Things may soon get a lot worse for Hunter and Joe Biden
Hunter Biden is a truly pathetic human being. He's an addict who's rolled in and out of rehab because of his serious drug and alcohol abuse. The recently released emails reveal a man with horrifically low self-esteem. They also indicate that his father pimped Hunter to foreign governments to act as a bagman for bribes. However, it's possible to be both pathetic and evil. In this case, the evil may exist, not just because Hunter sold out his country, but also because there are increasingly credible rumors that Hunter's hard drive holds child pornography.
The first reference to child pornography on Hunter's hard drive came from Chanel Rion of OAN. A day after the New York Post story broke, she tweeted that, having seen some of the contents on Hunter's hard drive, there were disturbing indications that he is obsessed with underage girls:
Just saw for myself a behind the scenes look at the #HunterBiden hard drive:
— Chanel Rion OAN (@ChanelRion) October 15, 2020
Drugs, underage obsessions, power deals...
Druggie Hunter makes Anthony Weiner's down under selfie addiction look normal.#BidenCrimeFamily has a lot of apologizing to do.
So does Big Tech. @OANN
If untrue, Rion's assertion about "underage obsessions" is almost certainly a libelous statement, even though Hunter is a public figure. That means that Rion had better be darn certain she's right to make that statement.
Several conservative news sites of possibly dubious reliability piled on, asserting that an unnamed whistleblower claims that there are videos showing Hunter sexually abusing underage Chinese girls. At this stage, these assertions are best ignored, and I will not link to them.
Having said that, there is one serious piece of evidence suggesting that Hunter Biden's computer does contain content involving underage sex. The FBI has had possession of the computer since December 2019. To the extent that it contains information about events in Ukraine, the FBI did nothing. Disappointingly, it failed in its obligation to report to the Trump administration and to Congress whether the information was legitimate, which would have ended the Ukraine Hoax, or was a misinformation scheme, which would have required national security efforts to shut it down.
Although the FBI failed on the Ukraine issue, one FBI agent acted on the information on the hard drive. Thus, an agent named Joshua Wilson served a subpoena on John Paul MacIsaac's computer repair store.
That FBI agent's name is intriguing. According to a March 2019 news story in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, an FBI agent named Joshua Wilson works in a "depraved world," because he's one of the agents fighting child pornography:
The pornography itself focuses mostly on prepubescent children, experts and investigators said. Collins reports that of the identified victims her clearinghouse sees again and again in images and videos, 76 percent are preteen or young teenagers who have yet to show physical signs of sexual maturation.
Among that 76 percent, one in 10 is an infant or toddler.
Meanwhile, the abuse seems to know no bounds.
"You are seeing babies having their diapers removed so they can be assaulted," said Joshua Wilson, an FBI agent based in New Jersey who has spent nearly five years working full time on child pornography.
It's entirely possible that there is more than one FBI agent named Joshua Wilson. That is, the Joshua Wilson on the subpoena is not necessarily the same Joshua Wilson who, as of a year and a half ago, had spent nearly five years working the FBI's child pornography beat.
However, in an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday morning, Sen. Ron Johnson strongly implied that the subpoena did involve concerns about child pornography on the hard drive (starting at 8:45):
BARTIROMO: There is a further analysis of the subpoena's handwriting and it suggests that the supobena was served by an FBI agent who, his name is Joshua Wilson. And over the last five years, he has been working on child pornography issues. Connect the dots. If an FBI agents is working on child pornography issues for five years, why is he subpoenaing the laptop of Hunter Biden? Is there a connection here? Should this suggest that there's a child pornography issue hee on that laptop.
JOHNSON: Well, I think you just made the connection. Again, this is what the FBI I think has to come clean about this. This isn't a standard investigation, where you know if the FBI doesn't indict somebody that everything remains confidential. This is something that, as we were talking about, relates to national security.
Johnson is a bit cagey about the whole thing, but it's notable that he doesn't scoff at Bartiromo's question. Instead, he says it's a legitimate question. That carries with it the implication that Johnson knows something.
It's sad that we find it so believable that there may be child pornography on the Hunter hard drive. However, Hunter has led such a sleazy life — meth binges, hookers, impregnating a stripper, taking up with his brother's widow — that it's not a big step to imagine him sliding further into immorality. This is especially true if a government hostile to the U.S.'s interests (say, for example, China) wanted to compromise him so as to have a hold over his father.
We've learned from the Jeffrey Epstein affair that the very rich and powerful don't feel that ordinary morality applies to them. That's why this coming week should be interesting. It may prove that all the rumors are wrong. Alternatively, it could reveal that the man who was our former vice president and who is now the current Democrat presidential candidate has been engaged in dirty dealing, using as a go-between a son who lives in a world of unbelievable depravity.
