The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability released the transcribed interview of former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski on Friday morning.
Bobulinski provided forceful accusations of Biden foreign influence-peddling in his sworn testimony.
“I want to be crystal-clear: From my direct personal experience and what I’ve subsequently come to learn, it is clear to me that Joe Biden was the brand being sold by the Biden family,” he testified.
“His family’s foreign influence-peddling operation, from China to Ukraine and elsewhere, sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States Government,” he continued. “Joe Biden was more than a participant in and a beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.”
“The only reason any of these international business transactions took place, with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family, was because Joe Biden was in high office. The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period,” he stated emphatically.
His testimony can be read in full below:
Bobulinski Transcript by Kyle Becker
As the House Oversight Committee pointed out on X, the Democrats railed against Bobulinski during his testimony.
During the transcribed interview, Democrats put on a shameful display as they yelled at Mr. Bobulinski, cut him off, belittled him, and threatened him. pic.twitter.com/td2e9kZmWn
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) February 16, 2024
Congressman Daniel Goldman (D-NY), for example, issued warnings to Bobulinski and was belligerent in an extended exchange on whether or not the witness was lying. Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is also shown on the record to have berated Bobulinski.
The witness’ counsel Stefan Passatino has since issued a statement blasting the ill treatment of Tony Bobulinski by Democrats at the hearing in a letter to Ranking Member Jamie Raskin.
As you know, I am counsel to Tony Bobulinski. It is with extreme concern that I see the Democrat Minority continue its abusive conduct and disingenuous mischaracterizations of Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony. We are watching the death throes of a political narrative that will be shattered upon the imminent public release of Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony before the House Committees on Oversight and Judiciary yesterday. The facts are before Congress and will soon be before the American people. Minority assassination of Mr. Bobulinski’s character and grotesque mischaracterizations of his words will only serve to highlight the gaslighting and vilification Mr. Bobulinski has endured since he reluctantly came forward almost four years ago to share with the public the facts of his business experience with the Biden family. As the public will see soon enough, Mr. Bobulinski has the facts and the receipts, and no amount of character assassination will change that.
In the interim, while we await the Oversight and Judiciary Committees’ release of Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony, a few of your scurrilous allegations must be addressed immediately. First, it is categorically false to assert that Mr. Bobulinski failed to “provide any evidence at all that President Biden was involved in his family’s business dealings” or that he did not testify that “Joe Biden was not part of [the Biden family’s] business structure”. Mr. Bobulinski’s testimony and motivations for coming forward will soon be available for all to see, and false mischaracterizations will have no place in this debate.
Equally concerning are the false allegations impugning Mr. Bobulinski’s character and statements about law enforcement. Unlike those making these accusations, Mr. Bobulinski has a proud and exemplary history of serving this country in the military and his patriotism cannot be questioned. As the transcript will show, Mr. Bobulinski did NOT accuse the FBI of lying about his voluntary statements before them in October 2020. The transcript will show that when Mr. Bobulinski was asked by the Minority about second-hand accounts of his words rather than asking him direct questions, Mr. Bobulinski simply corrected errors in the FBI’s internal 302 report about his statements. As Mr. Bobulinski testified yesterday, these errors could have been corrected years ago if Mr. Bobulinski had been shown the FBI’s internal summary or if ANY government agency had reached out to us at the time. If that had occurred, we would have happily made Mr. Bobulinski available for further testimony or to further highlight the thousands of pieces of evidence he made available in 2020. Mr. Bobulinski will vigorously defend his honor, reputation and patriotism against all who choose to ignore the facts and deflect from the truth by issuing falsehoods and engaging in rank character assassination.
The truth is coming – and those who choose to knowingly perpetuate false narratives by dishonestly attacking Mr. Bobulinski will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
The counsel’s letter to Congressman Raskin can be read in full below:
