The Hunter Biden email scandal makes one "have to wonder" if a "pay to play" scheme between Joe Biden and the Chinese government was taking place, former deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland claimed Wednesday.
"Joe Biden refused to ever stand up to China," McFarland told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo. "It would have been easy 20 years ago, 10 years ago, it would have been easy to stand up to China and demand equal trade agreements ... but he never did. Why?"
The Chinese, she continued, "do corruption differently."
"They don't pay the official, they pay members of the family of the official," McFarland said. "When (Chinese leader) XI Jinping was clamping down on corruption in China, you know what they found out? Communist officials whose grandmothers were really rich and the grandmothers didn't even know that they were really rich. Why? Because it was a pay to play scheme there and they are using the same thing with American politicians, particularly the Bidens."
Bartiromo noted one of the emails has Hunter Biden outlining a deal with a Chinese company, and ending the message by saying 10% of the money would be set aside for "the big guy.'
"The big guy, we are assuming, is Joe Biden," Bartiromo said.
"They could have put this to bed in 5 minutes if Joe Biden would have come out and said 'fake laptop, fake news, fake emails, wasn't me, somebody else did it' or he could have said, 'okay, maybe the laptop is real but I'm not the big guy. This has nothing to do with me, I'm clean.,'" said McFarland. "He didn't do any of that stuff. Instead, they attacked Donald Trump and everybody else for, oh, trying to smear them right before the election."
But Americans need to know what really happened, she added, because "China will be our most important relationship, most important economic relationship ... if Joe Biden, they've already put a down payment on him, they know he's been weak in the past, what kind of a president is he going to be?"
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