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.
Criminal charges against Hunter could include a violation of FARA (Foreign Agent Registration Act) and Section 951.
To support a FARA conviction against Hunter Biden, the DOJ would only need to prove:
Generally, that Hunter Biden acted as an agent (including activities such as political advocacy or public relations) of a foreign principal;
And that Hunter Biden failed to register with the Attorney General.
Then there’s violations of Section 951 (similar to FARA), which require a showing:
That Hunter Biden acted in the U.S. as an agent of a foreign government;
That Hunter Biden failed to notify the U.S. Attorney General that he was acting as an agent of a foreign government (before said action took place); and
That Hunter Biden knowingly agreed to operated within the U.S. subject to the direction or control of a foreign government or official; and that he knew he had not provided prior notification to the Attorney General.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/us-intelligence-operations-against
I had to look once again at the Obama reception where Biden is ignored, seems lost and confused. He’s actually standing there and invisible to everyone in the room, the President of the United States. I’m almost sorry for this guy (almost). If I was his family after seeing him being ignored as he was, I would stick it to the Democrats. I would meet with the Republicans without the Democrats, fire everyone of his staff and replace them with conservatives. He’s being used by radical’s because non of them could have been elected.
He looks like that guy at a party that no body wants to be caught talking to. Very sad.
Margot “He looks like that guy at a party that no body wants to be caught talking to.”
n other words, the wife! At least that’s how it was back in my day. And that was very sad, as well.
Anyone feeling empathy for that POS Biden needs their head examined.
Olly, the problem is that Joe was the last one out of the clown car. The New York Times crawled out just before him. It is reported that they all ate beans for dinner. When they got out of the car the ringmaster was selling Beano for cheap. Not much imagination required.
Merrick Is taking a cue from Clarence to evade responsibility.
“Attorney General Merrick Garland tested positive for Covid just hours after a press conference with FBI Director Christopher Wray, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and other top Biden administration officials.”
More evidence that M.”Wimpy” Garland will not prosecute TRUMP.
Clarence who?
Remind me again: why prosecute Trump?
Based upon what exactly?
It was expected by the Founders and Framers that the executive and legislative branches would befriend corruption.
The separate judicial branch was intended not to legislate, but to correct the executive and legislative branches back onto the Constitution.
The singular American failure has been the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court and its Justices, who swore an oath to “support” the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution.
The next patriotic and pro-Constitution Congress must wield the executioner’s sword of impeachment and conviction with abandon.
Wow, 3.5 million from a Russian oligarch and 4.8 million from a Chinese corporation. Joe and Hunter had joint bank accounts and Hunter paid the big guys bills out of the same account. One of two things has to be considered. Either Joe knew where the money was coming from or he was amazingly stupid. Imagine if you will that you live in the ghetto and your crack head son is paying Mommas gas and electric bill. Even momma could figure out where the money was coming from. Then Momma would invite all her sons’ crack seller friends from the Burisma neighborhood over for dinner. Then in court Momma says, I was never involved in my sons’ business affairs. I’ve been looking for someone to write the screenplay but they all tell me that the story is just too unbelievable.
TIT @ 2:35
“Either Joe knew where the money was coming from or he was amazingly stupid.”
Or both, or figured they’d continue to get away with it just as they had for years and years..
The “amazingly stupid” option is not as far-fetched as one might think.
How many offramps will the Democrats avoid before they run out of road? Someone in that clown car of a party has to have some sanity other than Tulsi Gabbard. This is well within Twilight Zone absurdity and yet we still have the demoralized Leftists coming to the defense of Biden and the Democratic party.
I would avoid relying on Hunter Biden’s statements as evidence of the President’s involvement, for the same reason they were never able to use Michael Cohen’s testimony against Trump. The man is obviously a scoundrel. The closest he’s ever come to having moral fiber was buying Fair Trade prunes from Whole Foods.
So you give a pass for Joe, who pre-election told the world that Hunter’s computer and the emails were fake? And he absolutely knew both were real. Do you also call Bobulinksy a liar? Based on what exactly except that you’re a Demoncrap troll?
