Jill Biden Is In Total Denial Over Her Husband's Political 'Baggage'
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According to Jill, Sanders' comments are "ridiculous."
But the biggest issue she has? Democrats attacking fellow Democrats, including her husband.
"Joe has been under attack because he's doing so well. And I don't like it that Democrats attack other Democrats. We're in this race against Donald Trump. We're not against any of the other Democrats," the former second lady told CNN. "As I travel around the country people are saying to me, 'Jill, we don't like it, that the Democrats are attacking one another,' and I agree with that."
Joe Biden has been under attack from both Democrats and Republicans alike, but for different reasons. Democrats are upset that Biden is so moderate. While many see this as a negative, Jill sees it as a positive and an opportunity to garner support from independents.
"Democrats can't win without Independent support A lot of people say, 'You know, I voted for Trump last time, but I'm sorry I did it.' And they said, 'I want to vote for someone who is pragmatic, who's a moderate, who's reasonable, who can achieve things.' And, and that's my husband," she explained. "So, I think people want someone [who's] a moderate, who can appeal to Democrats, Independents and Republicans."
Republicans, on the other hand, are disgusted by the nepotism that took place, especially in Ukraine. While Biden was vice president, he handled international relations with Ukraine on behalf of the Obama administration. At the same time, his son, Hunter, was being paid $50,000 to $83,000 per month to sit on the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian gas company, despite having no natural energy experience.
Part of the Bidens' campaign strategy is to conquer and divide. Joe goes one way and Jill goes another way to cover more ground and to talk to more people. She's risen as one of the former vice president's strongest surrogates on the campaign trail. But it's a role that she's had over the last 42 years of their marriage.
"Joe and I've been married for 42 years. This is how we've always done things. I've campaigned in every election. I go one way, he goes the other way, and so we can cover more ground and talk to more people," she explained "He's always supported my career. And this is a critical time for me to support him because, you know, I want change. I want a new president."
The former second lady said her family was prepared to take on President Donald Trump but their longtime experience in politics has allowed to "buil[d] up a resilience" to whatever is launched at her.
"We knew Donald Trump was going to be a difficult opponent, that he was never going to play fair. And so I think we were ready for whatever was going to come our way," she said. "I've been in this business for 42 years, so I think I have built up a resilience to whatever comes my way...I think it's important to be positive about it and move forward in a positive direction."
The Bidens are having a rough time for a number of reasons. For one, Joe has been in politics for more than 40 years. He's the definition of a career politician and that's something that people absolutely hate. He's also a moderate, which upsets the Democratic Party's base. And then there's the Ukraine scandal. The American people can only endure so much of a politician before they want change. And Joe Biden embodies the status quo.
China and the 2020
Election
The Senate Finance Committee is probing the Obama administration’s 2015
decision to approve the sale of a U.S. company with insight into “military
applications” to the Chinese government and an investment firm run by former
Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter Biden.
Eight
Things to Know About the Biden Family’s Culture of Corruption
The family
of former Vice President Joe Biden has earned millions of dollars since the
start of his political career, often from dealings with heavy political
overtones.
So Hunter Biden followed
his dad around to Romania, too?
China and the 2020
Election
On April 25, 2019, Joe Biden declared his
candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Seven days later, on May
3, 2019, the Chinese sent a diplomatic cable to the Trump Administration blowing up a 150-page draft agreement that had taken many months to
negotiate. The cable was riddled with reversals by China that undermined
core U.S. demands. In each of the seven chapters of the trade deal, China
had deleted its commitments to change laws to resolve core complaints that
caused the United States to launch a trade war: theft of intellectual property
and trade secrets; forced technology transfers; competition policy; access to
financial services; and currency manipulation.
A coincidence or a premeditated scenario?
Joe Biden, in his days in the Senate, was
very partial to China, as he voted against revoking China’s most-favored nation
status and in 2007 opposed the idea of applying any tariffs on China despite
their obvious unfair trade practices. However, it was as Vice President
that he became wholly enamored with the country and its leadership.
