Posted on 02/14/2024 11:28:10 AM PST by Red Badger
A former business associate of Hunter Biden said Tuesday that China successfully attempted to “infiltrate and compromise” the Biden family and the Obama White House.
Tony Bobulinski, who used to do business with Hunter Biden before blowing the whistle on what he has alleged to be a massive influence-peddling scheme involving the president, made the remarks during his opening statement in testimony delivered to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability in Washington, D.C. Bobulinski alleged that President Joe Biden “enabled” a lucrative business arrangement involving his son and a major Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied energy firm and that “Joe Biden’s immediate family members were enriched to the tune of tens of millions of dollars” made from conducting business with shady counterparts, including some based in adversarial nations, during and after Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president.
“The Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or ‘CEFC’ – a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate – successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House,” Bobulinski told House investigators, according to a transcription of his opening statement. “I want to be crystal clear: from my direct personal experience and what I have subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the Brand’ being sold by the Biden family … Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.”
After Hunter Biden sent a threatening WhatsApp message in which he invoked his father’s power to a CEFC associate in July 2017, a firm connected to CEFC — which has since ceased to exist — wired $5 million to a company linked to Hunter Biden in August 2017, according to the House Oversight committee. Hunter Biden has asserted that Joe Biden was not ever “financially involved” in his business dealings.
The Bidens’ involvement with CEFC began as early as 2016, when Joe Biden was still serving the Obama administration as vice president, Rob Walker — another former business partner of Hunter Biden’s — said in Jan. 26 testimony to the House Oversight committee. Joe Biden stopped by a luncheon at a Washington hotel attended by Hunter Biden, Walker and numerous CEFC businessmen sometime in early 2017, shortly before a Shanghai-based company connected to CEFC paid Walker’s LLC approximately $3 million, Walker testified. Walker described Biden’s appearance at the luncheon as innocuous and the fact that a firm linked to CEFC made the payment afterwards as a coincidence in his testimony.
“Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began,” Bobulinski said in his opening statement on Tuesday.
Walker’s LLC subsequently paid about $1 million of that $3 million payment received from the CEFC-related energy firm to Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Hallie Biden, he testified on Jan. 26, calling into question Joe Biden’s claims on the campaign trail in 2020 that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s business dealings with him.
The White House did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Tried?
Successfully....................
To quote Yoda, “there is no try. Only do.”
freaking urinalists.
China successfully attempted to “infiltrate and compromise” the Biden family
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China infiltrated and compromised the Biden family .
spit.
"He gets 10%? What's my cut?"
“freaking urinalists.
China successfully attempted to “infiltrate and compromise” the Biden family”
More like Hunter posted “Biden for sale”.
The CCCP paid. And now the Chinese own Biden 100%.
I see the Deep State is using their MSM friends to through both Joe and the Obama combo under the political bus.
I like it.
Succeeded.
I don’t think Bobulinsky wants any part of this but I also don’t think he’s willing to sit idly by while the Biden Crime Family calls him a liar and discredit everything he says.
And succeeded.
With their permission
Exactly,
They very overtly funnel money to the parties through their US subsidiaries.
Lobbying is allowed. Some of your biggest and most influence lobbying groups have them on their payroll, i.e. Podesta Group.
They have their media (as in state controlled communist party) available in the US.
The honey trap works: ex. Eric Swalwell
You can give family members of prominent politicians, a spouse for example VERY favorable business deals which make them very rich: ex. Richard Blum (Feinstein’s husband) became rich that way. Just in case you don’t believe it: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-03-28-mn-43046-story.html
They can share unfavorable Intel about someone’s opponent to the folks they like. And they have a huge Intel capability in the US.
They can influence the media and they have a strong influence in the US media already.
***US Congress is for sale, and China (PRC) has learned how to buy those key folks (you don’t need to buy many usually, just a few key players) to get what they want.
***In the US you have a strong desire by the oligarchs and corporations which benefit from their cheap slave labor, avoidance of EPA and safety stands, as well as taxes to keep the status quo. Any politician that disrupts these very favorable conditions reaps their wrath, i.e. Trump and him pressuring China regards currency games, IP theft, and unfair business practices. You’ll find that big tech, Amazon, GM, pharma... They will all frown on anything which disrupts this.
It’s questionable that there will ever be a conflict with China (PRC) since they can literally get anything they want from us. Another tactic is to simply wait it out. Realize the US Congress and the President are always changing out. If Trump doesn’t suit you, just wait, the next guy Biden will.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58690974
A final note, China (PRC) holds onto $883 billion in US securities.
Do you really think the US is going to do anything to them?
That’s why Taiwan will go back to China eventually, they are taking over form the inside out. And we won’t do jack $hit, except talk about democracy, sovereignty and human rights regards Ukraine.
Think of this: while Chinese tank were rolling over pro democracy students on Tianamen square, we (including today’s McConnell that talks about democracy human rights and sovereignty regards Ukraine), voted for permanent most favored trade status and prior to that supported WTO membership.
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1062/vote_106_2_00251.htm
This is a uni-party issue where it won’t matter who is in office, since BOTH parties and their key members are bought off.
Yes wonder how many of Obama’s books Xi bought bet he has a 10 year supply of toilet paper.
Yes, for too many issues it doesn’t matter which party is in power, which is out as they simply change sides on the fly. It is all political posturing with the bottom line measured in profit, plus money raised for the public thinking they are contributing to something or someone that matters.
Tony Bobulinski has been in and out of the news cycle at least since 2019, more or less repeating the same story.
Then, just when I get used to pronouncing his last name, he drops out of the news cycle again. Nothing ever really progresses to the next stage. Maybe he lacks enough support from the GOP.
They do and did!
Hell, the GOP is in on the biden grift themselves.
Second, the references to "the chairman", especially the response by Rob Walker (who likely had to put on a gimp mask as punishment later by Hunter for making such a statement as "When he said his chairman he was talking about his dad"
I'll bet Biden never thought THAT would see the light of day.
I'd say they succeeded.
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