We have been discussing the Hunter Biden scandal and the increasingly untenable position for Merrick Garland and the media as evidence contradicts past representations of President Joe Biden. That position further to deteriorate today with a Fox story that, in 2017, President Biden, wrote a college recommendation letter for the son of a Chinese executive who did business with Hunter Biden. President Biden has long denied any knowledge or involvement in his son’s dealings — a claim that has been contradicted not only by emails found on the laptop but statements by Hunter Biden himself.
The letter is on behalf of the son of the CEO of BHR Jonathan Li. BHR features prominently in the influence peddling scandal. It was in a joint venture with Biden’s Rosemont Seneca. Hunter held a 10% stake in BHR and, while he claimed that he was entirely divested, he continued to hold shares as recently as last year.
Fox News Digital obtained emails between Hunter Biden and his business associates, including one dated Jan. 3, 2017, and sent to Hunter Biden and his business associates Devon Archer and Jim Bolger, CEO of BHR Jonathan Li writes:
“Gentlmen[sic], please find the attached resume of my son, Chris Li. He is applying the following colleges for this year,” Li writes, listing Brown University, Cornell University, and New York University.
Li goes on to attach an “updated version” of his son’s “CV” and listing Brown, Cornell, and NYU as target schools.
Hunter’s associate, James Bulger, responds with “Lets [sic] see how we can be helpful here to Chris,” Bulger writes.
Several weeks later, on Feb. 18, 2017, Eric Schwerin, who served as president of Rosemont Seneca, replied to Li. Schwerin states “Jonathan, Hunter asked me to send you a copy of the recommendation letter that he asked his father to write on behalf of Christopher for Brown University.”
Once again, it is baffling how Attorney General Garland can ignore the myriad of references to Joe Biden in refusing to appoint a special counsel.
The email direct reference to Joe Biden is a departure from the practice in these communications. People apparently were told to avoid directly referring to President Biden. In one email, Tony Bobulinski, then a business partner of Hunter’s, was instructed by Biden associate James Gilliar not to speak of the former veep’s connection to any transactions: “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u [sic] are face to face, I know u [sic] know that but they are paranoid.”
Instead, the emails apparently refer to President Biden with code names such as “Celtic” or “the big guy.” In one, “the big guy” is discussed as possibly receiving a 10 percent cut on a deal with a Chinese energy firm; other emails reportedly refer to Hunter Biden paying portions of his father’s expenses and taxes.
Despite President Biden’s repeated claims he knew nothing about these dealings, Bobulinski has said he personally met with the senior Biden to discuss Hunter Biden’s business activities. Bobulinski had been selected by the family to handle these deals.
As vice president, Joe Biden flew to China on Air Force Two with Hunter Biden, who arranged for his father to meet some of his business interests. Hunter Biden’s financial interest in a Chinese-backed investment firm, BHR Partners, was registered within weeks of that 2013 trip. Yet, President Biden repeatedly insisted that he never discussed such dealings with his son, a claim Hunter Biden has contradicted.
There are emails of Ukrainian and other foreign clients thanking Hunter Biden for arranging meetings with his father. There are photos from dinners and meetings that tie President Biden to these figures, including a 2015 dinner with a group of Hunter Biden’s Russian and Kazakh clients.
Justice Department regulations allow the appointment of a special counsel when it is in the public interest and an “investigation or prosecution of that person or matter by a United States Attorney’s Office or litigating Division of the Department of Justice would present a conflict of interest for the Department or other extraordinary circumstances.”
The President of the United States is not only referenced in potentially receiving shares in some dealings, but he was named as one of those meant to share a Chinese-funded office and receiving funds from shared accounts. He is now directly linked to assist one of these foreign figures directly in this letter.
What was an untenable position for the White House and Garland is increasingly becoming laughable as these connections emerge.
