If the Justice Department does not open an investigation into President Joe Biden‘s involvement in Hunter Biden’s foreign business, Congress should investigate and hold it accountable.
The Biden family’s former business associate, Tony Bobulinski, told Congress last week that no one in the DOJ, FBI, IRS, or local law enforcement followed up on an explosive interview he gave the FBI on Oct. 23, 2020. At that meeting, Bobulinski outlined serious allegations against the family and backed his accusations with significant corroborating evidence. Since then, Bobulinski’s credibility has been buttressed directly and indirectly by other witnesses and evidence. Still, the DOJ has acted as if he does not exist.
This is a scandal.
Bobulinski, a decorated Navy veteran with a high-level security clearance, is no political activist but, rather, a past donor to Democratic campaigns. Hunter and his uncle James enlisted Bobulinski as CEO of a joint investment venture they and two associates put together with CEFC, a huge Chinese conglomerate tied to the Chinese government. Bobulinski says he was told Joe Biden was a silent partner in the deal when he was vice president in 2015. He also says he discussed these business dealings with the man who is now president on “multiple occasions” in 2017. The Chinese agreed to provide the entire $10 million for the venture, half for its ownership stake and half as a forgivable “loan” to the Bidens. In effect, the Bidens got a $5 million share of a company despite putting up no money.
In sum, Bobulinski testified, “Joe Biden’s immediate family members were enriched to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from some of our most dangerous adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party and players from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan and other foreign nations and entities.” He believes these dealings involved “possible violations by Joe Biden of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity statutes, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).”
Bobulinski’s testimony was believable throughout, and his abuse by House Democrats and their staff was a disgrace. He amplified the account he gave in 2023 when he provided the FBI with “thousands of documents, pictures, [and] text messages.”
Congressional interviews with the Bidens’ other American business partners confirm that Joe Biden met foreign business partners several times and was on the phone with his son during other meetings with them. Everybody agreed “the brand” being sold to the foreigners was Joe Biden, who was referred to widely in the business venture as “the big guy,” just as Bobulinski noted when he first went public in 2020. Bobulinski said Hunter repeatedly mentioned “my chairman,” indicating his father.
It tends to confirm Bobulinski’s account of meeting with Joe Biden on business in May 2017, that an American partner wrote to him just three days later, “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face, I know u know that but they are paranoid.”
Despite all of this evidence, nobody at the DOJ called Bobulinski again. David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney-turned-special counsel in charge of the investigation into Hunter, never contacted Bobulinski. It was Weiss who filed weak and lenient charges against Hunter, and later charged him only with offenses as far removed as possible from his father, while allowing the statute of limitations to expire on dealings Joe Biden allegedly helped arrange.
When law-enforcement investigators ignore the main original source of crime allegations, something is obviously rotten. When that failure protects the U.S. president, it is probably as much of a cover-up as it looks.
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Democrats, citing Biden’s probable opponent in the presidential election, constantly demand equal application of the law to all, no matter how exalted they are. This principle should apply to President Biden. The DOJ Inspector General should investigate to see if Biden was treated with undue favoritism. The attorney general or a neutral designee should review all available materials to see if the president merits criminal charges. The majorities in the House (Republicans) and Senate (Democratic) should treat Biden’s pattern of behavior as possibly impeachable. They should also rake the DOJ over the coals for its obvious investigative lapses.
This Hunter Biden non-investigation justifies the view of many Americans that the system is rigged. It should be unrigged immediately.