CNN’s Sept. 2020 fact check about Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Russian oligarch Elena Baturina has been proven wrong by the House Oversight Committee.
CNN’s “Facts First” published a fact check responding to then-President Donald Trump’s assertion during a 2020 presidential debate that Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from the wife of Moscow’s mayor.
“Why is it, just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son $3.5 million?” Trump said, according to an official transcript.
“That is not true,” Joe Biden replied.
CNN’s fact check cited Hunter Biden’s attorney, George Mesires to conclude Hunter Biden was not tied to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, the holding company that took $3.5 million from Baturina in Feb. 2014, according to bank records released by the House Oversight Committee. Baturina’s late husband Yuri Luzkhkov is a former Moscow mayor, and her net worth is an estimated $1.3 billion, according to Forbes.
