WASHINGTON – White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ended her regular briefing Wednesday without offering a defense of President Biden’s numerous interactions with his son Hunter’s foreign business partners.
Jean-Pierre paused when The Post asked, “Can you explain why the president interacted with so many of his son’s foreign business partners?”
“Have a great day,” the press secretary responded as she walked off the briefing room stage, a day after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) launched an unusual impeachment inquiry. politician about Biden’s conduct.
“More than half of voters told CNN they believed the president was involved and lied,” the Post pressed.
“Can’t you have an answer to that, Karine?”
Jean-Pierre did not react further to the question, which referenced a CNN poll released last week that found that 61% of Americans believe Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s overseas ventures.
Early in the briefing, Jean-Pierre deflected questions from reporters about whether House Republicans are likely to find any “incriminating” evidence and whether the White House plans to comply with House requests for documents.
Jean-Pierre repeatedly called the investigation “baseless” and said the president had done “nothing wrong.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ended her regular briefing Wednesday without offering a defense of President Biden’s numerous interactions with his son Hunter’s foreign business partners.Getty Images
When The Post asked her, “Isn’t it wrong to lie to the public?” she responded that the question was “incredibly inappropriate.”
Biden said in June that he defends his claims that “he has never spoken” with his son about “his businesses abroad” and that “I have never discussed, neither with my son nor with my brother nor with anyone, anything that has to do with his businesses.”
McCarthy accused Biden of lying when he announced the start of the impeachment inquiry, saying Tuesday: “Through our investigations, we have discovered that President Biden lied to the American people about his own knowledge of his family’s business dealings in the foreign”.
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There is evidence, including photographs and email correspondence, that shows that Joe Biden interacted in person with Hunter and his first brother James Biden’s cronies from China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine.
Hunter, now 53, wrote in a message recovered from his laptop that he had to give “half” of his income to his father, and in May the House Oversight Committee profiled nine members of the Biden family who supposedly received foreign income. There is evidence that Hunter paid at least some of Joe’s bills, including phone service.
Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, revealed last month that then-Vice President Biden allegedly attended two dinners at D.C. restaurant Café Milano in 2014 and 2015 with his son’s clients from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, instead of one as previously documented.
Among those in attendance was Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company that paid Hunter up to $1 million a year starting in April 2014 to sit on its board while his father took over. control of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
Jean-Pierre offered no further audible reactions to the question, which referenced a CNN poll released last week that found 61% of Americans believe Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s overseas ventures.FOX News /Tucker Carlson Tonight
Pozharskyi’s thank-you note to Hunter for the opportunity to meet with Joe Biden formed the basis of The Post’s explosive first report on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and directly contradicted the president’s long-standing claim that he “never” spoke on business with their families.
Joe Biden dismissed documents from his son’s laptop as a “Russian plant” during the final 2020 presidential debate, which occurred after the Post’s second exclusive from the laptop showed that Biden, described as the “big guy “, received a 10% cut. in a later Chinese venture involving her son and his brother.
The laptop documents have since been widely corroborated by participants in the companies and by additional documentation.
Another attendee at the Café Milano dinner was Moscow’s former first lady Yelena Baturina, a Russian billionaire who sought real estate investments in the United States with her then-second son and Archer.
Baturina transferred $3.5 million to a corporate entity controlled by Hunter Biden and Archer in February 2014.
Early in the briefing, Jean-Pierre deflected questions from reporters about whether House Republicans are likely to find any “incriminating” evidence and whether the White House plans to comply with House requests for documents. REUTERS
Joe Biden posed with his son’s Kazakh business associates at one of the dinners, including Kenes Rakishev, who transferred Hunter $142,300 to buy a luxury car in 2014.
Archer also testified that Hunter Biden in December 2015 walked away from a meeting at the Four Seasons in Dubai to “call DC” with Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky and Pozharskyi.
