Posted on 11/27/2022 1:30:35 AM PST by Libloather
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The laptop has been a source of significant reporting about Hunter Biden’s personal and business life, but many news organizations have treated its contents with trepidation because it emerged late in the 2020 presidential campaign and, at the time, they were unable to verify its authenticity.
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At several points Comer referenced a deal Hunter Biden tried to strike with CEFC China Energy, an energy conglomerate. Many aspects of his financial arrangements have been examined by news organizations, including The Washington Post. But at a news conference, Comer made assertions that have not been proved, are in dispute or appear incorrect. Any potential connection between Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings, thus far, is especially strained.
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The phrase “evidence suggests” is doing a lot of work here. Comer is referring to a single email — dated May 13, 2017 — whose meaning has been under dispute. In the hard-drive copy of the laptop obtained by The Washington Post, the email lacked digital information that allowed it to be verified.
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The Wall Street Journal said that it had reviewed corporate records and found no role for Joe Biden. The Washington Post, in an extensive report on the CEFC dealings, also did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC. The Biden campaign at the time denied he had any role.
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In any case, the natural gas deal appears separate from Oneida; it involved a Hunter Biden company known as Hudson West III LLC. Joe Biden’s alleged involvement has never been proved.
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Comer mixes documented facts with innuendo here. The Washington Post, via government records, court documents and bank statements, found that CEFC and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter and Jim Biden.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Seems like they are trying to get in front of info that should have been talked about in 2020.
LAUGH BREAK. Biden releases his tax forms, showing that
he and his wife, Jill Biden, earned just over $600,000 in 2020.
By Jim Tankersley, May 17, 2021, NY Times
President Biden released tax forms on Monday showing that he and his wife, Jill Biden, earned just over $600,000 in 2020.
The Bidens paid an effective federal income tax rate of 25.9 percent after donating about 5 percent of their income to charity, the documents showed. Their total federal income tax bill was just over $157,000. For 2019, the Bidens had an adjusted gross income of $985,000 and paid federal income taxes of nearly $288,000.
Both the presidential and the vice-presidential households appear to fall safely in the top 1 percent of American income earners, based on statistics from the Internal Revenue Service. And both would face tax increases this year if Mr. Biden succeeds in pushing Congress to raise a variety of taxes on high earners, as he is proposing to help fund nearly $2 trillion in new spending and incentives meant to strengthen education, child care, paid leave and other social programs.
Much of the Bidens’ income came from pensions, including Mr. Biden’s government pension from his years as a senator and vice president. That disbursement will pause now that Mr. Biden has re-entered the government, White House officials say.
Jill Biden received nearly $300,000 in income — including income from business profits — from an S corporation controlled by the Bidens, which received money in 2020 from two publishing houses, Simon & Schuster and Flatiron.
An S corporation is a small business designation that allows business income, credits and deductions to pass through to shareholders.
Democracy Dies after Dark...
The HUNTER BIDEN REPORT -
U.S. SENATE RELEASES SCATHING REPORT
AGAINST BIDEN GRIFTER FAMILY CORRUPTION
“The records acquired by the Committees show that Hunter Biden and his family were involved in a vast financial network that connected them to foreign nationals and foreign governments across the globe.”
“Hunter Biden and Archer, in particular, formed significant and consistent financial relationships with the corrupt oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky during their time working for Burisma and their firms made millions of dollars from that association while Joe Biden was vice president and the public face of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.”
Posted on 10/30/2020, 2:39:01 PM by Enlightened1
HunterBiden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S.Government Policy and Related Concerns
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
U.S. Senate Committee on Finance Majority Staff Report
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
II. INTRODUCTION
III. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
IV. THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WERE AWARE OF BUT IGNORED CONCERNS RELATING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
V. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY FALSELY CLAIMED HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
VI. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS VIEWED MYKOLAZLOCHEVSKY AS A CORRUPT, “ODIOUS OLIGARCH,” BUT VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN WAS ADVISED NOT TO ACCUSE ZLOCHEVSKY OF CORRUPTION.
VII. WHILEHUNTER BIDEN SERVED ON BURISMA’S BOARD, BURISMA’S OWNER, ZLOCHEVSKY, ALLEGEDLY PAID A $7 MILLION BRIBE TO UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE TO CLOSE THE CASE.
