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According to The New York Post, Hunter Biden’s business partners were told not to “mention Joe being involved.”
“Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face, I know u know that but they are paranoid,” James Gilliar instructed Bobulinksi on May 20, 2017.
Bobulinksi responded, “OK they should be paranoid about things.”
“For real,” Gilliar replied.
It’s unclear who “they” refers to.
In another message sent on the same day read, “You need to stress to H, does he want to be the reason or factor that blows up his dad’s campaign, things need to be done right and protective of that fact.”
3:56 p.m., Hunter Biden sent Bobulinski a message that said, “Dad not in now until 11-lets me I [sic] and Jim meet at 10 at Beverly Hilton where he’s staying.”
11:40 p.m., Bobulinski sent a text via WhatsApp to Jim Biden that said, “Great to meet u and spend some time together, please thank Joe for his time, was great to talk thx Tony b.”
Bobulinski stated that “The reference to ‘the big guy’ in the much-publicized May 13, 2017 e-mail is in fact a reference to Joe Biden.”
“The other ‘JB’ referenced in that email is Jim Biden, Joe’s brother.”
Written agreements show that Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, Bobulinski, Gilliar and Walker formed a limited liability company called Oneida Holdings.
More from New York Post:
The directive came just days after Joe Biden and his brother, Jim, apparently met with the partner who got the warning, Tony Bobulinski, according to Bobulinski’s text messages.
The apparent coverup — which flies in the face of Biden’s repeated denials that he’s ever discussed his son’s business dealings with him — occurred as Bobulinski, Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and two other men were setting up a joint business venture that also involved a since-vanished Chinese energy tycoon in 2017.
Those exchanges followed a series of May 2, 2017, text messages apparently tied to Joe Biden’s speech the next morning at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif.
— Advertisement — Meanwhile, in between the apparent meeting and the warning to Bobulinski, Gilliar sent a May 13, 2017, e-mail to Bobulinski, Hunter Biden and a fourth partner, Rob Walker, about their formation of a new company.
That e-mail — exclusively revealed by The Post last week — showed the four partners each getting 20 percent shares in the business, with 10 percent going to “Jim” and the remaining 10 percent “held by H for the big guy ?”
In a statement Wednesday, Bobulinski, a former US Navy officer, confirmed the e-mail’s authenticity.