For example, while in China, Biden, in
August of 2011, defended and approvedof China’s one-child policy which brutally
used forced abortions to implement the law. In the same year Biden was
given the assignment, by Barack Obama, to be the point man on China due his close personal relationship with Xi Jinping,
then Vice-President and heir apparent to the Presidency. (Xi Jinping is
currently President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the
most powerful figure in China’s political system).
Due solely to Joe Biden’s influence, in
2011, less than a year after starting Rosemont Seneca Partners, essentially a
three-man investment firm with Chris Heinz (stepson of John Kerry), Biden’s son
Hunter, who had no previous experience in private equity, was in China to
explore business opportunities with Chinese state-owned enterprises.
These meetings occurred just hours before Joe Biden met with the Chinese president
in Washington. Later in the same year, Hunter had a second meeting with
many of the same Chinese financial powerhouses -- just two weeks after his
father, the Vice President, conducted U.S.-China strategic talks in Washington with Chinese
officials.
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping dine at the State Department, Valentine's
Day, 2012
Meanwhile Joe Biden never missed an
opportunity to downplay China’s threat to the United States. In May of 2013, during a commencement
speech he assured those concerned the Chinese were “going to eat our lunch”
that they had nothing to be alarmed about as China had immense problems and
an inability to think differently. In May of 2014 Biden described
China as a nation incapable of producing innovative products and ideas. (Two weeks
after declaring his 2020 candidacy Biden, in Iowa, said, “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man…they can’t even
figure out how to deal with the corruption that exists within the system.
I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re
not competition for us.” After a massive backlash, he walked back
some of those comments a few days later by saying “I don’t suggest China is not
a problem.”
In December 2013, Biden flew to Beijing on
Air Force Two with his son Hunter on an official trip ostensibly to discuss
tensions over disputed territories in the East China Sea. Joe and Hunter
were ushered into a red-carpet meeting with a delegation of various Chinese
officials. Hunter remained with the delegation while his father met with
President Xi Jinping. During these meetings Joe Biden struck an extremely
conciliatory and friendly tone with the Chinese leadership -- much to the
dismay of America’s allies in the region.
Ten day later, Hunter’s company, Rosemont
Seneca, signed an exclusive $1 Billion (later expanded to $1.5 Billion) deal
with the state-owned Bank of China, creating an investment fund called Bohai
Harvest, with money guaranteed by the Chinese Government. As Peter
Schweizer, who was the first to unveil these conflicts of interest, wrote in
his book Secret Empires “the Chinese Government was
literally funding a business that it co-owned along with the sons of two of
America’s most powerful decision makers” Rarely has there been a more
stark illustration of being “compromised by a foreign power.”
And in 2014, another arm of Hunter’s
budding business empire, Rosemont Realty, began negotiating multi-billion
dollar deals with Gemini Investments, a Chinese firm with ties to the China
Ocean Shipping Company Ltd. which reportedly operates as an extension of the
Chinese military and who eventually acquired 75% of Rosemont Realty in order to purchase
commercial real estate in the United States.
Anyone who has dealt with the Chinese
Government or the myriad of entities controlled by the government can attest:
any foreign business transaction with China always has a requisite or implied
quid pro quo that oftentimes does not involve monetary considerations.
Once entangled in this web it is nearly impossible to escape. It would be
naïve to believe that the Biden family, particularly Joe, are not embroiled in
this labyrinth of expectations and demands.
In the years and months before he decided
to throw his hat in the ring, it had to be obvious to Joe Biden and in
particular those close to him that his mental acuity is rapidly failing, not to
mention that his and Hunter’s questionable business activities in China and the
Ukraine would be exposed on a grand scale. Why then would he willingly
take on a grueling 18-month marathon of running for president? As the
timing of Biden’s announcement and Chinese abrupt volte face on
the trade agreement implies, one must, therefore, assume he was coerced into
declaring his candidacy as a pawn in the chess game the Chinese are playing in
order to defeat Donald Trump in 2020.
