{"id":2183397,"date":"2024-02-21T19:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-biden-joes-brother-testifies-in-impeachment-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:27:10","slug":"james-biden-joes-brother-testifies-in-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-biden-joes-brother-testifies-in-impeachment-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"James Biden, Joe&#8217;s brother, gives testimony in impeachment inquiry"},"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\">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%2Fjames-biden-joes-brother-testifies-in-impeachment-inquiry%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=2183397&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><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Biden, brother of \u2064U.S. President Joe Biden, arrives for a \u200bclosed door deposition\u200b with the House Oversight Committee at the Thomas P. O\u2019Neill Jr. Federal Building on February 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. Members of the committee are interviewing James Biden as part of the House Republican\u2019s\u2064 impeachment inquiry into the U.S. President. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/brooke-mallory\">Brooke Mallory<\/a><br \/>4:24\u200b PM \u2013 Wednesday, February 21, 2024<\/h2>\n<p>James Biden, President Joe Biden\u2019s brother, took to Capitol\u2063 Hill on Wednesday to speak in a \u2062private \u200cinterview. As part of their investigation into President Joe Biden\u2019s impeachment, House \u200bRepublicans questioned him about his prior financial\u2063 activities.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Purportedly, the president\u2019s younger brother previously engaged in dubious business dealings with a healthcare company that subsequently filed for bankruptcy, as well as companies centered in China with his nephew Hunter, the son of Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are \u2063currently investigating whether Joe Biden\u200b exploited his political clout as \u2063vice\u2063 president in order to enrich his family.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries regarding a series of payments to James Biden\u2019s company in 2017 amounting to hundreds of thousands \u200cof dollars were expected to be brought up.\u2064 The\u200d money came from Hunter\u2063 Biden associate Rob Walker and originated from an energy company connected to the Chinese government, according \u2063to bank records the House Oversight Committee was able to obtain.<\/p>\n<p>Walker informed \u2062Congress this month that the payments\u2062 were a part of a partnership that he, James, and Hunter Biden had with the Chinese energy giant to \u200cfund projects both domestically and\u2063 abroad.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Tony \u200cBobulinski, a former business \u200cassociate of James and Hunter Biden who fell out with them, testified before Congress, saying that Joe\u200d Biden\u2019s name was crucial to their work in \u200bChina.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2064 was \u2062asking \u200c [James Biden], \u2018How are \u2062you doing it? It\u2064 doesn\u2019t make any sense. Aren\u2019t you guys concerned that if Joe does run for President of the United States in the\u200b future that you\u2062 guys are doing business\u200b directly with the Chinese?\u2019\u201d Bobulinski said. \u201cHe looks at me and sort of chuckles and says, \u2018Plausible deniability,\u2019\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a highly publicized incident,\u200b a healthcare company sent James Biden more\u200b than half a million dollars in 2018 with the understanding that\u2063 he would assist their company, Americore, in \u2063obtaining funding from the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Following the company\u2019s bankruptcy, according\u2063 to court documents, a trustee attempted to recoup that money from James Biden.<\/p>\n<p><em>Politico<\/em> reported that \u200crecently discovered records show that James Biden and other Biden family members had \u200da \u200dconsiderably greater \u200binvolvement with Americore, whose demise has resulted in numerous lawsuits and \u201cwreaked]havoc \u200cin rural communities.\u201d The outlet reportedly discovered that James Biden assisted Americore in\u200d obtaining regulatory permits and \u2064frequently used Joe Biden\u2019s\u200c name while working with the company. He had mentioned that his nephew Hunter and wife Sara were also \u200cinvolved with the business. <\/p>\n<p>The Oversight Committee also found that in 2017 and \u200d2018, Joe\u2062 Biden received two checks from his brother that were purported to be loan repayments \u2064while he was a private citizen.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u2063bank records, James\u200d Biden\u2062 wrote out one check using funds from a partnership\u200c with a Chinese company and\u200c the\u2064 other \u200cusing funds from Americore.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have tried to emphasize that\u200d payments for\u200b the exact \u2063amounts on the two checks were made to James \u2064Biden from a bank account linked to Joe Biden.\u200d This, they claim, supports the idea that the checks were valid loan repayments and does not indicate that \u2064Joe Biden profited financially from his family\u2019s business \u200bventures.<\/p>\n<p>But it is\u2063 still unclear what the loans were being used for.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans \u200bsubpoenaed James Biden to appear in\u2064 November, \u2062and now an interview is set to take place. Senior GOP sources familiar with the situation say\u2063 that\u200c James Biden and his counsel were mostly helpful about \u2064negotiating the circumstances of his testimony, in contrast to the \u2064highly public and acrimonious back-and-forth they had with Hunter Biden, who is due\u2063 to speak next week.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your \u200cinbox for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As the \u2062influx \u200dof migrants continue\u200d to surge at the \u2064southern border many state officials are\u2063 working to control the mass of people from coming across the border. