Hunter Biden acknowledges 'big guy' Joe email in bombshell testimony but insists father was not involved with deals despite putting him on the phone with associates and admitting he was too high or drunk to recall damning texts with foreigners

Hunter Biden in his full testimony before GOP impeachment investigators frequently blamed his addiction and suggested he was too high to recall certain events as he admitted at one point he tried to kill himself 'on a daily basis.'

Hunter, 54, spent six hours on Capitol Hill Wednesday answering questions and denying his father Joe Biden's involvement in his foreign businesses as part of the Republican-led impeachment inquiry.

Top Republican James Comer, R-Ky., made the full transcript of his bombshell testimony public just 24 hours later, and the over 200-page document is full of shocking information. 

Hunter claimed he didn't remember leaving his infamous laptop at the repair shop was 'drunk and high' and suicidal most of his business career, which he says blurs the lines on his personal and official messages to foreign associates that Republicans have seized on.

For the first time, Hunter acknowledged the email exchange from his ex-associate James Gilliar about '10 held by H for the big guy,' breaking down proposed cuts of a profitable Chinese deal.

But he insisted that his dad was not involved in the $5 million deal - or any of his business feats - and said he never referred to Joe as the 'big guy.'

He also admitted putting his father Joe on speakerphone and inviting him to lunches many times over the years with business associates and 'friends,' but insisted he was not involved in his shady dealings with the Chinese, Ukrainians and others. 

Hunter told investigators he could not recall ever dropping off his infamous laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop, and suggested he would only ever take his laptops to the Apple shop for repair. 

Hunter, 54, spent six hours on Capitol Hill Wednesday answering questions about his father Joe Biden's involvement in his foreign businesses as part of the Republican-led impeachment inquiry

'Do you recall ever leaving a laptop at a repair shop?' Gaetz pressed. 'I do not,' said Hunter. The above picture was found on Hunter's abandoned laptop

'I was going to drop off a laptop - I don't ever remember doing that, but if I was going to drop off a laptop, I would have gone to the Apple store, which was 7 minutes from my parents' home there,' he told Rep. Matt Gaetz during a line of questioning on Wednesday. 

'Do you recall ever leaving a laptop at a repair shop?' Gaetz pressed. 'I do not,' said Hunter.

The first son admitted to putting his dad on speaker phone many times over the years, but insisted there was 'nothing nefarious' about it. 

He also said he couldn't recall discussing business with his dad during such calls. 

'I'm surprised my dad hasn't called me right now, and if he did, I would put him on speakerphone to say hi to you and to Congressman Raskin and everybody else in the room. It is nothing nefarious literally,' Hunter said. 

'My dad calls me like I'm sure a lot of your parents do or a lot of you do with your children, and if I'm with people that are friends of mine, I'll have him say hi.' 

He also admitted he invited his dad to businesses lunches, saying 'Would you call it involvement if my dad was in New York City at the same time I was in New York City and I was having lunch with some of my business associates, and I said, 'Hey, dad, come by for lunch'?'

Hunter also said he could not remember introducing his dad to Ye Jianming, the founder of Chinese state-affiliated CEFC at a meeting at the Four Seasons, as former associate Rob Walker previously testified. 

'I do not recall introducing my father to Ye Jianming. But I believe that ‑ that ‑ I don't recall that ‑ any meeting,' Hunter said. 

'Rob Walker testified that there was a meeting at the Four Seasons with Ye Jianming, your father, and you were present as well, was his testimony,' the questioner went on. 'You don't recall that?'

'What was the date of that meeting?' Hunter asked, adding 'I do not recall the date of the meeting.'

He also insisted that his business with CEFC was 'completely legitimate and completely, 100 percent in line with my experience and my abilities.'

He said it was also 'done when my father wasn't even in office. He was out of office. It had nothing to do with my father.'

Hunter also addressed the allegation that his father got 10 percent of a business deal with CEFC, saying he doesn't know 'what the hell' his associate James Gilliar was talking about. 

And he adamantly denied that he has ever referred to Joe as 'the big guy.'

In a 2017 email to Hunter, his uncle Jim and other business partners regarding a deal with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, business partner James Gilliar made a reference to the 'big guy' getting a 10 percent stake in the lucrative deal.

Another former associate of the first son, U.S. Navy veteran Tony Bobulinski, publicly claimed in October 2020 that 'big guy' was a reference to President Biden.

But Hunter acknowledged the email exchange about '10 held by H for the big guy,' during the interview, but he insisted that it did not involve his dad and he never 'fully read' the exchange.

