Photos released this week by the National Archives and Records Administration show then-Vice President Joe Biden meeting with first son Hunter Biden's business partners in China — assertions of which the president has repeatedly denied — during a trip to Beijing in 2013.
The photos were published by America First Legal on Monday, two months after NARA first promised to release them.
NARA in July communicated to AFL that the photos would be released on Oct. 24, 13 days before Election Day. However, lawyers and representatives for Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama delayed the release.
The photos rebut Joe Biden's repeated denials about meeting or interacting with at least a few of his son's foreign business partners, of which there were many, according to House investigators.
Among the more than 125 photos released are some that show then-Vice President Biden meeting and taking pictures with Hunter Biden's business associates from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue. According to AFL, the Biden administration is preventing the release of another 182 photos.
This past spring, President Biden denied meeting his son's business partners.
"I did not interact with their partners," Biden told reporters, days after Hunter Biden told a congressional impeachment inquiry that his father did attend a couple of dinners in Washington, D.C., to meet with his partners.
Similarly, in December 2023, President Biden called assertions that he had met with Hunter Biden's business partners a "bunch of lies."
In addition to meeting Li, Joe Biden wrote college recommendation letters for both of Li's children, according to testimony given by former Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer.
According to AFL, "[t]hese photos corroborate the House Oversight Committee's investigative findings that Hunter Biden arranged for his father to meet with Jonathan Li and other BHR executives during the 2013 China trip, where 'Mr. Li sought — and received — access to Vice President Biden's political power, including, for example, preferential access to then-U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus ... a condition of Hunter Biden and his associates participating in the BHR deal.'"
BHR Partners was in the process of being launched by Hunter Biden at the point the photographs were taken in 2013, including one in which he's being introduced to Chinese President Xi Jinping by his father, the New York Post reported.
In all, the House Oversight Committee identified at least 20 shell companies and uncovered more than $24 million raked in by the Bidens from 2015-19 by selling Joe Biden as "the brand."
"Even while President Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, for anything and everything 'he has committed or may have committed or taken part in' going all the way back to the year 2014, more evidence comes out each day showing how his family leveraged Joe Biden's even longer career in public office for private gain. America First Legal will not stop fighting to uncover the full story of the Biden Family's corruption," AFL counsel Michael Ding said in a statement that accompanied the photos' release.