Records Show Payments From Hunter Biden to Joe Biden, GOP Claims

House Republicans on Monday released bank records showing President Joe Biden received payments from one of his son’s firms in 2018, and leaked emails suggesting the payments were paybacks for the financing of a car payment.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said when revealing the records that they showed “direct monthly payments” from Owasco PC, one of Hunter Biden’s firms, to his father. While the committee only released documents detailing one of the payments, records in the committee’s possession show three different payments of $1,380 in late 2018, a source familiar with the situation told The Messenger.

“Payments from Hunter’s business entity to Joe Biden are now part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes,” Comer said.

Leaked emails from Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop suggest that the payments from his firm were repayments for a 2018 Ford Raptor truck that was purchased that June with his father's help. One record from the leaked emails shows a spreadsheet with a $1,380 payment from Hunter Biden to Joe Biden for the vehicle, described as “autopay owasco account [sic].”

The release of the bank records comes as Comer and other top House GOP impeachment investigators have approached members of the president’s family, including his son and James Biden, his brother, for testimony in the probe.

Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said Republicans were "reheating what is old" in their investigation.

"The truth is, Hunter’s father helped him when he was struggling financially due to his addiction and could not secure credit to finance a truck," Lowell said. "When Hunter was able to, he paid his father back and took over the payments himself.”

A source familiar with the payments told The Messenger that there were about $4,000 in payments that Hunter Biden sent to his father to repay him for the Ford Raptor. The source said that Hunter Biden's credit was low at the time, as a consequence of his addiction, so the truck was put into his father's name. After making the three payments to Joe Biden, Hunter Biden then took over the payments himself, the source said.

Republicans have made the president’s involvement with his family’s business dealings a centerpiece of their investigation, and Comer suggested the bank records he released on Monday show the then-former vice president directly benefited from his son’s overseas business activities.

The White House has consistently denied that the president knew about or benefitted from his family’s business dealings.

The Messenger has reached out to the White House and Hunter Biden’s legal team for comment.