the Pacific, and it is “absolutely trying to get more of this information, and then, on the flip side, we have to do more to protect that information. And, quite frankly, I think it continues a pattern where I am concerned that low-level folks in the military have access to too much classified or protected or sensitive information, and that’s a separate issue that we have to tackle as well.”
He added, “I think they’re doing everything they can to target members of our military. They have 110,000 people in their equivalent of our CIA, which is called the Ministry of State Security, the MSS. And these people, around the world, are trying to go after targets, trying to recruit people like these individuals who were indicted recently. It’s a good thing that we uncovered this particular plot. But, going forward, obviously, we have to continue to be vigilant, because these folks, the CCP, are hell-bent on getting an information advantage on us.”
Co-host Boris Sanchez then asked, “Do you think the Pentagon is adequately protecting its secrets?”
Krishnamoorthi answered, “I think it could do more. I think it’s doing a decent job, but it needs to do more. What we know about the CCP is that roughly two-thirds of cyberattacks in the United States, just generally, come from the PRC. And, on top of that, they have recently been found to be planting malware in critical infrastructure related to military bases. I’m talking about power, water, and communications lines. They are, obviously, also trying to go after secrets within the Pentagon and at our federal contractors. And so, to that extent, we have to do a better job of promoting cybersecurity, not only at the Pentagon, but also in the private sector and making sure that those who are subject to attacks or victims of attacks are willing to share the information about it so we can all be protected.”
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American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
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5 People Referenced Joe Biden as the ‘Big Guy’
Overwhelming evidence suggests the “big guy” is a monicker that represents President Joe Biden.
The monicker appears in an FBI informant form, text messages, and emails between Biden business associates. It also reportedly formed a part of the grand jury investigation into Hunter Biden, which IRS whistleblowers claim was politically influenced to protect the Bidens.
When questioned if he is the identity behind the monicker, Joe Biden snapped: “Why do you ask such a dumb question?”
At least five individuals involved in the family business referenced Joe Biden as the ‘big guy.”
1) Mykola Zlochevsky
An FBI informant form publicly revealed Thursday shows Zlochevsky referred to Joe Biden as the “big guy.” Zlochevsky is the founder of Burisma Holdings. An FBI informant claimed in a FD-1023 form that Zlochevsky bribed Joe and Hunter Biden with $5 million each:
CHS mentioned Zlochevsky might have difficulty explaining suspicious wire transfers that may evidence any (Illicit) payments to the Bidens. Zlochevsky responded he did not send any funds directly to the “Big Guy” (which CHS understood was a reference to Joe Biden).
Ukrainian businessman and founder of the Burisma Holdings company, Mykola Zlochevsky during a media conference. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
2) Gary Shapley
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley said the leadership of the DOJ’s criminal investigation of Hunter Biden for alleged tax and gun violations prevented subordinates from investigating the “big guy.”
The whistleblower told Republicans:
Among other things, we wanted to question Walker about an email that said: “Ten held by H for the big guy.” We had obvious questions like who was H, who the big guy was, and why this percentage was to be held separately with the association hidden. But AUSA Wolf interjected and said she did not want to ask about the big guy and stated she did not want to ask questions about “dad.” When multiple people in the room spoke up and objected that we had to ask, she responded, there’s no specific criminality to that line of questioning.
IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley, left, and Joseph Ziegler, an IRS Agent with the criminal investigations division, are sworn in at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing with IRS whistleblowers on July 19, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
3) James Gilliar
Hunter Biden’s business partner, James Gilliar, dubbed Joe Biden ‘the big guy’ in a 2017 email. Gilliar used the monicker for Joe Biden in his May 13, 2017, email to whistleblower Tony Bobulinski, who confirmed “the big guy” was a reference to Joe Biden. The 2017 email revealed a business deal between Bobulinski, the Biden family, and high-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party would include 10 percent “held by H for the big guy?”
Gilliar also called Joe Biden the “big guy” a second time on October 14, 2020, in an exchange with a panicked unnamed person, the New York Post reported:
Gilliar was asked if “Hunter and/or Joe or Joe’s campaign [would] try to make it ‘Oh, we were never involved’ … and try to basically make us collateral damage?”
“I don’t see how that would work for them…,” Gilliar responded in the 6:07 p.m. message reviewed by The Post.
“I think in the scenario that he wins they would just leave sleeping dogs lie,” Gilliar added. “If they lose, honestly, I don’t think that the Big Guy really cares about that because he’ll be too busy focusing on all the other s–t he is doing.”
4) Geoff Roger
Rogers wrote to the president’s son, “Hunt see below… I was not there but heard all about it. The big guy made them happy.”
5) Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden used the “big guy” monicker in a 2014 email to Chuck Harple, a trade union lobbyist, with whom Hunter Biden hoped to set a meeting between the head of the North American Building Trades Union and Joe Biden. The email came after not receiving a response after using an official channel.
I’ll work on it — but is there any issue I should know about before I go around everyone and straight to him?” Hunter questioned.
“What works best — for you and I — is for you to call [the union president] first. Say you talked to me and that you want to get all the facts before you talk to the big guy,” Harple replied.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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