A close friend of Hunter Biden — whose influence helped him land a job as then-Vice President Joe Biden’s legal adviser — was “at the center of various discussions” about the president’s handling of classified documents. The White House confirmed that he was there. Letter to Special Counsel Robert Hur.
According to a joint letter from White House Special Counsel Richard Sauber and the President’s personal adviser Bob Bauer, in 2016, John McGrail was Biden’s primary legal advisor regarding how to manage classified documents from his post as vice president. He was in charge of
McGrail won a job as deputy general counsel in 2014 and later became Vice President Biden’s general counsel, according to emails found on McGrail’s discarded laptop. It comes just weeks after Hunter Biden personally urged his father to give the job to a friend.
“Please consult with me before accepting the post. J. McGrail is very keen to serve,” Hunter wrote to “Robin Ware,” one of the pseudonyms on his father’s email, “as an advisor. ” wrote a message with the headline.
Mr. Biden responded, “Johnny, please call me right away.”
Jim Hanson, an information strategy expert who studies laptop messages, said the connection was perplexing.
“At the same time that Hunter is raking in bags of cash from the Chinese, these classified documents are showing up at homes where he is partying with and assaulting prostitutes,” Hanson said. Told. “And the person carrying the papers happened to be a good old friend of his.”
Mr. Sauber and Mr. Bauer’s letter was attached to Mr. Xu’s scathing report on Mr. Biden’s mismanagement of classified materials and sought to counter explosive characterizations of the president as “an elderly man with a poor memory.” There is.
But it also put a spotlight on the central role of McGrail, a longtime Hunter Biden friend, who, according to emails, attended yoga classes and traveled to the Capitol. He has joked about “Hot Stuff” and attended his father’s inaugural ball, and in 2016 he invited Hunter’s business partner, Eric Schwerin, to two meetings at the White House. It is unclear where Hunter Biden and McGrail first met.
Mr. McGrail told Mr. Xu’s investigators that he oversaw the transfer of Mr. Biden’s classified documents to the National Archives in January 2017, at the end of the Obama administration.
“It was just, ‘Your records will be sent to the archives,'” McGrail testified. “That was it.”
Multiple claims have led investigators to explain how a trove of classified materials, including notebooks, diaries, notecards and notes from Biden’s time as vice president, ended up at his boss’ Wilmington, Delaware, home. He claimed to have no knowledge of whether he had been interfered with. His memory is lost.
When Biden left office in 2017, McGrail returned to his previous job at the Treasury Department. In 2022, he became Chief Counsel for Finance for his EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. According to LinkedIn.