Move over, Clinton Foundation: Here comes the Beau Biden Foundation for Protecting Children
In October 2016, it was materials in WikiLeaks that changed voter inclinations against Hillary Clinton, not foreign interference. So many documents confirmed suspicions of corrupt Clinton family behavior, barely hidden in plain view for decades. Four years later, almost to the day, it is unproven but not yet credibly denied allegations of criminal behavior by the wider Biden clan that may usher in a sequel and spectacularly upend the nominal favorite in this presidential election.
Reporting just out through the New York Post, foreign outlets and the blogosphere puts a spotlight on the Beau Biden Foundation for Protecting Children. It seems there may be connections between the hard drive and computer equipment so much in focus and this charity that ramped up after Joe Biden turned over the vice president's residence to Mike Pence.
The story goes that a person dropped off three MacBook Pros to a repair shop in Delaware in April of 2019, claiming they were water damaged and needed data recovery services. The owner of the repair shop "couldn't positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden," but the laptop had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it.
Near the beginning of my latest podcast with Jason Goodman, we point viewers to disclosures for the Beau Biden charity that are available through ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer.
The Beau Biden entity, like the Clinton, Obama, and Bush foundations, is a "public charity," meaning that it may not be controlled by one family or used in partisan political activities or to derive private advantages, financial or otherwise.
Reading through the latest available disclosures, we discover that Beau's widow, Hallie Biden, and Hunter Biden served as co-chairs. Hunter's half-sister, Ashley Biden, also is on the Board of this public charity, as is former FBI director Louis Freeh.
Newspaper accounts of Hunter's troubled life, of his relationship with Hallie, and of Ashley's own travails may explain why Bidens on the Board have been too busy to supervise the nonprofit, discharging their solemn duties of care, obedience, and loyalty.
How, then, might we explain why Freeh missed reckless behavior of near-blood relatives who held themselves out as co-chairs of a public charity "protecting children"?
It takes a special kind of villain to exploit children. These are precious lives, naïve and trusting and the true future of humanity.
So now we wait to learn what else several generations of Bidens may have done, possibly taking advantage of young, vulnerable persons as more revelations promised by Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon are set to drop.
Truth will out, like it or not. The FBI must investigate criminal behavior, not protect politicians, however powerful they are or hope to be.
The Bidens and the Crooked Ukrainian Prosecutors
During the time Joe Biden was US point man on Ukraine, there were three Ukrainian Prosecutors General. The first, Vitaly Yerema and the third, Yuriy Lutsenko, actively helped Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company, escape responsibility for the theft of Ukraine’s oil and gas assets. Biden did not speak out against them and made no effort to force either of them from office. Coincidentally, his son Hunter and Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, were on the payroll of Burisma.
Only one, Viktor Shokin, pursued Burisma and its owner Mykola Zlochevsky. Shokin put seizures on their assets and issued a warrant for Zlochevsky’s arrest should he return to Ukraine. Yet Shokin, not Yerema and not Lutsenko, was the one Prosecutor General that Biden called out and forced from office. In fact, I am aware of no other instance in which the United States demanded the firing of a prosecutor in a country to which we supplied foreign aid, no matter how corrupt. If not unprecedented, what Biden did in Ukraine was at least extraordinary.
Caricature by Donkey Hotey Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
At the outset of our Ukraine intervention, it was US policy for Ukraine to recover oil and gas assets believed to have been stolen from the Ukrainian people by Zlochevsky when he was the Ukrainian Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources between 2010 and 2012.
As a result, Zlochevsky hired a politically connected DC firm, Star Strategies, to lobby the US State Department to change this policy. Shortly after Biden became US point man, in February 2014, Zlochevsky hired Hunter Biden and his partner Devon Archer as Burisma Board members at up to $160,000 per month, ostensibly to advise on corporate governance. Neither was required to go to Ukraine to attend board meetings. Neither were experts in corporate governance. And Burisma, a privately-owned company, had little need for corporate governance advice. Had it had such a need and had Hunter and Archer actually been corporate governance experts, this was a truly astonishing price to pay for such services.
Bear in mind, it is possible to provide a financial inducement to a public official to alter his conduct in one’s favor through money provided to his offspring. And it has been done in many places many times. Sometimes the official shares in the bounty directly, something suggested by the emails recently found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. All this strongly suggests a cover up.
The reality was that Hunter and Archer were obviously close to Hunter’s father Joe Biden and they were also close to Secretary of State John Kerry, a close ally of the Bidens. They immediately began lobbying the State Department higher-ups including meetings with Kerry. There are documents that support this. And Zlochevsky made a large contribution to a Delaware charity in the name of Biden’s deceased son, Beau. Archer also held a $10,000 a plate fundraiser for Kerry’s daughter.
