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.
“These images reveal connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and his Chinese business associates and senior Chinese government officials, including President Xi Jinping,” America First Legal said in a press release this week. said. “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 show that during a 2013 trip to China, Hunter Biden arranged for his father to meet with Jonathan Lee and other BHR executives, where “Mr. Lee asked for Vice President Biden’s access to political power. “We asked for it and we received it,” the House watch said. These include, for example, preferential access to then-U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, which was a condition of Hunter Biden and his associates joining the BHR agreement. Yes,” America First said. Written by Legal.
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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 was questioned by the House Oversight Committee earlier this year about meetings he had with his father during a trip to Asia.
“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)
Joe Biden said during the 2019 presidential campaign: “I have never discussed overseas business dealings with my son.”
But 2017 emails obtained by Fox News show Hunter requesting keys to the space he was scheduled to share with Joe and Jill Biden and their uncle Jim Biden. Emails sent to and from Hunter Biden cast doubt on this. A Messenger to the Chairman of a 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 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 posted on X.
“These photos are incredibly horrifying and speak volumes,” author and journalist Peter Schweitzer wrote in a post on X.
Benjamin Weingarten, editor of Real Clear Politics, said, “It is very unlikely that the administration’s corruption due to its ties to the Chinese Communist Party will come into full focus only through litigation, and only after the end of the Biden administration.” Shameful,” Benjamin Weingarten, editor of Real Clear Politics, posted on X.
“Biden crime family Christmas card dropped,” Republican Rep. Eric Burleson posted on X.
“China has the Bidens in its back pocket,” Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, wrote on 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 seated next to Mr. Tung, so J and Andy sent Mr. Tung a short email explaining that you were a partner and director of BHR. We think it would be very helpful if you could.” And if Mr. Tan could meet your local partners to discuss the fund, you would be grateful to him.
“If you could introduce these two people to Mr. Tung via email, please let me know as it is very important for our BHR initiative at this time.”
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.
The Beijing “welcome banquet” hosted by President Xi that Bulger referred to in his first email was held in December 2013, after then-Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao had met and discussed with Joe Biden earlier in the day. It appears to have taken place on the night of the 4th. 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. “They tried to break Hunter, and they tried to break me too—and there’s no reason to believe it’ll stop here. Enough is enough.”
Fox News Digital previously contacted the White House about why the pardon was so broad, but did not receive a response.
“Despite President Biden pardoning his son Hunter for all acts ‘that he committed or may have committed or engaged in’ dating back to 2014, Evidence is emerging every day that Joe Biden has been in public office for personal gain,” Michael Ding, America’s First General Counsel, said 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
