In testimony before the two House committees that are conducting an impeachment inquiry about President Joe Biden, son Hunter Biden confessed to long-standing business deals inside China, including a deal with CEFC, an energy business controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
He also admitted that he introduced his father to his Chinese and other business contacts and that he placed his father on dozens of phone calls with them.
But Hunter insisted Republicans are “lying” about his father’s involvement in his businesses. He repeatedly stated that his father is pure as Caesar’s wife. Biden senior knows nothing about and was not involved in Hunter’s amazingly successful planetary business empire.
Opening Statement
Hunter’s testimony opened with a claim to present “the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business, not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions, domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist, never.”
That last claim has already been proven false.
He continued, calling the impeachment inquiry a “conspiracy theory”:
For more than a year, your committees have hunted me in your partisan political pursuit of my dad. You have trafficked in innuendo, distortion, and sensationalism, all the while ignoring the clear and convincing evidence staring you in the face: You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any.
Hunter called testimony from other witnesses “lies.”
Noting that Biden senior “helped save my life,” he claimed that “Republicans have taken my communications out of context, relied on documents that have been altered, and cherry-picked snippets of financial or other records to misrepresent what really happened.”
And then he warned the Republicans of the Oversight and Judiciary committees not to continue the smears while he — “the smartest guy” Joe Biden knows — is in the room:
If you try to do that today, my answers will reveal your tactics and demonstrate the truth that my father was never involved in any of my businesses. My testimony today should put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade. You have wasted valuable time and resources attacking me and my family for your own political gain when you should be fixing the real problems in this country that desperately need your attention.
Joe Biden Met Hunter China Contact
Importantly, Hunter confirmed key allegations in the impeachment case against his father. Notably, he testified, he introduced his father to Jonathan Li, chairman of BHR Partners. The Red Chinese government’s Bank of China controls BHR.
“When we returned from an event to the hotel, there was a rope line, and Jonathan Li was in the lobby of the hotel where I was going to meet him for coffee,” Biden testified:
In that line I introduced my dad to Jonathan Li and a friend of his, and they shook hands and I believe probably took a photograph. And then my father went up to his room, and I went to have coffee with Jonathan Li.
And at the time he introduced his father, he admitted, he was working with Li on creating a private equity fund. But, amazingly, “I did not have any notion of the exact source of funds” that would create the entity.
Still, Hunter insisted Joe Biden knew nothing. “I could say for the record, and I will probably say this 1,000 times, my father had absolutely no knowledge of, no involvement in, had no — any way was — awareness of my business relationship with Jonathan Li. And I could also say this, is that I did not have an equity stake in BHR until my father left office in 2017.”
He also admitted that his father wrote college recommendations for Li’s children, which means the two Bidens could have helped infiltrate Chinese spies into the United States.
Hunter also confessed his work with the CEFC, which began “when I received a retainer from CEFC in early — or spring of 2017.” He claimed his activities with the communist party-controlled operation was “completely legitimate and completely, 100 percent in line with my experience and my abilities, was done when my father wasn’t even in office.”
And, he continued, Joe Biden never benefited from that business.
Hunter also denied that Joe Biden was the “big guy,” as business partner Tony Bobulinski has testified, in the now famous email found on his laptop.
“I told Tony literally weeks after I met him that he was out of his mind, that he was going around, trying to promote the idea that my dad was somehow going to be involved in this,” Hunter said. “And that’s why I never did business with Tony.”
He further claimed that a “bitter” Bobulinski is “both incompetent and an idiot.”
Directly asked whether his father is the “big guy,” Hunter said he was mystified. “I truly don’t know what the hell that James [Gilliar, who wrote the email] was talking about,” he testified. Gilliar wrote the email that said “10 [percent] held by H for the big guy” from the CEFC deal.
Hunter confessed that he did put his father on the phone with business associates, and that his father met with his foreign business contacts. They included Russian billionairess Yelena Baturina, who pumped millions into one of the myriad Hunter Biden-linked companies. Hunter claimed he “never received a dime” from her, and that the money went to biz pal Devon Archer.
He did admit that he accepted $142,300 from Archer, which came from Kazakhstan oligarch Kenes Rakishev. The purpose: For Hunter to buy a Porsche. Rakishev also had dinner with Joe Biden, but Hunter testified that his dad joined the repast for “nothing other than to say hello to the people around the table and particularly those Related to the World Food Programme.”
And finally, Hunter admitted that his father had dinner with Vadym Pozharskyi, a key player in the Biden-Burisma influence-peddling scheme.
That scandal involved then-Vice President Joe Biden’s forcing Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin in exchange for $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees. Shokin was investigating Burisma, which placed Hunter on its board of directors. Hunter testified that Shokin was fired because he wasn’t investigating Burisma properly, but that claim doesn’t align with the facts.
And, he said, “I never spoke to my dad about it.”
He admitted that he joined the board because “President [Aleksander] Kwasniewski of Poland wanted me to be on the board,” one reason being that the Biden name is “a symbol of freedom and democracy.” Years ago, Kwasniewski said that Hunter joined the board not because of his business acumen but because of his last name.
Asked what types of services he provided on the board, Hunter claimed that he “was the head of the corporate governance”:
My responsibilities were like any other board member, to attend board meetings, to be aware of what the management was doing to try to strive for, you know, accountability, transparency, openness in terms of the reporting, to go through the financials and make certain that the financials were certified by a CPA.
Despite the obvious, Hunter claimed that it wasn’t his last name that inspired high-powered business across the globe to hire him. Rather, it was was his standing as a titan of the corporate world:
The one thing that I am absolutely aware of is that — cognizant of the fact that, when people engage with me, is that, are they engaging with me because of my skills — like, for instance, you guys have gone out and said I had no credibility, no — that there’s no way that I should’ve been serving on the board of Burisma. I just read you my resume. I’d put my resume up against any one of you, in terms of my responsibility. I don’t know anybody that was — at that time that was teaching the number one-rated course at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in the master’s program in terms of foreign policy and advocacy. I literally was on 17 — like, 12 different boards.
