President Biden met with Hunter Biden, chairman of a Chinese energy company, at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C., in 2017 with the intention of forming a joint venture, his eldest son’s former business partner told Congressional investigators.
Rob Walker, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, testified before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees earlier this month as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
Hunter Biden’s former colleague Tony Bobulinski heads to Capitol Hill this week to testify in the impeachment inquiry.
Walker told Congressional investigators in a privately transcribed interview that he was present at a meeting where Joe Biden had lunch with Hunter Biden, other business partners and CEFC Chairman Jianming Ye. Told.
“I don’t remember the exact time, but I remember being in Washington, D.C., and the former vice president stopped by. We were having lunch,” Walker said, according to a transcript of the interview reviewed by Fox News Digital. ” he testified.
Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Walker said he didn’t know the “exact” date, but said, “At one point it was 20, maybe 17.”
Walker said, noting that Joe Biden had left the Obama administration at the time of the luncheon, “I can say for sure that he was out of the administration.”
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Walker said the lunch was held at a “private restaurant at the Four Seasons.”
“I’m sure you were there,” Walker said, noting there were other CEFC business partners as well.
At the time, Ye Jianming was chairman of Chinese energy company CEFC.
Walker said the purpose of the meeting was to discuss “ways we can work together.”
“I don’t think there was a consensus on how we were going to work together at this point,” Walker said, noting that the meeting lasted “probably an hour and a half,” but that Biden remained silent throughout the meeting. He said he was not there. meeting.
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“The former vice president wasn’t there the whole time. He was there maybe 10 minutes,” Walker said. “He was friendly. It was a normal chat. I think he finished most of the story and left.”
Walker testified that Biden addressed the entire group of about 10 CEFC officials during his visit.
President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC, USA. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mr. Walker testified that Mr. Biden’s visit and Mr. Biden’s appearance likely took place before his Robinson Walker LLC received $3 million from State Energy HK Limited, a CEFC-related entity. did.
But Walker insisted that despite attending the luncheon, Joe Biden was not involved in any business with Hunter Biden.
But Walker said the initial communication to CEFC was sent on behalf of Hunter Biden, a group that included himself, James Gillier, Jim Biden and Hunter Biden.
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“He has an interesting last name that will probably appeal to people,” Walker said.
When asked again why he received the communication from Hunter Biden, Walker testified: “I just thought — if a U.S. company is going to appoint a foreign national as its agent, perhaps the communications from Hunter vs. Me would make more sense.”
“Because he’s the son of the vice president at the time, right?” Walker was asked.
“He’s the son of the vice president at the time, yes,” Walker replied.
“In other words, it would be more logical to have him as the public figure to conclude this business contract, right?”
Walker replied, “Yes.”
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, leaves a meeting of the House Oversight Committee at the Capitol on January 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
The House Oversight Committee told Fox News Digital, “Joe Biden has been involved in the investigation of Russian oligarch Elena Baturina, Romanian oligarch Kenneth Rakishev, Burisma corporate secretary Vadim Pozharskyi, and BHR’s Jonathan.・I can confirm that I met with Mr. Lee and almost all the foreigners who poured money into my son.” , and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming.
Biden attended dinners in 2014 and 2015 with Baturina, Rakishev and Pozharskiy at Cafe Milano, a Washington, D.C., restaurant in Georgetown. Biden also met with BHR’s Li in China in 2013. According to Hunter Biden’s testimony, Biden spoke with Ye during a 2017 meeting. former business partners Rob Walker and Devon Archer;
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The revelation comes ahead of much-anticipated testimony from another former business associate of the eldest son, Tony Bobulinski.
Bobulinski is scheduled to testify privately before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Bobulinski said he and Hunter Biden helped form Sinohawk Holdings, a joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC, and met with Joe Biden in 2017.
Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, speaks to reporters at a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020. (Mandel Gunn/AFP via Getty Images)
In December, Bobulinski demanded that Biden “stop lying” about the meeting and asked him to “correct the record.”
“Why would Joe Biden blatantly lie to the American people and the world by claiming he has not met with me in person?” Bobulinski told Fox News Digital in a statement. “You should call his son Hunter and his brother Jim to remind you of the facts. The American people deserve the truth!”
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“We call on Mr. Biden to stop lying and correct the record.”
in spite of Biden’s latest denials Regarding his son’s involvement in business dealings, text messages dating back to May 2017 revealed that Biden met with Bobulinski several months after leaving the vice president’s office. Fox News Digital first reported on the text messages and the meeting in October 2020.
The May 2, 2017 meeting was supposed to take place just 11 days before the now infamous May 13, 2017 email. The emails included a discussion of a “compensation package” for six people in a deal with a Chinese energy company. The email appeared to refer to the bankrupt CEFC China Energy and identify Biden as “Chairman/Vice-Chairman as per agreement with CEFC.”
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The email included a note that said, “Mr. Hunter has some expectations in his office that he will explain in detail.” In the proposed stock split, “H” is “20” and “H has 10 for the big guys?” There are no further details.
Bobulinski reiterated that the “great man” is Joe Biden. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who claimed that politics influenced the years-long federal investigation into Hunter Biden, also said the “big man” is known to be Joe Biden. Ta.
The president’s brother Jim Biden is scheduled to testify on February 21st, and Hunter Biden is scheduled to appear at a deposition on February 28th.
