Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm traded more than 1,000 emails with Joe Biden’s office while he was vice president — and hundreds remained hidden because of executive privilege asserted by the White House, documents released by the National Archives show.
861 emails referring to Rosemont Seneca were sent or received by the Office of the Vice President between January 2011 and December 2013, according to America First Legal, which obtained the messages from the National Archives and Records Administration and released them Wednesday.
The White House has refused to authorize the release of 200 emails referencing Hunter Biden’s firm, citing executive privilege.
“The release would reveal confidential advice between the President and his advisers, or between those advisers,” NARA informed America First Legal in response to its records request.
Hunter Biden’s firm sent or received about 1,000 emails from then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office. AP
Hunter Biden and his business associates regularly used their direct lines of communication with the Office of the Vice President to leverage access to the Obama White House, the emails show.
White House guest lists, seating assignments and guest biographies for various official events, including the 2012 United Kingdom State Dinner, the 2013 Turkish State Lunch and the 2014 French State Dinner, have been shared with Rosemont Seneca employees.
One email contained an invitation forwarded to the White House for then-Vice President Joe Biden to attend an event at the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations, and another invited then-second lady Jill Biden to join the World Food Program campaign.
Invitations from the White House to several events that Hunter Biden may have attended or has requested tickets for guests are also shown in the NARA document dump.
The White House withheld the release of 200 emails between the vice president’s office and Rosemont Seneca. Teresa Kroeger
In a frantic December 2013 email, lobbyist Doug Davenport begged Hunter Biden’s former business partner Eric Schwerin for tickets, on short notice, to a White House Christmas tour, pointing out that Rosemont Seneca’s level of access to the Executive Mansion was notorious.
“Hey guys……I’m in a bad place,” Davenport’s email began. “I have a guy from Apple who is dying to take 4 of his co-workers on a NORMAL WH Tour…see the tree, etc…..this Friday.”
“I know it’s a short WAY, but I would owe it my life if you could tell me any possible way to get information about the public visit this Friday? Or am I just out of line???” he added.
Schwerin then ordered the Rosemont Seneca workers to “check with our friends over there” and told Davenport that the only way the request could be made was to bring them to the “front lines”.
Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Eric Schwerin, was in frequent contact with the vice president’s office, emails show.
Rosemont Seneca then contacted Joe Biden’s office and was able to get Davenport’s last-minute request as a “big request for Hunter,” the email indicated.
“These records provide more evidence that no daylight existed between Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings and the Office of the Vice President during the Obama Administration,” Gene Hamilton, America First’s vice president and general counsel, said in a statement.
“The accumulating evidence of the Biden family’s malfeasance is staggering. We will continue to put the pieces of this puzzle together and reveal the truth to the American people,” he added.
America First Legal, a group founded by Stephen Miller, a former senior adviser to President Donald Trump, received documents from the National Archives in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for records from Joe Biden’s time as vice president.
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