Posted on 09/23/2019 10:33:35 PM PDT by bitt
Its appalling for President Trump to ask a foreign leader to investigate Joe Biden for alleged corruption.
Then again: What exactly was Bidens son, Hunter, doing in that foreign country and why was he hired to do it? Those are fair questions, which the media would never stop asking if the son under scrutiny happened to be Donald Trump Jr. But the Biden campaign is pushing back hard, with the now familiar cry that asking merely amplifies Trump talking points. Sorry, but I disagree.
Of course, Trump would love to turn Hunter Biden into Hillary Clintons e-mails. So, theres reasonable fear of giving too much oxygen to wild accusations. But you dont have to work for Fox News to see legitimate concerns over Hunter Bidens business dealings. In fact, you can read all about them in presumably friendly media outposts like The New Yorker and the New York Times.
On the narrow question of whether Joe Biden used his position as vice president to push for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating a Ukrainian energy company that was paying Hunter Biden lots of money theres no credible evidence of that, several media investigations have concluded. But, as the Times ever so delicately put it, some State Department officials had expressed concern that Hunter Bidens work in Ukraine could complicate his fathers diplomacy there.
That but is a problem for Biden, even if its just an appearance problem. In the context of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, its a big gift to Senator Elizabeth Warren. Just last week, Bidens Democratic rival, who is surging in polls, said if shes elected president, she would champion a sweeping package to end government corruption as her first major piece of legislation. She specifically described Trump as corruption ..
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Thanks. Here are some others worth looking at =>
Trump tweets video about Biden corruption => https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176219043965079552
Trump blasts Biden on his way to speak at UN. Starts about 1:50 or so => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3uWWVdtl5E
I believe Obama was in on the pay for play money schemes with Joe Biden—just like he was in on Hillary’s pay for play for her Clinton Foundation. The dots are connecting directly to Obama.
I would give Biden immunity right now if he could bury Hillary and Obama. That would drain the swamp.
...this is as close as they can get, to reporting *some* of Bidens concerns...
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Yes, and the only reason they published this opinion is to bolster favorite son, Warren. The Boston Globe, a sadly biased, Kennedy-loving newspaper owned by the Red Sox.
Based on the bragging that Biden does on that video taken at that CFR roundtable, I’d have to say that the media’s standards for ‘credible’ vary quite a lot based upon the political persuasion of the individual under discussion.
Boston Globe?
Wow!
Hunter is now the HUNTED! GOOD!
You can BET that Joe was getting a cut.....also Obama probably got a cut.
“My prediction: This scandal should end Bidens run for president.”
... and that clears the path for Grandma Warren to the nomination. She doesn’t have the guts to use the ample information that’s out there to hit Biden hard to get him out of the race — probably because she fears that doing so will rebound negatively and so benefit the other chief rival (see what I did there), Bernie Sanders. None of the minor Democrat candidates will do the dirty work either. They’re too busy auditioning for the VP-slot. So the Media pushes the “Ukraine story” against Trump in the expectation that the Biden extortion will come out. Call it a two-fer.
sure like what they got Manafort on, money laundering through off shore accounts.
This was the company that got over a BILLION DOLLARS from the CHINESE!!!
“On the narrow question of whether Joe Biden used his position as vice president to push for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating a Ukrainian energy company that was paying Hunter Biden lots of money theres no credible evidence of that...”
WTF is wrong with these imbeciles...BIDEN FREAKIN ADMITTED EXACTLY THAT ON VIDEO!
Turn Hunter Biden into Hillary’s emails? No massive bias here.
It’s more than fair. It’s necessary. Crimes must be exposed.
It’s Whitey Bulger’s nephew. The son of Billy Bulger another corrupt Democrat who Howie Carr calls the Corrupt Midget. He was Senate president in MA. and then President of UMass. He’s arrogant beyond words.
Thanks for the clarification.....just another CORRUPT DEMOCRAT!
Its appalling for President Trump to need to ask a foreign leader to investigate Joe Biden for alleged corruption.... there, fixed it. Totally disgusting that a President has to waste so much time and resources fixing the corruption of a previous administration.
theres no credible evidence of that...
i guess they consider old slow joe not credible...lol
The following is a summary of what Rudy Giuliani disclosed in an interview yesterday with Maria Bartiromo:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6088497630001/#sp=show-clips
Note that another Fox site has taken the video down and the one at the above link has delay problems. Just pointing out that the interview is also not posted on Youtube, at least not that I could find.
Note also that Rudy said yesterday he was putting this out there and would be presenting conclusive proof tomorrow (today).
It was $3 million as stated by Rudy, it went from Ukraine to Latvia to Cyprus to the US in an account controlled by Hunter Biden.
The Ukrainian prosecutor that Biden got fired, this prosecutor was demanding the $3 million be returned as it was part of a larger investigation of $5 billion theft by an Oligarch. I believe the Oligarch donated to the Clinton Foundation.
The Ukrainian prosecutor traced the $3 million from Ukraine to Latvia to Cypress. The funds were in Cypress when the prosecutor traced it there. The prosecutor demanded from Obama’s Ambassador to Cypress that the funds be returned and was rebuffed. This is where Biden got in the act to demand the prosecutor be fired or else Ukraine would not get US loan guarantees of billions.
This is textbook corruption and should be prosecuted by the Trump Administration without hesitation.
It's time for the American press to step up to the plate and win some credibility back.
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