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Focus Moves to Office Joe Biden Shared With Chinese as Search for Classified Docs Intensifies
Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 12, 2023 | Chuck Ross

Posted on 01/13/2023 12:51:12 AM PST by Brown Deer

The discovery of two batches of classified documents from Joe Biden’s time as vice president could bring renewed attention to an office the president shared with his scandal-plagued son Hunter and a Chinese energy conglomerate linked to Chinese military intelligence.

Joe and Hunter Biden were "office mates" with executives from CEFC China Energy in 2017, according to emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop. In an email to the general manager for the K Street office building, Hunter Biden said the office would be shared by his consulting firm Hudson West, CEFC China Energy, and the Biden Foundation, his family charity.

"[P]lease have keys made available for new office mates," Hunter Biden wrote in a Sept. 21, 2017 email, listing Joe Biden, his stepmother Jill Biden, his uncle Jim Biden, and Gongwen Dong, whom he identified as the "emissary" for the chairman of the now-bankrupt Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.

While the Bidens left the office in 2018, their cohabitation with CEFC executives could raise national security concerns in light of the revelation that Joe Biden kept classified documents related to Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom in another Washington, D.C., office. Biden aides have also discovered classified records in Biden’s garage at his home in Wilmington, Del. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate how the documents, some of which are marked "top secret," ended up at the Biden properties.

Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the discoveries should prompt the Justice Department to conduct an exhaustive search of all of Joe and Hunter Biden’s current and former properties.

"If the DOJ and specifically the FBI haven’t conducted the widest possible search of every known location where Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and their associates may have kept classified documents—this is in no way a complete or legitimate investigation," Issa told the Washington Free Beacon.

It is unclear whether any classified materials were stored at the Bidens’ K Street office. But CEFC employees’ access to the office could be of particular concern given the energy conglomerate’s ties to Chinese military intelligence. Hunter Biden worked closely with the firm’s former chairman, Ye Jianming. According to a Senate Republican report, Ye served from 2003 to 2005 as deputy secretary general of the China Association for International Friendly Contacts, a front group for the People’s Liberation Army that "performs dual roles of intelligence collection and conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns."

Hunter Biden also forged close ties to CEFC employee JiaQi Bao, whom House Republicans suspect of working for Chinese intelligence. House Oversight Committee Republicans last year provided FBI director Christopher Wray with "evidence of Bao’s close relationship to Hunter Biden and her attempts to ingratiate herself with his father." Republicans said Bao received a degree from Tsinghua University, a recruiting hub for China’s intelligence services. Before joining CEFC, she worked for China’s National Development and Reform Commission.

Bao appears to have worked in the Bidens’ K Street office, located in the heart of Washington’s lobbying district.

In a March 25, 2018, email, Bao asked Hunter if there was "anything in the office that you would like me to pick up/organize for you." Bao also urged Hunter to take as much money as he could from his partnership with CEFC. "Figure out a way to have the money transferred to the right U.S. account before any restriction levied by Chinese regulators," she wrote.

"After infiltrating the Biden family, Bao urged Hunter to encourage Joe Biden to run for president months before he announced and then supplied the Biden family campaign advice related to China," said Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), the chairman of the House Oversight panel.

In 2017 and 2018, CEFC paid Hunter Biden $5 million to scout out energy deals in the United States and Europe. CEFC paid Biden another $1 million to serve as a legal adviser for Patrick Ho, a CEFC executive who was indicted for trying to bribe two African officials for oil rights. Biden referred to Ho as "the fucking spy chief of China," in a May 2018 voice mail, according to Senate Republicans.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.


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To: Brown Deer

Looks like the deep state has gone into “get rid of Joe” mode.
There will be multiple investigations which will prevent repubs in Congress from looking into any of this to deny them any ammo. Lots of evidence will be brought up to Dr. Jill. That is who they have to convince Joe to step down. Kamala has been nothing but a place holder. She will be swept aside for who ever the DS wants to put in the President and Vice President slot.


