Jeff Zients, the incoming White House leader of group of workers, met more than one occasions in 2016 with President Biden’s son Hunter Biden who’s going through legal and congressional probes into his previous trade dealings.
According to emails acquired from Hunter Biden’s deserted computer and verified by way of Fox News Digital, Zients met with Hunter Biden two times in February 2016 and on any other instance in May 2016, simply months earlier than President Biden, the vp on the time, used to be set to go away the White House. President Biden additionally attended the primary two conferences which each came about on the U.S. Naval Observatory the place the vice presidential place of dwelling is positioned.
During the primary assembly — which came about on Feb. 12, 2016 — Zients, Hunter Biden, then-Vice President Biden met with David Rubenstein, a billionaire and founding father of hundred-billion-dollar asset control company The Carlye Group. Rubenstein may be the member of a sequence of different organizations together with the World Economic Forum, Council on Foreign Relations and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
President Biden has been criticized for vacationing at Rubenstein’s mansion in Nantucket, Massachusetts, during the last a number of years. After he spent Thanksgiving at Rubenstein’s house in 2021, the White House stated the president had up to now visited the house.
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Two weeks after the primary assembly, Zients, Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Biden met with former lobbyist and present White House senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and David Bradley, a Washington, D.C.-based political guide and chairman of media workforce Atlantic Media.
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Then, on May 24, 2016, Zients, Hunter Biden and Bradley met with Eric Lander, the recently-ousted director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Richard Klausner, the previous head of the National Cancer Institute and a significant biotech investor. Klausner used to be additionally up to now the chief director for international well being on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In addition, Anne Marie Muldoon, who used to be an assistant for then-Vice President Biden between 2014-2017, despatched Hunter Biden a call for participation to wait a possible fourth assembly together with his father, Zients, Bradley and Lander on the Naval Observatory on July 12, 2016. While it’s unclear whether or not Hunter Biden joined the assembly, Muldoon despatched him a duplicate of the assembly schedule after it came about.
Zients, Bradley and Lander had additionally served at the board of administrators for the Biden Cancer Initiative, a non-profit challenge President Biden and his spouse Jill Biden introduced in June 2017. It is unknown whether or not the 3 had mentioned the initiative all the way through their 2016 conferences with Hunter Biden.
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Fox News Digital showed Sunday that present White House leader of group of workers Ron Klain is anticipated to step down and get replaced by way of Zients who led the federal COVID-19 pandemic reaction between early 2021 and April 2022.
“Jeff spent the last 14 months working tirelessly to help combat COVID,” the president stated in a observation in March after Zients introduced he would step down from the function. “He is a man of service and an expert manager. I will miss his counsel and I’m grateful for his service.”
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And Hunter Biden has confronted scrutiny from federal investigators associated with his previous trade dealings and doable tax evasion. Republican lawmakers have additionally introduced oversight into him and the way he allegedly leveraged his father’s place for monetary acquire.
“The American people deserve transparency and accountability about the Biden family’s influence peddling,” House Oversight and Reform Chairman James Comer stated in a observation overdue ultimate 12 months. “With the new Republican majority, Oversight Committee Republicans will continue pressing for answers to inform legislative solutions to prevent this abuse of power.”
The White House did not reply to a request for remark. Zients and a attorney for Hunter Biden additionally did not reply to requests for remark.
Fox News Digital manufacturing affiliate Matteo Cina contributed to this document.