Friday, December 4, 2020

LAWLESS PARTY OF CORRUPTION - Biden Labor Candidate Oversaw Fraudulent Payments to California Prison Inmates

 IMAGES OF JOE BIDEN’S MANSIONS:

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a33809100/joe-biden-real-estate-homes/ 

JOE BIDEN: A DEDICATED SERVANT OF WALL STREET, THE RICH, AND BANKSTERS….

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/lawyer-joe-bidens-kleptocracy-joe-and.html

The Biden family is notorious for being the crookedest clan not only in Delaware, but in D.C. DANIEL GREENFILED, 

The Hunter Biden laptop unrolls two ragged thrids. 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.

If they can buy an election for Biden, the theory is, they can buy it for anyone.

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.

Joe Biden’s Donor List Includes More than 30 Executives Tied to Wall Street

JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images.

2 Nov 2020601

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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 Twitter 

at @JxhnBinder

 biden Labor Candidate Oversaw Fraudulent Payments to California Prison Inmates

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Joe Biden
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A frontrunner to be president-elect Joe Biden's labor secretary oversaw the payment of nearly $1 billion in fraudulent benefits to California prison inmates.

Julie Su is the secretary of California's Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which operates the state's pandemic unemployment system. The system paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment payments to prison inmates and convicts, prosecutors announced on Tuesday.

The fraud involved over 35,000 unemployment claims filed between March and August under the names of California state prison inmates. The inmates included two serial killers responsible for the deaths of at least eight people, as well as the well-known murderer Scott Peterson, who was convicted in 2004 for killing his pregnant wife. The Sacramento County district attorney called the scandal "one of the biggest fraud of taxpayer dollars in California history."

A spokeswoman for the agency's Employment Development Department told the Washington Free Beacon the department has been working with the U.S. Labor Department to identify fraudulent claims from inmates and is "pursuing how to integrate such cross-matches moving forward as part of enhanced prevention efforts during this unprecedented time of pandemic-related unemployment fraud across the country."

The agency's logistical problems also resulted in the delay of unemployment payments for as many as 1.8 million Californians during the initial stages of the state's shutdown over the coronavirus pandemic.

Su took responsibility for the agency's logistical delays in April. She said she needed to "own the things that we are not doing right" and fix the agency's problems. The Employment Development Department still experienced delays and fraud throughout the year, however, and faced demands from lawmakers for an audit in September.

President-elect Biden's transition team did not respond to a request for comment on Su's candidacy for labor secretary.

One of the district attorneys leading the task force investigating the fraud said the "vast majority" of the money will never be repaid.

California is not the only state to be plagued by unemployment fraud amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Labor Department's inspector general said a total of $26 billion in federal aid programs could be lost to fraud by the end of the crisis.

JOE BIDEN - WALL STREET'S RENT BOY - But that ain't nothin' new!!! - "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."

IMAGES OF JOE BIDEN’S MANSIONS:

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a33809100/joe-biden-real-estate-homes/ 

JOE BIDEN: A DEDICATED SERVANT OF WALL STREET, THE RICH, AND BANKSTERS….

 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/lawyer-joe-bidens-kleptocracy-joe-and.html

The Biden family is notorious for being the crookedest clan not only in Delaware, but in D.C. DANIEL GREENFILED, FELLOW, SHILLMAN JOURNALISM, FREEDOM CENTER

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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.

If they can buy an election for Biden, the theory is, they can buy it for anyone.

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.

Joe Biden’s Donor List Includes More than 30 Executives Tied to Wall Street

JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images.

2 Nov 2020601

2:52

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 Twitter 

at @JxhnBinder

 

THE BRIBES SUCKERS - HOW TO TAKE HOME YOUR LOOT - Maxine Waters Pays Daughter Hundreds of Thousands in Campaign Funds

 

Maxine Waters Pays Daughter Hundreds of Thousands in Campaign Funds

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Rep. Maxine Waters's (D., Calif.) campaign paid her daughter hundreds of thousands in campaign funds during the 2020 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission records. 

Karen Waters received $240,000 from her mother’s campaign for a variety of campaign activities, including soliciting campaign contributions from other candidates in exchange for the congresswoman's endorsement on campaign mailers, Fox News reported

This is not the first time Maxine Waters has used the controversial practice to raise funds for her campaign, and her campaign has paid her daughter for years to help manage the scheme. 

