2020 Election Politics Barack Obama Donald Trump Joe Biden Kamala Harris
Despite his Wall Street, big
business, Big Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray
himself as a small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
THE REALITY OF OBAMA-BIDENomics… the same people who
bought, owned and benefited from Obamanomics, quickly and easily bought Biden
and Kamala Harris whose own political career as a lawyer District Attorney and
Attorney General of California was all about putting aside the law for anticipated
bribes in the form of ‘campaign contributions’ or deals for her lawyer
husband’s law firm.
A key factor in Obama’s newfound and
growing wealth are those who profited from his presidency. A number of his
public speeches have been given to big Wall Street firms and investors. Obama
has given at least nine speeches to Cantor Fitzgerald, a large investment and
commercial real estate firm, and other high-end corporations. According to
records, each speech has been at least $400,000 a clip. Obama’s rewards are
simply retroactive bribery for services rendered to the capitalist elite, who
have welcomed him with open arms. Jonathan
Emord
IMAGES OF JOE BIDEN’S MANSIONS:
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a33809100/joe-biden-real-estate-homes/
Hides in his
basement because his handlers fear that if he spends too much time on the
campaign trail he’ll say something to let voters know how monumentally
dumb he actually is. Has a family
that received an estimated $30 million to $40 million in bribes from
countries like China and the Ukraine.
Trump vs. the $1.6 Billion Man Dems have already outspent the
2016 total presidential candidate donor spending.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism
Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer
focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The
2020 presidential election comes down to places like Pittsburgh. While Hillary
Clinton held the city, President Trump won the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
This time around, both Trump and Biden are holding rallies in Pittsburgh, an
actual rally for Trump, and a drive-in for Biden.
President
Trump is betting that enthusiasm matters more than money because Democrats are spending
more than twice the annual budget of Pittsburgh to buy the White House.
Biden,
by the numbers, is expected to break the $1 billion fundraising record. Almost
$400 million is coming through in outside spending for Biden and over $300
million against Trump.
44%
of federal donations have gone to Biden so that a
mediocre campaign for a mediocre candidate has swallowed a number approaching
half the spending for the election cycle.
Biden’s
current total of $1.6 billion will almost certainly fall short of the
staggering final number.
To
put that number into perspective, Obama and McCain, together, spent $1 billion
and that was considered a shocking number only twelve years ago. Every election
since then has not only been more expensive, but has broken records in election
spending. And it seemed to work.
Obama
outraised McCain by over 3 to 1, pulling in $750 million to McCain's partly
$238 million. Romney's own wealth and ability to tap into big donors brought
closer parity, but Obama still beat Romney by $1.1 to $1 billion.
Until
the last election, fundraising totals were a much more practical bellwether of
victory than a bakery’s cookies or any of the other gimmicks that press veterans
trot out before Election Day.
And
then, even though Hillary Clinton was able to raise $973 million through donors to
Trump's $564 million, the money lost and people power won. Money was no longer
able to buy elections.
Hillary
Clinton spent $969 million and Trump spent $531 million for a total of $1.5
billion.
At
$1.6 billion, Biden and his backers, many of them shadowy, some injecting dark
money into the race, have already outspent the 2016 total presidential
candidate donor spending.
And
when the election bill finally comes due, it’s likely that Biden and his
outside backers will have spent more money than both candidates and their PACs
combined.
The
staggering scale of the spending is more than a strategy, it’s a worldview.
The
Democrats and the special interests behind them are spending an insane fortune,
one that could keep Pittsburgh and many swing counties going for years, to buy
the White House. And they’re doing it because they believe that the 2016
election was an implausible fluke.
The
2020 election is about more than personalities: it’s about power. And the
powerful are betting that this is the election that will assert the power of
campaign spending over populism.
The
central theory of political campaigns is that most people are stupid. Otherwise
why spend billions trying to lie to them? The Democrats and their media allies
concluded that Trump only won last time around because he was able to outshout
them. They began the 2020 campaign three years ago, long before Biden’s run or
the Democrat primaries, on three simple strategies to silence Trump and achieve
messaging supremacy in order to win with any candidate.
The
first was to transform the media into a megaphone for attacking President Trump
and touting Democrats. The media had been shamelessly corrupt in 2016, by 2020
its programming is entirely indistinguishable from a PAC’s ad campaigns for
Biden and against Trump.
And
what that really means is that the Democrats aren’t spending a mere $1.6
billion to elect Biden, they’re also spending the budgets of nearly every cable
news network, newspaper, digital media site, and the rest of the massive media
infrastructure. Cable news budgets alone take us into the billions. Operating
expenses for the New York Times ’ parent company were $1.6
billion.
Throw
in the various corporate “comedy” shows from Saturday Night Live to John
Oliver, who operate as little more than thinly disguised ad campaigns for
Democrats, PBS, NPR, and every publicly funded media outlet, and the actual
messaging spending is in the tens of billions.
At
least.
The
second was to shut out President Trump and Republicans from social media,
especially Facebook which reaches the most persuadable voters, at the crucial
period before Election Day.
Democrats
blamed Trump’s 2016 victory on his reach on Facebook. They spent years prepping
the emergency red button. This time Big Tech was ready to shut down the Hunter
Biden story.
Meanwhile,
Twitter not only clumsily suppressed the Hunter Biden story, its trending
topics became little more than election ads for the Democrats. What would it
cost a campaign to buy a spot on Twitter’s trending topics, day after day
before an election? That’s what Jack’s donating.
Finally,
having achieved spectrum dominance, the Democrats would ram their message home,
outraising and outspending Republicans to achieve total messaging superiority.
Biden’s
underwhelming nature as a candidate, his incoherent speeches, limited
campaigning, and lack of enthusiasm is a perfect test to see whether total
messaging dominance is enough.
If they can buy an election for Biden,
the theory is, they can buy it for anyone.
Now
imagine Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez or Rep. Ilhan Omar running for the White
House.
But
it’s also the ultimate attack on the Electoral College. Blue state power bases
like California and New York have long chafed at having the course of the
nation be determined by some farmers in flyover country. But while they haven’t
succeeded in actually getting rid of rule by a union of states, instead of by
New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco, the oligarchy
is doing the next best thing by using its vast wealth to buy elections
nationwide.
