Whom are you going to believe, Hunter Biden or Hunter Biden?
During a long-awaited closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Hunter Biden disputed claims by House Republicans that President Joe Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings.
The deposition was conducted by the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, two GOPc-controlled panels that have been leading an impeachment inquiry into the president.
“I am here today to provide the Committees with the one uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry: I did not involve my father in my business,” Hunter Biden said in his prepared opening statement. “Not while I was a practicing lawyer, not in my investments or transactions domestic or international, not as a board member, and not as an artist. Never.”
Let’s look at one of Hunter’s most infamous texts.
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
When Hunter sent that message, was he somehow not involving Joe Biden in his business?
We can go into chapter and verse on all the times that Joe Biden ended up meeting with Hunter’s clients or getting involved in various calls.
When James and Hunter asked Wall Street veteran Charles Provini to serve as the fund’s president, he saw the business model up close. While the uncle and nephew team knew little about running a hedge fund, “the story was that they had relationships with different unions and that they would anticipate being able to get union funding or union investments into the fund,” Provini said in an interview with the Journal. The pair said these relationships flowed from Joe Biden’s political career, Provini said.
Joe Biden would occasionally join business calls Provini had with James and Hunter Biden. “I was a little star-struck at the time perhaps,” Provini said. “I think most of the things that he was saying were just pleasantries,” he said. “It might have been for credibility.” Topics included Provini’s work running the fund and a lawsuit that had been filed against James and Hunter Biden related to the company, he said.
Is there any possible interpretation of the words “I did not involve my father in my business” that covers this stuff?
And, for that matter, consider how Joe Biden’s expenses were being covered.
By 2010, laptop emails show, Hunter was routinely paying Vice President Biden’s household expenses, with longtime business partner Eric Schwerin, president of Hunter’s Chinese-linked investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, serving as the go-between.
“There a few outstanding bills that need to be paid and I am not sure which ones are a priority and which should get paid out of ‘my’ account,” Schwerin wrote to Hunter in a June 5, 2010 email with the heading “JRB Bills.”
“There is about $2,000 extra in ‘my’ account beyond what is used for monthly expenses,” he explained.
The bills in question included several relating to the upkeep of Joe Biden’s sprawling 6,850-square-foot lakefront mansion in the wealthy Greenville enclave of Wilmington, Del.: $1,239 in repairs to an air conditioner at “Mom-Mom’s cottage” on the grounds of the 4-acre estate; $1,475 to a local house painter for “back wall and columns”; $2,600 for a “stone retaining wall”; and $475 for shutters.
At one point, Hunter claimed his father “has been using most lines” of a Wells Fargo credit account – “which I’ve through the gracious offerings of Eric have paid for the past 11 years.”
The commingled family finances also caused some embarrassing mix-ups – as when Hunter Biden used a shared account to transfer about $25,000 to a Los Angeles prostitute named “Gulnora.”
He soon received a series of agitated text messages from a former Secret Service agent who repeatedly reminded him, “This is linked to Celtic’s account” — referring to Joe Biden by his vice-presidential code name.
Of course, NBC News and the rest of the media are doing the usual media thing… of lying right to your faces.
Almost every witness who has testified before the committees has said the president was not involved in his family’s business dealings or has been unable to provide any evidence that his occasional casual encounters with Hunter Biden’s business partners included business discussions.
You don’t have “casual encounters” with the vice president of the United States. Not over and over again. (not unless you’re Al Gore’s masseuse.) The Veep shows up and doesn’t talk business when you want to show him off to your clients. He gets plausible deniability and you get access. Everyone knows how this works.
The media knows the truth. It’s just choosing to lie about the obvious. However, it’s not under oath. The same may not have been true for Hunter.
This is a Bill Clinton moment, wagging his finger at the camera, and declaring, “I did not have sex with that woman”. And the media backing up what they know is an obvious lie because it suits their political needs.