Biden insists he’s not involved in his family’s business dealings; his aides are a different story

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Ben Schreckinger
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Doctor, Lawyer, Body Man, Bookkeeper: Several aides and staffers in Joe Biden's inner circle have also been involved in his relatives' business dealings, both during after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit
10:34 AM · Jun 8, 2024

Biden insists he’s not involved in his family’s business dealings. But his aides are a different story.
The overlapping roles are under scrutiny as the president distances himself from his family’s dealings.
By Ben Schreckinger, POLITICO
06/08/2024

For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate.

Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family’s business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president’s closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives’ business associates, both during and after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit. ... And over a lifetime in public life, some of the president’s aides have taken on roles as surrogate members of the tight-knit Biden clan.

The Bidens’ approach complicates their efforts to distance the president from his family’s ventures. ...

In one instance, Jim Biden testified that he hired the former head of his brother’s Secret Service detail, Dale Pupillo, to investigate a Chinese executive that Hunter Biden was doing business with in 2017.

Jim Biden said during his February impeachment inquiry interview that he commissioned Pupillo in advance of accompanying Hunter Biden to Hong Kong so that his nephew could meet with the executive, Patrick Ho.
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Kyle Becker
June 8, 2024



Politico has published a devastating exposé that reveals in detail that President Joe Biden’s inner circle has been complicit in his family’s foreign influence peddling.

The Politico report is a damaging rejoinder to staunch Democrats who deny that President Joe Biden and his aide had knowledge of or participation in the Biden family’s foreign influence schemes.

Ben Shreckinger, who authored the story, addresses the Biden administration’s denials of complicity in the illicit business schemes head on:

For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate.

Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family’s business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president’s closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives’ business associates, both during and after their stints working for the man at the center of the Biden family orbit.

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https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/bidens-inner-circle-is-complicit-in-foreign-influence-peddling-politico-knab/

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Biden’s inner circle deeply involved with family’s business dealings: report
The president has distanced himself from his family's business ventures
By Michael Lee Fox News
Published June 9, 2024 1:22pm EDT

President Biden has long attempted to distance himself from his family’s business dealings as he ran for and eventually became president, but a new report details just how involved those in the president’s inner circle have been in Biden family ventures.

Biden has shared a personal bookkeeper with this son, Hunter Biden, a personal lawyer with this brother, Jim Biden, and the former head of then-Vice President Biden’s Secret Service detail helped Jim Biden investigate a potential Chinese business partner, according to a report from Politico.

While the Bidens have long said they observe strict "firewalls" when it comes to discussing business with each other, the Politico report details just how involved those in the president’s orbit have been in dealings with Hunter and Jim Biden.

In one case, the president’s brother, Jim Biden, hired the head of the former vice president’s Secret Service detail, Dale Pupillo, to investigate a Chinese executive the president’s son, Hunter Biden, was traveling to meet in 2017.

The president’s brother stressed during the February impeachment inquiry that he personally commissioned the investigation into the executive so that he was not going into the situation blind, but insisted he did not know the details of the potential venture being led by his nephew.

"I wanted to know who I was meeting with and if there were any complications at all," he said at the impeachment interview, noting that it was common in the Biden family to keep the details of business dealings away from each other.

The executive, Patrick Ho, was later arrested and convicted on federal corruption charges.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-inner-circle-deeply-involved-familys-business-dealings-report

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So he's the head of a vast criminal enterprise?

It took a tax evasion charge to bring down that Capone guy...

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