Behind
ActBlue’s posturing about small donors is a machine for moving money from
wealthy lefties in major urban areas to races in places they wouldn’t set foot
in. The Democrats want Senate seats and to get at them, $100 million from out
of state poured into the campaign fund for Jamie Harrison. Less than 10% of the
Democrat's money came from South Carolina.
Behind
the racial appeals and claims of empowering voters, it’s about disempowering
them.
And
about empowering the oligarchy based out of a small number of powerful urban
areas.
As
the New York Times noted , "Mr. Biden’s entire financial
edge can be accounted for through just four states: California, New York,
Massachusetts and Washington."
The
Democrat pulled in over $85 million in New York City alone. All that from a
city that may be large but accounts for less than 2% of the nation’s
population. And it isn’t all the millions of New Yorkers giving that money.
Instead it’s coming from select zip codes with one Upper West Side zip code
delivering over $8 million, more than some entire states, for the Biden
campaign.
The
ultimate question on the 2020 ballot, beyond any of the candidates, is whether
this massive concentration of power and wealth that is behind Biden will be
allowed to run the country.
Biden
is not the real candidate. He’s just a name on the ballot. That’s what many
Trump supporters instinctively understand. It’s why Trump’s populism struck a
chord. Populism isn’t, as the media would like you to believe, a way of
manipulating stupid people. That’s the media.
Populism
doesn’t work unless it articulates what many people feel, but that few actually
say.
"I
think it is fair to say that in many ways the Democratic Party has become a
party of the coastal elites, folks who have a lot of money," Bernie
Sanders, a coastal millionaire with three homes, recently admitted on a late
night talk show.
Those
elites are spending over $1.6 billion not to elect a doddering hack, but to
elect themselves. The woke movement is just the successor to generations of
radical waves coming out of the wealthiest places in the country whose real
message is their own moral superiority.
The
Elect believe that they are the only ones who ought to be running the country.
This
election is their latest effort to bully, buy, and browbeat the rest of the
country into submitting to them. And they can spend $1.6 billion or $1.6
trillion to take over the country.
Oligarchies always have lots of money even when
workers go hungry and lose their homes. And they get that money by seizing the
centers of power and consuming the wealth of nations.
This
is the latest and may be the final showdown between an oligarchy’s lies and a
free nation.
Reflections on Sleepy Joe Exactly how and where will he lead us?
Don Feder
The most important
election of our lifetime – perhaps in all U.S. history -- is upon us.
Here are some thoughts on
the Democrat presidential candidate:
Spent 47 years in
office without accomplishing anything noteworthy -- who was ever and
always a willing tool for the leadership of the Democrat Party. Has become a
bobble-head for the socialists who now run his party. Took three months to
issue a limp-wristed disavowal of the riots which are rocking our
republic. Equates occasional
police misconduct with business districts in flames, nightly looting, the
murder of cops, and assaults on innocent bystanders. Thinks white
supremacists pose a greater threat to America than Antifa, which he says
is “an idea” not an organization. With Joe, you never know if he’s simply
parroting progressive propaganda or really is that stupid. Wants to demolish the
border wall and defund ICE, and once called illegal immigration “a gift” –
that keeps on giving for the left. Said 150 million
Americans died from “gun violence” since 2007 and 120 million of us died
from COVID-19. There goes 80% of the population. Does press
availabilities where he takes two questions – from reporters he knows are
friendly. Has rallies which
could be held in a broom closet. Thinks the president
doesn’t have the authority to fill Supreme Court vacancies close to an
election. Can’t quote the
best-known phrase in the Declaration of Independence. (Joe: “We hold these
truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created. by the, you
know, you know the thing.”) Did he ever read the document? How about the
Constitution? Hides in his basement
because his handlers fear that if he spends too much time on the campaign
trail he’ll say something to let voters know how monumentally dumb he
actually is. Has a family
that received an estimated $30 million to $40 million in bribes from
countries like China and the Ukraine. Made his fortune in
politics. Harry Truman used to say you can always tell the crooked
politician. He’s the one who started poor and ended rich. Chose a running mate
who’s ranked the furthest left member of the Senate and made her bones
smearing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation
hearing. Refuses to denounce
anti-Semitism in his party. Says America is an
“idea” that was “never lived up to.” Funny, with the greatest democracy in
the world – that pioneered civil liberties and saved humanity from Nazism
and communism -- I thought we were doing pretty well. Thinks that taxes are
a way to jump-start the economy and wants a $15-an-hour minimum wage to
help small businesses that have been hit so hard. Changes his position
on fracking every 15 minutes or so, depending on focus groups. Says we can “change
America for generations to come.” Visions of Venezuela dance in my head. Is the leader of a
party that wants to end free elections by abolishing the Electoral
College, making Puerto Rico and D.C. states, and packing the Supreme
Court. Has the absolute
loyalty of The New
York Times , Washington Post , CNN and the rest of the
mainstream media that’s been lying to you for decades. Whose supporters
include Hollywood, Big Tech and academia – who’ve spent years stifling
free speech, indoctrinating our children, and hating America. Was endorsed by the
Revolutionary Communist Party. Can’t wait to destroy
the economic recovery now underway with another lockdown, so he can “build
it back better” – with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and
Elizabeth Warren as the architects. Wants a national
mandate for face masks – which the CDC says are worthless unless they’re
hospital-grade. Spent the entire
campaign whining about Trump’s Supreme Court nominations but refuses to
give us a hint of whom he’d put on the high court. Whose mental
deterioration is more painfully apparent with each passing day, reflected
in an inability to speak coherently, gaffes galore, and embarrassing
memory lapses, as when he recently said, “We need to stop four more years
of George.” If he can’t remember the name of the incumbent he’s running
against, how would he perform as president? Has a shocking
inability to control his temper, reflected in such bizarre outbursts as
telling an African American interviewer that he “ain’t black” if he’d even
think about voting for anyone else. Is this the man Americans
want to lead the country and the free world (out of the Covid crisis, against
our foreign foes and the anarchists who are trying to tear America apart) for
as long as he can remain upright?
Exclusive
— ‘This is China, Inc.’: Emails Reveal Hunter Biden’s Associates Helped
Communist-Aligned Chinese Elites Secure White House Meetings AP Photo/Nati
Harnik
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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.
