drjill sap-happily embraced the doddering Biden as the winner, gushing into the mic,
"You answered every question" as America was aghast witnessing the spectacle of a failed president.
Posted on 01/08/2025 5:22:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
What was the most under-reported news story during the Biden presidency?
In the last week or so, there has been a sudden burst of recognition of the extent to which Democrats and the media worked together to cover up Biden’s progressing cognitive decline. One media figure after another has come forward to call this the “most under-reported” story of the last year or several years. Some examples among many include: CBS correspondent Jan Crawford on December 30 (“That [the most under-reported story] would be, to me, Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline that became undeniable in a televised debate"); Rolling Stone, December 30 (“Matt Yglesias, Josh Barro, and Mehdi Hasan regret failing to acknowledge Biden’s cognitive decline sooner — and its impact on the 2024 election.”); MSN, January 4 (“Media facing backlash for reporting on Biden’s cognitive decline.”)
I agree that this was a very big and very under-reported story during the Biden presidency. But was it the biggest? Not to me. The biggest under-reported story of the Biden presidency was the President’s corruption.
The big difference between these two stories is that the cognitive decline story was much more difficult to cover up. Despite the best efforts of Biden’s staff to limit his appearances, restrict difficult questioning, and prevent all deviations from script, the President was still regularly out in the public eye. Even as every powerful Democrat insisted that Biden was “sharp as a tack,” we could all see him uttering confused answers to questions, mixing up his location, stumbling and falling, shaking hands with the air, and so forth. The refusal to take a simple cognitive test was a persistent tell. Yes, the left-wing media should be ashamed of their reporting; but they were not really able to fool anyone who was paying attention.
The corruption story was different. It takes some knowledge of the facts and the law to understand whether there is anything to an allegation of bribery. The mainstream media simply refused to provide the chronology of facts or a summary of the law to assist readers to understand the circumstances. As just a few examples:
- When Hunter Biden’s laptop computer came to light in October 2020, containing extensive evidence of corrupt activities by the Bidens, nearly all left-wing sources imposed a complete news blackout on that development. The New York Post, which broke the story, was denounced for “misinformation,” and was banned from Twitter. On October 19, 2020, fifty-one “former intelligence officials” presented a letter claiming that the laptop bore all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation, and that was reported as big news. Meanwhile The New York Times and Washington Post couldn’t be bothered to attempt to authenticate the laptop. Those two sources finally admitted that the laptop was authentic in March 2022.
- The media used one diversionary line after another to attempt to mislead the public about the bribery. As one example, there were endless stories about the lack of evidence of money going directly to Joe Biden, rather than son Hunter or brother Jim. For other politicians, federal prosecutors treat money going to family members of the politician as the equivalent of money going to the politician himself for purposes of the bribery statute. As a prominent example, former New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos spent four years in jail (much of it during the Biden presidency) for alleged bribes, all of which went to his son rather than to him.
- Another diversionary line was that Hunter Biden only sold the “illusion of access” to his father. Here is a July 2023 piece from PBS parroting that line. Even if that was true in some cases, it did not change the fact that, for example, Joe Biden got a prosecutor fired in Ukraine (and later bragged about accomplishing that), at a time when Hunter was getting paid a million dollars a year by a corrupt Ukrainian gas company, and the top priority of that company was to get the prosecutor fired.
Congratulations go particularly to the New York Post and to Miranda Devine for staying on top of the story of Biden corruption, and for pushing it forward despite all efforts to suppress it.
