Tony Bobulinski, former business partner of Hunter Biden, is testifying before the House Oversight and Judiciary committees Tuesday, alleging the Biden family peddled President Joe Biden's influence to China and Ukraine — all with the "enabler" Joe Biden's knowledge and blessing.
"It is clear to me that Joe Biden was 'the brand' being sold by the Biden family," Bobulinski said in his opening statement obtained by Newsmax before the closed-door testimony under oath. "His family's foreign influence peddling operation — from China to Ukraine and elsewhere — sold out to foreign actors who were seeking to gain influence and access to Joe Biden and the United States government.
"Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family's business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability."
The testimony is being taken under subpoena in the House GOP's Biden impeachment inquiry, and Bobulinski laments the U.S. government and complicit media has ignored his "extensive evidence" and allegations for years — even to the point of suppression — he said in his opening statement.
"For nearly four years, I have tried to tell the American people the truth about serious corruption at the very top of their government," his statement read. "In return, I have been falsely accused of being a purveyor of 'Russian disinformation' and a political surrogate.
"My continuous efforts to inform the American people of the facts have been actively suppressed by both the United States government and the so-called 'mainstream' media."
The Biden family was unconstitutionally peddling foreign influence on Biden's name and the power of his higher office, Bobulinski said.
"The only reason any of these international business transactions took place — with tens of millions of dollars flowing directly to the Biden family — was because Joe Biden was in high office," Bobulinski said. "The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period."
Among the allegations of bribery are the ties to the Chinese Communist Party and the China Energy Company (CEFC), where the Bidens "successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House," according to Bobulinski.
The operation began in 2015 and continued until March 2018, when CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming "was detained for corruption in China, never to be seen again," Bobulinski added.
"It is also not a coincidence that CEFC used the Biden family's weakest link, Hunter Biden, and the promise of large sums of money to the tune of tens of millions of dollars initially, and eventually the profits from investing billions of dollars in the United States and around the world," Bobulinski said.
Bobulinski bulleted four "critically important facts" in his opening statement.
- 1. "Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began."
- 2. "Joe Biden's immediate family members were enriched to the tune of tens of millions of dollars from some of our most dangerous adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party and players from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan, and other foreign nations and entities."
- 3. "Joe Biden's status as the head of the family served an enforcement role — for example, when Hunter stated deliberately that his father Joe was sitting right next to him while demanding immediate payment of the $10 million CEFC had committed to the Biden family, as well as when Hunter demanded CEFC circumvent SinoHawk Holdings."
- 4. "United States law enforcement appears to have been singularly unwilling to speak with me or to hear the facts we will be discussing today. I have never been contacted to provide testimony nor asked to speak with anyone connected with Joe Biden's administration, including his Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, or local law enforcement. That includes U.S. Attorney David Weiss for the District of Delaware or any of the several grand juries I now know were convened after my name became publicly known."
Bobulinski noted he is a U.S. Navy veteran upholding the highest standards of truth and devotion to the U.S. and not a partisan operative — as has been alleged. Also, he is nonpartisan, despite admittedly having donated to Democrat political campaigns in the past.
"I implore each and every one of you to remove your partisan hats today and focus on one party: the United States of America," his statement concluded. "I hope your focus will be on a thorough and extensive investigation and exposure of all of the facts and evidence — and on answering the question of how we as a country allowed the White House to be infiltrated by our most existential adversary, the Chinese Communist Party.
"I also hope you will hold the complicit parties, including Joe Biden, accountable for their actions, as well as enact new laws that prevent this kind of deep corruption from ever happening again."