President Biden met with Chinese energy firm chairman Hunter Biden seeking to establish a joint venture with at the Four Seasons in Washington DC in 2017, the eldest son’s former business partner told congressional investigators.
Rob Walker, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, testified before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committee earlier this month as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Biden.
Walker, during his closed-transcript interview, told congressional investigators that Joe Biden attended a meeting where he, Hunter Biden, their other business partners and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming were having lunch.
“I don’t remember the exact time, but I remember being in Washington, DC, and the former vice president stopped by. We were having lunch,” Walker testified, according to a transcript of his interview reviewed by Fox News Digital.
Walker said he didn’t know the “exact” date, but said “it was 20-maybe-17 at some point.”
President Biden held a meeting with the chairman of a related Chinese energy firm Hunter Biden. AP
“I can say for sure he’s out of the office,” Walker said, referring to Joe Biden who was out of the Obama administration at lunchtime.
Walker said the lunch took place “at the Four Seasons in a restaurant in a private room.”
“I’m sure—I’m sure Ye is there,” Walker said, noting there were other CEFC business partners.
Joe Biden attended a meeting where he, Hunter Biden, their other business partners and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming were having lunch, according to Hunter’s former business partner. AP
Ye Jianming, at the time, was the chairman of the Chinese energy company CEFC.
Walker said the purpose of the meeting was to discuss “how we can work together.”
“I don’t think we’ve structured an agreement on how to work together at this point,” Walker said, noting the meeting lasted “maybe an hour and a half,” but said Biden “wasn’t” there for the entire meeting.
The purpose of Biden and Hunter’s meeting with Jianming was to try out how everyone could work together. Rahman, Chad
“The former vice president was absent all the time. He was there maybe 10 minutes,” Walker said. “He speaks well, you know, pleasant words. I think he probably talks a lot and then leaves.”
Walker testified that Biden spoke to the entire group—which consisted of about 10 CEFC-related individuals—during his visit.
Walker testified that the visit, and Biden’s appearance, “likely” took place before his Robinson Walker LLC received $3 million from State Energy HK Limited—a CEFC-related entity.
Rob Walker spoke with the NY Post at his home in Little Rock, AR. DANIEL WILLIAM MCKNIGHT
But Walker insisted that Joe Biden was not involved in any of his business ventures with Hunter Biden, although he did appear at the luncheon.
However, Walker said that the initial correspondence to the CEFC was sent on behalf of the group—which included himself, James Gilliar, Jim Biden and Hunter Biden—by Hunter Biden.
“He’s got an interesting last name that will probably get people in the door,” Walker said.
Walker claims Joe Biden was not involved in any of his business ventures with Hunter Biden. Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
When pressed again about why the correspondence came from Hunter Biden, Walker testified: “It seems—if a US entity is going to have a foreign national represent them, it might make more sense to come from Hunter than me.”
“Because he was the son of the vice president at the time, right?” Walker asked.
“He was the son of the vice president at the time, yes,” Walker replied.
“So it makes more sense to get this business deal to put him as the front-facing one, right?”
Walker replied: “Yes.”
The House Oversight Committee told Fox News Digital that it can “now confirm Joe Biden met with nearly every foreign national who funneled money to his son, including Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, Romanian oligarch Kenes Rakishev, Burisma corporate secretary Vadym Pozharsky, BHR’s Jonathan Li, and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming.”
Biden attended dinners at the Washington DC restaurant Cafe Milano in Georgtown with Baturina, Rakishev and Pozharsky in 2014 and 2015. Biden also met with BHR’s Li in China in 2013. Biden met with Ye at a meeting in 2017, according to testimony from former Hunter Biden business partners Rob Walker and Devon Archer.
The revelations come ahead of highly anticipated testimony from another former business associate of the eldest son–Tony Bobulinski.
Bobulinski is set to testify in private on Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. before the House Oversight and Judiciary Committee.
Bobulinski, who worked with Hunter Biden to create SinoHawk Holdings’ joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC, said he met Joe Biden in 2017.
Bobulinski, in December, demanded that Biden “stop lying” about the meeting and called on him to “set the record straight.”
“Why is Joe Biden blatantly lying to the American people and the world by claiming that he has not met with me face to face?” Bobulinski told Fox News Digital in a statement. “He should call his son Hunter and brother Jim because they can remind him of the facts. The American people deserve the truth!”
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He added: “I call on Mr. Biden to stop lying and set the record straight.”
Despite Biden’s recent denials about involvement in his son’s business dealings, text messages from May 2017 reveal that Biden met with Bobulinski months after he left the vice presidential office. Fox News Digital first reported the text messages and the meeting in October 2020.
The meeting on May 2, 2017, would have taken place just 11 days before the now infamous May 13, 2017 email, which included discussion of a “remuneration package” for six people in a business deal with a Chinese energy firm. The email appears to identify Biden as “Chairman/Vice Chairman subject to agreement with CEFC,” referring to the now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Co.
The email included a note that “Hunter has some office expectations that he will elaborate on.” The proposed equity split refers to “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big guy?” without further details.
Bobulinski has repeatedly said the “big man” is Joe Biden. IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who alleged that politics influenced the years-long federal investigation into Hunter Biden, also said the “big man” was identified as Joe Biden.
The president’s brother, Jim Biden, is expected to testify on February 21. Hunter Biden is expected to appear for his impeachment on February 28.
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