If Xi Jinping coerced his old friend Joe
Biden into running, then he placed his prestige and fate on the line that China
would be able to hold out in the ongoing trade war and achieve a favorable
outcome in any negotiations with Biden at the helm. While Xi Jinping is
powerful, he still is one of seven members of a standing committee of the
Politburo (25 members) that can oust him. At this point Xi Jinping
cannot be perceived as losing face by caving to Donald Trump and reinstituting
the agreement made in the spring of 2019.
Therefore, while the threat of further
escalation in the trade war will recede there is little chance of anything
substantive happening as intransigence will be the rule the day between now and
November 2020. However, China’s growing internal problems and failing
economy will dramatically escalate, which could force the Politburo to either
remove Xi Jinping, or accept, with clinched teeth and a renewed determination
to defeat Donald Trump, the basic terms of the May 2019 trade agreement.
Joe Biden’s everyday performance on the
campaign trail reinforces the reality that he will not be the Democratic Party presidential
nominee. Thus, whoever is nominated by the Democratic Party will, by
default, be backed by the Chinese -- who will do whatever is legal, illegal or
unethical to defeat Donald Trump. The actions the Russians were falsely
accused of in the 2016 election will be child’s play by comparison.
It appears that the Chinese may have made
a major blunder in April and May of 2019. A blunder with potential major
ramifications for China and, if Donald Trump is defeated in 2020, the United
States.
Senate Finance
Committee Probes Biden-Linked, Chinese Military-Boosting Tech Sale
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3:44
The Senate Finance Committee is probing the Obama administration’s 2015
decision to approve the sale of a U.S. company with insight into “military
applications” to the Chinese government and an investment firm run by former
Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son, Hunter Biden.
Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the committee’s chairman, sent a
letter to the Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Thursday requesting
documents relating to the sale of Henniges, a Michigan-based automotive
company, to Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and Bohai Harvest RST
(BHR). The latter was formed in
2013 by a merger between a subsidiary of the Bank of China and Rosemont Seneca,
a firm started by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary
of State John Kerry.
Since
AVIC was a subsidiary of the Chinese government and Henniges, the producer of
“dual-use” anti-vibration technology with military application, the deal
required approval from the Obama administration’s Committee on Foreign
Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The panel — made up of representatives
from 16 different federal bodies, including the departments of State, Treasury,
and Defense — is required to
review any transaction that could lead to a foreign person gaining control of
an American business.
In
question is whether CIFUS was influenced by Obama administration officials, most
notedly Joe Biden and John Kerry, who had an interest in seeing the deal move
forward.
“The
direct involvement of Mr. Hunter Biden and Mr. Heinz in the acquisition of
Henniges by the Chinese government creates a potential conflict of interest,”
Grassley wrote.
The
senator noted in his letter that AVIC’s bid for Henniges should have
immediately set off alarm bells in the Obama White House. In 2007, AVIC
“reportedly involved in stealing sensitive data regarding the Joint Strike
Fighter program,” which it later “reportedly incorporated … into China’s J-20
and J‑31 aircraft.”
Even
more troubling, however, is that bid was facilitated at the same
time China was staking out a
more adversarial role in global affairs. At the time, Beijing was suspected of
undermining U.S. cybersecurity by underwriting hackers stealing governmental
data. There was also simmering tension over disputes in the South China
Sea.
Despite
the threat to national security, the $600 million deal was approved by CIFUS,
with AVIC purchasing 51 percent of the company and BHR taking ownership of the
other 49 percent. Upon purchase, an industry newsletter stated the
deal was the “biggest Chinese investment into US automotive manufacturing
assets to date.”
In
his letter to Mnuchin, Grassley compared the deal to the Uranium One scandal,
which arose when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved the sale of
a Canadian mining company to Rosatom, the state-owned Russian nuclear energy
conglomerate. It later emerged that
both investors in the company and Russian energy officials had donated heavily
to the Clinton Foundation.