People at the State Department urged Biden to address the obvious conflict of interest arising from Hunter’s activities. But Biden did nothing. In fact, Hunter has said publicly in a TV interview that he discussed this engagement with his father before he began with Burisma.
In mid April 2014, the UK froze $23 million of Zlochevsky’s assets. In January 2015, the UK released these assets because, in the intervening 10 months, the Ukrainian prosecutors office, then under Prosecutor General Yerema, refused to provide evidence to support the UK seizure and in fact worked with Zlochevsky’s attorneys to free the assets. Far from calling out Yerema or demanding his termination, Biden issued anodyne statement through a spokesman: “Hunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer. The vice president has no involvement with this company and does not endorse any particular company. He said not a word about Yerema’s misconduct." Nonetheless, on February 10, 2015, the Ukrainian government fired Prosecutor General Yerema after concluding he had received a $7 million bribe from Burisma.
Yerema was replaced by Viktor Shokin. Shokin soon initiated an investigation of Zlochevsky and Burisma and issued an arrest warrant on Zlochevsky. Subsequently, the New York Times published an article on Shokin’s Burisma investigation and pointed out that Hunter’s Burisma involvement was undercutting the US anti-corruption efforts.
In mid-January 2016, the Obama White House demanded a meeting with representatives of Ukraine Prosecutor General’s office to discuss Zlochevsky and Burisma among other things. But Shokin’s investigation continued. And on February 14, Shokin placed attachments on Ukraine assets of Zlochevsky and Burisma.
At that point, the US State Department’s Victoria Nuland, for the first time, publicly called for Shokin’s dismissal claiming he was not prosecuting corruption. Biden himself has publicly stated that he demanded Shokin’s firing. Ukraine’s President Poroshenko resisted saying Shokin had done nothing wrong. According to Biden, he told Poreshenko that Ukraine would not get promised US aid if he did not fire Shokin.
Shokin has filed a sworn statement saying that he was told that the only way he could keep his job was if he dropped the investigation of Zlochevsky and Burisma. And Shokin has since filed a lawsuit in Ukraine over his firing, naming Biden as a defendant.
Shokin was succeeded by Yuriy Lutsenko. Like Yarema Lutsenko was also charged with corruption. Lutsenko ultimately settled with Zlochevsky and Burisma without recovering any of the stolen assets. There was no reported criticism of Lutsenko’s actions by Biden or the US government. And, after Biden left office, the investigations of Zlochevsky and Burisma were re-opened under the new Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Several things seem obvious. First, the US policy towards Zlochevsky and Burisma changed and it wasn’t a result of Zlochevsky’s proving his innocence. Second, Hunter and Archer were hired at a very high price to use their political influence to obtain this policy change. And third, Biden demanded the firing of the only one of the three Ukrainian Prosecutors General who had done anything to stand in the way.
Joe Biden and his supporters have claimed that Shokin was fired as a result of his corruption and that the firing was NATO policy. This has been widely promoted by the mainstream media without citing a single piece of evidence. I have found no public pronouncement by NATO confirming Joe Biden’s contention. In any case, the US was acting for NATO in Ukraine and was the driver of NATO policy there. And if it was our policy and the policy of NATO, why was this policy only directed at Shokin?
Exclusive — Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden’s Flipped Business Partner Provided 26,000 Emails
The business partner of Hunter Biden who flipped on the Biden family from prison provided access to 26,000 emails, Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said in a Saturday morning radio appearance.
Schweizer, appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, said that former Hunter Biden business partner Bevan Cooney provided 26,000 emails to him—the first of which were published late last week in a Breitbart News exclusive investigation by Schweizer and author Seamus Bruner. Cooney is currently serving a sentence in federal prison due to his conviction over financial deals he made connected to Hunter Biden and his other partner Devon Archer. Archer, who was also convicted by a jury in federal court, saw his conviction vacated by a federal judge. That conviction was later—just a couple weeks ago—reinstated by an appellate court, which overruled the lower court judge’s decision to vacate it. Archer awaits sentencing.
In the meantime, however, Cooney—who is serving his sentence in federal prison—reached out to Schweizer via conservative journalist Matthew Tyrmand and provided written authorization to access his Gmail account. He provided the password and username, and written authorization to publish emails because Schweizer says he believes he was the “fall guy” for the Biden family’s corruption and that he believes the public needs to know what really happened in Hunter Biden’s universe. The first article on these emails was published Friday afternoon, and detailed how Hunter Biden and his partners secured meetings with senior White House officials in November 2011 for Chinese Communist elites—including, as the Chinese elites who were present revealed, a secret meeting with then-Vice President Joe Biden himself. The Biden campaign has not responded to requests for comment about this from Breitbart News.