Biden Whistleblower Emails: Chinese Energy Company Gave $5
Million Non-Secured, Forgivable Loan to Biden ‘Family’ ANDY WONG/AFP via Getty
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A 2017 email from a top official with a Chinese energy firm,
provided by a whistleblower to U.S. Senate investigators, demonstrates the
terms of an agreement included officials with the firm giving a $5 million
non-secured, forgivable loan to the Biden “family.”
The email, sent to SinoHawk Holdings CEO Tony Bobulinski, shows
how a top official with CEFC Energy — a now bankrupt and defunct energy company
based in China — offered to wire $10 million into an account to begin
operations, $5 million worth of which would be a non-secured forgivable loan to
the “BD Family,” which means the Biden family.
Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer spent four and
a half hours with Bobulinski before he went public, and discussed these
communications in particular regarding this loan during that meeting. According
to Schweizer, the Chinese energy company officials were going to put $10
million into an account, $5 million of which was designated as a non-secured
forgivable loan to the Biden family. Schweizer said this would constitute
significant leverage the Chinese energy company officials would have over the
Biden family.
“In a way, this would give CEFC greater leverage over the Biden
family than simply giving them a gift or bribe because if they were
dissatisfied with what the Bidens were doing they could ask for their money
back,” Schweizer told Breitbart News when asked about the arrangement upon the
public release of Bobulinski’s emails.
The email also says that $5 million loan is “interest free” and
asks how that $5 million would be used, and if used up, whether CEFC should
lend more money to the Biden family.
This email further fleshes out
details surrounding the controversial arrangement first uncovered by U.S. Senate
investigators in a recent Homeland Security Committee report, and later further
uncovered by a bombshell New
York Post story on emails retrieved from Hunter Biden’s
laptop.
Bobulinski’s new emails add to the
story by including terms of the financial arrangement behind the wire transfer
that CEFC officials made into a firm aligned with the Bidens that then made
significant payments to Hunter Biden’s own firm, a wire transfer and financial
payments that were first exposed by Senate investigators. The New York Post’s Hunter
Biden laptop emails added more information to this questionable arrangement by
revealing emails that showed how Biden associates intended to divvy up the cash
from the Chinese investors.
These new emails from Bobulinski add more to the picture by
showing that the agreement was that this payment would serve as a non-secured
forgivable loan, and that the CEFC side of the arrangement understood that the
then-forthcoming payment — which Senate investigators confirmed was made just
two weeks after these discussions —would serve as a loan to the Biden “family,”
not just to Hunter Biden.
An e-mail to Hunter Biden's partner from a
top Chinese official on July 26, 2017 shows the Chinese energy company CEFC
proposed a $5 million "interest-free" loan to the Biden family
"based on their trust on [Biden] family[.]"
"Should CEFC keep lending more
to the family?" pic.twitter.com/MGFizPqOdm
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 22, 2020
This email is part of a broader trove of documents that
Bobulinski provided to U.S. Senate investigators with the Homeland Security and
Finance Committees, and also to media outlets including Breitbart News. Other
media outlets are reporting on the emails as well.
According to the Senate Homeland Security Committee’s recent
report, $5 million was wired directly into the account in question two weeks
later — and then Hunter Biden’s firm spent the next year wiring $4.8 million
from there into his own firm’s account:
Less than
two weeks later, on August 8, 2017, $5 million was wired from a CEFC-affiliated
investment vehicle to a Delaware LLC, which spent the next year transfering
nearly $4.8 million directly to Hunter Biden's firm, according to Senate
investigators. https://t.co/Byyo3FNp3T pic.twitter.com/8XHHVTuFml
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 22, 2020
CEFC was a controversial energy company,
as Breitbart News has reported. “The owner of CEFC, Ye Jianming, was among the
most ambitious of Chinese tycoons before his business empire collapsed and he
vanished into the Communist nation’s shadowy prison system,” Breitbart News’
John Hayward wrote earlier
this week. “Ye was once portrayed as one of China’s greatest rags-to-riches
stories, a humble park ranger who began making successful oil investments in
his twenties and became a billionaire before he hit 40. He was marketed as an
affable businessman foreigners could feel safe making deals with,
well-connected but not an obvious tool of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”
CEFC is at the center of the burgeoning Biden scandal. When
Bobulinski went public on Wednesday night, he was the first source on one of
the emails that the New York Post published from Hunter Biden’s laptop
retrieved from a computer repair store in Delaware. One such story that the
Post published was about Hunter Biden and the Biden family seeking a deal with
CEFC, and in those original emails James Gilliar of J2cR emails Bobulinski
about “remunerations packages” related to the CEFC deal.
“I am the recipient of the email published seven days ago by the
New York Post which showed a copy to Hunter Biden and Rob Walker. That email is
genuine,” Bobulinski said in his statement issued publicly.
Bobulinski had been, sources familiar
with the matter told Breitbart News, cooperating with the Wall Street Journal for
an investigation it is working on. But since the Journal has not published its story
several days later after its staff had indicated it would, Bobulinski decided
to go public on his own on Wednesday night — and made clear he is cooperating
with Senate investigators.
In the original email, published by the New
York Post, from Hunter Biden’s laptop, Gilliar references a
breakdown of how money acquired would be distributed throughout the firm of
which Bobulinski was CEO. The email says at one point that “10 held by H for
the big guy.”
In his nearly 700-word statement,
Bobulinski confirmed the authenticity of that email and further explained its
meeting including that “the big guy” was a reference to former Vice President
Joe Biden, the 2020 Democrat presidential nominee, himself.
“What I am outlining is fact. I know it is fact because I lived
it. I am the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the
Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family,” Bobulinski
said. “I was brought into the company to be the CEO by James Gilliar and Hunter
Biden. The reference to ‘the big guy’ in the much publicized May 13, 2017
email is in fact a reference to Joe Biden. The other ‘JB’ referenced in
that email is Jim Biden, Joe’s brother. Hunter Biden called his dad ‘the Big
Guy’ or ‘my Chairman,’ and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or
advice on various potential deals that we were discussing. I’ve seen Vice
President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen
firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they
said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.”
