President Joe Biden has repeatedly denied discussing his son’s foreign business, but newly released testimony further suggests the former Vice President was involved with nearly all of Hunter Biden’s overseas wheeling and dealings, including meeting the chairman of a Chinese Communist Party-linked energy company that paid Biden family associates millions of dollars.
Former Biden family associate Rob Walker confirmed in closed-door testimony to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees this month that Joe “stopped by” a 2017 lunch “at the Four Seasons in a restaurant in a private room” to talk with CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming and other CEFC associates.
The purpose of the meeting, Walker claimed, was to identify “ways we could work together” because, at the time, Hunter’s firm and CEFC had yet to secure a “structured deal.”
“The former vice president was not there the entire time. He was there maybe 10 minutes,” Walker said. “He spoke nice, you know, normal pleasantries. I think he probably did most of the talking and then left.”
Hunter, Walker, James Gilliar, and James Biden began “pursuing business with CEFC” in early 2016 while Joe was still in office.
It wasn’t until after Joe’s appearance at the Four Seasons gathering close to March 2017, however, that their firm Robinson Walker LLC received $3 million from the CEFC entity State Energy HK Limited, $1,065,000 of which was wired to various Biden bank accounts.
“Rob Walker told investigators Hunter asked him to send incremental payments to various Biden accounts, including Hallie
