British press drops bombshell story on Hunter Biden’s sexcapades
A new story about Hunter Biden with details almost completely unreported in the U.S. media sheds additional unfavorable blinding light on former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. On November 20, the Daily Mail of London dropped an article “Hunter Biden, 49, IS the father of Arkansas woman's child, paternity test confirms” [emphasis original]. The revelation suggested by the title is but the tip of an emerging, large iceberg of tawdry and salacious news about Biden the younger.
Hunter Biden July 3, 2013 at a Center for Strategic and International Studies Panel
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The opening paragraphs in the story are bad enough:
Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas woman's child, DNA testing has shown, according to court records obtained by DailyMail.com.Lunden Roberts, 28, has been demanding since May for Hunter, 49, to take a test to prove he is the father of her baby, despite his continued denials that he wasn't.Court papers filed in Independence County on Wednesday state: 'The DNA testing has established with scientific certainty that [Hunter] is the father of the plaintiff's child.'Hunter is not expected to challenge the results, according to legal documents.
The article then goes on to review the seldom-reported recent personal history of Hunter Biden since, according to the Daily Mail, he “was discharged from the US Naval Reserve in 2014, less than a year after being commissioned, after testing positive for cocaine and then his name, address and email were included when the cheating website Ashley Madison suffered a security breach in 2015.” For example, duly noted is the fact that Biden separated from his wife of 22 years, Kathleen Buhle Biden – the mother of the couple’s three children – in October 2015. Within 17 months he was reported to be “dating” his sister-in-law Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s older brother Beau who died of cancer in April 2015.
Kathleen Biden, in her subsequent divorce from her husband, according to the Daily Mail, claimed:
…he [Hunter Biden] had spent “extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations), while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills.”
The plot thickens as the Daily Mail reports a more recent update about Hunter Biden, which – considering the extensive reporting about him as part of the Ukraine scandal – is news to almost everyone:
Biden, an attorney with offices in Washington, D.C., split with Hallie earlier this year and on May 16 he married 32-year-old South African Melissa Cohen, whom he had only known for ten days. She had been living with a boyfriend up until April.He would have been dating his sister-in-law [Hallie] when [Lunden] Roberts [the 29-year old woman who claims Hunter Biden is the father of her 15 month old child] got pregnant in late 2017.
As is often the case in its articles, the Daily Mail story is replete with photographs that help to advance the narrative. The article is highly recommended.
Of particular note is the article’s sidebar titled “A Timeline of Hunter Biden’s Relationships:”
May 2015: Beau Biden dies of brain cancerOctober 2015: Hunter and his wife Kathleen separate formallyMarch 2017: Hunter and Beau’s widow, Hallie, confirm they are datingApril 2017: Hunter and Kathleen’s divorce is finalizedFall 2017: Lunden Roberts becomes pregnant in ArkansasAugust 2018: Lunden Roberts gives birth to baby which she says is Hunter’sApril 2019: Hunter and Hallie split for unknown reasonsMay 2019: Hunter marries Melissa Cohen in Los Angeles a month after meeting her
[Note: The Daily Mail reported earlier in the same article that the courtship of Hunter Biden and Melissa Cohen lasted ten days. In a puff piece report on ABC News's late night program Nightline on October 17, Biden said the two lovebirds knew each other for only six days before they were married.]
Once again, a U.S.-based story with implications for domestic politics that deserves reporting here is largely ignored by American mainstream media and is scooped instead by the British press.
Fox News followed up – or tried to – yesterday. As a news release emailed to journalists by Fox News Media Relations on Thursday afternoon noted:
FOX News Channel (FNC) correspondent Peter Doocy spoke to 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden during a press gaggle today in Atlanta, Georgia. During the exchange, Doocy asked the former Vice President about a court filing involving his son in Arkansas.Peter Doocy: “Mr. Vice President I’m wondering if you have a comment on this report and court filing out of Arkansas that your son Hunter just made you a Grandfather again.”Former Vice President and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden: “No that’s a private matter, I have no comment. But only you would ask that. You're a good man, you’re a good man. Classy”
The transcript does not convey Biden’s sarcasm in responding to Doocy’s question, which is evident in the video clip of the exchange provided by Fox News.
