Hunter Biden faces backlash for claiming his father was not involved in business offers: ‘Perjuring himself’

Critics lambasted Hunter Biden Wednesday after he claimed throughout his opening assertion earlier than the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees that he “did not involve” his father, President Biden, in his business dealings.

Hunter appeared on Capitol Hill for a closed-door deposition as a part of the committees’ ongoing impeachment inquiry into his father, the place he accused Republicans of getting no proof to justify their investigation.

“The goal posts are moving,” Republican strategist Steve Guest wrote in a publish on X. “Joe Biden used to say he [had] never spoken with Hunter about his business dealings. Hunter Biden is now playing cute linguistic games.”

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“REMINDER:  E-mails, texts, photos, voicemails, visitor logs, and witness testimony have shown that Joe Biden was INVOLVED in his son Hunter’s foreign business deals,” Guest later wrote in one other publish.

Federalist co-founder Sean Davis wrote that Hunter had “no problem perjuring himself” with the claims as a result of he “knows Daddy’s DOJ will never charge him for it,” whereas Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross wrote that there was “plenty of evidence Hunter did involve Joe in his business.”

“Joe attended meetings w/ Hunter and CEFC, and with Tony Bobulinski to discuss China business. These were strictly business meetings,” he added.

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“Well if we can’t trust a crackhead, who can we trust?” one other critic wrote, whereas Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., accused Hunter of “falsely” making the declare, and posted a picture of what he described as a textual content message from Hunter “using his father’s name to shake down a Chinese businessman for millions of dollars.”

“Hunter Biden clearly used his dad’s brand to conduct corrupt business overseas. Even Hunter’s closest business partners have testified that Joe Biden was THE BRAND and the BIDEN LIFT. How else does the Biden family and their associates get $24 million in 5 years?” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., added.

Despite Hunter’s claims he “did not involve” his father in any of his business dealings, considered one of his ex-business associates testified earlier this month that in 2017 Biden met with the chairman of a Chinese vitality agency that Hunter sought to create a joint business enterprise with.

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“I don’t remember the exact time, but I remember being in Washington, D.C., and the former vice president stopped by. We were having lunch,” Rob Walker instructed the committees, in keeping with a transcript of his interview reviewed by Fox News Digital. He talked about how there have been a number of CEFC executives on the assembly additionally.

Additionally, information present a few of Hunter’s business associates visited the White House greater than 90 instances whereas Biden was serving as vp. Those visits included former associates related with Hunter’s now-defunct funding agency Rosemont Seneca Partners.

The House Oversight Committee beforehand instructed Fox News Digital that it might probably “now confirm Joe Biden met with nearly every foreign national who funneled money to his son, including Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, Romanian oligarch Kenes Rakishev, Burisma’s corporate secretary Vadym Pozharsky, Jonathan Li of BHR, and CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming.”

Devon Archer, one other former business accomplice of Hunter Biden, instructed House Oversight investigators final summer time that Hunter used his dad as “defensive leverage” to ship “the right signals” to his international business companions, whereas promoting him as “the brand” that provided “capabilities and reach,” in addition to a “unique understanding of D.C.”

Archer additionally described how the elder Biden was placed on the telephone to promote “the brand” and that he was placed on speakerphone not less than 20 instances by Hunter throughout conferences, contradicting a number of claims by the elder Biden on the marketing campaign path and through his presidency about speaking to his son about his business dealings.

During his opening assertion, Hunter stated his declare he “did not involve” his father in his business dealings was an “uncontestable fact that should end the false premise of this inquiry.”

President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. (Getty Images)

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The first son stated House Republicans “have built your entire partisan house of cards on lies told by” previous witnesses, and blasted his ex-business associates Tony Bobulinski and Jason Galanis, who additionally testified as a part of the impeachment inquiry, in addition to the since-indicted former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov. 

He went on to deal with the “mistakes” he made in his life, together with his battle with habit, and claimed Republicans had taken the information of his numerous communications with people through the years “out of context.”

He stated he hoped his testimony would “put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade.” 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House and representatives of Hunter Biden for remark.

Fox News’ Brooke Singman, Jessica Chasmar and Cameron Cawthorne contributed to this report.