The Biden family has faced a barrage of allegations, primarily from Republican critics, who accuse them of corruption and profiting from Joe Biden’s political influence. These claims have gained significant attention, particularly in the wake of Donald Trump’s suggestion that his predecessor could face investigations. The accusations center around financial dealings in multiple countries and pardons issued by President Biden to several family members, including his son, Hunter Biden.  

 

In December, a month after Trump’s election victory, President Biden issued a pardon to Hunter Biden, who had been found guilty of illegally obtaining a firearm and had admitted to tax-related charges. The pardon also extended to potential offenses Hunter “may have committed or taken part in” from 2014 to 2024. On the final day of his presidency, Biden granted clemency to additional family members, including his sister, two brothers, and two in-laws, shielding them from prosecution for actions dating back to January 2014. Critics argue these actions were an attempt to protect his family from investigations into allegations of corruption tied to Biden’s tenure as vice president from 2009 to 2017.  

 

James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, has been vocal in leading Republican efforts to scrutinize the Biden family. Comer claims to have evidence that “at least ten members of the Biden crime family and their associates raked in over $30 million by selling Joe Biden’s influence to corrupt foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan.”  

 

One of the most contentious allegations involves Hunter Biden’s attempted deal in 2017 with CEFC, China’s largest private energy company. An email retrieved from Hunter’s discarded laptop allegedly referenced “the big guy” receiving a 10% stake, a term Hunter’s former business associate Tony Bobulinski claimed referred to Joe Biden. While Hunter testified that the suggestion was made without his father’s knowledge and did not materialize, Comer’s investigation has identified $8 million in payments from Chinese sources to Biden family members and associates.  

 

In Russia, a 2014 payment of $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, then Russia’s richest woman, to Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer has drawn attention. Republicans allege that a subsequent dinner involving Baturina, Hunter, Joe Biden, and Archer suggests a possible quid pro quo. They point to the fact that Baturina was not subjected to U.S. sanctions as evidence of potential favoritism.  

 

Hunter Biden’s involvement with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma has also been a focal point. Appointed to Burisma’s board in 2014, he earned an annual salary of $1 million during a period when Joe Biden, as vice president, was overseeing U.S. relations with Ukraine. While Republicans argue Hunter’s role was tied to his father’s influence, Biden has maintained that his actions regarding Ukraine were aligned with international consensus, including the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.  

 

Additional allegations involve Romania, where a property entrepreneur, Gabriel Popoviciu, sent $3 million to a company associated with Hunter’s business partner. Over $1 million was later transferred to various Biden family accounts. Hunter’s legal work for Popoviciu coincided with Joe Biden’s advocacy for anti-corruption reforms in Romania, prompting ethics watchdogs to question whether Hunter was hired due to his family ties.  

 

In Kazakhstan, a 2014 wire transfer of $142,300 from businessman Kenes Rakishev to Hunter Biden’s company raised further suspicion. The payment, which coincided with Rakishev’s attendance at a dinner involving Joe and Hunter Biden, was allegedly used by Hunter to purchase a luxury car.  

 

President Biden’s decision not to pardon himself leaves him exposed to potential investigations should the Trump administration or a Republican-led Congress pursue the allegations further. James Comer has argued that Biden’s clemency actions represent “a confession of their corruption,” calling for continued scrutiny of the family’s dealings.  

 

Despite these accusations, Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, emphasizing during a 2020 presidential debate that his family did not profit from his political role. The ongoing investigations and political rhetoric surrounding these claims ensure they will remain a contentious issue in the public and political arenas.  

 

Based on a report by The Times 2025-01-25

 

 

There is no there, there, folks.

How were these gangsters ever allowed to run the US?

 

Good riddance to this crime family and their pre emptive pardons.

Joe thought he'd stop the investigations with those pardons. 

 

Instead, he just piqued the curiosity of even more Americans.  On his way to going into the history books as the most corrupt, worst president ever when it all comes out.  Most of it is already out in the Hur Report and the House Report on the Biden Crime Family.  With the receipts in both reports.

