Hunter Biden took advantage of Joe Biden’s appearance at a Sandy Hook memorial service to arrange a meeting between his father and his Chinese business partners, new texts reveal.
The messages come from a new tranche of documents released by Congress on Wednesday, handed over by IRS agents who investigated the First Son.
On December 12, 2017, Hunter wrote on the Chinese messaging app WeChat to Liu Yadong, a senior executive at Chinese oil giant CEFC, to arrange a meeting with his father.
“Can you meet early this afternoon?” Hunter wrote. “My dad will also be in New York and wants me to attend the Sandyhook memorial service with him and I would like him to meet you along with my uncle (Jim Biden) and then you and I can talk, let me know if that works.” .’
“No problem,” Yadong replied. “Please let me know where and when to meet.”
Hunter Biden organized a meeting between Joe Biden and his Chinese business partners, new texts reveal
On December 12, 2017, Hunter wrote on the Chinese messaging app WeChat to Liu Yadong, a senior executive at Chinese oil giant CEFC, to arrange a meeting with his father. “Can you meet early this afternoon?” Hunter wrote. ‘My father will also be in New York’
The texts to arrange a meeting with Joe came after months of negotiation about the Biden family’s participation in the agreement with the company linked to the Chinese government, in exchange for $10 million a year.
Liu Yadong helped run the fake CEFC charity, used by its boss Patrick Ho to funnel bribes to foreign officials. Ho was convicted of bribery in 2018.
In July 2017, Hunter sent “threatening” text messages to CEFC official Runlong Zhao, demanding that he honor the $10 million deal and pointing out his father’s involvement.
“I’m sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been met,” Hunter wrote in text messages obtained by IRS investigators and released by Congress last year.
Weeks later, on August 3, 2017, Hunter texted CEFC associate Gongwen ‘Kevin’ Dong, telling him he wanted a ‘$10 million a year budget’ and that ‘the Bidens are the best I know to do exactly what (CEFC) President wants from this association.
At that time Joe Biden did not hold any government position. He had stepped down as vice president the previous year and would not be elected president until 2020.
New whistleblower documents released Wednesday also appear to show that in November 2017, Hunter established a group text conversation on the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp with his father and uncle, who was also a partner in his multimillion-dollar deal with CEFC. .
Hunter marked one of the contacts in the three-person WhatsApp group as ‘Jim Biden’ and the other as ‘Dad.’
Along with Yadong’s WeChat messages about arranging a meeting with Joe, the House Ways and Means Committee posted a photo of Yadong’s business card, which describes him as CEO of CEFC Global Strategic Holdings , with an address at United Nations Plaza in New York City. .
Yadong helped run the fake CEFC charity, used by its boss Patrick Ho to funnel bribes to foreign officials. Ho was convicted of bribery in 2018.
Joe Biden was in New York at the Plaza Hotel along with singer Sheryl Crow in December 2017 for an event commemorating the fifth anniversary of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut.
The fifth anniversary commemoration of the Sandy Hook shooting took place at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in 2017. Joe Biden attended
Along with Yadong’s WeChat messages about arranging a meeting with Joe, the House Ways and Means Committee posted a photo of Yadong’s business card.
On August 3, 2017, Hunter texted CEFC associate Gongwen ‘Kevin’ Dong, telling him that “the Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the (CEFC) president wants from this partnership.” “.
Hunter texted CEFC associate Gongwen ‘Kevin’ Dong saying he wanted a ‘$10 million annual budget.’
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” wrote Hunter, Runlong Zhao, a CEFC official, in text messages obtained by IRS investigators.
The messages obtained by IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler are new revelations, separate from texts posted from Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
in a sworn declaration Along with the documents, Ziegler wrote that they were obtained from a search warrant on Hunter’s iCloud account, meaning they came directly from his data stored by Apple, not extracted from his abandoned laptop or other physical device.
This latest batch of documents was provided to the House Ways and Means Committee in an attempt to show that Hunter was not telling the truth in his testimony before Congress in February.
Lawmakers questioned the First Son about his 2017 text messages to a CEFC official in which he demanded millions of dollars and said his father was sitting next to him and was part of the deal.
Hunter dismissed them as drunk messages sent to the wrong person.
Hunter hosted a group text conversation on the encrypted messaging app WhatsApp with Joe Biden and his brother Jim Biden, who was also a partner in his multimillion-dollar deal with CEFC.
“Hunter Biden lied about the recipient of a WhatsApp message sent with the apparent intent of threatening a business partner and demanding payment,” committee chairman Jason Smith said Wednesday.
‘In the message, Hunter Biden mentioned twice that he was with his father. In the statement, Hunter Biden attempted to dismiss the message, claiming that he was “high or drunk” when he sent it and that, in that state, he had sent it to the wrong Zhao, and not the one affiliated with the Chinese energy company. CEFC company.
“Hunter stated under oath that the recipient, ‘did not understand or even remotely know what… he was talking about,'” Smith added.
“However, phone records presented to the Committee today show that Hunter Biden sent the message to the correct Chinese businessman named Raymond Zhao, who was not only affiliated with the CEFC, but knew exactly what Hunter Biden was talking about.”
