President Joe Biden was in the room when his son Hunter Biden sent a WhatsApp message to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao demanding to know why Zhao had not held up his side of an undisclosed bargain, according to documents released Thursday by House Republicans.
In the 2017 WhatsApp message, Hunter Biden implied that Zhao failing to heed his words would result in his father, then the former-Vice President Biden, and “everyone he knows” holding a grudge.
The documents include whistleblower testimonies from two IRS agents who allege political interference by the Department of Justice and the IRS into their investigation into Hunter Biden.
The agents claim that they found damning evidence implicating Biden, but they were prevented from properly investigating the president’s son by employees of the Biden Department of Justice and the IRS.
The document pertaining to Zhao came from an iCloud server investigators gained accessed to as part of their investigation.
“[W]e obtained a July 30th, 2017, WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao, where Hunter Biden wrote: ‘I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.’”
The message is the clearest indication yet that Hunter Biden directly leveraged his father’s political office and political power in order to extract financial advantages from foreign businessman.
The message is also the clearest line that has been drawn from Hunter Biden to his father when it comes to shady foreign business dealings.
Though the message could just be bluster from the younger Biden, as the investigators did not confirm that the then-Vice President was actually in the room when the message was sent.
More than just a businessman, Zhao is a Communist Party official in the People’s Republic of China. He runs Harvest Fund Management and has associations with BHR Partners, an investment fund Hunter Biden co-founded in 2013.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that BHR Partners was founded just 12 days after Hunter Biden joined his father on an Air Force Two flight to Beijing.
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