Posted on 09/24/2021 5:24:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Hunter Biden email cover-up may not be the most contemptible example of the modern political media's corruption, but it is probably the most demonstrable.
Politico reports that Ben Schreckinger's new book, "The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power," corroborates much of the New York Post's pre-election reporting on Hunter Biden's emails. Two of them stick out: The first is a 2015 missive from a Ukrainian businessman thanking Hunter for the chance to meet Joe Biden -- then, still vice president. The second is a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives included the line, "10 held by H for the big guy?"
Of course, the New York Post story already had more substantiation than the histrionic and fallacious Russia-collusion scoops the nation had been subjected to for four years. The Post had reported, in great detail, how it had physically obtained Hunter's laptop. They had interviewed the owner of the Delaware computer shop where Hunter had abandoned his computer. They had Hunter's signature on a receipt. The Post had on-the-record sources with intimate knowledge of Hunter's interactions. And later, the emails were authenticated by forensic specialists.
Yet virtually the entire censorious journalistic establishment, with the help of tech giants, attempted to limit the story's exposure by banning it outright, creating the impression that it didn't meet proper journalistic standards or that it had been planted by Russian spooks.
Only a month earlier, Jeffrey Goldberg had published a highly shared Atlantic piece accusing Donald Trump of besmirching the American military in which he failed to offer a single on-the-record source or corroborating evidence -- and then refused to respond to the 21 sources, including on-the-record eyewitnesses, who publicly refuted his account. And a few months later, the media were breathlessly reporting the infamous Russian-bounty story, about Russia paying the Taliban to kill coalition troops, including Americans. This, too, turned out to be another in a long line of "fake news" pieces. This had gone on for years. Is it any wonder that trust in the media dropped from 70% in 2016 to 35% this year?
CNN, where unsubstantiated gang-rape allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were treated as legitimate news, wrote a piece headlined: "The anatomy of the New York Post's dubious Hunter Biden story." What was dubious about it? CNN's chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, who regularly hosted the raving smear-peddler Michael Avenatti (now in prison for extortion), said of the New York Post, "We are not talking about fully reliable sources here." Well, I suppose, the one thing the Post had going for it over CNN in its investigation of a presidential son was the presence of a nonimaginary source.
When Hunter's former partner and Navy veteran Tony Bobulinski was interviewed on Tucker Carlson, he claimed he'd had a business meeting with Joe Biden in 2017 and that the former vice president had been intimately involved in the family business for years. We now have emails that lend credence to those claims.
We shouldn't forget, either, that there is still no widespread reporting on evidence showing that the president may have benefited from his son's shady overseas scams. Perhaps Hunter lied in the emails about the "Big Man" getting paid, but on numerous occasions, Joe Biden denied having any knowledge about Hunter's business deals or his use of family ties to strike deals with Chinese Communists and Ukrainian energy interests. Does anyone believe that Biden didn't ask his son what he was doing when Hunter tagged along on an Air Force Two trip to China in 2013? When Hunter became a board member of Burisma in 2014, contemporaneous news reports suggested there was a conflict of interest, given his father's position. Did Biden not read those pieces? Two Obama-administration officials reportedly raised the ethical problems with Hunter's dealings. But Joe never discussed this with anyone?
It's a risible claim.
Much of the reticence in investigating Hunter Biden was surely a reaction to the fallout over the Hillary Clinton email scandal. A revisionist history has emerged in which Hillary was the victim of an unfair and unnewsworthy story. In reality, because of her reckless and potentially criminal behavior, there was an open FBI investigation into the front-running presidential candidate for the presidency of the United States. If anything, Hillary is lucky that James Comey let her off the hook.
Still, political media weren't going to have a repeat of 2016 and ruin the Democrats' chances. We don't know whether Joe Biden has engaged in any criminal, corrupt or even fishy behavior -- and major outlets seem determined to never find out. And it speaks poorly of the nation's political media, to say the least, that Americans have a better chance of learning what Biden's favorite ice-cream flavor is than whether he knew about, or cashed in on, his son's corrupt adventures.
