Tony Bobulinski, former business partner of Hunter Biden, will testify before Congress on Tuesday and allege the Biden family peddled President Joe Biden‘s influence to China and Ukraine, calling the sitting president an “enabler” in the process.
“It is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the brand’ being sold by the Biden family,” Bobulinski said in his opening statement, obtained by the Washington Examiner. “His family’s foreign influence peddling operation — from China to Ukraine and elsewhere — sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.”
Bobulinski, who worked with the first son to form the joint venture SinoHawk Holdings with Chinese energy company CEFC after Joe Biden left the vice presidency, offered testimony behind closed doors at the House Oversight and Judiciary committees on Tuesday.
Bobulinski, who met Joe Biden in 2017, planned to tell the committees details about the Chinese business arrangement that he had already attempted to share with the FBI in 2020.
“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,” Bobulinski added in his opening statement.
Bobulinski’s testimony comes after Rob Walker, one of the first son’s longtime business associates, told Congress in a recent closed-door interview that the first son was the face of their joint dealings with a Chinese energy conglomerate because of his recognizable name.
House Republicans are conducting the interviews as part of their impeachment inquiry. Bobulinski also planned to argue his efforts to “inform the American people of the facts have been actively suppressed by both the United States government and the so-called ‘mainstream’ media.”
Bobulinski further alleged in his statement that the operation between him and the first son began in 2015 and continued until March 2018 — when CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming “was detained for corruption in China, never to be seen again.”
The ex-business partner to the president’s son is expected to face scrutiny from Democrats, including Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD), who wrote in a letter on Monday that Bobulinski’s prior claims have been “refuted” by Walker.
But Republicans say Bobulinski’s claims should not be ignored after the ex-business partner claimed law enforcement has been “singularly unwilling to speak with me or hear the facts” he plans to share with the committee.
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Despite the former business partners to the first son who have attempted to discredit Bobulinski’s claims, one of the strongest pieces of evidence Bobulinski has offered is a May 2017 email that he exchanged with Hunter Biden and some fellow business partners. During a discussion over an equity arrangement for a deal involving Chinese energy interests, an associate involved in the deal wrote in an email that the equity split could involve “10 held by H for the big guy,” referring to a 10% stake to be held by Hunter Biden for his father.
The Biden administration, along with the president and his son, has maintained that the president was involved in his family’s business dealings.