“As
with the Uranium One transaction, there is cause for concern that potential
conflicts of interest could have influenced CFIUS’ approval of the Henniges
transaction,” Grassley wrote. “Accordingly, Congress and the public
must fully understand the decision-making process that led to the Henniges
approval and the extent to which CFIUS fully considered the transaction’s
national security risks.”
This
is not the first time that Hunter Biden’s ties to China have caused grief for
his father’s political career. As Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at
Breitbart News, revealed in his bestselling book Secret
Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family
and Friends, Hunter Biden signed the $1.5 billion deal
creating BHR in 2013 only ten days after visiting China aboard Air Force Two
with his father.
Eight
Things to Know About the Biden Family’s Culture of Corruption
14 Aug 2019386
10:50
The family
of former Vice President Joe Biden has earned millions of dollars since the
start of his political career, often from dealings with heavy political
overtones.
Biden, the frontrunner among 2020
Democrats, often touts his middle-class bonafides on the campaign trail.
Although Biden did not become a multi-millionaire until he left the White House in 2017, the same cannot be
said of his family. In fact, several members of the Biden clan became immensely
wealthy over the span of the former vice president’s 40-year political career.
Breitbart News is providing an in-depth breakdown of a few
instances in which Joe Biden’s political career and his family’s financial
interests seemed to intersect.
1. Joe Biden’s younger brother,
James Biden, secured generous bank loans.
In the wake of Joe Biden’s upset election to the U.S. Senate in
1972, his younger brother James was able to secure a series of generous bank
loans to start a Delaware night club.
Although James Biden had no business experience and a net worth
of less than $10,000 at the time, he was able to arrange more than $160,000 in
start-up capital for the venture. When the nightclub proved to be unsuccessful,
generating more than $500,000 of debt by 1975, James Biden and his business
partners were thrown a life-line by a Pennsylvania bank that loaned him a
further $300,000.
During the same time period James Biden was receiving the
extensive lines of credit, Joe Biden was sitting on the Senate Banking
Committee, which had purview over the financial sector. A specific jurisdiction
of the committee was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which
provides bailouts to banks if they should become over-leveraged.
2. Joe Biden’s top campaign
contributor hired his youngest son Hunter right out of law school.
Shortly after Joe Biden was
reelected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, his largest campaign contributor, the
credit card issuer MBNA Corp., hired his son for an undisclosed role. The job
raised eyebrows from good government groups because MBNA employees had just
donated $63,000 to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign in what appeared to be
a coordinatedmanner to sidestep federal campaign finance regulations.
Clouding the picture even further was that, at the
time, Hunter Biden was a 26-year-old recent graduate of Yale Law
School with no prior banking or business experience. Both father and son
defended the job offer, claiming nothing improper had or would result because
of the arrangement.
“Unfortunately, no matter where I
went to work, some people would make an issue of it,” the younger Biden told the
Delaware News Journal in November 1996 when the job was
announced.
Despite his role being unknown at the time of his hiring, when
Hunter Biden left the company in 1998 to join the Clinton-era Commerce
Department it was as a senior vice president.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Joe Biden was championing
bankruptcy reform legislation endorsed by financial interests and credit card
companies like MBNA.
3. An MBNA executive purchased
Biden’s house for the full asking price in a deal that appeared facilitated by
the company.
A senior MBNA executive purchased
Biden’s 10,000 square foot colonial mansion in the Wilmington, Delaware,
suburbs for the asking price of $1.2 million in February 1996. The sale garnered
notice because larger and newer homes in the vicinity sold for less. The issue
became a minor campaign problem for Biden’s reelection but was quickly
dismissed when the senator provided local media appraisal forms showing his
home was worth the value for what it was sold.
Byron York, however, investigated the matter in an exposé for the American Spectator and
found that properties appraised around the same value in the vicinity had “sold
for a good deal less” than at what they were valued on paper.
