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Timeline: Allegations and evidence surrounding Hunter Biden's business dealings
WJLA ^ | 10/26/2020 | Stephen Loiaconi

Posted on 10/26/2020 2:41:29 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Documents released in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential race have shed some new light on the business dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son and other relatives, but many questions remain about both the sources of the records and their relevance to Biden’s bid for the presidency.

“I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life,” Biden said during a debate with President Donald Trump last week.

Biden’s denials have not stopped Trump from demanding the Justice Department investigate his opponent for unspecified crimes or asserting that Biden is “COMPROMISED” by his family’s financial ties to China and other countries.

Earlier this month, emails allegedly recovered from a laptop that once belonged to Biden’s son Hunter were obtained by The New York Post. Subsequently, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, came forward to verify some of those emails and lodge his own accusations against the Bidens.

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Here is what we know about Hunter Biden’s business activities and how they became intertwined with his father’s tenure as vice president and his presidential campaign.

2013 Dec. 2013

Hunter Biden flew to Beijing with his father on Air Force Two while the vice president was on official business in China. During the visit, Hunter met with one of his business partners, a Chinese banker named Jonathan Li. Hunter and Li were both involved with Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., an investment firm that was officially registered less than two weeks after Hunter’s visit.

Hunter held an unpaid position on BHR’s board of directors while his father was in office and became a shareholder with a 10% stake in the company in Oct. 2017.

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1 posted on 10/26/2020 2:41:29 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

A series of lame liberal excuses.


2 posted on 10/26/2020 2:45:03 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: marcusmaximus

What upsets me is the the Dems and undecideds are not upset at all that their dear Biden is now open to blackmail by foreign powers and has done more, with his son, that merits impeachment than any President. Shrugging it off.


3 posted on 10/26/2020 2:45:42 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger

What evidence is there that Biden who knew of his son’s shenanigans even remotely tried to stop him. Any parent would wonder “where’s my kid getting the dough?”


4 posted on 10/26/2020 2:52:59 PM PDT by Maudeen (Wake up true believers in Christ and VOTE!)
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To: frank ballenger

not really, from what im seeing the undecided and the largest chunk of dems changing their mind late in the history of campaigns, are bothered by it. Its working. The Biden stuff is the #1 thing on thier mind even without the press talking about it.


5 posted on 10/26/2020 2:54:00 PM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: frank ballenger

“”””, that merits impeachment than any President. Shrugging it off.”””””

C’mon, man. President Trump made a phone call. Off with his head.


6 posted on 10/26/2020 2:54:10 PM PDT by shelterguy
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This pic is the epitome of the Biden's contempt for US taxpayers. We exist only to make the Bidens filthy rich.
The moronoic grandaughter waves to the Chinese delegation as if she's some sort of diplomat.

VP Biden, his son Hunter, and Hunter's daughter Finnegan, arrive in Beijing..........on an official US visit financed by taxpayers.

Throughout the tax-paid trip, Hunter Biden seemed to duck in and out, sometimes joining his father at events and red-carpet arrival ceremonies, and at other times following his own itinerary, presumably with his daughter Finnegan. As is customary, the White House did not provide details about what the vice president’s relatives were doing when they were not part of his public events.

What else Hunter Biden may have done during the tax-paid two-day stop in China is unclear. There are no indications he met with Chinese government officials. Mesires, the spokesman, said that he did not conduct any business during the tax-paid trip — including when he met with Li, the Chinese banker and his nascent business partner.

Several former White House officials who traveled with Biden on the tax-paid trip told NBC News that they didn’t know at the time that Hunter Biden had any business interests in China and were unaware of his private schedule while in Beijing.

Reporters along for the trip also indicated no one was aware of Hunter's mega business deal in China.

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SOURCE—NYPOST.com

Twelve days after Hunter stepped off Air Force Two in Beijing with his VP dad and daughter, on an official tax-paid trip, Hunter's nascent privarcompany signed a historic deal with the Bank of China, the state-owned financial behemoth often used as a tool of the Chinese government.

The Bank of China had created a first-of-its-kind investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). According to BHR, one of its founding partners was none other than Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC.

It was an unprecedented arrangement: (A) the government of one of America’s fiercest competitors, the Chinese Communist government. going into business with the son of one of America’s most powerful decision-makers, then VP-Biden....Pres Obama's point man in China.

Chris Heinz (John Kerry’s stepson) claims neither he nor Rosemont Seneca Partners, the firm he had part ownership of, had any role in the deal with Bohai Harvest. Nonetheless, Biden, Archer and the Rosemont name became increasingly involved with China.

Archer became the vice chairman of Bohai Harvest, helping oversee some of the fund’s investments.

Troublingly, some of those investments had major implications for US national security........including the safety and security of Americans.