For lots of detail about the Biden corruption, I recommend my own 11-part series “The Biden’s - ‘Stone Cold Crooked.’” Here is a key paragraph from Part 9 of that series, dated September 19, 2023:
Of the various instances of corruption involving Joe Biden, the facts relating to Hunter Biden’s service on the Burisma board of directors most closely track the specific elements of the bribery statute. As to seeking, receiving or accepting anything of value, Hunter was paid at least $3 million over several years for board service that involved minimal work and no visible contribution to the enterprise other than access to his father. The board service began in 2014, when Joe was Vice President, and immediately after Joe was named “point man” for U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine. After a corruption investigation into Burisma in Ukraine began in 2015, Burisma’s number one corporate objective became ending that investigation. On November 2, 2015 Burisma executive Vadym Pozharsky stated to Hunter Biden in an email that Burisma’s “ultimate purpose” was to “close down” “any cases/pursuits against Nikolay [i.e., Burisma chairman Mykola Zlochevsky] in Ukraine.” Then, according to the Congressional testimony of Hunter Biden’s partner and Burisma co-board member Devon Archer, after a Burisma board meeting in Dubai on December 4, 2015, Zlochevsky and Pozharsky stepped out with Hunter to “call Washington.” A few days later Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Kyiv, and, as he himself has admitted on a widely-viewed videotape, threatened to withhold a billion dollars of U.S. aid to the country unless the prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired. And the prosecutor was fired.
In other words, the prima facie case of all of the elements of bribery is right there. It is what they call a lay down.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden leaves office having never held any job other than modest-paying political positions, and yet somehow has two mansions, a collector car, and other perks of substantial wealth. Nobody has ever identified where all that money came from.
So my vote for the most under-reported story about the Biden presidency clearly goes to the corruption cover-up.
Manhattan Contrarian ping
Chicom bribes.
Democrats under fire for not sounding alarm earlier on Biden’s mental state
Schumer nixed such talk as “right-wing propaganda,” now feeling the heat
by Alexander Bolton 01/07/25, the hill.com
Democratic leaders and lawmakers are coming under growing scrutiny for not blowing the whistle sooner on what is widely perceived to be President Biden’s decline during the final two years of his presidency. Some Democrats fear there is going to be a lot more talk as members of their party wrestle over what went wrong in the 2024 election and how to chart a course going forward.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), who in February dismissed talk about a decline in Biden’s mental and physical fitness as “right-wing propaganda,” was challenged over the weekend by NBC’s Kristen Welker. Welker put the question bluntly to Schumer by asking whether he “and other top Democrats misled” Americans about Biden’s “mental acuity.” “Look, we didn’t,” Schumer answered tersely, before defending Biden’s record and character.
“The legislation we passed, one of the most significant groups of legislation since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society,” Schumer said, referring to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which included a host of energy and climate provisions. “Putting in 235 judges [on the federal bench], a record. And he’s a patriot, he’s a great guy,” Schumer added.
A handful of Democratic senators are now warning there will be more calls for answers and accountability given that Biden’s condition became a glaring problem after he muddled through the first presidential debate against Donald Trump in June. “I think it’s coming, big time,” said one Democratic senator who predicted a wave of recriminations against Democratic lawmakers for not asking tough questions earlier about Biden. The lawmaker argued that many Democrats in Congress were kept in the dark about Biden’s health and stamina.
“The fairest statement about it is that we never saw him. Really. I don’t know how long ago it was the last time Biden came to the caucus,” the senator added. “I think he declined over that period of time.” But the senator said regardless of how much Democratic leaders really knew about Biden’s condition, Republicans successfully tagged Democrats as “corrupt” for not raising alarms sooner about the president’s fitness to serve a second term.
“I do believe a very successful charge of corruption” was tagged onto the Democratic Party as voters wondered, “’What the f‑‑‑ are you talking about?’” the senator said, referring to voters’ reactions to claims that Biden was fully fit to serve another four years in the Oval Office starting at age 82.
Schumer and other Democrats who spent time with Biden at the White House or at special events, such as the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of D-Day in June, repeatedly vouched for his mental sharpness before his debate against Trump. “I talk to President Biden, you know, regularly, sometimes several times in a week, or usually several times in a week. His mental acuity is great. It’s fine. It’s as good as it’s been over the years,” Schumer declared in mid-February.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told The Hill in June that Biden seemed sharp and focused during the celebration of the allied invasion of Normandy that eventually liberated Western Europe from Nazi occupation. Blumenthal said at the time he wasn’t counting on a “plan B” in the election, but he correctly predicted that the debate would be a “really critical point” in the race.
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"Nobody has ever identified where all that money came from."
How many in the House and Senate, past and present, are millionaires from a salary that doesn't add up (pun intended).