From 2006 through 2020, Waters’s campaign shelled out more than $1 million to her daughter—either directly or through Progressive Connections, Karen Waters’s public relations firm—for producing what are known as slate mailers featuring her mother's endorsement of California candidates. Karen Waters raked in more than $200,000 from her mother’s campaign during the 2018 election cycle, the Washington Free Beacon first reported

Watchdog groups have filed complaints asking the FEC to audit Waters's campaign for using the mailers. The campaign has faced criticism for the mailers since 2010, when one watchdog group first reported that the congresswoman had been paying her daughter to run the operation.

California Democrats including Governor Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have donated tens of thousands of dollars to Waters’s campaign for the endorsement mailers.

Though the FEC caps individual campaign contributions at $2,800, payments for the slate mailers are considered "reimbursements" for Waters’s endorsement. The commission issued an advisory opinion in 2004 allowing Waters permission to run the operation through her campaign.

Waters was first elected to Congress in 1990 and serves California's 43rd Congressional District.

LAWLESS PARTY OF CORRUPTION - DEMOCRAT MAYOR TIMMY CURRIER THE CRACKHEAD

Democrat Mayor Arrested After Throwing Crack From Window During Pursuit

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Massena, New York Mayor Timothy Currier | 7 News New York

A Democratic mayor in upstate New York was arrested on drug charges on Tuesday after he threw a bag of crack cocaine out of his car window during a police pursuit, according to the St. Lawrence County sheriff’s office. 

Massena mayor Timmy Currier was allegedly involved in drug sales and possession, according to an investigation involving local police and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Currier attempted to evade police in his vehicle on Tuesday, and during a short pursuit the mayor allegedly threw a bag containing approximately one gram of crack cocaine out of his passenger-side window. 

Currier was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, tampering with evidence, and failing to comply with police. 

Before he was elected mayor in 2014, Currier served as the city’s police chief and worked on the force for nearly 30 years.

Local police in Massena and Homeland Security are still investigating Currier's alleged drug-related activity.


GOOD NEWS FOR PARASITE SON HUNTER BIDEN - OL' JOE'S CORRUPT CABINET WILL BELLY WITH RED CHINA - How much is in it for Hunter's Daddy?

JOE BIDEN: A DEDICATED SERVANT OF WALL STREET, THE RICH, AND BANKSTERS…. 

https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/lawyer-joe-bidens-kleptocracy-joe-and.html

The Biden family is notorious for being the crookedest clan not only in Delaware, but in D.C. DANIEL GREENFILED, FELLOW, SHILLMAN JOURNALISM, FREEDOM CENTER

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.

If they can buy an election for Biden, the theory is, they can buy it for anyone.

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.

GOP Senators Plan to Continue Probe into Hunter Biden’s Dealings

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At least two high-ranking Republican senators plan to continue investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings even should his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, take office in January.

Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who authored a report earlier this year detailing the potential conflicts of interest between Hunter Biden’s foreign ties and his father’s political influence, will keep pursuing the matter after the new Congress takes office next year.

Johnson, who currently chairs the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has begun telling news outlets that he will not “turn a blind eye” to recent revelations about the Biden family just because the 2020 election had passed.

“Tony Bobulinski coming forward, the computer being revealed, the FBI possibly starting an investigation,” Johnson told the Hill over the weekend. “We had a hard enough time getting what evidence we got to even write a report, and then all of a sudden our report sort of opened up this logjam.”

“I’m very confident there are probably more financial transactions that will probably be revealed,” the senator added.

Similarly, Grassley, who currently chairs the Senate Finance Committee, has asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) in recent days to make public any documents pertaining to Hunter Biden’s overseas interest. The Iowa lawmaker, specifically, has asked Attorney General William Barr whether any member of the Biden family sought guidance on whether their international business ventures complied with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Although both Grassley and Johnson are set to leave their current chairmanships in January, they plan to continue looking into the Biden family from other perches within the United States Senate.

Provided that Republicans retain control of the chamber, Johnson will use his position as the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s permanent subcommittee on investigations to keep his probe going. Grassley, likewise, will rely on his status as the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Last month, Tony Bobulinski, a one-time business associate of Hunter Biden, came forward to accuse the former vice president of lying about his involvement in his son’s dealings. Bobulinski claims that he met the Bidens in 2017 and became involved in a venture with Hunter and the former vice president’s younger brother, James.

Since coming forward, Bobulinski has agreed to cooperate with the Homeland Security Committee. Bobulinksi also told the Sinclair Broadcast Group in late-October that he was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding Hunter’s tenure on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas conglomerate.

 

Biden Education Lead: Chinese Communist Party Has Done ‘Magical Work’

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Chinese students in Beijing, China / Getty Images

Joe Biden's education transition team lead has a long history of praising China's school system—a system the Chinese Communist Party designed to indoctrinate students.

Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor and the president of the California State Board of Education, has praised the Chinese Communist Party's education system for its "magical work" in establishing a strong teacher-government presence in student life. In her 2017 book Empowered Educators: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World, she explained the centrality of the teacher to Chinese students' lives.

"Teachers in China are revered as elders, role models, and those whom parents entrust to shape the future of their children," Darling-Hammond wrote. "In the Tao traditions of ritual, the phrase ‘heaven-earth-sovereign-parent-teacher' is repeated and becomes ingrained in how people see themselves holistically governed and supported."

The Stanford educator failed to mention that any other teacher-student "relationship" could result in imprisonment. The Chinese government continually cracks down on "Western values" in the classroom by sending state-sponsored inspectors to monitor teachers—particularly in higher education—for "improper" remarks. Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has said that China's schools and teachers must "serve the Communist Party in its management of the country."

Not serving it can carry steep consequences. In July, for example, Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun was placed under house arrest after he criticized Xi's handling of the coronavirus crisis. He was subsequently fired from his teaching position at Tsinghua University—one of China's most elite institutions—after he spoke out against Xi's removal of presidential term limits.

In her book, Darling-Hammond also praised China for dramatically increasing spending on education. But that money has been unevenly distributed, resulting in persistent inequalities. Sixty percent of rural students drop out by the time they reach high school, and of the remaining 40 percent, only a small fraction take college entrance exams.

Similar disparities apply to teachers—yet in a 2011 Washington Post article, Darling-Hammond lauded China for boosting spending on teachers' professional development. She also took a "detailed statement" from the Chinese minister of education at face value, in which he claimed that China had allocated "billions of yuen" to improving teachers' "working … and living conditions."

Such omissions appear in Darling-Hammond's Twitter feed as well. In 2018, she tweeted that the United States had 71 times as many school shootings as China, but declined to note that Chinese crime statistics are notoriously inaccurate. She also ignored the numerous stabbings that plague Chinese schools. In October 2018, a woman stabbed 14 children in a kindergarten class. In April 2018, nine students were murdered at a middle school.

Darling-Hammond has spent nearly her entire life entrenched in Ivy League institutions, beginning at Yale University in 1969. In 2008, she served as the lead for Barack Obama's education transition team. Darling-Hammond had been under consideration to be Biden's secretary of education but claimed she was "not interested" in the position, citing her desire to continue working with California governor Gavin Newsom.

The Biden team did not respond to requests for comment.

Biden-Linked Firm WestExec Scrubs China Work From Website

Dem cabinet nom for State Department cofounded consulting firm WestExec

The Washington, D.C., consulting firm cofounded by President-elect Joe Biden’s secretary of state nominee, Antony Blinken, has removed from its website details of its China-related business as the firm’s work has drawn scrutiny following Biden's election victory. 

As recently as late July, WestExec Advisors touted its work helping major American universities court donations in China without jeopardizing Pentagon-funded research grants. An archived version of the WestExec site states that "U.S. research universities" were among the company’s clients and that the consultancy worked with schools to "remain a trusted partner for DoD-sponsored research grants while expanding foreign research collaboration, accepting foreign donations, and welcoming foreign students in key STEM programs." The company deleted references to such work from its website between July 26 and August 2, weeks before Biden accepted his nomination at the Democratic National Convention in late August.

The consultancy’s work is under the microscope because Biden has tapped, or is considering tapping, several of its principals and advisers who have thus far refused to disclose their clients or elaborate on the precise nature of their work. 

Biden is eyeing Blinken’s WestExec cofounder, the former Pentagon official Michèle Flournoy, as a potential secretary of defense. His nominee to be the intelligence chief, Avril Haines, and incoming press secretary Jen Psaki have also done work for the firm. 

Founded in 2017, WestExec boasted of deploying its deep government connections on behalf of its clients, pledging to bring "the situation room to the board room," and promised first-hand knowledge and government access to clients. The firm has dabbled in an array of consulting work, some of which involves U.S. adversaries such as China and Russia.

A spokeswoman for WestExec told the Washington Free Beacon that the firm "previously offered a service targeted to U.S. research universities to help them avoid inadvertently becoming involved with the Chinese government." She said the company no longer offers the service but declined to elaborate on why that decision was made.  

The firm still says on its website that it helps clients navigate "China-related risks in an era of strategic competition" and at one point strongly suggested its principals would lean on their government contacts, helping American universities seeking Chinese money "navigate these issues with the Department of Defense." 

