A new book excerpt released on Monday details an alleged secret meeting between now-President and his only living son’s business partner that led to a now-infamous ‘deal’ in which the president and his family were supposed to get equity in a Chinese energy firm.
Biden reportedly thanked Tony Bobulinski, who was tasked with setting up the family’s joint venture with Chinese firm CEFC, for his ‘service’ and for ‘helping my son.’
The meeting lasted 45 minutes in May 2017.Less than two weeks later, an email sent to Hunter Biden outlined a ‘provisional agreement’ that included 10 percent equity in the energy company for ‘the big guy’ – later identified as Joe Biden.
Hunter and Biden’s younger brother Jim Biden were also present at the face-to-face, which reportedly took place in the lobby bar of ‘ Beverly Hilton Hotel.
‘The Bidens had chosen a discreet couch behind a thick marble column where they could see everyone who walked in the front entrance,’ writes Miranda Devine, author of the forthcoming book Laptop From Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech And The Dirty Secrets The President Tried To Hide.
Based on hundreds of emails from Hunter’s laptop which was left in a repair shop in April 2019, and transcripts of messages from WhatsApp, she claims that the Biden family offered their services to CEFC to help expand its business around the world.
In the recent excerpt released by the , Devine claims ‘Joe knew what his family was doing in his name but was insulated from the dirty details.’
The new book excerpt released on Monday alleges that Biden had two back-to-back meetings with his son’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski
The breakdown of the stake in the business, including the 10% to the ‘Big Guy’, were revealed in an email last year
Extracts from one email published Thursday by the New York Post show how Hunter Biden was to be paid $850,000 in part of his arrangement with the Chinese firm
Bobulinski was a Democratic donor and a retired Navy veteran, and would be meeting Joe Biden for the first time.
Biden, who had been speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, allegedly met Bobulinski, Jim Biden and Hunter Biden when he arrived at the hotel shortly after 10:30 p.m.
‘Dad not in now until 11,’ Devine claims Hunter wrote in a message to Bobulinski.’Let’s me [you] and Jim meet at 10 at Beverly Hilton where he’s staying.’
She writes that Jim Biden, seven years younger than the 79-year-old president, ‘greeted him like an old friend, although it was the first time they’d met.’
He reportedly told Bobulinski the meeting was ‘high level.’
Hunter added, ‘We will not go into any detail about the business.’
‘I just want my dad to be comfortable with you,’ the 51-year-old recovering drug addict allegedly told Bobulinski.
When Joe Biden arrived they shook hands, with Hunter introducing them: This is Tony, Dad, the individual I told you about that’s helping us with the business that we’re working on with the Chinese.’
‘Joe began by talking about the Biden family, their tragedies, keyboard buttons and his political career,’ Devine writes.
‘Bobulinski described his background as captain of the Penn State wrestling team in and briefly outlined an impressive résumé, including as a nuclear engineer and instructor in the Navy’s elite Nuclear Power Training Command with a high-level security clearance.’
Biden reportedly said, ‘Thank you for your service.Thank you for helping my son.’
After the president’s brother and son told him Bobulinski was ‘working hard’ on their behalf he allegedly replied, ‘My son and my brother trust you emphatically, so I trust you.’
‘Bobulinski had passed the test.It was a crucial meeting, because for the first time an outsider would see the extent to which Joe was involved in Hunter and Jim’s international business. Joe was the final decision-maker. Nothing important was done without his agreement,’ Devine writes in her forthcoming book.
According to Devine’s account Biden invited Bobulinski to a speech he was giving the next day and even asked what he thought of it afterwards.
The then-former vice president instructed, ‘Keep an eye on my son and brother and look out for my family.’
The excerpt goes on to detail a meeting between Jim Biden and Bobulinski the same day on the rooftop of a Santa Monica hotel.
There, Bobulinski met with Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and later Joe Biden at the hotel’s lobby bar
Bobulinski reportedly said Jim Biden (left) and Hunter Biden (right) were ‘paranoid’ about keeping the now-president’s involvement in their business dealings under wraps
Hunter Biden’s business dealings with CEFC China Energy are documented in the new book, Laptop from Hell, by New York Post columnist Miranda Devine
Biden in 2017 speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference, on the same trip to California during which he met Tony Bobulinski