Hunter Biden and associates contacted Joe Biden’s staff directly, emails reveal.

Hunter Biden’s Business Partners Had Influence in VP’s Office

A new trove of emails released by the National Archives on Wednesday shows that Hunter Biden’s business partners had considerable influence in the office of then-vice president Joe Biden. They even arranged invitations to state functions, raising questions about President Joe Biden’s repeated denials that he had no knowledge of his son’s overseas business dealings.

Exclusive Invites and Classified Briefings

• First son and friends used VP’s office for classified briefings and exclusive invites
• Eric Schwerin initiated contact with the vice president’s top aides to get an associate into a 2010 State Department lunch with senior Chinese Communist Party officials
• Hunter Biden received confidential information from the vice president’s office about a 2010 state trip to Africa

The National Archives heavily redacted the emails it provided to America First Legal, citing executive privilege. But emails from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop shed more light on the redacted messages.

Intertwined Business

America First Legal says the emails show that “Biden family business was intertwined with the official business of the United States.”

“These records – which are only a small portion of the actual records that the National Archives possess – demonstrate for the American people, yet again, continued evidence of influence peddling and personal enrichment by the Biden family,” America First Legal vice president Gene Hamilton said in a statement. “The full extent has yet to be seen, but with each release, we are painting a fuller picture for the American people of the extent to which the Biden family business was intertwined with the official business of the United States.”

Questionable African Business Deals

Hunter Biden has a long track record of questionable African business deals. House Republicans in January launched an investigation into Hunter Biden’s role in the 2016 sale of a Congolese mine to a Chinese conglomerate, which helped Beijing gain control over the global cobalt supply. Hunter Biden also tried to help a Chinese energy executive purchase an oil field in Ghana, even after he was warned that the executive’s company was linked to countries sanctioned by the United States.

Though the emails show that Hunter enjoyed extensive access to his father’s staff, they also reveal that he was not always welcome on Pennsylvania Avenue. Hunter Biden complained in an April 19, 2010, email to Nancy Orloff that his ex-wife, Kathleen Biden, and his children were asked to leave the White House “at least 5 times” for unexplained reasons, one email shows.

The emails come as Republican lawmakers scrutinize a host of the Biden family’s foreign business dealings. Hunter Biden lobbied the State Department on behalf of a corrupt Romanian official who paid the Biden family $1 million while his father was vice president, the Washington Free Beacon reported. House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R., Ky.) earlier this month subpoenaed FBI director Christopher Wray for documents that allegedly detail “a bribery scheme involving a foreign national and Joe Biden when he served as vice president.”

These revelations raise serious questions about the Biden family’s business dealings and their influence on official government business.