During his Wednesday impeachment inquiry deposition, first son Hunter Biden confirmed that his father, Joe, was “the big guy” referred to in an email about a business deal with a Chinese state-linked energy firm that resulted in millions for Biden family members and other associates.
Hunter Biden then denied that the president was ever allotted a 10% stake.
“At one point, we asked Hunter about the 10% for the ‘big guy,’” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, told Breitbart. “We showed him the email … And he said, ‘Oh, that was after my father left office.’”
“Hunter said, ‘When it came down to the agreement that we signed,’ he said, ‘there was no percentage for my father in the business,’” Greene recounted.
Greene stated Hunter then sought to justify Joe Biden’s ten percent stake.
“What’s wrong with having a pie-in-the-sky idea?” Hunter allegedly responded to the line of questioning by stating that he felt his father “was done” with public service in 2017 after his stint as Barack Obama’s vice president.
This is the first time the 54-year-old Hunter Biden has admitted that his former business partner James Gilliar was referring to Joe Biden when he mentioned the possibility of Hunter Biden holding a 10% stake in CEFC China Energy “for the big guy.”
Greene’s revelations follows Hunter Biden’s six-hour closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) also weighed in on the bombshell testimony.
JUST IN: Matt Gaetz drops bomb on Hunter Biden corruption.
“It is a mirage to believe that Hunter Biden was engaged in international business. THIS WAS A BRIBE masquerading as an international business transaction–nothing more, nothing less.”
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) February 28, 2024
“It is a mirage to believe that Hunter Biden was engaged in international business. THIS WAS A BRIBE masquerading as an international business transaction–nothing more, nothing less,” Gaetz said.
Two IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee, had raised questions about the email referring to Biden as “the big guy” and testified that they were not allowed to investigate it.
“We were interested in following leads that went to Joe Biden – President Biden – not because he was Vice President, but because in any normal investigation, if you see financial transactions between son and father, and email correspondence going back and forth, text messages, and WhatsApp messages, in every investigation we have ever worked, we would follow those leads to the father,” Shapley said. “We’ll never know because we weren’t allowed to investigate…For example, we wanted to go and say, ‘location data – we want to look into that.’ And you know, it just wasn’t supported, and things just fell off the priority list.”
“[Were you] stopped because of who it was? Could you even offer a hunch about what you would have found?” asked Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).
“When you see 10 held by H for the big guy and we have other correspondence where they are saying, don’t call dad – you know, call dad something else, call him – because we are trying to confuse or conceal who it is, that is issue for concern. And was there 10 percent that went to the big guy?” Shapley asked. “We will never know because we weren’t allowed to investigate that.”
“Joe Biden’s $240,000 better off because of his family’s influence-peddling scheme,” Comer said. “That is a fact. And we do not have any evidence at the White House is saying that would prove that that was a loan.”
House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) had earlier explained the stunning origins of a $40,000 check given by James Biden to his brother Joe Biden.
“If you go back to that email that you just put on the screen [the ‘Big Guy’ email], Tony Bobulinski, who was also supposed to be in on that deal with CEFC and the Bidens, where Joe Biden was supposed to get 10%, according to Hunter Biden, it matches up perfectly,” he said.
“We traced the $40,000 check that Joe Biden received all the way back to that WhatsApp message where Hunter Biden claimed his father was sitting beside him, where he was shaking down the Chinese operative. That’s where that $40,000 was triggered week. Just a few weeks after that text message, that $40,000 landed in Joe Biden’s pocket after the Biden’s laundered it. But that money came from China.”
“Further evidence that Joe Biden benefited from his family’s influence peddling scheme,” Comer added.
