Was Joe Biden Involved in Hunter's Business Deal with a Chinese Energy Firm?

The federal investigation into Hunter Biden is raising questions about whether President Joe Biden had a role in his son's foreign business dealings.

As the federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden continues, reports across the spectrum confirm that executives from a Chinese energy company paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter and his uncle. Emails from a laptop hard drive that once belonged to Hunter Biden shine light on the deal, and also include mention of "10 held by H for the big guy." Some speculate that the "big guy" was Joe Biden, and a grand jury witness was reportedly asked to identify the "big guy" recently. The president has denied involvement in Hunter's business pursuits. Neither Joe nor Hunter has been charged with a crime. 

Opinions from the left often highlight the lack of hard evidence for Joe Biden's involvement in his son's foreign business dealings. One opinion writer for NBC News praised the Biden administration for "putting on a master’s class in ethics in the federal investigation" of Hunter, and contrasted Biden's "hands-off" management of the probe to Donald Trump’s "hands everywhere" approach to federal investigations of him. Opinions from the right often suggest that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter's foreign business ventures and that he may have profited from them. Many on the right accuse mainstream media of being biased for initially dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story before recently confirming it, and predict that journalists won't thoroughly investigate Joe Biden's potential role.