Republicans promised during the 2022 midterm elections campaign to investigate the laptop and related matters, leading to the Oversight Committee investigation once they gained control of the House of Representatives in January 2023.
Despite extensive scrutiny of the laptop contents by multiple parties, by September 2022 no clear evidence of criminal activity was found.
The laptop garnered significant attention from Republicans and conservative media as the Hunter Biden laptop controversy. The laptop included two emails to Hunter Biden that passingly mentioned Joe Biden, in relation to business matters in both Ukraine and China neither email indicated that Joe Biden was involved in any of the business matters. In October 2020, the New York Post reported on a laptop once belonging to Hunter Biden that contained tens of thousands of emails and documents. In 2020, Trump pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to falsely announce his government was investigating the Bidens, resulting in Trump's impeachment. Trump allies alleged Shokin was fired to protect Burisma and Hunter Biden from corruption investigations, though the vice president was acting in accordance with American, European Union and International Monetary Fund policy, as Shokin himself was seen as corrupt and had allowed an investigation into Burisma to fall dormant. Īs vice president, Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire prosecutor general Viktor Shokin, later boasting that his effort worked. The Trump campaign and its allies noted that Burisma hired Hunter Biden despite his lack of energy expertise, though he had been hired to provide board-level corporate governance and transparency consulting services, as Burisma sought to improve its reputation to seek partnerships with Western companies. Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani led a team of associates that traveled to Ukraine during 2019. When Joe Biden began running for president in 2019, the Trump campaign sought to find evidence of possible financial impropriety and influence peddling among the Bidens. A 2020 investigation led by Republican senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley found no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, noting only that Hunter Biden had used his family name to develop business relationships. Joe Biden has insisted he had no knowledge of, or investments in, his son's foreign business ventures. His uncle James joined him to purchase an international hedge fund in 2006. Hunter Biden was also an international investment fund founder, notably in China. His father and the State Department expressed concerns about Hunter Biden's involvement with Burisma due to its history of corruption, and potential conflicts with Obama administration policy. In 2014, his son, Hunter, accepted a business consulting engagement with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and was appointed to the company's board of directors.
The committee is also investigating Twitter's involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.Īs Vice President during the Obama administration, Joe Biden brought with him significant foreign policy experience from his decades as a senator, notably relating to Ukraine, which the Obama administration encouraged to adopt economic and democratic reforms, with Biden spearheading the effort from the White House. The investigation was initiated on January 11, 2023, by Republican committee chairman James Comer and includes examination of the foreign business activities of Biden's son, Hunter, and brother, James. The United States House Oversight Committee investigation into the Biden family is an ongoing investigation by the United States House of Representatives into US President Joe Biden's alleged "involvement in his family's foreign business practices and international influence peddling schemes".
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