The latest details in President Joe Biden’s alleged criminal bribery scheme, along with details from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop, teased out a new avenue of investigation as an authority on the foreign business deals cast light on a non-government “global phone” used as vice president.
(Video: Fox News)
The bombshell came Sunday from Government Accountability Institute (GAI) head Peter Schweizer, further closing the gap that the administration has strived to keep between the president and his son’s business.
Just days after an IRS whistleblower testimony was made public claiming the senior Biden was present as Hunter used his father as leverage against the chair of Harvest Fund Management in China, Henry Zhao, Schweizer joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures” to explain there was another phone congressional investigators needed to examine.
“What is the line of communications between Hunter Biden and his business partners and Joe Biden when he’s vice president of the United States?” the author of “Secret Empires: How Our Politicians Hade Corruption and Enrich Their Families and Friends,” asked rhetorically. “It’s not the government phone. It’s not Joe Biden’s personal phone. We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden’s business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he was vice president.”
“It was from AT&T. It was $300 a month. It was a global phone where you could access somebody anywhere around the world,” Schweizer elaborated.
“We shared that phone number and that account information with people at the House Oversight Committee,” he continued and expressed, “My hope is, if they haven’t already, they will subpoena those records because I think it will give an indication on how tight the communication was. And that may be the phone, for example, that the Ukrainian, the Burisma executive might’ve used in this allegation that he talked to Joe Biden in recorded conversations.”
The GAI leader had turned over that information to the House Oversight Committee as early as May, as he had said during an interview with 77 WABC’s “Cats & Cosby” that the phone bill ran from 2009 to 2017, covering Biden’s time as vice president.
It remains to be seen how this information may be used by Congress as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) had said Friday on his podcast that the “chance of the Senate Judiciary Committee [putting the IRS whistleblowers on the stand] are zero because [chair Illinois Sen.] Dick Durbin doesn’t care. No Senate Democrat cares. But the House does, so that is the only hope for investigating this.”
That said, the Texas lawmaker did contend what had been presented thus far was “direct evidence” of an abuse of power worthy of such an investigation.
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“I would just say one other thing, Maria, as it relates to that sort of shakedown phone call with Henry Zhao that we alluded to,” Schweizer went on. “Henry Zhao in 2015 had already sent $5 million to the Bidens. He was a head of a Harvest investment firm and what’s interesting is, in the correspondence there, Hunter Biden again talks to Zhao in the context of this is a deal that’s important to my family involving his father.”
“Let’s also keep in mind, we fixate on the criminal element of this, we also have to focus on the espionage element of this. Henry Zhao paid $5 million to Hunter Biden from an account that was part of a company that he co-owned with the family of the minister of state security of China, who’s in charge of the entire spy apparatus, and you see that in every deal that Hunter Biden did in China,” he asserted before concluding, “These individuals that are sending him money have ties to Chinese intelligence.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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