 

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1 hour ago, impulse said:

Joe thought he'd stop the investigations with those pardons. 

 

Instead, he just piqued the curiosity of even more Americans.  On his way to going into the history books as the most corrupt, worst president ever when it all comes out.  Most of it is already out in the Hur Report and the House Report on the Biden Crime Family.  With the receipts in both reports.

 

Keep gaslighting. 
 

Flawed coverage of the Hur report muddles the facts and gives short shrift to the law. LAWFARE

Really?

 

This can't be true.

 

Most probably Russian disinformation again.

Was it my imagination or did Donald give plum jobs to his kids and their spouses during his first term?

(And also pardon his criminal associates).

4 hours ago, impulse said:

Joe thought he'd stop the investigations with those pardons. 

 

Instead, he just piqued the curiosity of even more Americans.  On his way to going into the history books as the most corrupt, worst president ever when it all comes out.  Most of it is already out in the Hur Report and the House Report on the Biden Crime Family.  With the receipts in both reports.

 

 

The issue that Joe created is interesting.  Because all these people are pardoned for everything they did they no longer can take the 5th.  If they are caught in a ly or mislead or fail to respond to a subpeona then they leave themselves open to new charges not covered by the pardon.

 

If Congress wants they can hang Joe High.  

 

however the interesting catch is that Joe has done enough damage that it might be better to talk about what they think he did but not go to court.

9 hours ago, Social Media said:

The Biden family has faced a barrage of allegations, primarily from Republican critics

You misspelled unchristian liars. 🙄

The GOP's problem is that, after years of investigation, they still have nothing! 

 

FD-1023 anyone? 🤣

7 hours ago, JonnyF said:

How were these gangsters ever allowed to run the US?

No different to the current crooked and compulsive liar Trump (stealing $2.1 million from a charity for example) and his family/contacts. 
Jared and his wife will be very happy with the "commission" they have received for various property deals, and so it goes on. 

8 hours ago, JonnyF said:

How were these gangsters ever allowed to run the US?

 

Good riddance to this crime family and their pre emptive pardons.

 

Did Joe manage to pardon himself?

Just now, nauseus said:

 

Did Joe manage to pardon himself?

Or did he forget?  

13 minutes ago, xylophone said:

No different to the current crooked and compulsive liar Trump (stealing $2.1 million from a charity for example) and his family/contacts. 
Jared and his wife will be very happy with the "commission" they have received for various property deals, and so it goes on. 

Very different. Years of investigation by Congress hasn't come up with any wrongdoings from Joe biden, trump has been convicted.

If "A Web of Accusations and Controversy" is a spider web for Biden it's a mile long and wide drag net for trump.

 

For starters Biden has not twice faced impeachment proceedings and is not a convicted Felon who has spent the last several years in a courtroom defending his actions.

 

There is no limit to republican hypocrisy.

7 hours ago, impulse said:

Joe thought he'd stop the investigations with those pardons. 

 

Instead, he just piqued the curiosity of even more Americans.  On his way to going into the history books as the most corrupt, worst president ever when it all comes out.  Most of it is already out in the Hur Report and the House Report on the Biden Crime Family.  With the receipts in both reports.

 

Wake us up when Joe is indicted by a Grand Jury. .😆

The whole of the USA is an absolute mess.Forgetting parties it would appear that the leaders and the media will not be happy until the whole country is on its knees. (except the 1% billionairs who are there for self interest.) The people at the top forget that they are human and only here for a short time (some shorter than others). They will all be gone in a few years and before they pass on they can ask  themselves what good have I done for my country and fellow Americans. Most will have done nothing,So much for  Christian society /country.

17 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Years of investigation by Congress hasn't come up with any wrongdoings from Joe biden, trump has been convicted.

The Biden investigation is far from over and Trump was convicted (and likely will be exonerated on appeal) for minor accounting missteps that did not make him millions of dollars.

