Hunter Biden To Resign From Board Of Chinese Firm At The Center Of Trump’s False Claims

at Organization of American States on April 12, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Hunter Biden speaks at the World Food Program USA's Annual McGovern-Dole Leadership Award Ceremony at Organization of American States on April 12, 2016. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for World Food Program USA)
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2020 candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, pledged on Sunday to resign from the board of the Chinese equity firm at the heart of President Donald Trump’s baseless conspiracy theory about the Bidens’ alleged corruption.

Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, announced in a Medium post Biden’s decision to step down from the board of BHR (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Company.

“Hunter intends to resign from the BHR board of directors on or by October 31, 2019,” he wrote.

Mesires also denied Trump and his allies’ false claim that Biden had been making “millions” from his ties to the firm with help from his father’s position as vice president at the time.

“To date, Hunter has not received any compensation for being on BHR’s board of directors,” Mesires wrote. “He has not received any return on his investment; there have been no distributions to BHR shareholders since Hunter obtained his equity interest.”

Trump called on China to investigate Biden’s business dealings in early October, further fueling the House impeachment inquiry into Trump’s attempts to push foreign governments to investigate his top 2020 rival and his family.

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  1. His choice but it won’t stop the relentless attacks from the Right.

  2. Now it’s time for the trumpp children to drop out of the trumpp organization.

    Eric Trump and his older brother, Donald Trump Jr., run the Trump Organization, which conducts business — and takes in tens of millions of dollars annually — around the globe and is still owned by the president. The company is forging ahead with projects in Ireland, India, Indonesia and Uruguay, and is licensing the Trump name in such turbulent areas as Turkey and the Philippines.

  3. About time someone pointed out the obvious.

  4. I do hope that an enterprising aspirant for the Democratic nomination makes this an issue! The blatant hypocrisy of the “Hunter Biden made money in China” narrative is galling, and for some reason the media is simply giving Jarvanka a pass — instead of bringing it up each time Trump mentions “Jina.”

  5. Would their staying in for now make it more likely that they end up in jail?

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