Hunter Biden had unlikely friendship with GOP megadonor Martin Whitmer

Hunter Biden was longtime buddies with Martin Whitmer, a member of former President Donald Trump's 2016 transition staff.
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Hunter Biden was longtime pals with a well-connected lawyer and lobbyist with deep roots in DC Republican politics — who praised him as a “rock star” and “beacon of hope.”

Martin Whitmer and Hunter Biden probably met at Georgetown, the place they each graduated in 1992.

Whitmer is the founding accomplice of the lobbying and political consulting store Whitmer & Worrall and served on former President Trump’s 2016 transition staff. He has donated greater than $54,000 over time nearly completely to GOP candidates and causes.

Emails from Hunter Biden’s deserted arduous drive steadily present a fawning and obsequious Whitmer.

“You might be too sort to me and I vastly admire it,” he wrote in a June 2011 e mail after Hunter Biden launched him to Evan Ryan — the spouse of Secretary of State Antony Blinken who serves as President Biden’s White Home cupboard secretary.

Martin Whitmer apparently praised Hunter Biden as an “instrument of peace and diplomacy,” whereas he was in Hong Kong in 2011.

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Hunter Biden usually went duck searching with Whitmer, in keeping with emails from his laptop computer.

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There have been many emails with presents for golf and duck searching.

“Hey Hunter! Need to try to shoot some geese on Thursday or Friday,” he stated in a January 2015 e mail. “We will make it a day journey or we will in a single day on the farm home. It might be nice to only get on the market with you and see if we will pop just a few birds.”

When Hunter informed Whitmer he couldn't attend a lunch with Henry Kissinger in October 2011 as a result of he can be away in Hong Kong, Whitmer lathered it on thick, calling him “a beacon of hope” and an “instrument of peace and diplomacy.” Hunter Biden’s calendar exhibits a visit that week to China with Jim Bulger, a enterprise affiliate and nephew of notorious mobster Whitey Bulger. Whereas there, the pair met with Chinese language moneyman Jonathan Li, CEO of funding fund BHR.

One e mail from Whitmer about planning a searching journey learn, “we will make it a day journey or we will in a single day on the farm home.”

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In September 2012, Whitmer emailed to say he turned “choked up” after watching a latest speech by then-Vice President Biden. In February 2015 he begged Hunter Biden for entry to the 2015 White Home Easter Egg Roll, and referred to as him a “rock star.”

“We had been pals,” Whitmer informed The Put up, declining to remark additional.