Biden family makes 'admission of corruption' in foreign business deals: China expert | Fox Business
By: Kristen Altus (Fox Business)
Biden family likely guilty of 'payoffs, influence peddling, corruption' with China: Gordon Chang
After President Biden claimed allegations of family payments from Hunter Biden's business associate are "not true," one China expert and author has signaled an "admission of corruption" from the First Family.
"The spokesperson for Hunter Biden's legal team said that, oh, this is okay because this was seed money, good faith seed money," Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang said on "Mornings with Maria" Monday. "Now, in these types of transactions, nobody pays millions of dollars without a contract."
On Thursday, GOP lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee revealed that they had obtained bank documents showing that the president's son, Hunter, the president's brother, Jim, and Hallie Biden, the widow of the president's late son, Beau, received payments from Hunter's business associate Rob Walker and their joint venture with Chinese energy firm CEFC.
A spokesperson for Hunter Biden's legal team confirmed the payments Thursday, but emphasized that the recipients' accounts "belonged to Hunter, his uncle and Hallie - nobody else."
When approached by a reporter on the White House lawn Friday, Biden denied that the payments were made, saying, "That's not true."
Then, Hunter's legal team accused Republicans of pushing a "baseless right-wing conspiracy theory" with a spokesperson stating the capital was part of "good faith seed funds."
Alleged Biden family payouts from Chinese business dealings doesn't happen without "payoffs, influence peddling and, yes, corruption," Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang said on "Mornings with Maria" Monday. (Fox News)
"This is essentially an admission of corruption, and I'm sure that the House Oversight Committee is going to follow up on this. But this doesn't happen in the real world in the absence of payoffs, influence peddling and, yes, corruption," Chang said.
As part of the Oversight Committee's "Biden Family Investigation," Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., reportedly subpoenaed financial records which revealed that, on March 1, 2017, less than two months after then-Vice President Joe Biden left office, State Energy HK Limited, a separate Chinese company, wired $3 million to Robinson Walker, LLC.
According to a committee memo, "Biden family members and their companies began receiving incremental payments over a period of approximately three months" from Mr. Walker.
"This is essentially an admission of corruption… this doesn't happen in the real world in the absence of payoffs, influence peddling and, yes, corruption."
- Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute senior fellow
"In the beginning, the White House denied having any knowledge or the fact that their family was involved in any sort of way, shape or form with the CCP. But now we have bank records that reveal otherwise," Rep. Comer told host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "We don't know what the Bidens did in return for this money. The lawyer said that it was seed capital for a business. We haven't been able to find a business. Right now it looks like the Biden family just pocketed this money."
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Fox News' Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
Okay, let's hear the utter outrage about President Biden outright LYING about the payments.
Oh, never mind, hypocrites will ignore this.
No no no no. The hypocrites are all over this, starting with James Comer and FoxNews. If there is a crime here then it needs to be prosecuted. I expect all the Bidens, including Major, to be indicted any day now.
There's no rush. Democrats have been after Trump for at least 7 years now. Still no indictment.
Yup. Republicans will get to it in time, I'm sure. I'm surprised that Jim Jordan hasn't hauled Obama admin people yet to testify on bugging Trump's microwave. Surely it's on the list?
Interesting, but not nearly as meaty as the Russian collusion scheme dreamt up by leftists!
Don't hold your breath with the pile of human refuse Garland as DOJ.
Remember when Democrats were screaming for a special prosecutor for Trump over their BS Russian collusion hoax? They got their wishes; and the most partisan TDS investigative team they could possibly assemble of Clinton and Obama surrogates and backers. Leaks abounded; and lies even more.
Well Hunter has been under investigation for well over three damn years now by the Delaware, DA working in conjunction Garland and the DOJ. Could they slow walk this case any more? They have stopped the investigation twice for federal elections. Where is the damn special prosecutor?
Think they would have given the same consideration to Trump? Hell no, it would have been leaked several thousand times over; complete with faux informants being reused countless times by media outlets.
WTF are they waiting for? They have Hunter's business partners are cutting deals to avoid prosecution and turning evidence. They have stated repeatedly that "the Big Guy" is Brandon when it comes to receiving payouts. They have countless tags from the FED on the Brandon family's business dealings overseas and money transfers. I am sure Garland will allow charges to be pressed sometime after Brandon completes his second stint as POTUS, or he dies; whichever comes first.
Of course Hunter is acting like the spoiled political brat he is. Wonder where he got the self entitlement from?/S
Takes a lot of gall to defend the Brandon family.
