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Before leaving office, President Joe Biden followed up his unprecedented pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, by issuing additional preemptive pardons to family members, dating back to his time as vice president. I think these preemptive pardons serve as a confession that the Biden family exhausted the American people to enrich themselves. In fact, Biden's own Justice Department has argued that accepting a pardon amounts to an admission of guilt.
When the House Oversight Committee began our investigation into alleged influence-reduction schemes by Biden and his family, the narrative pushed by the legacy media was that the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop were disinformation. Biden claimed his family's businesses were “ethical.” But our investigation exploded through these lies and more as we followed the money trail and conducted a forensic accounting of the Biden family “business.”
During our investigation, the House Oversight Committee reviewed hundreds of pages of documents at the U.S. Treasury Department generated by the Bidens and their associates' high-dollar transactions. These documents are presented by bank experts when there is evidence of potential money laundering or other criminal activity. Additionally, we obtained the banking records of Hunter Biden, James Biden, their Shell companies and Business Associates.
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Bank records don't lie. Through these records, we identified more than 20 companies that the Bidens and their associates created, most of which were created after Joe Biden became vice president of the United States. The Bidens and their associates used these shell companies to accept payments from foreign entities and individuals. Once the payments reached the shell companies' bank accounts, incremental payments were made to members of the Biden family. In fact, we identified 10 Biden family members who received these payments, some of which were sent directly to Joe Biden's home in Delaware.
Before the massive Biden family pardons, the House Oversight Committee amassed a mountain of evidence against the now House Speaker. (Joe Biden 2020)
Including loans that do not appear to have been repaid, the Biden family enrichment scheme generated more than $30 million in payments to the Bidens and their associates from corrupt foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Kazakhstan. What were they selling? I think it was access to Joe Biden and his influence.
After obtaining bank records, the Oversight Committee advanced members of the Biden family and their associates for testimony. Multiple Biden Family associates confirmed that Joe Biden was “the brand” sold around the world and helped close the Bidens' deals with foreign nationals.
Devon Archer, a Biden family associate, confirmed during a transcribed interview that when Joe Biden was vice president, he dined with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, Kazakhstani oligarch Kenos Rakishev, and Burisma corporate secretary Vadym Pozharsky at Café Milano in Washington, D.C., D.C.
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These dinners occurred shortly before or after foreign nationals or their affiliated entities were collectively paying Hunter Biden millions of dollars. Then-Vice President Joe Biden also met with Jonathan Li, a Chinese national who was an associate of Hunter Biden, and wrote a college recommendation letter for his daughter. Even when presented with this evidence, President Biden continued to insist to the American people that he had never met his son's business partners.
Rob Walker, a Biden family associate who was involved in the Bidens' dealings with Chinese and Romanian entities, confirmed during a transcribed interview that Joe Biden met with CEFC's now-missing president, Ye Jianming, as Hunter Biden and his associates received $3 million from a CEFC-controlled Chinese entity.
Jason Galanis, another Biden Family business partner, testified that Hunter Biden put his father on speaker with Yelena Baturina. Joe Biden ended the call by saying, “Okay, then, you'll be good to my son.” A few days later, Baturina committed to a “hard order” of $10-20 million to an entity benefiting Hunter Biden.
Tony Bobulinski articulated under oath that Joe Biden was “the brand” the Bidens sold to enrich the family. Biden not only knew about his family's dealings with an energy company linked to the Chinese Communist Party, but he also enabled and participated in them. Tony Bobulinski testified that he believes Biden committed wrongdoing and continues to lie to the American people about his involvement in his family's influence reduction schemes.
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The Bidens and their associates used these shell companies to accept payments from foreign entities and individuals. Once the payments reached the shell companies' bank accounts, they would launder money in incremental payments to members of the Biden family. In fact, we identified 10 members of the Biden family who benefited from these schemes, including Joe Biden.
While we presented all of this evidence to the American people in a transparent manner, the legacy media claimed there was “no evidence” of wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his family. Biden's pardons of his family serve as an indictment of the legacy media, which lost all credibility as it covered the abuse of power, corruption and obstruction of Joe Biden and his family. After the pardons, even former President Barack Obama's chief of staff, Bill Daley, said it “confirms that there are serious concerns about culpability.”
The American people have seen through the Bidens' lies and the legacy media's cover-up, and they know the truth: President Biden abused his public office to create a slush fund for his family. President Biden will become the most corrupt president in American history, and our investigation will be remembered as one of the most successful ever conducted by Congress. In fact, Joe Biden's final act in office, forgiving his family, confirms this.
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