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Two\u200d adults\u2062 are arrested in \u2064connection \u2064to \u200cthe Kansas City\u2064 mass shooting. One Americas Makenna \u2062Blackman has\u2064 the latest.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Former United Nations\u2064 Ambassador\u00a0Governor Nikki Haley has vowed to \u200bstay in the Republican primary race beyond\u200c the South Carolina primary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The showrunners\u2062 for a \u200bpopular parental advice \u2064YouTube channel is sentenced to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to child abuse. \u2064 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Apple is rolling out an upgrade \u2062to its iMessage texting platform to \u2064defend against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sacrilege-in-the-halls-of-st-patricks-cathedral-in-nyc\/\" title=\"Sacrilege at St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC\">future encryption-breaking technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The \u200bfirst human patient implanted with a brain-chip \u2062from Neuralink appears to have fully recovered.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A group of \u200c20 tech companies \u200bannounced they will work together to prevent \u2062deceptive AI content \u200dfrom interfering \u200cwith elections.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>OpenAI is working on a software that \u2063can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-finally-visits-east-palestine-1-year-after-train-derailment\/\" title=\"Biden's Long-Awaited Visit to East Palestine After Train Derailment\">generate minute-long \u200bvideos based<\/a>\u2063 on text prompts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \u200brnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> What are the concerns surrounding James Biden&#8217;s involvement \u2062in various business\u200b dealings \u200cand his connections to Chinese energy\u2063 and healthcare companies?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200d Er Biden during his testimony.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Republicans focused on James Biden\u2019s \u200cinvolvement\u2064 in various \u2063business dealings,\u200b specifically his \u200cconnections to the\u200c Chinese energy company \u200band\u200d the\u2063 healthcare company that filed for\u200b bankruptcy. Bank records obtained\u2063 by the House Oversight Committee showed that\u200d James \u200dBiden received significant payments from these\u200b companies, raising concerns about potential conflicts \u200bof interest and whether Joe Biden\u200c used his position as vice \u200bpresident to benefit his\u2062 family\u200c financially.<\/p>\n<p>Former business associate Tony Bobulinski also testified before Congress,\u200d stating that Joe Biden\u2019s name was crucial to their work in China. Bobulinski questioned \u200cJames Biden about \u200cthe potential risks associated with\u2063 doing business directly with the Chinese, to which James allegedly \u2064responded with &#8220;plausible deniability.&#8221; This revelation underscores the need for further investigation into the Biden family&#8217;s business activities and their potential impact on national security \u200dand the \u2063integrity of the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Chinese business connections, James Biden\u2019s involvement with the healthcare company Americore has also come under\u2062 scrutiny. Records show \u2063that James Biden played\u2063 a significant role in assisting Americore with\u2063 regulatory permits and frequently used Joe Biden\u2019s name\u200b while working with the company. Americore&#8217;s\u2064 subsequent\u2063 bankruptcy has led to lawsuits \u2063and has had a detrimental effect on \u2062rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>There are \u200dalso questions surrounding loan repayments made by \u200cJames Biden to Joe\u2064 Biden\u200d while he was a private citizen. Bank records\u200b indicate that James Biden used funds \u2062from the Chinese company and Americore to repay these loans. Democrats argue that the\u200c payments from a\u200b bank \u200baccount linked \u200dto\u200b Joe\u2062 Biden support the notion \u2064that they\u2064 were legitimate loan repayments and\u200c not evidence of Joe Biden profiting from his family\u2019s business ventures. However, it remains unclear what these loans were used for, further highlighting \u2063the need for transparency and\u2062 full disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>James Biden\u2019s \u200btestimony before the House Oversight Committee will undoubtedly shed more light on these business \u2063dealings and\u2064 the extent to which\u200c Joe Biden may have been \u2064involved. It is \u2063essential for the American people to have a clear understanding of any potential conflicts of interest and whether Joe Biden \u200cused his position\u2063 for personal gain. \u2064The impeachment inquiry into President Joe\u200b Biden\u200d is a\u200b crucial step in \u2064ensuring transparency, accountability, and integrity in our\u2062 government.<\/p>\n<p>As the investigation continues, it is vital for both Republicans and Democrats to set aside political biases and focus on the facts and\u2063 evidence presented. The future of our democracy relies on \u200dthe integrity of our elected\u2062 officials and their commitment to \u200cserving the \u200bbest interests of the American people. Only \u200bthrough a thorough and \u2062impartial investigation can we restore trust and confidence in our political system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Biden, brother of President Joe Biden, arrives for a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee in Washington, DC. The committee is interviewing him as part of the House Republicans&#8217; impeachment inquiry into the President. (Photo: Thomas P. 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