James Biden opened his closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee this week by claiming his older brother President Joe Biden “never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest” in any of his 50 years of business deals.
“In every business venture in which I have been involved, I have relied on my own talent, judgment, skill, and personal relationships — and never my status as Joe Biden’s brother. Those who have said or thought otherwise were either mistake, ill-informed, or flat-out lying,” James Biden said on Wednesday.
The younger Biden brother also denied participating in a foreign business deal with Hunter Biden and several other Biden family associates. When House investigators showed him his signature on a related business agreement, James Biden claimed ignorance.
Copious evidence including WhatsApp messages, emails, bank records, documents, and the testimonies of former Biden business associates show James Biden was not only a key player in the Biden family’s international influence-peddling scheme, but so was Joe Biden.
“He contradicted himself,” Rep. Andy Biggs confirmed as he left the more than eight-hour-long deposition. Rep. Matt Gaetz similarly asserted that “there are a lot of things that Mr. Biden is saying that are directly contradicted by documents.”
Days before James was set to testify, Politico published a story confirming James often invoked his brother’s name while trying to gin up support for his failed rural hospital project, Americore. Previous reports suggested James “introduced Americore’s founder to his older brother.” Politico’s
