{"id":1412521,"date":"2022-03-31T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412521"},"modified":"2022-03-31T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:30:04","slug":"wapo-admits-hunter-profited-4-8m-from-chinese-energy-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-admits-hunter-profited-4-8m-from-chinese-energy-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Admits Hunter Profited $4.8M from Chinese Energy Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fwapo-admits-hunter-profited-4-8m-from-chinese-energy-deal%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=1412521&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Hunter Biden profited $4.8 million in retainer and consulting fees from a Chinese energy company though 2017 and 2018, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0admitted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After ignoring the story for 532 days after\u00a0it broke in 2020, the <em>Post<\/em> finally acknowledged Joe Biden\u2019s son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/hunter-biden-china-laptop\/\">performed<\/a> business transactions with\u00a0CEFC China Energy for millions of dollars. Hunter\u2019s windfall follows years of rubbing shoulders with powerful international companies and individuals while Joe Biden was chair of the Foreign Relations Committee and vice president.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In the process of reporting Hunter\u2019s corrupt business dealings, the paper also confirmed Hunter\u2019s previously reported\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/10\/15\/trumps-fake-new-biden-scandal-has-deeper-purpose-bannon-revealed-it\/\">\u201cfake\u201d<\/a> laptop was indeed Hunter\u2019s \u201claptop from hell\u201d \u2014 the same laptop the establishment media falsely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/18\/exclusive-meltdown-cnn-brian-stelter-refuses-walk-back-false-claims-hunter-biden-laptop-emails-russian-disinformation\/\">reported<\/a> as \u201cRussian disinformation\u201d over and over again. In fact, 15 establishment media personalities\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/03\/17\/15-media-personalities-claimed-hunters-laptop-emails-were-likely-russian-propaganda-before-new-york-times-admitted\/\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0Hunter\u2019s laptop emails were likely Russian propaganda. Perhaps most famously,\u00a0CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl falsely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/the-media\/2022\/03\/18\/watch-cbs-news-reporter-falsely-told-trump-hunters-laptop-cant-be-verified\/\">told<\/a>\u00a0President Trump in 2020 that Hunter\u2019s \u201claptop from hell\u201d could not be verified.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We know Hunter&#8217;s laptop is authentic \u2013 even NYT, Politico, WaPo, &#038; CNN confirmed it. We know Joe Biden met with Hunter\u2019s business partners. We know they discussed business. We know they shared bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter is corrupt, but this isn\u2019t just about him, it\u2019s about Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TommyPigott\/status\/1509253463070367747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <em>Post\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>belated authentication, Hunter secured millions of dollars in just 14 months:<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-700 mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns\">\n<div class=\"w-700 mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">But the new documents \u2014 which include a signed copy of a $1 million legal retainer, emails related to the wire transfers, and $3.8 million in consulting fees that are confirmed in new bank records and agreements signed by Hunter Biden \u2014 illustrate the ways in which his family profited from relationships built over Joe Biden\u2019s decades in public service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">[\u2026]\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\">Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"w-700 mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"w-700 mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns\">\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Post\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0authentication follows the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0authentication two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the laptop was authenticated in October of 2020 by the\u00a0<em>New York Post\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Emma-Jo Morris, who now is Breitbart News\u2019s political editor. Morris authenticated the laptop before the presidential election, when businessman Tony Bobulinski corroborated his participation in a meeting with Hunter and then-Vice President Biden in Washington, DC, to\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/22\/tony-bobulinski-says-he-met-with-joe-biden-to-discuss-family-business-plans-with-the-chinese\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discuss<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe Bidens\u2019 family business plans with the Chinese.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bobulinski has since confirmed the famous line, \u201cten held by H for the big guy,\u201d was in reference to a discussed plan for Hunter to hold equity on behalf of his father.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden claimed before the election he never\u00a0<a class=\"\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2019\/09\/22\/hunter-biden-versus-joe-biden-father-son-contradict-one-another-regarding-ukraine-scandal\/?fbclid=IwAR0IRV7xzE9Z0zDOM_w2Cq5ezgKaaXt6VkOHTf4vBtyzv9sdnZcTt66BhV4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a>\u00a0with Hunter about Hunter\u2019s business dealings. \u201cI have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,\u201d Joe Biden told the media.<\/p>\n<p>But the <em>Post<\/em> reported Tuesday that Hunter had office keys made for Joe Biden, \u201chis mother, Jill; his uncle James; and the Chinese executive, Gongwen Dog.\u201d The office was apparently rented to facilitate the nearly $5,000,000 dollar contract he won from the Chinese energy company. Whether Joe Biden knew his son had keys made for him is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter is allegedly under investigation for tax fraud concerning his foreign dealings. It is unknown if the investigation may implicate the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden profited $4.8 million in retainer and consulting fees from a Chinese energy company though 2017 and 2018, the Washington Post\u00a0admitted on Tuesday. 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