Exclusive: Joe Biden Participated In Hunter’s Foreign Business Deals, Blockbuster New Book Reveals

Following allegations that he stands at the peak of an influence-peddling empire, President Joe Biden has repeatedly insisted that he had no knowledge or involvement in the foreign business deals negotiated by his son, Hunter Biden. Yet his son’s laptop appears to contradict that assertion. A blockbuster new book reveals that the entire Biden family, including the president, benefited from the family’s business deals everywhere from Delaware to China. As vice president, Joe Biden attended a meeting with his son’s foreign business partners — and even managed to wrap his participation in a religious veneer, the book says. The following is an excerpt from New York Post columnist Miranda Devine’s forthcoming book, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, which hits stores tomorrow. – BJ.

“I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” — Joe Biden, September 2019, Des Moines, Iowa

Cafe Milano is a Georgetown institution renowned less for its grilled calamari and velvety burrata than for its discretion. The restaurant’s catchphrase is: “Where the world’s most powerful people go,” and that was the case one balmy evening in April 2015, when Hunter organized for his father to meet a group of his foreign business associates for dinner in a private room.

Hunter was busy in the spring of 2015. He and Kathleen had started marriage counseling. He had been traveling the world, on behalf of Chinese energy company CEFC, the capitalist arm of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative.

The Biden family was enjoying the perks of Joe’s office, now in his second term as vice president. Money was starting to roll in.

But Hunter’s foreign clients were pressuring him to meet Joe, and it was increasingly difficult to organize visits to the West Wing. President Obama’s office was watching, and the White House counsel had started to put up roadblocks.

So, Hunter decided to organize a dinner off-site and kill three birds with one stone. His father could meet his benefactors from Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Russia at the same time in the same place.

The dinner was held on April 16, 2015, in Cafe Milano’s private “Garden Room.”

The next day, Hunter received an email from Vadym Pozharskyi, a senior executive of the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma, to thank him for introducing him to his father.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together,” Pozharskyi wrote on April 17.

“It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

At the time, Burisma was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board.

Hunter told guests before the dinner that his father would be there. In one email, he appears to use his role on the board of World Food Program USA as a cover story for the evening’s true purpose of introducing his father to his business associates.

“Ok—the reason for the dinner is ostensibly to discuss food security,” writes Hunter on March 26 to Michael Karloutsos, with whom he had been discussing a business deal in Greece involving eco-friendly trains from China.

“Dad will be there but keep that between us for now. Thanks.”

Karloutsos replies: “Everything is between us. All good”!… I know you mentioned your dad would probably join the dinner as well.”

The guest list prepared by Hunter three weeks before the dinner included Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, corrupt former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, who since has died.

Baturina had wired $3.5 million on February 14, 2014, to Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC, a consortium formed between Rosemont Seneca—the firm cofounded by Hunter, [Hunter’s Yale friend Devon] Archer, and [John Kerry’s stepson Chris] Heinz—and the Boston-based Thornton Group, to pursue a Chinese joint venture.

Baturina’s wires were flagged in suspicious activity reports provided by the Treasury Department to a Senate Republican inquiry by the Finance and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees, chaired by Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson.

Three officials from Kazakhstan also were invited to the Cafe Milano dinner, including Marc Holtzman, then chairman of the former Soviet republic’s largest bank, Kazkommertsbank.

A Mexican ambassador and representatives of World Food Program USA were included on the guest list, which Hunter emailed to Archer three weeks before the dinner:

“3 seats for our KZ [Kazakhstan] friends,” he wrote. “2 seats for Yelana [sic] and husband.
“2 [seats for] you and me.
“3 seats for WFPUSA people.

“Vadym [Pozharskyi, Burisma executive].
“3 Ambassadors (MX, ?, ?).
“Total 14.”
The laptop does not record if everyone on Hunter’s list attended. Archer emailed Hunter before the event to say that Baturina did not want to come but her husband Luzhkov would attend.
“Yelena doesn’t want to steal Yuri’s [sic] thunder, so she’ll be in town to meet with us but doesn’t want to come to dinner,” Archer wrote on March 20. “That was just her thoughts. We could insist.”

He finished: “Obviously