Joe Biden Wired Hunter Biden’s Business Associate Dozens of Times While He Was Vice President and Hunter Was Sitting on Burisma Board

The associate, Eric Schwerin, has long helped Biden family members with their personal finances and recently told the Oversight Committee that President Biden was never involved in his son’s business.

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President Biden at Greenville, Delaware, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

A close business associate of Hunter Biden, Eric Schwerin, exchanged dozens of e-mails with President Biden throughout 2014, around the same time that Mr. Biden fils was appointed to a lucrative seat on the board of the Ukrainian energy conglomerate Burisma and his father, then the vice president, was putting pressure on Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor.

While the contents of the messages are not known, the White House has maintained that Mr. Schwerin has only ever helped Biden family members with anodyne financial issues such as filing taxes. 

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