“In comparison, it appears [the MBNA executive] simply paid
Biden’s full asking price,” York wrote. “And, according to people familiar with
the situation, the house needed quite a bit of work; contractors and their
trucks descended on the house for months after the purchase.”
As York also noted, it appeared that MBNA may have played a role
in facilitating the purchase. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission show that “in 1996 MBNA reimbursed [the executive] $330,115 for
expenses arising from the move.” Of that total, $210,000 “was to make up for a
loss [the executive] suffered on the sale of his Maryland home.”
4. Hunter Biden remained on
MBNA’s payroll while Joe Biden was writing bankruptcy reform legislation.
Throughout the early 2000s, Hunter
Biden remained on MBNA’s payroll as a consultant while his father was writing
and pushing the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of
2005. The arrangement, which did not become public until
after the law was passed, started in 2001 after Hunter Biden had left his
position in the Commerce Dept. MBNA was paid monthly consulting fees, with some
claiming they ranged upwards of $100,000, to advise the company on online
banking issues.
The 2005 bankruptcy
tightened regulations to make it extremely more difficult to declare
bankruptcy. It was heavily favored by MBNA and other giants in the banking and
finance sectors. Many consumer protection advocates, including Sen. Elizabeth
Warren (D-MA), have claimed the bill benefited special interests at the
expense of consumers. Some have even suggested the law only served to
hasten and aggravate the recession of the late 2000s.
As previously reported by the New
York Times, Biden worked against many of his own fellow Democrats
in Congress to ensure the final version of the bill was free of provisions
opposed by companies like MBNA.
Biden “was one of five Democrats in
March 2005 who voted against a proposal to require credit card companies to
provide more effective warnings to consumers about the consequences of paying
only the minimum amount due each month,” the Times noted.
5. Joe Biden paid his family
members with campaign cash.
During his failed 2008 presidential
campaign, Joe Biden paid more than $2 million to his family members and their business. According to
the Washington Times, the
money went to a company that was a long-time employer of Biden’s sister,
Valerie Biden Owens. Biden also directed funds to a law firm started by his old
campaign treasurer, which at the time also employed his youngest son Hunter.
6. James and Hunter Biden
sought to monetize off Joe Biden’s political standing.
In 2006, close to when Joe Biden assumed the chairmanship of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee and launched his second presidential
campaign, James and Hunter Biden purchased a hedge fund called Paradigm Global
Advisors. Although neither man had a strong background in finance, James and
Hunter Biden reportedly believed they could leverage Joe Biden’s political
connections to their benefits.
“Don’t worry about investors,” James
Biden purportedly told Paradigm’s senior leadership upon taking over the fund,
as reported by Politico.
“We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”
Paradigm’s executives claim that James and Hunter Biden saw the
hedge fund as a way to “take money from rich foreigners who could not legally
give money” to Joe Biden’s campaign account.
“We’ve got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash
ready to invest in this company,” James Biden allegedly told Paradigm’s staff.
Hunter and James also tried to solicit labor unions to invest
their pension funds in Paradigm by relying on Joe Biden’s long record of
advocating in favor of collective bargaining.
The efforts proved to unsuccessful, though, with James and
Hunter Biden choosing to strip and sell the company off by 2010 after a number
of bad decisions, including partnering with a Ponzi scheme.
7. James Biden’s received a
$1.5 billion contract to build houses in Iraq while Joe Biden was overseeing
the region.
After his foray into the world of
high finance ended disastrously, James Biden joinedHillstone
International LLC as a vice president in 2010. The company, a subsidiary of
Hill International, at the time, was pursuing technology and construction
projects around the globe.
Although the company had been losing money for some time, James
Biden’s arrival resulted in something of a reversal in fortune. Within six
months of James Biden joining the firm, Hillstone was the recipient of $1.5
billion dollar contract to build 100,000 houses in war-torn Iraq. The deal,
which was never finalized because outside funding failed to materialize,
quickly caught attention as Joe Biden was overseeing the Obama administration’s
policy in the region.
