BREAKING - President Joe Biden's brother, James Biden, told FBI agents that Hunter Biden and the Biden family attempted to help a Chinese energy company purchase U.S. energy assets while believing the Chinese company's chairman was directly tied to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
James Biden told the FBI in an interview last year about efforts by him and Hunter Biden to help CEFC China Energy buy a liquid natural gas facility on Monkey Island off the coast of Louisiana, according to explosive new documents made public Wednesday by the House Ways and Means Committee.
"James B noted that RHB [Robert Hunter Biden] portrayed CEFC to him as Chairman Ye was a protégé of President Xi," FBI agents wrote in the report.
Report on the Biden Laptop revealed that President Xi Jinping, whom Hunter and his business partner referred to as "#1" and "no 1" in text messages, personally approved of the business partnership between CEFC China Energy and the Biden family.
Hunter and James Gilliar, his business partner, alluded to President Xi's involvement in approving meetings and ownership shares on two separate occasions.
On May 16, 2017, Gilliar told Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski: "As I know chairman [Ye Jianming] will come to meet VP [Joe Biden] if he gets approval from no 1 [Xi Jinping]..."
The following day, Bobulinski, who later confirmed that "#1" and "no 1" referred to President Xi, expressed concerns about the Bidens potentially overruling him on corporate decisions.
Hunter responded, "TONY that is what Zang implied - they are both [Zang Jianjun and Ye Jianming] coming to be MY partner to be partners with the Bidens. He [Zang Jianjun] has implied that the #1 [Xi Jinping] has made that clear and available to him."
In other words, the Bidens were paid millions by their Chinese energy partners, effectively operating as unregistered foreign lobbyists, in a business partnership personally approved by Chinese President Xi Jinping, which leveraged the Biden family's connections within the U.S. government to assist China in acquiring U.S. energy assets.