Jimmy's buddy, Johnny D had been there and done that and came up empty. But maybe that horse isn't dead yet?
Came up as empty as Bob Mueller, did he?
Takes a lot of willpower to care. I don't have it... I wouldn't lose much sleep if any politician past, present or near future gets carted off in handcuffs. If they committed an actual crime, get indicted, have a trial and are sentenced and appeals upheld then they system did it's job. IF not, I'm not I'm not privy to all the information and I won't jump to conclusions as to guilt, or innocence.
and FYI - I care less about some politician's grown ass adult kid less than I care about the politician himself.
Why are you keeping score here? Partisans are doing partisan things and they keep doing/saying partisan things for partisan reasons. There's probably some truths in there, but again they get lost in the noise of partisanship.
Oh, jeeze.
Most people are partisans.
And many others lie about not being partisan.
Sounds like something a partisan would say.
Yeah, I won't lie and claim to be non-partisan.
So what?
How does that change the facts?
Good for you!
Yeah? So what?
Facts are facts. Nothing changes facts. What are the facts, in context to the article?
Anything else?
Joe Biden lied.
He said the payments didn't happen.
Probably. I mean the way he worded it, it most certainly seems to be. Is it evidence of a crime? No, it's only Monday and another lie for Joe, or any politician for that matter isn't particularly noteworthy. YOU know the Dems don't care about Joe's lies anymore than the Reps care about McCarthy's lies so where does that leave those of us caught in the middle? Other than both sides accusing us of NOT being in the middle?
Hundreds of articles and thousands of posts say otherwise.
I think the actual numbers of hair-on-fire articles and posts in contrast to real world actions and facts precisely backup my point. But I'll see myself out and all you partisans can continue to tilt at each other's windmills.
Adios!
See you tomorrow. I'll bring the beer.
Gee, Joe Biden is STILL denying that his family received payments.
What word are Democrats using to describe President Biden's lies nowadays?
"Misspoke" again seems a tad out-of-date!
The word you are looking for is "Monday".
That's kind of uninspired.
No offense meant but I feel we can do better.
After President Biden claimed allegations of family payments from Hunter Biden's business associate are "not true,
He says this after the bank records are made public. He knows he can tell the most preposterous lies and his acolytes in his party will parrot them.
Along with a compliant media.
This is where both the partisans (both dumbass parties) have shot themselves in the foot. When they ramp up things to circus level bullshit, but then trip over the ONE THING, it gets lost in the noise. We'll see if this has legs though... It's certainly a piss poor look for Uncle Joe, though we are talking about Biden here and not week goes by where something doesn't make him look piss poor.
So what do we have here? A compilation of FOX, Maria Bartiromo, Gordon Chang and the Gatestone Institute ... one and all bastions of integrity. @!@
If you have any FACTS to dispute what is written here and not just whining about the source, please do present them at this time.
If you do not, please leave or make some worthwhile contribution.
When you can't disute the facts go after the source.
Pretty weak, isn't it?
Might as well come out and just say they got nothing else!
What facts? The seeded article is nothing but opinion and speculation.
The Congressional Republicans have banking info from Hunter Biden businesses and two members of the Biden family received payments from Hunter's business associate Rob Walker.
He would know that had he read the article.
and? the congressional republicans word on what this means is worth next to nothing. why are you trusting the congressional republicans?
it sounds like you are giving factual credence to what the congressional republicans are saying. i will wait to see what this information means to people who can be trusted to be honest.
Sounds like you are reading into things I typed that aren't there. OR are you trying to tell me that the House Oversight Committee doesn't have Hunter Biden's business banking records?
That would be prudent, but that would mean you would need to keep an open mind and maybe at some point acknowledge there may be something there we don't know yet.
of course there could be something there we dont know yet. i just dont trust the republican committees to accurately depict it. their tenure has been a disaster so far.
But then they wouldn't get the "look at me" moment. Unfortunately, that "look at me" moment is the person looking like a 3 year old throwing a fit.
Then prove it as such. Don't just flap your gums, for once, back up your claim.
Now why would they do something like that?
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If those without legitimate arguments want to bitch and whine about the source, please seed your own damn article and bitch away on it.
The source is NOT the topic.
Joe Biden deliberately lied and his sycophants think the SOURCE is a problem?
WTF are y'all thinking??
Is anyone disputing that Biden deliberately LIED?
Is anyone disputing the fact that Biden family members received large sums for well, basically, nothing?