President Biden appears in a newly discovered photo of him meeting with Hunter Biden's Chinese business associates in China while he was vice president, and says he has “never discussed business with his son.” His assertion that there is no such thing is now under further scrutiny.
The photos, obtained by conservative America First Legal through a lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), show then-Vice President Biden showing off Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanchao. It appears that the photo shows him introducing his son to the public. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter's business associates from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Lee and Ming Xue.
America First Legal said, “These images reveal relationships between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter, and his Chinese business associates with senior Chinese government officials, including President Xi Jinping.” press release this week. “Lawyers and representatives for Presidents Biden and Obama have delayed NARA's release of these photos, along with other records, until after Election Day.”
“These photos confirm the findings of the House Oversight Committee. hunter biden He arranged for his father to meet Jonathan Lee and other BHR executives during a 2013 visit to China. Mr. Lee, for example, sought and received access to Vice President Biden's political power, including preferential access to then-U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus… was a condition of participating in the program,” America First Legal said. I wrote.
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Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, Ming Xue, Jonathan Lee, Rock See (First legal in America)
America First Legal also wrote that, according to the committee's investigation, “the Biden family benefited from business dealings with BHR.”
Hunter Biden is asked earlier this year The House Oversight Committee described a meeting during a trip to Asia with his father.
“When I got back to the hotel from the event, there was a rope up and Jonathan Lee was in the hotel lobby and we were going to go get coffee there,” Hunter Biden said at the time. “With that line, I introduced my dad to Jonathan Lee and his friend, and they shook hands and I think they took a picture. And then my dad went to his room, and I introduced him to Jonathan Lee and his friend. I went for coffee.''
Hunter Biden added that he had not told his father “anything” about who Lee was.
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any role in his son's business.
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Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Chinese President Xi, and former U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus (First legal in America)
“I have never talked to my son about overseas business.” joe biden said During the 2019 presidential election campaign.
But emails sent to and from Hunter Biden, including a 2017 email obtained by Fox News, show that Hunter Joe and Jill Biden and their uncle Jim Biden claim their keysfor the space he planned to share with an “emissary” to the chairman of a now bankrupt Chinese energy company.
In another email from 2017, also obtained by Fox News, Biden sent a letter to the chairman of the same Chinese energy company saying, “I pray for the entire Biden family,” and told the chairman, “I'm sorry for the inconvenience.” He urged the government to send a $10 million wire “immediately'' for “funding and operations.'' Joint venture with Biden Corporation.
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Photo of Hunter Biden and Joe Biden (from America First Legal) (First legal in America)
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner and longtime friend, sat for hours in front of the House Oversight Committee during a closed-door hearing last year, claiming that Hunter Biden, at least during meetings with business partners, He refuted the president's claims, saying he had his father put on speakerphone. 20 times.
Archer explained how Joe Biden was called to sell his “brand.”
The photos drew strong criticism on social media, given that President Biden has frequently claimed that he never discusses business with his son.
“It's amazing,” Red State writer Bonchy said. Posted in X.
“These photos are incredibly awful and say a lot,” says author and journalist Peter Schweitzer. Posted in X.
Benjamin Weingarten, editor of Real Clear Politics, said: “It is highly unlikely that the full extent of the administration's corruption due to its ties to the Chinese Communist Party will be exposed only through litigation and only after the end of the Biden administration.'' It's shameful.” Posted in X.
“The Biden crime family's Christmas card just dropped,” Republican Rep. Eric Burleson Posted in X.
“China has the Bidens in its back pocket'' Judicial Oversight Chairman Tom Fitton Posted in X.
President Biden's son Hunter arrives with attorney Abby Lowell at the O'Neill House Office Building for a private deposition in the Republican-led investigation into the Biden family at the Washington State Capitol on February 28, 2024.・Mr. Biden (left). (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Newly unearthed photos of the Bidens and Hunter meeting with Chinese business associates have renewed scrutiny of email exchanges previously reported by Fox News Digital. Email exchanges from 2014 show that Hunter Biden made investments after a Chinese Communist Party official allegedly sat at Hunter's table during a 2013 dinner to welcome his father in Beijing. It has been revealed that he had previously said he would be “happy” to introduce business associates to discuss the possibility of Vice President Joe Biden at the time.
A 2014 email exchange between Hunter and James Bulger mentioned the same trip to China mentioned in America First Legal's press release.
Mr. Bulger, known as “Jimmy,” was chairman of the Boston-based Thornton Group LLC, which partnered with Mr. Hunter's now-defunct Rosemont Seneca and shortly after began investing in Chinese investments. He formed a joint venture with the company Bohai Capital and established BHR Partners. The Biden family traveled to China. BHR Partners is controlled by Bank of China.
President Biden and Hunter Biden arrive in Syracuse, New York (Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
In a 2014 email, Mr Bulger told Hunter that BHR CEO Jonathan Lee and former BHR board member Andy Lu were known as “Mr Tan” (former Hong Kong Governor). He asked him to introduce him to Mr. CH Tan, a billionaire who served as deputy director-general. He is the chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which is affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party, and will discuss “BHR's investment goals'' and “financing.''
The emails show Hunter sitting next to Tan at a dinner welcoming Vice President Joe Biden to Beijing in December 2013. Fox News Digital previously contacted the White House multiple times to request a seating chart for the Beijing dinner, specifically Hunter's table, but received no response.
“I understand that President Xi hosted a welcome dinner when you and your father visited Beijing,” Bulger wrote. ”[A]At that dinner, you were sitting next to Mr. Tan. Therefore, J and Andy believe that it would be very helpful if you could send Mr. Tung a short email explaining that you are a partner and director of BHR and that you are a director of BHR. We would appreciate it if Mr. Tan could meet with your local partners to discuss the fund.
“Please let me know if you can introduce these two people to Mr. Tung via email. This is very important to our BHR plan.” [sic] At this moment. ”
Hunter said he was “glad to comply” with the request, but said he could not remember the names of the gentlemen sitting next to him at the dinner.
It appears that Mr. Bulger was referring to the Beijing “Welcome Banquet'' hosted by President Xi Jinping in his first email. occurred in the evening on December 4, 2013, after then-Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with Joe Biden earlier in the day to discuss strengthening US-China relations.
President Biden earlier this month pardoned his son for crimes he may have committed dating back to 2014.
Hunter Biden is all smiles as he leaves Arby's in Santa Barbara on December 4, 2024. This is the first time President Biden's son has been photographed since being pardoned by his father. (Fox News Digital Image Direct)
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“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden said in a statement at the time. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere in the decisions of the Department of Justice, and I kept that promise even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted.
“Even in the face of relentless attacks and selective prosecution, there was an effort to break through Hunter's five-and-a-half years of sobriety,” his 82-year-old father wrote. “In trying to break Hunter, they tried to break me too—and there's no reason to believe it'll stop here. Enough is enough.”
fox news digital is I contacted you before The White House did not respond to inquiries about why the pardon was so broad.
“President Biden has given pardons for everything “he committed or may have committed or was involved in'' going back to 2014, and yet there are no questions asked about how his family came to power. Every day there is more evidence that Joe Biden has been in public office for personal gain,” said Michael Ding, America's First General Counsel, in a statement.
“America First Legal will not stop fighting to expose the full extent of corruption within the Biden family.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, Hunter Biden's legal team and the Chinese businessmen in the photo, but did not receive any comment.
Fox News Digital's Jessica Chasmar Brooke Singman and Tyler Olson contributed to this report
