A former business associate of Hunter Biden claimed that his father, President Joe Biden, was present at a meeting with the chairman of a Chinese energy firm Hunter Biden did business with.
Rob Walker testified during a closed-door hearing at the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees earlier this month as part of the House impeachment inquiry against President Biden.
Newsweek reached out to a representative for President Biden via email for comment.
On December 13, the House of Representatives voted to launch an impeachment inquiry into the president by 221 votes to 212. Republicans allege that while serving as vice president between 2009 and 2017, Joe Biden used his influence to improperly support the business activities of his son, from which they suggest he gained financially.
The president has said he had no involvement with Hunter Biden’s business dealings and the White House has described the GOP’s impeachment effort as “sad, pathetic, and a waste of everyone’s time.”
Since then, investigators have interviewed a number of key witnesses including Walker. While he did not confirm the date, Walker said, according to a transcript of the interview, that Joe Biden met CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming, along with his son Hunter and his other business partners, at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C., around 2017 when the elder Biden was vice president.