{"id":4321,"date":"2023-06-26T13:47:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/06\/26\/gop-claims-biden-was-involved-in-hunters-deals-and-that-white-house-spent-250k\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:47:03","slug":"gop-claims-biden-was-involved-in-hunters-deals-and-that-white-house-spent-250k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/gop-claims-biden-was-involved-in-hunters-deals-and-that-white-house-spent-250k\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP claims Biden WAS involved in Hunter’s deals and that White House spent $250K"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Republicans are claiming that President Joe Biden<\/a> was involved in his son Hunter’s controversial foreign business deals, which allegedly spans 50 different countries, lawmakers said in a press conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It comes one day after the GOP<\/a> clinched 218 seats in the House of Representatives<\/a>, cementing their majority – and investigative powers – in the next Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The president has long denied involvement in and knowledge of his son’s foreign dealings – some of which are being investigated by federal authorities.<\/p>\n

But Rep. James Comer accused Biden of being ‘chairman of the board’ of his family’s business dealings and even claimed the White House spent more than $250,000 to deflect negative stories about Hunter.<\/a><\/p>\n

‘This is an investigation of Joe Biden,’ he said. ‘I think we’ve laid out the evidence as to why we feel it’s important, and we’re going to move forward with that.’<\/p>\n

He said later, ‘We’re trying to stay focused on – was Joe Biden directly involved with Hunter Biden’s business deals, and is he compromised?’<\/p>\n

Comer said he’d even like members of the Biden family to testify before the House when asked, but said the main focus of their probe right now was to access bank records.<\/p>\n

‘As part of our investigation, we have evidence that the finances, credit cards, and bank accounts of Hunter and Joe Biden were commingled, if not shared,’ the Republican lawmaker said.<\/p>\n

‘One of Hunter’s closest associates, Eric Schwerin, was accessing Joe Biden’s money and writing checks to reimburse Hunter.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hunter Biden’s business dealings are the subject of the House GOP’s first announced investigation of the party’s new majority in Congress’ lower chamber<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rep. James Comer led the press conference, where he made clear that the the president himself was the target of the House GOP’s probe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lawmakers used visuals to make their case, largely consisting of still images purportedly recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep. Jim Jordan stand in front of a blown up email with redactions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He said some accounts linked to the Biden family raised ‘red flags’ about ‘suspicious or illegal activity.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least one of those red flags, known as ‘SARs,’ allegedly ‘connects Hunter Biden and his business associates to international human trafficking, among other illegal activities,’ Comer said.<\/p>\n

‘We have repeatedly called on the Biden Treasury Department to release additional financial documents to committee Republicans, but thus far Treasury has refused,’ the lawmaker said. ‘We want to know what the Biden administration has tried to hide from the American people and why they are not being transparent.’<\/p>\n

Hunter ally Schwerin was reportedly head of the president’s son’s company and handed the majority of his finances – and appointed to a position within the Obama administration, when Joe Biden was vice president.<\/p>\n

‘After an apparent falling out with Schwerin, Hunter began coordinating business himself – and increasingly the deals brought in Joe Biden as a direct equity holder,’ Comer said.<\/p>\n

He claimed Hunter went a step further and tried to get these bank alerts quashed – allegedly with the help of a Clinton administration official.<\/p>\n

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Some of the same slides were used in an email to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding access to Biden family bank records<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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‘JOE WAS THE BIG GUY’: HOUSE REPUBLICAN ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE BIDEN FAMILY\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n
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