Senator Chuck Grassley is now claiming that the FBI has evidence linking President Joe Biden to Hunter Biden’s shady business activities abroad. That’s big news because, back in 2019, Biden claimed when being pressed on the matter by Peter Doocy that he had never spoken to Hunter about his business activities, saying:
“I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. Here’s what I know — I know Trump deserves to be investigated… You should be looking at Trump. Trump’s doing this because he knows I’ll beat him like a drum.”
Joe Biden: "I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. Here's what I know — I know Trump deserves to be investigated… You should be looking at Trump. Trump's doing this because he knows I'll beat him like a drum." https://t.co/yrMdiaBli8 pic.twitter.com/yGhipRo1ew
— The Hill (@thehill) September 21, 2019
Biden later reiterated that claim on the campaign trail, saying “I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period. And what I will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and private [business interests] and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. And I’m going to propose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That’s why I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests. Period.”
Despite that claim on Biden’s part, Sen. Grassley is claiming that the FBI has evidence that Biden did in fact know what Hunter was up to. He announced as much when speaking before the first “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government” hearing. During that, he said that whistleblowers have made “clear the FBI has within its possession very significant, impactful, and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter and James Biden.”
Continuing, he then said “These disclosures also allege that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them.”
That is commensurate with what Tony Bobulinski, one of the main figures in the Hunter Biden laptop drama, claimed. He told reporters that he had been introduced to Joe Biden by Hunter Biden and discussed business plans regarding communist China with Joe, saying:
“On May 2nd, 2017, the night before Joe Biden was to appear at the Milken conference, I was introduced to Joe Biden by [his brother] Jim Biden and Hunter Biden. at my approximately hour-long meeting with Joe that night, we discussed the Bidens history, the Bidens’ family business plans with the Chinese, with which he was plainly familiar, at least at a high level.”
“I have heard Joe Biden say he’s never discussed the business with Hunter — that is false. I have firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden.”
By: Will Tanner. Follow me on Twitter @Will_Tanner_1