'I'm not even sure whether I ever fully read this. All I know is that my response has nothing to do with my father. It has absolutely zero -- my response doesn't mention any additional determination of percentages that would go to my father or anything,' he stated.

'It did not involve my dad,' he stated. 

'I think that it was just as Rob Walker said. I think that it was pie in the sky. Like 'Joe Biden's out of the office. Maybe we'll be able to get him involved.'' 

'Remember, again, is that Joe Biden, for first time in 48 years, is not an elected official and is not seeking office. And so James is probably, like, 'wow, wouldn't be great if a former Vice President could be in our business together?''

'And I say you're out of your mind. My dad knows less about doing cross border blah, blah, blah, than he does about -- I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous.

'And so I shut it down,' Hunter said. 

When asked later in the interview  if he has ever called Joe 'big guy,' Hunter responded: 'No, I never called him that.' 

Hunter insisted his business with CEFC was 'completely legitimate and completely, 100 percent in line with my experience and my abilities.'

He said none of the money in the $3 million deal with CEFC went to the president. 

'The million dollars was divided into three ways -- excuse me, the $3 million. It was a retainer agreement with CEFC while we worked out a way in which to become partners through a different entity. And that million dollars that was accredited to me as it related to that, one-third to Rob, one-third to James, went to me -- not my father, not any bank account related to my father.' 

He also explained that during his business deals with CEFC and others, he was 'high and drunk' most of the time and was struggling with suicidal thoughts. 

Hunter was asked to explain a text he sent his oldest daughter Naomi in 2019 in which he complained about having to give Joe 'half' of his salary. He also threatened to never give her a 'dime' again.

'No, I don't recall sending this,' he told Rep. Gaetz when presented with the text exchanges. 

He said that at the time, he was 'literally on a daily basis trying to kill myself. '

'It had nothing to do with business. It doesn't have anything to do with anything,' he explained further. 

He also explained that during his business deals with CEFC and others, he was 'high and drunk' most of the time and was struggling with suicidal thoughts

Pictures of drugs were found on Hunter's abandoned laptop

'It's me complaining in every different way, shouting out at the world and literally in complete and utter agony. And my beautiful daughter is literally trying to save my life and reach out to me.'

'And I go on a tangent and a tirade, and I act like a child, and I say things that I would never, ever, ever, ever want to be read, because they don't resemble anything resembling the truth about the way that I think about my dad, who literally was also at this time trying to save my life. And so I don't know what you're trying to get at here.'

At one point Hunter got into a tense back-and-forth with Gaetz, who has been investigated for using drugs and having sex with underage girls. 

'Were you on drugs when you were on the Burisma board?' Gaetz asked. 

Hunter shot back: 'Mr. Gaetz, look me in the eye. You really think that's appropriate to ask me?' 

'Absolutely,' said Gaetz. 

'Of all the people sitting around this table, do you think that's appropriate to ask me?' said Hunter. 

'Yeah. Are you going to answer it?' said Gaetz. 

'You don't have to answer it,' said Hunter's attorney Abbe Lowell. 'I'm not going to answer it,' said Hunter. 

Next, Hunter Biden will have a public hearing after his six-hour closed-door deposition revealed 'many discrepancies' about Joe's involvement in his son's shady business deals, says top Republican James Comer. 

Comer, R-Ky., who chairs the House Oversight Committee, is leading the investigation into whether Joe Biden used his position and 'brand' to enrich his family in a complex $20 million 'influence peddling' scheme.

He told reporters after Hunter's six-hour deposition 'proved several bits of our evidence' and added 'we will have a public hearing next.'

'I think a public hearing will hopefully clear up some discrepancies between some of the statements being made by some of the associates and that we heard today.'

Hunter also admitted that he was 'high or drunk' when he sent his infamous incriminating WhatsApp message that he was the 'sitting here with my father' when demanding money from Chinese company CEFC.

Hunter departed Capitol Hill after a grueling day of questioning with a slight smirk on his face

He did not respond to shouted questions about whether he will participate in an anticipated public hearing

Hunter stood behind his attorney Abbe Lowell at the conclusion of the deposition 

It was a common line of Hunter's throughout the deposition, in which he discussed his addiction 'at length,' according to the source. 

Hunter reportedly told lawmakers that he is 'now embarrassed' by the message and his dad Joe was not sitting next to him when he sent it.

He did not pull any media stunt antics, unlike his previous trips to the Hill in December in January, which sparked Republican anger. 

