Joe Biden betrays at least a guilty knowledge of one of his son’s most lucrative Chinese business deals, in a new voicemail unearthed from Hunter’s abandoned laptop.
The president’s own words put the lie to his repeated insistence that he knew nothing about Hunter’s overseas business dealings.
“I think you’re clear”, says Joe in the Dec. 12, 2018, voicemail, referring to a New York Times story about the arrest of one of Hunter’s Chinese business partners, Patrick Ho, on bribery charges.
“I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the [New York] Times, was good.”
You’re only “clear” if you were in trouble beforehand. What was the trouble?
The trouble was that Ho’s first call after his arrest at JFK Airport was to Joe’s brother Jim Biden, Hunter’s uncle, and the Times was onto the story.
Ho had called Jim to try to track down Hunter, who he had paid a whopping $1 million legal retainer for just this circumstance. Easy money, since there is no evidence that Hunter did much legal work for Ho, apart from calling in another attorney.
Ho worked for CEFC, the Chinese energy company with which Hunter, Joe, Jim and partners entered a multi-million-dollar joint partnership.