Newly obtained emails from a Hunter Biden business partner lay out in detail how the Vice President’s son and his colleagues used their access to the Obama-Biden administration to arrange private meetings for potential foreign clients and investors at the highest levels in the White House. These never-before-revealed emails outline how a delegation of Chinese investors and Communist Party officials managed to secure a private, off-the-books meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
In a 2011 email, Hunter Biden’s business associates also discussed developing relations with what one called “China Inc.” as part of a “new push on soft diplomacy for the Chinese.” These emails are completely unconnected to the Hunter Biden emails being released by the New York Post.
These and more explosive never-before-revealed emails were provided to Schweizer by Bevan Cooney, a one-time Hunter Biden and Devon Archer business associate. Cooney is currently in prison serving a sentence for his involvement in a 2016 bond fraud investment scheme.
In 2019, Cooney reached out to Schweizer after becoming familiar with the revelations in his 2018 book Secret Empires. Cooney explained that he believes he was the “fall guy” for the fraud scheme and that Archer and Hunter Biden had avoided responsibility.
Archer, who was also convicted in the case, saw a federal judge vacate his conviction. But an appellate court overturned the lower court judge’s ruling, reinstating Archer’s conviction in the case. Archer, Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner, awaits sentencing.
Cooney, their associate who is currently serving a prison sentence on his conviction in the matter, later reestablished contact with Schweizer through investigative journalist Matthew Tyrmand. From prison, Cooney provided Schweizer with written authorization, his email account name, and password to his Gmail account to retrieve these emails. He authorized, in writing, the publication of these emails— notable because it is the first time a close associate has publicly confirmed Hunter’s trading on his father’s influence.
The emails offer a unique window into just how the Biden universe conducted business during the Obama-Biden Administration. These associates sought to trade on Hunter Biden’s relationship with, and access to, his father and the Obama-Biden White House in order to generate business.
For instance, on November 5, 2011, one of Archer’s business contacts forwarded him an email teasing an opportunity to gain “potentially outstanding new clients” by helping to arrange White House meetings for a group of Chinese executives and government officials. The group was the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the delegation included Chinese billionaires, Chinese Communist Party loyalists, and at least one “respected diplomat” from Beijing. Despite its benign name, CEC has been called “a second foreign ministry ” for the People’s Republic of China—a communist government that closely controls most businesses in its country. CEC was established in 2006 by a group of businessmen and Chinese government diplomats.
Re China Entrepreneurs Club… by Breitbart News
CEC’s leadership boasts numerous senior members of the Chinese Communist Party, including Wang Zhongyu (“vice chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee and deputy secretary of the Party group”), Ma Weihua (director of multiple Chinese Communist Party offices), and Jiang Xipei (member of the Chinese Communist Party and representative of the 16th National Congress), among others.
“I know it is political season and people are hesitant but a group like this does not come along every day,” an intermediary named Mohamed A. Khashoggi wrote on behalf of the CEC to an associate of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer. “A tour of the white house and a meeting with a member of the chief of staff’s office and John Kerry would be great,” Khashoggi said before including what should have been a major red flag: “Not sure if one has to be registered to do this.” Presumably, Khashoggi meant a registered lobbyist under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Khashoggi believed the trip presented “a soft diplomacy play that could be very effective” and would give Hunter Biden’s business partners “good access to [the Chinese] for any deal in the future.”
Indeed, the email boasted of CEC’s wealthy membership:
CEC’s current membership includes 50 preeminent figures such as: Liu Chuanzhi, Chairman of the CEC, Legend Holdings and Lenovo Group; Wu Jinglian, Zhang Weiying, and Zhou Qiren, China’s esteemed economists; Wu Jianmin, respected diplomat; Long Yongtu, representative of China’s globalization; Wang Shi (Vanke); Ma Weihua (China Merchants Bank); Jack Ma (Alibaba Group); Guo Guangchang (Fosun Group); Wang Jianlin, (Wanda Group); Niu Gensheng (LAONIU Foundation); Li Shufu (Geely); Li Dongsheng (TCL Corporation); Feng Lun (Vantone) and etc.
The gross income of the CEC members’ companies allegedly “totaled more than RMB 1.5 trillion, together accounting for roughly 4% of China’s GDP.” The overture to Hunter Biden’s associates described the Chinese CEC members variously as “industrial elites,” “highly influential,” and among “the most important private sector individuals in China today.”
Before contacting Hunter Biden’s associates, the CEC had been trying to get meetings with top Obama-Biden administration officials to no avail. “From the DC side as you will see below they [CEC] have written letters to several members of the administration and others and have so far not had a strong reaction.”
“This is China Inc,” wrote Khashoggi in the email, referring to the delegation of Chinese billionaires.
“Biggest priority for the CEC group is to see the White House, and have a senior US politician, or senior member of Obama’s administration, give them a tour… If your friend in DC can help, we would be extremely grateful,” Khashoggi emphasized.
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer apparently delivered for the Chinese Communist Party-connected industrial elites within ten days .
The original Oct. 19, 2011, email from Khashoggi was sent to Gary Fears — a controversial political fundraiser with a checkered history who was caught up in a riverboat casino scandal in the mid-1990s — who forwarded it on to Archer a couple weeks later on Nov. 5, 2011.
Time was short, as Khashoggi’s original email noted that the Chinese delegation would be in DC on Nov. 14, 2011. Fears told Archer to “reach out” to Khashoggi about the request regarding getting the Chinese businesspersons and officials into the Obama White House, adding it would be “perfect for” Archer to also “attend” with them and then “get guys for the potash deal.”
