Hakeem Jeffries defends Biden saying his son Hunter ‘has done nothing wrong’

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) defended President Biden for saying last year that his son Hunter Biden did “nothing wrong” in connection to the federal investigation related to tax and gun offenses.

Jeffries backed up Biden on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for his comments regarding the investigation into his son last year when asked if it was “appropriate” for the president to weigh in on the case at the time.

“President Biden commented as a loving father, as I would hope any loving father would do. Hunter Biden, of course, is entitled, as was Donald Trump, to the presumption of innocence and to a trial by a jury of his peers,” Jeffries said.

“And this Justice Department is going to proceed in that fashion, present the facts and the law and then we’ll all have to wait for a determination that is made by a jury as to Hunter Biden’s guilt or innocence,” he added.

Biden said last year that Hunter Biden “has done nothing wrong” in connection to a multiyear investigation into his son. His comments came before his son was indicted on tax and gun charges last year.

Biden’s son is now headed to trial this week over the federal gun charges in Delaware. The prosecutors said that Hunter Biden purchased a gun illegally because he falsely said on a form that he was not a drug user.

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to the federal gun charges in October. His bid to delay the gun charges trial failed last month, and previous efforts to get the charges dismissed also failed.

EXCLUSIVE Joe and Hunter Biden used a visit to Sandy Hook memorial service
Set up secret meet with Chinese over $10m-a-year deal, new emails reveal
Daily Mail ^ | 5/27/24 | Josh Boswell
Posted on 5/27/2024, 6:13:28 AM by Libloather

Hunter Biden used Joe Biden’s appearance at a Sandy Hook memorial service to arrange a meeting between his dad and his Chinese business partners, new texts reveal.

The messages come from a fresh tranche of documents released by Congress on Wednesday, given to them by IRS agents who investigated the First Son.

On December 12, 2017 Hunter wrote on the Chinese messaging app WeChat to Liu Yadong, a top executive at Chinese oil giant CEFC, to arrange a meeting with his father.

‘Can you meet this evening early,’ Hunter wrote. ‘My father will be in New York also and he wants me to attend the Sandyhook 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,’ Yadong replied. ‘Pls let me know where and when to meet.’

The texts to set up a meeting with Joe came after months of negotiation about the Biden family’s involvement in the deal with the Chinese government-linked company, in exchange for $10 million a year.

In July 2017 Hunter sent ‘threatening’ texts to CEFC official Runlong Zhao demanding he follow through on the $10 million deal, and noting his father’s involvement.

‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,’ Hunter wrote, in text messages obtained by the IRS investigators and published by Congress last year.

Weeks later, on August 3, 2017, Hunter texted CEFC associate Gongwen ‘Kevin’ Dong that he wanted a ‘[$]10 M per annum budget’ and that ‘the Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the [CEFC] Chairman wants from this partnership.’

At the time Joe Biden held no government post.

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Cong Comer reports: “you wont find very many people w/ a billion-dollar net worth
who also have as many assorted bank accounts as the Biden family has.”
<><>Many of these were accounts for do-nothing shell companies setup by Hunter Biden
<><>the sole purpose of the Biden phony companies was to be money laundries
<><>the Bidens needed to launder money that was pouring in from China, Romania, Russia
<><>Jim and Hunter Biden were deposed under oath by Congress about the matter
<><>the two were unable to answer exactly what the family did to receive the billions.

Hunter Biden dumped his wife and abandoned his kids w/ no support
He was reportedly spending money on whores and drugs
Hunter currently owes his ex-wife $2.9M in alimony, and other debts
She is set to testify in Hunter’s gun, and tax evasion trials
NY Post ^ | 6/01/24 | Jon Levine
Posted on 6/1/2024, 7:49:13 PM by Libloather

Hunter Biden owes his ex-wife $2.9 million after a protracted legal battle — and now his one time spouse is expected to be a key witness in his looming trials.

Kathleen Buhle, who was married to the first son for 24 years before they split in 2017, claims Hunter has blown off agreed-upon alimony payments, legal fees, interest and other debts to her over the years.

Buhle sued Hunter in 2019, shortly after he married current wife Melissa Cohen.

The dispute with Buhle has been simmering in Washington, D.C. courts for years, and in 2021 Hunter was found to be in violation of his divorce settlement.

Now Buhle, mother to three of Hunter’s five kids, is set to take the stage as Hunter faces federal trial next week for illegal gun possession, and again in September when Hunter goes on trial for alleged tax crimes.

The dispute makes a is mentioned in special counsel David Weiss’ tax evasion indictment of the younger Biden.

Their separation agreement stipulated Hunter would pay Buhle $37,000 a month and 50% of any earnings over $875,000 annually, according to court documents obtained by Axios.

Team Buhle, however has maintained that Hunter didn’t pony up what he owned in 2017 and 2018, a period in which they allege he made more than $2 million per year. The alimony stopped altogether after she filed sued, her attorneys contended to Axios.

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