“According to multiple officials and the FBI’s website, “272” is the bureau’s classification for money laundering, while “272D” refers to “Money Laundering, “
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-tax-affairs-under-federal-investigation
Anon,
It appears that your post is incomplete. From your source, a 272D investigation refers to “Money Laundering, Unknown SUA [Specified Unlawful Activity]—White Collar Crime Program”.
I believe Hunter. In one of his emails he said that a meet was set up and Joe Biden met with Hunter’s Ukrainian business partners. The fake news at the time said it didn’t happen but in his email Hunter said it did happen. Do you believe Hunter. I am anxiously awaiting a 60 Minutes news special for the purpose of asking him about his email. I am sure that 60 Minutes will follow up with an interview of Joe Biden to ask him if he believes what his son put in writing about the time of the meeting and who attended. I am sure that Leslie Stahl will conduct the interview and will ask well thought out probing questions. Like how are you holding up to the passing of your dog and what is your favorite flavor of ice cream Mr. President. I believe Hunter. When a person tells you who they are believe them.
Turley– “Once again, it is baffling how Attorney General Garland can ignore the myriad of references to Joe Biden in refusing to appoint a special counsel.”
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Is it?
Professor Turley is a Gentleman and oft times way too polite….and this is one of them.
We have sufficient evidence, testimony, bank records, video….and a Laptop that ties Joe Biden squarely into this criminal conspiracy.
Even Merrick Garland knows that.
Garland must appoint a Special Counsel and hope the guy bungles the job or…..in 2023 when the Republicans hold both houses of Congress they shall drop Napalm on the Dumpster Fire this Hunter/James/Joe disaster has become.
Wait until the Media talking heads get a subpoena for their records, texts, and emails…..and required to testify before Congress about their coverage of the story….and see how fast they turn against the Biden Family.
If the Republicans will do it…..they can expose the Bidens to the full light of direct Sunshine….as Durham does the same with the Clintons and Obama.
Theirs is the opportunity if they shall only take it on.
Then for the playing the Trump Card (as one might say)….if Trump runs for and wins the Presidency with a Republican controlled Congress….all bets are off as to how this political passion play ends.
The blame shall fall to the Radical Leftists who took power in Joe Biden’s name in 2020……and rightfully so.
The “Radical Leftists who took power” with the 2021 inauguration … are those who engineered his nomination and his election. Because biden has been functioning at less than half-strength mentally for quite a while and is now failing mentally so quickly, those folks are now his “minders” making all the decisions, writing the scripts for his readings, trying to clean up after him, etc. As Newt Gingrich said today, biden is “dull on a good day”
Ralph Chappell,
“ We have sufficient evidence, testimony, bank records, video….and a Laptop that ties Joe Biden squarely into this criminal conspiracy.”
Evidence of what? What’s the crime?
Even Turley can’t cite what exactly is criminal about writing a letter of recommendation.
Influence peddling is legal. Making money or having shares is not illegal either. Trump himself proved that conflict of interest is not a problem. Turley sure didn’t think so when Trump was in office.
What IS baffling is why Turley is concerned about the lack of interest in appointing a special counsel when trump was involved in similar situations.
Please show me the laptop with all the hard details on it from Trump or 1 of his kids.
Or any, any evidence you have regarding Trump.
I mean: the dems have been searching for more than 6 years now and did not provide a single thing.
So you would make them very happy.
So if everything is legal and sane and all good: start with explaining why Joe, Hunter, all MSM except Fox, and social media engineered all the lies pre-election? I mean, it’s all good, so why all the lies?
CRICKETS……..
This entire Biden family affair, Democrat party election manipulation, MSM push for socialism is like whipping a dead horse, it goes no where. The American public specifically Democrat voters and never Trump Rhino’s are as much a fault as anyone for putting this nation where it is today. These people stand in front of a TV camera and tout how long they’ve been in office and no one say’s “yea and look at the condition of the nation because you’ve been in office that long”. If you really care put these people out to pasture in the next election and demand Equal Justice for ALL.
