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The Mendacity of Joe Biden and the Ruling Elites
American Thinker.com ^ | April 12, 2021 | Steve McCann

Posted on 04/12/2021 4:31:19 AM PDT by Kaslin

An ex-business partner and I were recently reminiscing about an encounter we had with then Senator Biden at MBNA’s new corporate offices in downtown Wilmington in 1996. (MBNA was then the world’s largest independent credit card issuer.) Biden was running for re-election, so he was glad-handing anyone within reach, and we were, unfortunately, in the line of fire having just left a meeting and walking through the lobby. Flashing a toothy grin, dripping with condescension and insincerity, he grabbed my hand and said, “Good to meet you, hope you’ll vote for me in November. Like your tie.”

Fighting the urge to go and wash my hands and thinking of his disastrous 1987 presidential campaign and history of political sleaze, I said to my partner, after Biden had pressed his flesh, “Damn, I hope that oily bastard is never elected President.”

The chance meeting at the MBNA building was appropriate as Biden was not only a Senator from Delaware but was so blatantly acting as MBNA’s chief “lobbyist” that he was often referred to as “The Senator from MBNA.” In 1996, MBNA hired Joe’s son, Hunter, fresh out of law school, having never worked in finance or banking, as a “senior vice president” making $100,000.00 per year ($168,00.00 in 2021 dollars) plus a substantial signing bonus.

It was after this run-in with Joe Biden that I began to pay more attention to his fabulist tendencies, lack of character and compulsive lying. While his cognitive decline is an ancillary factor in what the American people see today, the reality is that he has always been someone who will do or say anything to advance his personal aspirations.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: joebiden

1 posted on 04/12/2021 4:31:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Biden is, and always was, a bad guy. A very bad guy.


2 posted on 04/12/2021 4:34:01 AM PDT by Salvey
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Crooked as a hound dog’s leg. For years and years.


3 posted on 04/12/2021 4:40:53 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH, (Democrat-ILL) hits on whitey: “We absolutely need to look at any type of White supremacists”.......

Oh, I agree, ducky. Let’s look at white supremacists by the name of Biden. At the very
top of the white supremacist list is Hunter Biden.......a classic case of White Privilege.

Hunter’s Storied Life of White Privilege began early on....
<><> as a newbie graduate, he easily got high-paying jobs from his farter Joe’s Senate campaign donors.
<><> when Hunter became a lobbyist, his farter Joe used his Senate office to assist Hunter’s clients.
<><> Hunter traveled with his VP farter on AIR Force Two to conduct lucrative personal business in places like China.
<><> Hunter got S/S protection while he was pocketing $84,000 a month for a Ukraine no-show job.
<><> Hunter was handed a stake in a CCP business worth $50 million today.
<><> Hunter traveled the globe with a S/S detail possible on govt aircraft.
<><> Hunter has a direct line to the CCP Politburo.
<><> Hunter was tossed out of the military for being crackhead.
<><> Hunter was able to buy a gun.....even after lying on bgrnd checks.
<><> Hunter left a crack pipe and other drug evidence in a rental car in Arizona; he was never prosecuted.
<><> Hunter was bedding down his brother’s widow, her underaged daughter, and her sister, all at the same time.
<><> Hunter is lying in wait to get-even richer from his farter’s WH policies.

Hunter visited China five times w/ Secret Service protection apparently using govt aircraft
Hunter’s abandoned laptop has evidence far worse/darker than you even thought
Hunter Biden had business ties with CCP president Xi Jinping himself.
Hunter’s Laptop emails link the Bidens to possible Chinese espionage,
Hunter’s notorious laptop suggests the Biden family was involved in treasonous CCP-backed business arrangements,
The Bidens’ collective White Supremacist activities imperiled the safety and security of Americans and their families.


4 posted on 04/12/2021 4:46:30 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Revealed: Joe Biden twice used his position as senator to intervene to boost son Hunter's lobbying
Joe Biden lobbied Department of Justice Congress and Homeland Security for Hunter's lobbying clients

BY Alana Goodman, Washington Examiner| October 24, 2019 07:37 PM

Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. senator to discuss issues that his son Hunter’s firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records.

On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.

Biden’s behind-the-scenes outreach illustrates how his Senate work overlapped with his son’s business interests. Biden has faced scrutiny for taking actions that were perceived to benefit his son’s work, including calling for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor and backing policies that helped the Delaware-based credit card industry while Hunter was working for MBNA, which is headquartered in the state.

<><>Government records show that Biden, who has always insisted he knows nothing about his son's business activities, helped Hunter's work with strategic and highly specific interventions that could have benefited his son to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.<><>

On Feb. 28, 2007, Biden contacted DHS to express that he was “concerned about the Department's proposed chemical security regulations authorized by Section 550 of DHS Appropriations Act of 2007,” according to the department’s log of its contacts with members of Congress.

