{"id":1076508,"date":"2021-12-02T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076508"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T17:14:18","slug":"exclusive-joe-biden-participated-in-hunters-foreign-business-deals-blockbuster-new-book-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-joe-biden-participated-in-hunters-foreign-business-deals-blockbuster-new-book-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Joe Biden Participated In Hunter\u2019s Foreign Business Deals, Blockbuster New Book Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-joe-biden-participated-in-hunters-foreign-business-deals-blockbuster-new-book-reveals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1076508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>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\u2019s laptop appears to contradict that assertion. A blockbuster new book reveals that the entire Biden family, including the president, benefited from the family\u2019s business deals everywhere from Delaware to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-hunter-bidens-allegedly-lucrative-arrangement-with-china-energy-fund-committee\">China<\/a>. As vice president, Joe Biden attended a meeting with his son\u2019s foreign business partners \u2014 and even managed to wrap his participation in a religious veneer, the book says. The following is an excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/author\/miranda-devine\/\">New York Post columnist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mirandadevine\">Miranda Devine<\/a>\u2019s forthcoming book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-President\/dp\/163758105X\">Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide<\/a><em>, which hits stores tomorrow. <\/em>\u2013 <strong>BJ<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.\u201d <\/em><strong>\u2014 Joe Biden, September 2019, Des Moines, Iowa <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cafe Milano is a Georgetown institution renowned less for its grilled calamari and velvety burrata than for its discretion. The restaurant\u2019s catchphrase is: \u201cWhere the world\u2019s most powerful people go,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden family was enjoying the perks of Joe\u2019s office, now in his second term as vice president. Money was starting to roll in.<\/p>\n<p>But Hunter\u2019s foreign clients were pressuring him to meet Joe, and it was increasingly difficult to organize visits to the West Wing. President Obama\u2019s office was watching, and the White House counsel had started to put up roadblocks.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The dinner was held on April 16, 2015, in Cafe Milano\u2019s private \u201cGarden Room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [<em>sic<\/em>] some time together,\u201d Pozharskyi wrote on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s realty [<em>sic<\/em>] an honor and pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Burisma was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s true purpose of introducing his father to his business associates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOk\u2014the reason for the dinner is ostensibly to discuss food security,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad will be there but keep that between us for now. Thanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Karloutsos replies: \u201cEverything is between us. All good\u201d!\u2026 I know you mentioned your dad would probably join the dinner as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Baturina had wired $3.5 million on February 14, 2014, to Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC, a consortium formed between Rosemont Seneca\u2014the firm cofounded by Hunter, [Hunter\u2019s Yale friend Devon] Archer, and [John Kerry\u2019s stepson Chris] Heinz\u2014and the Boston-based Thornton Group, to pursue a Chinese joint venture.<\/p>\n<p>Baturina\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Three officials from Kazakhstan also were invited to the Cafe Milano dinner, including Marc Holtzman, then chairman of the former Soviet republic\u2019s largest bank, Kazkommertsbank.<\/p>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c3 seats for our KZ [Kazakhstan] friends,\u201d he wrote. \u201c2 seats for Yelana [<em>sic<\/em>] and husband.<br \/>\u201c2 [seats for] you and me.<br \/>\u201c3 seats for WFPUSA people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVadym [Pozharskyi, Burisma executive].<br \/>\u201c3 Ambassadors (MX, ?, ?).<br \/>\u201cTotal 14.\u201d<br \/>The laptop does not record if everyone on Hunter\u2019s list attended. Archer emailed Hunter before the event to say that Baturina did not want to come but her husband Luzhkov would attend.<br \/>\u201cYelena doesn\u2019t want to steal Yuri\u2019s [sic] thunder, so she\u2019ll be in town to meet with us but doesn\u2019t want to come to dinner,\u201d Archer wrote on March 20. \u201cThat was just her thoughts. We could insist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He finished: \u201cObviously<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s laptop appears to contradict that assertion. A blockbuster new book reveals that the entire Biden family, including the president, benefited from the family\u2019s business deals everywhere from Delaware to China. As vice president, Joe Biden attended a meeting with his son\u2019s foreign business partners \u2014 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\u2019s forthcoming book, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, which hits stores tomorrow. \u2013 BJ.\u201cI\u2019ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.\u201d \u2014 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\u2019s catchphrase is: \u201cWhere the world\u2019s most powerful people go,\u201d 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\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative.The Biden family was enjoying the perks of Joe\u2019s office, now in his second term as vice president. Money was starting to roll in.But Hunter\u2019s foreign clients were pressuring him to meet Joe, and it was increasingly difficult to organize visits to the West Wing. President Obama\u2019s 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\u2019s private \u201cGarden Room.\u201dThe 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.