Plus: Kamala Harris announces she's "ready to serve."
Biden biz associate says China successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise WH, Biden 'enabled' CCP-linked transactions
By Social Links for Steven Nelson
WASHINGTON -- A former Biden family business associate-turned-whistleblower alleged in explosive testimony before House impeachment probers Tuesday that the president was "the Brand" being sold by relatives in their lucrative dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine.
Tony Bobulinski -- a former Navy officer who worked with first son Hunter Biden and first brother James on a venture with CEFC China Energy -- is considered one of the Republicans' best hopes of scoring damning new details confirming the president's ties to his relatives' Chinese government-linked relationships.
"For nearly four years, I have tried to tell the American people the truth about serious corruption at the very top of their government," Bobulinski said in opening statements to House probers from both sides of the political aisle in the closed-door session.
"The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period," Bobulinski alleged.
"It is clear to me that Joe Biden was 'the Brand' being sold by the Biden family.
"The Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or 'CEFC' -- a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate -- successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House.
"Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it, and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began," Bobulinski said.
CEFC, a since-defunct reputed cog in Beijing's "Belt and Road" foreign influence campaign, paid Hunter and James Biden more than $7 million in 2017 and 2018 for largely unknown business services, according to reports from congressional Republicans.
Bobulinski said that the FBI and DOJ were "singularly uninterested" in pursuing the megabytes of information he brought to them. Via Tom Bevan:
Biden attempted to avoid accusations that he was trading on his position as Vice President by delaying payment from the Chinese front group by six weeks, after which he would have left office.
A different former Biden family associate, Rob Walker, testified on Jan. 26 that the Bidens' business relationship with CEFC began in 2015 when Joe Biden was still vice president and that Joe Biden himself attended a meeting at the Four Seasons hotel in or around March 2017 with CEFC chairman Ye Jianming, who has since gone missing in China amid corruption allegations.
March 2017. He left office in the third week of January 2017.
Walker disbursed an initial tranche of more than $1 million to the Bidens beginning in March 2017 -- after Joe Biden left office as vice president that January -- and did not dispute in his deposition new evidence of emails in March 2016, while Joe Biden was VP, among himself, Hunter Biden and CEFC officials.
Miranda Devine
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And here it is: the "H to Zang" letter from March 22, 2016. Was an attachment on Hunter Biden's laptop previously inaccessible, but now it has been produced to the House Judiciary Committee by Hunter ex-partner Rob Walker. Shows the relationship with CEFC began during Joe Biden's vice presidency, as Tony Bobulinski always said. It's just that Hunter, Uncle Jim, Hallie Biden and friends didn't get paid until 6 weeks after Joe left office.
But Biden wasn't aware of Hunter's businesses, never spoke to his business partners, and had no awareness of what Hunter was doing at all.
Related: Kamala announces she's "ready to serve."
When asked about President Biden's advanced age and the concerns voters have expressed, Vice President Kamala Harris confidently stated, "I am ready to serve -- there's no question about that." However, her assertion has been met with criticism from both sides of the political aisle. Critics argue that Harris' performance in office, particularly her handling of the border crisis, does not inspire confidence in her capacity to lead.
A Democratic insider suggested that if Harris is indeed ready to serve, she should start by effectively addressing her current role as border czar. The ongoing crisis at the southern border has been a significant point of contention, with critics arguing that Harris has failed to adequately address the issue.
Republican strategists have interpreted Harris' comments as an indication that she believes Biden is struggling with his role as President. One strategist suggested that Harris is attempting to signal to Democratic donors and delegates that she would be ready to step in if something were to happen to Biden.