His attorney Abbe Lowell stated that the deposition today showed Republicans have 'no evidence.'

'The Republican majority ends the day with where they started. They have produced no evidence that would do anything to support the notion that there was any financial transactions that involved Hunter with his father period,' he told reporters after the deposition. 

'It seems to me that the Republican members wanted to spend more time talking about my client's addiction than ... anything to do with what they call their impeachment inquiry.'

Republicans, however, believe the deposition went well.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told reporters that Hunter lied in the deposition about his involvement in Blue Star Strategies, a consulting firm that worked with Ukrainian energy company Burisma, where Hunter held a position on the board. 

'One thing that was interesting to me is he lied when he was talking about Blue Star Strategies,' she told reporters. 'He went from denying any involvement until we put evidence right in front of his face that he was in fact, involved.'

When pressed on whether any high crimes and misdemeanors were uncovered in the closed-door meeting, Greene responded: 'Influence peddling ... We can see that he sold his father's name and business.' 

The president's son, a recovering drug addict, also ignored a shouted question about whether the cocaine found at the White House last summer was his. 

Hunter fiercely defended his father before Republican investigators, strongly stating 'I did not involve my father in my business,' according to his opening statement obtained by DailyMail.com. 

He detailed how Joe who 'saved' his life was there during his 'darkest days of addiction,' which have been politicized by the GOP to use in their 'sham' impeachment.

'You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn't any,' he continued.

He further slammed Republicans, saying their 'house of cards' are 'built on lies' during bombshell testimony in Congress.

Meanwhile, Democrats called the impeachment inquiry an 'embarrassment' for Republicans, adding that their pursuit of the president's son is nothing more than a 'wild goose chase.'

Democrats, however, have repeatedly called the impeachment inquiry a sham and a waste of time. 

'It's just so embarrassing that the Republicans continue to be on this wild goose chase after President Biden,' Progressive Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, said Wednesday morning before entering the deposition.

'I mean, they're acting like Hunter Biden is running for president.'

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, enters a federal building to before being deposed for an impeachment inquiry into his father

House Democrats at Hunter Biden 's congressional deposition called the ongoing impeachment inquiry an 'embarrassment' for Republicans, adding that their pursuit of the president's son is nothing more than a 'wild goose chase'

Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said the Republican-led inquiry is tainted because one of the central informants in the case had ties to Russian intelligence

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Raskin have come out firmly in support of President Biden 

Some Democrats who sat in the deposition similarly told reporters that the meeting was lackluster.

'If you ever wonder why 50 percent of this country doesn't vote, you don't have to look further than the hour we just spent in there on this deposition,' Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., said after exiting the closed-door meeting after an hour. 

The first hour of the deposition 'was the nail in the coffin to what is a complete, bogus and sham impeachment inquiry,' Rep. Daniel Goldman said after exiting.

Republicans are 'so desperate to humiliate the president they started asking the president some personal details about a divorce that happened almost 10 years ago. That's where this has been reduced to,' Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., told reporters. 

One of the lead Democrats pushing back against the inquiry, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said the hearing was a 'tremendous waste' of time and resources. 

This has been a 'comedy of errors from the beginning,' he stated.

He said he 'understands' why Hunted wanted to testify publicly after sitting through the first three hours of the deposition. 

Raskin also said there was 'paranoid suspicion' being cast on the Republicans' focus on the over 20 speaker business phone calls of Hunters' that Joe sat on. 

Republicans, meanwhile, said the president's son was not being forthright. 

Hunter Biden was 'defiant and dishonest' in his deposition, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said after exiting the room. 

Democrats also decried Republicans' use of information by former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in the inquiry as he was just recently accused of having ties with Russian intelligence agencies. 

Smirnov 'lied' about an alleged Biden family 'bribery scheme' with Ukrainians and had 'high-level contacts with Russian intelligence operatives,' according to prosecutors.

The falsified bribery scheme involving a $10 million payment to Joe and Hunter by a top Ukrainian oil executive was at the center of the Republican's impeachment push until a few days ago.

Last week, Special Counsel David Weiss charged Smirnov with lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden taking the bribes from Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

If convicted, Smirnov faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.

'Their main source was collaborating with Russian intelligence forces,' Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Wednesday.

'The fact that Republicans received that information, that the entire country received that information, and they are still continuing with their impeachment proceedings and investigations should be a four alarm fire for this entire country.'

The progressive likened the impeachment inquiry to a 'deep sea fishing expedition.'