17 minutes ago, RocketDog said:

For starters Biden has not twice faced impeachment proceedings...

...and was cleared of the bogus impeachment charges on both occasions.

6 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

minor accounting missteps

Jeez........trying to cover up his payment to a hooker by "cooking the books/accounting fraud" is SO much more than a mere "misstep". Reality please...........

7 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Jeez........trying to cover up his payment to a hooker by "cooking the books/accounting fraud" is SO much more than a mere "misstep". Reality please...........

"Reality, please", indeed!   You recall his sentence?

7 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Reality, please", indeed!   You recall his sentence?

For his charity steal you mean? Or are you referring to his university scam?

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

Very different. Years of investigation by Congress hasn't come up with any wrongdoings from Joe biden, trump has been convicted.

 

You must not have even read the Hur or the House reports.  There's plenty in there. 

 

But up until January 21, they would have needed the votes to impeach him in order to prosecute a sitting president.  And the Dems wouldn't have voted for impeachment even with videos of Biden walking across the White House lawn with a severed head in one hand and a bloody machete in the other.

 

36 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Jeez........trying to cover up his payment to a hooker by "cooking the books/accounting fraud" is SO much more than a mere "misstep". Reality please...........

 

You mean when one of his corporate flunkies recorded a payment to his attorney as a legal expense?

 

2 hours ago, candide said:

The GOP's problem is that, after years of investigation, they still have nothing! 

 

FD-1023 anyone? 🤣

 

So you think Biden pardoned them over 'nothing'

29 minutes ago, proton said:

 

So you think Biden pardoned them over 'nothing'

The GOP still has nothing against Joe Biden.

As noted by another poster, it doesn't prevent them from testifying against Joe. Additionally, most of them already testified during the fake GOP investigation which failed  miserably! The previous GOP Senate investigation also failed. Since 2019 the GOP failed to come up with any incriminating evidence against Joe Biden (outside the MAGA alternate universe, of course). 😆

 

1 hour ago, impulse said:

 

You mean when one of his corporate flunkies recorded a payment to his attorney as a legal expense?

 

I mean..............

 

The case stems from a "hush money" payment of $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office allege Trump worked to falsely and illegally categorize reimbursements to his lawyer to cover up the payment.

 

With the help of his former fixer Michael Cohen, Trump would allegedly pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about her story. After Trump became president, prosecutors say, he started reimbursing Cohen for the payment, which he would record in his financial records as legal fees to Cohen.

 

These payments could land Trump in prison. Prosecutors allege that Trump broke the law by falsifying these business records to hide illegal hush-money payments and protect Trump’s chances during the presidential election.

The former president faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts last April. The charges carry a maximum of four years in prison.

 

He is a crook who escaped justice, but still a crook!

27 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I mean..............

 

The case stems from a "hush money" payment of $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office allege Trump worked to falsely and illegally categorize reimbursements to his lawyer to cover up the payment.

 

With the help of his former fixer Michael Cohen, Trump would allegedly pay Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet about her story. After Trump became president, prosecutors say, he started reimbursing Cohen for the payment, which he would record in his financial records as legal fees to Cohen.

 

These payments could land Trump in prison. Prosecutors allege that Trump broke the law by falsifying these business records to hide illegal hush-money payments and protect Trump’s chances during the presidential election.

The former president faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts last April. The charges carry a maximum of four years in prison.

 

He is a crook who escaped justice, but still a crook!

 

Since when are hush money payments illegal?

 

There was a myriad of testimony (the best was the National Enquirer guy) about the prevalence of payments to make stories go away.

 

6 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Since when are hush money payments illegal?

 

There was a myriad of testimony (the best was the National Enquirer guy) about the prevalence of payments to make stories go away.

 

Now you are being deliberately obtuse because it's the way this hush money payment was treated, because in doing so trump falsified business records to hide the payments and falsifying business records is illegal and an offence.

 

Read again: – the charge was that Trump worked to falsify and illegally categorise reimbursements to his lawyer to cover up the payment.