In addition to Fox News, in the wake of Wednesday’s Daily Mail article a limited number of U.S. Internet media have started to pay some attention to the story of Hunter Biden’s “baby mama.”
Last month, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported on Roberts’s legal filings in a story on October 22 “Hunter Biden willing to take DNA test in Arkansas paternity case, document shows,” but this development was not reported much in national media. Since Roberts is a resident of Arkansas, the Democrat-Gazette was one of the first local media to report the story.
Roberts’ paternity suit, filed May 28, alleges that she and Hunter Biden “were in a relationship” and that “Baby Doe” was born in August 2018 “as a result of that relationship.”According to a July 1 article in The New Yorker, Hunter Biden has denied “having sexual relations” with Roberts.
With Hunter Biden’s name being mentioned as someone who Republicans would like to subpoena as a witness in the presumed upcoming impeachment trial of President Trump in the U.S. Senate, it will be interesting to see if there is much additional reporting about him.
Peter Barry Chowka writes about politics, media, popular culture, and health care for American Thinker and other publications. Peter's website is http://peter.media. His new YouTube channel is here. Follow Peter on Twitter at @pchowka.
Joe and Hunter Biden in the 2009 Obama inaugural parade (photo credit: acaben).
Clinton Foundation bleeding money with no Clintons in high office
Dems' self-destructive defense of Biden family corruption
You know those idealized, perfectly conical shapes small children draw to depict hills and mountain peaks? Well, according to the Cambridge Hillwalking Club, the Gaelic term for such a hill or peak so shaped is bidean or bidein. Usually we find depictions of bideins adorning kindergarten walls and refrigerator doors, but in the case of the 2020 Democrat presidential primary, it would seem the pooh-bahs of the party's congressional delegation seem to view, like small children, their own morally faulted, fissured, and distinctly irregular Biden as one of those idealized, perfectly symmetrical bideins, a pinnacle to be defended against all comers, in spite of a widely televised admission of corruption by Joe, involving himself and his son.
If Trump-deranged, impeachment-crazed Democrats were still demonstrating even minor signs of political sanity, one might suppose they would think long and hard before trying to defend such overt dishonesty while simultaneously attempting to impeach the sitting president for a far less serious and less provable act involving largely the same players in the same country. The Democrat leadership are confident that they can pull off this legerdemain because they believe that through their media minions, they control the watching eyes of the American public, keeping the rubes focused on fanciful hearings while the Bidens and their corrupt behavior remain hidden by media sleight of hand. Their confidence is easy to understand; Democrats have long enjoyed the luxury of having the coastal, urban, elite media acting as fang-toothed propagandists for the party while hiding behind a hypocritical hijab of pious impartiality.
Joe and Hunter Biden in the 2009 Obama inaugural parade (photo credit: acaben).
But now the media are no longer making even a token attempt to appear unbiased; their masks have come off, and their role as the publicity arm of a single political party is ever clearer to millions more of the American public. Now the Democrat prestidigitation is being seen for what it truly is: blatant, very high-level corruption during the Obama administration that Dems are trying to ignore and, even worse, condone, while cynically trying to unseat a president for a far less egregious offense. Dems refuse to accept the reality that acknowledging Joe Biden's probably corrupt activities bear investigating might mitigate the stench of hypocrisy that now surrounds their impeachment proceedings.
The Democrat leadership may still feel confident that with the media's one-sided support, they can bamboozle the American public with their Capitol Hill hocus pocus, but they would be well advised to pause first and ask themselves:
"Is this the wrong Bidein to die on?"
Only six percent of the billions of dollars the "Foundation" takes in goes to charity. The rest subsidizes the lavish lifestyles of the Clintons and their sycophants; those people who have sold their souls to rub shoulders with unadulterated power.