The same day Fears sent Khashoggi’s message to him, Archer took the email from Fears and sent to Khashoggi a business proposal for a potash mine deal he had lined up.
Six days after the initial overture, Archer received a followup email asking how a meeting with CEC’s representative went. The email closed with “Do me a favor and ask Hunter [Biden] to call me — I’ve tried reaching him a couple of times.” Archer responded, “Hunter is traveling in the UAE for the week with royalty so probably next week before he will be back in pocket…. The meeting with [CEC representative] was good. Seems like there is a lot to do together down the line. Probably not a fit for the current Potash private placement but he’s a good strategic relationship as the mine develops. Definitely have a drink with Mohammed and let him know how impressed I was with his whole deal.”
One minute later, Archer sent a follow-up email, “Couldn’t confirm this with Hunter on the line but we got him his meeting at the WH Monday for the Chinese folks.”
On the day of the meeting, November 14, 2011, Cooney emailed Fears to confirm that Archer “got the Chinese guys all taken care of in DC.”
The Obama-Biden Administration archives reveal that this Chinese delegation did indeed visit the White House on November 14, 2011, and enjoyed high-level access. The delegation included approximately thirty members, according to White House visitor logs . But those records also obscure perhaps the most important item for the Chinese delegation: a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden himself.
The visitor logs list Jeff Zients, the deputy director of Obama’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as the host of the CEC delegation. Obama had tasked Zients with restructuring and ultimately consolidating the various export-import agencies under the Commerce Department—an effort in which the Chinese delegation would have a keen interest.
A trip itinerary posted by the CEC also confirms the delegation met with Obama’s then-recently-confirmed Commerce Secretary John Bryson.
Curiously, the Obama-Biden visitor logs do not mention any meeting with Vice President Joe Biden. But the Vice President’s off-the-books meeting was revealed by one of the core founders of the CEC. In an obscure document listing the CEC members’ biographies, CEC Secretary General Maggie Cheng alleges that she facilitated the CEC delegation meetings in Washington in 2011 and boasts of the Washington establishment figures that CEC met with. The first name she dropped was that of Vice President Joe Biden.
The relationships established during that visit may have benefited Hunter Biden and Devon Archer down the road. Two years later, they famously helped to form the Chinese government funded Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) investment fund. One of BHR’s first major portfolio investments was a ride-sharing company like Uber called Didi Dache—now called Didi Chuxing Technology Co. That company is closely connected to Liu Chuanzhi , the chairman of the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC) and the founder of Legend Holdings—the parent company of Lenovo, one of the world’s largest computer companies. Liu is a former Chinese Communist Party delegate and was a leader of the 2011 CEC delegation to the White House. His daughter was the President of Didi.
Liu has long been involved in CCP politics , including serving as a representative to the 9th, 10th, and 11th sessions of the National People’s Congress of the PRC and as a representative to the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Liu was the Vice Chairman of the 8th and 9th Executive Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), an organization known to be affiliated with the Chinese United Front .
The Biden campaign has not responded to a request for comment on this story.
This is a developing story.
Peter Schweizer is the author of Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. Seamus Bruner is the author of Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies, and the Washington Lies that Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties.
And the mafia comparisons don't stop there. All godfathers have jealous rivals, and so does "the big guy," surrounded as he is by ambitious and venomous wasps like Kamala Harris circling him and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking about re-setting transitions of power. Like a mafia don, he'd better hire a food taster, because guys like this have been known to get rubbed out.
How Biden Is Trapped By Hunter Revelations
Larry O'Connor
Some incredible things have developed this week in the 2020 presidential race and the media's coverage of it. What I'm about to lay out in the latest revelations regarding Hunter Biden's alleged activities with foreign entities and how it might connect back to his father, the Democratic nominee for president, constitute an inescapable trap that Biden and his media handlers must, at some point, attempt to free themselves from.
Let's be clear: The Hunter Biden issue is not going away. If Biden wins the election, it won't go away. If Biden doesn't win the election, it won't go away. It may just be a tawdry scandal. It may rise to the level of criminal behavior (or impeachable offenses should Biden win). It may just be a snapshot of the legal, corrupt business-as-usual in Washington, DC, but it won't go away.
At some point, Biden will have to address the questions swirling around his son's money-making ventures, and, at some point, the media will have to raise the issue themselves.
At a televised "town hall event" Thursday night, George Stephanopolous refused to raise one question about the story that exploded on the scene Tuesday morning on the front page of the New York Post. We expected no less from George. After all, despite his title as the "Senior Anchor and Political Correspondent" of ABC News, we all know that he is a former Clinton Administration hack who has had a long and ongoing relationship with the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, and the Clinton family. We don't expect anything resembling journalism from George.
But one interesting observation is that Joe Biden did not take the opportunity to address the issue himself. Think about that. This story has been in the news for the past two days and has been fully sourced and credibly documented. If it isn't true, if the documents are forged, if the allegations are scurrilous opposition research meant to derail his campaign with an "October surprise," this would have been the perfect opportunity for Biden, a skilled and seasoned politician, to go on the record and deny every single allegation as the trumped-up lies they are.
He didn't. He said nothing.
And there's a very real reason why he can't. Let's explore.
First, the easiest thing for Biden to claim is that the emails in the Post exposé are frauds. They're forgeries. Their completely fabricated, and therefore, there's no truth to the story.
But, he hasn't claimed that and neither have his handlers. Why not?
Two reasons: One because the emails are authentic. However, in the world of Democrat politics, that normally wouldn't stop them from claiming they're fakes. After all, Hillary Clinton got away for over a year with the lie that she never sent any classified information on her unsecured email server. It was a lie, but she was able to play out the clock for months and months and months before the truth came out. All Biden has to do is last two and a half weeks. By the time the emails are verified, the election will be over.
