In yet more testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Accountability today, Tony Bobulinski responded to Hunter and Jim Biden’s testimony before the committee in February.
In his statement to the committee before answering questions, Bobulinski accused the two Bidens of lying repeatedly.
Also testifying today was Jason Galanis, one of Hunter’s former business partners. He reiterated his testimony before a joint hearing of the Oversight and Judiciary Committees that are conducting the impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden.
Galanis testified that Hunter did indeed involve his father in his business deals, and used his father’s name and influence to get those deals.
Bobulinski is a key witness for the committee. In 2020, just before the presidential election, he fingered Joe Biden as the “big guy” in emails about Hunter’s business deal with CEFC, the Communist Party-controlled Chinese energy company.
Bobulinski Again
Bobulinski, a former Navy officer with a Q clearance, was just as emphatic as he was weeks ago when he testified that, as vice president, Joe Biden permitted Chinese Reds to penetrate and influence the Obama-Biden White House.
“Though the truth involving the deep corruption of the Biden family — including the malfeasance of the sitting President of the United States — might be raw and unpleasant, the American people must hear it, can handle it, and have the right to process it as they choose,” he said:
You are presented with two narratives in this investigation: A false one being pushed by Joe Biden, a serial liar and fabulist now under this impeachment investigation for public corruption; his brother Jim Biden, a 75 year old man who cannot keep his lies straight, including under oath; and his son Hunter Biden, a chronic drug addict facing two indictments with twelve counts. You also have before you the truth, confirmed by multiple Biden family business partners over many years and backed up by mountains of irrefutable evidence, including text messages, emails, documents and recordings.
Bobulinski repeated his claim that Joe Biden was “the brand” that the Biden family sold in a wide-ranging “foreign influence peddling operation — from China to Ukraine and elsewhere.”
The Bidens “sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government,” he said.
“Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an active, aware enabler who met with business associates such as myself to further the business, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability,” he continued:
If there is no evidence of corruption — if Joe’s conduct and the conduct of his family were fully legal and proper — then why are they so dishonest about it? Not just slight misrepresentations of fact but deep untruths about the entire corrupt enterprise.
Lies and More Lies
Bobulinski then detailed Hunter and Jim Biden’s perjurious claims to the committee.
Hunter Biden lied on February 28 when he claimed to begin work for CEFC in the spring of 2017. If true, Bobulinski wanted to know, why did Hunter roast “CEFC Executive Director [Jianjun] Zang in front of his entourage as I sat right next to him in New York City on Sunday May 7th, 2017?” “Hunter was adamant that he was owed the rest of the $20 Million CEFC had committed to paying for the work he had claimed he had done in prior years.”
In other words, Hunter did not begin work for CEFC in 2017.
Hunter also told the committee that his father wasn’t involved with his business associates. Yet Hunter arranged a meeting with his father and Bobulinski. “The sole reason Hunter wanted me to meet his father was because I was the CEO of Sinohawk, the Bidens’ partnership with CEFC,” Bobulinksi said. “I was a business associate. In his transcript, Hunter confirms that that meeting with Joe took place and incriminates his Uncle Jim for perjury by confirming it.”
Last, the younger Biden lied “about important details concerning his money demands and threats to CEFC on July 30 and July 31, 2017.” Using his father as leverage, he sent “that infamous text in order to strong-arm CEFC into paying Hunter immediately and in the process defrauded the partners of Sinohawk Holdings LLC and Oneida Holdings LLC. The threat worked, as a few days later the Chinese wired $5 million dollars [sic] into a company of which Hunter owned 50 percent.”
The “infamous text” is the WhatsApp message in which Hunter warned that his father was present.
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.… I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. I sure hope whatever it is you are doing is very very very important,” he wrote.
Jim Biden lied as well on February 21, Bobulinski testified, when he repeatedly denied that the three Bidens met Bobulinski. Jim Biden even denied signing a “a fully executed copy of [an] operating agreement that he and I had both signed along with Hunter Biden, Mr. James Gilliar and Mr. Robert Walker.”
The president’s brother claimed, Bobulinski testified, that Bobulinski created the document after he drank a “quart of gin.”
“The Bidens are guilty of foreign influence peddling,” Bobulinski said. “They can’t even get their stories coordinated.”
But Americans need and deserve to hear the Bidens tell the truth about their links with the Chinese Communist Party, Bobulinski said, reprising his previous testimony.
“The reason we need to hear them testify in public is because the Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or ‘CEFC’ — a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate — successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House,” he said:
This process started in the Fourth Quarter of 2015 and continued through when Joe Biden left office in January 2017 to March of 2018 when CEFC Chairman [Jianming] Ye was detained for corruption in China, never to be seen again.
CEFC is a “known surrogate of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Committee chief James Comer of Kentucky asked Bobulinski whether Joe Biden was “involved with any of your business dealings with Hunter Biden and James Biden.”
Bobulinski: “Yes.”
And “did you come to find out that the Biden family had no interest in doing real business?” Comer asked.
Bobulinski: “I did.”
Bobulinski also confirmed earlier testimony that he met with Joe Biden “multiple times.”
Galanis Testimony
Galanis reiterated his claims from February 23, when he testified that Joe Biden was deeply involved in Hunter’s business.
Galanis testified that he involved Hunter in an enterprise called the Burnham Group for one reason — his last name:
The entire value add of Hunter Biden to our business was his family name and his access to his father, Vice President Joe Biden. Because of this access, I agreed to contribute equity ownership to them, Hunter and Devon [Archer], for no out-of-pocket cost to them in exchange for their, quote, relationship capital.
Galanis also recalled a phone call between Hunter and his father on May 4, 2014. Hunter called his father from a bar in the presence of Russian billionairess Yelena Baturina:
Hunter called his father, said, “Hello,” and “Hold on, Pops,” then put the call on speaker phone and said, “I’m here with our friends I told you were coming to town, and we wanted to say hello.”
The Vice President said, “Hello,” and some pleasantries, “Hope you had safe travels,” and seemed like he wanted to bring the call to an end by saying, “Okay, you be good to my boy.” Hunter responded by saying, “Everything is good, and we’re moving ahead.”
I recall being stunned by this call, to actually hear the Vice President’s voice on the phone. It was clear to me that this was a prearranged call with his father meant to impress the Russian investors that Hunter had access to his father and all the power and prestige of that position.
Baturina famously paid Hunter $3.5 million for a “consultancy agreement.” She also invested $105 million in a Hunter Biden-linked real estate company.
“It wasn’t true when Joe Biden said he didn’t interact with his family’s business associates, was it?” Comer asked Galanis today.
Replied Galanis, “I believe that would be misleading to the point of an untruth.”