The broad corporate portfolio also raises questions about the Biden nominees’ public comments about China at a time when they were on the payroll of U.S. businesses seeking to expand access there. Blinken, for example, slammed the Trump administration’s foreign policy in a 2017 New York Times op-ed, writing that "Trump Is Ceding Global Leadership to China."  

"While Mr. Trump is obsessed with building walls, Mr. Xi is busy building bridges," Blinken wrote. "I’d never bet against the United States, but if the Trump-led retreat into nationalism, protectionism, unilateralism and xenophobia continues, China’s model could carry the day."

Senate Republicans are already signaling that they intend to press Biden’s nominees on their business ties. Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) said the Senate is "not obligated to confirm anyone" who hides their prior clients, while Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) voiced his skepticism for nominees who previously helped U.S. businesses expand in China.

"America will not be stronger or safer if its foreign policy & national security agencies are led by people who just finished getting paid to help American companies do business with the Communist Party of #China," Rubio tweeted on Monday. 

The Biden transition team did not return a request for comment.  

 How Joe Biden's Pick for Secretary of State Might Have a Hunter Biden Problem

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Posted: Nov 26, 2020 1:00 PM

Source: AP Photo/Nick Wass

Antony Blinken is a longtime member of the Obama-Biden circle. He was Deputy Secretary of State and Deputy National Security Adviser under Obama. He also served as Deputy National Security Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden. He’s been tapped to be our next secretary of state if all the legal avenues become dead ends for the Trump legal team concerning the 2020 voter irregularities that have been documented. Still, Biden is making his picks—and this one is interesting because, well, Hunter might be involved. 

Remember that lie Joe told about not knowing what Hunter was doing which got blown up when his son’s emails were revealed by The New York Post? Joe knew what Hunter was doing. In 2014-15, Joe was heading up U.S. policy efforts in Ukraine. Hunter was placed on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, despite his lack of experience, getting paid $50k/month to reportedly sell access to top Obama officials. Well, Joe was introduced to the executives of Burisma by Hunter. Joe also fired the top prosecutor looking into the company on corruption allegations. The company expected access and protection from Hunter. They got both. And now we have details that Hunter wanted to meet with Blinken after he had joined Burisma (via Fox News):

BREAKING: State Department emails reveal that after joining Burisma’s board, Hunter Biden requested meetings with then-Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is now Joe Biden's pick for Secretary of State

— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) November 24, 2020

New Secretary of State pick Antony Blinken has a long-standing relationship with President-elect Joe Biden going back to their days in the Obama administration, but State Department emails revealed that during that time Blinken appeared to have made a connection with Hunter Biden as well.

In the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Hunter Biden was the subject of reports about business dealings in Ukraine and China and possible links to his father. Records show that the younger Biden also had ties to Blinken, having scheduled meetings with him while he was on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma and Blinken was deputy secretary of state.

"Have a few minutes next week to grab a cup of coffee? I know you are impossibly busy, but would like to get your advice on a couple of things," Hunter Biden said in a May 22, 2015 email to Blinken that the State Department released in 2019, pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request.

"Absolutely," Blinken replied. Several emails followed discussing logistics. A separate email from Blinken's assistant on May 27, 2015, listed his schedule for that day. It included a meeting with Hunter Biden set for 3:30 p.m.

The meeting didn’t happen because Beau Biden passed away, but the stench of the alleged corruption from the Biden family syndicate is seeping into Joe Biden’s cabinet picks. If Beau had lived, do you think these two were going to talk about sports, family, or their families? Yeah, and I’m Guccifer 2.0.—please.

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The Bidens sell access. That’s all they do. Tony Bobulinski exposed that when he turned over all documents and devices from his time working with Hunter on a deal with CEFC China Energy, which fell through in 2017. But this arrangement was done with Joe’s full knowledge. It started when Joe was still VPOTUS and it’s clear he was banking on using the office to secure a lucrative deal here. The family still got millions as a personal loan from the Chinese; CEFC also has ties, unsurprisingly, to the communist government. Alas, the arrival of the Biden doctrine: get paid and ask questions later. 

I doubt the media will cover the Hunter ties. They suffocated that bombshell story with a pillow, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Hunter Biden is not going away. If the GOP keeps the Senate, hearings are happening. If we can retake the House in 2022, the House should launch an investigation into this circus as well. 

Biden's hiring announcements thus far have continued the tradition established by his former boss, Barack Obama, who claimed to despise corporate lobbyists but hired dozens of them. Similarly, dozens of journalists left their roles as impartial truth-seekers to join the Obama administration.