41 posted on 01/13/2023 3:55:14 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: Clutch Martin

Since Biden “Staff” is doing the search, ALL the rules for handling and SECURING evidence just went out the window. FBI not involved because the DEMS WANT THE EVIDENCE CONTAMINATED and as such made unusable. Since FBI obviously not involved, this is yet another example of the level of corruption throughout the ENTIRE organization.

So, Where is the FBI? I have no idea where that SCUM is. But I do know where they are not, THEY ARE NOT INVESTIGATING BIDEN!!!!!

Is that a better answer ???


42 posted on 01/13/2023 3:55:26 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: OHPatriot

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Biden told (his lawyers and WH Counsel) where he stores mementos.

The overwhelming majority of rooms were not searched.

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43 posted on 01/13/2023 4:07:38 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: Jonty30

The Bat Soup Signal.


44 posted on 01/13/2023 4:08:20 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David.)
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To: Robert357

One of very few times he would have told the truth.


45 posted on 01/13/2023 4:11:18 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Brown Deer

“Joe and Hunter Biden were “office mates” with executives from CEFC China Energy in 2017, according…”

Someone has GOT to be kidding…!


46 posted on 01/13/2023 4:27:11 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Texas resident

They are signalling him not to run or else.


47 posted on 01/13/2023 4:38:12 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: MagnoliaB
All part of the plan. Get rid of Biden. Harris is first female POTUS. So ups public opinion of Dems. But she is unelectable. So appoint someone to VP they think can win in 2024. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
48 posted on 01/13/2023 4:39:05 AM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands." )
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To: Brown Deer

Was visit with mcconnell for classified document purposes ?


49 posted on 01/13/2023 4:40:18 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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Why are lowly deplorables doing the fbi’s job ?


50 posted on 01/13/2023 4:44:57 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Brown Deer

Just try to imagine what the media clowns would be saying, and the DOJ would be doing, if the story was “Focus Moves to Office Trump Shared with Russians...”


51 posted on 01/13/2023 4:49:32 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

The only “National Security “ issues anyone in DC are worried about is how to keep democrats in control of all 3 branches of government. Anything less leads to exposing the treason.


52 posted on 01/13/2023 4:50:20 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Brown Deer

Where is the FBI and CNN in a pre dawn raid?


53 posted on 01/13/2023 4:52:39 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: spincaster

“This man is a trader and should be imprisoned or shot!!!!!!!!!”

I don’t think it’s a crime to be a “trader”. Maybe a “traitor”?


54 posted on 01/13/2023 4:53:08 AM PST by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: spincaster
He knew exactly what he was doing. He is fu@king Chinese Spy and enemy to the USA. He needs to be dealt with swiftly . My God our country was so better off with Trump as POTUS.

He goes wherever his sugar daddy leads him


55 posted on 01/13/2023 4:55:16 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: Texas resident

so - the next logical step is going to be something huge on Harris that forces her out - Biden taps someone like Pelosi’s nephew in California- what’s that faggot’s name? Newsome? Harris resigns to “spend more time with her transgender family” Biden resigns and Newsome is there for a good head start on 2024


56 posted on 01/13/2023 4:55:49 AM PST by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: Brown Deer

The problem with selling secret info to the ChiComs is an hour later you want sell them more.


57 posted on 01/13/2023 4:56:18 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: BlueStateRightist; spincaster

I actually thought it was a clever use of the homonym. It’s not a stretch of the imagination to think that FJB is “trading” classified information with his Chinese masters.


58 posted on 01/13/2023 4:58:52 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: spincaster
You mean like Trader Joe's?

Or would that be Traitor Joe's?

59 posted on 01/13/2023 4:59:20 AM PST by OKSooner (Don't try to beat the cops at their own game.)
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To: spincaster

And a crook and a rat.


60 posted on 01/13/2023 5:03:18 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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