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‘Jaw-dropping’: Ron Johnson points to bank records to say Biden compromised by ‘family grift’

April 17, 2023 | | Print Article

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) says the media “completely ignored” the 2020 report he and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote on the “grifting” Biden family and warns that President Joe Biden is so compromised, it’s “jaw-dropping.”

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“Let’s face it, Sen. Grassley and I pretty well laid out the case against the grifting Biden family back in September of 2020 before the election,” Johnson told “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday. “Our report was completely ignored by the media, just as they ignored the Hunter Biden laptop because they’re advocates for the left themselves.”

“And so what we’re finding out now is just new pieces of evidence of the grifts that the Biden family have been involved with – the bank records that basically confirm what the Treasury records showed from Sen. Grassley’s and my report,” he stated.

The senator pointed to a recent Fox News report, published ahead of the president’s trip to Ireland with his scandal-ridden son, Hunter.

According to Fox:

In 2011, Hunter’s partners at his now-defunct investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners discussed making contacts to expand their energy investments in various state-owned investment funds, including in China, Ireland, Oman and Qatar, according to emails reviewed by Fox News Digital.

On March 8, 2011, Eric Schwerin, the firm’s former president, sent Hunter and then-CEO Devon Archer an email containing the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute’s (SWFI) current list of the top sovereign wealth fund, which are state owned, and their rankings at the time.

 

“I think what recently reported on Fox is the trying to get into the sovereign wealth funds of like Ireland and some of these other countries,” Johnson said. “You know, our report shows something like a dozen different countries that Hunter Biden was, again, peddling the family name, trying to sell influence. But I think, the trying to tap into sovereign wealth funds, I think is pretty revealing.”

The Wisconsin senator pointed to an obvious reason for foreign governments’ participation in the “Biden family grift.”

“Why would governments who own those sovereign wealth funds, why would they want to pay into the Biden family coffers and the Biden family grift?” he asked. “Well, it’s to gain influence.”

“But the level of compromise of this president, I think, is just jaw-dropping,” Johnson stated. “And maybe even more jaw-dropping is how the media, except for a few outlets like Fox News, is completely ignoring it.”

“I guess they’re OK with it,” he surmised.

Johnson said that he and Sen. Grassley “ran out of time” to connect Hunter’s shady business dealings directly to his father in the last Congressional session, “and then we lost the majority.”

But with the House now in the hands of Republicans, Johnson says he is “encouraging James Comer and the House committees to subpoena the other bank records.”

He stated that he found it “rather revealing” that Cathay Bank, which is denying any involvement with China “just like TikTok,” just “handed over records to our Senate committees without any compulsory process.”

He said he believed it would take “a subpoena process on the part of the House to get the bank records, and not only understand the inflow from different countries into the Biden family coffers but then, the outflow.”

“Where did it go once it went into a bank controlled by Hunter Biden?” he asked. “Did it go to the Cayman Islands? Somewhere in the Bahamas? How did the Big Guy get his 10%? That’s what needs to be investigated.”

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