Posted on 10/23/2023 4:35:16 PM PDT by simpson96
Joe Biden has always been a man of mystery as to how he obtained his wealth, reportedly in the $90 million range.
He doesn't understand markets, so we know it wasn't his investment acumen. He's an expert at nothing and has never written a significant book anyone would want to read. We also know that he's not much of a public speaker, stumbling his way through speeches, so he probably couldn't make much on speaking fees, though that could be a disguised avenue of bribery, particularly if fees are inflated. Still, it wouldn't explain $90 million.
He's has been in public office for his entire working life, though, he has that, some fifty-plus years in the halls of power, so while he theoretically doesn't have time to amass wealth the way the private sector does, he somehow has anyway. Some have pointed to many political officeholders getting rich while in public office based on insider trading which until a few years ago was legal and even today isn't enforced well. But it's hard to think of Biden managing a stock portfolio with any expertise, the way, say, Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, can do.
(snip) it seems most likely he made it the old fashioned political way -- through naked political bribery.
According to the Daily Mail:
DailyMail.com has discovered that then-private-citizen Biden, who had spent virtually all his adult life in public service, bought [his Rehoboth Beach home in June 2017] for slightly under $2.75million – in cash.
And making the transaction even stranger it was within weeks of a highly questionable text that Hunter had sent to Runlong 'Raymond' Zhao, an associate at Chinese oil giant CEFC asking to seal a deal worth $10 million a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How much of that BRIBE money from China was used to STEAL the 2020 election?
This is not even slightly interesting to today’s Woodward and Bernsteins in the Mainstream Media.
Audit the halls of power.
Communist leadership model, what good is power if you can’t exploit it? Name a Demoncrat that models servant leadership.
He’s not Trump. Biden could exchange bags of cash for favor on live television, kill six members of B’nai B’rith, and sell our nuclear submarines blueprints to North Korea, on 60 minutes, and nobody would be interested. Beltway orders are amazingly effective.
And leftist Jews wiuld g,adly still vote for him.
Mumbles has always been known as the Senator from DuPont. That’s all you need to know. Well, maybe, also he’s been on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Senate for way too long. Good place to arrange kickbacks.
Selling very many finger paintings.
When will the other party to these bribes come out talking?
It’s starting to come out a little but I don’t think anyone reading this had any doubt nor has for some time where a fellow who has been in political life since 1970 got his money. Or, for that matter, a fellow who has so brief a political career as 0bama got his.
Very soon Biden will leave his ill-gotten gains behind. He will not fare well at the Judgment.
Ah, I get it.
I was worried about a SAR over a check from my parents.
But all I need to do is get elected to public office and all sins are forgiven in exchange for playing ball.
/s
(clearly I have a level of ethics which disqualifies me for public office, and that’s NOT sarcasm)
Who did Biden buy the house FROM?
The article implies that there is no explanation of where the $2.75 million in cash came from — no evidence of selling investments, cashing in savings bonds, withdrawing it from a bank account etc.
Seems possible that no cash was gathered because Joe didn’t actually pay any. What stops some briber from buying a house Joe wanted, deeding it to him for nothing, then recording paperwork pretending Joe ponied up $2.75 million?
Bribes could be laundered by having entities “invest” in some of Hunter’s ventures and 20 shell corporations. After some kiting, a proxy buys and “sells” the house to Joe. The county will record a deed and a sales agreement, so long as they are fully executed and in proper form. Recorders never see the physical checks or cash — it’s not their job.
Comer needs to look into the chain of title on Joe’s Beach House, and scrutinize the Buyers & Sellers, going back multiple sales if there was much turnover.
Fake real estate deals and repayments for fake loans seem like perfect mechanisms for building Biden’s mysterious wealth.
I an glad that they are investigating this obvious corrupt bribery scheme but I very much doubt that Biden or his son will ever see the inside of a court room let alone a prison.
The Influence-peddling Schemes Show It Was A Biden Family Affair
The Federalist ^ | 10/4/23 | ELLE PURNELL
Posted on 10/4/2023, 7:15:23 PM by CFW
As the Biden family’s corruption scandals tumble out into the open, corporate media badly want you to think the only story here is about Hunter Biden, a struggling drug addict who may have made some unwise decisions while grieving the loss of his brother. The more evidence — from whistleblower testimony to documentation — of President Joe Biden’s involvement arises, the more frantically they shout “no evidence!” and insist the elder Biden was only involved to the extent that he loves his son and talks with his wealthy foreign friends about the weather.
But — there’s another central figure in the operation. The participation of James Biden, Hunter’s uncle and Joe’s brother, shows just how much of a family affair the scandal is, with Joe Biden, the family’s “only asset,” at the top. So what exactly do we know about James Biden’s involvement?
James, his wife Sara, and Hunter went on a $101,291 spending spree with credit cards opened by Hunter and Kevin Dong, who “served as ‘Chairman Ye[’s] CEFC emissary’ in the United States.” The three Bidens purchased “extravagant items, including airline tickets and multiple items at Apple Inc. stores, pharmacies, hotels and restaurants.”
Despite telling the IRS “that he recalled not being involved with anything beyond 2017,” James Biden sent a message to Hunter in February 2018 that he was “in a near panic” because “we got nothing in Feb! … Did K [likely Kevin Dong] cut us off in Feb? I thought you had said that $ were wired into your account , 82.5 was on its way. We can’t find any record that was sent. Did I miss something?”
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The $2.75 million dollar Rehoboth, Delaware beach house he bought for CASH is Joe Biden’s favorite place, apparently to conduct business w/ Hunter. Biden’s summer home in Delaware is where he escapes from the WH, where he has decamped dozens of times during his 1,000 days as the (cough) “president.”
DailyMail.com reported Biden spent at least 300 days of his presidency (a) either in Delaware where he owns other homes, or (b) on multiple “vacations” elsewhere.
BACKSTORY Biden bought the home at a time when it appeared his political career was over – five months after his Vice-Presidency had ended. He was well into his 70s, and had decided to forgo a 2016 run for the top job.
Now it appears that the beach house could turn out to be a major embarrassment as Republicans continue their push to solidify influence-peddling business links between Biden and his son Hunter.
The peripatetic Hunter was then staying in the guest house of Biden’s main house, a mansion in Delaware, when he wrote to Communist Party official Raymond Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening him to follow his ‘orders’........ or else. “I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,” Hunter wrote Zhao on WhatsApp on July 30, 2017.
Hunter then appears to threaten Zhao – who he calls Z. ‘Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand,’ he writes at 9.45 am. ‘And now means tonight,’ he adds, apparently referring to time in Beijing, which is 12 hours ahead.
‘And Z if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang or the chairman I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.
Hunter concludes by emphasizing: ‘Ok my friend – I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. I sure hope whatever it is you are doing is very, very, very important.’
There is no proof that Joe Biden actually was sitting with his son, but metadata from photos obtained by DailyMail.com from Hunter’s infamous abandoned laptop show he was at his father’s main house, his Wilmington mansion, the day the text was sent.
James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee and one of the key figures leading calls for Biden’s impeachment, said the $2.75 million all-cash house purchase is suspicious. ‘The fact that Joe Biden purchased a luxurious beach house around the same time his family was receiving millions from a CCP-linked company raises many questions that need to be answered,’ Comer told DailyMail.com.
‘The House Oversight Committee will continue to follow the money trail to determine the extent of President Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence-peddling schemes and its impact on our national security,’ Comer added.
Democrats have no media. They have a bureau of propaganda protecting them.
Hunter wore off his fingerprints doing finger paintings to raise enough money to buy it for “the big guy.”
That’ll get the auditor killed.
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