Why not just deny the authenticity of the emails? The answer brings us to the second, not-so-obvious reason Biden has not denied the authenticity of the emails. The scandal of Hunter Biden's overseas activities does not rely on the emails to cause great harm to Biden.
Think about it: If the Biden campaign claims the emails are fake, it concedes the point that if the emails are authentic, there would be a serious problem. In other words, dismissing this scandal on the grounds that the emails are frauds is the same as saying, "IF the emails were real, this would be a legitimate scandal."
In a nutshell, that is the trap that has now been laid for Biden and the media.
We know Hunter Biden made a ton of money from foreign entities with government ties linked right through China, Russia, and Ukraine and back to the Obama White House with or without the emails. We know that.
The media has succeeded in ignoring this basic truth, but they can't for much longer thanks to the New York Post's new revelations. This story brings us back to the essence of the real scandal.
Biden has always said that Hunter has done nothing wrong. Further, he continues to say that no one has suggested that Hunter did anything wrong. And that, my friends, is the real scandal.
In a free-market economy, we earn money when we deliver a product or a service. Hunter Biden made millions and millions and millions of dollars from shady foreign entities with ties to the governments in countries that the United States has tenuous if not down-right adversarial relationships. So, what product or service did Hunter Biden deliver to these shady entities in exchange for all of that money?
What did the questionable businesses with ties to communist China, corrupt Ukraine, and kleptocratic Russia receive from Hunter in exchange for the millions they gave him?
It's clear that Hunter (recently discharged from the Navy Reserves after only one month in uniform for drug use) had no discernable skills or expertise to bring to the table. It's clear that he fed his destructive, narcissistic, and illegal vices with the riches he gained. It's clear that he has never faced any criminal penalties that the average American would suffer for the rampant drug use and illicit behavior he exhibited. Indeed, he continued to be protected and rewarded for his actions. Talk about privilege.
It's obvious on the face of it that Hunter received this money because his last name was Biden and these foreign entities had a firm belief that they would receive something in return for the money. Again, no one has denied this. Biden has merely said that he had no knowledge of Hunter's dealings and it had no effect on American policy.
And there's the trap.
Biden can't deny the emails are real because it would concede the point that if they were real, there'd be something wrong. And Biden can't say that because we know of Hunter's dealings with or without the emails.
Biden's only message through all of this is that Hunter did nothing wrong. And that is the real scandal.
Suppose it is totally fine, legal, and proper for the vice president's son to collect millions of dollars from nefarious foreign actors while not providing any legitimate product or service in exchange, and for those shady entities to expect some level of access or influence for the millions they're shelling out. In that case, something is seriously broken in Washington, DC. And Joe Biden is standing by the notion that everything is fine.
Now, the more we look and investigate, there could very well be behavior that is criminal on behalf of either Biden in this story. And if so, expect impeachment proceedings to commence should Biden the elder win election. But, if everything in this tawdry, dirty tale is completely legal, and Biden stands by the status quo as perfectly acceptable, that's frankly even a greater reason to ensure he never wins another election in his life.
Either way, this tale paints a dirty picture of the DC swamp and Biden wants everyone to know that everything here is just fine.
Of course, there's one more trap in all of this.
When campaigning last year, Biden promised that none of his family members would work for foreign companies should he win the election.
Where's the reporter who will ask the vice president the obvious question: If it would be wrong for a member of the president's family to work for a foreign business, why was it not wrong for members of the vice president's family to do so?
Biden is trapped. At some point, this will all come crashing down on him. And he knows it.
Hunter in fact drove a hard bargain for his "introductions" to his father and perhaps others in the Obama administration and the cash rolled in. And American foreign policy became quite the object out there for sale. Imagine this machine scarfing up cash, and combine it with the Clinton and maybe Obama poltical machines also scarfing up cash from third world satraps eager for an audience.
Tucker Carlson: 'Did Joe Biden Subvert American Foreign Policy in Order to Enrich his Own Family?'
Matt Vespa
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has new Hunter Biden emails. They look authentic. The review his ream suggests so, but added some skepticism, noting that if they are fake, we’ve all fallen for a sophisticated and complex hoax. The son of the former vice president was always an issue. His gig with Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company where he sat on its board making $50k/month despite having zero energy industry experience, raised alarms even in the Obama administration. He slithered into this position back in 2014, when Papa Joe was leading anti-corruption efforts in the country. Burisma was being investigated for corruption and all of a sudden, the prosecutor in the case was fired.
It’s long been alleged that Hunter was there selling access to top Obama officials. These emails point to that, with Burisma obtaining access to a leaked Obama White House conference call to executives from Burisma Fox News
The show has obtained new Hunter Biden emails that expose corruption. You will not want to miss tonight’s report. Tune in at 8pm EST on #FoxNews
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 15, 2020
Burisma told Hunter they wanted "to close down any cases/pursuits against” its top official in Ukraine. Watch our report here.https://t.co/oJssXS6ADq
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 16, 2020
This is what the left doesn't want you to know. pic.twitter.com/oBwQAFogkz
— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) October 16, 2020
On Nov. 2, 2015, at 4:36 p.m., a Burisma executive called Vadym Pozharskyi emailed Hunter Biden and his business partner, Devon Archer. The purpose of the email, Pozharskyi explains, is to "be on the same page re our final goals ... including, but not limited to: a concrete course of actions."
So what did Burisma want, exactly? Well, good PR, for starters. Pozharskyi wanted "high-ranking US [sic] officials" to express their "positive opinion" of Burisma, and then he wanted the administration to act on Burisma's behalf.
