Posted on 10/30/2020 4:17:41 AM PDT by gattaca
There are many allegations now in the public square about the Biden family’s alleged conflicts of interest. In fact, the liberal-leaning press have been reporting on it it for quite some time in stories often centered on Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
Last year, Politico wrote “Biden, Inc.: How ‘Middle Class’ Joe’s family cashed in.” In New Yorker, it was: “Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?” And The Intercept wrote: “Joe Biden’s Family Has Been Cashing in on His Career for Decades.”
Undisputed is the fact that Hunter and other members of the Biden family have been involved in numerous complex, and sometimes controversial, multi-national, multi-million dollar deals involving Ukraine, Russia, China, Luxembourg, and the U.K. Numerous observers have stated they believe the Bidens’ main qualification to conduct such business is simply that they are connected to a powerful political figure who has influence over policies and practices that can impact the businesses: Joe Biden.
Now, new documentation of the allegations have come with a flurry of 11th hour releases and allegations by a former Biden family business partner, and a computer shop owner who got a look into Hunter Biden’s computer. Tony Bobulinski, a Democrat and business associate, claims he met with Joe Biden personally as Hunter and James sought to convince Bobulinski to lead a giant business venture with a communist Chinese energy company. He claims Joe Biden was to secretly receive 10 percent equity in the company, money allegedly to be laundered through Hunter. And, Bobulinski alleges, the Biden’s lucrative entanglements with the Chinese have made Joe Biden hopelessly compromised by a foreign government.
Tangled up in the whole mess are even larger issues. There’s big tech censorship after Twitter censored a New York Post story on the topic. There’s media bias after some in the press announced a black out on the story and refused to cover it. There’s ongoing mistrust in the FBI when it was learned the agency has had the allegedly incendiary Hunter Biden computer material since last December but not publicly acted on anything in it, and kept it secret from relevant Congressional committees that asked about it. Interestingly, the Justice Department and FBI—agencies that have proven rife with anti-Trump leaks—were able to keep uncharacteristically mum when it came to a scandal and allegations about a figure on the other side of the political spectrum.
During these final weeks of campaign 2020, reporters and debate moderators haven’t really challenged Joe Biden to answer to specifics about all of this. When confronted by Trump at a debate, Biden has said he never took a penny from a foreign government. He has also criticized those who suggest his family members have sought to trade on the Biden family name.
Although two of Hunter’s business partners have been convicted of felonies for financial crimes, it’s important to note that nobody in the Biden family has been accused of any related crime. Is it a matter of double standards: the FBI and media giving Democrats protection and a pass for the same things that would cause them to nail Trump to the wall? Or is it simply that there is neither a crime nor legitimate ethical concern here?
Still, there’s one nagging point that I haven’t seen considered. It’s the nature of the Biden family business ventures juxtaposed against Joe Biden’s position on oil and fossil fuels.
Biden has repeatedly taken strong positions against fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas. He has made it clear he wants to “transition” away from them in the United States.
But as he’s advanced this position, his family members have been making money on deals that expand fossil fuel companies and ventures in foreign countries.
For example, While Hunter Biden was getting himself a job on the board of Ukraine’s largest energy company, Burisma; Vice President Joe Biden was coincidentally put in charge of Ukraine policy. The same day the White House announced the vice president would handle Ukraine policy and make a visit there the following week, Hunter allegedly wrote to a business partner, “This could be the break we have been waiting for.” They inked a highly-compensated gig with Burisma in Ukraine.
During Joe Biden’s first visit to the country in his new position, he spoke of how Ukraine could make the right decisions and become “energy independent”—less reliant on other countries and more secure from a national security standpoint. Energy independence in this context implied good things and heavy reliance on Ukrainian fossil fuel companies like Burisma, where Hunter was hitched. There was no bigger oil and gas company in Ukraine than Burisma.