The Biden
Crime Family Comes Undone Say it ain’t so, Joe.
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Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an
investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic
terrorism.
The Biden family is notorious for being
the crookedest clan not only in Delaware, but in D.C.
Delaware is a
pretty small place, but D.C. is even smaller, yet the scope for corruption,
unethical behavior, conflicts of interest, and even brazen thievery are far
greater in Washington D.C.
And yet the
Biden family stood out even there. To be born a Biden in the era after Joe
switched his party affiliation, plagiarized his speeches, and inappropriately
touched every woman or girl he could get his hands on in the state and the
nation, was to be bred into dirty money.
Joe Biden was
now asked in Wisconsin if Hunter had “profited off the Biden name”.
“None
whatsoever,” the godfather of Delaware retorted. And the entire state laughed.
Say it ain’t
so, Joe.
It doesn’t
matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, in Delaware, everyone knows that
the Biden name means money in the bank. Literally. Just ask MBNA, Hunter’s
former employer, whose executives poured $200,000 into Joe’s coffers, and one
of whom bought his house.
“Don’t worry
about investors,” James Biden, Joe's brother, famous for scoring a billion
dollar contract to build houses in Iraq, told executives at Paradigm Global
Advisors. “We've got people all around the world who want to invest in
Joe Biden.”
James had
bought Paradigm together with Hunter Biden.
Biden can try
to deny the obvious, but he isn’t even trying to deny that the emails and
photos are real, or that it was his son’s laptop. Instead, he spouted a word
salad of gibberish, stating, “the vast of the intelligence people have come out
and said there’s no basis at all.”
Why does Biden
need to call on “the vast of the intelligence people” who carefully avoided
making a firm statement, to deny something he is better able to deny on his
own?
Because it’s
really an admission.
The latest
emails make it all too clear that Joe Biden got Viktor Shokin, the Ukranian
prosecutor, fired because Burisma wanted him gone and that Hunter Biden's
purpose in making deals with a powerful Chinese energy company linked to the
Communist regime was to produce income for "me and my family". It’s
no wonder that the latest reports link the FBI’s subpoena of the laptop, not to
the media’s false claims of a Russian op, but to a money laundering investigation.
Investing in
Joe Biden or, as one message allegedly has it, "the big guy", meant
depositing the money with James or Hunter. And then Hunter deposited a laptop
with a small computer repair shop in Delaware five miles from his father’s
home, and never picked it up. The rest is history.
And the history
is happening now.
The Hunter
Biden laptop unrolls two ragged threads. One is the descent of Joe Biden’s son
into new depths of depravity and the other are the foreign investors who bought
into Joe Biden Inc.
The alleged
photos of Hunter Biden’s drug use and underage girls might be dismissed as a
spoiled rich kid’s demons. But, looking at public photos and videos of Joe
Biden touching, caressing, and sniffing women and young girls, it’s hard not to
see the influence. What did a teenage Hunter grow up seeing his father do? How
did that shape him into the man he is?
And why was
Hunter able to get away with it for so long?
In alleged
text messages exchanged between Joe and
Hunter Biden, father and son discuss "sexually inappropriate"
behavior with a 14-year-old girl.
"She told
my therapist that I was sexually inappropriate with [name of 14-year-old girl
redacted] when she says that I facetime naked with her and the reason I can’t
have her out to see me is because I’ll walk around naked smoking crack talking
[redacted] girls on face time," Hunter appeared to message his father.
What was done
about this? The odds are good that the answer is nothing.
The Hunter
Biden laptop was turned over to the FBI in December of 2019. And the FBI
appears to have done little with it. Giuliani submitted material allegedly
showing criminal sexual behavior to the Delaware police who passed it off to
the Delaware Department of Justice.
A spokesman
for Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said it was sent to the
FBI.
Jennings is
not only a Democrat, but a friend of the Biden family who
had worked under Beau Biden and has been vigorously campaigning for Joe Biden.
"I’ve
known Joe, Jill, and the Biden family for most of my life. Joe is one of the
kindest and most genuine people I’ve ever known," Jennings had posted on
her Facebook page.
The Biden
family may have been able to get away with a lot for the same reason as the
Kennedy clan. They were big fish in a small pond being protected by the
Democrat club. Like some Kennedy sons, Hunter may have spun out of
control because he could get away with it.
That’s why
Hunter Biden’s story is just an echo of Joe. Father and son appear to share a
boundless greed for unearned wealth and women, and a complete lack of
self-control with both.
And both men
have spent their lives being protected from the consequences of their actions.
Laptop
computers, like notebooks, are the mirrors of their owners. We use them and
fill them with the things that matter to us. Going through a lost laptop or
phone tells us a lot about the man or woman who spent years with it. Hunter
Biden’s laptop is a mirror of the man. And the mirror shows a broken and
corrupt human being filling its gigabytes with his demons.
What were
Hunter Biden’s demons? The same as the ones that bedeviled Joe. Women and
money. And as dirty and wrong as possible. That’s why Hunter allegedly
didn’t just seek out money, he went after business opportunities in the most
corrupt places in the world, like Kazakhstan and the People’s Republic of
China, and he didn’t just chase women.
Instead, Rudy
Giuliani has said that the laptop contained photos of underage girls.
But the bigger
story isn’t Hunter’s depravity, it’s the business opportunities, the lobbying
gigs and board seats offered to him by foreign companies looking to invest in
Joe Biden.
In less than
two weeks, Joe Biden’s stock will either boom or bust. And voters are entitled
to know who, beyond the battalions of domestic special interests from Wall
Street to Hollywood, from the gun control lobby to green businesses, pouring
hundreds of millions into his campaign, is getting ready to collect interest on
the foreign money that financed Hunter’s lifestyle.
Hunter Biden's
emails offer a window into a global operation, in the Ukraine, in Kazakhstan,
and the People's Republic of China, of investing in Joe Biden courtesy of his
wastrel son.
Joe Biden has
claimed that he has nothing to do with his son’s business affairs, but that’s a
transparent lie that had been shot down even long before the laptop by media
reporting. The media is frantically trying to bury information that backs up
their own reporting from the primaries when the same media now trying to save
Joe Biden originally wanted to bury him.
