Jeff Zients met with Hunter Biden at least three times in 2016: Report
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Jeff Zients, incoming White House chief of staff for President Joe Biden, reportedly met with the president’s son multiple times in 2016.
A report from Fox News Digital claims that Zients met with Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden twice in February 2016 at the U.S. Naval Observatory and once in May 2016, according to emails obtained by the outlet from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop.
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The February meeting allegedly involved a meetup between the Bidens, Zients, and billionaire David Rubenstein, who founded the Carlyle Group, a hundred-billion-dollar management firm.
Rubenstein is also connected to other organizations, such as the World Economic Forum, Council on Foreign Relations, and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 2022, he became chairman of the University of Chicago’s Board of Trustees.
Two weeks later, the Bidens and Zients met with current White House senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and David Bradley, a D.C.-based consultant and chairman of Atlantic Media.
On May 24, 2016, Zients, Hunter Biden, and Bradley met with several people, including Eric Lander, who recently departed from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and former head of the National Cancer Institute, Richard Klausner.
The details of the three meetings are unknown. Hunter Biden has been the subject of severe scrutiny by congressional Republicans for his foreign business dealings.
In 2016, Zients was serving as director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama. He held the position until January 2017, when former President Donald Trump took office. He went on to serve on the Biden Cancer Initiative’s board of directors, which launched in June 2017.
Zients has held several leadership and employment positions over the years, including Biden’s chief coronavirus response coordinator from January 2021 to April 2022.
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Under his watch, vaccination rates climbed above 75%, but the administration lacked in providing tests and therapeutics for the omicron surge that arrived shortly after.
The former virus coordinator is set to take up the mantle from current White House chief of staff Ron Klain, who is reportedly leaving his position in the coming weeks.