A transcript of Blinken's Dec. 22, 2020, testimony reviewed by the Washington Examiner on Sunday shows that Blinken claimed that he did not communicate via email with President Joe Biden’s son even though he had, according to emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive that were also looked at and verified by the Washington Examiner.
Email correspondence between then-Deputy Secretary of State Blinken and Hunter Biden shows that meetings were set up by Blinken using his personal email address instead of his government address. Blinken responded,"Absolutely. I’m just about to land in Tokyo en route back D.C. from Burma. I’ll be in office from Tuesday on. Copying Linda in my office to find a good time. Look forward to seeing you. Tony.”
Blinken told Senate investigators in December 2020 that all he remembered from the meeting was talking about the then-recent death of Hunter Biden’s brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer. In July 2010, Hunter Biden had emailed Blinken's wife, Evan Ryan, to ask for her husband's personal email. Ryan is now the Cabinet secretary in the Biden White House.