Two former Biden home business partners testified on Wednesday before a House committee looking into possible influence-peddling by the chairman and close friends.  ,
Tony Bobulinski, who was a company companion to Hunter Biden, accused his one- time supporter of lying under oath to parliamentary authorities about his father’s presence.  ,
In a testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Joe Biden claimed that he had been a “more than a student and a recipient of his mother’s business.” Despite being buffered by a complicated system to maintain plausible deniability, he was an effective, informed enabler who met with company associates like myself to advance the business.
The Navy senior added:” I ask this great question: If there’s no evidence of corruption here now, if Joe’s conduct and the conduct of his family are completely legal and right, then why are they therefore deceptive about it”?
Another see, former Biden firm partner Jason Galanis, testifying mildly from national jail, described Joe Biden’s role in helping stable home business in China and Russia.  ,
Lev Parnas, a criminal who was convicted of a crime, was called by Democrats on the committee to speak.
The prosecution investigation into the government’s role in home business relations is being conducted jointly by three House boards: Oversight and Accountability, Ways and Means, and Judiciary.  ,
The significance of Wednesday’s people reading was that it included one of the first fact witnesses from the Biden family business ventures. The hearing was co-hosted by Oversight and Accountability, which included the Ways and Means and Judiciary committee chairman.  ,
Following decades of secret interviews with Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family, the reading took place.  ,  ,
The government’s boy, who had been asked to testify only in public, was waiting at the witness table after insisting weeks prior that he would do so in an empty seat. In later February, commission authorities deposed the younger Biden, preventing him from being charged with contempt of Congress.  ,
Before making his entry statement, Bobulinski casually asked:” Should I let Hunter to offer his opening statement earliest”?
Six things can be learned from the House reading, please.  ,
1.’ Blatant Lies and Perjury
Bobulinksi accused the government’s son, Hunter, and the government’s nephew, Jim, of lying during their subpoenas to House authorities.  ,  ,
Bobulinski was expressing his opinion while neither Biden or Biden has been charged with lying under vow.
” Hunter Biden gave his translated interview on Feb. 28 and lied throughout his testimony”, Bobulinski told the council, before going on to label CEFC China Energy, a big Chinese power conglomerate.
” Here is just one egregious example of Hunter’s perjury”, Bobulinski added. He lied to the committee about crucial information in his text messages from July 30 and 31 regarding money demands and threats to CEFC. He leveraged his father’s presence next to him in that infamous text to strong- arm CEFC]into] paying Hunter immediately.  ,
CEFC China Energy, which the president’s son was doing business with, had known connections to the Chinese Communist Party. As first revealed by two IRS whistleblowers, the younger Biden demanded money from a CEFC official in a text message that asserted:” I am sitting here with my father.”
Bobulinski went on to talk about the president’s younger brother, Jim Biden.  ,
” On page 100 of his transcript, Jim is asked specifically: ‘ Do you recall having a meeting with Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, and Joe Biden? Jim’s response,’ Absolutely no,’ “he testified.  ,
The committee repeatedly asked Jim Biden the same question because they were so shocked by his perjury. Each time, he denied meeting with me and Joe Biden,” Bobulinski said”. After the committee showed him text messages confirming]that ] I met with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Jim Biden at the Beverly Hilton in May 2017, Jim Biden, with a former U. S. attorney lawyer sitting next to him, still denied that meeting took place.”
Hunter Biden added that he” confirmed that that meeting took place in his own transcribed interview.” Hunter confirmed his uncle perjured himself.”
Later, Bobulinski talked about what he called” blatant lies” and recalled information about his meeting with Joe Biden, then a former vice president, at the 2017 Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles.  ,
Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R- Mo., asked:” Mr. Bobulisnki, was Hunter Biden telling the truth when he testified under oath that his father was never involved in any of his business dealings?”
Bobulinski replied:” No, he was not. Those are all blatant lies.”
Smith pointed out that the IRS’s whistleblowers had received 327 emails relating to Hunter Biden and his business associates.  ,
” Mr. Bobulinski, do you have any personal experience that leads you to believe that Joe Biden was involved with Hunter Biden’s business dealings? ” Smith asked.
Bobulinski answered affirmatively.  ,
” If Joe Biden was not involved in his son’s business dealings, why after flying all the way across the country to the Milken Conference, next to Davos probably the biggest conference in the world, why would he take 45 minutes out of his night–it was n’t a 10 a. m. meeting—it was a 10: 40 in the evening meeting,” Bobulinski said”. He’s an elderly man ,]yet ] flew all the way across the country to sit with me for 45 minutes to an hour to discuss my background, the business we were doing with the Chinese, ]and ] his family’s background.”
2. ‘ The Finish Line is” Across the Finish Line”
Galanis, another former business partner of Hunter Biden’s who testified remotely from federal prison, claimed he anticipated problems with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons as a result of the testimony he was delivering.  ,
Galanis testified that” I believe I am putting myself in great danger within the BOP” by providing information on these issues involving the president and his son.
He is serving a 14- year prison sentence for fraud, a crime that , he said Hunter Biden also was involved in. The two worked together from 2012 to 2015.
