A key Biden family associate revealed new details Friday about Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in foreign business relationships —saying the future president met in 2017 with the leader of a Chinese government-linked company that paid millions to his son Hunter Biden and brother James Biden.
Rob Walker said in a prepared opening statement that he intended to claim that Biden, 81, did nothing wrong in connection to the overseas ventures of his relatives, only to provide stunning new evidence, The Post has learned.
Walker testified in his deposition as part of the House impeachment inquiry into the president that shortly after Joe Biden left office as vice president, he attended a meeting that included about 10 people involved with CEFC China Energy — including the firm’s chairman, Ye Jianming, a source familiar with Walker’s testimony said.
The encounter at DC’s ritzy Four Seasons hotel was previously described by Walker — without naming Ye as a participant — in an FBI interview that was released by the House Ways and Means Committee.
Walker described the Joe Biden appearance to the FBI as a drop-by of a lunch between Hunter and his CEFC associates.
Joe Biden “said hello to everybody” and then “literally sat down. I don’t even think he drank water. I think Hunter said, um… ‘I may be tryin’ to start a company,’ ah, or tried to do something with these guys and could you … and [I] think he was like ‘if I’m around’….and he’d show up,” Walker told the bureau.
Spokespeople for the White House, Walker’s attorney Edward McAndrew and a representative of the House Oversight Committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, did not immediately dispute that Walker named Ye as an attendee during his Friday interview.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a Friday night statement, “Today we learned that Joe Biden met with the now-missing Chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, as Hunter Biden and his associates received $3 million from a Chinese entity CEFC controlled. Evidence continues to reveal the Bidens sold the ‘Biden Brand’ to enrich the Biden family.”
A second source familiar with Walker’s testimony said, however, that Joe Biden’s appearance was described as innocent by Walker.
“Walker told the Committee that he believes Joe Biden briefly dropped by because Joe Biden simply wanted to lay eyes on his son who was in and out of sobriety,” the second person said. --->READ MORE HERE
Joe Biden met with a shadowy Chinese businessman who was making deals with Hunter Biden at the time, according to information released by the House Oversight Committee.
“Today we learned that Joe Biden met with the now-missing Chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, as Hunter Biden and his associates received $3 million from a Chinese entity CEFC controlled,” committee chairman Rep. James Comer of Kentucky said, according to a news release from the House Oversight Committee.
Evidence continues to reveal the Bidens sold the ‘Biden Brand’ to enrich the Biden family,” he said.
The New York Post noted that the 2017 encounter was described by Biden family associate Rob Walker in an FBI interview.
Joe Biden “said hello to everybody” and then “literally sat down. I don’t even think he drank water. I think Hunter said, um … ‘I may be tryin’ to start a company,’ ah, or tried to do something with these guys and could you … and [I] think he was like ‘if I’m around’… and he’d show up,” Walker said then.
The FBI interview, however, did not note Ye’s presence, the Post reported.
In the release, Comer said Friday’s interview with Walker “confirmed Hunter Biden and his associates’ work with the Chinese government-linked energy company began over a year before Joe Biden left the vice presidency, but the Bidens and their associates held off being paid by the Chinese while Joe Biden was in office.”
Comer noted the timing of the activity for which the Bidens were paid.
“The Chinese company paid Hunter Biden and his associates $3 million shortly after Joe Biden left office as a ‘thank you’ for the work they did while Joe Biden was in office,” he said.--->READ MORE HERE
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