by Drill Down Staff
President Joe Biden was more involved in Hunter Biden’s financial and business dealings than previously acknowledged, allowing his son to pay some of his bills, redirecting one of his tax refunds to pay back money he owed to his son, dining with his foreign clients and even directly referring a potential partner to his son’s business, according to email and text messages obtained by the FBI and Congress.
Jeff Cooper “asked for you,” Joe Biden wrote in one particularly telling text message to his son, sending his scion Cooper’s phone number. Cooper is longtime Joe Biden donor and trial lawyer who worked with Beau Biden’s firm in Delaware on asbestos litigation dating back to 2005. From 2012 to 2014, Hunter Biden was listed as a manager of Cooper’s Eudora Global, LLC. Cooper “wants to do some work with you,” Joe Biden wrote and signed off, “Love Dad.”
The message is one of the clearest pieces of evidence gathered by investigators that Joe Biden was not simply a passive bystander in his son’s globe-trotting business pursuits, but rather at times assisting and benefitting financially from his son, the messages show.
For instance, a string of spring and summer 2010 emails show Hunter Biden and a partner at his Rosemont Seneca firm assisted the White House with documents for Joe Biden’s tax returns after his first year in office and then chose to redirect the vice president’s Delaware state tax refund to Hunter Biden to pay off money the father owed his son, the emails state.
“I am depositing it in his account and writing a check in that amount back to you since he owes it to you. Don’t think I need to run it by him, but if you want to go ahead,” Rosemont Seneca official Eric Schwerin wrote in June 2010.
Another Schwerin email a month later entitled…
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