"The scope of work should also include organization of a visit of a number of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US [sic] policy-makers to Ukraine in November, aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal/message and support" to Burisma.
The goal, Pozharskyi explained, was to "close down for [sic] any cases/pursuits" against the head of Burisma in Ukraine.
It couldn't be clearer what they wanted. Burisma wanted Huter Biden's father to get their company out of legal trouble with the Ukrainian government. And that's exactly what happened. One month later to the day, on Dec. 2, 2015, Hunter Biden received a notice from a Washington PR firm called Blue Star Strategies, which apparently had been hired to lobby the Obama administration on Ukraine. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" have exclusively obtained that email.
"Hello all ..." it began. "This morning, the White House hosted a conference call regarding the Vice President's upcoming trip to Ukraine. Attached is a memo from the Blue Star Strategies team with the minutes of the call, which outlined the trip's agenda and addressed several questions regarding U.S. policy toward Ukraine."
So here you have a PR firm involved in an official White House foreign policy call. How could that happen? Good question. But it worked.
Days later, Joe Biden flew to Ukraine and did exactly what his son wanted. The vice president gave a speech slamming the very Ukrainian law enforcement official who was tormenting Burisma. If the Ukrainian government didn't fire its top prosecutor, a man called Viktor Shokin, Biden explained, the administration would withhold a billion dollars in American aid. Now, Ukraine is a poor country, so they had no choice but to obey. Biden's bullying worked. He bragged about it later.
And it’s not just Hunter causing Politico reporte possible foreign intelligence operation
Hunter emails were exposed when he dropped off his MacBook Pro at a repair shop in Delaware in April of 2019. He didn’t pick it up. The owner then sent the device to the FBI, but not before making a copy which he gave to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer. So, how long did the FBI know about this? That’s another story entirely. For now, we have more Dirty Biden news.
The use of "the Biden crime family" is no mere
hyperbole. Before Rudy Giuliani was "America's
Mayor," he was one of America's top prosecutors,
which included bringing down mafia crime
families. And he has evidence — from Hunter —
that implicates not only Hunter and Joe Biden, but
also James (Joe's brother) and Sara (James's
wife). One set of payments from China went to a
triad of Bidens: James, Hunter, and Sara. Don't
worry, Giuliani says — you're going to see it in the
texts, not making it up.
emails: Burisma Adviser Told Hunter Biden His ‘Ultimate Purpose’ Was to ‘Close Down’ Investigations Alex Wong/Getty Images 4:52
An adviser to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma suggested in an email in 2015 that Hunter Biden was expected to provide “deliverables” for the company, including the “ultimate purpose” of stopping “cases/pursuits into the company’s founder.
The email, contained in a batch published by Ken LaCorte at the Media Action Network, is reportedly from the same laptop that has been the source for a recent series of articles in the New York Post
The batch includes an email in November 2015 from Burisma adviser Vadim Pozharskyi to Hunter Biden’s business partners (on which Hunter Biden was cc’ed), outlining a set of “deliverables.”
The emails make clear that Biden and his partners were expected to arrange meetings with U.S. and Ukrainian officials with the goal of “improving Nikolay’s case and his situation in Ukraine.”
“Nikolay” appears to refer to Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky, according to the Post .
Pozharskyi wrote that the “list of deliverables” included “the ultimate purpose” of stopping “cases/pursuits against Nikolay”:
My only concern is focus to be on the same page re our final goals. With this in mind, I would like to formulate a list of deliverables, including, but not limited to: a concrete course of actions, uncle. meetings/communications resulting in high-ranking US officials in Ukraine (US Ambassador) and in US publicly or in private communication/comment expressing their “positive opinion” and support of Nikolay/Burisma to the highest level of decision makers here in Ukraine :President of Ukraine, president Chief of staff, Prosecutor General, etc
The scope of work should also include organization of a visit of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US policy-makers to Ukraine in November aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal/message and support on Nikolay’s issue to the Ukrainian top officials above with the ultimate purpose to close down for any cases/pursuits against Nikolay in Ukraine.
Other emails in the trove show a keen awareness of Hunter Biden’s relationship to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, who was leading U.S. diplomacy with regard to Ukraine.
In May 2014, Pozharksyi wrote to Hunter Biden and Archer explaining that Burisma was under pressure from the Ukrainian government. He claimed that government officials, seeking cash, had decided to pressure the company by launching investigations that could result in the company losing its energy licenses or its business partners.
He added:”We urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message / signal, etc .to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions”.
Another May 2014 email from Heather King, a partner at the Boies, Schiller & Flexner law firm, to Pozharskyi — on which Hunter Biden and Archer were cc’ed — proposed creating a “bullet-proof vest” for Burisma, including relationships with U.S. government officials.
Another email, dated May 13, 2014, reported that Vice President Biden’s counsel called Hunter Biden’s business partners to ask that they tell Burisma to take down a photograph of Devon Hunter and Joe Biden that appeared on Burisma’s website.
That was the same day reporters asked the White House and State Department about Hunter Biden’s relationship with Burisma. (Joe Biden has claimed that he was not informed about potential conflicts of interest posed by his son’s work for Burisma.)
In 2018, former Vice President Joe Biden boasted that he had threatened Ukraine with the loss of $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees — in the middle of a war with Russia — if the country did not fire its top prosecutor, which it then did.
Former Vice President Biden has also denied having anything to do with his son’s overseas business interests, but the Post revealed that Hunter Biden had arranged a meeting between his father and Pozharskyi in 2015.
Breitbart News reached out to Pozharskyi for comment via email, but received no response.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). His newest e-book is The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency RED NOVEMBER , tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak .
The use of "the Biden crime family" is no mere hyperbole. Before Rudy Giuliani was "America's Mayor," he was one of America's top prosecutors, which included bringing down mafia crime families. And he has evidence — from Hunter — that implicates not only Hunter and Joe Biden, but also James (Joe's brother) and Sara (James's wife). One set of payments from China went to a triad of Bidens: James, Hunter, and Sara. Don't worry, Giuliani says — you're going to see it in the texts, not making it up.
'The big guy': Is Joe Biden a presidential candidate or the godfather of a mafia-style crime family?
Is Joe Biden a presidential candidate or the godfather of a mafia-style crime family?
It looks like the latter, based on the latest revelations from Hunter Biden's abandoned MacBook Pro computer, which at this point has so many damning revelations coming from it it's starting to remind me of the captured FARC computer of 2007.
The latest emails reveal a man obsessed with getting his payment cut for "introductions" to people like his dad, not just with the Ukrainians, but the Chinese, to the tune of tens of thousands, if not millions of dollars.
Hunter in fact drove a hard bargain for his "introductions" to his father and perhaps others in the Obama administration and the cash rolled in. And American foreign policy became quite the object out there for sale. Imagine this machine scarfing up cash, and combine it with the Clinton and maybe Obama poltical machines also scarfing up cash from third world satraps eager for an audience.
More ominous still, the cash wasn't all for Hunter. Joe Biden apparently got some, quite a director's cut really, making Hunter Biden look like a cog in a family syndicate, the hapless, schlemiel-like Fredo in the operation ... who answers to "the Big Guy."
John Hinderaker at Power Line notes this :
Today the Post featured a story even more explosive than the one Twitter and Facebook tried to suppress yesterday:
Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show.
One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture.
The emails indicate that Hunter was to receive an annual salary of $850,000. Somewhere on the planet there is a greedier person than Hunter Biden, but you would have to look hard to find him. But of course, no one cared then, or now, about Hunter.
In addition, the email outlined a “provisional agreement” under which 80 percent of the “equity,” or shares in the new company, would be split equally among four people whose initials correspond to the sender and three recipients, with “H” apparently referring to Biden.
So Joe Biden was "the big guy"? This is looking shadier and seedier by the minute. Who knew a corrupt old fool like Joe Biden could be "the big guy" in a crime syndicate? The arrangements described speak of ten percent, which is a running joke in the third world, and has been for years.
According to New York Times correspondent Keith Richland, in his book on third world corruption, "Out of America," ten percent has quite a few connotations:
So endemic is African corruption--and so much more destructive than its Asian counterpart--that the comparison has even spawned a common joke that goes like this:
An Asian and an African become friends while they are both attending graduate school in the West. Years later, they rise to become the finance minister of their respective countries. One day, the African ventures to Asia to visit his old friend, and is startled by the Asian's palatial home, the three Mercedes-Benzes in the circular drive, the swimming pool, the servants.
"My God!" the African exclaims. "We were just poor students before. How on earth can you afford all this?"
And the Asian takes his African friend to the window and points to a sparkling new elevated highway in the distance. "You see that toll road?" says the Asian, and then he proudly taps himself on the chest. "Ten percent." And the African nods approvingly.
A few years later, the Asian ventures to Africa, to return the visit to his old friend. He finds the African living in a massive estate, sprawling over several acres. There's a fleet of dozens of Mercedes-Benzes in the driveway, an indoor pool and tennis courts, an army of uniformed chauffeurs and servants. "My God!" says the Asian. "How on earth do you afford all this?"
This time, the African takes his Asian friend to the window and points. "You see that highway?" he asks. But the Asian looks and sees nothing, just an open field with a few cows grazing.
"I don't see any highway," the Asian says, straining his eyes.
At this, the African smiles, taps himself on the chest, and boasts: "One hundred percent."
So Joe, according to these documents was Mr. Ten Percent, too, same as the third world corruptocrats, but he got even greedier as time went by.
With Fredo-like dolor, Hunter Biden wrote this :
“I love you all but I don’t receive any respect and that’s fine I guess. Works for you apparently. I hope you all can do what I did, and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard but don’t worry, unlike Pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
Apparently he moved towards the African satrap's style, and became Mr. Fifty Percent based on this email. Which certainly would explain why Biden's political record resembles that of the African satrap, in that like the African satrap, nothing got done in Joe's 47 years in politics, either -- except of course the family-business pocket-lining.
This corruption runs like a spider web, with Joe at the center of it, Fredo his hapless pawn, whimpering to his sister. The big guy always gets his cut, see, and not a thing Fredo can do about it.
One only hopes that this is a watershed event that will turn the voter tide toward Trump, whose family has no such history. What this shows is that a Biden presidency, with the White House for sale, would be actually rather dangerous, with the U.S. becoming more and more like an African dictatorship than a place of rule of law, should Joe Biden ever become president.
And the mafia comparisons don't stop there. All godfathers have jealous rivals, and so does "the big guy," surrounded as he is by ambitious and venomous wasps like Kamala Harris circling him and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talking about re-setting transitions of power. Like a mafia don, he'd better hire a food taster, because guys like this have been known to get rubbed out.
In the meantime, President Trump should do all he can to make Biden's family nickname stick. Trump calling him "the big guy" sounds like just the thing to make Joe Biden squirm.
Can the Democrats Sell Their Worst Candidate Ever?
Even before anyone ever heard of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Democrats were facing a marketing challenge unknown in the era of moving images: selling a candidate that no one -- with the possible exception of Jill “Edith Wilson” Biden -- could possibly be enthused about.
