Hunter and Joe Shook Down the Chinese. Then Joe Got a Big Check
Now we know how the 'Big Guy' got paid.
The big question was always how Joe Biden, aka the Big Guy, was getting paid Joe Biden and his media allies have made a point of this in defending him. They’ll concede that Hunter and even James, Joe’s brother, were involved in some shady stuff. They’ll concede that Joe Biden lent his influence by showing up to meetings and joining in on calls, but they’ll claim that he never got any money. Now Rep. James Comer and the House Oversight Committee are find out how Joe allegedly got paid.
And the answer is ‘loan repayments.’
Earlier in October, House Oversight turned up a “loan repayment” tied to wrecked hospitals and Islamic terrorists.
According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans “based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”
According to the Americore CEO, “Jim Biden directed me to loan him approximately $400,000 of this money for him to use to repay a past-due personal loan.”
Later, “Biden took additional amounts totaling approximately $250,000.”
On March 1, 2018, Americore wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sara Biden’s personal bank account – not their business bank account. On the same day, James Biden wrote a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account to Joe Biden.
Here’s another ‘loan repayment’ linked to what was the most direct example of Joe Biden getting involved in a Hunter shakedown.
A July 30th, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, where Hunter Biden wrote: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. 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. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Joe Biden has denied being present, but now we know what happened afterward. Another ‘loan repayment.‘
The money trail begins in July 2017 when Hunter Biden demanded payment from his Chinese Communist Party (CCP) linked associate. On July 30, 2017, Hunter Biden sent a message to Raymond Zhao—a CEFC associate—demanding a $10 million dollar capital payment and claimed his father, Joe Biden, was sitting in the room. CEFC is a Chinese energy company linked to the CCP. The Bidens began working with CEFC when Joe Biden was Vice President.
On August 8, 2017, Northern International Capital, a Chinese company affiliated with CEFC, sent $5 million to Hudson West III, a joint venture established by Hunter Biden and CEFC associate Gongwen Dong. That same day, Hudson West III sent $400,000 to Owasco, P.C., an entity owned and controlled by Hunter Biden. On August 14, 2017, Hunter Biden wired $150,000 to Lion Hall Group, a company owned by President Biden’s brother James and sister-in-law Sara Biden. On August 28, 2017, Sara Biden withdrew $50,000 in cash from Lion Hall Group. Later the same day, she deposited it into her and James Biden’s personal checking account. On September 3, 2017, Sara Biden cut a check to Joe Biden for $40,000 for a “loan repayment.”
Two points make a line. We now have a pattern of how the Big Guy was getting paid.
Biden will argue that the loan repayments were just that, but he was well aware of his brother and son’s business arrangements because he was meeting up with some of the principal players. His son and brother were using his name to build business connections and Joe Biden would have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to realize why he was being asked to join calls or show up to meet with their business partners. And then he took money from his brother and sister-in-law that appeared to have come as a result of these business dealings.
Whether or not he loaned them the money, the only remaining defense, is irrelevant. When Joe Biden loaned the money, he understood where the debt would be repaid from. All of this makes him a partner in their work.
Joe Biden financially benefited from the activities of his family members. This is no doubt the tip of the iceberg, but it shows how the payments were structured and the money was laundered.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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BUT ISN'T JOJO SWEETHEARTS WITH THE CHINESE EVEN AS THEY MOP THE ROOM WITH HIM???
“Currently, China remains the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked through international mail and express consignment operations environment, as well as the main source for all fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the United States,” the report states:
Biden’s America: White House Tells Schools to Stock Up on Narcan Amid Surging Youth Fentanyl Deaths
President Joe Biden’s administration is now advising schools across the United States to keep the overdose reversal drug naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, in stock amid a surging number of fentanyl deaths among American children.
In a letter to the nation’s school systems, Biden and Education Department Secretary Miguel Cardona ask administrators to begin carrying naloxone and train teachers on how to administer the drug when a student is overdosing or being poisoned by fentanyl.
