Many facts of case point to selling access

WASHINGTON — First Son Hunter Biden corroborated many of the core facts in what Republicans say is a constellation of interactions between Joe Biden and his offspring’s foreign partners that show Hunter and his uncle James were selling access to their powerful relative.

The 54-year-old’s closed-door impeachment inquiry testimony was released Thursday — just a day after he sat for questions about President Biden’s recurring role in lucrative foreign business relationships.

Hunter maintained his 81year-old father was not corrupt and that his own abuse of alcohol and drugs was to blame for many of the appearances to the contrary in business ventures that at times involved First Brother James Biden.

“The pattern that I see is that you literally have no evidence whatsoever of any corruption on the part of my father,” Hunter said during a heated exchange with Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas).

“And, therefore, what you’re trying to do is, you’re trying to make every single thing in business that I was ever involved in somehow corrupt.”

However, Hunter did verify that there were two dinners at Washington’s Cafe Milano in 2014 and 2015 where Joe Biden mixed with his Kazakhstani, Russian and Ukrainian patrons — including Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi, whose company paid Hunter a $1 million salary beginning in 2014 as his father spearheaded US policy toward Ukraine.

“I do believe that Vadym was at one of these dinners, yes,” Hunter said, backing The Post’s initial October 2020 reporting on documents from his abandoned laptop. Joe Biden’s presidential campaign disputed the report at the time, claiming no such encounter was on Joe’s “official schedule.”

Hunter also downplayed his dad’s role in the two dinners.

“My dad did not come for dinner . . . I believe that he probably had a Coca-Cola and a bowl of spaghetti,” Hunter said of one of the Cafe Milano gatherings.

‘No foreign gov’t $$’

At one point, Hunter insisted that his dealings were ethical, claiming under oath that “I’ve never received money from a foreign government” — despite his lucrative dealings with two Chinese state-controlled ventures.

“I do not recall introducing my father to Ye Jianming,” Hunter testified.

The first son’s former business associate Rob Walker said in his own testimony on Jan. 26 that the Joe Biden-Ye meeting preceded the flow of an initial $3 million to a group of business partners including Hunter.

The transcript, spanning more than 200 pages, was released by agreement between Hunter’s legal team and House Democrats and Republicans.