By John Roberts, Brooke Singman | Fox News
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Tony Bobulinski tells Fox News the Biden family 'aggressively leveraged' its name in foreign business dealings; Mike Emanuel reports from Washington.
President
Trump is expected to bring former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski as his guest to
the final presidential debate Thursday night, Fox News has learned.
Bobulinski is a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings, which he explained "was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family." He said he was brought on as CEO by Hunter Biden and James Gilliar.
Bobulinski, in a statement to Fox News, said he does not believe Joe Biden's past claim that he did not discuss his son Hunter's business affairs with him, claiming that Hunter "frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals."
"I’ve seen Vice President Biden saying he never
talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true,
because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden
family name and its legacy on the line," Bobulinski said.
"The Biden family aggressively leveraged the Biden
family name to make millions of dollars from foreign entities even though some
were from communist-controlled China," he added.
Bobulinksi also said that he believes that the Chinese
involvement in the deal was "political or influence investment" on
their part, and that "Hunter wanted to use the company as his personal
piggy bank by just taking money out of it as soon as it came from the
Chinese."
The Biden campaign declined to comment.
Bobulinski also said that the information he relayed is
not part of any disinformation campaign.
"Any suggestion to the contrary is false and
offensive," he said.
“Once I realized that Hunter wanted to use the company as
his personal piggy bank by just taking money out of it as soon as it came from
the Chinese, I took steps to prevent that from happening,” Bobulinski said,
adding that he asks “the Biden family to address the American people and
outline the facts so I can go back to being irrelevant — and so I am not put in
a position to have to answer those questions for them.”
Bobulinski said he doesn’t “have a political ax to
grind.”
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee and the Senate Finance Committee requested documents related to
Bobulinski’s business affairs with the Biden family. He has provided the
committees with the documents. Fox News has also, separately, obtained those
documents.
Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chairman of the Senate
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley,
R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, are also planning to
interview Bobulinksi on Friday.
“As part of the committees’ efforts to validate the
authenticity of recently publicly released emails involving the Biden family’s
international financial entanglements, we sent letters to five individuals
identified in the emails. Those letters were sent yesterday, and the
deadline is October 23, 2020," Johnson and Grassley said in a
statement. "So far, the committees have received a response only from
Mr. Tony Bobulinski, who appears to be willing to fully cooperate with our
investigation."
They added: "In fact, Mr. Bobulinski has already
agreed to appear for an informal interview by the committees tomorrow, Friday,
October 23, 2020.”
Several documents, obtained by Fox News, show
Bobulinksi discussing a meeting with Joe
Biden in May 2017, despite past claims from the former vice president
that he did not talk about his son's business dealings.
The messages seem to indicate that a
meeting took place, though it's unclear what the substance of the meeting may
have been. They are unrelated to the laptop or hard drive purportedly
belonging to Hunter Biden, the former vice president's son.
“Mrng plse let me knw if we will do early dinner w your
Uncle & dad and where, also for document translation do you want it simple
Chinese or traditional?” Bobulinski texted Hunter Biden on May 2, 2017.
“Not sure on dinner yet and whatever is the most common
for a Chinese legal DOC,” Hunter Biden replied.
“Chinese legal docs can be both, i’ll make it
traditional,” Bobulinski said.
Hunter replied: “Dad not in now until 11- let’s me I and
Jim meet at 10 at Beverly Hilton where he’s staying.”
Later, Bobulinski sent a text to Jim Biden, Joe Biden's
brother, on the same day, May 2, 2017, saying: “Great to meet u and spend some
time together, please thank Joe for his time, was great to talk thx Tony b.”
John Roberts currently serves as the chief White House
correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network as a senior
national correspondent in January 2011, based in the Atlanta bureau.
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