Recent response I received from my Democrat PA Senator.
"To me, this is a simple issue: every American should be represented by elected officials looking out for the people, not lining their own pockets. Nearly every issue we face as a country is caught up in the influence of big money, and I’m fighting to pass tough new laws to make sure Members of Congress aren’t bought and paid for by special interests and multinational corporations.
But it isn’t just about bribes and payouts. I’m committed to putting real teeth into our anti-corruption and ethics laws. Members of Congress shouldn’t be able to use the information we’re given as elected officials to get rich on stock trades or other investments – because Members of Congress shouldn’t be able to hold individual stocks at all.
From the beginning of my career, I made the promise to push for reforms that ban members of Congress from holding or trading stocks because lawmakers should not be making profits off of the same companies they are supposed to be regulating. Cosponsoring the ETHICS Act showed my commitment to ensuring just that.
As Pennsylvanians have seen for years, powerful interests too often get what they want despite public opposition, while at the same time, reforms supported by so many Pennsylvanians never get across the finish line. For example, the public supports limiting the amount of money spent on campaigns, with 72% saying there should be limits on spendings by individuals and organizations.
Corruption in our government is no joke. As elected officials, we have a responsibility to hold ourselves to a higher standard, and anyone who thinks otherwise is flat wrong. My promise to you is simple: I will continue to fight to ensure your elected officials are focused on doing what’s best for your family and your community, not their own bank account. We must do everything we can to maintain and protect our democracy."
Senator John Fetterman (PA)
“Joe Biden leaves office having never held any job other than modest-paying political positions, and yet somehow has two mansions, a collector car, and other perks of substantial wealth”
Not too shabby, “Lunchbox Joe.”
“I think it’s coming, big time,” said one Democratic senator who predicted a wave of recriminations against Democratic lawmakers for not asking tough questions earlier about Biden. The lawmaker's excuse is that Democrats in Congress were "kept in the dark" about Biden’s health and stamina.
Taxpayers are also questioning Biden's braggadoccio WRT Biden’s "Inflation Reduction Act, which included a host of energy and climate provisions" and "putting 235 judges on the federal bench," a record number......and the legitimacy of such actions.
“Joe Biden leaves office having never held any job other than modest-paying political positions, and yet somehow has two mansions, a collector car, and other perks of substantial wealth”
10% to the ‘big guy’ adds up.
drjill sap-happily embraced the doddering Biden as the winner, gushing into the mic,
"You answered every question" as America was aghast witnessing the spectacle of a failed president.
The question is “ Will 4 more years of Trump and 8 tears of Vance be enough to kill off the Progressive cancer ?”
Not unless some progressive zealots actually die
Why don’t Democrats when talking about abortion make a law called the Biden Law that makes abortion free and clear for rape and incest.The Biden Rape and incest Law . We know that is their end goal.
Obama’s plan to destroy Russia, a job Hillary was supposed to execute in Ukraine floundered under the Biden brain-trust.
UKRAINE IS DEFEATED - The day Trump takes office the news is already been written with weeks of how Ukraine is losing becasue of Trump.
Maybe Trump will prosecute the politicians and their families for corruption, and for starting wars and coups resulting in American becoming Death, Inc.
The media is the mainstream media. All the networks, AND THEIR LOCAL AFFILIATES, are outlets for propaganda.
The EMPLOYEES OF THE LOCAL AFFILIATES are paid propagandists.
I have a former co-worker in Germany who, to this day, insists the firing of that prosecutor was ‘no crime’ because ‘every EU country and the IFC was calling for his removal”.
He was mentally incompetent before he even ran for the Presidency. The media covered for him and the deep state stole the election for him. That is/was obvious the second he started with his “Corn Pop” nonsense story.
Now, they act like it’s a sudden thing - that he’s all of the sudden become mentally incapable. He never was capable. Someone(s) else has been running the government.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Corn Pop was a bad dude. Not a joke man. - Lunch Bucket Joe
Listen here, fat...
“2021-2025: The Great U.S. Treasury Robbery”
The name ‘Biden’ is synonymous with CORRUPTION
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