By any standard, especially by progressive Democratic standards, Joe Biden is a flaming mess. No Democrat of any age will have ever pulled the lever for a less attractive candidate. Compared to Joe, Hillary Clinton was JFK. Hillary actually had fans.
Democratic leaders and their increasingly Pravda -like media allies know what a mess Biden is. In 2019, before he emerged as the candidate, they openly shared their misgivings. In early June 2019, for instance, both the New York Times and the Washington Post produced video hit pieces highlighting Biden’s problematic history. These pieces were triggered, wrote the Post , by the fact that the Biden campaign “lifted language without credit, at times word for word, when crafting its education and climate plans.”
The Post video dealt largely with Biden’s plagiarism issues dating back to his first presidential run in 1987. Although the tone of the narration is not as harsh as it should be, the revelations are damning. Biden’s plagiarism comes across like a cry for help. It is hard to decide which was more pathetic: lifting the speeches and hardscrabble life details of Welsh Labour Party’s Neil Kinnock or swiping virtually word-for-word JFK’s memorable 1961 inaugural address.
A follow-up Post article , also from June 2019, noted that Biden’s credibility problems did not end in 1987 with his withdrawal from the presidential race. In 2007, running for president once again, Biden claimed he had been “shot at” in Iraq’s Green Zone. He had not, but this was not the only time he lied about Iraq.
In 2002 Biden voted to authorize the use of force, but when the left turned against the war, s o did Biden, if a little slowly. "The world, in fact, voted to send inspectors in and [Bush] still went to war," Biden said of his 20 02 vote. "From that point on, I was in the position of making the case that it was a big, big mistake." As CNN pointed out , Biden was defending his vote as late as 2006, aggressively so until 2004.
The video produced by the New York Times , although equally soft in tone, exposed sev eral issues other than plagiarism that make the Biden candidacy hard for progressives, especially women and African Americans, to swallow. On multiple occasions, for instance, Biden claimed to have marched in the civil rights movement. Said the narrator, “He never marched in the civil rights movement at all.”
In March 2019, New York magazine pulled no punches in an article headlined, “Will Black Voters Still Love Biden When They Remember Who He Was?” Its lead paragraphs sums up a few of the reasons Democratic voters, especially blacks, would find it hard to cozy up to Biden come November:
Joe Biden once called state-mandated school integration “the most racist concept you can come up with,” and Barack Obama “the first sort of mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean.” He was a staunch opponent of “forced busing” in the 1970s, and leading crusader for mass incarceration throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Uncle Joe has described African-American felons as “predators” too sociopathic to rehabilitate -- and white supremacist senators as his friends.
Knowing his history, Biden’s vice-presidential pick, Kamala Harris, famously scorched him during a primary debate for opposing busing. Harris also raised the accusation anew that on at least two occasions Biden praised segregationists. As recently as 2013, in fact, Biden eulogized , at tedious length, the “great” Sen. Robert Byrd. “He always spoke truth to power,” said Biden, including, one presumes, during Byrd’s tenure as exalted cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
Troubling for the left, too, as the Times video suggests, was Biden’s treatment of Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings in 1991. In Hill’s biography, Speaking Truth to Power, she claimed that Biden, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, forced her to go into details that “disgusted” her. She added , "The senators’ tendency toward ad hoc rulemaking weighed in heavily against fairness.” The Times video notes that Biden’s role in this hearing still “haunts” him.
The Times narrator concedes that Biden “has struggled to project himself as a man in step with his times.” One such struggle concerns what the narrator daintily calls Biden’s “relationship with personal space.” Although most Democrats don’t know the depth of it, that “relationship” is as pathological as his plagiarism. As this eight-minute video shows, Biden’s public fondling of little girls goes well beyond “creepy” into the realm of the perverse. Were he a priest he would be in prison.
Biden’s boundary problems did not end with little girls. Nor did they end with rubbing and groping. Among the many adult women he has been accused of molesting is Tara Reade, a 28-year-old Senate aide at the time of her fateful encounter in March 1993. In this “ 60 Minutes Australia ” interview Reade goes into detail about the alleged assault, claiming Biden forced her legs apart with his knee, whispered “I want to f--- you,” and penetrated her with his finger. When Reade resisted, Biden spat out, “You know, you’re nothing to me, nothing.”
Unlike its American counterpart, “60 Minutes Australia” dared to address the issue of media bias. Interviewer Alexis Daish acknowledged that Reade, unlike a Trump accuser, “faced a barrage of scrutiny.” A lifelong Democrat, Reade agreed: “The fact that he was an elite Democrat put him in an untouchable position.” As a result, said Reade, “I lost everything -- work, legitimacy, reputation, friendships, housing -- everything.”
When questioned by Daish about why Trump supporters give him a pass on accusations of sexual impropriety, former Trump aide Anthony Scaramucci made a valid point, namely that, unlike Biden and other career politicians, Trump “has not led his life with great sanctimony.”
Biden has. As late as 2017 Biden received a humanitarian award in New York for his efforts to protect victims of sexual violence. At the climax of his acceptance speech, Biden thundered , “No means no. Period. No matter when it’s said. No matter how it’s said.” The audience applauded.
Scaramucci might have said too that it was not Trump supporters who made heroines out of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford. Nor did they launch the #MeToo movement, yesterday’s cause du jour.
For all his talk that “women are to be believed,” Biden asked America not to believe Reade. “The truth is,” he said, “these claims are flat out false.” When asked about whether Biden was lying, Reade backhandedly gave him the benefit of the doubt: “I don’t know what his capacity is now.” Reade knows that Biden’s “capacity” is seriously diminished. Too many voters, however, do not know just how diminished Biden is , and the media are working hard to keep it that way.
