On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that he will send the preliminary report on Hunter Biden’s business dealings to the Department of Justice and ask for a criminal referral.
Paul said, “I think riding on Air Force Two and doing business is illegal. I think that is against the law, and probably a felony. I think it’s illegal to take money from a Russian politician’s wife, $3.5 million. Was it reported accurately? I think the only way to determine the actual legality of this is to have it referred to the Department of Justice. So, I’m going to send the report over. I don’t know if the whole committee will vote for it, but I’m sending the report, tomorrow, to the Department of Justice, and we’re asking for a criminal referral.”
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A huge miasma of
corruption encircling Hunter and Joe Biden
By Veronika Kyrylenko
Do you remember how Joe Biden
gracefully demonstrated a true presidential demeanor by blasting an Iowan voter
who asked him about Hunter Biden's role on the board of the corrupt Ukrainian
company?
According to Joe, a man was a
"damn liar," "fat," and "too old to vote for
me." Guess what. The man was right, and the question
was legitimate, even though Joe Biden doesn't condescend to answer any of
those. People, however, still ask, and it looks as though the
questions are mounting with a neck-breaking speed that even a healthy and
clear-witted politician would have a hard time handling.
On Sept. 23, Senators Ron
Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, released a report titled "Hunter Biden, Burisma and
Corruption: the Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy and Related Concerns "
that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions
between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the
wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese
Communist Party.
The investigation was launched
in August 2019 as the result of the so-called "Henniges transaction,"
when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) raised concerns over
the process by which the Obama administration's Committee on Foreign Investment
in the United States (CFIUS) approved the acquisition of a U.S. automotive
technology company, Henniges, with reported military
applications. Henniges was reportedly jointly acquired by Chinese
government entities and an investment firm linked to family members of
then–vice president Joe Biden and other Obama administration
officials. Mr. Grassley wrote: "[O]ne of the companies involved
in the Henniges transaction was a billion dollar private investment fund called
Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). BHR was formed in November of 2013 by a
merger between the Chinese-government linked firm, Bohai Capital, and a company
named Rosemont Seneca Partners. Rosemont Seneca was reportedly
formed in 2009 by Hunter Biden, the son of then–Vice President Joe Biden, Chris
Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and others."
As the investigation dug dipper, new
and unexpected sums of cash, foreign entities, and transactions appeared in the
Biden case. The Biden family and their associates got involved in
shady relations with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh, and Chinese nationals,
which raises criminal concerns and extradition threats, as put in the
report.
Here are some key findings:
First and foremost: The Obama
administration was aware of, but did nothing about, the conflict of
interest that was created when Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, was appointed to
the board of Burisma, a corrupt Ukrainian fossil fuel company. In
early 2015, the former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in
Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe
Biden's office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to
Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. His concerns went
unanswered. Later that year, senior State Department official Amos
Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden himself, as well as with
Hunter Biden, that Hunter's position on Burisma's board enabled Russian
disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in
Ukraine. In addition to that, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine,
Marie Yovanovitch, admitted that she had been briefed about the fact that
Hunter Biden was on Burisma's board, but ignored it in 2016.
Hunter Biden and his business partner
Devon Archer joined Burisma after the British officials seized $23 million from
the London bank accounts of Burisma's owner — it was a known fact that Burisma
is not a suitable company for the vice president's son to join — especially
when the father is called a "public face of the administration's handling
of Ukraine," where anti-corruption efforts were the number-one
priority. Nonetheless, over the course of the several years, Hunter
Biden and Devon Archer were paid millions of dollars from a corrupt Ukrainian
oligarch for their participation on the board.
Furthermore, in addition to the over
$4 million paid by Burisma for Hunter Biden's and Archer's board memberships,
Hunter Biden, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign
nationals with questionable backgrounds. The report names Archer as
receiving $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a
car, on the same day that Vice President Joe Biden appeared and addressed
Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia's actions in Crimea. Hunter
Biden also received a $3.5-million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife
of the former mayor of Moscow. Hunter additionally opened a
bank account with China's Gongwen Dong to fund a $100,000 global spending spree
with James Biden and Sara Biden. Hunter Biden had business
associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked
to the communist government and the People's Liberation Army. Those
associations resulted in millions of dollars in cash flow. And last but
not the least, it was found that Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were
nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be
linked to an "Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking
ring." This is the same Hunter Biden who had well-known
compulsive relationships with prostitutes and strippers back home. Even though Jill Biden claims
that she "knows her son's character," so he couldn't
do "anything wrong," paying women for sex and being associated
with prostitution rings is something that resonates with Hunter's character just
perfectly. Sentiments aside, it is simply hard to argue with stone-cold
evidence of money wires.