“Bevan Cooney was business partners with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer,” Schweizer said on Breitbart News Saturday. “He was a nightclub owner—he owns the Viper Room in Los Angeles, and got involved in these financial deals. He ended up going to jail and really feels that he was the fall guy. Devon Archer is now going to be going to jail as well, because of the same deals, but he [Cooney] really feels like Hunter Biden was able to walk off scot-free. He had reached out to me in 2019 after my book Secret Empires came out in 2018. He talked about sharing his emails, but it never happened. He ended up going to jail. He recently reached out through Matt Tyrmand, a journalist, and said I want to give you access to all of my emails in my Gmail account. He gave us written approval to do that, and gave us the password. We have been going through the 26,000 emails. The article that we ran on Breitbart, about China, Inc., is the first of what are going to be several. In this particular story what we lay out is how Hunter Biden and his business partners set up a meeting for this group called the China Entrepreneurs Club. Don’t let that benign name fool you; this is regarded as joined at the hip with the Chinese communist government. This China Entrepreneurs Club wanted meeting at the highest levels of the White House and Hunter Biden arranged them. What’s very curious about this is not only that they got these meetings on November 14, 2011, but they actually, according to members, had a private, secret meeting with Joe Biden himself. We don’t know about this because it appeared on the White House visitors logs or the White House calendar—it doesn’t. We know about it because the Chinese that were on that trip bragged about it in their blog posts back in China that they had this private, secret meeting with Joe Biden. Out of that sprang relationships and business deals that Hunter Biden and his business partners were apparently able to take advantage of, so it demonstrates how this access, with the participation of Joe Biden, translated into commercial deals down the road.”
Schweizer said this first round of emails published late last week—only a handful of the 26,000 obtained—is just the beginning. There are more, he said, including ones that further illustrate the relationship between Hunter Biden and the ex-wife of the former Moscow mayor Yelene Baturina—a payment from her to Hunter Biden was a major revelation in a recent U.S. Senate report on the Biden family corruption—as well as a clearer, more vivid description of just how the Bidens worked to develop a system to use Joe Biden’s position in government to enrich themselves.
“The emails, there are different types of emails,” Schweizer said. “Many of the emails are the business partners discussing, without Hunter’s participation, what Hunter’s role is in all of this. What’s very clear, and we will have reporting on this at Breitbart, what’s very clear is Hunter brings no money to the table. But he is considered the avenue to the administration. There are emails that talk about how they are going to do business deals where they want to get union pension money and that Hunter is going to leverage the relationships that his dad has with public employee unions to get that money. So part of it is just kind of a feel for what is the Biden business model, and we kind of knew this in a way but here it’s very explicit that it is trading off the Biden name, the Biden connections, and the Biden access. The other way I would categorize this is geographical. The one we have already broke was a story related to China. There are other emails involving China. The private equity deal—the billion and a half dollar private equity deal—that we’ve reported on. There are emails concerning that, which we will bring out which are quite interesting. There are ones that pertain to Yelena Baturina, she’s the Moscow mayor’s ex-wife who we should add the U.S. State Department has implicated as being tied with Russian organized crime. We’re going to be able to show that that relationship is much deeper and much longer than previously known and that Hunter Biden and his business partners performed various services for her in terms of deals in the United States. And then there are other geographical areas covered. There are deals involving Kazakhstan. There are deals in other parts of the world. There are references to Hunter Biden’s dealings in the Middle East. So there’s quite a bit of material there—26,000 emails, some of them obviously are personal. We’re not going to disclose anything that is personal. It’s all going to be business-related, but we’ll be rolling it out in the days ahead.”
That “underbelly” of how the Biden family—Schweizer calls them the “Biden Five,” whereas President Donald Trump calls them the “Biden Crime Family”—operates is further exposed in these emails from Hunter Biden’s flipped former partner Bevan Cooney.
“What you’re really seeing in these emails is the underbelly of how these relationships and corrupt deals happen,” Schweizer said. “There’s no question about that, and that’s one of the things I think people are going to get. They’re going to get an inside look because as we are doing—we did on the first story and we’ll do it on all of them, we’re not just going to be reporting on the emails. We’re actually going to place the emails up so people can read them themselves. To your point, to underline your point, yes these are totally separate from the New York Post emails. I don’t have access and have not had access to those emails and what we are dealing with in our case is—you’re exactly 100 percent right. These are not printouts, these are not PDFs—we actually go into the Gmail account and pull the emails out and download them. They are timestamped. These are real. These are genuine. That’s one of the reasons we felt it was so important to pursue this. Cooney is taking a risk because he’s trusting us with this trove of emails which includes personal information. So he’s taking quite a risk in sharing this information but he feels like it needs to get out because people need to understand how these deals were done.”
LISTEN TO PETER SCHWEIZER ON BREITBART NEWS SATURDAY:
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