Both the Obama White House and Hillstone denied Joe Biden had
anything to do with the deal, pointing to the fact the contract was awarded
through a South Korean group working to build homes in Iraq. Despite the
denials, Irvin Richter, the founder of Hill International, did admit James
Biden may have had something to do with the deal.
“Listen, his name helps him get in
the door, but it doesn’t help him get business,” Richter told Fox Business in 2012 when
discussing James Biden. “People who have important names tend to get in the
door easier but it doesn’t mean success. If he had the name Obama he would get
in the door easier.”
Complicating matters was the fact
James Biden was likely to get rich if the deal went through. Fox Business reported that a group
of minority partners, which included James Biden, owned 49 percent of
Hillstone. The other 51 percent was owned by the company’s parent group, Hill
International. Given Hillstone’s profit breakdown structure, James Biden and
the other minority partners would have been eligible to split more than $735
million after the deal was completed
8. Hunter Biden’s firm scored a
$1.5 billion deal with the Bank of China only days after Joe Biden and his
youngest son visited the country.
Peter Schweizer, a senior
contributor at Breitbart News, revealed in his bestselling book Secret Empires: How the
American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends that Hunter Biden’s firm signed a multi-billion dollar
with a subsidiary of the state-owned Bank of China only ten days after he
visited the country with his father aboard Air Force Two.
In a SiriusXM Breitbart News Tonight radio interview from last
year, Schweizer explained how the Biden-China deal unfolded:
“In December of 2013, Vice President Joe Biden flies to Asia for
a trip, and the centerpiece for that trip is a visit to Beijing, China,” said
Schweizer. “To put this into context, in 2013, the Chinese have just exerted
air rights over the South Pacific, the South China Sea. They basically have
said, ‘If you want to fly in this area, you have to get Chinese approval. We
are claiming sovereignty over this territory.’ Highly controversial in Japan,
in the Philippines, and in other countries. Joe Biden is supposed to be going there
to confront the Chinese. Well, he gets widely criticized on that trip for going
soft on China. So basically, no challenging them, and Japan and other countries
are quite upset about this.”
So Hunter Biden followed
his dad around to Romania, too?
Hunter Biden was quite the devoted little
sproutling, following his dad around wherever he went.
In the final
year of the Obama administration, an American lawyer traveled to Romania to
meet with a businessman accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal.
The
businessman was Gabriel “Puiu” Popoviciu, a wealthy Romanian real estate
tycoon. The lawyer brought in to advise him was Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe
Biden, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Hunter Biden’s work for Popoviciu in 2016
went unreported at the time, but Joe Biden’s involvement in Romania was very
much public. The vice president was among the leading voices pushing the
government to crack down on corruption.
At Fox News, Sean Hannity called it a
"pattern." Hunter Biden following his dad around -- to China,
Ukraine, and now Romania -- and somehow always came away with
big-dollar business deals. Kind of the way then-Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton used Bill Clinton as her bagman to scarf up donations to the Clinton
Foundation after Hillary made some foreign policy decision. That's certainly
the way it happened with the 2011 passage of the U.S.-Colombia free trade pact,
according to Peter Schweizer in his book, "Clinton Cash."
Hillary had her Bill. Joe had his Hunter.
It's worth it to take this pattern where it goes, which is an emerging picture
of modern bribery.
Imagine what it must have been like in the
not-so-long-ago years when Joe Biden was vice president of the U.S. --
big, powerful, full of demands to advance the Obama political agenda.
You're a scruffy post-Soviet regime or
third-world country. You need some kind of help from nearby
predators, you want to avoid sanctions, or your country's just generally
a hellhole.
In comes Biden, who just happens to be the
guy assigned as 'point man' to handle your case, with his cocaine-using
son in tow.
In order to get what you want from Joe,
you need to set up some kind of meeting with sonny boy - who's traveling with
Joe, supposedly there to do "business deals." Sonny boy doesn't
know anything about business, or the industries he could be dropped into, or
for that matter, following the rules on cocaine use in the Navy. He's
unemployable. But he's there with dad, waiting for his post-dad meetings, too.