You certainly may try to imagine one
of Trump's children being in Hunter's place. The hell of professional
protestors would have stormed the White House by now demanding
"justice," because "no one is above the law." The media
reaction to the 87 pages of the detailed report of the Biden's sketchy schemes?
Don't roll your eyes too hard, you don't want to injure yourself. Trump
and Russia are to blame.
The New York Times and The Washington
Post scorned the report as an "inconclusive" partisan smear echoing
of Russian propaganda. "Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of
Wrongdoing by Biden," was the Times' headline.
"GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy
theory — or anything close to it," said the Washington Post .
"GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims" was another
typical headline dismissing the report, this from Politico .
A story of a then-Vice President's
son receiving millions of dollars from foreign entities associated closely with
their governments and whose interests did not necessarily coincide with
America's best interests gets frowned upon with such unseen hypocrisy and blind
bias, that one may wonder that if democracy truly dies in darkness, then maybe
it is an ultimate leftist plan for this country, after all.
Mainstream media may deliberately
shut their eyes on the facts of the unfolding case of the Biden family getting
rich in exchange for American interests. They may even distort the gross and,
as it seems, criminal wrongdoings, as in some wild junkie's dream, and present
it as a legit business venture. They may put as much lipstick on a pig as they
wish. But an demented, enormously corrupt man who reeks of treason cannot
be a president of the United States.
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illustration by Monica
Showalter with use of images by Gage
Skidmore, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0 , Acaben, via
Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 , PxFuel
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YouTube screen shot , and Voice of
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China’s Champion Dianne Feinstein
Longtime apologist now acts as PRC asset.
Lloyd Billingsley
Back in April, Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt, a
Republican, filed a lawsuit charging that Chinese Communist officials are “ responsible for the enormous death , suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the
world, including Missourians.” For Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the
Missouri lawsuit was the problem.
“We launch a series of unknown events that could be very, very dangerous ,”
said Feinstein in a July 30, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “I think
this is a huge mistake.” As Feinstein doubtless knows, the Chinese company
Build Your Dreams (BYD) , which bagged a $1 billion mask deal with California,
is suing Vice Media for
a story charging that BYD had links to the Chinese military and forced labor.
Feinstein did not say if that lawsuit was a mistake, and possibly launch
unknown events that could be very dangerous. On the other hand, she had only
praise for the Chinese government.
“Where I live, we hold China as a potential trading partner,”
Feinstein said in the hearing. “As a country that has pulled tens of millions
of people out of poverty in a short period of time. And as a country growing
into a respectable nation among other nations. And I deeply believe that. I’ve
been to China a number of times. I’ve studied the issues.” Much of that study,
it turns out, has been on location.
“I’ve been coming to China for 31 years, so I’m not a newcomer,”
Feinstein told James Areddy of the Wall Street Journal during a 2006 visit to Shanghai. In Beijing, the U.S.
Senator explained, “we spent time with Zhu Rongji, the former premier who was a
mayor of Shanghai” and “a good friend.”
In 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
massacre, Feinstein issued a statement recalling “perhaps even thousands” of demonstrators
killed. “I know of no other country that has made as much economic and
industrial progress in the last 25 years than China,” Feinstein wrote. “But
what this anniversary reminds us is that progress still must be made in the
areas of human rights, rule of law and governance.”
The senator has since been rather quiet about any human rights
progress China might have achieved, and expressed no second thoughts about
China’s membership in the World Trade Organization. That removed the annual
congressional review of its record on human rights and weapons proliferation records,
a huge win for the Communist regime.
As Rosemarie Ho reported in The Nation , Democrats in general and Feinstein in particular have
kept rather quiet about the democratic protesters in Hong Kong. As it happens,
Feinstein’s China issues go much deeper. The former San Francisco mayor had a
Chinese spy on her staff for some 20 years, and he was much more than her
“driver.” As the San Francisco Chronicle noted , the spy
even attended Chinese Consulate functions for the senator.