Clinton Foundation Put On Watch List Of Suspicious ‘Charities’
"But what the Clintons do is criminal because they do it wholly at the expense of the American people. And they feel thoroughly entitled to do it: gain power, use it to enrich themselves and their friends. They are amoral, immoral, and venal. Hillary has no core beliefs beyond power and money. That should be clear to every person on the planet by now." ---- Patricia McCarthy
Clinton Foundation bleeding money with no Clintons in high office
The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation can no longer raise enough money to cover its expenses, ever since Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign failed to propel her into an office from which she could dispense political favors. Clinton Foundation reports to the IRS for the last two tax years have demonstrated that without anyone to grant boons, fewer donors are interested in supporting it.
The Clinton Foundation reported a loss of more than $16 million in 2018, according to newly released tax records, marking the second consecutive year of losses since Hillary Clinton's humiliating defeat to President Donald J. Trump in 2016.
The foundation reported total revenue of just $30.7 million, including $24.2 million worth of grants and contributions, a record low for the alleged "charity." That figure was well short of the foundation's total expenses for the year—$47.5 million— resulting in a net loss of $16.8 million.
The previous year, the Clinton Foundation reported a net loss of $16.1 million. In total, the organization has lost a staggering $32.9 million since Hillary Clinton's lifelong quest for the presidency crumbled to dust in November 2016.
The contrast with previous years when political favors were a lure is striking:
The Clinton Foundation posted its highest revenue haul ($249 million) in 2009, the year Hillary was sworn in as President Barack Obama's secretary of state. By 2013, the foundation had reported an additional $392.2 million in revenue, and went on to raise $344.4 million between 2014 and 2016.
Between 2008 and 2016, the Clinton Foundation reported total revenue in excess of $1.1 billion, or an annual average of $130.4 million. Needless to say, Clinton's stunning failure to defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 election appears to have had a significant impact on the foundation's ability to raise money.
US Attorney for Utah, John Huber, has been tasked with investigating the Clinton Foundation. So far there has not been a single leak out of his office over its work. That could mean either that they have turned up nothing, or that the investigation and grand jury are proceeding with the secrecy that the law demands.
VIDEO:
THE FRAUDULENT CLINTON FOUNDATION EXPOSED.
PAY-TO-PLAY FROM THE FIRST DAY!
Is it a signal that she's back in the game because she's selling her president-ability to the world's global billionaire crowd and laying the groundwork for more funds? There are all kinds of ways for foreign billionaires to get money to the U.S. without consequences, after all. What's more, it's pretty much the biggest base of support she has, which is at least one reason why she lost the 2016 election.
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“The couple parlayed lives supposedly spent in “public service” into admission into the upper stratosphere of American wealth, with incomes in the top 0.1 percent bracket. The source of this vast wealth was a political machine that might well be dubbed “Clinton, Inc.” This consists essentially of a seedy money-laundering operation to ensure big business support for the Clintons’ political ambitions as well as their personal fortunes.
The basic components of the operation are lavishly paid speeches to Wall Street and Fortune 500 audiences, corporate campaign contributions, and donations to the ostensibly philanthropic Clinton Foundation.”
HILLARY & BILLARY AND RED CHINA!
“Facilitating strategic technology transfer in return for money is an old Clinton game. The Chinese bought their way to access of considerable space technology when Bill Clinton was president. Remember Charlie Trie, Loral, and the rest of the crew?”
THE CLINTONS AND RED CHINA:
A MONEY MAKING TRAITORSHIP!
"Ask Jeff Sessions about the charges. Money was flowing into the Clinton Foundation from all over the world, disguised, rerouted through a Canadian charity, all to obscure its origins."
AMERICAN PREDATORS:
THE BRIBES SUCKING LIVES OF HILLARY & BILLARY
The Clintons have been a criminal enterprise since they came to power in Arkansas. The list of scandals they have generated is long and tawdry. Their principal goal then and now has always been to enrich themselves. They never once had a moral compunction about lying, cheating, selling, and stealing their way to wealth. They are the Perons of America. They eventually set up a "foundation" and the money kept rolling in.
Only six percent of the billions of dollars the "Foundation" takes in goes to charity. The rest subsidizes the lavish lifestyles of the Clintons and their sycophants; those people who have sold their souls to rub shoulders with unadulterated power.
