Hunter Biden described one of his Chinese business associates as the “chief of intelligence” of China’s communist government, new communications released by House Republicans show.
As part of their investigation into President Joe Biden and his family’s foreign influence peddling scheme, the House Ways and Means Committee released a bevy of communication records on Wednesday documenting how Hunter sold the Biden “brand” to overseas business associates to increase the family’s fortunes. Included in the released records is a WhatsApp text exchange between Hunter and Hallie Biden — who was the widow of Joe’s other son, Beau, and dated Hunter after Beau’s passing — that offers further insight into Hunter’s business dealings with Chinese businessmen connected to the People’s Republic of China.
In his Dec. 14, 2018, message to Hallie, Hunter laments how he’d “chosen to alienate all [his] friends and family and employees and you and the kids and my kids etc.” and finds himself “dealing with rebuilding an income that can support an enormous alimony and my kids costs and myself.”
But Hunter doesn’t stop there. In the same message, he goes on to list various issues plaguing him at that moment in time, including “the arrest and conviction of my client the chief of intelligence of the people’s republic of China by the US government.”
While unnamed in the WhatsApp message, the figure referenced by Hunter appears to be Patrick Ho, a Chinese businessman and Hunter’s client who was convicted by the Department of Justice for