As Ben Weingarten noted in the Federalist in 2018, Feinstein’s husband has “profited handsomely
from the greatly expanded China trade she supported.” And the senator “served
as a key intermediary between China and the U.S. government, while serving on
committees whose work would be of keen interest to the PRC.” All this, plus a
spy on her staff through three election cycles.
Feinstein was one of the first to cry “racism” over the Wuhan virus that has caused massive damage
in the United States and around the world. When one American state attempts
to hold China accountable losses in court, Sen. Feinstein calls it dangerous.
She “deeply believes” that one of the most repressive regimes in history is a
respectable nation.
By contrast, as the San Francisco Democrat said in a June 2 statement ,
the United States is burdened with “systemic racism in areas ranging from
housing to employment to education,” all part of “institutional racism.”
Feinstein invoked “President Obama,” to lead the reform process. He has been
acting as though still in office.
“ Obama Defends Mob Rule ,”
reads the August 3 American Greatness headline. As Conrad Black explains, the
44th president of the United States is uncritical of the violent mobs now
terrorizing the country. This “shows how terminally morally and intellectually
decayed the Obama-Clinton-Biden Democratic Party has become,” and that is not a
stretch.
From House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on down, not a single Democrat has
offered the slightest criticism of the Antifa-BLM axis. Instead they call
federal officers “stormtroopers” and “secret police,” and support the defunding
of police departments. Democrat support for violent mobs sends a signal to
another group out to take down the country.
As recent attacks at military bases in Florida and Texas confirm,
Islamic terrorists continue their jihad against America and Americans. The
death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has now been overturned. That brought no statement
from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who finds fault with a Missouri lawsuit against
China.
When a predictable apologist becomes a positive asset for the
Communist regime, that could turn out very, very dangerous. If anybody thought
the time has finally come for a thorough investigation of California Senator
Dianne Feinstein it would be hard to blame them.
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The deal would impose no review
of
human rights and impose no conditions for
democratic reforms, supervised
multi-
party elections and such. All that, and
more, is already a done deal with
China,
like the USSR a one-party Communist
dictatorship that never produced a
single
product the United States needs. This has
come about, in large part, due
to U.S.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco
Democrat.
LLOYD BILLINGSLEY
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America’s China Dependency Syndrome
Lessons from the USSR.
April 28, 2020
Lloyd
Billingsley
“Made in China” has been a
familiar label on products for years but it wasn’t until March of 2020 that Americans
learned of the perils that might entail. China threatened to impose export
controls on pharmaceuticals that would plunge America into “the mighty sea of coronavirus. ”
Sen. Marco Rubio told reporters
the United States was “dangerously reliant” on China for critical goods,
including parts for technologies needed to fight COVID-19. Since 2004, Chinese
pharmaceutical companies have been supplying 80-90 percent of U.S. antibiotics.
Americans might wonder how they landed in such a dependent position, and that
invites a comparison with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The world’s first socialist
state, established in the world’s largest nation, never produced a single product
the West wanted or needed. For all its vast natural resources, the USSR was an
economic basket case, and by the mid-1980s in serious trouble.
Suppose that some U.S. senator
had then offered a trade deal that ignored the regime’s human rights violations
and allowed state-owned Soviet companies to manufacture goods for the American
market, all marked “Made In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” These
would include vital pharmaceuticals and the deal would allow the use of Soviet
steel, and Soviet labor, in major infrastructure projects in the United States.
The deal would impose no review
of human rights and impose no conditions for democratic reforms, supervised
multi-party elections and such. All that, and more, is already a done deal with
China, like the USSR a one-party Communist dictatorship that never produced a
single product the United States needs. This has come about, in large part, due
to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Democrat.
On a visit to Shanghai in 2006
Feinstein told James Areddy of the Wall
Street Journal , “I’ve been coming to
China for 31 years, so I’m not a newcomer.” That would put her first visit in
1975, one year before the death of the Great Helmsman Mao Zedong his own self.
Feinstein was then a San Francisco supervisor, and as mayor struck up a
sister-city relationship with Shanghai. On the 2006 trip Feinstein spent time
with former Shanghai mayor Zhu Rongji, “a good friend.”
