Ex-Hunter Biden business partner calls out family for accusing him of spreading disinformation on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'
Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, claimed in an interview Tuesday that the Biden family shrugged off concerns that Joe Biden’s alleged ties to his son's business deals could put a future presidential campaign at risk.
Bobulinski, in an interview with Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,”
said he raised concerns in 2017 to the former vice president's brother
Jim Biden, about Joe Biden’s alleged ties to a possible joint venture
with a Chinese energy firm.
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Bobulinski,
a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was the former CEO of SinoHawk
Holdings, which he said was the partnership between the CEFC Chairman Ye
Jianming and the two Biden family members.
“I remember saying, ‘How are you guys getting away with this?’ ‘Aren't you concerned?’” he told Carlson.
He claims that Jim Biden chuckled.
"'Plausible Deniability,' he said it directly to me in a cabana at the Peninsula Hotel,” he said.
In the interview, he outlines how an alleged meeting with Joe Biden took place on May 2, 2017. Fox News first reported text messages that indicated such a meeting. Bobulinski said that it was the Bidens, not him, who had pushed the meeting.
“They
were sort of wining and dining me and presenting the strength of the
Biden family to get me engaged and to take on the CEO role to develop
SinoHawk in the U.S. and around the world in partnership with CEFC,” he
said.
He went at length into how Joe Biden arrived for a Milken
conference, partly held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and how he was
introduced by Jim and Hunter Biden to the former vice president.
"I
didn't request to meet with Joe" Biden, he said. "They requested that I
meet with Joe [Biden]. They were putting their entire family legacy on
the line. They knew exactly what they were doing."
He asked why the former vice president would want to meet him.
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“Why
on 10:38 on the night of May 2 would Joe Biden take time out of his
schedule to take time with me, behind a column so people could not see
us, to have a discussion with his family and my family and business at a
very high level?" he said.
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The allegations have been denied by Joe Biden and his campaign.
"I
have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life," Joe
Biden said at a presidential debate last week. "We learned this
president ... has a secret bank account with China, does business in
China, and in fact is talking about me taking money? I have not taken a
single penny from any country whatsoever, ever, ever."
Separately
the Biden campaign has said that it released the former vice president’s
tax documents and returns, which do not reflect any involvement with
Chinese investments.
“Joe
Biden has never even considered being involved in business with his
family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever," Biden campaign
spokesman Andrew Bates told Fox News. "He has never held stock in any
such business arrangements nor has any family member or any other person
ever held stock for him.”
Bobulinski also said that Hunter Biden
and Jim Biden were looking to complete deals in places like Oman and
Luxembourg, France and Romania -- although they had no qualifications
with which to do so.
“The only qualification they had was the Biden name,” he said.
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Meanwhile,
he praised one of the business partners James Gilliar as "sharp" and
"as legitimate as they come." But Gilliar had previously told the Wall
Street Journal that he was "unaware of any involvement at anytime of the
former Vice President."
Bobulinski also said he wouldn't have gone public about it if comments by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff
that his claims were part of a “Russian disinformation” campaign were
retracted. He has then decided to go public to the FBI, Department of
Justice, Congress and the media to tell his story.
“This isn’t a political decision, people were accusing my family of treason after I defended my country,” he said.
As
for what the deals could mean in a potential Biden administration,
Bobulinski said that he believes Joe Biden and his family are
“compromised.”
“I just don’t see given the history here and the
facts how Joe can’t be influenced in some manner based on the history
they have here with CEFC,” he said.
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“I think the American people should be demanding that this is investigated,” he said.
He
also said he had received death threats and had spoken to the FBI about
the danger to him and his family, but hoped he would become irrelevant
as the facts came out.
"Hopefully I will go stage left and
hopefully our government and appropriate people in the Biden family will
go on record and provide facts to the American people," he said.
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