{"id":12668,"date":"2023-12-08T01:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/hunters-ex-business-associate-blasts-bidens-new-claim-about-sons-business-dealings-complete-malarkey\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T01:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T01:47:40","slug":"hunters-ex-business-associate-blasts-bidens-new-claim-about-sons-business-dealings-complete-malarkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/hunters-ex-business-associate-blasts-bidens-new-claim-about-sons-business-dealings-complete-malarkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter\u2019s ex-business associate blasts Biden\u2019s new claim about son\u2019s business dealings: \u2018Complete malarkey\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>A former business associate of Hunter Biden is pushing back against President Biden after he angrily claimed it was a \u2018bunch of lies\u2019 that he interacted with his son\u2019s foreign business associates.<\/p>\n

Biden was pressed during a press conference on Wednesday about why he interacted with \u2018so many\u2019 of his son and brother\u2019s foreign business associates, but he denied having any such interactions, despite evidence to the contrary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m not going to comment. I did not, and it\u2019s just a bunch of lies,\u2019 Biden responded. \u2018They\u2019re lies. I did not. They\u2019re lies.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of Hunter\u2019s former business associates reacted to Biden\u2019s comments by telling Fox News Digital that his claim was \u2018complete malarkey\u2019 and said there is \u2018plenty of evidence\u2019 to refute his denial.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital has reported extensively on the mounting evidence contrasting Biden\u2019s claim, including that Hunter\u2019s former friend and longtime business partner Eric Schwerin visited the Obama White House and then-Vice President Biden\u2019s residence dozens of times between 2009 and 2016.<\/p>\n

Schwerin\u00a0was the founding partner and managing director of\u00a0Hunter\u2019s now-dissolved firm Rosemont Seneca Partners when he was appointed by then-President\u00a0Obama to the Commission for the Preservation of America\u2019s Heritage Abroad, an independent U.S. government agency, in early 2015. Obama reappointed him to the commission in January 2017.<\/p>\n

In addition to being a key player in facilitating Hunter\u2019s Chinese business deals, Schwerin was also intimately involved with handling the elder Biden\u2019s finances. A person familiar with Schwerin\u2019s role in handling the finances previously told Fox News Digital that Schwerin worked on Biden\u2019s personal budget and helped coordinate with his tax preparers.<\/p>\n

The individual also pointed to the frequency of Schwerin\u2019s communications with Biden and his top aides and said it was \u2018inevitable\u2019 Rosemont Seneca business came up in conversations.<\/p>\n

Biden also met with at least 14 of Hunter\u2019s business associates from the U.S., Mexico, Ukraine, China and Kazakhstan over the course of his vice presidency, and was even photographed alongside Hunter giving some of them a tour of the White House\u2019s Brady Briefing Room.<\/p>\n

In a 2016 email to Miguel Magnani, a business tycoon and former Hunter associate from Mexico, Hunter admitted that he had \u2018brought every single person [Miguel has] ever asked [him] to bring to the F\u2019ing White House and the Vice President\u2019s house and the inauguration\u2019 and blasted him for going \u2018completely silent.\u2019 Hunter also said he wanted Magnani to be at the plane with his parents when Biden landed in Mexico City.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hunter had previously introduced Magnani to his father during a White House tour\u00a0on Feb. 26, 2014. White House visitor logs show that Magnani and his father, Miguel Aleman Velasco, visited the West Wing on Feb. 26, 2014, and Biden was later\u00a0photographed with Hunter giving Velasco and Magnani\u00a0a tour of the White House Brady Press Briefing Room.<\/p>\n

Additionally, in December 2013, Hunter traveled with Biden on a trip to Asia, which included a stop in China, and introduced him to his Chinese business partner Jonathan Li in the lobby of the hotel where the U.S. delegation was staying.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A closed-door interview over the summer with Hunter\u2019s former business partner, Devon Archer, revealed that the elder Biden would also have coffee with Li during the visit. Less than two weeks later, Hunter would enter into a joint-venture called BHR Partners, a Beijing-backed private equity firm controlled by Bank of China Limited.<\/p>\n

The closed-door interview before House Oversight investigators also revealed that Hunter would use his dad as \u2018defensive leverage\u2019 to send \u2018the right signals\u2019 to his foreign business partners, while selling him as \u2018the brand\u2019 that offered \u2018capabilities and reach,\u2019 as well as a \u2018unique understanding of D.C.\u2019 The transcript said Hunter put his father on speakerphone while meeting with business partners at least 20 times to sell \u2018the brand.\u2019<\/p>\n

The elder Biden was also in attendance at a spring 2015 dinner at Washington, D.C.\u2019s upscale restaurant Cafe Milano, which included Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi. The Biden campaign tried to discredit the New York Post\u2019s initial reporting on the controversial dinner in 2020 and said, \u2018No meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place,\u2019 but Archer torpedoed that narrative.<\/p>\n

Pozharskyi emailed Hunter the following day and said, \u2018Thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It\u2019s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.\u2019<\/p>\n

A year earlier, Biden attended another dinner at Cafe Milano, according to a House Oversight memo, which included Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, former Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov and Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev. Earlier this year, Massimov was sentenced to 18 years behind bars for his reported role in an attempted coup.<\/p>\n

The committee provided screenshots of bank records they say demonstrate that Baturina, the widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton on Feb. 14, 2014, a couple of months before the dinner.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital also previously reported on how associates and top staffers at Hunter\u2019s now-defunct company visited the Obama White House more than 90 times when he was vice president in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

Biden has repeatedly insisted that he had no knowledge of his son\u2019s foreign business dealings and had no role in influencing them. He also repeatedly said he never spoke with his son about foreign business dealings, despite mounting evidence contradicting this claim.<\/p>\n

\u2018First of all, I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their business, period,\u2019 Biden said in August 2019 during his campaign.\u00a0\u2018There wasn\u2019t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. It was the same kind of strict, strict rules. That\u2019s why I never talk with my son or my brother or anyone else, even distant family about their business interest, period.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressed Biden earlier this year on whether he lied \u2018about never speaking with Hunter about his business deals,\u2019 prompting the president to reply, \u2018No.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hunter\u2019s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, declared a few months ago that the first son \u2018did not share\u2019 his business or his profits with his father, marking another notable shift in the narrative responding to allegations that link Biden to his son\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n

\u2018I can tell you that Hunter did not share his business with his dad,\u2019 Lowell said at the time. \u2018I can tell you that he did not share money from his businesses with his dad. And as the evidence out there, his dad, like all good parents, tried to help Hunter when Hunter needed that help.\u2019<\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Jessica Chasmar and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n

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