NY Times makes stunning admission about Joe Biden's role in Hunter's business deals: 'Textbook gaslighting'



The New York Times casually admitted Monday that "it has long been known" that President Joe Biden "interacted" with Hunter Biden's business associates.

On Monday, Devon Archer, a longtime business associate of Hunter's, told Congress that Hunter put his father on speakerphone about 20 times during meetings with business partners over a decade. Using his father, Archer testified, was Hunter's way of selling "the brand" and closing business deals. Importantly, these alleged 20 instances were those that Archer himself witnessed, which doesn't preclude other instances.

The testimony, therefore, appeared to contradict the narrative that Biden himself has maintained for years. Biden not only claims that he was never involved in Hunter's overseas business dealings, but also maintains that he never even discussed business with his son.

But, according to the New York Times, "interaction" between Biden and his son's business partners was an open secret.

Deep in a story about Archer's testimony, the so-called "paper of record" stated matter-of-factly:

It has long been known that the elder Mr. Biden at times interacted with his son’s business partners.

Notice the vagueness of the sentence.

First, the reporter used passive language (i.e., "it has long been known that ..."), which raises the question, "Who has long known this alleged fact?" Second, the reporter used cryptic language (i.e., "at times interacted ..."). How many times, exactly? And what was the nature of this alleged interaction? Finally, the reporter failed to clarify with which specific business partners the alleged interaction took place.

Fox News Radio host Guy Benson characterized the admission as "textbook gaslighting." What the Times posed as a well-known fact is something Biden and the White House have long denied.

Archer's testimony and the Times' admission come about a week after the White House began changing the narrative.

When asked last week whether Biden stands by his claims that he was not involved in Hunter's business and that he never discussed business with his son, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded, "The president was never in business with his son."

The answer, as New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker pointed out, did not eliminate the possibility that Biden has, contrary to his repeated claims, discussed business with his son.

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Hunter Biden going to JAIL?! Here are the RECEIPTS!



An IRS supervisory agent is blowing the whistle on obstruction within the investigation into Hunter Biden and is now seeking whistleblower protections.

According to Sara Gonzales of the "News & Why It Matters," the whistleblower’s attorney has sent a letter to nine high-ranking members of Congress.

She reads that the letter says, “He is a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who has been overseeing the ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile controversial subject since early 2020,” that “it is Hunter Biden who is the high-profile subject,” and the whistleblower’s “disclosures would contradict sworn testimony to Congress by a senior political appointee.”

His disclosures would also “involve failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case and detailed examples of preferential treatment and politics improperly infecting decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement.”

Gonzales says the White House is “of course” claiming that it’s not true.

Alex Stein joins the conversation to discuss Hunter and his adventures.

“Hunter Biden was actually caught abandoning a rental car that had cocaine and crack in it and, the FBI knew it,” and they knew “that Hunter Biden was the last person to interact with this car, and they didn’t do anything. They chose not to charge him.”

While cocaine possession is a felony, Hunter remains unscathed.

“Obviously we know he’s committing tax fraud,” Stein adds, “by the money that he’s getting from his Burisma dealings in the Ukraine, working for energy companies that he has no experience for.”

He continues, “So yeah, the idea that he’s laundering money — welcome to Obviousville.”

Gonzales and her guests discuss the lack of justice in our justice system and how it only seems to favor people like Hunter Biden.

“If someone like me committed these crimes,” Gonzales says, “they’d put me through the ringer.”

“I hate to be the bearer of bad news and the tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist of the day,” Stein says, “but there is an evil cabal of deep state people that don’t have America’s best interest in mind and that’s why people like Hunter Biden always get passes.”


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President Biden sold nearly 1 million barrels of oil from US Strategic Reserves to Chinese state-owned company that Hunter Biden invested in: Report



While Americans suffer through high gas prices, President Joe Biden sent more than 5 million barrels of oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserves to foreign countries, Reuters reported. There were 950,000 barrels of U.S. oil sold to a Chinese state-owned gas company that has financial ties to a private equity firm that was co-founded by Hunter Biden, according to a new report.

In April, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it was releasing 30 million barrels of crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The "emergency sale" was "conducted as part of a coordinated action with our international allies and partners to provide a wartime bridge that will support American consumers and the global economy in response to Vladimir Putin’s war of choice against Ukraine."

Despite the Strategic Petroleum Reserve being at its lowest mark since 1986, the Biden administration sold oil to foreign nations last month.

The Department of Energy received 126 bids from 16 companies for the "price-competitive sale of 30 million barrels of SPR crude oil." The Department of Energy awarded "price-competitive" oil to 12 companies – one of which was Unipec America, Inc.

Unipec is the trading division of China Petrochemical Corporation – which is also known as the Sinopec Corp. The Biden administration sold nearly 1 million barrels of "price-competitive" oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Sinopec – which is wholly owned by the Chinese Communist Party.

BHR Partners – a private equity firm Hunter Biden co-founded in 2013 – bought a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec Marketing in 2015, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

The New York Post reported, "BHR is primarily owned by Chinese investors, including the state-controlled Bank of China." BHR claimed to have managed the equivalent of $2.4 billion.