Areddy asked about the
Tiananmen Square massacre then turning 21. Feinstein said it was a “a great
setback for China in the view of the world,” a public-relations problem for
China, not a human rights issue. “It was just the PLA (People’s Liberation
Army)” and China “learned lessons from it.” Still, Feinstein admitted, “we did
not discuss it.”
As Ben Weingarten noted in
the Federalist in 2018 , Sen.
Feinstein’s ties to China are “way deeper” than any Chinese spy in her office.
Feinstein maintained a “strictly apologist line” on China’s human rights
atrocities, and Feinstein’s husband has “profited handsomely” during her career
in the Senate. Sen. Feinstein “served as a key intermediary between China and
the U.S. government, while serving on committees whose work would be of keen
interest to the PRC.” For two decades and three election cycles, Feinstein
harbored a Chinese spy who fed “political intelligence” to Beijing’s Communist
regime. Since that article, the dossier has grown longer.
As Rosemarie Ho noted in The
Nation , Dianne Feinstein failed to support
the democracy protesters in Hong Kong. When the coronavirus hit these shores,
Feinstein was uncritical of China and one of the first to cry “racism ” against those who pointed out the pandemic’s origin in Wuhan,
China.
Ben Weingarten wondered how a
motivated and empowered prosecutor would operate if tasked to explore “any
links and/or coordination” between the Chinese government, Feinstein and individuals
associated with her office. Such an investigation never took place with Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, the most servile apologist of Communist China since Anna Louise Strong , and
certainly the most influential. On the other hand, Donald Trump was thoroughly
investigated for “collusion” with Russia, which turned out to be a hoax.
It was the president’s tweet
that brought Feinstein’s Chinese spy to public attention. President Trump has
access to all U.S. intelligence, a major reason domestic and foreign foes alike
are desperately trying to remove him from office. In his April 19 press
conference, the president called the upper reaches of the DOJ and FBI “human
scum,” and their inattention to Feinstein, Hillary Clinton and other
high-profile Democrats confirms that the rot continues.
President Trump is now throwing
down with the invisible enemy of coronavirus and making progress despite opposition
from Democrats and their media allies. As they parrot Chinese propaganda, the
president has already started the decoupling process.
“We cannot outsource our
independence,” the president said last Monday . “We
cannot be reliant on foreign nations. I’ve been saying this for a long time. If
we’ve learned one thing it’s let's do it here, let’s build it here, let’s make
it here.”
As with the USSR, we don’t need
China for anything. And as Chuck Berry said, anything you want they got right
here in the USA.
"The policy agendas of
today's leading Democrats including Medicare for All; the Green New Deal; open
borders; and their approach to issues such as social justice, economic and tax
policy, foreign policy, gun control, and energy policy, plus so many others,
are rarely held up to comprehensive public examination and scrutiny by the
mainstream media in any truly meaningful way."
Is today's Democratic Party deceiving the people?
By K.S. Guardiola
Bill
Gertz is an author of eight books and an award-winning national security
journalist and currently is the national security columnist for The Washington
Times. His recently published book, Deceiving the Sky:
Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy provides valuable
insights revealing why Chinese communist leaders and their increasing
totalitarian system of government pose such a menacing threat to the world and
how they are actively undermining American democracy and freedom.
While
the book is focused on modern China, valuable lessons can be learned about the
dangers of totalitarianism and political corruption operating anywhere in the
world. Especially noteworthy is material presented in Chapter 1 —
"How Communists Lie," specifically by Guo Wengui, who is a Chinese
billionaire and political exile and former insider who left China in
2014. The first chapter includes quotes by Guo Wengui exposing how
the Chinese communist system operates in deceitful ways.
Guo
Wengui is a controversial public figure operating from his current home in
NYC. He is a leading and well known activist opposing the Chinese
communist government through several different methods, including social media,
public appearances and meeting with prominent Western opinion-makers and
politicians. Opinions today widely differ about his actual status,
his background, and his true intentions. However, he knows the
communist system well as a former political insider and the ideology behind it,
so the ideas offered by him are valuable to consider.
