WND By WND Staff
The investigation of Hunter Biden’s influence-peddling through foreign business deals that traded on his father’s position as vice president and the allegations that Joe Biden personally profited from them will continue, regardless of who is in the Oval Office, according to Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
Johnson said that both he and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, “are not going to turn a blind eye to this,” the Washington Examiner reported.
“I can’t speak for him, but certainly our staffs are continuing to work on this. We’ll continue to gather more information as it becomes available,” he said. “But let’s face it, as much as I was criticized by some, at a minimum, what our investigation has done by exposing this, it’s diffused, to a certain extent, some of the counterintelligence and extortion threats.”
But there likely is much more to be discovered, he said.
“I think when you’ve seen all the activity by Hunter, and you know now it’s been revealed about the fact that vice president Biden knew about some of this, you’ve got to think there’s probably additional things to be revealed,” he said. “And that, that, again, continues to be a counterintelligence, extortion threat … [which] could affect our policy towards some of these nations and, in particular, the most concerning one is China.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., already has suggested Hunter Biden should be treated similarly to Paul Manafort, Trump’s former 2016 campaign manager, who was indicted and convicted last year on tax fraud charges and the conspiracy charges that arose from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
Paul said “the law should be consistent and applied to everyone equally.”
“Was he registered as a foreign agent? That was one of the things that I think they went after Manafort on. Did he pay taxes on the money he was kind of getting from what seems like everywhere? Those are, I think, honest questions to ask and should be answered,” Paul said. “I don’t know that I have control over those we can investigate in our committee. It’s trying to find out the truth.”
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas confirmed “there are enough people, the committee chairmen,” who support the investigation.
“If there’s potential corruption in the government, this is one of the things that the American people hate the most about their government. They figure some people are in this to feather their own nest or their family’s nest. And if there is, corruption is to be exposed, and people need to be held accountable. And hopefully that will have some deterrent effect,” he said.
On October, Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, said on Fox News that Hunter Biden “may have engaged in a pay-for-play scheme, by using his father’s position in the White House as leverage, with foreign oligarchs in in Ukraine, China, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere.”
Considerable evidence also has been gleaned from a laptop Hunter Biden abandoned at a repair shop that was turned over to the FBI.
Meanwhile, Fox News reported a source has confirmed U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion attack on President Trump is going forward.
That could implicate Joe Biden, who was vice president at the time.
The Fox source said the Durham investigation remains “full steam ahead.”
The review by Durham has produced one criminal case. Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was charged with altering an email related to the surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said there will be more indictments.
President Trump already has “fully authorized the total declassification” of all documents related to the Obama administration’s Russia investigation.
