The seaside villa in Delaware , in the town of Rehoboth Beach , where US President Joe Biden usually spends a good part of his free weekends together with first lady Jill, would have been purchased for 2.75 million dollars paid in cash.
The British tabloid Daily Mail reports this exclusively, linking the transaction with a controversial message from his son Hunter Biden to Henry Zhao , a partner of the Chinese oil giant CEFC, in which the Washington leader's son asked to close a deal 10 million dollars a year.
The message, which dates back to July 2017, has often been cited by Republicans to demonstrate the president's involvement in Hunter's dark dealings. Evidence that, in reality, not even the House Oversight Committee, which opened the impeachment proceedings, has ever found.
"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been respected", wrote the son of the commander in chief, threatening to "resolve the issue now, before the situation gets out of hand".
According to the documents, the purchase of the six-room villa took place on June 8, therefore a few weeks before the message and for the tabloid it would be a suspicious circumstance.
In 2017, the first year Biden held no public office after 36 years as a senator and eight as vice president, he and his wife reported income of $11 million and another $4.58 million in 2018.
At the time of purchasing the Rehoboth home, local news site Delaware Online wrote that it had been purchased "using part of the down payment from a book deal." But, the Daily Mail insists, even if the money from the villa had come from the 11 million dollars in income, there are "discrepancies that cannot be explained" in the tax return.
(Unioneonline/lf)