Guo
Wengui starts by reminding us that China is a communist country and that
communism attempts to build a utopian society, therefore the very basis of the
system is false. As a consequence, he persuasively states that in
fact, communists are professional liars, because they will never realize what
they promise. It is in fact impossible to do so. He
states that traditional Western culture is built on the morality of right and
wrong. On the other hand, he asserts that in the communist system,
truth and lies are interchangeable. As an example, if the truth
furthers the ideological cause, it will be used, and when outright lies are
expedient, there is no unwillingness to use them.
Guo
Wengui labels today's Chinese political system as a kleptocracy concerned and
primarily motivated by fulfilling the interests of a comparatively small elite
rather than the well-being of the Chinese people. These
selected few elites are all exclusively high-ranking members of the Communist
Party. Totalitarian systems such as the one that exists today in
China strive to take total control of the everyday lives of their citizens,
including their thoughts and attitudes as well as their daily
activities. The Chinese Communist Party regularly uses its
state-controlled mass and social media to maintain absolute political control,
often relying on outright deceit.
As
I read this characterization of the workings of the Chinese Communist Party and
its leaders, it led me to thinking more about current political conditions
closer to home.
In
our country, the most powerful collective mechanism for the people to come
together on a regular basis and have the right to choose the political agenda
and the type of country we want to live in is by voting. The
American voter goes to the polls with the expectation that our elected
representatives will work to deliver solutions to the issues and challenges
facing our country. Since his inauguration, President Trump has
worked tirelessly to implement his agenda and has been exceptionally successful
in doing so. Various positive results have occurred in a wide
variety of areas ranging from the economy, immigration, and trade policy to
national security.
The
most dangerous assault on our system of government today is the orchestrated
efforts by the Democratic Party to actively work in a series of campaigns to
invalidate the results of the 2016 election. Democrats actively
resist, impugn, and call into question without exception any policy initiative
by the Trump administration. The Democrats currently promote an
environment of resistance by outright deception indicating a determination not
to offer any compromise on issues. In addition, they do not seem to
display any regard for the consequences of their actions on our country.
Extending
over more than three years, on December 18, these efforts led to the House
voting along party lines on two articles to impeach President
Trump. The House voted 230-197 to charge Trump with abuse and
229-198 to charge him with obstruction of Congress. A key indicator
of the continued magnitude of their determination to remove the president from
office is that only three Democrats joined in to vote in opposition to one or
both of the charges against the president.
All
of this is occurring within an environment where there is no actual evidence of
any impeachable offenses ever being committed by the president or any members
of his administration. However, there is being uncovered on
virtually a daily basis extensive evidence of unprecedented political
corruption and subversive activities authorized and conducted by high-ranking
members of the Obama administration, with all of them directed at destroying
candidate and then President Trump.
The
move to impeach President Trump is occurring as Democratic Party moves rapidly
left politically openly advocating adopting socialism in America in an apparent
attempt to radically transform the very nature of our country and system of
government. The growing appeal of socialism in this country can be
attributed to many factors. The brand of socialism presented by many
of today's leading Democratic politicians has an alluring and emotional appeal
to many people. It is portrayed as a political system consisting of
fair and equitable solutions to many of our most challenging political, economic,
and social issues.
The
policy agendas of today's leading Democrats including Medicare for All; the
Green New Deal; open borders; and their approach to issues such as social
justice, economic and tax policy, foreign policy, gun control, and energy policy,
plus so many others, are rarely held up to comprehensive public examination and
scrutiny by the mainstream media in any truly meaningful way.
China
today is on a path under paramount leader Xi Jinping and an increasingly
powerful Communist Party of evolving its political system to be even more
totalitarian, ready and willing to go to greater lengths and measures to
control virtually every aspect of its citizens' lives.
In
our country, is the Democrats' socialist vision and associated policies for America
fake, and can they ever deliver on what they promise, and will their agenda
ultimately be of benefit or detriment to the American people? Do
they threaten our freedoms in an attempt to further control our lives by
implementing a significantly larger government apparatus that will include much
greater regulation of a citizen's daily activities? Are they moving
us on a path toward totalitarianism similar to the one evolving in China today?
The
difference in our country is that our future can still be determined by the
voters in 2020. At this time in our history and with an increasingly
left-leaning radical Democratic Party and their agenda, the results of the next
election will profoundly define the future direction of our nation and way of
life.