Why did so many
Democrat officials, beginning with Barack Obama, try to keep Joe Biden from
running in 2016 and then 2020? Joe Biden is a mediocre hack, but he’s a better
candidate than Hillary Clinton, not to mention lefty luminaries like Al Gore or
John Kerry. The problem was that the small state that spawned the Biden crime
family was littered with their dirty laundry.
And now, in
the final stretch before Election Day, the messy stained laundry is spilling
out.
Like Humpty
Dumpty, all the Democrat horses and men are trying to keep the mess contained.
Twitter and Facebook are blatantly suppressing the story. The media has refused
to cover the biggest scandal of the election while falsely claiming that Hunter
Biden’s laptop is Russian disinformation despite clear denials by the
intelligence community and the FBI.
Hunter Biden’s
laptop isn’t just evidence of a degenerate past, but of the coming attractions.
The Biden
crime family has built a global network of contacts. And when their father was
a mere veep, they could only wet their beaks a little. If he wins, they’ll be
able to drown in money.
Joe could
throw around his weight in a backwater like Ukraine, but if he wins, Burisma
will just be a tiny taste of what is to come. And the corruption in D.C. will
make Delaware blush again.
Corruption is
nothing new in D.C., but what the laptop reveals about Hunter Biden and his
father is that, like the Clintons, they have no self-control. And the only
thing more dangerous than cunning crooks at the head of a nation are inept
kleptocrats who would leave evidence of their financial and sexual corruption
on a laptop abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.
As new details
trickle out, two things are obvious about the Biden crime family: they’re not
only as crooked as a bent tree in a thunderstorm, they’re also hopelessly
stupid at covering it up.
Even as the
media denies everything for the Bidens, they have yet to deny the core facts.
Rep. Schiff
may claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop is a Russian conspiracy, but neither Joe
nor Hunter will say it. And what Schiff and the Democrats and their media can
only say behind their backs is that they can’t believe how corrupt and
incompetent the horse they bet on really is.
They haven’t
seen anything yet.
Some signs of the couple’s prior lifestyle,
however, appear to have remained in tact. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday,
Biden’s charitable giving has only slightly increased. According to
the most recent tax returns released, Biden gave 1.4 percent of his income to
charity in 2016. The following year, when the couple reported making 11
million, they donated just around 9.2 percent to charity. The percentage fell
significantly in 2018 to six percent, even though the couple earned more than
$4.58 million.
The more you know about Biden, the ickier he is
By Andrea Widburg
We've long known that Joe
Biden is a man with unseemly habits. He sniffs and fondles little girls, swims
naked in front of female Secret Service agents, and has a legitimate sexual
assault claim hanging over him. If the Biden hard drive documents
are legitimate (and they seem to be), he used his drug-addicted son as a bagman
for bribes from foreign governments and businesses and knew that his son was
inappropriate with underage girls. A recently unearthed 1974
interview with Biden shows us the genesis of all these gross and illegal activities.
Kitty Kelly interviewed Biden two years after he
entered Congress — and two years after his wife, Neilia, ran a stop sign and
collided with a truck, killing her and their baby daughter. Beau and
Hunter suffered serious injuries. (Hunter had a "serious head
injury," which — and I say this without sarcasm — may explain a lot about
his struggles with drugs and alcohol.) It was a tragedy and garnered
the 31-year-old Biden some much deserved sympathy.
Sympathy, however, cannot
obscure that Biden is an unpleasantly weird character. There's the
arrogance from a man who was a mediocre student at best:
"My wife always
wanted me to be on the Supreme Court," he says. "But while I
know I can be a good Senator, and I know I can be a good President, I do
know that I could never be another Oliver Wendell Holmes. I know I could
have easily made the White House with Neilia. And my family still expects
me to be there one of these days. With them behind me anything can
happen."
Biden also engages in
weird sexual boasting about his dead wife, both in terms of how sexy she was
and how much she sexually satisfied him:
"Neilia was my very
best friend, my greatest ally, my sensuous lover. The longer we lived together
the more we enjoyed everything from sex to sports. Most guys don't really know
what I lost because they never knew what I had…."
[snip]
"Let me show you my
favorite picture of her," he says, holding up a snapshot of Neilia in a
bikini. "She had the best body of any woman I ever saw. She looks better
than a Playboy bunny, doesn't she?"
[snip]
"At first she stayed
at home with the kids while I campaigned but that didn't work out because I'd
come back too tired to talk to her. I might satisfy her in bed but I didn't
have much time for anything else."
Do you want to know about
Joe Biden's sex life and his Playboy bunny fantasies? I sure
don't. His sexual obsessions seem to pair well with his behavior
around little girls.
Biden's compulsive
boasting shows up, too. Was Joe really a "football
hero"? He says he was, but we now know he freely borrowed other
people's life experiences. Also, while he praises his dead wife's
intelligence, there's the familiar theme of his own above-average intelligence:
"She was the most
intelligent human being I have ever known. She was absolutely brilliant. I'm
smart but Neilia was ten times smarter."
Biden is also openly
greedy. When you read his complaints about this salary, you can
practically see him thinking of ways to use his political power to augment the
salary:
Unlike most other
senators, Biden makes no bones about saving he is underpaid. Last September,
when the Senate was debating a pay raise for itself, he said, "I don't
know about the rest of you but I am worth a lot more than my salary of
$42,500 [ $224,379.31 in 2020 ] a year in this body. It
seems to me that we should flat out tell the American people we are worth our
salt."
No wonder Biden told
Kelly he was already feeling "the temptation to sell out":
He feels the indignity is
compounded by the temptation to sell out to big business or big labor for
financial help, and says it's almost impossible for a candidate to
remain true to his conscience in this situation. He admits that more than
once he was tempted to compromise to get campaign money.
While Biden claimed then
that the memory of his upright wife restrained him from corruption, that
restraint apparently vanished over the years.
The whole interview is
peculiar and creepy. It also foreshadows the man Biden became after
47 years of power and corruption.
Lastly, here's something
to chew on, which I think is the most unnerving statement that Biden made in
the whole interview:
He defines politics as
power. "And, whether you like it or not, young lady," he says, leaning
over his desk to shake a finger at me, "us cruddy politicians can take
away that First Amendment of yours if we want to."
