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Hunter Biden, a Chinese Spy, and Millions of Dollars to the Biden Family

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New Hunter Biden revelations raise counterintelligence questions
The documents show that over a 14-month period in 2017 and 2018, a Chinese firm, CEFC China Energy, which was founded by Ye and whose nonprofit wing was run by Ho, paid $4.8 million to an investment vehicle controlled by Hunter Biden. During that same time frame, Hunter Biden’s firm transferred $1.4 million to James Biden’s consulting firm, according to bank records and a report released by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking minority member on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Moreover, in September 2017, just two months before the Chinese businessman’s arrest, Hunter Biden (who is a lawyer) signed a retainer agreement to represent Ho, according to emails found on his laptop and since authenticated by the Washington Post. Grassley separately obtained bank records showing $1 million was paid to Biden in March 2018 for the representation, although it is not clear what work, if any, he did for Ho. Court records of Ho’s criminal case show no indication that Biden or his law firm at the time, Boies Schiller Flexner, participated in Ho’s legal defense. (Among the questions that Yahoo News submitted to Mesires, the Bidens’ lawyer, were what work Hunter Biden did for the $1 million retainer and what work James Biden did for the $1.4 million paid to his consulting firm. He did not respond.)

But there are indications that Hunter Biden had good reason to suspect the Chinese intelligence connections of Ho and Ye. In a May 11, 2018, audio recording of a conversation with an unidentified woman found on the laptop, a copy of which has been obtained by Yahoo News, Hunter Biden complained about getting a phone call from a New York Times reporter asking about his representation of Ho. He is “literally the f***ing spy chief of China,” Biden says to the woman, clearly overstating Ho’s role. (It is unclear why the conversation, which was recorded by the woman, was on the laptop.)

This just keeps getting worse and worse for Hunter and James. It's just a matter of time before this entangles Joe.

Th WH is going to run out of excuses. You have to wonder if this is why Psaki is jumping ship.
 
New Hunter Biden revelations raise counterintelligence questions


This just keeps getting worse and worse for Hunter and James. It's just a matter of time before this entangles Joe.

Th WH is going to run out of excuses. You have to wonder if this is why Psaki is jumping ship.
We have collusion and it's by the democrats. Joe Biden is a President compromised by his and his son's play for pay scheme during the time Joe was VP and after. Joe cannot lead this nation for that reason and his compromised cognitive state.
 
We have collusion and it's by the democrats. Joe Biden is a President compromised by his and his son's play for pay scheme during the time Joe was VP and after. Joe cannot lead this nation for that reason and his compromised cognitive state.

I thought righties were all about innocent until proven guilty? Is that only when your side does it?
 
Kushner is a savvy businessman. Hunter is a miserable parasite. The difference is obvious.
 

It's pure bullshit, like everything these people sell.



Kushner is a savvy businessman. Hunter is a miserable parasite. The difference is obvious.

Grandpappy considers it "savvy" to suck up to the butcher who murdered Kashoggi so as to get Saudi murder money bailouts, themselves going to things such as rescuing Kushner's company from his disastrous decision to massively overpay for a building just before the mortgage/finance bubble burst.

A mortgage finance bubble made possible by the people Grandpappy likes to vote for.
 
Kushner is a savvy businessman. Hunter is a miserable parasite. The difference is obvious.
Right. Each of the links in this segment lead to another critique. Born rich, this wunderkind would have done better if he'd just put daddy's allowance in a passbook account.

"In 2007, on the eve of the global financial crisis, a 26-year-old Jared Kushner bought a Midtown tower with the inauspicious address of 666 Fifth Avenue for what was then a record-setting $1.8 billion, putting down just $50 million and borrowing the rest. At the time, Kushner was helping out with the family business in the aftermath of his father’s conviction for tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign contributions, and was eager to make his mark in the industry. And oh, how he did! Kushner Companies was unable to get the office rents they expected, the building was perpetually 30 percent vacant, and even its partners were saying things like “[666] would be worth a lot more if it was just dirt.” As the February 2019 due date for a $1.4 billion mortgage approached, the Kushners crisscrossed the globe attempting find partners for a Hail Mary plan to raze the property and replace it with a new tower—one that would’ve required even more money, including a $4 billion construction loan—to no avail. (The family was reportedly rebuffed by everyone from the richest man in France to the South Korea’s sovereign-wealth fund.) And then, as if by magic, Brookfield Asset Management purchased a 99-year lease on the building, giving the Kushners enough to pay off their debt and buy out Vornado Realty Trust, which owned the retail part of the property. And even though Brookfield has insisted that its second-largest investor, the Qatar Investment Authority, knew nothing about the deal to bail out the the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, some obstructionist Democrats don’t seem to be buying it!
 
I'll trade you a Hunter Biden investigation for a Jared Kushner investigation!
I'll trade you a Hunter investigation for a Jared investigation and raise you an Ivanka investigation!
 

It's pure bullshit, like everything these people sell.





Grandpappy considers it "savvy" to suck up to the butcher who murdered Kashoggi so as to get Saudi murder money bailouts, themselves going to things such as rescuing Kushner's company from his disastrous decision to massively overpay for a building just before the mortgage/finance bubble burst.

A mortgage finance bubble made possible by the people Grandpappy likes to vote for.

File the charges, Counselor.
 
Right. Each of the links in this segment lead to another critique. Born rich, this wunderkind would have done better if he'd just put daddy's allowance in a passbook account.