Section 550, which was passed in 2006 as part of the DHS appropriations bill, requires high-risk chemical plants to submit site safety plans to DHS for approval, including security credentialing and training for employees.

Eight weeks earlier, the Industrial Safety Training Council had hired Hunter Biden’s firm to lobby DHS on the issue. The trade group, which represents companies that provide safety training for chemical facility employees, was mounting a heavy lobbying campaign over section 550, submitting congressional testimony about the need to expand background checks for chemical plant employees.

The Industrial Safety Training Council was seeking to expand the “language in DHS legislation regarding security clearance and credentialing for chemical facility employees and employers” in January 2007, according to lobbying disclosure records.

While Hunter Biden did not register as an individual lobbyist for the trade association, he was one of three senior partners in his firm at the time. The Industrial Safety Training Council paid Oldaker, Biden & Belair a total of $200,000 between early 2007 and the end of 2008.

The Biden campaign did not respond to request for comment. The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group, said Biden should have avoided involvement with issues that his son’s firm was also lobbying on because of the appearance of conflict.

“It’s implausible Sen. Biden did not know his son’s firm was lobbying on this arcane issue,” said Tom Anderson, the director of NLPC’s Government Integrity Project. “Sometimes appearances are exactly what they are," he said. “This is a recurring problem we’ve seen on the Hill, where family members are enriched because of their relationship with a member.”

Biden also sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Jan. 31, 2007 requesting a meeting with the Department of Justice to discuss expanding the federal fingerprint background check system.

“I write to request your assistance in implementing an expanded background check system for our nation's volunteer organizations,” wrote Biden. “If we can work together to expand the number of volunteer organizations that have access to fast, accurate, and inexpensive fingerprint background checks, we will make significant and important strides in our ongoing effort to protect kids across our country.”

Biden added, “I would like to convene a small meeting with key representatives” from DOJ, the FBI, members of Congress and volunteer groups.

One of Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients at the time, a coalition of state-level criminal justice advocates called SEARCH, was also lobbying the federal government for a broader fingerprint screening system at the time.

The same day as Biden’s letter, SEARCH adopted a resolution calling on Congress to consider "any effort to improve the quality, completeness and accessibility of criminal history records” and expand the current system to “allow the return of all criminal history record information maintained by the States on the search subject through a single fingerprint check.”

The group initially hired Oldaker, Biden & Belair in 2006 to lobby for federal funding for state-level criminal justice programs, paying the firm $114,000 over the next year. In early 2008, SEARCH was seeking funding “to assist states in development and use of information to accelerate automation of fingerprint authentication processes and criminal justice data which are compatible with the FBI’s" system, according to lobbying records.

Biden introduced a bill called the “Child Protection Improvements Act” on March 13, 2008, which created a national fingerprint background check system for volunteer groups that worked with children. Oldaker, Biden & Belair promptly began lobbying for the bill on behalf of their client, SEARCH, according to lobbying records. SEARCH paid the firm $93,000 in 2008, records show.

Hunter Biden founded Oldaker, Biden & Belair with William Oldaker, a former adviser to his father. During his time at the firm, he was registered to lobby for clients on issues ranging from online gambling to higher education. After Biden became a vice presidential candidate in 2008, Hunter stepped away from lobbying, and the firm was renamed Oldaker, Belair & Wittie.

ABC News reported last week that Biden was concerned conflicts with his son’s lobbying work could negatively affect his presidential run in 2008. Biden was "concerned with the impact that Hunter's lobbying activities might have on his expected campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination," according to court documents filed by a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s in 2007, ABC News reported.

"Because my dad was vice president of the United States, there's literally nothing, as a young man or as a full-grown adult, that my father in some way hasn't had influence over," Hunter told the outlet in an interview.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/biden-outreach-to-dhs-and-doj-overlapped-

5 posted on 04/12/2021 4:48:34 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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HUNTER BIDEN HAD AUTHORIZED SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION WHILE ON BURISMA’S BOARD.
NOTE: Joe Biden’s says he had “no knowledge” of his surviving son’s lucrative overseas business deals.......which conflicts with public evidence.

EXCERPT-— SENATE REPORT
CHAPTER VIII. HUNTER BIDEN HAD AUTHORIZED SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION
WHILE ON BURISMA’S BOARD EARNING $80,000 PER MONTH.
The Secret Service did not indicate, as was requested, whether Hunter’s travel was on Air Force One, Air Force Two
or other govt aircraft, or whether unelected Biden family members looking to cash-in, and/or US govt employees,
working for the unelected Hunter, were onboard.