<><> Ironically, Hunter Biden’s father, the vice president, met earlier with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington as part of the Nuclear Security Summit as Obama's point man on all things China.
<><> In December 2014, Hunter's company, BHR became an “anchor investor” in the IPO of China General Nuclear Power Corp. (CGN), the Communist state-owned energy company involved in the construction of nuclear reactors.
<><> In April 2016, the US Justice Department would charge CGN with stealing nuclear secrets from the United States — actions prosecutors said could cause “significant damage to our national security.”

Of particular interest to CGN were sensitive, American-made components that, according to experts, resembled components used by the US on its nuclear submarines.

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Joe Biden later bragged that he did not discuss Hunter's business interests on the 20-hour flight to China.Nor would he. The details of a mega-deal...... with larger importance to the Biden family fortunes....... were certainly worked out weeks ahead in VP Biden's tax-paid office utilizing Biden's tax-paid staff.

The alacrity with which Hunter seemingly sewed up the billion dollar deal shorty after arriving is significant. Because the details were already hashed out when he boarded Air Force Two. Joe and Hunter surely allowed themselves a high five. No need to discuss the deal on the trip over.....it was fait accompli....thanks to the VP's tax-paid help.

7 posted on 10/26/2020 3:02:37 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Then-VP Biden toasts China's XI. "Here’s why I’m toasting this Chink. My view for many years is that a rising China is a positive development, and that the Biden family can become billionaires as long as we Democrats force American taxpayers to invest in Beijing’s success. Some anti-globalists see China’s growth as a threat, entertaining visions of a cold-war-style rivalry or great-power confrontation. Other Chinks worry that our aim in the Asia-Pacific is to contain China’s rise,” Biden wrote. “I reject these views. “I remain convinced that a successful China can make our country more prosperous, not less,” he added.

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(h/t Greenfield)

Yet, underneath all the Biden sucking-up rhetoric about the ennobling virtues of globalism was some very parochial and familial profiteering. In 2013, Joe and his son Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two to China. China’s BHR Partners was founded that year and included Hunter Biden as a board member. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013. Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County.

After Joe's wet kiss to XI, the big Chinese partner in the BHR arrangement was Harvest Fund Management which, coincidentally enough, in 2012 was targeting Hollywood with an $800 million investment fund. That same year, you could find Bruno Wu, who had been working with Harvest, and Chris Dodd, along with Harvey Weinstein, playing roles at the Asian Film Summit in Toronto.

And the money didn’t just go one way. The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013.

Despite its name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which received a $3 million loan from New Castle County. (Delaware is Joe Biden’s home state which he repped as a US Senator.)

New Castle County had approved the issue of $15 million in revenue bonds to fund the DBOT “stock exchange” by touting the “globally recognized leaders in the financial services industry” running it. DBOT’s founders included people with experience in stock exchanges and financial services, and Dennis Toner, who was described as a “top aide to Vice President Joe Biden.”

Toner, Biden’s deputy chief of staff, is in the news for denying that Tara Reade ever told him anything. Reade’s decision to tell Toner and Ted Kaufman was a pretty poor one. Both are longtime Biden men and considered as close to the boss as family. And they’ve reaped the benefits of that closeness.

After Obama won, Ted Kaufman was temporarily appointed to the Senate. If there was anything odd about appointing a Biden advisor to sit in the Senate, it became odder when Senator Kaufman delivered the opening statement in favor of Toner’s appointment as Post Office Governor, by vouching for his “loyalty” working for Joe Biden. Tara Reade might as well have taken her complaint to Biden, as to Toner and Kaufman. The current New Castle County exec has since called DBOT’s founders criminals and threatened to sue after the company was disposed of as a “distressed asset” in exchange for shares of Ideanomics. Ideanomics is a Chinese crypto company trading as a penny stock and the software that served as collateral for the loan has been described as worthless. The chairman of Ideanomics is Wu.

The manager of DBOT-I LLC was listed as John Hynansky. The car dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady brother half a million dollars and had received $20 million in government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in the Ukraine. Biden’s vaunted foreign policy expertise has consisted of sucking up to broker deals between Biden family members, donors, and foreign interests. These deals haven’t been good for America, but they’ve worked out very well for members of Biden's crooked family, as well as assorted donors, camp followers, and the local boys.

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But Biden's biggest deal was helping broker the Chinese takeover of the American entertainment industry. Xi’s visit to Los Angeles hit on all the right cultural notes. He schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, like Dodd and Biden, he watched a Lakers game, and cheered Obama’s 100,000 Strong China initiative to have a hundred thousand American students study in the Communist dictatorship.

“I can say with confidence my visit has been a full success,” Xi declared.

