“Challenged by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a Wednesday hearing to cite a specific law President Biden violated, Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski accused the president of breaking racketeering and corruption laws through his participation in his son’s foreign business dealings,” reports the National Review.
Bobulinski testified that Biden violated federal criminal laws against unregistered foreign lobbying and participating in a criminal conspiracy when he met with Bobulinski, Hunter, and Jim Biden in May 2017 to discuss the possibility of forming a business venture with a Chinese conglomerate.
“Is it your testimony today that you personally witnessed President Joe Biden commit a crime?” Ocasio-Cortez asked. As Bobulinski answered, she interrupted and asked him the same question.
“Yes,” Bobulinski said.
“What crime have you witnessed?”
“How much time do I have to go through it?” Bobulinski asked.
“Corruption statues, RICO and conspiracy, FARA,” Bobulinski added.
“RICO, you’re obviously not familiar with, corruption statues, FARA,” Bobulinski continued. RICO is a federal statute codified at 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961-68).
The House GOP’s impeachment inquiry focuses on Joe Biden’s role in his son’s foreign business dealings during and after his vice presidency, which generated millions for his son and other Bidens. Tony Bobulinski said Joe Biden committed high crimes and misdemeanors in the process, in response to queries from Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.).
“Do you believe [Joe Biden] should be impeached?” Moskowitz asked.
“I do,” Bobulinski replied.
“I know he committed high crimes and misdemeanors. I was involved and saw them happen,” Bobulinski said after Moskowitz asked a follow up question.
Repeatedly during the hearing, Bobulinski accused Hunter Biden and Joe Biden’s brother James of lying under oath about their business dealings with CEFC, a Chinese energy conglomerate. Joe Biden, Hunter & James Biden all met Bobulinski at the Milken Institute for about 45 minutes in May 2017 in connection with Bobulinski’s role in the CEFC negotiations, Bobulinski said.
Influence peddling by the Bidens was revealed in photos and emails found on Hunter’s abandoned laptop. Hunter Biden’s laptop contained copious evidence that Joe Biden was complicit in his son’s influence peddling, noted the New York Post.
Hunter Biden also appears to have sold classified information to his foreign paymasters. In a New York Post column, Miranda Devine notes that “there are several clues on” on Hunter Biden’s abandoned “laptop that Hunter may have been selling classified information to his foreign paymasters.” She points to “uncharacteristically cogent email about Ukraine written by Hunter Biden in 2014,” that likely reflects his cribbing classified information.
Biden has falsely claimed that his son earned no money from China. But as the Washington Post fact-checker notes, that is false — his own son admitted otherwise.
On March 17, Joe Biden falsely denied that members of his family received over $1 million from Hunter Biden‘s business associate — even as his son Hunter Biden confirmed it.
Republican Congressman James Comer of Kentucky disclosed the more than $1 million in payments in late June. Comer got them through a subpoena of Hunter Biden’s business associate Rob Walker’s bank records. Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, revealed that “from 2015 through 2017, Biden family members and their companies received over $1.3 million in payments” from accounts tied to Walker.
Comer found that more than $1 million was sent in a series of payments to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s brother James, and Hallie Biden, the widow of Joe Biden’s deceased son Beau. (Hunter had a sexual relationship with Hallie in 2017 following his brother’s death, not long after Walker received a $3 million wire from a Chinese company).
In June, a reporter asked President Biden at the White House if he had “any reaction to House GOP’s new memo about your family dealings.” The President replied, “My family dealings?” The reporter responded, “Yes, revealing that Hunter Biden’s business associate sent over a million dollars to three of your family members?”
“That’s not true,” replied Joe Biden.
But it was true, as the Washington Examiner reported.
“Laptop data shows Joe Biden used pseudonyms to pass inside info to Hunter,” noted Ed Morrissey, citing a New York Post story. “The New York Post analyzed their copy of the data and discovered that the pseudonyms identified by James Comer passed along inside information to Hunter. That includes diplomatic developments in Ukraine that related to Hunter’s business interests there while Biden was vice-president.” The New York Post reports:
Then-Vice President Biden emailed Hunter under the aliases “Robin Ware,” “Robert L. Peters” and “JRB Ware” between 2014 and 2016, keeping his son abreast of scheduled talks with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Kyiv Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, among other communications The Post first revealed in 2021.
The elder Biden had one of his aides, John Flynn, send his daily schedule to the private email address “Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov” at least 10 times between May 18 and June 15, 2016, copying Hunter on a May 26 message with a note about an “8.45am prep for 9am phonecall [sic] with Pres Poroshenko.”
The Post reports:
Hunter didn’t only receive heads-up about Ukraine from his dad’s office. In June 2015, Joe Biden’s longtime assistant Kathy Chung sent both Hunter and “Peters” a list of 25 cell phone numbers linked to major political players — including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Senate party leaders Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid, then-DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
As Morrissey asks,
Why would a vice president’s aide send that kind of information to the vice president’s son, if not to provide business contacts? In fact, why would a vice president use pseudonyms at all in conducting this kind of “business” except to hide illegal activity from Congress and other prying eyes? There is no other explanation other than to cover up personal corruption in allowing the vice president’s son to profit from inside information coming from a position of high public trust — and likely for the vice president himself to benefit from that profit, too.
Charles C.W. Cooke couldn’t figure out any other explanation yesterday in an NRO podcast, either:
“I am fairly generous in trying to find plausible reasons why someone could have done something or why the evidence that we have doesn’t suggest criminal or immoral behavior,” Charlie said. “. . . But my efforts yesterday to conceive of a reason why, if it is true, the president — at the time, vice president of the United States — should be using a pseudonym to exchange emails with Burisma and his son . . . Well, that search was fruitless.”
As Morrissey observes, “There is no other explanation. If Comer can firmly establish that ‘Robert L. Peters,’ ‘JRB Ware,’ and ‘Robin Ware’ were all e-mail accounts used by Joe Biden, this is smoking-gun evidence of rank corruption.”