“Obama mocks ‘Vice President’ Joe Biden after White House return – ‘Good old days’
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The former US President started his speech by joking he was joined by “Vice President Biden” and said “some changes have been made” in the five years since he left – including all Secret Service agents being “forced to wear aviators” and a “there’s a cat running around” the residence. He even joked about having to put on a tie for the day.
Obama said: “Thank you. Vice President Biden. Vice President ”
The NYT continued with Obama saying it was a joke, but two things need to be mentioned.
1) Anonymous the Stupid, does that type of act, removing content, to lie and deceive.
2) I don’t think it was as much a joke as stated by Obama. I think the press is realigning themselves to change their positions, which tells me Obama is a part. Democrats are carnivores and will soon be picking their teeth with Biden’s bones.
Anonymous (S. Meyer),
“ The NYT continued with Obama saying it was a joke, but two things need to be mentioned.
1) Anonymous the Stupid, does that type of act, removing content, to lie and deceive.
2) I don’t think it was as much a joke as stated by Obama. I think the press is realigning themselves to change their positions, which tells me Obama is a part. Democrats are carnivores and will soon be picking their teeth with Biden’s bones.”
It was just a joke. Your paranoid delusions are getting the better of you.
Are you unable to recognize the written word? “The NYT continued with Obama saying it was a joke,” I guess we all have to learn to live with your nonsense. I wrote this, ensuring that everyone recognized that the Times said it was a joke to demonstrate how you and Anonymous the Stupid remove context regularly from what you post.
SM
S. Meyer, I wasn’t talking about what the NYT said. I was talking about what YOU said. Reading cognition seems to continue to be a problem for you. Pay attention.
“ The NYT continued with Obama saying it was a joke, but two things need to be mentioned”
1) Anonymous the Stupid, does that type of act, removing content, to lie and deceive.
2) I don’t think it was as much a joke as stated by Obama. I think the press is realigning themselves to change their positions, which tells me Obama is a part. Democrats are carnivores and will soon be picking their teeth with Biden’s bones.” -SM
You didn’t think it was a joke. You went on to imply it was something more ominous.
“S. Meyer, I wasn’t talking about what the NYT said. I was talking about what YOU said. Reading cognition seems to continue to be a problem for you. Pay attention.”
OK, Svelaz, you have proven you don’t know how to read or write. I made it clear that it was called a joke, so what I rendered was my opinion. Obama’s statement made Biden look like a fool. At the same time, the media is turning on him altogether. You might not recognize the frigid air presently hitting Biden, but that is par for the course with you. So yes, my opinion at this time is, “I don’t think it was as much a joke as stated by Obama. I think the press is realigning themselves to change their positions, which tells me Obama is a part. Democrats are carnivores and will soon be picking their teeth with Biden’s bones.”
You don’t have to agree with my prediction, which is only a prediction, but you don’t have to be Stupid, either.
Looks like it’s time for all of us to start a close reading of the 25th Amendment! My guess is that Joe will ask to step aside, as though it’s his decision, due to undisclosed “health” reasons. Of course, the real health issue is evident in that awful video clip of him being ignored as he wanders around at a White House reception. But the actual reason he’ll be removed will be his corruption as we’ve been learning from all those emails. Will that be the key to Garland’s decision at some point not to pursue it? After all, Joe is an ill old man with declining faculties. So why bother? Once again, he’d be let off the hook.
@MaryAnnCa – Good observation on Biden looking lost, alone and ignored at the Obama reception.
When I saw it I wondered am I looking at the Democrats “patsy”?
President Biden’s family should be made to watch, over and again, the video yesterday of the post-speeches gathering as the press and DC elites gathered around President Obama, laughing at any joke he made and appearing to swoon at his mere presence while President Biden was ignored by them, off to the side, at one point seeming to wander aimlessly. Even for someone like me who has no respect for Biden’s 50 years career in government, it was a very sad and tragic sight. It’s hard to believe that by pushing him to run for President, his family would do that to him, especially his PhD wife. I am not surprised at the always greedy and power hungry democrats, but his own family? And now, as the sun sets on him and his Presidency, the press and his democrat colleagues no longer are willing to hide or make excuses for the corruption that has characterized his “public service.”
