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While serving as vice president under Barack Obama, a bombshell report accuses Joe Biden of ditching his Secret Service bodyguards to pursue private business deals, according to the Washington Examiner.
The outlet reported that Joe Biden ditched the Secret Service before flying to Kazakhstan to pursue a deal on behalf of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
It is widely speculated that Biden and his son Hunter have abused their position and power to forge corrupt business deals in an effort to profit themselves at the expense of America’s national interests.
The Secret Service is also accused of “hiding” Hunter Biden’s overseas travel, according to a bombshell report.
Hundreds of pages of records were improperly redacted by the Secret Service, which effectively withheld information from the public.
Now the American people are learning about Hunter’s secret trips to China, Russia, and other countries.
Two leading Republican senators, Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, brought this new information to light.
They allege the Secret Service “hid names and other information contained in email conversations regarding Hunter Biden without any proper legal justification.”
The Secret Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
More from NY Post:
Hunter Biden reportedly planned to meet with then-Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov, who was arrested on treason charges Saturday following his ouster as head of the country’s counterintelligence and anti-terror agency.
In 2015, Joe and Hunter Biden were apparently photographed posing with Massimov and Kazakhstani oligarch Kenes Rakishev during a gathering at the Cafe Milano restaurant in Washington, DC.
Critics have accused the younger Biden of influence-peddling and a report last year said the Justice Department was investigating a consulting firm linked to Hunter over its work for Bursima, which paid him as much as $1 million a year.
In 2020, Hunter Biden disclosed that he was under investigation for possible tax fraud, reportedly involving his business dealings in China and other foreign countries.
In Tuesday’s letter, first reported by the Examiner, Grassley and Johnson expressed “serious concerns” over the “extensive Freedom of Information Act redactions, which do not apply to Congress” in the 259 pages they received from the Secret Service.
— Advertisement — “These inappropriate redactions impede our offices’ ability to understand the full scope of the interactions between Hunter Biden, his associates, and the USSS,” they wrote.
Grassley and Johnson also said the Secret Service “did not produce any communications regarding Hunter Biden’s travel for the years 2010, 2011, and 2013,” even though its own “travel records show that Hunter Biden made trips to China and other destinations around the world, including, Russia, Italy, Spain and Mexico.”
The lawmakers demanded that the Secret Service provide complete, unredacted copies of the documents it turned over and explain why it didn’t produce records from 2010, 2011 and 2013.
