1. Joe “recommends”
The latest example came Wednesday when it was revealed that Hunter Biden had asked his father to write a letter of recommendation to Brown University about the son of a powerful Chinese businessman, Jonathan Lee. “Jonathan Hunter asked me to send you a copy of the letter of recommendation he asked his father to write on behalf of Christopher for Brown University,” Hunter Biden’s then-business partner Eric Schwerin wrote to Lee on the 18th. February 2017, in an e-mail revealed for the first time by Fox News. Schwerin told Li that the “prototype” was being sent by FedEx to University President Christina Paxson “directly to Brown.” Vice President Joe Biden then dined with his son Hunter in 2013 in Beijing, where Hunter struck a deal with his aide Jonathan Lee. David Linemann / Official White House Photo Li is the CEO of Chinese investment firm BHR Partners and in 2013 founded a subsidiary – Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., known as BHR – where Hunter Biden was a founding member and held a 10% stake. share through a company called Skaneateles LLC. After the White House declined to say whether the first son remained an independent owner after resigning from the board in 2019, Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally told the New York Times that Hunter “no longer has any interest, directly or indirectly, neither for BHR nor for Skaneateles. . » Hunter Biden reportedly asked Joe’s father to write a college letter of recommendation for Jonathan Lee’s daughter.
2. The other child, too
Hunter Biden also arranged for his father to write a letter to Georgetown University – Hunter University – on behalf of Lee’s daughter, but none of the children entered elite institutions, The Post reported. “I have no confirmation of any letter of recommendation written by the president — when he was a private, by the way, and did not hold public office,” he told the White House on Wednesday.
3. Joe’s “hopes”
Hunter Biden admitted in a New Yorker magazine article in 2019 that he and his father once discussed Hunter’s job on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, which paid him up to $ 83,333 a month when Joe Biden was Vice President under President Barack Obama. “Dad said, ‘I hope you know what you’re doing,’ and I said, ‘I know,’” he recalls.
4. Aviation 2 trip
In December 2013, Hunter and his daughter, Finnegan Biden, flew to China on Air Force Two with then-Vice President Joe Biden during an official, six-day trip to Asia. Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials – and was also introduced to Lee by his son in the hotel lobby where the US delegation was staying. Hunter Biden was a frequent guest on then-Vice President Joe Biden’s trips abroad. Andi Rice – Pool via CNP / MEGA Hunter Biden then sat down with Lee for a social meeting, as both sides claimed, with Hunter Biden telling The New Yorker: “How can I go to Beijing, halfway around the world, and not see for a cup of coffee? “
5. Half his salary?
In a 2019 text message to Naomi’s daughter, Hunter Biden wrote bitterly: “I hope you can all do what I did and pay for everything for this whole family for 30 years.” He added: “It is really difficult. But do not worry, unlike Pop [Joe]I will not force you to give me half your salary “. Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein revealed this week that he had beaten Hunter Biden for a $ 20,000 fundraiser for the vice president’s official residence. Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter then played golf with Burisma board member Devon Archer at the Hamptons in 2014. FOX News / Tucker Carlson Tonight
6. Meet the partners
As vice president, Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, in April 2014, about the same time that Archer joined Burisma’s board, and shortly before Hunter Biden did so, according to the senator. Johnson (R-Wis.). A photo that appeared more than five years later shows Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Archer posing with golf clubs at a field in the Hamptons in August 2014. In February, Archer was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for an unrelated bond fraud scheme targeting the poor Oglala Sioux tribe of American Indians. Hunter Biden was a frequent guest on then-Vice President Joe Biden’s trips abroad. Andi Rice – Pool via CNP / MEGA
7. Meet the Ukrainians
Vadym Pozharskyi, Burisma executive and board consultant, sent an e-mail to Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, saying: “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and for meeting your father. and pass [sic] some time together. Is a reality [sic] honor and joy “.
Meet the Cossacks
A day earlier, Joe Biden attended a dinner at Cafe Milano, Washington, DC with some of his son’s business associates from Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. An unverified photo apparently shows Biden posing between two of the guests who attended that night, Kazakhstan banking oligarch Kennes Rangshev and Karim Massimov, the former prime minister of Kazakhstan. Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter then had a hearty dinner with Kenes “Kenges” Rakishev and former Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov in Washington DC.KIAR In January, Massimov was arrested in a conspiracy to overthrow the government of the former Soviet republic, following his ouster by the head of counterintelligence and counter-terrorism.
Meet Bobulinski
Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, revealed in October 2020 that he spoke with Joe Biden in May 2017 after his presentation by Hunter, who reportedly described Bobulinski as “the one who helps us in the business that we do with the Chinese “. According to Bobulinski – who has identified Joe Biden as the “big guy” with a 10 percent stake in a planned deal with CEFC China Energy – the former vice president told him: “Watch my son and brother and you take care of family. “ Former business partner Tony Bobulinski says then-Vice President Joe Biden was “the big guy” making a profit from Hunter’s Chinese dealings. REUTERS / Tom Brenner Bobulinksi also said he later asked Joe’s brother, James Biden, about the possibility of Joe running for president in 2020. “He looks at me and smiles a bit and says, ‘Reasonable denial,’” Bobulinski said.
10. Acquisition of an office
The e-mails show that in September 2017, Hunter Biden requested a new sign and additional keys for an office he rented in the House of Sweden office building in Washington DC, where the Swedish Embassy is located. The sign read “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC-USA)” and the keys were to his father, Jill Biden stepmother, uncle James Biden, and a Chinese executive named Gongwen. The building manager replied: “We are very excited and honored to welcome your new colleagues!” but a representative of the Swedish real estate agency told the Washington Post that the sign had never been changed and the keys had not been received.
Meet the Mexicans
In 2015, then-Vice President Joe Biden hosted a group of his son’s Mexican business associates at the vice president’s official residence and posed for a photo with Hunter Biden and a group of potential business associates, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Ve Carlem Slim.
12. What but not where?
In 2016, emails show Hunter Biden texting his son Velasco from Air Force Two, who was on his way to Mexico for an official visit. Hunter complained to the younger Velasco that he had not received reciprocal business favors since “I brought every person you ever asked me to bring to the White House F’ing and to the Vice President’s house and to the inauguration.”