The point is, while Joe Biden has been pushing to end the U.S. oil industry, his family has been cutting billion dollars in deals, profiting off of the oil industry in competing countries such as Ukraine and China. In fact, eliminating fossil fuel in the United States while supporting it in other nations could be seen as putting America at a competitive and national security disadvantage, whether intentionally or by accident.
It may be true that Joe Biden has never intended to link his political policy positions to his family’s business ventures. But the fact that the relationships beg the comparison demonstrate some of the peril that comes with even the appearance of conflicts of interest.
Oh yeah hypocrites. You generation of vipers.
The purpose of getting rid of fracking is to weaken the US and make it dependent on the New World Order. It is much easier for those in power to make money in managed communist economies than in the US. The US is the only industrialized nation to approach the incredible carbon reduction goals the world wanted to impose. No other nation has come close to reducing as much per capita use as the US. So, why did Greta Thunberg’s communist handlers target her against the US instead of the world’s worst polluters, China and India? Because the goal doesn’t have anything to do with “climate change.” It’s all about power and limiting the US to be an also-ran nation.
It’s like NAFTA or the Paris Agreement — our politicians seem very eager to put the USA in a disadvantageous position so that the rest of the world can get ahead of us.
What the heck is up with that?
What the heck is up with that?
They are happy to sell America out for personal gain.
To a great degree we are governed by people who became millionaires in public office and they didn't accumulate that much wealth on their government salaries.
In a recently oft-seen video of a town-hall meeting, Joe is challenged about his family's "conflict of interest" regarding their business interests, of which Attkisson has written here. Joe vehemently denies such a conflict of interest, as if the whole matter has already been long and closely considered and was assiduously determined not to be the case.
But it is undeniably not only a conflict of financial interests concerning his family's interests versus those of the American people, but also national security interests, as Attkisson again alludes.
As the Burisma energy concern represents Ukraine's national security interests through energy independence, the Biden gang's activities vis-à-vis "transitioning" American interests represents not only financial treason against the US citizenry, but literally the next layer of an existential threat to the US, a fact that gets highlighted in stark contrast as the gang consummated Chinese relationships--not merely with Chinese businesses, of course, but as it with all large business in a Communist country, "got in bed with" their relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership. (As Hunter says, "[W]ith the ****** spy chief of China." In the context of even tangential CCP control of the Wuhan virus' intentional funding, origins, spread and cover-up, there can rightly be nothing but a hangman's noose awaiting all willful participants.)
This is not at all unrelated to Messrs. Gates, WHO Director General Ghebreyesus, and NIAID Director Fauci and their coordinated efforts on behalf of Bilderbergers and that Council where Joe Biden so clearly explained his seditious activity in using a billion dollars of US loan guarantees to put a stop to the Ukrainian prosecutor's investigation of his family's personal financial venture with Burisma, the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR).
Joe's coordination with the CFR was also an existential conflict of interest, between the US citizenry's Constitutional government versus what the CFR, UN/WHO and Bilderberger types (read: CIA, British Monarchy and Vatican) have long been trying to effect in their Great Work, a New World Order.
Handing the US over to the Chinese will make the CCP's putting down of Hong Kong look oh, so much like a 9/11 trial run, with the British interests that have controlled our banking for over a hundred years (think of Rhodes Scholars' purpose, Slick Clinton, etc.) playing the part of common denominator.
Thus, I think we should go ahead and rule out Attkisson's assertion of these things being possibly "by accident."
I always thought this was the height of hypocrisy that candidate Ass wipe was out talking about eliminating the American Oil Industry while he received millions from Ukraine, China, and Russian Oil and Gas interests.
He has no conscience.
...I always thought this was the height of hypocrisy that candidate Ass wipe was out talking about eliminating the American Oil Industry while he received millions from Ukraine, China, and Russian Oil and Gas interests...
add to that bidens let trunp get impeached fo questioning what they did these biden’s schiff’s pelosi’s romney’s are not honorable people..
Energy independence would cost the Bidens of DC billions.
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