'Secrecy' Around Biden's Meetings With Hunter’s Associates May Hide 'Important Evidence’ - Schweizer
Reports which have just come to light cast fresh doubt on President Joe Biden’s claims that he knew nothing of the dubious business dealings of his son, Hunter, who now faces federal prosecution for alleged tax fraud and illegal foreign lobbying.
SputnikPresident Joe Biden's secrecy surrounding
his meetings with his son Hunter’s business partners may indicate an attempt to conceal "hugely important" evidence, American political consultant and writer Peter Schweizer believes.
The author of 'Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win' pointed to fresh reports citing the White House’s archived visitor logs revealing that Chinese officials visited the White House during Biden's tenure as vice-president.
Appearing on Fox News’ segment of "Sunday Morning Futures" alongside contributor Miranda Devine, Schweizer said:
“It's very clear … there were, in the laptop and in the other email collections we have … instances where Chinese officials - this includes CCP officials and businessmen - came to the White House in 2011, and they appear in the White House visitor's logs meeting with certain officials.”
The emails, originally cited by The New York Post, were part of a trove of data contained on a laptop that Hunter Biden left behind at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, highlighting his shady foreign business dealings and hinting at the possibility that he had hawked access to his father, then vice-president in the Barack Obama administration. Biden, now president himself, has consistently denied ever having any knowledge of the business dealings of his son, Hunter, who faces federal prosecution for alleged tax fraud, money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying.
“There's no mention of a meeting with vice-president Joe Biden, but if you go back and look at their social media and some of their web statements, they indicate that they did, in fact, meet with vice-president Joe Biden at that time, and when you trace it back, you see that there was a meeting that was on the official White House visitors log in one room and Joe Biden's office was next door,” continued Schweizer.
Schweizer, who is also founder and president of the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a senior contributor to the media outlet Breitbart, described the revelations as “extremely troubling”.
“…Because what it means is they're trying to conceal who Joe Biden is actually meeting with,” the investigative author added.
“So this is a pattern when political figures are trying to hide who they're meeting with, especially when those officials are business partners or prospective business partners of their family members. That, to me, is hugely important evidence to show what's really going on in this scheme,” Schweizer emphasised.
Schweizer discussed the President's possible ties to his son Hunter's business dealings on Fox News after a fresh report in The New York Post citing White House visitor logs.
It revealed that Joe Biden, as vice-president, met with Eric Schwerin, his son Hunter Biden’s leading investment partner, on 17 November 2010 in the West Wing.
Schwerin had made at least 19 such visits to the WH between 2009 and 2015.
The logs suggest that Schwerin, then president of the since-dissolved
investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners, met with a succession of close aides of both Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, around the same time as their son Hunter was negotiating multi-million dollar deals abroad, including in China.
Private equity firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, founded in 2009 by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz, the stepson of former US Secretary of State John Kerry, and financier Devon Archer, has been at the centre of a number of investigations concerning the younger Biden’s offshore financial practices.
Thus, emails from Hunter Biden's now-notorious “laptop from Hell” have shed light on a series of exchanges between him and his associates in Rosemont Seneca’s joint venture with Chinese investment firms Bohai Capital and Bohai Harvest RST (BHR).
According to hard-drive emails from the computer, Schwerin handled Joe Biden’s “Delaware tax refund check” and discussed the-then vice-president’s financial affairs with him.
Further revelations point to an intriguing timeline. In August 2011 Joe Biden arrived in China for three days of high level meetings with top leaders, including future Chinese President Xi Jinping. Shortly afterwards, on 22 August, Schwerin, according to visitor logs, had a meeting in the West Wing with Kellen Suber Lott, an executive assistant to Joe Biden.
In another juxtaposition of log dates and itineraries, in 2013, when Hunter Biden and Chinese businessman Jonathan Li negotiated the establishment of the BHR Partners firm in the month of June, Schwerin visited the WH in March and May, meeting with Joe Biden assistant Kathy Chung and Biden's Director of Administration Faisal Amin.
All the latest email revelations are part of the original trove of data contained on the laptop that Hunter Biden abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in 2019.
Although it was first dismissed as "Russian disinformation" by mainstream media outlets, The New York Times finally confirmed last month that the laptop had been “authenticated by people familiar with” the emails in the cache on the computer’s drive. The acknowledgement came as part of the ongoing Justice Department probe into Hunter Biden’s alleged tax fraud and money laundering.
But after the
trove of data shed light on links which Hunter and Joe Biden had to a range of unethical and potentially illegal activity, and in the wake of ever-emerging evidence, Republicans have been increasingly urging that the Bidens be investigated for corruption.
“The press should be asking why Hunter Biden’s business associates, such as Schwerin, had that privilege and were given access to the Obama White House. This is additional evidence that Joe Biden lied when he said he never discussed Hunter’s foreign business dealings. It’s well past time for the corporate media to demand the truth from Joe Biden. The corruption of Biden Inc. must be exposed,” Ron Johnson, a Republican senator of Wisconsin, was cited as saying.