"In 2007, on the eve of the global financial crisis, a 26-year-old Jared Kushner bought a Midtown tower with the inauspicious address of 666 Fifth Avenue for what was then a record-setting $1.8 billion, putting down just $50 million and borrowing the rest. At the time, Kushner was helping out with the family business in the aftermath of his father’s conviction for tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign contributions, and was eager to make his mark in the industry. And oh, how he did! Kushner Companies was unable to get the office rents they expected, the building was perpetually 30 percent vacant, and even its partners were saying things like “[666] would be worth a lot more if it was just dirt.” As the February 2019 due date for a $1.4 billion mortgage approached, the Kushners crisscrossed the globe attempting find partners for a Hail Mary plan to raze the property and replace it with a new tower—one that would’ve required even more money, including a $4 billion construction loan—to no avail. (The family was reportedly rebuffed by everyone from the richest man in France to the South Korea’s sovereign-wealth fund.) And then, as if by magic, Brookfield Asset Management purchased a 99-year lease on the building, giving the Kushners enough to pay off their debt and buy out Vornado Realty Trust, which owned the retail part of the property. And even though Brookfield has insisted that its second-largest investor, the Qatar Investment Authority, knew nothing about the deal to bail out the the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, some obstructionist Democrats don’t seem to be buying it!

You're off topic. The Subject of this investigation is Hunter Biden, James Biden, and soon, Joe.
 
I'll trade you a Hunter investigation for a Jared investigation and raise you an Ivanka investigation!

Look at all the off topic deflection.
 
You're off topic. The Subject of this investigation is Hunter Biden, James Biden, and soon, Joe.
Wasn't communicating with you...chill
 
The entire Trump crime family, Chinese, Russian, and Saudi spies, and BILLIONS of dollars paid to them for their services against the US.
 
I say we don't wait and at least 1st kick Hunter out of government like we did the three Trump kids and Jared.

Fair is fair.

Care to elaborate on that? I am unaware anyone was "kick(ed)" out of government. More like Trump lost and with that his administration of idiots went with.
 
Here what the guy who found the laptop says:
 

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New Hunter Biden revelations raise counterintelligence questions


This just keeps getting worse and worse for Hunter and James. It's just a matter of time before this entangles Joe.

Th WH is going to run out of excuses. You have to wonder if this is why Psaki is jumping ship.



According to the reporting in your OP article, Ye has been disappeared for displeasing "dear leader, Xi," the time frame was
2017 - 2018, Hunter and his uncle James had no role in government and still do not, and we do know the "laptop evidence"
is of unknown provenance.

Was Joe Biden serving in or campaigning for some elected office in 2017 - 2018? Is he linked in this reporting in any way?
 
That’s what happens when they refuse to accept reality. It’s hard.
Irresistibly attracted to Trump. "geniuses" with logs prominently protruding from one of their eyes seem unaware this
"blockbuster, breaking news was known to Trump directed law enforcement agencies, to Giuliani, and to the Russian disinfo
apparatus leading Trump and Rudy around by their noses, nearly three years ago!

Background reported two weeks ago to reporting nearly three years old,

Link to cached page of this article,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/

Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company​

A Washington Post review confirms key details and offers new documentation of Biden family interactions with Chinese executives​

March 30, 2022

"...An intermediary from CEFC initially reached out to Hunter Biden in December 2015 to set up a meeting between the then-vice president’s son and Ye Jianming, the founder and chairman of the Chinese firm, according to verified emails from a purported copy of the laptop hard drive reviewed by the outside experts for The Post.
Vuk Jeremic, a Serbian politician who had recently served as president of the U.N. General Assembly, wrote in an email to the younger Biden that he was hosting a small private dinner in Washington with Ye — whom he called “one of the 10 wealthiest Chinese businessmen” — and wanted Hunter to attend.
“He’s young and dynamic, with the top-level connections in his country,” Jeremic wrote in the Dec. 1, 2015, email.
Hunter Biden was unable to attend the dinner and Jeremic said in an email to The Post that while he knew both men, he was “not involved in their mutual introduction” and found out from media reports that the two had eventually connected...."

Link to cached page of this article,
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign

Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?​

Joe Biden’s son is under scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life.
By Adam Entous
July 1, 2019
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/fee...m_brand=the-new-yorker&utm_social-type=earned
"...
One of Kathleen’s motions contains a reference to “a large diamond” that had come into Hunter’s possession. The motion seems to imply that it was one of Hunter’s “personal indulgences.” When I asked him about it, he told me that he had been given the diamond by the Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming, who was trying to make connections in Washington among prominent Democrats and Republicans, and whom he had met in the middle of the divorce. Hunter told me that two associates accompanied him to his first meeting with Ye, in Miami, and that they surprised him by giving Ye a magnum of rare vintage Scotch worth thousands of dollars.

Hunter was on the board of the World Food Program USA, a nonprofit that generates support for the U.N. World Food Programme, and he had hoped that Ye would make a large aid donation. At dinner that night, they discussed the donation, and then the conversation turned to business opportunities. Hunter offered to use his contacts to help identify investment opportunities for Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy, in liquefied-natural-gas projects in the United States. After the dinner, Ye sent a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter’s hotel room with a card thanking him for their meeting. “I was, like, Oh, my God,” Hunter said. (In Kathleen’s court motion, the diamond is estimated to be worth eighty thousand dollars. Hunter said he believes the value is closer to ten thousand.) When I asked him if he thought the diamond was intended as a bribe, he said no: “What would they be bribing me for? My dad wasn’t in office.” Hunter said that he gave the diamond to his associates, and doesn’t know what they did with it. “I knew it wasn’t a good idea to take it. I just felt like it was weird,” he said..."
 
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