VIII. HUNTER BIDEN: A SECRET SERVICE PROTECTEE WHILE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
IX. OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS AND A DEMOCRAT LOBBYING FIRM HAD CONSISTENT AND SIGNIFICANT CONTACT WITH FORMER UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL ANDRII TELIZHENKO.
X. THE MINORITY FALSELY ACCUSED THE CHAIRMEN OF ENGAGING IN A RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND USED OTHER TACTICS TO INTERFERE IN THE INVESTIGATION.
XI. HUNTER BIDEN’S AND HIS FAMILY’S FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS WITH UKRAINIAN, RUSSIAN, KAZAKH AND CHINESE NATIONALS RAISE CRIMINAL CONCERNS AND EXTORTION THREATS.
XII. CONCLUSION
Foxnews.com
>>>JOE BIDEN MET WITH AT LEAST 14 OF HUNTER’S BUSINESS ASSOCIATES AS VP
>>>Hunter Biden client dined at Chinese Embassy following VP Biden luncheon
>>>Investors dinner at Chinese Embassy promoted on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
By Cameron Cawthorne , Jessica Chasmar | Fox News
FIRST ON FOX: Hunter Biden was instrumental in helping a Rosemont Seneca Partners client and Democratic donor secure an event at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., after networking with one of the top officials at the embassy during a January 2011 luncheon hosted by then-Vice President Biden, according to emails reviewed and verified by Fox News Digital.
Those emails show that Hunter and his former business partner, Eric Schwerin, helped Marvin Lang, the managing director of Guardian Realty in Maryland, plan a dinner with the Chinese Embassy’s minister, Deng Hongbo, on April 28, 2011, which was later touted on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
Planning for the event appears to have started in December 2010 after Lang, who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democrats, emailed Hunter thanking him for meeting him for lunch and saying he was “excited” to form a “long relationship” with Rosemont, Hunter and Schwerin’s now-defunct investment firm. Guardian bills itself as a “fully integrated real estate investment company that develops, redevelops, acquires, manages, operates, and owns a portfolio A-/B+ commercial office space,” according to their website.
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HUNTER BIDEN HELPED FORMER BIDEN AIDE WITH HOUSE CAMPAIGN WHILE WORKING WITH HIS CCP-TIED BUSINESS PARTNER
In December 2010, Marvin Lang thanked Hunter Biden for meeting him for lunch and said his company is excited to “work with Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC and look forward to a long relationship.”
In December 2010, Marvin Lang thanked Hunter Biden for meeting him for lunch and said his company is excited to “work with Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC and look forward to a long relationship.” (Fox News Digital)
After some back-and-forth discussion between Hunter, Schwerin and Lang about possible venues for the event, Hunter emailed Schwerin on Jan. 12, 2011, saying, “Marvin wants to know where we are in on finding space for the dinner— Chinese embassy is his #1 choice.”
One week later, Schwerin sent an email to Lang that cc’d Hunter, saying Hunter had a lunch that included the “number three official” at the Chinese Embassy and that he could be “helpful” in securing the location for the Guardian Realty dinner.
“[I] just talked to Hunter and he said he sat with the number three official at the Embassy today at lunch and has contact information to follow up after the [Chinese] President has left the U.S.,” Schwerin wrote. “Hunter’s said his contact will be helpful, but the Minister won’t be able to focus on this until after the delegation has left at the end of the week. Sounds like this is the right contact though.”
Eric Schwerin, who was formerly Hunter Biden’s business partner, told Marvin Lang in a January 2011 email that a “number three official” at the Chinese Embassy would be “helpful” in helping Lang secure the Chinese Embassy for a dinner for his company.
Eric Schwerin, who was formerly Hunter Biden’s business partner, told Marvin Lang in a January 2011 email that a “number three official” at the Chinese Embassy would be “helpful” in helping Lang secure the Chinese Embassy for a dinner for his company. (Fox News Digital)
Based on emails and news articles reviewed by Fox News Digital, the lunch that Schwerin is referring to in the email was the luncheon that then-Vice President Biden and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted for Hu Jintao, China’s president at the time, in the State Department’s Benjamin Franklin Room on Jan. 19, 2011.
