President Joe Biden’s use of multiple pseudonyms during his vice presidency appears to have hidden some of his communications from that period, including some involving Ukraine policy and his son, Hunter Biden.
The House Oversight Committee asked the National Archives on Thursday for communications involving three of Joe Biden’s aliases: Robert Peters, Robin Ware, and JRB Ware.
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The committee sought correspondence between those aliases, Hunter Biden, and two of his former business partners, Eric Schwerin and Devon Archer.
Only emails involving the aliases and Hunter Biden are presently public due to the publication of the contents of a laptop he abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.
Several of those messages suggest Hunter Biden was looped in on preparations his father, in his capacity as vice president, was making for talks with Ukrainian officials in 2016. At the time, Hunter Biden was working on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
In one message from May 26, 2016, for example, Hunter Biden was copied on an email to his father from a staff member who was reminding the then-vice president that, the following morning, he would huddle with staff before a phone call with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Hunter Biden was not frequently looped into such emails about his father’s schedule. His inclusion on scheduling emails with “Robert Peters,” his father’s pseudonym at that time, appeared to happen on just a handful of dates that corresponded to developments with Ukrainian policy.
Joe Biden had already successfully pressured Poroshenko to fire Ukraine’s prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, by the time the May 27 call occurred. Shokin had been investigating the energy company that was paying Hunter Biden and his business associates significant money at the time.
During the call with Poroshenko in May 2016, Joe Biden mentioned the Ukrainian prosecutor situation, according to an archived readout of the call.
Hunter Biden was copied on another email on June 14, 2016, regarding his father’s official schedule for the day. The following day, June 15, Joe Biden held a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and announced a new package of aid to Ukraine.
Hunter Biden was also included on an email detailing his father’s schedule for the day of that meeting.
And just five days earlier, Schwerin, then Hunter Biden’s business partner, had visited the White House to meet with Joe Biden’s office, according to visitor logs.
Other than the few days surrounding the Poroshenko call in May and the Ukrainian prime minister meeting in June 2016, Hunter Biden does not appear to be looped into more of the emails about his father’s “schedule cards,” or what appear to be internal memos detailing the vice president’s daily schedule.
Joe Biden spent a significant amount of time during the end of 2015 and the first half of 2016 on Ukrainian policy.
In early December 2015, he visited Ukraine and delivered a speech to the Ukrainian Rada, where he argued that “the Office of the General Prosecutor desperately needs reform” and said “the judiciary should be overhauled.”
Three days after that speech, which was aimed at then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, Schwerin visited the White House, according to visitor logs.
The House Oversight Committee’s requests to the National Archives included all drafts of that Dec. 9, 2015, speech in Ukraine.
In an email between Hunter Biden and “Robin Ware,” another Joe Biden pseudonym, Hunter Biden appears to press for a friend, John McGrail, to land a job he wanted in June 2014, imploring his father to consider McGrail “before you fill [the] position.”
“Call me right away,” Joe Biden replied.
By the following month, according to his LinkedIn page, McGrail had landed a job as a deputy counsel in the vice president’s office and was later promoted to counsel.
Other emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop show Joe Biden communicated frequently with his family, using the aliases, to offer encouragement and to let them know how much he missed them on his travels.
In one heartwarming set of exchanges, Joe Biden told his son that an article about his 2014 ejection from the Navy Reserves over cocaine use was as “good as it could have been” and encouraged his son to move forward.
Joe Biden has often spoken of his closeness with his family, and Hunter Biden has remained at his father’s side for official events and trips even as his controversies cause headaches during Joe Biden’s presidency.
But the evidence that Joe Biden had much more involvement in his son’s business affairs than he previously acknowledged has continued to mount in recent weeks.
An IRS whistleblower this spring brought forward evidence that investigators had compiled over several years about the extent of Joe Biden’s role in the business, including an FBI interview with a former business partner who said discussions were had about cutting Joe Biden in on a Chinese business deal if he’d decided against his 2020 presidential run and Joe Biden’s willingness to stop by dinners to help his son close deals.
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Archer, another former business partner, told the House Oversight Committee last month that Hunter Biden would frequently put Joe Biden on speakerphone during meetings with his foreign business associates, including some from the Ukrainian company, and confirmed that Joe Biden stopped by in person to multiple foreign business dinners.
In addition, emails and bank records show that James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, also earned substantial income from foreign sources while Joe Biden was vice president, undermining the talking point that Hunter Biden’s business was completely isolated from the Biden family.
