Prosecutors did not request testimony from Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, before the federal grand jury in Delaware. Bobulinski, who previously claimed that the “big guy” email referred to President Joe Biden, had expressed his willingness to speak to the grand jury through his lawyer, but U.S. Attorney David Weiss did not respond to their attempts to contact him.
This recent development, initially reported by CBS News, follows IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s statement that federal prosecutors hindered investigations into potential links between Joe Biden and his son’s Chinese business endeavors. Shapley’s interview transcript also included a portion of a recorded conversation between an FBI agent and Hunter Biden’s business associate, Rob Walker, where Walker mentioned Joe Biden’s presence at a meeting related to their efforts to secure a lucrative deal with the now-defunct Chinese company CEFC.
Walker told the FBI that Joe Biden made a brief appearance at the meeting held at the Four Seasons, where Hunter Biden mentioned his plans and asked for his father’s support. Walker confirmed that it seemed orchestrated to improve their chances of success.
Shapley further revealed that Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf prevented questions about the “big guy” and discouraged inquiries about Joe Biden during the interview.
Bobulinski collaborated with Hunter Biden in 2017 to establish a business venture called SinoHawk, aiming to form a joint venture with CEFC. However, instead of fulfilling their plans, CEFC directed millions of dollars to accounts associated with Hunter Biden.
The “big guy” email, which surfaced publicly in October 2020, outlined a potential business deal between Hunter Biden and the Chinese company. The email mentioned “10 held by [Hunter Biden] for the big guy.”
The email, sent by businessman James Gilliar to Hunter Biden and others on May 13, 2017, discussed expectations and remuneration packages for the deal. It indicated that Hunter would receive $850,000 and be listed as “Chair/Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.” The email also mentioned a distribution of equity, with 20% allocated to “H” (Hunter Biden) and 10% to “Jim” (James Biden).
Bobulinski was among the recipients of this email and asserted in October 2020 that the “big guy” referred to Joe Biden. He claimed that Hunter Biden referred to his father as “the Big Guy” or “my chairman” and frequently sought his approval or advice regarding potential deals.
Joe Biden’s spokesman, Andrew Bates, denied the allegations, stating that the President has never held stock in such business arrangements, nor has any family member or individual held stock on his behalf.
CEFC was a Chinese conglomerate founded by Ye Jianming, with whom Hunter and James Biden pursued various deals and from whom they eventually received millions of dollars.
Text messages provided by Bobulinski indicated that Joe Biden had met with him, Hunter, and James Biden while they pursued the CEFC deal. The meeting reportedly took place on the night of May 2, 2017, in Los Angeles.
Former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office, Timothy Thibault, allegedly ordered the closure of certain derogatory Hunter Biden reports in October 2020, despite their verifiability through criminal search warrants.
Bobulinski is reportedly concerned that Thibault worked to suppress the information he provided to the FBI.
In October 2020, Senator Chuck Grassley notified U.S. Attorney David Weiss, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Christopher Wray about the substantial evidence related to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and James Biden. Grassley referred to a summary of Bobulinski’s interview with FBI agents, where he alleged that Hunter and James Biden engaged in unremunerated work with foreign nationals linked to the Chinese government while Joe Biden was Vice President. However, after Joe Biden left office, they sought compensation for their past work.
Grassley highlighted the creation of a joint venture between Hunter Biden, James Biden, and CEFC to facilitate financial compensation. He noted that the joint venture was established sometime after a meeting in Miami between Hunter Biden and CEFC officials in February 2017.
Grassley also mentioned that CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to bank accounts associated with Hudson West III in August 2017, with subsequent transfers to Hunter Biden’s firm, Owasco, and James Biden’s firm, Lion Hall Group, in 2017 and 2018.
Hunter Biden’s messages in July 2017, where he invoked his father’s name and made threats, led to a swift agreement with a Chinese Communist Party-linked company and resulted in millions of dollars flowing into Biden family accounts.
Recently released WhatsApp messages between Hunter Biden and intermediaries with CEFC further support previous findings of foreign bank transactions involving Hunter Biden. Shortly after the text threat involving his father, Hunter Biden and his associated businesses received an estimated $5 million in payments from CEFC in 2017 and 2018, with Chinese payments quickly following, according to a 2020 Senate report.
During a denial on Wednesday, Joe Biden stated that he was not present in the room when the threatening message was sent.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
Families looking for a straightforward place to start can visit Heaven’s Harvest and use promo code Patriot for 15 percent off long-term storable food. The forecasts may yet soften, the strait may yet reopen, and we should pray they do. But hope is a fine thing to hold and a foolish thing to eat.