And he walks off with big-dollar business
deals, often from no-show jobs, nice big money streams, the flying dollar-bill
wake of Joe Biden's tour. After about the first or second one, you'd start to
notice a pattern.. Joe blows in, a payoff will be required.
The strange passage of
Colombia's free trade pact in 2011, based on a sudden change in Democrat sentiment of being
utterly against it to being at least grudingly for it, was also
reportedly enacted through a payoff. The Clinton Foundation got a big $800,000 payment with Hillary Clinton as sitting Secretary of State
and voila, Clinton was in favor of passage. In a way, the House Biden setup
paralled the Clintons-Clinton Foundation setup. It's now worth it to check
now if that, or any trade pact passed during the Obama years -- and
there were several -- also could have involved Joe.
Because obviously, word would have gotten
around. You're a scruffy third world country, your job is to watch the gringos
closely, see how you can get them to help you, see what it takes. You'd watch
one, two, many international transactions with comparable countries. You'd
watch closely to see what it takes.
I know this, because I've spent a lot of
time in such countries, speaking with their officials. "What do we have to
do?" is the most commonly asked question I've heard the world over.
As John Hinderaker at Power Line notes -
the answer was bribery, an updated modern-day version of bribery that
can't be pinned as bribery by the long arm of the law the way walking into a
smoke-filled room with a black bag full of cash can. He writes:
Joe Biden
didn’t do anything wrong? A time-honored method of taking bribes is having them
paid to a family member, usually in exchange for nominal or nonexistent
services. It is comical to watch “reporters” pretend not to understand
this.
They all know this, which is why this sort
of thing happens. For Biden, the first shakedown of the scruffy foreigners is
the hardest. But by the third or fourth, Biden doesn't have to say a thing. He
just jets in with his son in tow and the everyone knows what to do.
This is how hideous the House Biden
operation got to be. As Hannity noted, the cash that followed the
visits was quite a pattern.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and make a
forecast. With Ukraine, China and Romania being brought up, it's likely these
aren't the only countries we are going to be hearing Joe and Hunter Biden's
name attached to. They had a heckuva Pop-and-Junior tag-team racket.
Democrats Nervous as ‘Profiles in Corruption’ Book Looms
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/10/democrats-nervous-as-profiles-in-corruption-book-looms/
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Top Democrats are signaling not-so-subtly that they are nervous as a forthcoming book from Peter Schweizer that will expose widespread corruption in the Democrat Party drops in just ten days.
The cover of the soon-to-be-published book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, was revealed by Axios’s Mike Allen on Thursday:
Exclusive: Peter Schweizer book, "Profiles in Corruption," out Jan. 21 https://www.axios.com/peter-schweizer-profiles-in-corruption-book-2020-democrats-02c25a0a-7705-4198-800b-eba92c770ecf.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic …
Peter Schweizer's new book, "Profiles in Corruption," takes aim at 2020 Democrats
The cover features photos of 2020 Democrat presidential frontrunners former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), as well as fellow 2020 candidates Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), and former 2020 candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
Schweizer is a Breitbart News contributing editor and the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI). He has written multiple bestselling books exposing corruption in Washington.
While little is known publicly about the book thus far, Allen quotes Schweizer as saying he spent a year and a half investigating for it, and that it is “a sweeping, detailed look at how the leading figures of progressivism have leveraged the power of their positions.” Allen reported that the book features chapters on each of them, as well as Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
It has also been revealed that the book will expose the “Biden Five,” a group of Biden’s family members beyond son Hunter Biden who have siphoned tens of millions of dollars from taxpayers and from guaranteed loans. As Breitbart News reported, the Burisma Ukrainian natural gas company scandal surrounding Hunter Biden that was at the center of the House Democrats’ partisan impeachment push in Congress is just “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to Biden corruption, and much more will be exposed in this book.