Chris Clark, Hunter Biden's lawyer, told the New York Times in December that his client "no longer holds any interest, directly or indirectly, in either BHR or Skaneateles." Skaneateles LLC is Biden's personal company.

However, the Washington Examiner reported in March that Hunter was still listed as a part-owner of the firm.

"But business records from China's National Credit Information Publicity System accessed Tuesday continue to identify Skaneateles as a 10% owner in BHR, and Washington, D.C., business records continue to list Biden as the only beneficial owner of Skaneateles," the report stated.

The outlet noted, "It’s possible that China’s business registry hasn’t yet been updated to reflect a potential transfer or sale of Skaneateles’s 10% stake in BHR to another party."

In October 2019, Hunter vowed "not to serve on boards of, or work on behalf of, foreign-owned companies" if his father was elected president.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reacted to the report of Biden shipping oil to the CCP on Twitter.

"Pres Biden reportedly sold oil [from] American reserves to China's Sinopec which Hunter Biden may still [be] tied to via his financial ventures in China. If report [is] correct that’s OUTRAGEOUS. Sen Johnson & I highlighted these connections to communist regime in our 2020 report + bank records," Grassley tweeted.

"At a time when Americans must pay record price$ at pump Pres Biden should NOT [be] selling our strategic oil reserves to communist China," he added. "This misguided/harmful action is latest example of Biden's failed energy policies + Needs further scrutiny -[especially] if his son's China biz could benefit."

In September 2020, Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released a report titled: "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns."

The White House has continuously dodged questions about Hunter Biden's business dealings.

On Tuesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to comment on an alleged voicemail from President Biden to his son that discussed a New York Times article about Hunter's business associations with a Chinese oil tycoon.

Hunter Biden reportedly still owns a stake in Chinese private equity firm co-owned by the Bank of China



Hunter Biden purportedly still owns a stake in a Chinese private equity firm, despite scrutiny about his overseas business dealings. Hunter joined the board of BHR Partners in 2013, when it was created.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in August 2019 that "BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company named Rosemont Seneca Partners," which was co-founded by Hunter.

Previously reported by TheBlaze:

In 2015, BHR, in partnership with the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, acquired the U.S. auto company Henniges Automotive for $600 million. Henniges produces technologies that have military applications. The Aviation Industry Corporation of China has been suspected in the past of hacking U.S. networks to steal military airplane designs for their own use.

BHR Partners, which manages over $2.3 billion in assets, is co-owned by the Bank of China, which is one of the four biggest state-owned Chinese banks.

More on BHR from Fox News:

BHR was named as one of China's top 10 Mergers & Acquisitions funds in 2017 by Equity Investment Association of China (EIAC) and the Beijing Private Equity Association (BPEA). BHR went on to receive "top honors" at the 2017 China Venture Awards, which also named the CEO Jonathan Li as one of China's "Top 10 M&A Investors 2016."

In October 2019, Biden announced that he was stepping down from the board of BHR, and his lawyer claimed that there was no wrongdoing that prompted that decision.

"Hunter will agree not to serve on boards of, or work on behalf of, foreign-owned companies," George Mesires said in his statement.

At the time, presidential candidate Joe Biden applauded his son's decision by saying it "represents the kind of man of integrity he is and what in fact he has done and why he stepped down."

"He's decided that he does not think that is good to do. He has said that he does not like the appearance of it," Joe Biden said, ABC News reported.

Biden added that there would be no conflicts of interest in his administration. "No one in my family will have an office in the White House, will sit in at meetings as if they're a cabinet member, will in fact have any business relationship with anyone that relates to a foreign corporation or a foreign country. Period. Period. End of story," Joe Biden said in the ABC News report.

A new report from the Daily Caller claims that Hunter still owns his stake in the Chinese firm. The report found that Hunter continues to hold a 10% stake in the firm through his company, Skaneateles LLC, where he is the sole beneficial owner, according to Washington corporate records. The report was based on corporation records filed with China's National Credit Information Publicity System through Qixinbao and Baidu, independent services that provide Chinese market research.

In late December, there were reports from the Daily Mail and Fox News that Hunter was in the process of unloading his stake in BHR, according to an unnamed source familiar with Hunter Biden's business dealings.

In December 2019, Joe Biden pledged that his family would not be involved in overseas business dealings.

"They will not be engaged in any foreign business because of what's happened in this administration," Biden said in an interview with "Axios on HBO," while taking a shot at then-President Donald Trump. "No one's going to be seeking patents for things from China. No one's going to be engaged in that kind of thing. If you want to talk about problems, let's talk about Trump's family."

Hunter Biden has been scrutinized for his business relationship with foreign companies, especially CEFC China Energy and Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which he was a board member of.

A September 2020 report alleged that Hunter Biden held a stake in a Chinese tech company that had been sanctioned by the U.S. for its purported involvement in the surveillance of Uighurs and Chinese Muslims in the Xinjiang region.