In his opening statements in the House Republican impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said Republicans have received “a mountain of evidence” implicating Biden in corrupt business dealings.
“President Biden has lied to the American people about his knowledge of and participation in his family’s corrupt business schemes. At least ten times. Joe Biden lied to the American people that he never spoke to his family about their business dealings,” Comer said.
Comer also said GOP-led investigations have uncovered how the Biden family created over 20 shell companies that raked in more than $20 million between 2014 and 2019: “Now what were the Bidens selling to make all this money? Joe Biden himself.”
“Joe Biden is the brand and Joe Biden showed up at least two dozen times with business targets and associates, sending signals of access, influence and power to those prepared to pay for it. The American people demand accountability for this culture of corruption” Comer added.
Among the evidence includes details of how Hunter Biden traveled on Air Force Two to Europe, Africa, Asia, Canada and Mexico after co-founding Rosemont Seneca Partners. Hunter co-founded Rosemont Seneca in 2009 with Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz, and took advantage of traveling with then-Vice President Joe Biden during his official trips to Europe, Africa, Asia, Canada and Mexico.
Fox News details specific trips of which Hunter Biden took advantage of his father’s official travels for the sake of his own business interests:
In April 2010, Hunter proposed meeting state officials in Serbia with his business associate Mark Doyle, who was a registered foreign agent for Serbia at the time, saying he could “catch a ride” with his father — “JRB” — during an official trip to Belgium and Spain.
“How about we go over around May 10th,” Hunter wrote in an email to Doyle. “JRB will be in Madrid and I can catch a ride with him and fly over to Serbia and back with you.”
Hunter requested Secret Service protection in Belgium during the time Biden was visiting from May 5 to May 7, 2010, according to records first published in a September 2020 report from Senate Republicans.
Years later, Biden ended up traveling to Serbia, and Hunter was scheduled to ride in the vice president’s limo upon their arrival in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Aug. 16, 2016, according to emails.
Two days earlier, on Aug. 14, Hunter informed his associate, Serbian diplomat Vuk Jeremic, in an email that he would be in Belgrade and even invited him in the vice president’s motorcade.
