Photographs from Hunter Biden’s laptop appear to place him at his father’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on the same day that he used his dad’s name to threaten a Chinese business partner.

The Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross and Andrew Kerr reported that four photos from the laptop show Hunter Biden in his dad’s Corvette on the same day that he sent a WhatsApp to Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017.

According to the transcript provided by the House Ways and Means Committee, Hunter Biden wrote:

I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.

Henry Zhao is a Chinese Communist Party official, according to Peter Schweizer, and was business partners with the daughter of China’s former minister of state security.

Hunter Biden’s message to Zhao was revealed on Thursday when Congress released transcripts from the testimony of two IRS whistleblowers, who said that they had recommended more charges to be brought against the president’s son but said they had faced pushback from the Biden administration.

The Free Beacon’s report noted that if Joe Biden really was next to his son helping him deal with the situation, his claim that he never had anything to do with his son’s foreign business dealings would be invalidated.

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The photo of Hunter Biden in his dad’s Corvette is also newsworthy because Biden stored classified documents near that car in his garage.

Biden is currently under criminal investigation over his handling of classified material, as questions have swirled over how the documents got there, who had access to them, and for what purpose they were used outside of proper government facilities.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) slammed the U.S. government in a Thursday interview for its “epic failure of leadership” in its effort to find OceanGates’ missing Titan submersible.

The remarks come after U.S. officials announced earlier in the day that the vessel had imploded, killing all five people on board.

The Wall Street Journal later reported that the U.S. Navy had detected the moment that the vessel imploded earlier this week using “a top secret military acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines.”

Crenshaw told reporters on the Capitol steps that this was a case of “epic failure in leadership,” although he was not sure whether the lapse was the fault of the White House, the Navy, or the U.S. Coast Guard.

Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, said that the critical failure in leadership was the fact that the U.S. assets – a 6K ROV and a Magellan submarine – were not deployed sooner to join rescue efforts.

“Now, it’s important to note that if you had just deployed those assets, they would have arrived on scene by Wednesday morning at the latest,” Crenshaw said. “That tapping continues to be heard and chatted about in all these channels throughout Wednesday. Then it stops late Wednesday. They finally deploy this 6K ROV, the only thing capable of actually going to that depth and seeing what’s down there, this morning. It deploys down there and the wreckage was exactly where they thought it would be. So where’s the failure here? The failure here is to not put all your options on the table.”

Crenshaw said that industry experts told him that the implosion sound the Navy heard could have “easily been the sub just hitting the floor.”

“And then you add that with this tapping, which was apparently like your standard procedure SOS, every half hour, you are hearing that throughout the day Tuesday and Wednesday, it begs the question — could this have been resolved differently if leadership had just acted sooner and actually put options on the table instead of just assuming? Well, it doesn’t matter because they’re dead,” he added.

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