Hunter’s lawyer pal was ‘at the center’ of talks relating to Biden’s handling of classified docs
By Social Links for Mary Kay Linge and
Social Links for Jon Levine
Published Feb. 10, 2024, 7:34 p.m. ET
A close friend of Hunter Biden’s — who got a job as then-Vice President Joe Biden’s legal counsel thanks to his pal’s influence — was at “the center of various discussions” relating to the president’s handling of classified documents, the White House has acknowledged in a letter to special counsel Robert Hur.
In 2016, John McGrail was Biden’s main legal adviser on how classified materials from his vice presidency should be managed once he left office, according to a joint letter from Richard Sauber, White House special counsel, and Bob Bauer, the president’s personal counsel.
McGrail landed his job as deputy counsel and later counsel to then-Vice President Biden in 2014, just weeks after Hunter Biden personally lobbied his dad to give his friend the position, according to emails found on his abandoned laptop.
“Before you fill position pls talk to me — J. McGrail very much wants to serve,” Hunter wrote to “Robin Ware,” one of his father’s email pseudonyms, in a message headed “Counsel.”
“Re Johnny call me right away,” Biden responded.
The connection was disconcerting, said Jim Hanson, an information strategy expert who has studied the laptop messages.
“At the same time when Hunter is raking in satchels of cash from the Chinese, these classified documents are showing up at the house where he’s partying with hookers and doing blow,” Hanson said. “And it happens to be his good buddy from back in the day who is transporting the documents.”
Sauber and Bauer’s letter, which was attached to Hur’s scathing report on Biden’s mismanagement of classified materials, attempted to rebut its explosive characterization of the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
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