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL
LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY
VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT
"CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION" BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/07/she-ranks-as-one-of-most-corrupt-and.html
IN THE November 2006 election, the
voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed
chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly
in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years,
Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say
congressional ethics experts.
“All in all, it was an incredible
victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than
other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and
Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with
third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by
its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Senator Who Employed
Chinese Spy Endorses Joe Biden for President
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A high-profile U.S. senator with professional and personal ties to
China — including once employing one of its spies — is backing former Vice
President Joe Biden amid mounting questions over his son’s business dealings
with the communist regime.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a former chairwoman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, announced her endorsement of the former vice president
on Tuesday, claiming to have witnessed Biden’s “fortitude” and leadership
during their overlapping tenures in Congress.
Feinstein said in a statement:
I’ve worked closely with Vice President Biden and I’ve seen
firsthand his legislative ability, his statesmanship, and most importantly his
moral fortitud. During his time in Congress and in the White House, Joe Biden
has been a tireless fighter for hard working American families.
The endorsement comes as Biden’s presidential campaign is
besieged by scandal regarding the lucrative business dealings his youngest son,
Hunter, had with foreign governments.
Only hours before Feinstein’s endorsement, the Chinese
government announced it would not
investigate how Hunter Biden ended up at the center of one its top private
equity firms. The Chinese foreign ministry made the decision after President
Donald Trump publicly called for a probe of Hunter Biden’s dealings with Bohai Harvest
RST (BHR). In particular, Trump has noted that the circumstances surrounding
BHR’s creation could have posed a conflict of interest for Joe Biden.
As Peter Schweizer, 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 inked the multibillion-dollar deal that created BHR with a subsidiary of
the state-owned Bank of China in 2013.
The timing of the lucrative deal has been brought into question
as it came only 12 days after Hunter visited China with his father aboard Air
Force Two. Officially, the then-vice president was visiting the country
amid escalating tensions over islands in the South China Sea and decided to
bring his granddaughter and son along. In a March 2018 interview with Breitbart News Tonight ,
however, Schweizer detailed the political machinations that preceded Hunter
Biden’s $1.5 billion venture with China:
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. 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.
For basically not challenging them, and Japan and other countries are quite
upset about this.
Since its creation, BHR has invested heavily in energy and
defense projects across the globe. As of June, Hunter Biden was
still involved with BHR,
sitting on its board of directors and owning a minority stake of the fund
estimated to be worth more than $430,000.
Such dealings at the center of politics and business, while
perhaps not illegal, are not exclusive to the Biden family alone. As a few
noted at the time of Feinstein’s endorsement, the senator and her husband have
their own close ties to the communist country.
During her tenure as mayor of San Francisco in the late-1970s
and early-1980s, Feinstein took advantage of the newly normalized diplomatic
relations between the U.S. and China by establishing one of the first sister
city partnership between San Francisco and Shanghai. Through that partnership,
Feinstein led trade delegations to China in which she and her husband, Richard
Blum, became acquainted with some of the country’s most prominent political
leaders.
As the Federalist noted in August 2018, Feinstein
and her husband leveraged those relationships to boost their own wealth. In
1986, Feinstein and Jiang Zemin — the then-mayor of Shanghai, who would later
ascend to the presidency of the People’s Republic of China — “designated
several corporate entities for fostering commercial relations.” One of those
firms was Shanghai Pacific Partners, which employed Blum as a director. Blum
reportedly had an interest of upwards of $500,000 in a project backed by
Shanghai Pacific Partners.
After Feinstein was elected to the
Senate in 1992, Blum continued profiting off their ties to China. A the same
time, the freshman lawmaker was pitching herself as a “China hand” to
colleagues, even once claiming “that in my last life
maybe I was Chinese.” Through her seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
Feinstein led the fight on a number of initiatives seen as being favorable to
China, including granting the country permanent most-favored-nation
trading status in 2000.
Despite Feinstein and her husband having a close relationship
with Jiang, the Chinese government targeted the senator
as part of its espionage operations. In the early 2000s, the Chinese Ministry
of State Security (MSS) recruited a longtime employee of the senator to gather
information about the inner workings of her congressional and district offices.
