WASHINGTON, DC - A series of recently released texts reveal that Hunter Biden coordinated a meeting between then-former Vice President Joe Biden and CEFC China Energy executive Liu Yadong during an appearance by the elder Biden at a Sandy Hook shooting memorial, the New York Post reports.
In documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee, it was revealed that Hunter Biden messaged Liu on WeChat to arrange a meeting with Joe Biden.
"Can you meet this evening early,” Hunter Biden wrote in messages obtained by IRS investigators.
“My father will be in New York also and he wants me to attend the Sandyhook [sic] 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,” Liu replied. “Pls let me know where and when to meet.”
In a picture from the event held at the Park Plaza Hotel that commemorated the fifth anniversary of the deadly shooting in Newtown, CT., Biden was pictured at the event. It is unclear if Joe Biden actually met with Liu on that night.
Joe Biden has repeatedly insisted that neither he nor his family earned money from China, however Joe Biden is repeatedly mentioned in communications involving Hunter and James Biden’s multimillion dollar relationship with CEFC, a Chinese energy firm. Most of the alleged interaction between CEFC and the Bidens happened in 2017 shortly after he left the vice-presidency.
Joe Biden was also allegedly involved in Hunter Biden’s dealings with BHR Partners, a Chinese-backed equity firm, which was registered only days after the Bidens landed in Beijing aboard Air Force Two in 2013.
The release by the Republican-led House committee comes after several months of back and forth over the Biden family’s dealings with CEFC, which as with all Chinese companies is intimately tied to the Chinese government, in exchange for an estimated $10 million per year.
In May of 2013, one of the Biden family partners, James Gillar, made a notation of a 10% cut for the “big guy” as part of a joint venture with CEFC. A number of former Biden family associates have claimed that “big guy” refers to Joe Biden, most notably Tony Bobulinski, who has said he had two conversations with Joe Biden that month.
Meanwhile, in July 2017, Hunter Biden, in between lines of cocaine, sent a message to CEFC official Runlong Zhao where he asked in no uncertain terms about an update to the “project,” while mentioning his father’s involvement. At that time, the Bidens were looking to cut out its non-Chinese partners from the influx of cash from the arrangement.
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter said.
Only ten days after Hunter Biden sent that message mentioning his father, CEFC wired $5.1 million to accounts linked to Hunter and James Biden.
This past February, James Biden admitted he sent $40,000 to Joe Biden as part of an alleged loan repayment.
The Post reported that in August 2017, Hunter Biden told another CEFC associate that the Biden family was “the best I know at doing exactly what the [CEFC} Chairman wants from this partnership.”
In an October 2017 email, Joe Biden was also mentioned as a participant in an upcoming call on helping CEFC purchase US natural gas.
The messages released last week were among a number of unsealed documents, including photos of Liu Yadonog’s business card which showed him as CEO of Global Strategic Holdings. The text messages were obtained by IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler via a search warrant for Hunter BIden’s iCloud account.
This indicates they were stored separately from messages extracted from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, Ziegler wrote in an affidavit.
During congressional testimony in February, Hunter Biden claimed the threatening message to Runlong Zhao was among a string of drunk texts he sent to the wrong person.
“Hunter Biden lied about the recipient of a WhatsApp message sent with the apparent intention to threaten a business associate and demand payment,” said House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO).
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