At this stage, no one would expect progressives to care a whit about Biden’s increasing senility or his arranging corrupt foreign deals for his relatives, let alone his role in ObamaGate. One would expect them, however, to care at least a little about the things they have marched about and screamed about and even rioted about. They don’t.
Daish asked a good friend of Reade’s, one who has known about the assault for twenty-five years, what she would think when she casts her vote for Biden. Said the women, “He is going to be the president who assaulted my very good friend.”
For all their talk about empowering women and minorities, leftists have used all their vast media, tech, and deep state power to sell America a corrupt old white guy of diminished mental capacity. To do this they have had to suppress the fact that -- by any standards -- Biden is a pedophile, a plagiarist, a liar, and a hypocrite, and -- by the left’s standards -- a racist, sexist, and warmonger as well as a credibly accused sexual predator.
Democrats better hope postal workers don’t go on strike.
Jack Cashill’s new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency , is widely available. See also www.cashill.com.
Buckle up: Hunter Biden laptop scandal may be about to get a whole lot worse Facebook and Twitter sacrificed the final shreds of their integrity to try to censor the N.Y. Post article revealing the existence of Hunter Biden's laptop. But in their rush to throw themselves in the path of the bullet to save Joe, there was a big problem. They forgot that Rudy Giuliani has the evidence.
The N.Y. Post article was an exclusive. That means all "fact checkers" that Facebook and Twitter will unleash to fact-check the article will be based on speculation, not fact. Because they don't have the laptop.
And, judging from a new video from Giuliani, things may be about to explode in the social media giants' faces.
If just a quarter of what Rudy Giuliani alleges is true, the evidence contained on the laptop is, finally, the true smoking gun. This isn't some salacious accusations bundled by a hired spy relying on Russian disinformation and gossip. It's Hunter's own laptop. That fact alone could be an enormous blow to the Biden campaign.
Giuliani released bombshell after bombshell in a video released Wednesday evening after the media did their best to censor the N.Y. Post article — making the social media censorship even more damning to those who tried to hide it from the public. Since receiving the copy of the hard drive, Giuliani has been poring through it, carefully documenting and preparing his prosecution. What he says he found is the actual evidence of payments, the money-laundering scheme they used, "illegal money for bribes," and how "some of that money from Ukraine ... went to Joe Biden."
Like a prosecutor laying out the case, Giuliani leads off the video with this: "In future days, you will see texts, emails, and photos that demonstrate crimes committed by the Biden crime family — in China (probably most of all), Russia, and several other countries."
The use of "the Biden crime family" is no mere hyperbole. Before Rudy Giuliani was "America's Mayor," he was one of America's top prosecutors, which included bringing down mafia crime families. And he has evidence — from Hunter — that implicates not only Hunter and Joe Biden, but also James (Joe's brother) and Sara (James's wife). One set of payments from China went to a triad of Bidens: James, Hunter, and Sara. Don't worry, Giuliani says — you're going to see it in the texts, not making it up.
The fact he was one of America's top prosecutors makes the ending of the video even more damning: "I've been in this business a long time. This is the biggest cover-up I have ever seen. And it is the biggest government scandal, I've ever heard of."
Getting back to the beginning, Giuliani continued his introduction, saying, "China has all of the photos that we have — which means [Hunter] is, really, a massive national security threat to the United States. Since his father lies — about all of this — it's an easy area of extortion."
Believe it or not, it gets worse from there for Joe Biden.
Laying out the case further, Giuliani points right at the defendant, accusing Joe of "certainly [committing] a crime. Because some of that money from Ukraine, illegal money for bribes, went to Joe Biden."
Remember: these are all accusations after Giuliani has read through the emails, the texts, and the contents of the hard drive. Unlike the Facebook/Twitter "fact-checker" minions, Giuliani has seen the evidence.
In one of the more damning statements, he says, "China has so many different transactions, it's going to take a couple of days, if not a week, for us to sort all through them. But we have them. ... And, basically, this is money that goes to Hunter Biden, James Biden, Sara Biden...and the Biden family."
He also has evidence of how the money flowed — thanks to a text from Hunter Biden to his daughter, Naomi, that was found on the hard drive. Giuliani says the text was discussing money, "but in it, [Hunter] makes a very big mistake. He explains the distribution scheme that the Biden crime family has used for years."
The text reads, "I love you all, but I don't receive any respect. And that's fine, I guess. Works for you apparently. I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years."
Giuliani interrupts his reading of the text to wonder why Hunter was paying for everything for the family. Because, Giuliani speculates, Hunter was getting the money, and they were keeping it, from Joe, so he wouldn't have to report it. But he paid, for example, for his half-sister's entire college education.
Giuliani then returns to the text for the coup de grâce : "It's really hard. But don't worry unlike Pop, I won't make you give me half your salary."
"Pop" is Hunter's name for his dad, Joe Biden.
All of this is really just Rudy's opening statement. If the evidence about to be rolled out is even remotely on par with his opening statement, it will be beyond explosive, given the source: Hunter's own laptop.
Will the censorship hit new heights? Or will the media do what they should have been doing for the last four years — investigate the real crime that has been in plain sight all this time?
The full, 16-minute video can be found on Rudy Giuliani's Common Sense Podcast Channel on YouTube .
Mark Anderson holds an MBA and is all but dissertation in his Doctor of Business Administration. He hosts I Spy Radio, a conservative talk show in deep-blue Oregon.
How Biden Is Trapped By Hunter Revelations
Larry O'Connor
Some incredible things have developed this week in the 2020 presidential race and the media's coverage of it. What I'm about to lay out in the latest revelations regarding Hunter Biden's alleged activities with foreign entities and how it might connect back to his father, the Democratic nominee for president, constitute an inescapable trap that Biden and his media handlers must, at some point, attempt to free themselves from.
