By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) – “Let’s face it. Vice President Biden has not been honest with the American public,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, told “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo.
“He had to know about Hunter Biden’s business financial foreign entanglements, and particularly China. He shook hands with Jonathan Li, one of his business partners.”
Johnson also pointed to an email written by Hunter Biden in 2017, asking the manager of his Washington, D.C., office building to make keys for his “office mates,” listed as Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Jim Biden and Gongwen Dong, identified as the âemissaryâ for the chairman of the now-bankrupt Chinese energy company CEFC. (The Daily Caller broke the story.)
“Now we found out that Hunter Biden wrote an e-mail to his landlord asking for keys for Joe Biden, James Biden, Gongwen Dong. The signage was supposed to reflect Hudson West, which was the CEFC USA subsidiary,” Sen. Johnson said:
Now, CEFC, that’s that Chinese company. It was taken over by the state in 2018. Its chairman just disappeared, Ye Jianming. This is an individual that had ties to the Communist Party of China, as well as the People’s Liberation Army.
These are the people, this is the business that the Bidens were fully in bed with, again, setting up an office with, to have the emissary, Gongwen Dong, get a key to that same office.
So, we are finding out more and more of how involved not only Hunter Biden was, but also James, as well as Joe Biden. And he has not been truthful with the American public. And it’s about time that the press starts asking questions.
As I said before in this election, this is not going away. This is a big mess. It’s going to be a bigger mess if it becomes a Biden presidency. And that looks like the way we’re headed.
Joe Biden has denied ever speaking to his son about Hunter’s overseas business dealings: “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,â Biden told a reporter in September 2019.
More recently, at the final presidential debate in October, Biden said, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking? China.”
Tony Bobulinksi, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, came forward after that final presidential debate to refute Biden’s assertion that his son never made money from China. Bobulinski called Joe a âliar.â
Bobulinski also described his two brief, face-to-face meetings with former Vice President Joe Biden in May 2017: “There was no other reason for me to be in that bar meeting Joe Biden than to discuss what I was doing with his family’s name and the Chinese CEFC,â he told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.
Joe Biden has not denied that such meetings took place.
Just last week, the Biden-Harris transition team released a statement announcing that Hunter Biden’s “tax affairs” are under investigation by federal prosecutors.
Simultaneously, Joe Biden issued a one-sentence statement expressing pride in his troubled son.
Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chair of the Finance Committee, have been investigating Hunter Biden’s lucrative overseas business deals for about a year now.
In September, they issued a report revealing millions of dollars in “questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
Among other things, the report highlights the following:
— Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and Peopleâs Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in questionable transactions.
— Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong that financed a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden.
Johnson said the impeachment of Donald Trump expanded his committee’s investigation into Hunter Biden:
That whole issue was brought forth during the impeachment. That’s when we started expanding our Ukrainian investigation to include his financial dealings.
And then, when we started seeing all these wire transfers that were connected to Hunter Biden — and we’re not just talking — again, Hunter said he never made a cent off of China. No, he made millions of dollars. And there are other transactions with this Hudson West company, which is on the signage.
That’s Hudson West, CEFC U.S., OK? That’s what the signage was going to be for that business. Hudson West literally has tens of millions of dollars in wire transfers back and forth. Again, I don’t know all of the details, but they are troubling to have that kind of dollars being exchanged without any answers whatsoever.
So, again, if there’s nothing wrong, I have no idea why — Hunter Biden, come on. Talk to us. Devon Archer, talk to us. James Gilliar, Rob Walker, contact our office. Tell us what you know. The American people have a right to know. And, again, this isn’t going away.
