Joe Biden has said repeatedly that he knew nothing about his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings and he claimed his son didn’t make money related to China. We’ve produced a lot of evidence over the last couple of years to show that those were just lies — that Joe had met with several of Hunter’s business associates and that Hunter made millions from his Chinese business associations. Hunter presented his father to Li during their trip to China by Joe, who flew Hunter on Air Force Two to China in 2013. We even saw Tony Bobulinski say that Joe Biden — the “big guy” — was supposed to get a 10 percent from the company that Hunter was creating as a joint venture with the Chinese energy company, CEFC.
New York Post offers more interesting information about the Hunter Biden Laptop.
Hunter Biden’s hard drive contained an enviable lineup of contacts for top US officials tasked with overseeing the US-China relationship, and at least 10 senior Google executives — raising new questions about the extent to which Joe Biden’s well-connected son could have leveraged his connections for personal profit, The Post has learned.
Many of the top-level government officials would have been in position to help Hunter Biden’s business aspirations in China during his father’s term as vice president from 2008 to 2016. Throughout that period, he infamously looked to capitalize from his family name and connections — often while his father conducted sensitive state business.
As for the Google braintrust, one former exec there told The Post that Hunter Biden sought the tech giant’s cash for Chinese ventures, and that several of the company’s bigwigs wound up working for the Obama-Biden administration during his father’s vice presidency.
John Kerry (who was Secretary for State); Max Baucus (U.S. Thomas Parker, the special adviser to the vice-president for national security affairs, John Kerry, the Ambassador to China, Sarah E. Kemp who was a commercial counsellor at the U.S. Embassy, Beijing, and Patrick Mulloy (former commissioner of the United States China Economic and Security Review Commission). Many declined to comment, or did not respond. Bruce Quinn, the Director for Implementation at the US Trade Representative office of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan — was also on the list but he said he had no idea why. Hunter may have attended one of his seminars, he said.
“Once again, this raises questions about the extent to which Hunter Biden used his father’s name for personal gain. These contacts are why Hunter has them? Are these contacts people he has ever had contact with? And if so, how did those contacts benefit Hunter, his father, and Biden Inc.?” Sen Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) told The Post.
He was using Google contacts. What did he do with them? As one on the list described it, he was trying to use “daddy’s” name to get investors.
Kenneth Davies was involved with Google’s philanthropic and venture capital arms from 2008 to 2012. He remembered Hunter visiting Google headquarters.
“He was pitching some crazy things like some Chinese stuff. … We kind of looked at it and I kinda scoffed at it,” Davies, 42, told The Post. “He certainly did not know what he was talking about as it relates to energy. It was very much ‘I am Hunter Biden — look at the last name. Rosemont Seneca. We are brokering deals.’ He certainly did not have subject matter expertise about what he was trying to pitch.” [….]
Davies claimed that she could not recall which ventures Hunter Biden showed at the 2011 Spring meeting. Davies made a LinkedIn request for Hunter Biden’s connection in June 2011. The laptop records the request.
“My overall impression [was] this guy has clearly just been riding daddy’s coat tails and I have better things to do with my time,” Davies said.
Other Google contacts were also listed:
- Bill Maris, who founded Google Ventures — the company’s venture capital arm
- Dan Reicher, at one point the director of the company’s Climate Change and Energy Initiatives.
- Alan Davidson was the former American director for public policy.
- Christiaan Adams, senior developer advocate, Google Earth Outreach & Crisis Response
- Johanna Shelton, director, Public Policy
- Manuel Tamez is the former Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.
- Mike Brazil, Manager Finance Operations
- Jacquelline Fuller vice president Google.
- Megan Smith is a former vice-president, New Business Development
Although Davies expressed skepticism about Hunter’s pitch, the laptop shows there was a video conference between Maris and Rosemont Seneca scheduled for September 29, 2009. After being connected to Fuller, emails also showed Hunter meeting Reicher. A call was also recorded between Hunter and Reicher on April 10, 2010.
“We were making actual real live investments in companies and making some grants to NGOs and others. We were funding research,” Reicher said of his work at Google, though he could not recall ever meeting Hunter Biden.
Google stated in a statement that they have never made cash investments in Hunter Biden projects.
“These are mostly long-departed employees and we have no record of any such investments,” a Google spokesperson told The Post.
Surprisingly, some of these Google contacts ended up serving at the White House, including Davidson who was appointed director of Digital Economy in the US Commerce Department’s June 2015, and Smith, who was named chief technology officer in September 2014.
Smith and Hunter Biden were good friends during Smith’s time as Google’s Chief Technology Officer. Hunter celebrated Smith’s appointment at Hilary Rosen’s home with a toast. Smith’s then-wife, New York Times columnist Kara Swisher, was there, as was Dr. Anthony Fauci, according to press reports.
A calendar alert shows an appointment between Smith and Eric Schwerin, the president of Hunter Biden’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Feb 20, 2015 at 4 p.m.
Other than Davies and Reicher none of the others who have worked at Google replied.
Davies’ comments sum it up — it was about trading on the father’s name and seeing what could be brokered out of it. What was the involvement of the U.S. officials in Hunter’s business efforts? Was there any conflict that helped him to make the deals? We see his father had no compunction about flying him on Air Force Two or meeting with Hunter’s business associates in the vice president’s office. How did his father facilitate the deals? What were his contacts with Google and how did these relate to the Obama/Biden Administration’s involvement?
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