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In 2016, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden helped a Chinese mining conglomerate get control of a large Congolese cobalt mine from an American company. It’s unclear whether Hunter Biden was directly involved with the deal, which happened while his father was still vice president, or how much money he may have gotten from it, if he got anything at all. Hunter Biden and the cobalt mine, explained The cobalt deal, Comer’s letter claimed, was “potentially a national security threat” and “a loss orchestrated in no small part by the President’s son.” How the U.S. Lost Ground to China in the Contest for Clean Energy (Published 2021) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/world/us-china-energy.html