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FBI Director Christopher Wray was grilled by Republican senators on Thursday and had to admit that the claims that biased FBI agents shielded the first son Hunter Biden from criminal investigations are 'deeply troubling.' He then cut the Q&A short by saying he had to catch a flight.
Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who is the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, noticed that Wray wasn't taking a commercial flight and begged the FBI director to change the time his government jet was leaving.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked Wray about whistleblower claims against Tim Thibault, the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's DC field office, and Brian Auten, a supervisory intelligence analyst for the FBI.
Kennedy told Wray about the accusations that Grassley made about the two FBI workers last month.
“Isn’t it true that Mr. Thibault — Agent Thibault, excuse me — and [Auten] covered up derogatory information about Mr. Hunter Biden while working for the FBI?” Kennedy asked Wray point-blank Thursday.
“I want to be very careful not to interfere with ongoing personnel matters,” Wray replied. “I should say that when I read the letter that describes the kinds of things that you’re talking about, I found it deeply troubling.”
Kennedy also told Wray about a number of Thibault's attacks on Republicans on social media. These attacks were similar to the ones made by FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page against the GOP during the investigation of possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
In a letter to Wray from Grassley in July, he said that Auten and Thibault were allegedly part of "a scheme" to "undermine bad information about Hunter Biden by falsely saying it was disinformation."
Auten “opened an assessment which was used by an FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQ’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,” Grassley wrote.
“[V]erified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation,” Grassley wrote, citing unnamed whistleblowers.
Thibault, meanwhile, allegedly tried to kill off a valid avenue of investigation of possible Hunter Biden criminality.
“In October 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of ASAC Thibault… [when] all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants,” Grassley wrote.
“Thibault allegedly ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines…. [and] subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”
Kennedy on Thursday cited some of Thibault’s social media messages and asked the FBI director, “Do you know how this looks to the American people?”
“I will tell you that what you’re describing is not representative of the FBI … where I see patriots working their tails off with tremendous integrity and objectivity,” Wray said.
Kennedy asked Wray to confirm whether or not Thibault was involved in the ongoing investigation of Hunter Biden for possible tax fraud, unregistered foreign lobbying, and money laundering, but Wray wouldn't answer directly.
“Did he or does he work on the FBI investigation of Mr. Hunter Biden?” Kennedy asked.
“The investigation that you’re referring to is going to — and I need to be a little bit careful because we’re talking about an ongoing investigation — is being run out of our Baltimore field office, working with the Delaware US attorney who’s a holdover from the prior administration,” Wray tried to deflect.
Kennedy followed up, “So I’m confused, Chris, with your answer. Did he work, or does he work on the Hunter Biden investigation?”
Wray again avoided a direct answer, saying, “As I said, that the Hunter Biden investigation is being run out of the Baltimore field office.”
Thibault is said to have posted on social media, including retweeting a Lincoln Project message that called Donald Trump a "psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man" and tweeting that he wanted to "give Kentucky to the Russian Federation."
Hunter Biden recently sent the IRS a check for about $2 million to say that he owed taxes on a windfall of foreign income that he didn't pay taxes on. Reports say that Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris gave the money, but it's not clear what conditions were put on it, and paying back the money doesn't stop the prosecution.
This year, the first son's business dealings overseas got a lot of attention when the Washington Post and the New York Times verified documents from a former Hunter Biden laptop in March. The documents were first reported by The Post in October 2020.
Joe Biden's role in his son's business deals is usually unclear, and they continue to put the president in a tough spot.
Emails on Hunter Biden's laptop show that his father, who was vice president at the time, went to a dinner in Washington, DC in 2015 with some of his son's friends from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Joe Biden posed for a picture with the Kazakhstani group, and the next day, an executive at Ukrainian gas company Burisma, Vadym Pozharskyi, emailed the then-second son to thank him for the chance to meet his father. Hunter Biden reportedly made $1 million a year working on the board of Burisma while his dad was in charge of the Obama administration's policy toward Ukraine.
Yelena Baturina, a Russian billionaire who is said to have been at the 2015 dinner and is the widow of a former mayor of Moscow, has not been hit with US sanctions this year for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, even though Biden has sanctioned a lot of other Russian elites.
Joe Biden may have had something to do with his son's business in China with CEFC China Energy, which paid Hunter Biden and his uncle Jim Biden $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018. This is according to the Washington Post. Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, says he talked to Joe Biden about the deal in May 2017. An email from May 13, 2017, says that the "big guy" would get a 10% equity stake in a company set up with CEFC. Bobulinski says that the "big guy" was the president.
Hunter Biden also started an investment company in China called BHR Partners in 2013. This was less than two weeks after he went to Beijing with his father on Air Force Two. Hunter put Joe Biden in touch with Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR, in the lobby of a hotel in the capital of China. Part of the fund is run by businesses that are owned by the government. Hunter Biden's lawyer, Chris Clark, said that the first son sold his 10 percent stake in BHR Partners less than a week after President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in November. However, neither Hunter Biden nor the White House gave any more information, and online business records show that Hunter Biden still owns the 10 percent stake.
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