That's the Democrat view
of politics in a nutshell: it's about power, and Democrats in power will always
trample Americans' constitutional rights given half a chance.
JOE BIDEN HAS NEVER
DONE ANYTHING FOR AMERICA BUT HE SURE GOT RICH DOING IT!
Some signs of the couple’s prior lifestyle,
however, appear to have remained in tact. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday,
Biden’s charitable giving has only slightly increased. According to
the most recent tax returns released, Biden gave 1.4 percent of his income to
charity in 2016. The following year, when the couple reported making 11
million, they donated just around 9.2 percent to charity. The percentage fell
significantly in 2018 to six percent, even though the couple earned more than
$4.58 million.
Federal Lawsuit:
Joe Biden’s Brother Accused of Defrauding Rural Healthcare Company
5 Aug 2019670
7:02
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s younger
brother, James, is being accused of defrauding a Tennessee rural healthcare
company. A lawsuit filed in federal court
late last month alleges James Biden, who has a history of murky financial
dealings, and his associates deceived and defrauded two Tennessee
businessmen.
Michael Frey and his business partner, Dr. Mohannad Azzam,
brought the suit claiming James Biden and his associates promised and failed to
line up investors for their rural healthcare enterprise. Instead, the suit
alleges, James Biden urged the two men to borrow $10 million from a hedge fund
manager involved in the deal and then proceeded to pass their idea off as
his own to a conglomerate of Turkish investors.
“The lawsuit takes direct aim at
Biden, painting him as a con artist who uses his ties to his brother — now a
Democratic candidate for president — to lure his victims,” the Knoxville News Sentinel reported .
According to documents filed with the U.S. District Court, Frey
and his wife developed a business model to take over rural hospitals and
retrofit them to not only offer traditional hospital care, but also drug
addiction and mental health treatment. After incorporating the enterprise as
Diverse Medical Management, they brought on Azzam, “who contracted with nursing
homes to provide medical care for seniors.”
The business model was lucrative enough that by 2017, Frey and
Azzam were actively pitching it to investors and hospitals across the country.
One investor particularly taken with the idea was Americore Health, an operator
of rural hospitals.
At the behest of Americore
CEO, Grant White , Frey and Azzam
were urgd to pitch their business plan to rural hospitals in Kentucky. It was
at one such meeting where the two men met James Biden, who identified himself
as a “principal” at Americore.
Not long after their initial encounter, James Biden introduced
the men to Michael Lewitt, a hedge fund manager and well-known “credit
strategist.” Around this time, Americore made plans to buy Diverse Medical for
the sum $7 million.
Despite the deal, Americore quickly fell behind on its scheduled
payments to Frey and Azzam. It was then that James Biden and Lewitt, as
detailed in the lawsuit, hatched a plan to oust White and sell Americore
along with Diverse Medical to a third company called the Platinum Group.
Biden or Lewitt’s role within the Platinum Group is unclear. The
organization, which is little-known and has no social media presence, is likely
a holding company specifically set up for the purchase of Americore.
Frey and Azzam appear to have been uncomfortable with turn the
deal took, especially the notion of removing White. The men, though, went along
with the plan after being told a payout was “imminent.”
“They repeatedly assured (Frey) that investment capital
originating from and flowing through foreign entities was not only certain, but
was imminent,” documents filed by Frey and Azzam’s attorney state.
James Biden is alleged to have put the men at ease by playing up
his political connections. The lawsuit reads:
Biden promised (Frey’s) Intensive Outpatient Model would play an
integral role in health care policy at the highest levels of the United States
government.
Since the deal had evolved to include the purchase of Americore,
Frey and Azzam were encouraged to take a $10 million loan — part of which would
came from Lewitt’s hedge fund — to expand their business. Frey and Azzam claim
the loan was taken with the understanding it would be repaid by money brought
in from new investors.
Throughout the entire process, the suit states, James Biden was
promising investment capital was forthcoming. As more time elapsed and new
investors failed to materialize, Frey and Azzam became suspicious they were
being set up. Those feelings only intensified when James Biden inadvertently
sent Frey a text message about their company meant for someone else in November
2018.
“We can wrap a/c into Frey’s entity further diluting
them both in the process? After we take control of both. Just a thought,”
the purported text from James Biden reads, as included in the lawsuit. “We must
have complete control, too many moving pieces. Jim.”
When asked to explain, James Biden demurred and requested more
information on Diverse Medical and the range of healthcare services offered.
Even though they provided the information, Azzam and Frey’s suspicions were only
further heightened.
The final breakdown in the relationship occurred when the men
learned that Biden and Lewitt had left them out of the picture when selling the
deal in Turkey. Although, Azzam and Frey knew their business model was
being pitched to the “Qatar Investment Authority in Turkey,” they were unaware
the documents presented to investors by James Biden and Lewitt were scrubbed
clean of the Tennessee businessmen. The lawsuit says:
On January 23, Platinum Group … and Biden submitted a White
Paper … outlining ‘Platinum Group Diverse Medical Management (PGDMM)’s business
model. What the investors were not told, however, was that this white paper was
drafted by (Frey and Azzam) and sent to Biden … Platinum Group simply replaced
all references to Plaintiffs with PGDMM, a non-existent entity.
When Frey and Azzam attempted to reassert control over their
business, the lawsuit alleges that Lewitt demanded repayment of the money his
hedge fund loaned them.
It is unclear if the lawsuit will progress or if James Biden and
Lewitt will choose to settle given the high-profile nature of the allegations
and the impact they may pose to Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
This is not the first time that
James Biden’s business dealings have raised eyebrows. As Breitbart News reported on Friday, the younger-Biden received “unusually generous”
bank loans to open a night club during the 1970s while his brother sat on the
Senate Banking Committee. The ample terms under which the loans were issued
drew attention and concerns about influence peddling given James Biden’s lack
of business experience and paltry net worth.
The former vice president’s younger
brother is not member of the Biden clan to come under fire for leveraging
political connections to secure lucrative business deals recently. In Secret Empires: How the American Political Class
Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends , Peter Schweizer, a senior contributor at Breitbart News,
revealed that in 2013 “Hunter Biden’s firm signed a billion-dollar deal with a
subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China just 10 days after Joe and
Hunter Biden flew to China aboard Air Force Two.”