Schweizer’s last two books were filled with explosive revelations about career politicians. Clinton Cash, his 2015 book, uncovered significant corruption swirling around the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative and how the Clintons orchestrated a massive international pay-for-play political scheme. Secret Empires, his most recent book, uncovered much about Joe and Hunter Biden as well as other career politicians. Much of the revelations about Hunter Biden’s role with Burisma originated in Secret Empires.
So it’s no surprise that since these initial revelations about the explosive Profiles in Corruption book out on Jan. 21, the book has rocketed near the top of Amazon’s bestseller list, and interest in it has spiked considerably.
What’s new is that a spokesman for another top Democrat–former U.S. president Bill Clinton–is now formally denouncing the book. Angel Urena, the press secretary for former President Clinton, tweeted in response to Allen’s story announcing the book a claim that various investigations spawned in part by Clinton Cash have not been fruitful. In so doing, Urena urges the media and political class to not “aid” Schweizer in exposing the corruption of Biden, Harris, Warren, Sanders, Booker, Klobuchar, Garcetti, and other Democrats, but instead to just ignore it all:
After a two year investigation, Trump’s DOJ has exonerated the @ClintonFdn.
Reminder that said investigation was based at least partly on allegations in Clinton Cash. Schweizer is fixing to lie again, question is will we - again - aid him in doing so. https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1215270164540747780 …
Reminder that said investigation was based at least partly on allegations in Clinton Cash. Schweizer is fixing to lie again, question is will we - again - aid him in doing so. https://twitter.com/mikeallen/status/1215270164540747780 …
Urena earlier retweeted this from the Washington Post:
Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence. https://wapo.st/2QFeSpd
Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of...
The Washington Post story that Urena has been pushing announced that U.S. Attorney John Huber’s investigation into the Clinton Foundation has informally concluded. But the same Washington Post story says that Huber never interviewed many people he should have, and was more of a “nebulous” “reviewer” than an “investigator.”
The Post wrote:
Huber’s tasking was nebulous from the start. Some people involved in the matters he was said to be reviewing expressed surprise that they were not contacted by the U.S. attorney, and wondered privately what he was doing. Some in the Justice Department considered him more reviewer than investigator. He would get involved, people familiar with the matter said, only if other cases were not being handled properly.
Urena’s insinuation that because Huber’s lackluster-at-best review of the matter that really was not much of an investigation after all per the same Washington Post story he’s pushing to try to claim his bosses the Clintons are in the clear means that Clinton Cash did not somehow live up to its hype is just not true.
In fact, Clinton Foundation donations plummeted after Hillary Rodham Clinton–Bill’s wife and the 2016 Democrat presidential nominee–lost the election to President Donald Trump four years ago. What’s more, many independent investigations like stories in the New York Times by Jo Becker have upheld the key findings in the book surrounding the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One scandal.
Even the George Soros-funded Center for Responsive Politics admits in a news story that the Clinton Foundation’s backers seem to have lost interest in the organization in the wake of Clinton’s 2016 election loss. In November 2019, OpenSecrets News–the Center for Responsive Politics’ publication arm–published a piece detailing the sharp drop in donations to the Clinton Foundation under the headline: “Clinton Foundation cash flow continues to drop years after 2016 election loss.”
The organization wrote:
The Clinton Foundation’s $30.7 million revenue last year is less than half the $62.9 million it raised in 2016 as Clinton was at the height of her presidential campaign. Each of the two years since Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election has seen the organization’s revenue drop to record lows, raising less than any fiscal year in more than a decade — a sharp contrast to the $249 million raised during Clinton’s first year as secretary of state.
What Urena’s tweets casting doubt on Schweizer’s forthcoming book more accurately demonstrate, however, is that the official channels of the highest levels of the Democrat Party–Urena is former President Bill Clinton’s press secretary–are worried about this Profiles in Corruption book and what it may reveal about top Democrats. And they’re so worried they’re already, ten days before its public release, publicly rebutting the book before they even see what’s in it.
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