Feinstein only learned of the staffer’s duplicity in 2013, after he’d already
been on her payroll for more than 20 years.
“While this person, who was a liaison to the local Chinese
community, was fired, charges were never filed against him,” Politico reported in 2018,
speculating that because “the staffer was providing political intelligence and
not classified information—making prosecution far more difficult.”
Apart from the convoluted history of the senator’s ties to
China, the political timing of Feinstein’s endorsement also caught many off
guard. The California Democrat, who hosted a fundraiser on Biden’s behalf
last week alongside House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) daughter, is only the most recent figure from the
Democrat establishment to openly pledge support for the former vice president.
Feinstein’s endorsement, however, was not totally expected, especially since
her seamate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), is mounting a bid of her own for the
Democrat nomination. In fact, earlier this year, Feinsten flirted with the
notion of remaining neutral in the 2020 contest out of respect for Harris.
Compounding the political picture is that most polls show Biden
no longer the favorite to win California, having fallen behind Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Feinstein, however, did not address any of that when endorsing
the former vice president on Tuesday. Instead, the senator offered platitudes
about Biden’s work to enhance gun control and how his campaign was a “fight to
restore the soul of the nation.”
Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, addresses the virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention on Aug. 20, 2020. (DNCC via Getty Images)
Russian Billionaire Who Wired $3.5M to Hunter Biden Got Contract From New Orleans Museum A German company owned by the Russian billionaire who wired Hunter Biden $3.5 million received a contract to build part of the World War II Museum in New Orleans, according to a fact sheet on the museum’s website.
Elena Baturina, the widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, bought German structural membrane manufacturer Hightex in early 2015, according to Russian-language news reports. In April 2017, she announced that Hightex will build part of the Canopy of Peace for the World War II Museum, according to several Russian-language media outlets.
Three years earlier, on Feb. 14, 2014, Baturina sent $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC, a company co-founded by Hunter Biden, son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to a report released by Senate Republicans on Sept. 23. The wire was accompanied by a note stating “Consultancy Agreement DD12.02.2014.”
The Canopy of Peace project at the WWII museum has been plagued by delays largely due to issues stemming from a different contractor, according to The New Orleans Advocate . As of August, half of the material from Hightex had yet to be shipped to the project, which was at that point eight months behind schedule. The museum told The Epoch Times in an email that it expects the rest of the material to be onsite by the end of October.
“The museum had no knowledge of any relationship between the Bidens, Devon Archer, and Hightex, and in no way, shape, or form were they a factor in the hiring decision,” the museum said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times.
“Hightex was one of the companies that bid for the project, and the museum hired them because they had the best-qualified proposal for the job. Our vetting of Hightex was relegated to the company’s services and ability to complete the job.”
Joe Biden hosted a fundraiser at the museum during the early stages of his presidential campaign in August 2019.
While there’s no evidence of a link between Baturina’s wire and the contract awarded to the museum, questions about both transactions may emerge because the Senate Republicans discovered Baturina’s payments after they were flagged due to her “reported criminal activity.” Baturina didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment sent to the email of a think tank she founded.
A year after sending $3.5 million to Biden’s company between May 6 and Dec. 8, 2015, Baturina wired more than $241,000 to the company. The money was then forwarded to BAK USA LLC, a Buffalo-based tablet manufacturer that would eventually go bankrupt claiming it was $39 million in debt.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had praised BAK USA when it received a contract from Microsoft in early 2016. Before BAK USA went bankrupt, New York state handed the firm a tax abatement allowing it to operate tax-free for 10 years. The firm has since re-incorporated and appears to be in the same line of business.
Three months after the last wire to BAK USA via Hunter Biden’s firm, Baturina announced that she had purchased $10 million in real estate near the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, according to a press release . She intended to convert the zoning of the assets to accommodate for residential units, a process which requires a lengthy approval process.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) led the effort behind the report released on Sept. 23. The Baturina transactions are a small part of a larger report that also documented links between Hunter Biden and foreign nationals from Ukraine and China.
Hunter Biden accepted a well-paid position on the board of a Ukrainian gas giant while his father served as the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine. The report found that senior officials raised red flags about Hunter Biden’s role, which the administration repeatedly ignored.
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