In China, culture serves the agenda of the Communist government. Unlike the Russians, who struggled vainly to stem the impact of American culture, their Chinese counterparts decided to control it at the source. Biden was a key figure in negotiating the terms on which the PRC would control Hollywood.

In 1962, the Manchurian Candidate depicted an effort by Communists in China, Russia, and elsewhere to kidnap and brainwash American soldiers. The modern remake replaced the Communists with a corporation and the Chinese doctor with a South African geneticist. China could not be offended. While Biden, Katzenberg, and Xi were partying at the Marriot, human rights protesters were calling for freedom, and being arrested by the henchmen of a one-party Democrat city and state for their trouble.

Even while Biden was falsely claiming that the Hollywood sellout would improve human rights in China, the rise of China was already violating human rights in America. Now, as Chinese drones fly over American cities, police stalk empty streets, social media monopolies monitor every single phone, and Democrat officials dismiss the Bill of Rights while locking up millions of people, our rights are gone. And Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate who long ago sold out the country he now seeks to rule.

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You just gotta wonder how a (gag) president Biden will find time to run the US when he's perpetually sucking up for new deals for his ne'er-do-well son, his greedy family, his ex-staffers, donors, and his real-estate partners.

8 posted on 10/26/2020 3:03:56 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.

The stench of panic pandering is strong in this one. – How would you like to be Symone Sanders, the African American hack who serves as racist Joe Biden’s press spokesperson? Sanders has spent the last few days desperately trying to clean up the pile of doggie-do the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Presumptive Nominee left on the floor on Saturday, when he told a clearly-Black radio host “you ain’t black” if he has a hard time decided whether to vote for Biden or President Trump this November.

Appearing on MSNBC’s “Politics DC” show hosted by venerable old race-baiter Al Sharpton on Sunday, Ms. Sanders blurted out this bit of obvious panic pandering, as reported at Breitbart News:
“Vice President Biden has committed to making sure that we are underscoring not just the civil rights division and the Department of Justice, the civil rights division across his administration,” Sanders told MSNBC “PoliticsNation” host Al Sharpton. “He is committed to putting judges on the bench that reflect the community, taking a hard look, and making sure that they are African-American judges on the bench, qualified judges on the bench. He has committed to putting a black woman on the Supreme Court.”

So now, in addition to having the standard Democrat Party litmus test of having to be pro-abortion on demand and even after birth, Sanders says Biden will add the litmus tests of being a woman and African American to his list of pre-qualifications when considering his first nominee to the Supreme Court. This kind of rank discrimination is so despicable and anti-American that it is hard to put into words. It takes panic pandering to an entirely new level. But this is Joe Biden, and this is what you can expect if you vote for him in November. China “supports hundreds of thousands of jobs in America” and Biden insists “it’s in our mutual interest in each of our countries to promote that exchange,” the nearly 4 million jobs lost in under 20 years due to China’s predatory trading practices such as currency manipulation tell a different story.

China’s exports have even harmed American lives: Chinese toys are made with toxic lead paint; Chinese fish are carcinogenic due to the country’s polluted water; Chinese candy has been contaminated formaldehyde; and Chinese drywall is made with radioactive material.

Biden, however, insists: “I believed in 1979 and said so and I believe now that a rising China is a positive development."

9 posted on 10/26/2020 3:08:48 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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BIDEN---CIRCA 2011

SOURCE https://thenationalpulse.com/news/biden-video-ccp-intrusion-us-government/

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said he welcomes Chinese intrusion into
“all levels of [U.S.] govt, classrooms, labs, athletic fields and boardrooms......and the military.”

The Biden comments – unearthed from a 2011 Sichuan University speech – demonstrate either a fundamental misunderstanding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or outright collusion with it. The former veep stated at the time: “In order to cement this robust partnership, we have to go beyond close ties between Washington and Beijing, which we’re working on every day, go beyond it to include all levels of government, go beyond it to include classrooms and laboratories, athletic fields and boardrooms.”

Biden, 77, even advocated for closer ties between the U.S. and CCP on the military front: “…that’s why it’s also important that our military leaders work together, get to know one another — not just our political leaders, but our military leaders.”

Biden takes this reckless approach to the private sector, too: “The United States should undertake to make it easier for Chinese business people to obtain visas to travel to the United States. It takes much too long for that to happen.”

During the 50-minutes he spoke,Biden expressed support for granting China increased access to high-tech U.S. products: “Already, we have made thousands of new items available for export to China for exclusive civilian use that were not available before, and tens of thousands of more items will become available very soon. That’s a significant change in our export policy and a rejection of those voices in America that say we should not export that kind of technology to – for civilian use in – China. We disagree, and we’re changing.”

10 posted on 10/26/2020 3:10:19 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: marcusmaximus
And yet Forbes estimates that he has a net worth of $9 million.

