Biden family makes 'admission of corruption' in foreign business deals: China expert | Fox Business
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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.
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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.
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. @!@
When you can't disute the facts go after the source.
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.
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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