First son Hunter Biden apparently referred to his father, President Biden, as “my family’s only asset” while discussing his overseas business ventures in June 2017, according to new IRS whistleblower documents released Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) told reporters Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler had furnished the panel with more than 700 pages of additional messages, emails and documents about their five-year investigation of Hunter, now 53.
The evidence dump came hours before the House Oversight Committee will hold its first public hearing in the impeachment inquiry of Joe Biden, which was ordered Sept. 12 by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
The disclosures included a June 6, 2017, text message from Hunter in which he appears to acknowledge that his foreign interests were only undertaken to promote his “family’s brand.”
“It’s plane [sic] f—ing English. Why in gods [sic] name would I give this marginal bully the keys [to] my family’s only asset?” Hunter vented to a business associate identified only as “James,” — likely James Gilliar, who had received just over $1 million months earlier from another Biden family associate, Rob Walker.
Hunter’s efforts, Smith said, resulted in the Biden family raking in at least $20 million from entities in at least seven countries, on which the first son evaded tax payments.
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