Joe Biden earned $15.6 million in the two years after leaving the vice presidency - Washington Post

I am going to guess that his true wealth is a lot higher than that.

11 posted on 10/26/2020 3:11:14 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns are the EstablishmentÂ’s track on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: Maudeen
Any parent would wonder “where’s my kid getting the dough?”

Good point.

The media public relations officers (media on air "talent") would never ask such a question.

12 posted on 10/26/2020 3:13:33 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Biden raked in at least 15.6 millions after VP over.

Like Carnegie, Ford, Edison , Westinghouse and others, he took America The Land of Opportunity at its word.

Provided a service (favors for bribe money during his Vice Presidency and assisting Hunter in shady deals) and converted it into money for value given. And is filthy rich. Or at least filthy.


13 posted on 10/26/2020 3:17:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Obama loved this pic......he memorialized it in the WH archives for future generations.........
.....the Bidens w/ Hunter's daughter in blue in a China teahouse----sucking up tax dollars.....

This is the infamous trip in which Joe was on (ahem) "official business for Obama" .......
where Hunter sewed-up a billion dollar deal w/ the Chinese for himself.......financed by our tax dollars.

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A picture is worth a thousand words.


14 posted on 10/26/2020 3:21:12 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 held an unpaid position on BHR’s board of directors while his father was Obama's VP
and was rewarded by becoming a shareholder with a 10% stake in the company in Oct 2017.

Hunter's 10% is today worth $50 million.

15 posted on 10/26/2020 3:25:37 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: marcusmaximus

“”””“I have not taken a penny from any foreign source ever in my life,”””””


Biden’s saying will go down in the history books along with
Bill Clinton’s famous words: “”I never had sex with that woman.”

Like Bill, Joe Biden is simply parsing words. Yes, it may be true that Joe Biden has never taken a penny DIRECTLY from a foreign source, but it is highly likely that he took money from foreign sources laundered by his son, Hunter, the Chinese Laundryman, Biden.


16 posted on 10/26/2020 3:29:28 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: marcusmaximus

Laptop Biden News:

Bobulinski release of email speaking of the need to switch to burner phones Just as Joe’s Ukraine/Shokin caper was about to take place,

. From Tim Pool, former “occupy” dude turned pro- Trumper:

https://youtu.be/SvVHekwC7ko


17 posted on 10/26/2020 3:32:15 PM PDT by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: Liz

CCP’s 3F plan, which aims to ‘fall, fail, and fell,’ to weaken, destroy and kill America!”

In Miles Guo first exposed the CCP’s deadly “3F plan” against the US
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Mr. Miles Guo made following statement on the press conference held in Washington D. C. on Oct 2017:

I want to inform all American people and draw all your Attentions to two evil Plans by the CCP Kleptocrats; those two plans would enmesh all Americans to an Abyss of Failure.

The first one is known as BGY plan. (Note1)

The second plan is called 3F plan, which means to Foment weakness, foment chaos and foment the destruction of America.

I know it sounds ridiculous to all of you, but I have to say they do exist! I believe CIA has already heard of something about it. Today, I swear with my life depend on it.

The CCP Kleptocrats are currently implementing the two plans in the US, very successfully and swiftly.And it will make an enormous harm to the American, and their lives and properties.9/11 was incomparable the damages by those two Plans, it might be 100 even 1000 times worse than 9/11.

Remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing ? I don’t want to see it happen again that American people did nothing but just waiting for another bigger bomb right after a small bomb.Just like that everyone said Japan was Just a threats to America before the Battle of Pearl Harbour.

American people must stop and understand what 3F plan and BGY plan are !

(Note 1: BGY stands for Blue, Gold and Yellow. Blue represents Internet and Media Control, Gold represents money and bribery is used to buy influence. Yellow represents the use of honey traps to compromise espionage targets. CCP planned to control the world by choking the throats of the world leaders, politicians, media, academics and financial operators; and it had deeply invaded the US from within via this BGY in the past decades.)

https://gnews.org/154724/

GTV.org is on a site in Taiwan.


18 posted on 10/26/2020 3:37:45 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I would rather be killed by Covid than by Loneliness, at the end of my life! I'll be 82 in November!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Great find.


19 posted on 10/26/2020 3:41:44 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: Democrats hate too much

I hope that is true.

The ridiculous “polls” are saying slight upturn for Biden——which would show the American undecideds are total fools and bumpkins born yesterday. Which may be true, I’m sorry to say. Or polls are just as wrong as usual.

I am one who believe the scandal stuff, which means equal justice needs to be served quickly, should count highly in a voter’s priorities for character from a public servant. Which Biden lacks totally.


20 posted on 10/26/2020 7:19:21 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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