In a lengthy statement released on X House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan said the Biden family corruption is a tale as old as time. A government official takes action. That action
benefits his family. And then, when questions are asked, there’s a cover-up. For President Joe Biden, it’s a story about money, influence, and protecting the Biden family brand.
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Between 2014 and April 25, 2019, the day Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President, Biden family members received approximately $15 million from foreign entities. It was done through a complex series of transactions involving over 20 different companies. What did the Bidens do? What services did Hunter Biden and his associates provide? What was worth the receipt of $15 million?
Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s business partner, gave us the answer. In his transcribed interview before Congress, he said they were selling “the Brand.” And “the Brand” was Joe Biden. As another one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, Jason Galanis, put it, the Bidens provided the “relationship capital”—the “political access” the brand provided “in the United States and around the world.”
The deal with the Chinese energy company, CEFC, is one example of how the Bidens’ influence peddling operation worked. For months, Hunter Biden and his associates had been working to close a deal with CEFC. However, it wasn’t until “the Brand” himself stopped by a lunch at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C. in mid-February 2017 that the agreement was finalized. At the lunch were Hunter Biden, his business partners, and eight Chinese executives with CEFC. Joe Biden—the “big guy”—“drop[ped] by” and gave remarks to the group. Just a few weeks later, Hunter Biden and his partners received $3 million from CEFC.
Four months after the $3 million was wired to Hunter Biden, he sent a WhatsApp message to a CEFC official: “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not be fulfilled. 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.” Later he reiterated, “I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.” Nine days later, another $5 million was wired to an entity jointly controlled by Hunter Biden. Later that same day, $400,000 was moved from the joint entity’s account to a personal account of Hunter Biden. A few weeks later, Joe Biden received a $40,000 check.
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Joe Biden had forty thousand reasons to be aware of Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings. But as Mr. Biden began to run for President in 2020, these foreign entanglements became a political liability. And so, Joe Biden and his campaign attempted to mislead the American people.
On October 22, 2020, Joe Biden declared that Hunter Biden “has not made money in terms of this thing about . . . China.” But the facts of the CEFC deal plainly contradict his statement. Joe Biden also stated that he “never discussed a single thing with [his] son about anything having to do with Ukraine.” Devon Archer’s testimony to Congress contradicts this statement. But the lie with the greatest impact was one Joe Biden made about his son’s laptop.
On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published the story on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, including evidence of Biden family influence peddling. Testimony given to Congress by current and former FBI officials confirm that the FBI took possession of the laptop in December of 2019, and that they had authenticated it by the date the New York Post ran its story. Yet the FBI said nothing when the story was censored by Big Tech. Even as Twitter locked the New York Post out of its account, the FBI remained silent. The silence continued when 51 former Intelligence Community officials published a statement that the Hunter Biden laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” A subsequent investigation later showed, the catalyst for this letter was the Biden campaign itself.
Three days after the Post’s story ran, Antony Blinken, then a Biden campaign official and now President Biden’s Secretary of State, emailed former Acting Director of National Intelligence Michael Morell about the story. Morell, who longed to be the CIA Director in a Biden Administration, told Congress it was Blinken’s email that prompted him to organize the letter and gather the signatures. On October 19, 2020, the letter went public. Three days later, Joe Biden cited it in the final presidential debate, claiming—falsely, we now know—that “50 former national intelligence folks” said the laptop story was “a Russian plan” Just hours after the debate, the Biden campaign chair, Steve Richetti called Morell to thank him for the statement. The move worked exactly as planned. The only problem—it was a lie. The FBI knew it was a lie! Joe Biden knew it was a lie. And his campaign knew it was a lie.
Polling, not to mention common sense, strongly suggest that if Americans had been given the truth about the laptop and the Biden family influence peddling operation, the outcome of the 2020 presidential election would have been different.
It’s really a story as old as time. The question is—will Americans let the Bidens get away with it?
Tomorrow – Part 2 of Jim Jordan on Joe Biden: Obstruction, Cover-up and Sweetheart Deal
- 2020 Election
- Hunter Biden laptop
- Jim Jordan
- Biden corruption
- 51 former intelligence officials letter
- Anthony Blinken
- Joe Biden administration
- The Brand
- Chinese Energy Company CEFC
- Jason Galanis
- Devon Archer
- House Judiciary Committee
- Relationship capital
- influence pedding
- Hunter Biden foreign businesses
- Ukraine