Let's be clear: The Hunter Biden issue is not going away. If Biden wins the election, it won't go away. If Biden doesn't win the election, it won't go away. It may just be a tawdry scandal. It may rise to the level of criminal behavior (or impeachable offenses should Biden win). It may just be a snapshot of the legal, corrupt business-as-usual in Washington, DC, but it won't go away.
At some point, Biden will have to address the questions swirling around his son's money-making ventures, and, at some point, the media will have to raise the issue themselves.
At a televised "town hall event" Thursday night, George Stephanopolous refused to raise one question about the story that exploded on the scene Tuesday morning on the front page of the New York Post. We expected no less from George. After all, despite his title as the "Senior Anchor and Political Correspondent" of ABC News, we all know that he is a former Clinton Administration hack who has had a long and ongoing relationship with the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, and the Clinton family. We don't expect anything resembling journalism from George.
But one interesting observation is that Joe Biden did not take the opportunity to address the issue himself. Think about that. This story has been in the news for the past two days and has been fully sourced and credibly documented. If it isn't true, if the documents are forged, if the allegations are scurrilous opposition research meant to derail his campaign with an "October surprise," this would have been the perfect opportunity for Biden, a skilled and seasoned politician, to go on the record and deny every single allegation as the trumped-up lies they are.
He didn't. He said nothing.
And there's a very real reason why he can't. Let's explore.
First, the easiest thing for Biden to claim is that the emails in the Post exposé are frauds. They're forgeries. Their completely fabricated, and therefore, there's no truth to the story.
But, he hasn't claimed that and neither have his handlers. Why not?
Two reasons: One because the emails are authentic. However, in the world of Democrat politics, that normally wouldn't stop them from claiming they're fakes. After all, Hillary Clinton got away for over a year with the lie that she never sent any classified information on her unsecured email server. It was a lie, but she was able to play out the clock for months and months and months before the truth came out. All Biden has to do is last two and a half weeks. By the time the emails are verified, the election will be over.
Why not just deny the authenticity of the emails? The answer brings us to the second, not-so-obvious reason Biden has not denied the authenticity of the emails. The scandal of Hunter Biden's overseas activities does not rely on the emails to cause great harm to Biden.
Think about it: If the Biden campaign claims the emails are fake, it concedes the point that if the emails are authentic, there would be a serious problem. In other words, dismissing this scandal on the grounds that the emails are frauds is the same as saying, "IF the emails were real, this would be a legitimate scandal."
In a nutshell, that is the trap that has now been laid for Biden and the media.
We know Hunter Biden made a ton of money from foreign entities with government ties linked right through China, Russia, and Ukraine and back to the Obama White House with or without the emails. We know that.
The media has succeeded in ignoring this basic truth, but they can't for much longer thanks to the New York Post's new revelations. This story brings us back to the essence of the real scandal.
Biden has always said that Hunter has done nothing wrong. Further, he continues to say that no one has suggested that Hunter did anything wrong. And that, my friends, is the real scandal.
In a free-market economy, we earn money when we deliver a product or a service. Hunter Biden made millions and millions and millions of dollars from shady foreign entities with ties to the governments in countries that the United States has tenuous if not down-right adversarial relationships. So, what product or service did Hunter Biden deliver to these shady entities in exchange for all of that money?
What did the questionable businesses with ties to communist China, corrupt Ukraine, and kleptocratic Russia receive from Hunter in exchange for the millions they gave him?
It's clear that Hunter (recently discharged from the Navy Reserves after only one month in uniform for drug use) had no discernable skills or expertise to bring to the table. It's clear that he fed his destructive, narcissistic, and illegal vices with the riches he gained. It's clear that he has never faced any criminal penalties that the average American would suffer for the rampant drug use and illicit behavior he exhibited. Indeed, he continued to be protected and rewarded for his actions. Talk about privilege.
It's obvious on the face of it that Hunter received this money because his last name was Biden and these foreign entities had a firm belief that they would receive something in return for the money. Again, no one has denied this. Biden has merely said that he had no knowledge of Hunter's dealings and it had no effect on American policy.
And there's the trap.
Biden can't deny the emails are real because it would concede the point that if they were real, there'd be something wrong. And Biden can't say that because we know of Hunter's dealings with or without the emails.
Biden's only message through all of this is that Hunter did nothing wrong. And that is the real scandal.
Suppose it is totally fine, legal, and proper for the vice president's son to collect millions of dollars from nefarious foreign actors while not providing any legitimate product or service in exchange, and for those shady entities to expect some level of access or influence for the millions they're shelling out. In that case, something is seriously broken in Washington, DC. And Joe Biden is standing by the notion that everything is fine.
Now, the more we look and investigate, there could very well be behavior that is criminal on behalf of either Biden in this story. And if so, expect impeachment proceedings to commence should Biden the elder win election. But, if everything in this tawdry, dirty tale is completely legal, and Biden stands by the status quo as perfectly acceptable, that's frankly even a greater reason to ensure he never wins another election in his life.
Either way, this tale paints a dirty picture of the DC swamp and Biden wants everyone to know that everything here is just fine.
Of course, there's one more trap in all of this.
When campaigning last year, Biden promised that none of his family members would work for foreign companies should he win the election.
Where's the reporter who will ask the vice president the obvious question: If it would be wrong for a member of the president's family to work for a foreign business, why was it not wrong for members of the vice president's family to do so?
Biden is trapped. At some point, this will all come crashing down on him. And he knows it.
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