The most galling revelation from Tony Bobulinski’s congressional testimony is not that President Joe Biden was indeed complicit in Hunter Biden’s overseas influence-peddling-for-profit scheme. House Republicans have already amassed multiple bank statements, witness testimonies, and emails confirming that the president repeatedly appeared at the first son’s business dealings and that paychecks from the younger Biden’s foreign business associates were sent to Joe’s own home. Rather, Bobulinski, the former professional associate of Hunter Biden who has spent nearly four years trying to blow the whistle on the whole family business, confirmed that he has been entirely ignored by law enforcement.
Three and a half years after Bobulinski voluntarily told his story to an FBI field office under oath, Bobulinski says he has not been contacted further by the FBI. He alleges he has not been contacted by the CIA, local law enforcement, or the Justice Department more broadly. And most egregiously, Bobulinski says he has not been contacted by David Weiss, the special counsel specifically appointed to investigate Hunter Biden’s potential criminal activity and whether it implicates the president.
Recall that while Hunter Biden now faces a real threat of jail time over charges related to tax and gun crimes, those offenses were the least of what the special counsel was assigned to investigate. Furthermore, the only reason Biden faces hard time for those offenses is because the DOJ, which answers to his father, attempted to broker a sweetheart plea agreement that would have insulated him from future charges over the real potential prosecutorial treasure trove. Namely: whether Hunter Biden acted criminally as an unregistered foreign agent or otherwise ran afoul of corruption laws in exchanging access to the then-vice president for cash from American adversaries.
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While Weiss made it just under the wire of the five-year statute of limitations to slap Biden on the wrist with the gun and tax crimes, he let the clock run out on the most obvious potential charges involving the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Crimes relating to failure to register as a foreign agent also have a five-year statute of limitations. Biden conducted his now-famous deal with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC in 2017, nearly seven years ago. But Bobulinski went to the FBI only three years after the Bidens scored some $5 million from the CEFC deal. If Weiss had any interest in using this seemingly credible witness to investigate a plausible FARA case against Biden, or to follow up other Bobulinski leads, he could have.
But Weiss and the rest of federal law enforcement evidently chose not to. And while the president may maintain that he was not involved in whatever Hunter was up to, there’s no question that the rest of the executive branch under his purview refused to get to the bottom of it. In this case, the cover-up — the willful negligence of federal law enforcement — may really be worse than the crimes.