Sebastian Hughes, DCNF
Two Democratic donors purportedly considered paying Hunter Biden $2 million to help unfreeze Libyan government assets in 2015 that had been targeted by the Obama administration, but had second thoughts due to his various personal struggles, according to emails obtained by Business Insider.
The donors were hopeful Biden’s influence could help unlock $15 billion in foreign assets that were frozen by former President Barack Obama during the Qaddafi regime, but had second thoughts because of his struggles with “drug addiction,” chasing of “low class hookers” and “money-liquidity problems,” according to emails obtained by Business Insider.
“Per phone conversation I met with #2 son. He wants $2 per year retainer +++ success fees,” Sam Jauhari, a Democratic donor with businesses in the Persian Gulf, wrote to Mohammed al-Rahbani, an Obama campaign donor.
Two people with knowledge of the negotiations said the “$2 per year” meant $2 million. “He wants to hire his own people – it can be close circle of people for confidentiality. His dad is deciding to run or not,” Jauhari added.
The emails, which are separate from those found on a laptop that Rudy Giuliani turned over to the New York Post in October 2020, appear to show the deal never came to fruition, Business Insider reported.
Jauhari, who was helping spearhead the initiative, went on to state that the positives of the deal, saying that Hunter Biden was the “son of #2 who has Libya file, access to State, Treasury, business partner SofS [Secretary of State] J. [John] Forbes K [Kerry] son and since he travels with dad he is connected everywhere in Europe and Asia where M. Q. [Muammar Qaddafi] and LIA [Libya Investment Authority] had money frozen,” according to the email correspondence obtained by Business Insider.
He also noted Biden’s “highest level” of access to China, a country that was making moves to strengthen its influence in Africa at the time, Business Insider reported. Hunter Biden had traveled with his father on an official trip to Beijing in 2013, according to The New Yorker, arranging a meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden and one of his business partners.
A second email from 2016 from John Sandweg, a Washington lawyer that previously served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Obama administration, to the donors reiterated Hunter Biden’s interest in the deal, emphasizing he would need a small team with people he had a “tight relationship with,” Business Insider reported.
A lawyer for al-Rahbani told Business Insider his client “has no recollection of seeing those emails contemporaneously” and “knows to a certainty that he never spoke to and has no recollection of talking about Hunter Biden.”
The president and his son have maintained the two never discussed the latter’s business dealings and there remains no evidence anything of substance was ever delivered to his clients, Business Insider reported.
For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.
DONATE TO BIZPAC REVIEW
Please help us! If you are fed up with letting radical big tech execs, phony fact-checkers, tyrannical liberals and a lying mainstream media have unprecedented power over your news please consider making a donation to BPR to help us fight them. Now is the time. Truth has never been more critical!
- Dana Bash appears to want to crawl out of her own skin when Ramaswamy ‘goes there’ on J6 - December 7, 2023
- As Biden’s approval ratings decrease, students criticize administration for rebuilding border wall and support for Israel - November 12, 2023
- ‘They need to go!’ Scalise and McCarthy garner votes as 20 GOP ‘turncoats’ block Jim Jordan - October 17, 2023
Comment
We have no tolerance for comments containing violence, racism, profanity, vulgarity, doxing, or discourteous behavior. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the ∨ icon below and to the right of that comment. Thank you for partnering with us to maintain fruitful conversation.
