Posted on 03/21/2022 7:13:32 PM PDT by bitt
It is hardly vindication of The Post’s flawless reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop that 17 months late, the New York Times has admitted the laptop is real.
It is an indictment of the Times and a betrayal of their readers who were kept in the dark about the true nature of Joe Biden before the 2020 election. But now that we are all on the same page, there are some serious questions the administration needs to answer, which go to America’s national security at a time of international peril.
Question 1
President Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, refused to answer The Post’s White House reporter, Steven Nelson, when he had the rare opportunity to ask her two of those questions last week.
Psaki’s excuse was that Hunter Biden “doesn’t work in the government.”
But she wasn’t being asked about Hunter. She was being asked about her boss, the president.
“How is President Biden navigating conflicts of interest when it comes to sanctioning people who have done business with his family?” asked Nelson. “What would be his conflicts of interest?” Psaki coolly replied.
Well, just for starters, Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, who paid $3.5 million into a bank account associated with Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer, was not sanctioned along with other oligarchs allied with President Vladimir Putin this month.
Why not? Was it an oversight? A favor?
It’s a serious question that deserves a serious answer.
Baturina wired $3.5 million on Feb. 14, 2014, to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a consortium formed between Rosemont Seneca — the firm co-founded by Hunter, Archer and Chris Heinz — and the Thornton Group.
Baturina’s wires were flagged in “suspicious activity reports” provided by the Treasury Department to a Senate Republican inquiry by the Finance and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committees.
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They can because the media is pretty much still ignoring it as well.
The most attention they gave to it was in the closing month of the campaign to make it look like Trump was acting like a crazed lunatic just making stuff up - that Lesley Stahl 60 minutes interview not only the original airing but then it was chopped up and used on other shows and internet videos as ‘proof’ Trump had ‘lost it’ and was off his rocker making things up about Biden and was desperate. Very conservatively that even alone was probably a -1% to Trump and +1% to Biden in the overall national vote as a result of that disgraceful media blitz - enough to swing Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and likely Pennsylvania and Nevada as well away from him given how close those states were.
Not to mention all of the other numerous false reports against Trump and ignoring Biden’s issues that, very conservatively, was probably on total a +5% in Biden’s favor.
Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, who paid $3.5 million into a bank account associated with Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer, was not sanctioned along with other oligarchs allied with President Vladimir Putin this month.
Why not? Was it an oversight? A favor?
Bkmk
They know nothing will come of it
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