One of the emails that Schwerin sent to Hunter late at night the night before the luncheon said that Hunter was sitting at the same table as Ron Klain, who was the chief of staff for Vice President Biden until the end of January 2011 and is currently Biden’s chief of staff.
Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s business partner at the time, informed Hunter in a January 2011 email that he would be seated at the same table as the “#3 at the [Chinese] Embassy” and said the official would be “the guy to ask for Guardian.”
Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s business partner at the time, informed Hunter in a January 2011 email that he would be seated at the same table as the “#3 at the [Chinese] Embassy” and said the official would be “the guy to ask for Guardian.” (Fox News Digital)
Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s business partner at the time, informed Hunter in a January 2011 email that Vice President Biden would be at the “head table” with JK, which appears to be John Kerry, and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Eric Schwerin, Hunter Biden’s business partner at the time, informed Hunter in a January 2011 email that Vice President Biden would be at the “head table” with JK, which appears to be John Kerry, and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Fox News Digital)
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GOP claims? Why not WaPo claims, or, at the very least, WaPo questions to be rooted out?
Many conservatives criticized pre-Musk jTwitter b/c
<><>twitter did not allow tweets WRT a NYP 2020 story
<><>the story alleged Hunter introduced a Ukrainian businessman to then VP Biden.
<><>Twitter prevented it from being shared b/c it might be disinformation.
<><>MSM also chose not to promote the story b/c it was linked to Rudy Giuliani.
<><>media outlets found no illicit behavior from Biden or his son.
The story turned out not to be disinformation. Musk plans to release details of Twitter censorship.
Warroom.org
Hunter Biden Invested In Virtual Healthcare Company
Receiving Six-Figure Contracts From the Biden Administration,
Emails Show He Leveraged his ‘US Government’ Connections To ‘Increase Revenue.’
Please! Give me a break. It took CBS no time at all to EASILY verify it over two years later.
AT THE TIME they were able to verify it, they simply
refused to verify it because the truth would damage *46.
This dweeb isn't fooling anybody.
So, the Washington Post is not trying to convince their two readers that the laptop that they said wasn’t real, is real, but that the evidence on the laptop and the eye witnesses are real.
Don’t know what they’re worried about, the Biden DOJ/FBI will do absolutely nothing regarding any investigations or recommendations for prosecutions. Well, with the exception of bankrupting, discrediting and jailing anybody that dares testify against the Big Guy . . .
/Bagdhad Joe impression
So, the Washington Post is not trying to convince their two readers that the laptop that they said wasn’t real, is real, but that the evidence on the laptop and the eye witnesses aren’t real.
Don’t know what they’re worried about, the Biden DOJ/FBI will do absolutely nothing regarding any investigations or recommendations for prosecutions. Well, with the exception of bankrupting, discrediting and jailing anybody that dares testify against the Big Guy . . .
Bkmk
Kessler is a mendacious guttersnipe who passes himself off as a journalist. He writes, “at the time, they were unable to verify [the laptop] its authenticity.” That is a lie. At the time they were UNWILLING to verify its authenticity.
Interesting how Kessler avoids one of the most blaring facts about the Biden corruption - Hunter Biden had NO background, history or qualifications which explained the huge amounts of monies the Biden syndicate received from all these foreign entities.
If Kessler used this FACT as a starting point for his article, rather than his unmitigated love of all things Democrat, he might: A) reach different conclusions, B) sound more like a reasonable journalist and 3) (I was never very good at indexing) write a more credible article.
But he didn’t, he doesn’t and he can’t . . .
I don't remember any such trepidations from the leftist media in 2016 when it came to any rumor about Trump. One would report it, a second would use the first as a verified source and then a third would say "multiple sources confirm" based entirely on other news stories without looking for the original source.
The WaPoo says one email. I call BS, they are forgetting Hunter’s scathing email tohis sister where he laments half his earnings going to pop, I don’t think he is referencing corn pop. Hunter got a consulting job with MBNA fresh out of law school while Joe was managing the regulating of credit card companies in the Senate. This stuff has been going on for decades. Of course the WaPoo and New York slimes will throw what ever shade they can
Sorry, it was Hunters daughter. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9757117/Hunter-Biden-complained-half-salary-went-paying-Joes-bills.html
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