WaPo: Inside Hunter Biden's multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company

[Algernon Moncrieff]

Washington Post

While many aspects of Hunter Biden’s financial arrangement with CEFC China Energy have been previously reported and were included in a Republican-led Senate report from 2020, a Washington Post review confirmed many of the key details and found additional documents showing Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.

Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.

The Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020.

But the new documents — which include a signed copy of a $1 million legal retainer, emails related to the wire transfers, and $3.8 million in consulting fees that are confirmed in new bank records and agreements signed by Hunter Biden — illustrate the ways in which his family profited from relationships built over Joe Biden’s decades in public service.

[Bettie]

1. So, are they going to talk about Ivanka's patents

and the huge pile of cash she made while supposedly working in the White House?

[gratuitous]

4. Oh, see, that's too complicated to explain

Besides, that family is out of the White House now, so the Post feels no obligation to go through the business dealings of a private citizen.

[EndlessWire]

5. And I have always wanted to know

what happened to the billion bucks that Saudi Arabia promised tRump, and the million dollars they promised to give to Ivanka's "charity." Let's investigate that.

[LenaBaby61]

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[SoonerPride]

2. So?

I fail to see the significance of this.

[Walleye]

7. That was my first reaction.

[LenaBaby61]

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[Johnny2X2X]

3. Hunter did nothing wrong either

There is nothing wrong with consulting foreign companies and being paid for it. Even if your parent is in politics.

[EndlessWire]

9. Yeah

At least they didn't say he was selling citizenships to Chinese fat cats, like Ivanka did.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

21. There is another point that should not be lost

Hunter Biden had no clue his dad would become President in 2020 back in 2015/2016. As far as he knew at that time, his dad's Vice Presidency was the capstone of a long political career, and that he'd most likely ease into retirement. Ex pols have found it to be profitable to do three things: lobby, speak in public, and sit on boards. This looked like Biden's future back in 2016. Even when it became clear that Trump was not universally popular and not very competent, it was not clear that Joe Biden would be getting back into politics. That didn't become clear until 2020 when it was clear no other candidate on our party that was able to get broad traction.

Would i have preferred that Hunter Biden had made multi million dollar deals in Silicone Valley. Frankly, yes. But there is nothing illegal about doing business overseas unless you are talking about someplace like Iran or Cuba.

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. I mean, if there's any money he didn't declare for tax purposes...

...maybe there's criminal liability there.

But simply doing private business in and of itself isn't criminal. Perhaps cashing in on the family name isn't the most ethical thing to do, but what's legal and what's ethical are not always one in the same.

So unless there was some effort to hide money in violation of US financial laws, so what?

[lame54]

8. The speed at which they are putting this case together...

Compared to the be patient pace of Trump's obvious crimes

[onecaliberal]

10. What case?

[lame54]

12. Never said it was legit...

But they are doing their best to make it appear so

[Emile]

11. Maybe it's time to prosecute the Trump Crime Family for all their dirty deals

around the world!

[The Unmitigated Gall]

13. Standard republiscum Operating Procedure

Mis-characterize legal activities of your opponent as inappropriate and shady, while doing all sorts of illegal shit right out in the open.

Thanks for playing along, WaPo.

[LenaBaby61]

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[Tree Lady]

14. Basically all rich and powerful people

Are able to help their kids without doing a thing as others want to try to influence them or gain favor.

[TheRealNorth]

15. The "Appearance of improprietary".....

Only applies if there is "- D" behind your name.

[LenaBaby61]

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[ProfessorGAC]

16. So, He Did Business?

That's the "scandal"? That two guys related to the president did business deals?
Save the ink & electrons for coverage of the 1/6 hearings, folks at the post!