Joe Biden poses with Hunter’s Chinese business partners in newly surfaced photos: ‘Incredibly damning’

President Biden is seen in newly discovered photographs meeting with Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners in China while serving as vice president, deepening his claim that he “never” discussed business with his son

The photos, obtained by conservative-leaning America First Legal through litigation against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), appear to show then-Vice President Biden introducing his son to Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanchao. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter’s business partners from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.

“These images illuminate the connections between then-Vice President Biden, Hunter and their Chinese business partners, and Chinese government officials, including President Xi Jinping,” America First Legal said in a press release this week “Lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA’s release of these photographs, as they did with other records, until after Election Day.”

“These photos corroborate the investigative findings of the House Oversight Committee Hunter Biden arranged for his father to meet with Jonathan Li and other BHR executives during the 2013 trip to China, where ‘Mr. He sought—and received—access to Vice President Biden’s political power, including, for example, preferential access to then-US ambassador to China Max Baucus…a condition for Hunter Biden and the its associates to participate in the BHR settlement,'” America First Legal. wrote.

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America First Legal also wrote that, according to the committee’s investigation, “the Biden family benefited from their dealings with BHR.”

Hunter Biden was he asked earlier this year by the House Oversight Committee about his meetings while traveling in Asia with his father.

“When we came back from an event at the hotel, there was a rope and Jonathan Li was in the lobby of the hotel where he was going to meet me for coffee,” Hunter Biden said at the time. “On that line, I introduced my dad to Jonathan Li and a friend of his, and they shook my hand and I think they probably took a picture. And then my dad went up to his room and I went to take a coffee with Jonathan Li.”

Hunter Biden added that he told his father “nothing” about who Li was.

Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any role in his son’s business dealings.

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“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business,” Joe Biden said in the 2019 presidential campaign.

But emails from Hunter Biden have cast doubt on that, including a 2017 email obtained by Fox News that shows Hunter asking for keys for Joe and Jill Biden, along with their uncle, Jim Bidenfor the space he planned to share with an “emissary” to the chairman of a now-bankrupt Chinese energy company.

In another 2017 email also obtained by Fox News, Biden wrote to the chairman of the same Chinese energy company giving him “best wishes from the entire Biden family” and urging the president to “quickly” send a 10 million dollars to “properly finance and operate.” the joint venture Biden with the company.

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Devon Archer, a former business partner and longtime friend of Hunter Biden, sat for hours before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door hearing last year. and contradicted the president’s claim, saying Hunter put his father on speakerphone while meeting with business partners at least 20 times.

Archer described how Joe Biden got on the phone to sell “the brand.”

The photos drew heavy criticism on social media in light of President Biden’s frequent claims that he never discussed business with his son.

“Amazing,” Red State writer Bonchie published in X.

“These photos are incredibly damning and speak volumes,” author and journalist Peter Schweizer published in X.

“It’s a shame that only through litigation, and only at the conclusion of the Biden administration, is his corruption through ties to the Chinese Communist Party fully exposed,” said Benjamin Weingarten, publisher of Real Clear Politics. published in X.

“The Biden Crime Family’s Christmas card just went down,” said Republican Representative Eric Burlison published in X.

“China has the Bidens in its back pocket,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch published in X.

Newly discovered photos of Biden meeting with Hunter’s Chinese business partners renew scrutiny of email exchange previously reported by Fox News Digital. The 2014 email exchange reveals that Hunter Biden once said he would be “delighted” to introduce his business partners to a senior Chinese Communist Party official to discuss potential investments after that official allegedly sat down with Hunter’s table during a dinner in Beijing in 2013 to welcome his father. then-Vice President Joe Biden.

Hunter’s 2014 email exchange with James Bulger referred to the same trip to China referenced in America First Legal’s press release.

Bulger, who goes by “Jimmy,” served as president of Boston-based Thornton Group LLC, a firm that joined forces with Hunter’s now-defunct Rosemont Seneca to launch its joint venture with the firm of Chinese investment Bohai Capital to create BHR Partners soon after. the Bidens traveled to China. BHR Partners is controlled by Bank of China Limited.

In the 2014 email, Bulger asked Hunter to introduce BHR CEO Jonathan Li and Andy Lu, who was a BHR board member, to “Mr. Tung,” referring to CH Tung, a former governor of Hong Kong and billionaire who served as vice chairman of the CCP-linked Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, to discuss “BHR’s investment goals” and “fundraising.”

The email purported that Hunter sat next to Tung at the December 2013 welcome dinner Vice President Joe Biden in Beijing Fox News Digital previously reached out to the White House several times about the seating chart for the Beijing dinner, specifically Hunter’s table, but did not hear back.

“I understand that during your trip to Beijing with your father, President Xi hosted a welcome dinner,” Bulger wrote. “(A) At that dinner, you were seated next to Mr. Tung, so J and Andy think it would be very helpful if you sent a short email to Mr. Tung stating that you are a partner and board member of BHR. and that I would appreciate it if Mr. Tung could meet with your local partners to discuss the fund.

“Please let me know if you can introduce these two to Mr. Tung via email, it is very important to our BHR (sic) initiative at this time.”

Hunter replied that he was “glad” to comply with the request, but said he could not remember the names of the gentlemen who had sat next to him at dinner.

It appears that the Beijing “welcome dinner” hosted by President Xi that Bulger referred to in his initial email it happened during the afternoon on December 4, 2013, after then-Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with Joe Biden earlier in the day to discuss strengthening US-China relations.

President Biden pardoned his son earlier this month for any crime he may have committed since 2014.

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“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden wrote in a statement at the time. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Department of Justice’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted.

“There has been an effort to break Hunter, who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of relentless attacks and selective prosecutions,” the 82-year-old father wrote. “In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me, and there’s no reason to believe it’s going to stop there. Enough is enough.”

Fox News Digital has he has previously put his hand on it to the White House about why the pardon was so broad but received no response.

“Although President Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, for anything and everything he ‘has done or may have done or been involved in’ since 2014, more evidence is emerging every day that shows how took advantage of his family. Joe Biden’s longest career in public office for private gain,” America First legal counsel Michael Ding said in a statement.

“America First Legal will not stop fighting to uncover the full story of the Biden family’s corruption.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House, Hunter Biden’s legal team and the Chinese businessmen in the photos, but did not receive a comment.

Fox News Digital’s Jessica Chasmar Brooke Singman and Tyler Olson contributed to this report