Congress secures first Hunter Biden whistleblowers as memos unmask lucrative gas deals with China
Internal company memos show Hunter Biden effort to score American LNG ports, gas deals, and drilling ventures for Beijing.
Internal company memos show Hunter Biden effort to score American LNG ports, gas deals, and drilling ventures for Beijing.
One record shows a $5 million wire transfer to Hudson West, a company Hunter Biden invested in and managed, from a partner of a CCP-connected business.
The first son's dealings in China have attracted considerable scrutiny from Republicans, in particular a deal with the now-defunct CEFC China Energy.
An ex-Google executive reportedly claimed Hunter asked Google for funding for Chinese ventures
Deal involved a former U.S. ambassador to China, a former top Joe Biden aide and a Chinese state-owned bank. "We have all the pieces in place in China to move on this," one email boasted.
"The suppression and censoring of his testimony and Hunter’s influence peddling impacted the 2020 election to a far greater extent than anything Russia or China could have ever achieved," Wisconsin's Ron Johnson says.
Tapper said that President Biden "might not have been told" by his son about the business dealings, but conceded that "this blind spot is a problem."
Senator Johnson says the records show the Biden family was involved with the now-defunct CEFC China Energy, which had connections to the Chinese Communist Party.
The revelations contradict President Joe Biden's previous statements defending his son.