Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski revealed Wednesday that he reached out to a Democratic lawmaker in October 2020 about his allegations that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden was involved in his son and brother’s business ventures abroad.
Bobulinski told the House Oversight Committee he “was begging” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) “to go on CNN and tell the world in October 2020” about the allegations — and apparently had a receptive audience, initially.
“You have always demonstrated to me that you are nothing but an honest, with the highest integrity, individual,” Khanna texted Bobulinski, the latter man told the House Republican-led impeachment inquiry in its second public hearing.
But the Silicon Valley Democrat ducked out of Wednesday’s proceeding before raising the subject with the witness.
“I have extensive emails with congressman Ro Khanna in 2021 and 2022 where I begged him and his staff to sit down with me and look at my Blackberry phones that the Democrats are so focused on, to hire forensics experts and go through all of the factual information that I had,” Bobulinski went on to say.
“So the fact that he did not even address me — and then scurried out of here — is disgusting to me,” he thundered while taking some time out from answering a question posed by Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.).
Bobulinski’s heated statement comes as House Republicans are seeking to gather evidence of corruption against the president as part of an impeachment inquiry launched in September.
“Tony reached out a few times and Rep. Khanna was always gracious because he respects Tony’s service, but made it clear that any evidence would have to be reviewed through proper committee procedure,” a spokesperson for Khanna’s office told The Post Wednesday evening.
Bobulinski said he was willing to share the text messages with Democrats and Republicans on the Oversight panel. A rep for the witness did not immediately respond to a request for access to the exchanges.
As an ex-associate of first son Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden, Bobulinski made a splash days after The Post’s bombshell October 2020 report on their overseas interests — alleging the then-Democratic candidate had been lying to the nation about not being involved in his family’s business dealings.
“I have heard Joe Biden say he has never discussed his dealings with Hunter. That is false,” he told reporters at an Oct. 22, 2020, press conference prior to the second and final general election debate between Biden and Donald Trump.
“I have firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden,” Bobulinski said before attending the debate as a guest of the 45th president.
He laid out three cell phones used as part of the Biden family business ventures between 2015 and 2018, pledging to meet with US senators and the FBI to hand over evidence contained on them.
Elsewhere in his testimony, Bobulinski called out the president’s son and brother for offering conflicting testimony about the scope and details of their dealings with CEFC China Energy, which resulted in more than $7 million in payments to accounts linked to Hunter and James Biden in 2017 and 2018, a 2020 Senate Republican report found.
The energy conglomerate was a surrogate of the Chinese Communist Party and “successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House,” Bobulinski said, according to a copy of his prepared remarks.
CEFC chairman Ye Jianming has since gone missing in China after being detained for alleged corruption in March 2018.
“Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began,” Bobulinski added, saying the Obama administration had also “red-flagged” the firm “as a tool” of the CCP.