\u201cDear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together,\u201d Pozharskyi wrote on April 17.\u201cIt\u2019s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.\u201dAt 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\u2019s true purpose of introducing his father to his business associates.\u201cOk\u2014the reason for the dinner is ostensibly to discuss food security,\u201d 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.\u201cDad will be there but keep that between us for now. Thanks.\u201dKarloutsos replies: \u201cEverything is between us. All good\u201d!\u2026 I know you mentioned your dad would probably join the dinner as well.\u201dThe 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\u2014the firm cofounded by Hunter, [Hunter\u2019s Yale friend Devon] Archer, and [John Kerry\u2019s stepson Chris] Heinz\u2014and the Boston-based Thornton Group, to pursue a Chinese joint venture.Baturina\u2019s 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\u2019s 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:\u201c3 seats for our KZ [Kazakhstan] friends,\u201d he wrote. \u201c2 seats for Yelana [sic] and husband.\u201c2 [seats for] you and me.\u201c3 seats for WFPUSA people.\u201cVadym [Pozharskyi, Burisma executive].\u201c3 Ambassadors (MX, ?, ?).\u201cTotal 14.\u201dThe laptop does not record if everyone on Hunter\u2019s list attended. Archer emailed Hunter before the event to say that Baturina did not want to come but her husband Luzhkov would attend.\u201cYelena doesn\u2019t want to steal Yuri\u2019s [sic] thunder, so she\u2019ll be in town to meet with us but doesn\u2019t want to come to dinner,\u201d Archer wrote on March 20. \u201cThat was just her thoughts. We could insist.\u201dHe finished: \u201cObviously save a seat for your guy (and mine if he\u2019s in town).\u201dHunter replied: \u201cI think your guy being there is more trouble than it\u2019s worth\u2014unless you have some other idea.\u201dIt\u2019s unclear if Archer\u2019s \u201cguy\u201d was John Kerry or someone else.Rick Leach, founder of World Food Program USA, emailed Hunter at 11:15 p.m. to thank him after the dinner: \u201cWhat a fantastic and productive evening\u2014thank you!\u201dKazakhstan banker Holtzman emailed: \u201cDeer [sic] Hunter, Thank you for an amazing evening, wonderful company and great conversation. I look forward to seeing you soon and to many opportunities to work closely together.\u201dHunter does not name the other two Kazakhstan representatives on his guest list, but an unverified photograph posted on anti-corruption website Kazakhstani Initiative on Asset Recovery in 2019 offers a clue.A smiling Joe Biden and Hunter are seen alongside Kazakhstan\u2019s then-Prime Minister Karim Massimov and junior oligarch Kenes Rakishev, thirty-four, in the photograph, which appears to have been taken that night at the Cafe Milano.Contemporaneous online photos of the interior of the restaurant match the background of the shot, and a faint image of the Cafe Milano logo can be seen through a sheer curtain behind Hunter\u2019s head. Joe has taken off his tie, as have the two Kazakhstanis.Further corroboration comes from an email inviting Archer to a \u201csmall private breakfast\u201d on the morning of the dinner in the Massimov\u2019s suite at the Willard Hotel: \u201cThere are several matters the Prime Minister is eager to discuss with you and he will be grateful for the opportunity to spend quality time together.\u201dThe following year, Hunter will describe Massimov in an email as a \u201cclose friend.\u201dHunter and Archer\u2019s chummy correspondence with Rakishev, who pitches money-making ideas, and asks for a meeting with John Kerry, also appears on the laptop. Rakishev calls Hunter \u201cmy brother from another mother.\u201dThe junior Kazakhstan oligarch, estimated by Forbes to be worth $332 million, was the main shareholder of Kazkommertsbank.His company Novatus used a Latvian bank to wire $142,300 to Archer\u2019s firm, Rosemont Seneca Bohai, on April 22, 2014, according to a currency transaction report recorded in the Grassley-Johnson Senate report. The wire included a note saying the money was \u201cfor a car.\u201dSince the New York Post first reported, in October 2020, on the Pozharskyi email from Hunter\u2019s abandoned laptop, thanking Hunter for the meeting with his father, the White House has not responded to the paper\u2019s inquiries. It has not disputed the accuracy of the paper\u2019s stories about the laptop, nor requested a retraction or correction.The Biden campaign told USA Today, in December 2020, that it \u201ccategorically denied a meeting ever happened.\u201d\u201cThe Biden campaign, after a comprehensive review, had said a meeting never took place between Joe Biden and Pozharskyi,\u201d wrote Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post fact-checker.But in June 2021, after the New York Post published further details of the meeting, including that it was a dinner where Joe met multiple business associates of Hunter\u2019s, the White House came clean.After eight months of denials and stonewalling, an unnamed \u201cWhite House individual with knowledge of Joe Biden\u2019s schedules\u201d told Kessler that the VP did go to Cafe Milano that night but \u201conly dropped by briefly to meet with one of the guests\u201d and \u201cthere was no discussion of politics or business.\u201dBut of course, that\u2019s not how it works. Joe just has to show up and shake hands. All that matters is that Hunter demonstrates his pulling power.The White House source claimed that Joe\u2019s attendance was not listed on his official schedule because he only decided to \u201cdrop by\u201d at the last minute \u201cafter the schedule was completed.\u201dYet Hunter had been telling his guests for three weeks that his father would be at the dinner.The White House also attempted to put a religious gloss on the dinner, via Kessler, claiming Joe only went to Cafe Milano to see Father Alex Karloutsos, who was at the dinner with his son Michael.\u201cJoe Biden, a Roman Catholic, also has a long history of working with the Greek Orthodox Church.\u201dIt\u2019s a weirdly byzantine explanation for why Joe was there at all, but in the end, the Washington Post story serves to confirm that Hunter had introduced Pozharskyi to his father, contradicting Joe\u2019s denials of any knowledge of Hunter\u2019s overseas business dealings.The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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