A former business partner of Hunter Biden said during closed-door testimony on Tuesday before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees that he "has the receipts" to prove President Joe Biden's involvement in his family's business dealings.
Tony Bobulinski, a retired US Navy lieutenant, testified in October that he worked with Hunter and the president's brother, James Biden, to create the joint venture SinoHawk Holdings with Chinese government-linked company CEFC China Energy.
Former Business Partner of Hunter Biden Says Joe Biden Is 'the Brand' Being Sold by the Biden Family
Tony Bobulinski, who became a key figure in the Republicans' impeachment probe into Joe Biden, delivered scathing remarks about the president during the House impeachment inquiry deposition on Tuesday, the New York Post reported.
In his opening statement, the former CEO of SinoHawk Holdings said that from his "direct personal experience" and what he has "subsequently come to learn," it is "clear" that the president was "the Brand being sold by the Biden family."
"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. 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 said.
"The only reason any of these international business transactions took place-with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family-was because Joe Biden was in high office. The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period," he added.
According to Bobulinski, he met the former vice president in Los Angeles in May 2017 "multiple times to discuss the broad contours of our business dealings." Last December, Bobulinski told Fox News that Biden was "blatantly lying to the American people and the world by claiming that he did not meet with me face to face."
"He should call his son Hunter and brother Jim as they can remind him of the facts. The American people deserve the truth. I call on Mr. Biden to stop lying and correct the record," he added.
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Former Business Partner of Hunter Biden Says He Has the 'Receipts' to Prove Joe Biden's Business Dealings
Tony Bobulinski told the House committees that some of the money from the business deal with the CEFC China Energy that involved Hunter Biden made its way to his father and he has the "receipts" to support his claim, Newsweek reported.
"Hunter Biden's lawyers should focus their energy on the facts and the extensive indictments Hunter is fighting versus creating smoke screens and distractions with their empty threats," Bobulinski noted.
"I have only told the truth, I continue to tell the truth, I have the facts and, as we will discuss today, I also have the receipts to back them up," he added.
He said his claims were also backed by "emails, texts, documents, records, pictures, and other evidence." According to Bobulinski, Joe Biden "was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it, and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began."
"This is because CEFC had been identified as a known surrogate of the Chinese Communist Party by the U.S. Government and prosecutors in the Southern District of New York as far back as 2016, possibly earlier," he noted.
According to Bobulinski, the Biden family members "were enriched to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from some of our most dangerous adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party and players from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan, and other foreign nations and entities."
He then urged congressional investigators to "remove your partisan hats today and focus on one party: the United States of America."
He also asked them to "hold the complicit parties, including Joe Biden, accountable for their actions, as well as enact new laws that prevent this kind of deep corruption from ever happening again."
Fox News reported that Bobulinski initially came forward with his story about the alleged involvement of the president in his family's business deals weeks before the presidential election in 2020.
House Republicans have been focusing on Hunter's business deals to prove that his father was involved in his family's business dealings, which is the center of the ongoing probe.
However, there is no evidence yet of any wrongdoing by the president. Biden, his son, Hunter, and the White House have maintained that the president was not involved in the family's business dealings.
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