Judicial Watch wants to know where Hunter Biden has been.
The conservative watchdog group announced on Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit with the Department of Homeland Security seeking Biden’s international and domestic travel records during the time that he was under Secret Service protection.
The lawsuit comes after Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act with the Secret Service in February. The group decided to move forward with legal action after it said the Secret Service, which falls under the DHS, did not “respond to repeated follow-up efforts by Judicial Watch to discuss the incomplete response.”
“The records produced with the incomplete response shows that, for the first five and a half years of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a Secret Service protective detail,” the group said in a news release. “The records show that, between January 31, 2011 and July 8, 2014, Hunter Biden received Secret Service protection for 411 separate domestic and international trips, including to 29 different foreign countries. He received protection while visiting China five times.”
Judicial Watch said the Secret Service response was “incomplete” because it didn’t include Biden’s travel after July 8, 2014, despite his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, leaving office after President Trump was inaugurated in 2017.
Questions about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China were raised during the impeachment investigation into Trump. The president and some GOP lawmakers have accused Joe Biden of improperly using his position to urge Ukraine to back off investigating Ukrainian energy company Burisma, a firm that employed Hunter Biden.
“Given the Burisma-Ukraine-China influence-peddling scandals, Hunter Biden’s extensive international travel during the Obama-Biden presidency, including at least five trips to China, raises serious questions about where else he traveled in the final two and a half years of the Obama administration,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
Judicial Watch is not the only group looking for information about Hunter Biden’s whereabouts. Right after Trump was acquitted of two articles of impeachment earlier this year, GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said they “requested Hunter Biden’s official travel records from the U.S. Secret Service as a part of their ongoing probe into potential conflicts of interest.”
Joe Biden, who is set to face off against Trump in the November presidential election, has labeled any accusations of wrongdoing on his or his son’s part as “false, debunked conspiracy theories.”
