By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog
When Hunter Biden got wire transfers from China, they went to Joe Biden’s address.
In
the summer of 2019, while Joe Biden was running for president, the
money was rolling into Delaware from Communist China. This was the same
Wilmington house where classified documents were lying around while
Hunter Biden was living while allegedly spending hundreds of thousands
of dollars on prostitutes: some of them apparently foreign nationals.
On paperwork, Hunter appeared to claim
ownership of the house and in 2010, he had begun paying for the upkeep
of the house and his veep dad’s bills. By the time Jonathan Li, the CEO
of BHR, was sending a $250,000 wire payment
to Joe Biden’s address, the former vice president and future president
had already met with the Chinese investment exec doing business with his
family and had written recommendation letters for his kids.
The $250,000 Chinese wire was described as a “loan”. But how was Hunter, by then approaching rock bottom, going to pay it off? Where was the money coming from?
The
debt was assumed by Kevin Morris, a Hollywood lawyer who has protected
and paid for most of Hunter’s needs, after allegedly meeting him at a
Joe Biden fundraiser that same year. A whistleblower alleges that in
2021 the CIA tried to block the IRS from interviewing Morris.
When the Biden clan was getting millions in payments from Chinese interests many of which, like Li, Joe Biden had personal contact with,
through a web of shell companies, and then portions of the money were
passed along to the future president as “loan repayments”, did he really
know nothing about the process that brought the money from China to his
wallet?
There are two Joe Bidens.
There is the famous
passage from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report stating that “at trial,
Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our
interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a
poor memory.” The phrasing is crucial. It does not state that Biden has a
poor memory, but rather that he presents himself.
And there is
the other Joe Biden who was on the receiving end of a complex financial
scheme. There is the seeming loving father pained by Hunter’s addiction
who also used him for money and had him taking all the legal risks while
leaving his only surviving son dangerously exposed.
Politicians
and public figures are not one person, but two. Biden is the elderly
president with a failing mind, who arranged for an unpopular vice
president incapable of replacing him. He is the grieving husband who
cheated on his first wife, before her death, with his current wife. He
is the loving father who dragged his kids into politics from the moment
he staged a photo op in the hospital after they were in the accident
that killed their mother, and went right on using them.
Joe Biden
had spent much of his later career in politics building relationships
with China. He could not however directly take advantage of them. That’s
what his family was for. They took the risks, they got a bunch of the
money and a percentage was to be reserved for the “Big Guy”.
One Biden claimed to know nothing about it while the other cashed the checks.
Biden’s
interactions with his brother and son’s clients had been calculated to
create an atmosphere of ambiguity into which foreign businessmen could
read corrupt implications, without providing any clear evidence of
wrongdoing. But would that have been enough?
The underlying
question is why would a series of savvy, influential and successful
Chinese business leaders have been sending large payments to the Biden
family? Had they been taken in by a clever con, of Joe shaking their
hands, chatting with them and seeming to imply a connection with the
Biden family enterprises without discussing details, and got nothing for
it?
How many Chinese businessmen could have fallen for that scam and for how long? And if nothing came from it then why, over a decade later, is there still a Biden financial link with BHR?
The alternative is that the Chinese money men didn’t get conned, the American people did.
The money wasn’t just coming from any companies, but from, in the words
of the House Oversight Committee, “Chinese nationals and companies with
significant ties to Chinese intelligence and the Chinese Communist
Party.” They were not suckers and not stupid. In a cutthroat oligarchy
where the price of failure is not just debt, but prison and death,
Chinese executives are much sharper, less naive and a whole lot less
trusting than any of our own.
It is a safe bet that they knew what they were paying for. And they made sure that they got it.
When
Joe Biden was out of office, he was at best a speculative investment,
but once he was on the path to the White House, his stock was rising and
the Chinese money was buying influence.
30% of BHR had been
turned over to Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca firm. Hunter stayed on the
BHR board until the fall of 2019. After political pressure, it was
announced that Hunter Biden had resigned from BHR, but by 2021, Hunter was still “working to unwind his investment” which were apparently turned over to Kevin Morris who still represents Hunter’s interests.
Backed
by the state-owned Bank of China, BHR was not run by fools or suckers.
And yet throughout all of Hunter’s publicized troubles the relationship
continued and still continues at a distance. And that relationship
represents a potential open door for the Bidens and China.
As Joe
Biden risks becoming a one-term president, he is in much the same
situation that he was in 2016, looking at a career dead end and needing
ways to monetize his time in the White House.
Now and then, Biden needs Communist China and China needs Joe Biden.
And
so through every Chinese hostile act, including hacks, spy balloons and
military brinkmanship, Joe Biden has prioritized China’s interests over
America’s. Some critics claim that Joe Biden, like a lot of
politicians, is a sucker for maintaining a relationship with China at
any cost. But is Joe Biden protecting America’s relationship with China
or his own relationship?
American presidents are expected to
represent national interests, not personal or foreign ones, but when a
politician has a $250,000 wire from China made out to his address,
personal interests become foreign ones, presidents become puppets, and
policy becomes pay-to-play.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.
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