A May 13, 2017 email on Hunter Biden's laptop lays out how the "equity" of a business venture with a Chinese energy company will be "distributed." It does this by using the initials of the people copied on the email and numbers that add up to 100 percent. The last one of these says, "10 held by H for the big guy?" The only person copied on the email with the initial "H" is Hunter Biden, and a business partner of Hunter's who was copied on the email issued a public statement that the "email is genuine" and "the big guy" is "in fact a reference to Joe Biden." Joe Biden's involvement in Hunter's illicit business deals is also evidenced by a 2017 encrypted What's App message uncovered by the New York Post. In it, one of Hunter's business partners wrote to another partner while discussing Joe Biden, "Don't mention Joe being involved, it's only when u are face to face, I know u know that but they are paranoid."