Secretary of State Antony Blinken‘s links to members of President Joe Biden‘s immediate family go beyond just Hunter Biden, but he denied their business dealings came up in conversation.
As pointed out by RealClearInvestigations reporter Paul Sperry on Tuesday, Blinken estimated during a December 2020 interview with Senate investigators that he met with James Biden, one of the president’s brothers, several times over the past couple decades.
“Oh, over the course of the, roughly, 20 years that I’ve worked for the president-elect, hard to say. A dozen,” Blinken said, according to a recently released transcript.
Like Hunter Biden, James Biden has come under scrutiny over the years due to lucrative financial dealings across the globe, as was explored in a 2019 POLITICO Magazine article titled “Biden Inc.” looking into how Joe Biden’s “family fortunes have closely tracked his political career.”
When asked, Blinken said his discussions with James Biden or Hunter…