The House Ways and Means committee released some new emails today, one of which looks bad for Hunter and another of which looks bad for Hunter and CNN.

New documents released by the Ways and Means Committee today reveal Joe Biden’s connections to his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings. Newly revealed materials confirm that Hunter Biden was traveling the world to sell influence and access to the Biden “brand,” meaning his father, Joe Biden. Hunter has even referred to access to his father as “the keys” to “my family’s only asset.”

Here’s an image presented on the committee’s web page. with the text of this 2017 message.

It’s not clear what the context was for this message but it certainly sounds like Hunter is saying his family’s brand is his most valuable asset. That seems to be pretty obviously true since, other than his name and connections, it’s not clear what Hunter had to offer anyone.

So was Hunter selling access or just the illusion of access? Committee Chairman Jason Smith argues it’s the former.

“These documents show a clearer connection between Joe Biden, his public office, and Hunter Biden’s global influence peddling scheme that resulted in over $20 million in payments to the Biden family. In addition to then Vice-President Joe Biden attending lunches and speaking on the phone with his son’s business associates, the details released today paint a fuller picture of how Joe Biden’s vice- presidential office was instrumental to the Biden family’s business schemes.

“The evidence shows a pattern of Hunter Biden creating for-profit entities to shield at least $20 million from foreign sources from taxes and hide the trail of payments that led to members of the Biden family. The growing body of evidence further calls into question the Justice Department’s attempted sweetheart plea deal for Hunter Biden, and the reasons for appointing the architect of that plea deal as the special counsel for Hunter Biden’s case, in light of officials’ efforts to protect President Biden and his son.

“This evidence makes clear Hunter Biden’s business was selling the Biden ‘brand’ and that access to the White House was his family’s most valuable asset – despite official claims otherwise.

Hunter’s profiteering off his father seems so blatant that it’s hard to believe Joe Biden wasn’t aware of it. What did he think Hunter was doing for all of these millions?

The committee also released a message sent within the IRS which indicated CNN was looking into the Hunter investigation back in 2021 and had an email in which Hunter himself suggested his problems would go away once his dad became president.

This message doesn’t give us an exact date for this Hunter Biden email but clearly it must have been written prior to January 20, 2021 because it was looking forward to when Joe Biden became president.

I honestly can’t say if such an email has ever been reported by CNN or anyone else but I don’t recall it. If CNN has had such an email for two years, why didn’t they report on it? Especially in light of whistleblower allegations that Hunter was being shielded it seems relevant.

There’s more here including an email from Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf instructing people to remove any mention of Joe Biden from a search warrant.