Politico has published a devastating exposé that reveals in detail that President Joe Biden’s inner circle has been complicit in his family’s foreign influence peddling.
The Politico report is a damaging rejoinder to staunch Democrats who deny that President Joe Biden and his aide had knowledge of or participation in the Biden family’s foreign influence schemes.
Ben Shreckinger, who authored the story, addresses the Biden administration’s denials of complicity in the illicit business schemes head on:
For years, Joe Biden shared a bookkeeper with his son, Hunter. He also shared a personal lawyer with his brother, Jim. And when Jim Biden wanted to know more about one of Hunter Biden’s associates, he hired the former head of Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail to investigate.
Since 2019, Joe Biden has repeatedly distanced himself from his family’s business dealings, saying that he has never so much as discussed them with his relatives or with anyone else. But House impeachment inquiry interviews, public records and emails reviewed by POLITICO show that members of his inner circle were regularly enmeshed in those dealings: Many of the president’s closest staffers and advisers have doubled as his relatives’ business associates, both during and after their