“It’s hard to believe that . . . his family would do that to him . . .”
For a decent person, that is “hard to believe.” For the Left, it’s easy to believe.
To the Left, an individual is not fully real, has no independent value, and ultimately is disposable. To the Left, the standard of value is “The Party,” the collective. An individual is only useful as a means to The Party’s goal: Power. Biden was useful toward that end; now he’s not. And so you get the pathetic spectacle of him being shunned by his own Party.
Joe Biden is a WORTHLESS traitor and his equally worthless son, Hunter, is a dedicated crack-smoker! Obama and the libs really didn’t have ANY BETTER CANDIDATES?!?!? It sounds to me as if the history which goes into building the candidate matters more than we may think? How do we all like being made absolute fools of? Our Government is a farce, a joke. Thanks BIG TECH! I wish we could draw and quarter those responsible!
Biden has a son named Hunter?
lololol
Mr. Garland has the chance to be the one who cleaned up the town or at least started the process. He can buck the system, Problem is the Biden corruption well may include others who are protected by a Presidential Pardon. Who else met with Hunter’s clients and received donations? Do others do the same family thing?
School parents are easier foes for sure.
Presidential pardons. That is key. To not find anyone guilty until there is a Republican in the White House so that NONE of these rats go free.
Those in REAL power use corruptible pawns to do their dirty work. They must be corruptible so they can be bribed and enticed to do their handlers’ bidding, and embarrassing proof of their corruption must be available to assure that they can be threatened with exposure if they attempt to rebel. It also helps if the pawns are not all that intelligent, but, suffering from narcissism and Dunning-Kruger syndrome, fancy themselves leadership material.
Yet—people still vote for them…
The lying-dog-faced-pony-soldier-in-chief, reminds me of the manchurian candidate.. Quoting ; Carl Sagan, said it best : “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
I think that the fact that Trump was not bamboozled/bamboozable was the reason the swamp wanted him gone – he just wouldn’t play along with their grift. DeSantis is another one who will not and watch how the media arm of the swamp (I do not differentiate between left and right swamp dwellers in their corruption, only in their end goals) will now attempt to destroy this man for the same reason. What is tragic is that the remaining loyal Americans have lost all confidence that a swamp-cleaning can happen with the current swamp dwellers (this includes ALL unelected bureaucrats) remaining in power.
It really is kind of funny to watch the media and various democrats going “But, but, but….” And “what about …..”
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” The problem is, if he is charged or impeached, will be judged mentally capable of understanding the charges against him.
Hunter is bad.
Thank God Garland is not on the Supreme Court.
Hunter Biden is a snake. Don’t blame dad.
Liberty, Joe is bad too and it is a shame you won’t admit it.
This will not end well for old Joe. As Brooke Benton put it, “it’s just a matter of time.”
So what? The media won’t care, won’t report, and democrats and the left will never know about these things.
All thinking Americans know that there are a lot of Biden family shenanigans.
What is interesting are the moral gymnastics that lefties engage in to defend Brandon: whataboutism, deflection, and attacks on Trump.
Lefties will do almost anything to avoid admitting that members of the Biden family are corrupt.
Shame the DOJ is 100%. This has all been know for 20 years! It isn’t just Hunter..it is all the Bidens, Pelosi, Clintons, Kerry’s, Romney’s, Carters, etc
Time to cut 50% of DC federal gov., and move 40% out of Corrupt DC to the Heartland…which will lower cost and lower corruption!
I want ever federal employee involved in the Russian Hoax and Trump impeachment in JAIL
Along with all the people that HELPED Hunter Biden…they ALL KNEW it was a CRIME!