THE SHADY POLITICS OF HILLARY CLINTON and her PAY-TO-PLAY MAFIA
The left cared nothing about that bit of collusion.
Hillary and her campaign aides have long been involved with Russia for reasons of personal gain. Clinton herself got $145 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation for allowing Russia to take over twenty percent of all uranium production in the U.S. Her campaign chairman, John Podesta, is reaping the financial benefits of being on the board of a Russian company, Joule, which he did not disclose. PATRICIA McCARTHY
Had Hillary been elected, the Clinton Foundation would be raking in even more millions than it did before. She would be happily selling access, favors and our remaining freedoms out from under us. PATRICIA McCARTHY
THE PHONY CLINTON FOUNDATION CHARITY slush fund
“There is no controlling Bill Clinton. He does whatever he wants and runs up incredible expenses with foundation funds,” states a separate interview memo attached to the submission.
“Bill Clinton mixes and matches his personal
business with that of the foundation. Many
people within the foundation have tried to
caution him about this but he does not listen,
and there really is no talking to him,” the
memo added.
Joe Biden derides reporter for asking him about son Hunter's baby with 28-year-old ex-college athlete - then tells a heckler to vote for Donald Trump!
- Joe Biden said yesterday, 'That's a private matter and I have no comment,' and launched a stinging rebuke on a reporter, saying 'only you would ask that'
- Hunter Biden, 49, is the father of Lunden Roberts' child, DNA testing has shown, according to court papers filed in Independence County, Arkansas, Wednesday
- Hunter is not expected to challenge the results, according to legal documents
- Roberts wants Hunter to pay $11,000 in legal fees and child support for the baby
- Hunter had previously denied all allegations and demanded the suit be tossed
Presidential challenger Joe Biden clashed with a reporter yesterday who asked him how it felt to have a new grandchild.
It follows the news, confirmed Wednesday in court papers obtained by DailyMail.com, that Hunter Biden was compelled to take a DNA test by Lunden Roberts, 28, proving he was the father of their 15-month-old baby.
'I'm wondering if you have a comment on this report, and court filing, out of Arkansas that your son Hunter just made you a grandfather again,' Fox News' Peter Doocy asked.
'No, that's a private matter and I have no comment. But only you would ask that,' Biden said as he gave a wry smile. 'You're a good man. You're a good man. Classy.'
During his speech in Greenwood, South Carolina, the seemingly wearied Biden also lashed out at a heckler, telling him: 'You should vote for Trump.'
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'No, that's a private matter and I have no comment. But only you would ask that,' Biden said as he gave a wry smile. 'You're a good man. You're a good man. Classy'
The most recent filing comes as Hunter continues to face intense scrutiny over his shady business dealings in Ukraine and whether or not his father Joe Biden, then vice president, used his influence to avoid his son's prosecution
Lunden Roberts, 28, (circled) has been demanding since May for Hunter, 49, to take a test to prove he is the father of her baby, despite his continued denials that he wasn't. In previous filings, Roberts said her child was born in August last year. That would make the child's current age around 15 months
Court records showed that Roberts, a former college basketball player, has been demanding since May for Hunter, 49, to take a test to prove he is the father of her baby, despite his continued denials that he wasn't.
The papers filed in Independence County, Arkansas, on Wednesday state: 'The DNA testing has established with scientific certainty that [Hunter] is the father of the plaintiff's child.'
Hunter is not expected to challenge the results, according to legal documents.
Roberts is demanding for Hunter to pay her $11k legal fees and child support for their baby, who she argues could be eligible for Secret Service protection because of grandpa Joe Biden.
She is also seeking for the court to seal case records to protect the child's identity out of fear of safety for the baby and Roberts' family, citing presidential candidate Biden's political status.
In previous filings, Roberts said her child was born in August last year. That would make the child's current age around 15 months. She referred to the infant as 'Baby Doe' and did not say whether it is a boy or girl.
Roberts' legal team argues: 'Baby Doe's paternal grandfather, Joe Biden, is seeking the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States of America. He is considered by some to be the person most likely to win his party's nomination and challenge President Trump on the ballet in 2020.
