(Washington) Elected Republicans said Wednesday that members of Joe Biden’s family and their associates had received in the greatest opacity nearly 10 million dollars from foreign companies, in particular Chinese and Romanian.
These accusations are part of a long-running campaign targeting the controversial affairs of Hunter Biden, the son of the troubled Democratic president.
The right accuses him of having capitalized on his name and his father’s address book, when the latter was Barack Obama’s vice-president (2009-2017), in order to enter into dubious contracts in several countries.
In a report published on Wednesday, the elected Republicans of a parliamentary committee responsible for overseeing the executive now ensure that other family members, including the president’s brother or daughter-in-law, have done business in China or in Romania.
The elected officials rely on bank statements obtained thanks to the investigative powers of their commission and explain that those close to Joe Biden had created a nebulous network of companies to conceal the origin of the funds.
“The lack of transparency surrounding the Biden family’s overseas affairs raises significant questions for national security,” they write.
“When Vice-President Biden gave lessons in ethics and against corruption in Romania, Hunter Biden received […] more than a million dollars from a company controlled by a Romanian accused of corruption”, they give as an example.
Their report does not impute any illegal act to the Bidens and never makes a direct link with the American president. But during a press conference, elected Byron Donalds said he was convinced that “Joe Biden was aware”.
In a press release, the elected Democrats of their commission accuse their Republican colleagues of having “chosen misleading information”.
As for the White House, it considered it “absurd” to accuse Joe Biden of serving the interests of China, “based on unfounded allegations and personal attacks”, while refraining from entering into the retail.
The affairs and escapades of Hunter Biden, who has long suffered from drug addiction, represent a weak link for Joe Biden who, at 80, has just announced that he will seek a new term in 2024.
But the president never let go. “My son has done nothing wrong, I trust him,” he said again in early May, although the latter is threatened with a federal justice investigation for tax evasion.