BIG BOBULINSKI VS. FIRST FAMILY
Ex-biz partners expose Hunter & Jim in House
First Son Hunter Biden and First Brother James Biden were accused of lying by two House Republican impeachment inquiry witnesses during a Wednesday hearing — one of whom said he had put himself “at grave risk” by coming forward.
Tony Bobulinski accused his former business partners Hunter and James of “perjury” during depositions they gave last month about President Biden’s alleged past involvement in their overseas business.
Bobulinski explained that, while serving as the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings and as part of a partnership the Bidens sought with a Chinese state-linked energy firm, he “met with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Jim Biden at the Beverly Hilton in May 2017” — despite the first brother denying this meeting ever occurred.
In sonny’s own words
Hunter said, “My dad went and shook hands with Tony,” when asked about the exchange during his deposition, a transcript released by the Oversight panel shows, whereas James Biden’s transcript shows him saying the meeting had “absolutely not” happened — even after being presented with evidence of his texts with Bobulinski.
“Hunter Biden, in his own transcribed interview, confirmed that that meeting took place,” Bobulinski emphasized. “Hunter confirmed his uncle perjured himself in front of this committee.”
“The committee was so shocked by his perjury that they asked him the same question multiple times,” he added. “Each time he denied meeting with me and Joe Biden, after the committee showed him text messages confirming that.”
For nearly eight hours, Republicans rehashed evidence provided by Bobulinski and other witnesses about the president’s alleged involvement in his son and brother’s business affairs, along with bank records that showed millions of dollars flowing from foreign benefactors to first family members.
Democrats attacked the credibility of several of the witnesses who have been charged or convicted of crimes — and pointed to contrasting testimony from James and Hunter Biden as having undermined Republicans’ case.
Hunter Biden, 54, ignored the invitation to appear before the committee after having attended the deposition last month on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
Due to a mixup, Archer received his invitation without sufficient time to prepare, his attorney, Matthew Schwartz, claimed in a Monday letter to Oversight majority staff, which was obtained by The Post.
The session ended with a surprise post on X by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), who said that he planned to call the president in to testify himself — a request a congressional committee hasn’t made since 1974, when President Gerald Ford was asked to explain his decision to pardon former President Richard Nixon.
“In the coming days, I will invite President Joe Biden to the House Oversight Committee to provide his own testimony and explain why his family received tens of millions of dollars from foreign companies with his assistance,” Comer said.
In Bobulinski’s opening remarks, he claimed that the first son lied about “important details concerning” a July 2017 shake
down text message he intended to send to an executive at the firm, CEFC China Energy, 10 days before $5.1 million was deposited in accounts linked to Hunter and James Biden.
Galanis ‘at grave risk’
Hunter, in his testimony on Feb. 28 to the Oversight Committee, denied that his father had ever “interacted” with business associates — and said he was “drunk and probably high” when he sent the message to the wrong Chinese associate before claiming his father was not sitting next to him at the time.
In his prepared remarks submitted to the committee, Bobulinski suggested there were further examples of perjury by Hunter and James Biden, and he hoped members would “hold them accountable.”
Asked directly by House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) about every statement the first son made about his father not being involved in foreign business deals, Bobulinski called Hunter’s testimony “blatant lies.”
Jason Galanis, another former business associate, said Hunter Biden misled Congress about his father’s awareness and involvement in the influence-peddling schemes — adding that he believes he is “at grave risk” of harm as a result of his information.
That information includes potentially placing Joe Biden on the board of a Chinese governmentconnected financial firm after leaving the Obama White House — and a phone call the then-vice president had with the former mayor of Moscow and his wife, a Russian oligarch, in which he said: “Be good to my boy.”
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has drawn outrage for claiming that giving each of the tens of thousands of migrants pouring into the Big Apple free legal representation could net billions in economic benefits for New York state.
Lander’s office said in a report that coughing up individual lawyers to rep migrants could prevent roughly 53,000 asylum-seekers from being deported across the Empire State — resulting in an estimated net benefit of $8.4 billion for local, state and federal governments.
“Access to work authorization leads to higher wages. The higher earning power generates more tax revenue. Higher personal income also benefits the economy through increased consumer spending,” the report said.
“Additionally, gaining lawful status also opens the door to more immigrants opening bank accounts, buying homes and starting businesses, which all help grow the economy.”
$10 billion burden
The report — which fails to lay out how much it would cost to cover the legal fees — comes as the city is grappling with how to foot the bill for sheltering the roughly 180,000 migrants who have arrived since the crisis erupted in spring 2022.
Mayor Adams has repeatedly stressed that the relentless influx is forecast to set the city back $10 billion over the next few years.
The notion of forking over even more money to provide legal counsel for migrants was quickly ripped by critics.
“Every couple of weeks, there’s another politician telling us that the migrant crisis is giving us some newfound economic benefit — and yet all we seem to keep doing is using taxpayer money to pay for services,” City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) told The Post on Wednesday. “Both of those things can’t be true.”
‘The king panderer’
City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) also chimed in: “No amount of gaslighting by the king panderer Brad Lander can change the undeniable fact that unfettered migration across the border is detrimental to our city.
“Half of New Yorkers are looking for the exit door because of what’s going on. We need to reverse that,” he added, citing a report from the Citizens Budget Commission that found 50% of New Yorkers plan to stay in the city over the next five years.
Meanwhile, Steven Camarota, director of research with the right-leaning Center for Immigration Studies, also ripped Lander’s assertion, telling The Post it “contradicts” research on the subject.
“Only a small fraction of the migrants even qualify for asylum,” Camarota said.
He argued migrants who haven’t been high-school educated are a tax drain, not tax generators.
“Less educated immigrants are a large fiscal drain,” Camarota said, adding they’d have to make between $90,000 and $100,000 a year in high-cost New York to break even.
City Hall didn’t respond to The Post’s request for comment about the report.