VP Biden’s office tried to quash Bloomberg story about Hunter Biden at his firm’s request, emails show

The office of then-Vice President Joe Biden tried to quash a Bloomberg News story about Hunter Biden at the younger Biden’s firm’s request, according to 2015 emails published Wednesday.

Emails obtained by America First Legal (AFL) through its ongoing lawsuit against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), showed a close relationship between the vice president’s office, Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner and the media.

On Dec. 8, 2015, The New York Times ran an article saying the “credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption message may have been undermined” by Hunter’s serving on the board of Burisma Holdings with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky.

Later that day, Eric Schwerin, who was president of Hunter’s now-defunct investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners at the time, asked the vice president’s then-communications director, Kate Bedingfield, whether there was any “follow up” by other news outlets on the Times article.

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Bedingfield, who stepped down last month as White House communications director, responded to Schwerin within minutes, saying a Bloomberg reporter had asked about it but was “doing everything she can to not use it.”

“…VP just finished an interview with the Bloomberg reporter traveling with us and she asked about it, though she assures me she’s doing everything she can to not use it,” she wrote. “I will have a transcript soon but my quick notes on his answer are: No one has any doubt about my record on corruption, I don’t talk to my son about his business and my children don’t talk to me about mine, I have complete faith in my son.”

White House Director of Communications Kate Bedingfield speaks during a briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2022. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

Schwerin responded, “I would just urge her (as I know you are doing) that there is no new news there. And even if she uses it – she should avoid getting into past stories (Navy, etc.) that have nothing to do with this.”

“Absolutely,” Bedingfield replied, “we have had two conversations about it – she will only use if her editors hold a gun to hear head. She absolutely will not do the…