According to a prominent GOP investigator, recently revealed emails between Hunter Biden and his associates with the Obama White House raise questions about Joe Biden’s assertions that he knew nothing of his son’s business operations.
Based on emails which the National Archives recently handed to the conservative nonprofit America First Legal, Hunter Biden and his then-business associates were frequently in contact with senior officials in the Obama administration while Joe Biden was vice president.
The chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer (R-KY), claimed the emails show Joe Biden has repeatedly “lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge of his son’s business dealings.” Comer is heading a thorough probe into the Biden family.
According to recently discovered emails, Hunter Biden and his colleagues requested entry to the White House and formal government functions.
“We know Hunter Biden’s business associates visited the White House numerous times during the Obama-Biden administration, and now-unearthed emails reveal Hunter Biden and his associates sought access to the White House and official government events,” Comer declared.
“The House Oversight Committee will continue to follow the Bidens’ complex financial transactions to determine the extent of their influence peddling schemes to determine if President Biden is compromised and our national security is threatened.”
“Comer’s remarks come after a handful of Republican members of Congress raised concerns over the unearthed emails to the Washington Examiner on Thursday, with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) alleging that the “Biden family’s corruption” is “far worse than Watergate.” The emails, as well as records on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop that were reviewed by the Washington Examiner, show Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner Eric Schwerin contacted top aides for Joe Biden to see if an associate could attend a 2010 State Department lunch with Chinese government officials,” the Washington Examiner reported.
Other records show Hunter Biden initiated contact on June 3, 2020, with Alan Hoffman, Joe Biden’s then-deputy chief of staff, and asked to “talk about Africa.” Hoffman wrote back shortly after, “Always available for you,” while Hunter Biden also later in the day contacted Anthony Bernal, a then-adviser for Jill Biden, in an email titled “Nairobi ideas.”
In August 2010, Hunter Biden traveled to South Africa as a Secret Service protectee, according to a 2020 report by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) titled “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns.” The National Archives-released documents pertaining to Africa could further Republican-led investigations into Hunter Biden’s business dealings in the content, lawmakers told the Washington Examiner last week.
Comer additionally stated to the Washington Examiner that “the American people deserve answers, transparency, and accountability.”
Comer stated on Monday that he will move through with holding Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over a document reportedly describing a “bribery scheme involving a foreign national and Joe Biden when he served as vice president.”
“The Oversight Committee chairman teamed up with Grassley in early May to demand access to an FBI-generated FD-1023 form that purportedly outlines the scheme. Comer on Monday with House Oversight Committee ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) viewed the form, which is said to have a June 30, 2020, date,” the Examiner added.
FD-1023 forms are used by bureau agents to document unverified accounts from confidential human sources. A “highly credible” whistleblower who has been used by the FBI for “at least several years” brought the information to the attention of Comer and Grassley, according to multiple reports.
Raskin claimed in a press conference on Monday that the Trump administration investigated the allegation from the whistleblower and determined that there were “no grounds” to escalate it.
“What we’re talking about here is second-hand hearsay, and they did whatever investigative due diligence was called for in that assessment period, and they found no reason to escalate it from an assessment to a so-called preliminary investigation,” he argued.
Requests for a reaction from the White House and Hunter Biden’s attorney were not answered.
Last week, a website revealed a collection of around 10,000 images from Hunter Biden’s personal laptop that were allegedly left at a computer repair shop in Delaware on Thursday.
The website, BidenLaptopMedia.com, has been updated with the allegedly thousands of pictures from Hunter Biden’s laptop. The website features about 10,000 pictures that were retrieved from Biden’s laptop and date from 2008 to 2019. The nonprofit research organization Marco Polo created the website.
Former Trump White House assistant Garrett Ziegler, the founder of Marco Polo, told Fox News, “It’s taken us a couple of months to, one, go through the photos, about 10,000 of them, and redact the genitalia on the photos.”
Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau Biden and Hunter’s former lover, had several nude images taken, according to Ziegler, but they were not published.
Condom wrappers may be seen in one image on a table with what appear to be medications. According to reports, the image came from a text exchange between Hunter and Hallie Biden.