Former Biden assistant questioned over Classified Docs in Hunter Emails
Hunter Biden recommended that his father hire Kathy Chung to be his executive assistant in 2012
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A former top aide to President Biden — who reportedly was questioned by federal investigators as part of the probe into the president’s handling of classified documents — exchanged emails with Hunter Biden on numerous occasions, according to a Fox News Digital review.
Kathy Chung, Biden’s executive assistant when he was vice president and the Pentagon’s current deputy director of protocol, is among several former aides to the president to be interviewed by law enforcement, NBC News reported Thursday. Chung and the others questioned reportedly helped move materials and belongings from Biden’s office at the end of the Obama administration in early 2017.
Throughout much of her five-year tenure working for Biden during the Obama administration, Chung regularly communicated with Biden’s son Hunter Biden, transmitting information about his father’s schedule and passing messages directly from the then-vice president, according to emails obtained from Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and verified by Fox News Digital.
Chung’s relationship with Hunter Biden also appears to date back before she worked for his father. The emails showed that Hunter Biden recommended Chung for the executive assistant role when the previous holder of the job, Michele Smith, departed the White House in the spring of 2012.
Hunter Biden is pictured during his father President Biden’s innauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
“Thanks for calling and thinking of me,” Chung wrote to Hunter Biden on May 14, 2012. “After the initial shock of taking in what you said…how could I pass up an opportunity to work for the Vice President of the United State!!!! I do have a few questions. What is Michelle’s primary job? I think I know what the job would entail, minus the scheduling part, which is a huge part of what I do now. But what would be my top 3 – 5 responsibilities be in the office? Do you know the salary? Again, thanks for thinking of me.”
At the time, Chung worked in former Sen. Mark Udall’s, D-Colo., office as his scheduling director. She previously worked for Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman, who was appointed to replace Biden in the Senate in 2009 and is a longtime confidante of Biden dating back decades.
In response to her message, Hunter Biden responded later that day saying that the job would make her the primary gatekeeper of Biden’s and would be “involved in everything that goes on outside of policy.”
Kathy Chung and Hunter Biden discuss an opening for then-Vice president Biden’s executive assistant position in May 2012. (Fox News)
“Call if/when you want me to tell Dad you are interested and I’m sure Michele would also want to talk to you at some point,” he added. “I don’t know who else they were considering but I thought you would be great.”
One month later, on June, 13, 2012, Chung emailed Hunter Biden informing him that she had been offered the job.
“I cannot thank you enough for thinking about me and walking me thru this,” she said. “What an incredible opportunity! Thanks, Hunter!!”
Kathy Chung informs Hunter Biden that then-Vice President Biden had selected her to be his executive assistant in June 2012. (Fox News Digital)
Dozens of additional emails between Chung and Biden’s son showed various levels of correspondence between the two.
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