In 2014, Hunter Biden’s business associates sought a merger with Burnham and Co. and Harvest Fund Management.  ,
Galanis brought up Henry Zhao, a Harvest Fund director.  ,
” Mr. Zhao was interested in this partnership because of the game-changing value addition of the Biden family, including Joe Biden, who was a member of the Burnham-Hill team post-vice president, which provided political access in the United States and around the world,” Galanis testified.  ,
He said he was present for a conference call with then- Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and another of his son’s business partners, Devon Archer.  ,
I remember being with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer at the Peninsula Bar in New York when Galanis called to say Hunter’s father had called and that he might need a little assistance getting to the finish line.  ,
He also talked about a May 2014 conference call including Joe Biden, then vice president to Barack Obama, along with Hunter Biden, Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, and her husband, former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.
” The vice president said hello, some pleasantries, said safe travels, and then said,’ You be good to my boy.’ Hunter responded by saying everything is good and we are moving ahead,” Galanis testified”. The vice president made a comment about being kind, and Hunter answered the question by saying he would call his father later.
Galanis claimed Hunter Biden was engaged in the same illegal activity as he was, but he was not charged. He admitted to the committee that he was subject to sexual assault while incarcerated.  ,
” I’m profoundly sorry for committing these crimes. I deserve the lengthy sentence I’ve received,” Galanis testified.  ,
However, he later added,” I believe the SDNY prosecutors did not indict Hunter Biden on the same deal for political reasons,” he said in a statement referring to the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney,” I believe the SDNY prosecutors did not indict us on the same deal for political reasons,” adding:” I believe the SDNY prosecutors did not…… despite the then-available documentation that we were partners, were involved in decision-making that involved illegal self
 , 3. Raskin, Goldman ‘ Continue to Lie ‘
During the hearing, Bobulinski called out Oversight’s ranking member, Jamie Raskin, D- Md., as well as Rep. Dan Goldman, D- N. Y., both unflinching defenders of the president’s conduct.  ,
They continue to lie to the American people without remorse or hesitation, according to Bogdaninski. Rep. Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin, both of whom are attorneys, will continue to lie today and then appear in court to pounce on their own. ”  ,
He also accused Hunter Biden’s defense lawyer, Abbe Lowell, of lying.  ,
Raskin jumped in at this point.  ,
He called committee members liars, and I’m just curious if House Rules 11’s order and decorum apply to witnesses testifying before the committee. ” Raskin asked.  ,
Oversight Chairman James Comer, R- Ky., conferred with a staffer.
” There is no language that I’m aware of pertaining to a witness,” Comer said, then added:” Mr. Bobulinski, I’m sorry for the disruption.”
4. Democrats Blame Russia
Several committee Democrats argued that the president’s negative news reports are the result of a Russian disinformation campaign.  ,
Democrats ‘ lone witness at the hearing, Parnas, had almost nothing to do with Biden family businesses and was not a fact witness. Rather, they relied on Parnas, once an ally of both Trump and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who sought dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine.  ,
Parnas was convicted in 2022 of charges related to campaign finance, and sentenced to 20 months in prison. He was released in September.  ,
” In nearly a year traveling the world, interviewing officials in different countries, I found precisely zero evidence of the Bidens ‘ corruption in Ukraine,” Parnas testified”. No credible source has ever provided proof of criminal activity, not the FBI, CIA, nor the NSA. No dignified Ukrainian official has ever claimed that the Bidens did anything illegal.
The Bidens ‘ only information ever pushed out of one source and one source only has been reported. Russia and Russian agents,” Parnas said”. The Kremlin’s dissemination of false information is the premise of the impeachment proceedings that brought us here at this point. Everyone involved was aware that they were telling lies.
Alex Smirnov, an FBI informant, claimed on a standard FBI form that a Ukrainian energy executive said he paid Joe Biden a$ 5 million bribe.  ,
Smirnov was charged with lying to the FBI in February. Then, according to the president and other Democrats, his indictment meant the House impeachment investigation should be abandoned.  ,
However, Smirnov was never a witness for the three House committees.  ,
5.’ 1, 000 % Sure’
Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop included a message from another business partner, James Gilliar, saying that 10 % of the CEFC China Energy deal would be” held by H for the big guy.”
During the hearing, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R- Ohio, asked Bobulinski”, Who’s the big guy?”
Bobulinski replied:” Joe Biden.”
Jordan:” You sure?”
Bobulinski:” I’m 1, 000 % sure.”
6.’ It’s All Fake ‘
Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D- Fla., challenged Comer and any other committee Republicans to make a motion to impeach Biden.  ,
” I just think we should do it today. I want to help you out,” Moskowitz said”. I’ll make the motion, you can second it ,]I ] make the motion to impeach President Biden. Go ahead, your turn, you second it. ”  ,
No one responded.
” I want to, with my last couple of minutes, show the American people they are never going to impeach Joe Biden,” Moskowitz continued, referring to Republicans”. It’s never going to happen because they do n’t have the evidence. This is a show. It’s all fake.”
Several House Republicans recently told The Daily Signal they were concerned that the investigation would ultimately lead to the president’s impeachment.  ,
” They just want to do these hearings. It’s not leading to impeachment. According to Moskowitz, they are lying to their base by Newsmax and Fox, giving them the impression that they will eventually remove the president. It’s not going to happen at all, ever, period. They do n’t even have the votes, even if they had it in committee, they do n’t on the floor. They know that. They’ve got members resigning.”
Ken McIntyre contributed to this article.
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