And nobody has ever asked how Hunter was able to get a Naval reserve commission at the age of 43 when the maximum age is 42.....and why would he do so.
Given today’s joke of a government, what isn’t?
It’s only a matter of time before the collapse, and when that happens I really hope that folks chase down and......to ALL leftists.
It sure is.
In mob parlance, Hunter is an “earner.”
He has complained his global earnings foot the bills for the money-hungry Biden Crime Family. At one point, the voracious Joe Biden took over Hunter’s bank account.
In the shady world of global deal-making your photo taken w/ a high-ranking Pol is worth gazillions........Hunter arranged many photo ops with his father and Third World wheeler dealers..
Nepotism is the Bidens ticket to untold riches.
His dad was deciding to run or not so Hunter was then known as #2’s son.
Globally he was seen positively as son of Obama’s #2 who has Libya file, access to State, Treasury, business partner SofS [Secretary of State] J. [John] Forbes K [Kerry] son and since he travels with dad he is connected everywhere in Europe and Asia where M. Q. [Muammar Qaddafi] and LIA [Libya Investment Authority] had money frozen. He said he has access to highest level in PRC [China], he can help there.
His negatives are that he is alcoholic, drug addict – kicked [out] of U.S. Army for cocaine, chasing low class hookers, constantly needs money-liquidity problems and many more headaches.
LINKS AT JOE BIDEN FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE.COM
FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES & TAX RETURNS-——if you like fairy tales
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Dr. Jill T. Biden
OGE Form 278e (2020)
OGE Form 278e (2019)
2016 Delaware
2016 Federal
2017 Delaware
2017 Federal
2018 Delaware
2018 Federal
2019 Delaware, Virginia, Federal
Perhaps to get him a TS clearance to gloss over his entire life of being a bum?
Biden is asking for $80 billion tax dollars to enable the IRS to monitor bank accounts to find out what everyone was doing with their money:
<><>How much are they spending?
<><>What are they buying?
<><>Who are they paying?
<><>Where does their money come from?
I’m OK with this......as long as Hunter and the entire Biden family goes first.
New book reveals how Joe Biden’s family used his position for profit
New York Post ^ | September 13, 2021 | Ben Schreckinger
FR Posted on 9/13/2021, 11:40:53 AM by karpov
In January 2006, Hunter Biden was a lobbyist for William Oldaker, who had served as a campaign counsel and treasurer to Joe Biden.
Jim Biden, Joe’s younger brother, called his friend Anthony Lotito for a favor. Hunter needed a new job.
Joe was getting ready to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, and his son’s work for a Washington lobbying firm would be a problem.
At least that was what Lotito later alleged in court filings. Jim and Hunter denied that a call like that ever took place. One way or another, the three of them decided in early 2006 to get into the hedge-fund business.
Owning a hedge fund in New York in the years before the financial crisis was like being a sea captain in 18th-century Nantucket. It was the thing to do.
They set their eyes on Paradigm Global Advisors, founded by James Park, who was married to the daughter of religious leader Sun Myung Moon.
Paradigm’s success was helped by the fact that the firm’s labor costs were low. Many of its employees were Moonies who accepted rock-bottom salaries in exchange for the honor of working in close proximity to Moon’s son-in-law.
About half of its investors were Moonies as well, according to a former executive. Financial success could not solve Park’s personal problems, however. He developed an addiction to cocaine. As his drug use began to complicate his management of Paradigm, Park went looking for a buyer. Lotito connected him with the Bidens.
Jim and Hunter offered to buy the firm out for $21 million. For financing, they leaned on family allies.
Larry Rasky, a lobbyist and longtime political adviser to Joe, was going to pitch in a million dollars in financing, though it is not clear if he ever did.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
A special program for the politically connected.
This business dealings don’t resonate with the general public. However, there may be video of him and his sister in law and her daughter. I don’t know if this is true or not.
“The Hunter Biden Cover-Up Is a Scandal”
The Biden family’s financial Cover-Ups Is a Scandal
There, fixed it
“10 held by H for the big guy?”
Crazy Joe taxes returns are in question already looks like the dots may get connected.
His party is in panic mode looking for new player?.
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