(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) As part of its ongoing investigations peeling away the layers of alleged political rot, crime and corruption tied to President Joe Biden and his family, the Republican House Oversight Committee released a damning report that documented 16 specific lies that Biden has told about his family’s business schemes.
The committee’s report laid out five ways Biden has deliberately lied with “claims he never spoke to his family about their business dealings; his family never received $1 million in payments through a third party; his son never made money in China; his son’s dealings were ethical; and his son did nothing wrong.
“I have always said that sunlight is the best disinfectant,” Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., wrote earlier this week, adding that the committee “is uncovering the truth about the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes and Americans are overwhelmingly against this public corruption.”
The committee shared a wicked dose of those truths with the release of its report Thursday, and Republicans brought receipts. And videos. And texts, emails and phone calls. And sworn testimony. And they tied it all together in a blistering indictment of what has been called Biden Crime Inc.
“We know that Joe Biden lied at least 16 times about his family’s corrupt business dealings & we are building an airtight case that follows the FACTS,” tweeted Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., a House Oversight member.
The report’s 16 whoppers, categorically detailed:
August 28, 2019
Then-Presidential Candidate Joe Biden: “First of all, I have never discussed with my son, or my brother, or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses, period. What I will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between the personal and private, and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. And I will impose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That is why I have never talked with my son or my brother, or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period.”
September 21, 2019
Reporter: “Have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?”
Joe Biden: “I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
October 4, 2019
Reporter: “Excuse me. There was a photo of you golfing with your son Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son’s overseas business dealings?”
Joe Biden: “Yes, I stand by that statement.”
October 9, 2019
Joe Biden: “I don’t discuss business with my son. I didn’t know that was the case when in fact I found out after the fact. And I don’t discuss things with my son or my family because I don’t want to have any knowledge of any, I don’t want to be accused of well you talk with your son, you talk with your whomever.”
October 15, 2019
Joe Biden: “I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have. We’ve always kept everything separate.”
October 16, 2019
Joe Biden: “I never discussed with my son anything having to do with what was going on in Ukraine. That’s a fact.”
October 27, 2019
Joe Biden: “I’ve never discussed my business or their business, my sons and daughters. And I’ve never discussed them because they know where I have to do my job and that’s it.”
October 29, 2019
Joe Biden: “I’ve never discussed my son’s business with him.”
April 5, 2022
Reporter: “The President has said that he never spoke to his son about his overseas business dealings. Is that still the case?”
Jen Psaki: “Yes.”
June 26, 2023
Reporter: “Did you lie about never speaking to Hunter about his business dealings?”
President Biden: “No.”
August 9, 2023
Reporter: “There’s this testimony now where one of your son’s former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business. Is that what?”
President Biden: “I never talked business with anybody, and I knew you’d have a lousy question.”
FACT: Evidence reveals then-Vice President Biden spoke, dined, and had coffee with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates. The FBI’s recorded interview with Rob Walker, a Biden family associate, also reveals Joe Biden attended a meeting about CEFC, a Chinese entity. Additionally, Hunter Biden alleged his father was in the room when he demanded payment from a CEFC associate.
Then-Vice President Biden dined with corrupt oligarchs who funneled millions to Hunter Biden.
Then-Vice President Biden spoke on speakerphone with Hunter Biden’s business associates over 20 times.
Democrats would have Americans believe that these phone calls then-Vice President Biden took with business associates were simply to discuss the weather.
Joe Biden attended a CEFC meeting.
Hunter Biden claimed Joe Biden was in the room when he demanded payment from a CEFC associate
Joe Biden lied about his family receiving over $1 million in payments from China through an associate.
March 20, 2023
Reporter: “Any reaction to House GOP’s memo about your family’s dealings […] revealing that Hunter Biden’s business associates sent over $1 million to three of your family members?”
President Biden: “That’s not true.
FACT: The House Oversight Committee detailed in its first bank records memorandum, released on March 16, 2023, that three Biden family members – Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and an unknown Biden – and their companies received over $1.3 million in payments from a Chinese company through a third party.
Joe Biden lied about Hunter Biden making money from China.
October 22, 2020
Joe Biden: “My son has not made money, in terms of thing about, what are you talking about? China. The only guy who made money in China is [President Trump].”
FACT: The House Oversight Committee detailed in its second bank records memorandum how Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family received millions from Chinese nationals and companies with significant ties to Chinese intelligence and the Chinese Communist Party.
Joe Biden lied about his son’s business dealings being ethical.
October 22, 2020
Moderator: “There have been questions about the work your son has done in China and for a Ukrainian energy company when you were vice president. In retrospect, was anything about those relationships inappropriate or unethical?”
Joe Biden: “Nothing was unethical.”
FACT: During a transcribed interview with Devon Archer – Hunter Biden’s former business partner – Archer described how Joe Biden was “the brand” and was used to send “signals” of power, access, and influence to enrich the Biden family.
Devon Archer confirmed Joe Biden was “the brand” and he brought the most value to “the brand.”
Devon Archer admitted the value of adding Hunter Biden to the Burisma board was it “sent the right signals” and “a lot of it’s about opening doors, you know, globally in D.C.”
Archer stated Burisma would have gone out of business if not for “the brand.”
Burisma executives requested Hunter Biden to get “help from D.C.” to address “government pressure” and were aware Hunter had a “very powerful name.”
During a media interview, Devon Archer responded to claims that there was no corruption, and that Joe Biden had no role whatsoever in Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings or knowledge of it. “That’s categorically false.”
Joe Biden lied about his son doing nothing wrong.
October 27, 2019
Joe Biden: “And it turns out, [Hunter] didn’t do a single thing wrong as everybody has investigated.”
December 8, 2019
Reporter: “So you think that everything that happened was kosher?”
Joe Biden: “You know that there’s not one single bit of evidence. Not one little, tiny bit to suggest that anything done was wrong.”
FACT: During the failed change of plea hearing, Hunter Biden was asked by the Judge about some of the facts surrounding his criminal conduct. IRS whistleblowers also reveal how Hunter Biden potentially committed other felonies.
Shapley’s testimony can be read here.
Ziegler’s testimony can be read here.
The brutally detailed documentation of Biden’s repeated lies added an edge to the warning that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., delivered earlier this week that Republicans would move forward with impeachment proceedings if Biden continues refusing to cooperate with the investigations.
“The whole determination here is how the Bidens handle this,” McCarthy told Fox Business.
“If they provide us the documents, there wouldn’t be a need for an impeachment inquiry,” he continued. “But if they withhold the documents and fight like they have now to not provide to the American public what they deserve to know, we will move forward with impeachment inquiry when we come back into session.”
