If what Tony Bobulinski said before Thursday night’s presidential debate is true, you might call the big-money deal the Bidens planned with a Chinese energy company a case of collusion.
At a news conference Thursday, the former Navy lieutenant and partner of Hunter Biden repeated what he released in a prepared statement about his dealings with the Bidens in their effort to make millions from Communist China.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, he said, lied in claiming he knew nothing of his son’s globe-straddling business schemes.
Bobulinski repeated much the same in a statement to Fox News, which published an e-mail naming names beyond the Biden boys. Among them were top Democrats, including Biden’s running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
For now though, the story is about Biden, and what Bobulinski will reveal when he talks to the FBI and the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
News Conference
Hours before yesterday’s presidential debate, Bobulinski delivered a terse eight-minute statement that covered much the same ground as the prepared statement released to the New York Post on Wednesday.
In that one, Bobulinski identified Joe Biden as the “big guy” mentioned in the controversial Biden-China e-mails.
Yesterday, Bobulinski elaborated for the press before attending last night’s debate as a guest of President Trump. “I have heard Joe Biden say that he has never discussed business with Hunter,” he began. “That is false.”
Continued Bobulinski:
I have firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden. I have also heard that Vice President Biden said on Tuesday that Sen. Ron Johnson, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee, should be ashamed for suggesting that the Biden family sought to profit from their name….
Everything I’m saying is corroborated by emails, WhatsApp chats, agreements, documents, and other evidence. And the American people can judge for themselves.
Bobulinski showed three phones, “never been held by anybody besides myself,” that contain the evidence for his allegations.
“I was told this past Sunday by somebody who was also involved in this matter, that if I went public this information it would bury all of us, man, the Bidens included,” Bobulinski said.
Noting that he has donated money only to Democrat candidates, Bobulinski explained how he became involved in Bidens’ China connection.
A mutual business acquaintance of Hunter Biden and Bobulinski’s, James Gilliar, invited him to join a venture that included CEFC China Energy and “one of the most prominent families in the United States.”
The Bidens, he said, “wanted to form a new entity with CEFC which was to invest in infrastructure, real estate, and technology in the U.S. and around the world, and the entity would initially be capitalized with $10 million, and then grow to billions of dollars of investment capital.”
Bobulinski agreed and became CEO of SinoHawk, named for China and Beau Biden’s favorite animal. Beau Biden is Joe Biden’s deceased son.
Between February and May 2017, Bobulinski said, he and the other principals in the deal exchanged e-mail, documents, and Whatsapp messages. On May 2, 2017, Jim and Hunter Biden introduced Bobulinski to Joe Biden, who was no longer vice president.
At an hour-long meeting that day with Joe Biden,“we discussed the Bidens’ history, the Bidens’ family’s business plans with the Chinese with which he was plainly familiar at least at a high level.”
After that meeting Bobulinski had “numerous communications” with the Biden group “regarding the allocation of the equity ownership of SinoHawk,” he said. “On May 13th 2017, I received an email concerning allocation of equity, which says 10 percent held by H for the big guy.”
Biden senior’s involvement was clear, Bobulinski said:
There’s no question that H stands for Hunter, big guy for his father, Joe Biden, and Jim for Jim Biden. In fact, Hunter often referred to as father is the “big guy” or “my chairman.” On numerous occasions, it was made clear to me that Joe Biden’s involvement was not to be mentioned in writing, but only face-to-face.
Jim and Hunter Biden, he said, “were paranoid” about keeping Joe Biden’s involvement a closely held secret.
Bobulinski all but called Hunter Biden a crook. The younger Biden wanted $5 million wired directly into his and his family’s pockets. Bobulinski objected because it was “contrary to our written agreements.”
Referring to “the chairman,” meaning Joe Biden, Hunter Biden told Bobulinski that that “was really investing in the Biden family, that he held the trump card, and that he was the one putting his family legacy on the line.”
CEFC, Hunter Biden told Bobulinski, wanted to partner with the Bidens.
Bobulinski told him the new company must use “proper corporate governance” and not become Hunter Biden’s “personal piggy bank.”
But the $5 million went to Hunter Biden, Bobulinski said, citing the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
But the important allegation is this: Bobulinski met with Joe Biden, who was indeed familiar with his family’s proposed Asiatic business empire.
CEFC’s “had a background in military intelligence,” the Wall Street Journal reported, and went belly up.
Grillar told the Journal that Joe Biden had nothing to do with the enterprise.
Harris, Other Democrats Sought
Meanwhile, Fox News published an e-mail from Jim Biden, the Democrat presidential candidate’s brother, to Bobulinski and Hunter Biden that named “key domestic contacts for phase one target projects.”
Included in the e-mail of May 15, 2017 are Senator Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s running mate, and top Democrats: Schumer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Dianne Feinstein, Amy Klochubar, and Al Franken.
The e-mail also names state and local officials: former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, former California Governor Jerry Brown and his successor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Also on the list was Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott.
Email To BobulinskiThe e-mail, Fox reported, is unrelated to Hunter Biden’s laptop cache, and “it is unclear if any of the Democrats were ever contacted about the “target projects.”
Bobulinski told Fox News that Biden was, again, the “big guy” mentioned in the Biden-China e-mail disclosed last week: “The reference to ‘the Big Guy’ in the much-publicized May 13, 2017 email is in fact a reference to Joe Biden.”
“I’ve seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business,” Bobulinski told Fox. “I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true.”
Bobulinski will soon speak with the FBI and the committee