I do not call Bobulinsky a liar. I just think we ought to concentrate on Bobulinsky’s testimony, and the actual documented instances of Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s business associates, rather than simply crediting Hunter Biden’s statements at face value.
Two systems of justice. How are we ever to trust the FBI or DOJ? To me, they are as corrupt as the mafia. Until there is a real accounting of the criminal activity on all levels, from Russia Gate to the laptop, no self-respecting citizen should have any trust in these institutions. Talk about a banana republic. It shows we have no moral authority to criticize any foreign government. But a real investigation will never happen. We are doomed. It is the beginning of the end of the empire. Our government representatives are such a disappointment.
You can be on the left or the right. You can hate Tucker, or you can love him. Below is a 10 minute that very quickly presents the history of who Biden was according to the press and who he is today. It provides a record of what the left thought of Biden in the past and what they think of him today.
No one can take issue with his facts that are proven with videos. Any leftist politician who isn’t taking what he says seriously will soon find himself up the creek without a paddle.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/watch/tucker-nobody-has-respect-for-biden/vi-AAVTHpu
I believe The New York Times when they say that the Hunter laptop is authentic, when they say that the Alpha Bank connection was not a Russian connection to Trump and when they say that Joe Biden met with Hunters Burisma employers. There were people who post on this blog who believed The New York Times when they said that Alpha Bank connected Russian conduit to Trump. Our fellow leftist posters also believed that the Hunter laptop was just Russian disinformation. They also believed that Joe never met with Burisma. They believed The New York Times when it said all of these things but now that The Times admits that it was wrong on all three issues our leftist posters refuse to believe The New York Times. It’s hard to say that I believe Hunter and The New York Times but now after a very long time they are finally telling the truth. Unlike some of our leftist posters The Times realizes that they can no longer continue the deception. At long last the Times has allowed the truth to escape from the darkness.
Given the disinformation campaign waged against the American citizenry in the 2020 election by the national security state, big tech, and the “news” media – I was wondering when you will stop referring to biden as the legitimately elected president?
The election was not legitimate (i.e. followed election laws – the definition of legitimate) even before the recent acceptance of the hunter corruption as true.
So now a letter of recommendation for college is a scandal? Kinda lame. Can’t wait till the MAGAs find out what Trump has done. They will go nuts.
A letter from someone who says he has had no contact with those people is strange.
Biden was in direct contact with many of the people in the Biden Criminal Syndicate.
Sammy, even with your lack of intelligence or fairness try to imagine FDR writing letter of recommendation for the son of Himmler in 1938 for the sole reason that Himmler is providing FDR’s son with millions in corrupt contracts that involve the Wehrmacht.
Biden takes Hunter to China ON AIR FORCE 2, Hunter gets millions in deals with the CCP and then Joe, THE SITTING VP AND CURRENT POTUS, gets a kickback…and Sammy thinks it is about a “letter of recommendation”. What fools politics makes out of the weak of mind.
Sammy, ATS in drag, is so dumb that he now believes that FDR wrote a letter of recommendation for Himmler’s son. ATS can use Sammy as a dumb icon for whatever needs he has, but it is still ATS.
Wow, and for Trumps family only a suspicion was enough for you to request an indeehourough investigation..
And then you dare to call Trump a danger to democracy..
You do not see your hypocrisy?
Strange..
“What Trump has done”
You mean the Russia Russia colution?
Oh, wait..
No, the Quit Pro Quo reg Ukraine..
Oh, wait a second..
No no no, I mean the Steel dossier..
Bummer, also not..
What exactly do yo mean with “wait..”
You guys trowd everything you got and more to Trump and nothing has materialised.
Shouldn’t that tell you something?
“So now a letter of recommendation for college is a scandal? Kinda lame.”
When you drop context, you can conclude anything or nothing.
Sammy what part of the child of a communist leader who was a Hunter business associate are you missing. Sammy thinks that somehow this communist Hunter Biden associate must be concerned with the welfare of the U.S.
Sammy plainly never took a Reading Comprehension or Deductive Reasoning Class.
