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Majority of voters think Biden has used his political career to enrich his family and friends
Just the News ^ | September 30, 2020 | Daniel Payne

Posted on 10/02/2020 3:31:52 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

A majority of U.S. voters say former Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has used his decades-long political career to enrich his family and close friends, according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen.

When asked, 57% of voters said it was either "somewhat" or "very" likely that Biden's inner circle has profited from his nearly 50-years-long career in public office, which includes the elected positions of U.S senator and vice president. Just 28% said they doubted such profiting...

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


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And this poll was done before the debate.
1 posted on 10/02/2020 3:31:52 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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The Majority is CORRECT!


2 posted on 10/02/2020 3:34:25 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Well apparently that same majority doesn’t care otherwise the polls with Biden ahead would be different.


3 posted on 10/02/2020 3:34:57 PM PDT by Dahoser (Not separation of church and state, but of media and state.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

The Trump campaign needs to hammer this home everyday!

The level of corrupt influence peddling Joe & Family have done is nothing short of criminal.


4 posted on 10/02/2020 3:35:57 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Dahoser

Yes it would seem you are correct. MSM has managed to suppress both the degree and scope of it. The voters probably see it as somewhat benign instead of the wide scale corruption and influence peddling it was.


5 posted on 10/02/2020 3:44:14 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: Dahoser

Some of that majority is hoping for a piece of the action.


6 posted on 10/02/2020 3:44:41 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Biden is as evil as he is corrupt.
7 posted on 10/02/2020 3:46:23 PM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Gee, ya think ???


8 posted on 10/02/2020 3:46:36 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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In 2009 Joe Biden Hired His Niece Who Worked for the Bill Gates’s Foundation.
The 26-Year-Old Advised Biden On US-China Relations
This Greatly Enriched Joe and Hunter Biden But Crippled American Workers.

The National Pulse ^ | AUGUST 22, 2020 | Natalie Winters / FR Posted by E. Pluribus Unum

DURING DEMOCRAT JOE BIDEN’S VICE PRESIDENTIAL TENURE, HIS 26-YEAR-OLD NIECE COORDINATED THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S CHINA APPROACH AS A SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT’S U.S.-CHINA STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC DIALOGUE.

Casey Owens, his sister's daughter, the latest member of the Biden family to benefit financially or professionally from the former Senator’s connections, joined “the highest-level bilateral economic forum” four years after graduating from college and a stint at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

She wielded considerable influence over the direction of U.S.-China relations between 2009 and 2011, as she described her team as “advising” former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and responsible for “coordinat[ing] the priorities within the agenda for the Dialogue” and “spearhead[ing] the negotiations of proposals.”

The appointment triggered no media furore, nor coverage, with the exception of a buried two-sentence mention in a New York Times article from this year.

The piece highlights Biden’s penchant for exploiting political office to provide family members with jobs and lucrative contracts, though the criticism was arguably 12 years too late.

Biden, identified as one of the “top five senators payments or contributions to a family businesses or employer” in a 2008 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics report, also funneled $3,618 from his 2002 Senate campaign fund to Owens.

An unearthed cable reveals Owens was part of the elite Strategic and Economic Dialogue II planning trip to Beijing as part of the Economic Track delegation alongside State and Treasury Executive and Senior officials. Despite being out of the administration for five years, she attended the Obama administration’s final state dinner.

Her proximity to American and Chinese officials casts the rest of the family’s China-based business dealings, chiefly those of Hunter Biden, in an interesting and, perhaps, suspicious light.

Hunter, along with other Obama officials’ offspring, notoriously ran investment firms that inked billion-dollar contracts with Chinese companies, including state-owned enterprises.

Many allege these deals only materialized due to his father’s position. In 2013, for example, then-Veep Biden and his son traveled via Air Force Two to China, and twelve days later, Hunter landed a $1 billion contract with a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-run Bank of China.

The hiring decision serves as a cautionary tale for what the composition of a potential Biden administration could look like – teeming with his family members while those in the private sector profit immensely.

Natalie Winters is an executive assistant to the editor, as well as a Senior Writing Fellow at the National Pulse. She has previously been published at the WarRoom.org website. (Excerpt) Read more at thenationalpulse.com ...

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The Missy Owens mentioned above is Joe's niece by his sister Valerie

9 posted on 10/02/2020 3:48:04 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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PAYOFF?

Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
DB Daily Update | David Blackmon Posted on 5/25/2020, 9:19:56 AM by EyesOfTX

If the label says “Biden,” it was definitely influenced by China. – John Solomon at JustTheNews.com is reporting that The National Legal and Policy Center has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate its findings that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has over the past several years accepted more than $22 million in anonymous China-originated donations to its Biden Center and failed to properly disclose the contributions. >{? From Solomon’s report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has accepted around $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. That’s out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said. Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C.

Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from China since the opening of the center. One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as “anonymous” in federal records. The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations. The Higher Education Act mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves. [End] This serves as just one more reminder that Biden, his son and his brother have long been in the pockets of Chinese interests. The stark reality facing our country today is that, should Biden manage to win the election in November, all of the gains President Donald Trump has made through the sheer force of his will in terms of U.S./China relations and trade policy will be immediately reversed the day after Biden assumes office.

If you like the fact that virtually all U.S. antibiotics and PPE are sourced through China at some point along their supply chains and want it to stay that way, vote for Biden. Because that would be a fait accompli should he win. There are trillions of dollars at stake, and Creepy Uncle Quid Pro China Joe wants to ensure his family continues to get its fair share.

10 posted on 10/02/2020 3:49:35 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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New evidence makes Hunter Biden’s China ‘business’ deals reek worse than ever
New York Post ^ | September 14, 2020 | Peter Schweizer and Jacob McLeod / FR Posted by karpov

Foreign entities looking to influence American politics sometimes devise lucrative commercial deals involving a politician’s family. While the deals can, and do, ensnare politicians of all stripes, those involving the Biden family are particularly troubling: The transactions implicate US national security.

While Joe Biden served as vice president, his son Hunter received offers from foreign governments and oligarchs in areas where the he had little or no expertise. That his foreign partners included a rival state, Communist China, make these arrangements particularly brazen, even by Washington’s swampy standards.

Newly released Secret Service travel records for Hunter paint a clearer picture of how extensive these efforts were. The documents, reviewed by Judicial Watch, show that between 2009 and 2014, Hunter made 411 trips across 29 countries. P

For example, Hunter visited China five times between 2009 and 2014. Most notoriously, he traveled with his father aboard Air Force Two in December 2013 as part of an official visit with Chinese officials.

Ten days after their return to Washington, Hunter and his associates partnered with the state-owned Bank of China to formally establish BHR, a new, first-of-its-kind fund aimed at making investments outside China through the newly established Shanghai Free Trade Zone.

When this deal was first revealed in Peter Schweizer’s book “Secret Empires,” Team Biden attempted to paint Hunter as a passive participant involved in the formation of BHR, arguing that “other business partners” had laid the groundwork for it in a June 2013 meeting. (Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

11 posted on 10/02/2020 3:57:25 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Hunter Biden’s deals ‘served’ China and the Chinese military, while Joe Biden was Obama's VP.

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The entire Biden family was involved in undermining the safety and security of Americans while Joe Biden was Obama's VP.

<><> Joe’s brother, James Biden, freely revealed his associations to the NYT; James talked without fear.

<><> indicates that the Biden family had protection from a VERY HIGH SOURCE.........

BACKSTORY In December 2016, the FBI busted a China General nuclear engineer, Szuhsiung “Allen” Ho, for conspiring to help China illegally obtain “sensitive nuclear technology” from within the US.........

After Chi Ping Ho got nailed, an executive with CEFC China Energy Co., was busted by the FBI in 2017 for bribing officials in Africa, ........“one of the CEFC China Energy Co.’s exec first calls” was to James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother.

Last year, James Biden told The New York Times....(without fear)......that he believed China Energy Co.’s exec(later convicted) had been trying to reach Hunter and that, he, James Biden, provided his nephew’s contact information.

12 posted on 10/02/2020 3:59:59 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

The feckless buffoon has done nothing but enrich himself, his family and his cronies.

Which is why President Trump can say, without equivocation, that he has done more for this country in 47 months than the career criminal has done in 47 years.


13 posted on 10/02/2020 4:33:52 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

“Just 28% said they doubted such profiting...”

They also believe in Santa Claus aka socialism.


14 posted on 10/02/2020 4:36:54 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where do you find the word "except" in the 2nd Amendment?)
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To: CheshireTheCat

He has been sucking on our collective tax teat for 47 years.


15 posted on 10/02/2020 4:37:34 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (I always refer to Otto Preminger's quote about actors: "Actors are like cattle!")
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To: CheshireTheCat

Given the lack of coverage of this issue it’s a miracle


16 posted on 10/02/2020 5:47:14 PM PDT by j.havenfarm ( Beginning my 20th year on FR! 2,500+ replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

This hurts him. It hurt Hillary. I said this repeatedly when they selected him to be the nominee and rammed it through.

He has a MAJOR corruption problem. Too few have bothered to really delve into what is out there, but there is a huge amount of evidence of quid pro quo in both the Ukraine and China. There are also other places where they ran this scam to include in Iraq with his brother getting the housing contract from the government.


17 posted on 10/02/2020 7:19:17 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer
Too few have bothered to really delve into what is out there

They've believed their own propaganda that "it's all been debunked." Big surprises coming for them.

18 posted on 10/02/2020 7:22:43 PM PDT by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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19 posted on 10/02/2020 7:43:34 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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20 posted on 10/02/2020 8:54:54 PM PDT by bitt
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