Schweizer also detailed how Hunter
Biden secured a seat on the board of Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), which invested in
a Chinese company that was indicted for engaging in a “nuclear power conspiracy
against the United States.”
“When you have the motive of greed
and when you don’t worry too much about ethics, it’s very easy to come up with
creative ways to enrich yourself, and one of those is what we call ‘American
princelings,” Schweizer told Breitbart News Tonight last year. “The
term ‘princelings’ is really a term that’s been widely used in China and in the
West to talk about China, where in communist China, if you want to get deals
done, if you want to get favors from the government, you basically do business
with their children, and these children of communist party officials are called
the princelings.”
‘10% Joe’ – From Grandfather to Godfather By David Isaac
We thought Joe Biden was
the grandfather. It turns out he’s more like the godfather.
It’s the big reveal in
the Hunter Biden story.
Until now, we thought
Hunter, the “f—ked up addict that can’t be trusted” (in his own words) who sent
not one but three laptops
full of incriminating material in for repairs – an act so stupid that even
crack can’t be blamed – was the one taking advantage of his father’s position
to enrich himself.
(Compounding the idiocy,
despite repeated notifications, he failed to pay the $85 bill to reclaim the
one salvageable laptop, so that after 90 days it became the legal property of
the repair shop.)
What we learn from the
laptop is that Joe (referred to as “the big guy”) was to get a 10% cut of the
loot from a deal with a now defunct Chinese energy company with strong ties to
the Chinese government (the email outlines an equity split including “20 for H”
and “10 held by H for the big guy.” That makes “10% Joe” analogous to the
Godfather, the capo dei
capi , the boss due his share of the family’s enterprises.
So Biden is getting
“his beak wet,” as former NYC Mayor and current Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani
points out in a damning video describing the “ Biden crime family’s payoff scheme .”
There’s more.
Hunter tells his daughter Naomi in a 2018 text-message exchange: “I hope you
all can do what I did, and pay for everything for this entire family for 30
years and it has been tough. It’s really hard but don’t worry, unlike Pop, I
won’t make you give me half your salary.”
It would take some real
mental gymnastics to convince any normal person – that is, anyone not
marinating in Democratic talking points - that “Pop” wasn’t referring to Joe
Biden.
Did Biden really get
half? It sounds more like Hunter is complaining that he had to give his dad
anything.
The amount really doesn’t
matter. It puts paid to Joe’s claims that “I have never spoken to my son about
his overseas business dealings.” It should lead to a federal investigation,
starting with subpoenas to Hunter’s banks.
Other emails are
equally damning when it comes to Joe’s claims to know nothing of his son’s
business affairs. There’s the email from Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi
thanking Hunter for setting up a meeting with then Vice President Biden.
“Dear Hunter, thank you
for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent
[sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email
reads.
Up to now the worst that
was usually said of Biden is that he wasn’t up to the job. He was a kindly
grandfather who was cognitively slipping. To Trump opponents, it didn’t matter.
What was important was that Biden would return the country to “normalcy.” Peggy
Noonan wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal (Oct. 8):
“If Joe Biden wins big,
part of the reason, maybe a big part, will be simply that he is normal. Not
‘he’s such an accomplished legislator,’ not ‘he’s the man of the future’ or
‘charismatic’ or ‘warm’ or ‘has such a moving back story.’ No. He is normal.
And people miss normal so much.”
A family business raking
in millions for access to U.S. policy makers is “normal”?
Still less excusable than
Noonan’s silly remarks are those of U.S. Adm. (ret.) William McRaven, who
extols Biden in the Wall
Street Journal (Oct. 20), well after the scandal broke: “We
need a leader of integrity whose decency and sense of respect reflects the
values we expect from our president.”
We hope McRaven was a
better admiral than he is a judge of character.
And the response of
mainstream media to the Post ’s
revelations?
In what may be the most
blatant example of media censorship in U.S. history, the story has been buried
by Big Tech and blackballed/denied by the media giants.
Facebook and Twitter, in
the tank for Biden, both blocked the link to the Post story. Twitter blocked the Trump
campaign’s official account and also that of White House press secretary
Kayleigh McEnany. The major news outlets have rushed in unison to label
the Post scoop
“Russian disinformation.” Their response was so monolithic that John Ratcliffe,
the Director of National Intelligence felt impelled to intervene, assuring
there was “no intelligence that supports that.”
The hard drive is full of
pictures of the Biden family, Hunter (sometimes in compromising positions) and
over 11,000 emails, most of them harmless. And why, as Giuliani points out, did
Hunter Biden’s lawyers repeatedly demand his computer be returned (once they
realized the disaster that was brewing)? Seems like a strange approach if you
think it’s all Russian disinformation, and not Hunter’s computer at all.
'Middle class Joe' Biden cashed in to the tune of $15 million
after leaving vice presidency By Thomas Lifson
Joe Biden has released
his tax returns as part of the Democrats' campaign to force the release of
President Trump's tax returns. Access to those returns, with
hundreds, probably thousands of pages each year, would enable them to
niggle-to-death every detail. It's an obvious trap intended to
distract and mire a president who has accomplished an astounding list of
achievements, starting with reversing the "new normal" of stagnation
that Obama assured us would require a "magic wand" to reverse.
But it turns out that
Biden has made himself and his wife, "Doctor Jill Biden" (with a
doctorate in education), into multimillionaires in just over two
years. Even NPR sees the problem for his image:
Former Vice President Joe
Biden has referred to himself as "middle class Joe" throughout his
political career, and used to regularly joke about being the "poorest
person on Congress."
Those terms no longer
apply.
Biden and his wife, Jill,
have together earned more than $15 million since Biden left office. That's
according to tax returns and other financial disclosure forms released by
Biden's campaign on Tuesday. The bulk of the Bidens' earnings come from book
sales and paid speaking engagements — two routine sources of income for former
high-ranking public officials.
The documents show Biden
has earned far more than the rest of the 2020 presidential field, with the
likely exception of billionaire Tom Steyer, who entered the race
Tuesday.
I don't know about you,
but I prefer my rich politicians to have made their money before they
enter what is laughably called "public service."