Sammy…..it is not the recommendation that is the issue….it is the relationships between the people that is relevant.
For Biden to claim ignorance of Hunter’s business, business contacts, and association with any or all of them is patently false as shown by the emails.
You would never be confused for Joe Friday or Dick Tracy based upon you lack of ability at Link Analysis.
Seriously: why is anyone but the staunchest young and ignorant indoctrinated leftist or the ‘I only watch CNN’ crowd at all surprised? The writing has been on the wall for a very long time. Again I say, what in the hey is wrong with generational liberals? if you are as smart as you claim to be, you’d see the winds shifting, and if you are as moral people as you claim to be, you wouldn’t hold out hope that things will end well for the modern American Democratic party. Open your eyes. JFK is dead. It’s true: Trump is an indelicate d*** (who had sensible policy in spite of his idiocy), but the rest is true nevertheless. Your Dems are dead. The best they can hope for is a fracturing and regrouping at this point. Heaven help them while they work that self-made Gordian knot out.
Uh, Turley, did you happen to notice the DATE of the e-mail–2017. Uh, Turley, are you aware that Joe Biden was NOT IN OFFICE at the time? Trump began stinking up our White House in January, 2017. For your information, Biden took the oath in January of 2021–FOUR YEARS LATER. More of the alt-right drivel and deceitful innuendo you’re being paid to shovel And, from the comments of the faithful disciples, it’s working. They believe there is a Biden family conspiracy of wrongdoing, or whatever lies Hannity, Carlson, Levin and Ingraham tell them, but the truth is, there’s NO evidence that JOE Biden: 1. received any money; or 2. did anything wrong. All of this is an effort to deflect away from Trump’s ACTUAL crimes, including inciting a riot because he couldn’t bully, litigate or cheat his way back into office. Of course, it’s all calculated to try to take over Congress so that the investigation into Trump’s involvement in the insurrection can be stopped, Then, they hope, he can be shoved back into office and withdraw the US from NATO, clearing the way for Putin to invade Poland, Latvia and Estonia. As part of this plan, your alt-right media actually praise Putin and other mass murderers to the extent that their rhetoric is used for Russian propaganda. In fact, one of them will be speaking at the CPAC. And, the disciples don’t seem to care.
Oh, and another reason for hammering the “Hunter Biden Scandal” bull is to attack mainstream media. The fact is, Giuliani got hold of the hard drive and distributed it to REPUBLICAN members of Congress BEFORE turning it over to the FBI. If that doesn’t stink, then what does, and why would anyone give credence to anything claimed to be on the hard drive? In fact, where’s the proof of the validity of anything from the hard drive? Even if e-mails are confirmed, does their content amount to a crime, and if so, what did JOE Biden do wrong? Giuliani is a PROVEN LIAR–in fact, his law license was suspended for lying to federal courts, and THAT’S why mainstream media didn’t cover whatever the “story” is. There is, at this point, NO proof of any crimes, but does that stop your employer and other alt-right media from declaring not only are there crimes, but JOE Biden is guilty. This partisan mess is all fallout from the massive ego of Trump, the divisive effect he is having on our country and his unmitigated desire for power.
biden has denied involvement, he did not deny involvement while in office, he denied all involvement. Regardless of the date, biden has lied. What is he hiding?
Natacha,
The email was dated January 3, 2017 when Brandon was still VP.
My dog is smarter than Natacha, cuter and never lies like Natacha does.
‘Hi. I’m Natcacha. I am either paid to be here or have a life so bereft of personal responsibilities that I can come here and post the contrary to the Professor even though he didn’t write anything inflammatory, just stated facts on the record that anyone can see if they are so inclined. I am either a 50-ish year-old loser tat raised woke and insufferable children with nothing better to do or because i never got a real job and actually contribute something to society and the human race, or I am a paid shill. Take your pick. I post here almost every day, all day long.’. Thankfully, the rest of us are not that stupid. Enjoy your narrative. The only people it impresses are you. Pfft.
