by Frank Holmes, reporter
Scandal has swirled around Joe Biden for decades, thanks to his family’s dirty business deals—but Biden always managed to pretend he kept his hands clean as a senator, then as vice president, and now as president.
All those years of pretending just blew up in Joe Biden’s face.
To make it more shocking, the final blow came from a liberal news website…and possibly from his brother’s own lips.
The facts are screaming out between the lines of his brother’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee. Joe’s younger brother, James Biden, told House Republicans on Wednesday, “I never asked my brother to take any official action on behalf of me, my business associates, or anyone else.”
“Official action”? That’s precise, legal language: He means Joe Biden didn’t pass legislation or cast votes in the Senate on behalf of his business deals
But the facts are laid bare in a scathing, a 7,300-word investigative story in Politico.
On the China deal, James Biden disparages Tony Bobulinski as "tremendously arrogant; was often disrespectful and a bad listener; acted like a stubborn bully."
"My brother played no role, was not involved with, and received no benefits from my work with CEFC." pic.twitter.com/p3PqcKUsPg
— Matt Viser (@mviser) February 21, 2024
Sometimes, just Biden’s presence was enough.
It centers around Jim Biden’s strange—and legally dubious—dealings with a healthcare company named Americore, which ended up fronting the Bidens hundreds of thousands of dollars…much of which ended up in Joe Biden’s bank account.
One person the president’s brother tried to sell on his healthcare “investment” remembered getting a call where “Jim Biden said he was sitting in a car next to his brother Joe,” reported the website.
That sounds a lot like the way Hunter Biden would email a Chinese company that he was sitting right next to his father, who would hold a grudge forever if the Communist-tied company didn’t pay the Bidens off soon…and the Bidens soon got a seven-figure wire transfer.
“Jim Biden’s role at Americore was larger than previously reported,” reports Politico’s Ben Schreckinger. He was one of its “top handful of leaders” who “helped the company seal regulatory approval” to buy a Pennsylvania hospital and “personally fired” its CEO.
That’s bad—but his brother’s role is worse.
“The investigation also reveals that Joe Biden’s name and inner circle were more involved with the company than has been understood: In addition to the accounts provided by former executives, investor materials described Jim Biden as an adviser to his older brother,” Shreckinger reports. “At least three of Joe Biden’s relatives did work with Americore. They include Jim Biden’s wife, Sara, and his son, Jamie. The president’s son, Hunter Biden also met with its CEO, and his personal doctor — current White House physician Kevin O’Connor — joined a meeting with Jim Biden and the president of a hospital being acquired by Americore.”
Joe Biden also met the CEO of Americore, Grant White, at a fundraiser for the Beau Biden Foundation in September 2017…just like he met Hunter Biden’s business associates.
James Biden told Americore that he planned to give his brother, Joe, equity in the company, put him on its board of directors, and—one day soon—“his brother could promote the company in a future presidential campaign,” Politico reported.
He also said he “could help Americore land contracts from the Veterans Affairs Department,” and “from labor groups,” who had long cozied up to his brother.
But all the investment James Biden promised never materialized—and budget cuts were so bad that the a man died in 2018 after he got bad care at its hospital in rural, southeastern Kentucky. The company is also facing allegations it tried to milk Medicare out of $100 million by charging the state of Pennsylvania for unnecessary tests, which it outsourced to another company.
But the Bidens didn’t suffer: as usual, they cashed in.
Americore was flat broke by January 2018—but James Biden had a trick up his sleeve. He and a hedge fund manager named Michael Lewitt promised to round up $30 million in investments—and in January, Lewitt got the company a $2 million “bridge loan,” which would hold the company until the real investment got there.
The same month, Americore gave Jim Biden $400,000, reported as a “loan”—or was it a kickback?
That March, Americore sent Jim Biden another $200,000 “loan”…and the same day, he paid Joe Biden off with a $200,000 “loan repayment.”
The House Oversight Committee has asked repeatedly: If these were loans, what is it a loan for?
Where is your paperwork?
Why don’t you have any proof?
And how on earth would anyone believe this is above board?
House Oversight chairman @RepJamesComer is playing hardball. This afternoon he asked the White House to provide evidence to back their claim that the $200,000 check to Joe Biden from his brother Jim Biden was repayment of a “loan”.
“The current lack of documentation leaves reason… pic.twitter.com/CbVJgfxsF6— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) October 26, 2023
What’s worse yet: Joe Biden isn’t the only Democratic politician caught up in this scandal. So is the current governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, who as state attorney general signed off on Americore’s acquisition of a hospital in Ellwood City Medical Center.
Investigative reporter Paul Sperry ticked off another damning revelation this week: “3 years before Penn AG Josh Shapiro helped Joe Biden’s campaign by dramatically relaxing state voting rules w/ drop boxes, no-excuse mail-ins & extending d-line for counting ballots by 3 days, he personally OK’d acquisition of a hospital by Jim Biden’s corrupt Americore.”
BREAKING: 3 years before Penn AG Josh Shapiro helped Joe Biden's campaign by dramatically relaxing state voting rules w/ drop boxes, no-excuse mail-ins & extending d-line for counting ballots by 3 days, he personally OK'd acquisition of a hospital by Jim Biden's corrupt Americore
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) February 21, 2024
The Horn has told you about the Biden brothers’ involvement with Americore Health for years—since at least 2019—and we’ve kept telling you about it whenever the facts warranted: again, and again, and again.
And it looks like more bad news is on the horizon: Hunter Biden is scheduled to testify on February 28.
Whatever new revelations House investigators find out then, The Horn will bring it to you—live, complete, and uncensored.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”