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Air Biden: Secret Service provided security for Hunter Biden on 400-plus trips during Obama years
justthenews.com ^ | 6/28/2020 | john Solomon

Posted on 06/29/2020 6:55:48 AM PDT by bitt

The son of the vice president went on 29 international trips with Secret Service in tow, according to records released under FOIA to Judicial Watch.

Hunter Biden has already made headlines with his pursuit of global business, raising questions about conflicts of interests by landing lucrative deals in Ukraine and China while his father Joe was vice president.

And now it’s his proclivity for globetrotting travel that is garnering attention.

The son of the former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee in waiting used Secret Service protection on at least 411 international and domestic trips during the Obama years, according to records released this month under the Freedom of Information Act to the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.

The records show Hunter Biden made at least 29 international trips between January 2009 and July 2014 and hundreds more criss-crossing the United States.

Five of the trips were to China, where the Bidens raised eyebrows in December 2013 as Hunter joined his father on an official government trip and pursued an investment opportunity in the shadows of his father’s work.

Six months later, Hunter Biden landed on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings at a time when his father oversaw U.S.-Ukraine policy and the company was under investigation.

State Department officials testified at last fall’s impeachment proceedings that the Ukraine arrangement created the appearance of a conflict of interest.

While it is normal for the Secret Service to provide family members of a president and vice president with security details, Hunter Biden’s security logs stand out for the sheer volume of travel.

The FOIA covered 1,987 days of the Obama presidency (July 1, 2014 thru Jan. 19, 2017 have not yet been produced), meaning Hunter Biden averaged a trip once every five days or so during the covered

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; china; hunterbiden; secretservice
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To: bitt

And it didn’t cost him a penny!..................


21 posted on 06/29/2020 7:51:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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The son of the former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee in waiting used Secret Service protection on at least 411 international and domestic trips during the Obama years, according to records released this month under the Freedom of Information Act to the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.

The records show Hunter Biden made at least 29 international trips between January 2009 and July 2014 and hundreds more criss-crossing the United States.

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That’s more trips than big mike obamma & entourage made


22 posted on 06/29/2020 11:45:52 AM PDT by thinden
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To: bitt
Secret Service provided security for Hunter Biden on 400-plus trips during Obama years

Too bad he remembers nothing about it. Also prolly very convenient.

23 posted on 06/29/2020 11:47:21 AM PDT by upchuck (D.Horowitz: America did not invent slavery, America ended it. Preserve the American way of life.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

You are correct. Plus where is the $1.5 billion?


24 posted on 06/29/2020 12:40:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: minnesota_bound

Much as I detest the Bidens, I think that is a myth. You can buy Joe a lot cheaper than for $1.5 billion.

Here’s how I think it works.

The Chinese created a technology investment fund, initially capitalized with $1.5 billion. It had a mostly Chinese board of directors, but added Biden (or his firm) to that board. Typically, a manager of such a fund will get some fee... 2 or 3 percent, I would guess, for managing. That’s about 30 or 45 million. That in turn got split among the various members and sub-companies of the board.

The trickle down to Hunter is probably only a few million a year. That’s what it costs to buy Joe Biden.


25 posted on 06/29/2020 1:11:00 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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The Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
The University of Pennsylvania over several years accepted more than $22 million in anonymous
China-originated donations to its n/p Biden Center and failed to properly disclose the contributions.
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon / FR 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. Image tagged in biden,creepy joe biden,china,made in china - Imgflip 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.

Think carefully before going into that voting booth, folks.

26 posted on 06/29/2020 2:17:20 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. http://www.fr)
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Then VP Biden toasts China's XI. "My view for many years that a rising China is a positive development," Biden declared in 2011 speech. Biden penned an op-ed rejecting the notion that China posed a threat to U.S. supremacy and urging Americans to invest in Beijing’s success. “Some here and in the region see China’s growth as a threat, entertaining visions of a cold-war-style rivalry or great-power confrontation. Some Chinese 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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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 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.

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 brokering deals between family members, donors, and foreign interests. These deals haven’t been good for America, but they’ve worked out very well for members of his crooked family, as well as assorted donors, camp followers, and 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.

27 posted on 06/29/2020 2:20:10 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. http://www.fr)
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This only highlights that the Bidens (father, son, and brothers) deserve a forensic audit on the basis of known facts, as through as the one the partisan hacks of NYC have wanted to visit on Donald Trump as a fishing expedition.


28 posted on 06/29/2020 2:20:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: bitt

Hunter needs to bunk with Jack Abramhoff, so he can get some real tips on how the prison system works. /s


29 posted on 06/29/2020 2:32:18 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Mr. K

Beach homes and foreign currency for all...


30 posted on 06/29/2020 2:33:07 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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The records show that countries and territories visited by Hunter Biden, between June 2009 and May 2014, included:

Ethiopia and India on June 14-22, 2009
Argentina on Sept. 14-17, 2009
France and Spain on Nov. 9-13, 2009
Canada on Feb. 12-15, 2010
Dominican Republic on Feb.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 Aug. 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 Feb. 15-18, 2012
Germany, France and UK on Feb. 1-5, 2013
UK and Ireland on March 20-22, 2013
China on June 13-15, 2013
Switzerland and Italy on July 26-Aug. 7, 2013
Japan, China, South Korea and the Philippines on Dec. 2-9, 2013
China and Qatar on May 7-14, 2014


31 posted on 07/01/2020 9:16:28 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: thinden

411 trips? Omg


32 posted on 07/01/2020 9:17:26 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Here’s how I think it works.

The Chinese created a technology investment fund, initially capitalized with $1.5 billion. It had a mostly Chinese board of directors, but added Biden (or his firm) to that board. Typically, a manager of such a fund will get some fee... 2 or 3 percent, I would guess, for managing. That’s about 30 or 45 million. That in turn got split among the various members and sub-companies of the board.

The trickle down to Hunter is probably only a few million a year. That’s what it costs to buy Joe Biden.

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you’re close

during humper’s paternity suit, I saw it reported that he holds a 10% interest in the Chinese bank’s venture

smells like they had to have a US citizen straw man front to invest in certain sensitive US companies.


33 posted on 07/02/2020 9:53:47 AM PDT by thinden
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smells like they had to have a US citizen straw man front to invest in certain sensitive US companies.

IIRC, they bought one such "dual use" technology company in the past year or so.

It's also dual use to have a front man and simultaneously bribe the VP (then) and possible future President (now). What's Mandarin for "win-win?"

34 posted on 07/02/2020 9:57:22 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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IIRC, they bought one such “dual use” technology company in the past year or so.

It’s also dual use to have a front man and simultaneously bribe the VP (then) and possible future President (now). What’s Mandarin for “win-win?”

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HAR!

that’s international politics at its finest.


35 posted on 07/02/2020 10:02:45 AM PDT by thinden
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