I still don't think Biden
will be the nominee. But if he does cop the Dems' crown, the
phoniness of his claims to be an ordinary guy will be self-evident.
Of Biden can be said what
originally was said of the early missionaries who came to Hawaii and bought up
land: "They came to do good, and did very well, indeed."
‘Middle Class Joe’ Is
Actually Multi-Millionaire Joe Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images
9 Jul 2019911
4:39
Former Vice President Joe
Biden, who often pitches himself as “Middle Class Joe” on the campaign trail,
is a multi-millionaire, according to his most recent tax returns. On Tuesday, Biden’s presidential
campaign released three years
worth of tax filings showing the Democrat frontrunner and his wife, Dr. Jill
Biden, earned more than $15.6 million since leaving the White House. The
majority of the couple’s income came from a book deal — estimated to be worth
$8 million — and lucrative speaking engagements.
In 2017, Biden’s first year out of
elective office since 1973, the couple earned more than $11 million . This was exponentially more than the $396,552 both reported making in 2016. The following year, the
couple’s annual income decreased slightly to $4. 58 million .
Biden’s political standing appears
to be the reason for the couple’s new found wealth. The returns show that Biden
earned $9.49 million in 2017 through CelticCapri Corp., a shell company named after
the couple’s Secret Service code names.
CelticCapri, which was incorporated in Delaware only days after Biden left office, serves as
the main vehicle for the former vice president’s public engagements. In 2018,
Biden was paid $2.73 million through the company for appearances and speeches
all across the country. In total, over the two year period, Biden made 49
speeches with some generating honorariums upwards of $249,000.
Not to be outdone, Jill Biden also cashed in on her public
persona. The former second lady delivered 18 speeches between 2017 and 2018,
earning on average $36,000 per event. Giacoppa Corp., the former second lady’s
shell company named after her family’s original last name, reported paying her
more than $557,00 in 2017 and $506,000 in 2018 for such engagements.
Rounding out the couple’s income was Biden’s pension from the
U.S. Senate and the vice presidency which generated $241,00 in 2017 and more
than $190,000 in 2018. Biden also earned a six figure salary from the
University of Pennsylvania. The former vice president leads the university’s
Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C., a position that
paid more than $371,000 in 2017 and more than $405,000 in 2018.
The couple’s income for both 2017
and 2018 put them squarely within the top one one percent of economic
earners, a threshold set at $480,930 by the IRS. In fact, the
former vice president’s income was the largest of any of his fellow 2020
Democrats.
Biden’s ascension into the economic elite comes relatively
late in life. For the majority of his political career, Biden was one of
the poorest members of Congress. The couple’s income barely edged above
$300,000 until Biden’s first year in the vice president’s office, when he
became eligible to to receive social security and his governmental pension.
Despite waiting so long to break
into the one percent, the Bidens appear to have comfortably transitioned into
their new lifestyle. Last month, it was disclosed the couple now resides in a
11,750 square foot Georgian-style mansion overlooking the Potomac River in
McLean, Virginia. Biden rents the house, which once belonged to the
late-Secretary of State Alexander Haig, even though he owns two properties
within driving distance in his home state of Delaware. One of those is a
recently purchased $2.7 million vacation house on the Atlantic Ocean.
Some signs of the couple’s prior
lifestyle, however, appear to have remained in tact. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, Biden’s charitable giving has only
slightly increased. According to the most recent tax returns released,
Biden gave 1.4 percent of his income to charity in 2016. The following
year, when the couple reported making 11 million, they donated just around
9.2 percent to charity. The percentage fell significantly in 2018 to six
percent, even though the couple earned more than $4.58 million.
Since signaling his intention to run for president, Biden has
sought to regain some of the working-class appeal that was exhibited in his
early career.
“I know I’m called Middle-Class Joe.
It’s not meant to be a compliment. It means I’m not sophisticated. But I know
what made this country what it is: ordinary people doing extraordinary things,”
the former vice president said last
year.
Joe Biden’s Donor List
Includes More than 30 Executives Tied to Wall Street JOSEPH
PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images.
2 Nov 2020 601
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Democrat
presidential candidate Joe Biden has more than 30 business executives on his
donor list that have connections to Wall Street.
Analysis of Biden’s more than 800 big donors, those who have
bundled contributions for his presidential bid against President Trump, found
that more than 30 of the executives listed have ties to Wall Street.
CNBC reports :
CNBC reviewed a new list of more than 800 Biden bundlers who
raised at least $100,000 for the campaign, and found that several of them had
links to financial firms . A few had been mentioned on
the initial list of Biden fundraisers that was released in 2019 during the
Democratic primary contests. [Emphasis added]
…
Beyond those from Wall Street, Biden’s campaign saw fundraising
help from leaders in Silicon Valley , including
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Ron Conway. [Emphasis
added]
Those executives with ties to Wall Street funding Biden’s
campaign include:
Frank Baker, Brett Barth, Jim Chanos, Mark Chorazak, David
Clunie, William Derrough, Roger Altman, Blair Effron, Jon Feigelson, Mark
Gallogly, John Rogers, Jon Gray, Tony James, Jon Henes, Sonny Kalsi, Orin
Kramer, Brad Krap, Brian Kreiter, Marc Lasry, Nate Loewenthall, Eric Mindich,
Kara Moore, Charles Myers, Alan Patricof, Deven Parekh, Robert Rubin, Evan
Roth, Faiza Saeed, Rajen Shah, Jay Snyder, Rob Stavis, and Jeff Zients.
As Breitbart News reported, Biden’s campaign is being backed by
nearly “all the big banks” on Wall Street, according to CNN analysis , and Wall Street
executives and employees have donated more than $74 million to elect the
former vice president.
Trump, on the other hand, has accepted far less money from Wall
Street — taking just a little over $18 million dollars from financial firms.
This is a whopping $56 million less than what Biden has accepted from Wall
Street.
Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big Tech, and billionaire
donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a small-town fighter from
Scranton, Pennsylvania.
In a post on Sunday, Biden wrote
that “Donald Trump sees the world from Park Avenue,” whereas he sees the world
“from where I came from: Scranton, Pennsylvania.” In fact, Biden has raised over $1 million from
wealthy Park Avenue donors, more than eight times the less than $130,000 that
Trump has taken from Park Avenue residents.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on
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