Just remember when you read anything that Natacha posts that she said that CRT was not being taught in schools. Remember that Natacha said that the Hunter laptop was Russian disinformation. Recall that Natacha informed us that every word of the Steele Dossier was true. Don’t forget that she said that Alpha Bank was the Trump Russia connection. She also enlightened us with saying that Hunter’s firm never received 3.5 million dollars from a Russian oligarch. When considering the veracity of her daily posts please keep in mind all the endorsements of these accusations that she put to paper in the past. Me thinks the conclusion that you will come to is obvious.
What a joke/
Author says New York Times, Twitter burying infamous laptop story helped distract from Biden family corruption
‘This should have been wall-to-wall coverage,’ Ashley Rindsberg told Fox News Digital.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/author-new-york-times-twitter-hunter-biden-laptop
“New York Times finally confirms Hunter Biden’s laptop after dismissing it amid 2020 campaign”
“Previously, The Times dismissed the Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation” at the height of the 2020 presidential campaign and claimed in a September 2021 piece that The Post’s reporting on the laptop was “unsubstantiated.” It later scrubbed the word from the article after intense backlash over its inaccurate characterization of The Post’s reporting.
According to The Post, Hunter Biden’s laptop contained emails, text messages, photos and financial documents between himself, his family and business associates that showed how he used his political influence in his foreign business dealings, specifically in his work as a board member of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company.
The Post’s Twitter account was suspended?”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-report-hunter-biden-laptop-2020-election-campaign
I am beginning to think term limits too..
Term limits happen every 2 years
How can it be that our leftist friends believed such lies.
“MSNBC host claims ‘Hunter Biden story’ in 2020 was ‘fact-checked’ and deemed mostly ‘nonsense’
Media outlets previously called the laptop story ‘unverifiable’ and ‘Russian disinformation’”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-host-lemire-hunter-biden-laptop-nonsense-media
The Washington Post published a lengthy report on Wednesday about Hunter Biden’s “multimillion-dollar” financial ties to the Chinese energy company CEFC China Energy.
“Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden,” the Post reported, before writing that it found no evidence that President Biden “personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC” which all took place after he left office as vice president.
The leftist fact checkers all failed in their fact checking ability proving themselves to be dispensable pawns of the left.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-hunter-biden-laptop-story-coverage
So as a private citizen at the time was it illegal for Biden to have shares on the alleged transaction? How is a letter of recommendation illegal or points to a crime?
I don’t know.
How illegal is it to concoct a fake story on a sitting president?
How illegal is it to use false stories to a sitting president just because you do not like his tweets?
Typical of Bidenists and Democrat trolls/sycophants like Silerberman and Svelaz to just totally ignore that the only reason Biden, MSM and social media all conspired to hide reality from the public is because the man sitting in the oval office is a felony criminal head of a crime syndikat family of drug addicts and swindlers.
“Biden responds to questions from Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich.
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President Biden was mocked on social media after saying that he bets “everybody knows” someone who has been involved in sexual exploitation online.”
Who is the sexual explainer. It was on hunter’s laptop. Nice going Joe Biden, targeting our son as a sexual exploiter.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-mocked-sexual-exploitation-comment-twitter-users-hunter-biden
We have been watching the left exploit our very young children by influencing 5 year olds so they accept transgender at a young age. The left even pushes those younger than teenagers to have the surgery.
This Twitter remark says it all.
“”Joe is really trying to normalize Hunter’s behavior wow,” The Blaze’s Jessica O’Donnell tweeted. “
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-mocked-sexual-exploitation-comment-twitter-users-hunter-biden
“Ron Klain solicited money from Hunter Biden for VP residence in 2012, emails show: ‘Keep this low low key’
Klain told Hunter ‘raising money for the Residence now is bad PR’”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-klain-solicited-money-hunter-biden-emails-vp-residence
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain reached out to Hunter Biden in September 2012 for help in raising $20,000 for the Vice Presidents Residence Foundation (VPRF), telling him to “keep this low low key” to prevent “bad PR,” according to emails reviewed by Fox News Digital. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-klain-solicited-money-hunter-biden-emails-vp-residence