Roberts graduated from Arkansas State in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Interdisciplinary Studies, and later dropped out of a masters degree course at the George Washington University
At the time of Roberts' pregnancy, Hunter was in a relationship with his late brother Beau's widow Hallie (shown together right in August, several months before he is alleged to have impregnated Roberts)
'The members of the Biden family either are protected or eligible to be protected by the United States Secret Service as a direct result of Joe Biden's political status.
'Baby Doe's paternity could put the child and those close to the child at risk of harm for the same reasons the Biden family is protected by the United States Secret Service.'
Roberts filed a petition for paternity and support in May, saying Hunter was the biological father of her baby, asking the court to establish paternity while seeking child support, health insurance and legal fees.
Hunter had previously denied all allegations and demanded the suit be tossed.
Biden married 32-year-old Melissa Cohen in May this year (pictured together), a month after splitting from Hallie
Last month, Roberts claimed Hunter had privately admitted to her that he is the father but continued to deny it publicly.
The most recent update comes as Hunter continues to face intense scrutiny over his shady business dealings in Ukraine and whether or not his father Joe Biden, then vice president, used his influence to avoid his son's prosecution.
In her lawsuit, filed on May 28, Roberts said she and her baby are living in Independence County, Arkansas, which includes both Batesville and Southside.
Her friends and family held a baby shower for her shortly before she gave birth.
Roberts, who lived in Washington, D.C. for two years where she studied at George Washington University, has refused to comment on her relationship with Hunter, who is more than 20 years her senior.
A man at her family's isolated home in Southside, a town just outside Batesville, Arkansas, refused to speak, telling DailyMail.com: 'There's no story here.
'I don't mean to be rude but you have to leave.'
Her attorney Clinton Lancaster did not return calls from DailyMail.com. He told The Arkansas Democrat Gazette that Roberts wants to be left alone but he confirmed she is seeking money from the former vice-president's son.
'She really values her privacy. This is a parenting and child support issue between her and Mr Biden,' Lancaster said.
Roberts (right) was a star basketball player at Southside High School and then went on to play for the University of Western Illinois before transferring to Arkansas State, where she played for the university's team, the Red Wolves
In her lawsuit, filed on May 28, Roberts said her child was born in August last year and referred to the 12-month-old as 'Baby Doe', failing to specify whether the child is a boy or a girl
'She really does not want this to be a media spectacle. She does not want this to affect Joe Biden's campaign.'
'She just wants this baby to get financial support from the baby's father, Lancaster added.
Roberts was a star basketball player at Southside High School and then went on to play for the University of Western Illinois before transferring to Arkansas State, where she played for the university's team, the Red Wolves.
According to the university, she was named to the Arkansas All-State team during her high school senior year and also played in the all state softball game. Her bio said 'she also enjoys hunting and shooting skeet.'
Her Western Illinois coach Leslie Crane said during her time there: 'Lunden is a great ball handler and can finish at the glass or with a jump shot. She is very savvy on the floor and has a lot of game experience.'
She graduated from Arkansas State in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
She then went on to study at the George Washington University in Washington D.C., where she did not complete her masters degree in crime scene investigation.
Hunter Biden has been surrounded by controversy over the past few years and it is feared his escapades could affect his father's chances of winning the Democratic nomination for presidency.
He was discharged from the US Naval Reserve in 2014, less than a year after being commissioned, after testing positive for cocaine and then his name, address and email were included when the cheating website Ashley Madison suffered a security breach in 2015.
He left his first wife Kathleen — the mother of his three daughters — in 2016 after 22 years of marriage and moved in with Hallie Biden, the widow of his elder brother Beau, who died from brain cancer the previous year.
In the divorce, his wife claimed he had spent 'extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations), while leaving the family with no funds to pay legitimate bills.'
Biden, an attorney with offices in Washington, D.C., split with Hallie earlier this year and on May 16 he married 32-year-old South African Melissa Cohen, whom he had only known for ten days. She had been living with a boyfriend up until April.
He would have been dating his sister-in-law when Roberts got pregnant in late 2017.
His business ties to various Ukrainian oligarchs have also garnered bad publicity for his father's presidential campaign.
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