Headline Roundup • December 22nd, 2023
Biden Emailed Son's Business Partner Repeatedly While Serving as VP
Summary from the AllSides News Team
President Joe Biden emailed his son Hunter's business partner dozens of times leading up to and after Hunter's appointment to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, in 2014.
The Details: House Republicans released a document showing hundreds of emails sent between 2010 and 2019 from Joe Biden to Eric Schwerin, founding partner of Hunter’s now-defunct Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm. The document doesn't include the messages sent but shows the email addresses used. Biden used multiple email aliases as part of the communications. IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler gave the committee the email data during a closed-door hearing earlier this month.
How the Right Covered It: Right-rated sources covered the document's release extensively when it happened. Many framed it as more evidence that Biden was improperly involved in his son's Ukrainian business dealings.
How Left and Center Covered It: AllSides only found two articles on the story from sources rated as being on the left or in the center. Utah-based Deseret News (Center bias) covered a local angle on the document on Dec. 6, and NBC News (Lean Left bias) covered it two weeks later on Dec. 21. Deseret linked to the document detailing the emails. NBC did not and said it had not reviewed it. NBC highlighted House Democrats who said Schwerin "worked as Joe Biden’s financial adviser from 2009 to 2017 and helped him file his tax returns." NBC's headline also focused on how House Republicans released the records, framing it as a partisan act.
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Joe Biden used several email aliases to regularly correspond with Hunter Biden’s business partner in recent years, including while he was serving as vice president, a GOP-controlled House committee leading the Republican impeachment inquiry revealed Tuesday.
IRS whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley provided the eleven-page log of emails ahead of a closed-door hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday. The document includes metadata associated with emails sent to and from Joe Biden’s alias email addresses from 2010 to 2019, though it does not include the content of those emails.
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Then-Vice President Joe Biden apparently used a pseudonym to exchange more than 50 emails with one of Hunter Biden’s business associates, newly released emails show.
Joe Biden sent 54 private emails to Hunter Biden’s close business associate and accountant, Eric Schwerin, by using the “Robin Ware” alias, according to an email search released Tuesday by the House Ways and Means Committee. The email data was provided to the committee by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler, who testified Tuesday behind closed doors alongside IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley.
Many of Joe Biden’s email conversations with Schwerin happened around spring...
Drew Angerer / Getty Images file
Joe Biden exchanged emails with his son Hunter’s business associate 54 times while he was serving as vice president, and some of the messages were sent around the time the elder Biden was traveling to Ukraine and his son was working for a Ukrainian gas company, according to records released by House Republicans.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment but pointed to statements by House Democrats that Hunter Biden’s business associate, Eric Schwerin, worked as Joe Biden’s financial adviser from 2009 to 2017 and helped him file his tax returns. Schwerin did...
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