President Joe Biden reassured Hunter Biden in a voicemail that he was in the “clear” following the release of a New York Times article covering his dealings with the now-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC.
Joe Biden has frequently maintained that he has “never” spoken with Hunter about his overseas business dealings. The Dec. 12, 2018, voicemail, which was located on a password-protected iPhone XS backup found on a copy of Hunter’s abandoned laptop, indicates that Joe Biden did indeed have a level of awareness of his son’s overseas entanglements with a man Hunter once referred to as the “spy chief of China.”
“Hey pal, it’s Dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance, just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk with you,” Joe Biden said in the Dec. 12, 2018, voicemail, which was first reported by the Daily Mail.
“I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good,” added Joe Biden, who wasn’t serving in public office at the time. “I think you’re clear. And anyway, if you get a chance, give me a call. I love you.”
Joe Biden launched his successful presidential campaign about five months after he left the voicemail on his son’s phone.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Joe Biden said in September 2019, something he would repeat multiple times.
The New York Times article Joe Biden referred to in the voicemail covered Hunter’s business partnership with former CEFC chairman Ye Jianming and his top lieutenant Patrick Ho during a time frame the Chinese company pursued business opportunities in the United States and around the world.
Ye has since disappeared in China after Chinese state media linked him to a corruption case in 2018, which led CEFC to go bankrupt.
By Andrew Kerr
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