Photos uncovered by conservative-leaning America First Legal reveal outgoing President Joe Biden got a lot closer to son Hunter Biden’s business associates than he’s previously claimed.
Biden has repeatedly denied discussing business with his son.
According to Fox News, the photos appear to show then-Vice President Biden introducing his son to Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanchao. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter’s business associates from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.
“These images shed light on the connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and his Chinese business associates, and Chinese government officials including President Xi Jinping,” America First Legal said in a press release this week. “Lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs, as they did with other records, until after Election Day.”
“These photos corroborate the House Oversight Committee’s investigative findings that Hunter Biden arranged for his father to meet with Jonathan Li and other BHR executives during the 2013 China trip, where ‘Mr. Li sought— and received — access to Vice President Biden’s political power, including, for example, preferential access to then-U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus … a condition of Hunter Biden and his associates participating in the BHR deal,’” America First Legal wrote.
America First Legal also wrote that, according to the committee’s investigation, “the Biden Family benefited from their business dealings with BHR.”
Earlier this year, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee asked Hunter Biden about trips to Asai with his then-Vice President dad Joe Biden.
“When we returned from an event to the hotel, there was a rope line, and Jonathan Li was in the lobby of the hotel where I was going to meet him for coffee,” Hunter Biden said at the time. “In that line, I introduced my dad to Jonathan Li and a friend of his, and they shook hands and I believe probably took a photograph. And then my father went up to his room, and I went to have coffee with Jonathan Li.”
Hunter Biden added that he didn’t tell his father “anything” about who Li was.
Miranda Devine, who wrote a bombshell book on the Bidens called Laptop From Hell, shared the America First Legal’s pictures in an X thread. See who Joe and Hunter met below:
🧵 Great work by @America1stLegal retrieving these new photos from the National Archives of Joe and Hunter Biden on the grift in Beijing in 2013‼️ This is a rare glimpse into how the Biden family influence peddling sausage was made.
1. The Big Guy (then-VP Joe Biden) introducing… pic.twitter.com/JRvKXB344G— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) December 23, 2024
Government Accountability Institute President and best-selling author Peter Schweizer shared the news on X, calling the pictures “incredibly damning.”
Great work, @America1stLegal! These photos are incredibly damning and speak volumes. They prove what I’ve been reporting since 2018 in my book #SECRETEMPIREShttps://t.co/Q84hKeGVSh pic.twitter.com/n3HuhWqFr2
— Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) December 23, 2024
