House committee votes to release evidence that Hunter Biden ‘indisputably’ lied under oath to Congress

The House Ways and Means Committee voted Wednesday to release 100 pages of new evidence that shows Hunter Biden lied under oath to Congress during his Feb. 28 deposition.

The evidence, provided by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who probed the first son’s finances, reveals Hunter “indisputably” lied at least three times during his sworn testimony, the panel’s majority said after voting in a closed-door executive session for its release.

Hunter, 54, claimed he was “high or drunk” when he sent a threatening text message to the wrong Chinese business associate — but phone records of the WhatsApp message show the associate, Raymond Zhao, responded and “knew exactly” what the president’s son was talking about when he asked to speak with the chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming.

“Sure. I need some time to reach him,” Zhao, a translator for CEFC, wrote back in messages over the next day. “CEFC is willing to cooperate with the family.”

The first son also kept exchanging messages with Zhao after making the threat that he was “sitting” with his father, Joe Biden, and said they would both “hold a grudge” if the CEFC translator reneged on a “commitment.”

“[T]he Zhao that this is sent to is not the Zhao that was connected to CEFC,” Hunter testified, apparently suggesting it was Henry Zhao, the chairman of Harvest Fund Management, who partnered on a separate deal with Hunter’s firm BHR Partners.

In his initial interview with House investigators last year, Shapley had identified Henry Zhao as the intended target of the first son’s message.

Within 10 days, however, CEFC had wired $5 million to bank accounts linked to Hunter Biden, according to a 2020 Senate Republican-led committee report on the transfers.

“My father was not sitting next to me,” Hunter also said of dad Joe’s whereabouts when sending the July 30, 2017, message. “My father had no awareness of the business that I was doing. My father never benefited from any of the business that I was doing.”

The Post’s bombshell October 2020 report revealed that a May 2017 email written by Biden family associate James Gilliar referenced the “big guy” — Joe Biden — receiving a 10% cut from the proposed joint venture with CEFC.

First brother James Biden was also penciled in for a stake — and later wrote a $40,000 check for a “loan repayment” to Joe Biden in September 2017.

Ziegler also provided documents to the committee showing that Hunter signed off on and was the “beneficial owner” of a Rosemont Seneca Bohai bank account — despite his testimony that it was not “under my control nor affiliated with me” and he “didn’t even know that there was such a thing” as a corporate secretary of an entity.

“I, Robert Hunter Biden, hereby certify that I am the duly elected, qualified and acting Secretary of Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC,” reads the signed April 29, 2014, document, which allowed the first son to enter into a contract with Porsche Financial Services.

Hunter also falsely denied that he would help his associates with “any work as it related to visas that they needed” or “pick up the phone and call anybody for a visa.”

In fact, a Feb. 5, 2015, email obtained by Ways and Means show Hunter, his ex-business partner Devon Archer and other associates trying to secure a visa for the founder of the Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky.

“Hunter is checking with Miguel Aleman to see if he can provide cover to Kola on the visa,” Archer wrote in the email, before adding to Burisma associate Vadym Pozharskyi: “please send Hunter an email with all Kola’s passport and visa documents and evidence and copy me. We’ll take it from there.”

“Hunter Biden has shown once again he believes there are two systems of justice in this country — one for his family, and one for everyone else,” said House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) in a statement. “Not only did Hunter Biden refuse to comply with his initial subpoena until threatened with criminal contempt, but he then came before Congress and lied.”

“Lying during sworn testimony is a felony offense that the Department of Justice has prosecuted numerous individuals for in recent years, and the American people expect the same accountability for the son of the President of the United States,” Smith added. “Hunter Biden’s lies under oath, and obstruction of a congressional investigation into his family’s potential corruption, calls into question other pieces of his testimony. The newly released evidence affirms, once again, the only witnesses who can be trusted to tell the truth in this investigation are the IRS whistleblowers.”

The Ways and Means evidence also included a series of emails between Shapley and former Delaware Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf discussing “an update on one of the witnesses” for Hunter’s then-ongoing tax probe.

In a signed May 14, 2024, affidavit, Shapley revealed that Wolf and DOJ tax attorney Jack Morgan had been summoned to the CIA in Langley, Va., to receive a classified briefing about the witness, Hunter’s “sugar brother” Kevin Morris.

“She reiterated more than once that they were summoned to the CIA in Langley concerning Mr. Morris, and that because of the information provided there, he could not be a witness for the investigation,” Shapley recalled of the phone conversation with Wolf around August 2021.

CIA chief of legislative affiars James Catella had previously described the allegation as false in an April letter to House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who first inquired about it with the agency. 

“CIA does not comment on specific investigations,” a spokesperson told The Post. “We can say that CIA cooperates with law enforcement partners and does not obstruct investigations. CIA also fully and routinely cooperates with our oversight committees and will continue to do so.”

The IRS whistleblowers were sidelined from the investigation just months before Delaware US Attorney David Weiss announced a June 20, 2023, plea agreement with the president’s son.

The probation-only plea deal was later rejected by Hunter’s attorneys, and Weiss was later elevated to special counsel status and indicted the first son on gun and tax felonies in Delaware and Los Angeles, respectively.

The gun trial is due to begin June 3 in Wilmington federal court.