“In the midst of this fentanyl overdose epidemic, it is important to focus on measures to prevent youth drug use and ensure that every school has naloxone and has prepared its students and faculty to use it,” the letter reads:
Studies show that naloxone access can reduce overdose death rates, that its availability does not lead to increases in youth drug use, and that it causes no harm if used on a person who is not overdosing on opioids. It is important to note that individuals should not be afraid to administer naloxone, as most states have Good Samaritan Laws protecting bystanders who aid at the scene of an overdose. Our schools are on the frontlines of this epidemic, but our teachers and students can be equipped with tools to save lives. [Emphasis added]
Photos of fentanyl victims are on display at The Faces of Fentanyl Memorial at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters on September 27, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Laura and Chris Didier, the parents of Zach Didier who died at age 17 after taking a fake prescription pill that contained fentanyl, hold one of his senior photographs at a bench installed in his honor near Lauras parents home on November 13, 2022 in Sacramento, California. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Photos of fentanyl victims are on display at The Faces of Fentanyl Memorial at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters on September 27, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The letter comes as fentanyl deaths are now the leading cause of death among Americans from 18 to 45 and adolescent deaths associated with the poisonous drug have skyrocketed, as Axios reported:
Median monthly overdose deaths among adolescents ages 10-19 increased by 109% between the second half of 2019 and the second half of 2021, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyl increased by 182%. [Emphasis added]
Just this week, news broke that in Loudon County, Virginia, at least eight high school students have overdosed on fentanyl and naloxone had to be administered to save their lives. In January, a high school student was saved by a school nurse who administered naloxone after the student overdosied on fentanyl.
During a congressional hearing earlier this year, Rebecca Kiessling explained that fentanyl deaths among young Americans are primarily poisonings, and the consumer is unaware they are ingesting deadly fentanyl. Kiessling lost both of her sons after they took counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, unknowingly.
C-SPANIn 2019, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a report that detailed how fentanyl is ending up in every American community across the nation and laced into many street drugs and counterfeit pills.
Essentially, the DEA report states that fentanyl in the U.S. is manufactured in China before being sent to Mexico, where the Mexican drug cartels then traffick the poisonous drug into American communities via the U.S.-Mexico border.
Chart via Drug Enforcement Administration
“Currently, China remains the primary source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked through international mail and express consignment operations environment, as well as the main source for all fentanyl-related substances trafficked into the United States,” the report states:
Fentanyl is smuggled across the U.S.-Mexico border in low concentration, high-volume loads, kilogram seizures often contain less than a 10 percent concentration of fentanyl. [Emphasis added]
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DEA reporting continues to indicate the Sinaloa and the New Generation Jalisco (Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación or CJNG) cartels are likely the primary trafficking groups responsible for smuggling fentanyl into the United States from Mexico. [Emphasis added]
In 2022, more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses or poisonings — nearly 70 percent of which were due to fentanyl. This figure indicates that fentanyl is killing more Americans annually than car crashes and breast cancer.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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Pressed twice during a recent news briefing why Chinese authorities had refused to “say the word ‘Hamas,’” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson maintained that the regime stands for justice and opposes “all violent attacks.”
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Christopher Balding, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, agrees.
“It defies any logic that China is unaware that it's at the very least tacitly or implicitly supporting Hamas,” he told The Epoch Times.
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He added that it's likely that "China’s data gatherers knew there was chatter" about Hamas's activities before the attack occurred.
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At the United Nations, China has a record of consistently amplifying the Palestinian cause. Together with Russia, it blocked a U.S.-led resolution on Oct. 25 that sought to condemn Hamas’s attack and support Israel’s right to self-defense.
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“At the time, it was very disturbing that China was basically supporting Hamas,” she said.
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Such a gesture legitimizes Hamas and “cements Hamas's position as the voice for Palestine and for the Palestinian people,” Matthew Johnson, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, told The Epoch Times.
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Researcher Lillian Craig Harris in 1977 characterized Beijing as “the most consistent big power supporter of the Palestinian guerrilla organizations, arming them, criticizing them, seeking to unify them and, despite fluctuations in the relationship, providing moral and material support.”
Without the Chinese military aid, “the PLO might not be the politically powerful organization it is today,” she wrote in the academic journal Journal of Palestine Studies.
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Mr. Pinko recalled that while still in the Navy during the 2006 Lebanon War, the flagship Israeli ship Hanit was hit by Iranian missiles that appeared to be Chinese replicas. Israel officials in 2014 identified smuggled Syrian rockets based on long-range systems developed by China’s state-owned Sichuan Aerospace Industry Corp.
In 2009, battlefield photos showed pipes from a Chinese steelmaker in the rockets of Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing in Gaza. The backlash that ensued prompted the Shandong Province-based company to clarify that the pipes were destined for a Middle Eastern gas company.
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In a 2014 military parade, Hamas also showed off a Chinese armored personal carrier known as the Type 63, which has been popular in the Middle East, according to the Chinese state-owned media platform ifeng.
“Nothing is accidental with the Chinese,” Mr. Pinko said.
To Mr. Loudon, the various political groups in Palestinian areas are no different from “different factions of the mafia.”
“They might bash each other for territory at times,” he said, “but they're all united in supporting communism, hating the West, and wanting to destroy Israel.”
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As for now, he said, “these countries are taking their opportunity while they can.”
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