“Listen, I didn’t hear this phone call, but he called his father,” Archer said.
An FBI informant file released in July by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says Zlochevsky complained in 2016 that he was “forced” to pay $10 million in bribes to Joe and Hunter Biden in exchange for help. of the then vice president to overthrow Ukraine’s attorney general, Viktor Shokin, who was removed from office in March 2016 following a sustained campaign by Joe Biden.
The bribery complaint has not been substantiated.
President Biden said in June that he stands by his claims that he has “never talked” to his son about “his foreign business dealings” and that “I have never talked about [them]with my son or my brother or with anyone else.”WireImage
Biden hosted his son’s Mexican associates at the official vice presidential residence in 2015 and then allowed Hunter and his American partner Jeff Cooper to hitch a ride on Air Force Two for an official trip to Mexico in 2016, portable records show.
Hunter wrote, apparently from the vice president’s plane, to one of his Mexican associates, complaining about the lack of reciprocity, complaining that “I have brought every single person you asked me to bring to the F’ing White House and the Vice President. “The president’s house.”
Joe Biden was on the phone while one step away from the presidency during about 20 business meetings with Hunter’s foreign associates, including French and Chinese businessmen, Archer, a partner with the first son in many companies, told the House Oversight Committee. in an interview on July 31.
Some of the most controversial commitments involving Joe Biden involve companies linked to the Chinese government.
Hunter Biden co-founded the Chinese state-backed investment fund BHR Partners in December 2013, shortly after arriving aboard Air Force Two in China’s capital, where he introduced his father to incoming BHR CEO Jonathan Li.
Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, revealed last month that then-Vice President Biden attended two dinners at D.C. restaurant Café Milano in 2014 and 2015 with his son’s clients from Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Thornton Group
Joe Biden had coffee with Li during the trip, rather than a handshake as previously reported, Archer told the Oversight Committee, which on Wednesday released a list of 22 examples of Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in foreign business dealings. of their relatives.
Archer said Joe Biden greeted Li by phone during Hunter’s subsequent trip to China and wrote college recommendation letters for Li’s two sons.
A second major Chinese trade deal with state-linked CEFC China Energy involved Hunter and James Biden and reportedly Joe Biden.
That company, now defunct, was reputed to be a cog in Beijing’s “Belt and Road” foreign influence campaign.
Hunter and James Gilliar, an associate of James Biden, wrote in May 2017, months after Joe Biden stepped down as vice president, that the partners were considering a 10% cut “in H power for the big guy.”
Joe Biden reportedly met at least twice with his relatives’ business partners in that deal, including Tony Bobulinski, who said the president seemed familiar with the deal being negotiated.
Bobulinski and Gilliar have separately identified or referred to Joe Biden as the “big guy.”
Gilliar allegedly wrote in a text message to Bobulinski on May 20, 2017: “Don’t mention that Joe is involved, it’s only when you’re face to face.”[.] I know you know this but they are paranoid.[.]”
Joe Biden later appeared as a participant in an October 2017 call about CEFC’s attempt to purchase American natural gas.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, who oversaw the Hunter Biden tax fraud investigation for more than three years, provided Congress with a text message that further implicated Joe Biden in the CEFC deal.
On July 30, 2017, Hunter Biden wrote to a businessman with ties to the Chinese government who was “sitting here with my father” and warned him of the consequences if a deal was canceled.
“[W]“We would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” wrote Hunter Biden.
“Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of control, and now that means tonight,” the now 53-year-old man continued.
“And, Z, if I get a call or a text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang or the president, I will make sure that the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to hold forever a grudge that you will regret for not having followed my instructions.”
“I’m sitting here waiting for my dad’s call,” Hunter reiterated.
Photos from Hunter’s laptop place him at his father’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on the day of the threatening message, but Shapley and fellow IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler said the Justice Department prevented them from determining with data of cell phone geolocation if Joe and Hunter Biden were actually together at the time.
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