Newly discovered photos show President Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners in China while he served as vice president, drawing further scrutiny over his claim that he “never” discussed business with his son.
The photographs, obtained by conservative-leaning America First Legal through litigation against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), appear to show then-Vice President Biden introducing his son to Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanchao. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter’s business partners from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.
“These images shed light on connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and his Chinese business partners, and Chinese government officials, including President Xi Jinping,” America First Legal said in a Press release this week. “Attorneys and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs, as they did with other records, until after Election Day.”
“These photos corroborate the conclusions of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation that hunter biden arranged a meeting for his father with Jonathan Li and other BHR executives during the 2013 China trip, where ‘Mr. Li sought, and received, access to Vice President Biden’s political power, including, for example, preferential access to then-US ambassador to China Max Baucus… a condition for Hunter Biden and his associates to participate in the BHR deal.’ “America First Legal wrote.
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America First Legal also wrote that, according to the committee’s investigation, “the Biden family benefited from their business dealings with BHR.”
Hunter Biden was asked earlier this year by the House Oversight Committee about his meetings while traveling to Asia with his father.
“When we came back from an event to the hotel, there was a rope and Jonathan Li was in the lobby of the hotel where I was going to meet him for coffee,” Hunter Biden said at the time. “Along that line, I introduced my dad to Jonathan Li and a friend of his, and they shook hands and I think they probably took a photo. And then my dad went up to his room and I went to have coffee with Jonathan Li.”
Hunter Biden added that he didn’t tell his father “anything” about who Li was.
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any involvement in his son’s businesses.
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“I have never talked to my son about his business abroad.” joe biden said in the 2019 presidential campaign.
But emails sent to and from Hunter Biden have cast doubt on that, including a 2017 email obtained by Fox News showing Hunter requesting keys for Joe and Jill Biden, along with their uncle, Jim Bidenfor the space he planned to share with an “emissary” of the president of a now-bankrupt Chinese energy company.
In another 2017 email also obtained by Fox News, Biden wrote to the president of the same Chinese energy company extending “best wishes to the entire Biden family” and urging the president to “quickly” send a $10 million wire transfer. to “adequately finance and operate.” Biden’s joint venture with the company.
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Devon Archer, a former business partner and longtime friend of Hunter Biden, sat for hours before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door hearing last year and contradicted the president’s claim, saying Hunter put his father on loudspeaker while meeting at least with business partners. 20 times.
Archer described how they put Joe Biden on the phone to sell “the brand.”
The photos drew heavy criticism on social media in light of President Biden’s frequent claims that he never discussed business with his son.
“Amazing,” Red State writer Bonchie published in X.
“These photographs are incredibly damning and say it all,” says author and journalist Peter Schweizer. published in X.
“It is a shame that only through litigation, and only at the end of the Biden administration, can his corruption over ties to the Chinese Communist Party be fully brought to light,” said Real Clear Politics editor Benjamin Weingarten. published in X.
“The Biden Crime Family Christmas card just dropped,” said Republican Rep. Eric Burlison. published in X.
“China has the Bidens in its back pocket,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton published in X.
Newly discovered photos of the Bidens’ meeting with Hunter’s Chinese business partners renew scrutiny of an email exchange previously reported by Fox News Digital. 2014 email exchange reveals Hunter Biden once said he would be “happy” to introduce his business partners to a senior Chinese Communist Party official to discuss potential investments after that official allegedly sat across Hunter’s table during a dinner in Beijing in 2013 to welcome her father. then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Hunter’s 2014 email exchange with James Bulger referred to the same trip to China referenced in the America First Legal press release.
Bulger, who goes by “Jimmy,” served as president of Boston-based Thornton Group LLC, a firm that joined forces with Hunter’s now-defunct Rosemont Seneca to launch its joint venture with Chinese investment firm Bohai Capital to create BHR Partners shortly after. The Bidens traveled to China. BHR Partners is controlled by Bank of China Limited.
In the 2014 email, Bulger asked Hunter to introduce BHR CEO Jonathan Li and Andy Lu, who was a BHR committee member, to “Mr. Tung,” which refers to CH Tung, Former Hong Kong governor and billionaire who served as vice president. chairman of the CCP-linked Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, to discuss “BHR’s investment objectives” and “fund-raising.”
The email alleged that Hunter sat next to Tung at the December 2013 dinner to welcome Vice President Joe Biden to Beijing. Fox News Digital previously contacted the White House several times to request the seating plan for the Beijing dinner, specifically Hunter’s table, but did not respond.
“I understand that during the trip to Beijing you took with your father, President Xi hosted a welcome dinner,” Bulger wrote. “[A]At that dinner, you were seated right next to Mr. Tung, so J and Andy think it would be very helpful if you could send a short email to Mr. Tung explaining that you are a partner and board member of BHR. and that I would appreciate Mr Tung if he could meet with his local partners to discuss the Fund.
“Please let me know if you can introduce these two to Mr. Tung via email. It is very important to our BHR initiative. [sic] at the moment.”
Hunter responded that he was “happy” to comply with the request, but said he did not remember the names of the gentlemen who sat next to him at dinner.
It appears that the Beijing “welcome dinner” hosted by President Xi that Bulger referenced in his initial email it happened during the afternoon on December 4, 2013, after then-Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with Joe Biden earlier that day to discuss strengthening US-China relations.
President Biden pardoned his son earlier this month for any crimes potentially committed dating back to 2014.
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“Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden wrote in a statement at the time. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Department of Justice’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted.
“There has been an effort to break Hunter, who has been sober for five and a half years, even in the face of relentless attacks and selective prosecution,” the 82-year-old father wrote. “In trying to break Hunter, they have tried to break me, and there is no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
Fox News Digital has previously contacted to the White House about why the pardon was so broad but got no response.
“Even though President Biden has forgiven his son, Hunter, for anything he has committed or may have committed or participated in since 2014, more evidence is emerging every day showing how his family took advantage of “The race still Joe Biden’s longest tenure in public office for private benefit,” America First general counsel Michael Ding said in a statement.
“America First Legal will not stop fighting to uncover the full story of Biden family corruption.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, Hunter Biden’s legal team and the Chinese businessmen in the photos, but did not receive any comment.
Fox News Digital’s Jessica Chasmar Brooke Singman and Tyler Olson contributed to this report.