S/S official govt records show that countries and territories visited by Hunter Biden, who had no diplomaic portfolio, between June 2009 and May 2014, included:
Ethiopia and India on June 14-22, 2009
Argentina on September 14-17, 2009
France and Spain on November 9-13, 2009
Canada on February 12-15, 2010
Dominican Republic on February 18-22, 2010
Puerto Rico on March 20-27, 2010
China on April 6-9, 2010
Belgium, Spain, and the United Kingdom on May 5-8, 2010
UK, Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, Ascension Island, U.S. Virgin Islands on June 6-13, 2010
Denmark and South Africa on August 9-24, 2010
Hong Kong, Taiwan and China on April 16-22, 2011
Mexico on May 15-17, 2011
Colombia, France, United Arab Emirates and France again on November 1-11, 2011
UK and Russia on February 15-18, 2012
Germany, France and UK on February 1-5, 2013
UK and Ireland on March 20-22, 2013
China on June 13-15, 2013
Switzerland and Italy on July 26-August 7, 2013
Japan, China, South Korea and the Philippines on December 2-9, 2013
China and Qatar on May 7-14, 2014


Official S/S records were also provided, but were not made public, to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson in a response to a request the senators sent to Secret Service Director James Murray on February, 2020.

In its cover letter to Grassley and Johnson, which was included in the records we received, the Secret Service said that the senators’ request was time and labor intensive, and they could only provide a limited amount of information by the senators’ imposed turnaround time of February 19.
Given the Burisma-Ukraine-China influence peddling scandals, Hunter Biden’s extensive international travel during the Obama-Biden presidency, including at least 5 trips to China, will certainly raise additional questions.

According to reports, Vice President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two for the official trip to Beijing in December 2013. The public records show Hunter Biden arrived in Tokyo on December 2, 2013, and departed for Beijing two days later.

While it is typical for the families of the president and vice president to travel with them, questions have been raised about whether Hunter Biden used the tax-paid government trip to further his business interests.

NBC reporter Josh Lederman, who was one of four reporters on the December 2013 trip, noted in an October 2, 2019, report that, “What wasn’t known then was that as he accompanied his father to China, Hunter Biden was forming a Chinese private equity fund that associates said at the time was planning to raise big money, including from China.”


Hunter’s global travel is only one of J/W’s inquiries. During the last year and a half of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden served on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings while VP Biden was Obama’s point man for exerting US policy on Ukraine. J/W is seeking records through six lawsuits and dozens of FOIA requests related to Hunter Biden’s dealings with the Ukrainian Burisma Holdings and the Chinese BHR Partners.

SOURCE https://www.judicialwatch.org/tom-fittons-weekly-update/biden-scandal-update/


6 posted on 04/12/2021 4:52:47 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Hunter remembered so many details for his (gag) $3M book BUT says he has ‘no idea’
if the Secret Service was involved in gun incident; his text messages say otherwise
NYPOST.COM | 4/5/21 | MARK MOORE / FR Posted on 4/6/2021 by Liz
.....on “CBS This Morning,” promoting his book, Hunter was asked why he had the pistol:..... “my life was difficult. Hallie had thrown it into a trash can​. A​nd I told her ​you can’t do that. And so she went back​....and then the police​,​ came to help...... someone had picked it out of the trash and they found it within hours. And so that was the end of the story,” he said.

He was asked if the Secret Service got involved. “I have no idea. I don’t know whether the Secret Service were, or why they would be. I don’t think that that’s true, to my knowledge,” he told Anthonty Mason of CBS news.

But according to Hunter’s text message sent months later, the Secret Service did get involved. ​“Hallie stole the gun out of my trunk lock box and threw it in a full garbage can at Jansens. Then she told me it was my problem to deal with,” Hunter wrote​ January 2019.​ “Then when the police the FBI the Secret Service came on the scene she said she took it from me because she was scared I would harm myself due to my drug and alcohol problem and our volatile relationship and that she was afraid for the kids​,” Hunter wrote.

T​he incriminating message was found on a hard drive holding the contents of a laptop Hunter left at a Wilmington repair shop in April 2019. Hunter’s emails also revealed his financial dealings in Ukraine and China, and his father Joe Biden’s apparent involvement. ​

At the time , Joe Biden had no Secret Service detail, yet Hunter traveled the globe and sat on the Burisma board with his own Secret Service protection.
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7 posted on 04/12/2021 4:53:50 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Salvey
Biden is, and always was, a bad guy. A very bad guy.

Don't be trash-talking My Guy Gangbang Joe, the Pimp-In-Chief.

So he sex-traffics a few tens of thousands of brown kiddies. Come on, man!

8 posted on 04/12/2021 1:33:32 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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