By Jack Phillips
Tony Bobulinski, the former Hunter Biden associate who came forward in 2020 about messages on the younger Bidenâs laptop, said the FBI never followed up with him despite promising to.
During an interview with Fox Newsâs Tucker Carlson on Monday, Bobulinski asserted that former FBI agent Timothy Thibaultâwho was accused by GOP senators of having an animus against Trump and slow-walking the Hunter Biden investigationânever got back to him when Bobulinski came forward with the information ahead of the 2020 election.
âTim Thibault, in his last discussion with my legal counsel, said, âListen, we know Tonyâs cooperating. We appreciate all the information heâs provided. We will follow up with you. We are definitely going to have him come in for a follow-up interview, or spend some more time on this,ââ Bobulinski told Carlson. âAnd I havenât heard from him since. Nor have my lawyers.â
Bobulinski in the interview again asserted that President Joe Biden was highly involved in his sonâs overseas business operations. The president has denied that he had knowledge of Hunter Bidenâs finances or deals.
âThere are hundreds of data points that Joe Biden was acting inâin a capitalistic term, I would say the chairman,â Bobulinski told Carlson.
In October 2020, Bobulinski came forward to the media and revealed Joe Bidenâs involvement in his sonâs business, including with a Chinese energy company CEFC.
In one email sourced from the infamous laptop, the elder Biden was named as the âbig guyâ by Hunter Biden because of the 10 percent cut he allegedly received from CEFC. Bobulinski corroborated the authenticity of those emails and messages.
Bobulinski accused the Biden family of being âcompromisedâ by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials due to their business deals with individuals and companies connected to the CCP, adding that itâs impossible Joe Biden âcanât be influenced in some manner based on the history that they have with CEFC.â
âChairmanâ
âThe chairman of JPMorgan doesnât take eight meetings down with the people, you know, analyzing companies. The chairman serves a purpose, right? Heâs a figurehead,â Bobulinski told Carlson. âHe shows up in meetings, shakes hands, advises, you know, has faith in his team. Effectively, that was Joe Bidenâs role in the Biden family business ventures and around the world. And not just my venture.â
Bobulinski noted that President Biden âwas adamant to the American people that he had no knowledge of his familyâs business dealsâ but asked: âHow, if he had zero knowledge of that, could he be telling his son that heâs in the clearâ regarding an article from the New York Times on Hunter Bidenâs work with a Chinese company.
He was referring to a voicemail that Biden left his son regarding the NY Times report in 2018, telling him: âI think youâre clear.â That story delved into Hunter Bidenâs deals with a Chinese oil tycoon, Ye Jianming.
Retirement
In August, Thibault left the FBI following several letters sent to FBI leaders by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). The lawmakers have publicly accused Thibault of meddling in the Hunter Biden investigation and said that whistleblowers came forward with those claims.
âIn October 2020, an avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting was ordered closed at the direction of ⊠Thibault,â Grassley wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland in July.
In a statement to The Epoch Times in late August, Thibaultâs lawyers denied that he was involved in blocking the investigation into Hunter Biden and said he retired from the FBI on his own terms.
Thibault turned in his security badge and âwalked with two long-time special agent friends through the field office to finish processing his paperwork,â Thibaultâs lawyers said. âHe walked out of the building by himself. Claims to the contrary are false.â
Thibault did not supervise the investigation into Hunter Biden, the former officialâs lawyers say, and Thibault âwas not involved in any decisions related to any laptop that may be at issue in that investigation, and he did not seek to close the investigation.â Thibault was also not involved in the search warrant that agents executed at Trumpâs Mar-a-Lago resort this month, according to the lawyers.
The Epoch Times has contacted a Thibault spokesperson and the FBI for comment.
Zachary Stieber contributed to this report.