An expose of Hunter Biden’s emails published by The Post on Wednesday showed the oft-troubled son leveraging access to his then-vice president father and introducing him to an executive of a Ukrainian gas company that was under scrutiny at the time.
The family’s dealings in Ukraine are the subject of several congressional probes and even led to the impeachment of President Trump who was eventually cleared in the Senate of the charge that he pressured Ukraine’s leader to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden’s dealings in China, however, have earned a lot less scrutiny — including over a $1 billion windfall for his business venture just days after visiting Beijing with his influential father.
In 2009, Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of former secretary of state John Kerry, founded Rosemont Seneca Partners, a billion-dollar private equity firm.
Still at the helm of the firm, Hunter flew aboard Air Force Two to China in December 2013, accompanying his then-veep father on an official visit where Joe Biden reportedly met with Hunter’s Chinese partners.
Ten days later, Hunter’s company inked a deal with the state-owned Bank of China and created the $1 billion investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), according to reporting by Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the best-selling author of “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends.”
A representative for BHR told The New Yorker in July 2019 that Hunter Biden introduced his father to Chinese private equity executive Jonathan Li during the trip. Li later became the CEO of BHR.
Hunter Biden was forced to step down from the BHR board in October 2019 following blistering call outs from President Trump.
A spokesman for Biden’s family denied any wrongdoing or that there was a connection between the vice president’s visit and BHR’s wild fundraising success.
However, Schweizer found what he described as “a troubling pattern” of Biden and Heinz both seeming to benefit from their fathers’ positions in the Obama administration.
“Over the next seven years, as both Joe Biden and John Kerry negotiated sensitive and high-stakes deals with foreign governments, Rosemont entities secured a series of exclusive deals often with those same foreign governments,” Schweizer wrote in his book.
In another May 2017 incident, Hunter met with Chinese tycoon Ye Jianming, the chairman of energy company CEFC, in a Miami hotel room and the pair discussed American infrastructure and energy deals, according to a 2018 report by the New York Times.
After the meeting, Ye sent Hunter a 2.8-carat diamond and a “thank you” note and the ex-veep’s son began negotiating a deal for CEFC to invest $40 million dollars in a natural gas project on Louisiana’s Monkey Island.
Six months later, a CEFC executive was arrested in New York on unrelated bribery charges, and his first call was to Hunter Biden’s uncle, James Biden. According to the Times report, James believed the call was for Hunter.
“There is nothing else I have to say,” James Biden told the publication. “I don’t want to be dragged into this anymore.”
_________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
October 14, 2020, 07:28 PM
wcb6092
_________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
October 14, 2020, 08:25 PM
BMR
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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé: I have a feeling Trump is going to let loose tonight at his rally, slamming Twitter, Facebook, and of course the Bidens. Watch out!
He sure did, and it was great!
------------------------------- Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out. - David Horowitz
October 14, 2020, 08:40 PM
Oat_Action_Man
Now this is a delicious October surprise.
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Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter"
Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time.
October 15, 2020, 01:24 AM
bigdeal
quote:
Originally posted by BMR:
quote:
Originally posted by Balzé Halzé: I have a feeling Trump is going to let loose tonight at his rally, slamming Twitter, Facebook, and of course the Bidens. Watch out!
He sure did, and it was great!
Though that might be a momentary feel good moment it does nothing to address the problem. Josh Hawley on Laura Ingram tonight was bloviating about making Dorsey/Zuckerberg appear before his committee to discuss their dealings with the Dem party on sinking and blocking the Hunter Biden story. F all of that! Put legislation forward to strip 'all' legal liability exempts from Twatter and Farcebook. Tee them up with legislation for millions of people to file lawsuits against them. Let's see how many tens of millions we can squeeze out of them. Bring the pain.
----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter
October 15, 2020, 01:33 AM
wcb6092
Burisma official reportedly linked to Joe Biden met with State officials in 2016, memos show
Vadym Pozharskyi's contacts with USAID flagged for U.S. ambassador in 2016.
_________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain
October 15, 2020, 05:48 AM
feersum dreadnaught
NRA Life Member - "Fear God and Dreadnaught"
October 15, 2020, 07:54 AM
tiwimon
Wow - this video is succinct, on point and simply well done
I may possibly send this out to some dems I know that are not inflicted with moderate to advanced stages of TDS, but there a very few of them.
Thanks for posting it (last post on previous page).
__________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy."
October 15, 2020, 08:27 AM
tiwimon
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Originally posted by Cookster: Good video tiwimon.
I may possibly send this out to some dems I know that are not inflicted with moderate to advanced stages of TDS, but there a very few of them.
Thanks for posting it (last post on previous page).
Hey Cookster - that's great, I'm gonna borrow that inflicted with moderate to advanced stages of TDS statement!
I did the same this morning! I expect of the ones I sent at least a few will for sure be swayed - and a vote is a vote! The real hope is they forward it to more and more and snowballs
/Edit - well my spelling of course
October 15, 2020, 09:56 AM
a1abdj
I recently posted a video of Biden groping children set to the English cover version of Despacito.
Youtube removed it citing Harassment and cyberbullying.
Interesting. It would have been easier to say copyright infringement.
“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” – James Madison
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson
October 15, 2020, 10:28 AM
Ackks
It is hilarious that someone thinks blocking both the President Trump's campaign and the GOP judiciary Committee accounts will keep a lid on this story.
October 15, 2020, 10:31 AM
az4783054
A good percentage of voters get their news on social media. They don't even have to read, just watch a video...and they believe what they hear.
October 15, 2020, 10:40 AM
HRK
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Youtube removed it citing Harassment and cyberbullying.
Most likely you were reported by someone that can see the post and didn't like it, you, or both. If it's on your home feed, it's one of your friends,
I have a neighbor that is a facebook fanatic on the political threads, he looks for leftists that cross the lines of what you can and can't say in a post on FB.
He reports every one of them to get them tossed into FB jail or the comment removed... Its the new censorship process where you report being offended, or textually assaulted to screw with someone...
October 15, 2020, 01:19 PM
oddball
Biden campaign let Covid-19 in through their door
Suspending all campaign travel after Harris's communication director and flight crew member tested positive.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
October 15, 2020, 01:22 PM
parabellum
WHY WEREN'T YOU WEARING YOUR MASK?? IF YOU HAD BEEN WEARING YOUR MASK, YOU AND THOSE AROUND YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN SAFE!!!!!!!! YOUR BLATANT DISREGARD FOR THESE WELL-ESTABLISHED, COMMON SENSE, LIFE-SAVING GUIDELINES HAS ENDANGERED THE VERY SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN RACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CANCEL THE CANCELED DEBATE!!!!!!!!
SECURE ALL WATERTIGHT DOORS!!!
October 15, 2020, 01:52 PM
az4783054
biden is already thinking how he can use this cash as his own...
