THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Alright, to be fair, the vintage Corvette roadster does double as a storage unit for classified government documents, so a financial hit from its loss wouldn’t just mean tens of thousands of dollars going up in smoke, but probably more like tens of millions. If that ‘Vette burned up, there goes his whole source of income! If the Chinese, and every other American adversary don't get access to classified docs, Biden ain't getting paid! You wouldn't deny a man a living wage, now would you?!
Now, apparently in 2004, one of Joe Biden’s residences experienced a minor fire — according to a 2004 report, lightning struck the home, “starting a small fire that was contained to the kitchen” and “no one was hurt” — but that didn’t stop Dementia Joe from prattling on to the survivors of the Maui blaze, about how he knows “what it’s like to lose a home”; watch below:
(I will say, I’m genuinely impressed at the restraint of the Hawaiian musicians standing just behind Joe.)
But if you know Joe Biden, you know it gets worse; brought to my attention by my colleague Monica Showalter, was this video clip:
The Democrats could have gotten anyone, but as fate would have it, they got Joe Biden. You know, the beauty of a politician is that at least in theory, they’re good at politicking (they can charm with forked tongues, lie with abandon, they’re slimy) but not Dementia Joe, he’s too far gone in his senility. He could have gotten up on that stage and issued empty but emotive condolences, putting on a spectacularly believable show, but he just can’t help himself.
Understandably so, people are outraged; however, Biden is never not despicable, so I am slightly confused how anyone is that surprised by what took place….
Now, if I were on Biden’s staff, I’d know a little bit about shifting blame and pointing fingers to avoid culpability, and the PR strategy seems like a no brainer solution: just pin it on Robin Ware or Robert L. Peters, or maybe even somebody they call the “Big Guy”? I heard he’s quite a menace.
Actually, now that I think of it, I’m certain it was one of those troublemakers that went off script and fell asleep at a somber memorial service, making Joe Biden look like a nincompoop; in fact, I saw it with my own eyes!
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Watch – Biden Jokes About the ‘Hot Ground’ While Visiting Maui Wildfires: ‘You Guys Catch the Boots Here?’
President Joe Biden waded through the aftermath of the wildfires in Maui where he appeared to joke about the “hot ground.”
The moment occurred on Monday as the president mingled with a first responder, prompting laughter from people nearby.
“You guys catch the boots out here? That’s a hot ground, man,” he joked.
In another moment, the president addressed Maui’s wildfire victims, and he attempted to relate to them by citing a fire his home endured back in 2004.
“I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, what it’s like to lose a home,” he said.
Biden said that he almost “lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette, and my cat.”
The president used the moment to commend firefighters for their bravery.
According to a 2004 report from Firehouse.com, the fire at the Biden residence was contained to the kitchen:
Lightning struck the home of Sen. Joseph Biden, starting a small fire that was contained to the kitchen.
No one was injured in Sunday’s fire, which started amid a storm that caused serious flooding in Pennsylvania and knocked out power to hundreds of Delaware homes and businesses.
Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the house, but were able to keep the flames from spreading beyond the kitchen, said Cranston Heights Fire Company Chief George Lamborn.
The president arrived in Maui to survey the damage from the wildfires after 13 days.
“The country grieves with you, stands with you, and will do everything possible to help you recover, rebuild, and respect culture and traditions,” Biden said.
An estimated 480 people have died in the catastrophic fire, with over 800 still missing. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green (D) said on Sunday that a majority of those unaccounted for are likely children.
US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden visited the Hawaiian island of Maui on Monday evening, the site of the deadliest wildfire in US history in more than a century.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden listen during a prayer as they meet with community members impacted by the Maui wildfires at the civic center in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Monday, August 21, 2023 [AP Photo/Evan Vucci]
Biden made the obligatory walk in front of video cameras on Front Street in the town of Lahaina, which burned to the ground on August 8 and where 114 people are confirmed dead with 850 still missing, before he delivered remarks to the media.
The President made the belated trip amid an uproar of popular anger in Hawaii and across the country over his indifference, made explicit when he offered “no comment” in response to questions last week about the disaster.
He was accompanied by a group of local and state Democratic Party officials, including Hawaii Governor Josh Green, US Senators Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono and US Representative Jill Tokuda.
Biden spoke for approximately eight minutes and claimed—even though it took almost a week for him to emerge from his beach vacation in Delaware to comment on the disaster—that the US government would “be with” the survivors of the fire “for as long as it takes.”
As he has done throughout his presidency every time a deadly disaster strikes, Biden sought to use the death of his first wife and young daughter in an auto accident in 1972 to express empathy. “I know how it feels,” he said.
Biden gave few details about what the federal government was doing to address the needs of the thousands of people who are now homeless but instead attempted to defend his pathetic and delayed response to the crisis.
He boasted about being “quick to provide 55,000 meals, 75,000 liters of water, beds, 10,000 blankets” for a town where the people have lost everything. He told homeowners, renters and nonprofits, “If you need help, you can visit the FEMA disaster recovery center at Maui College or go to disasterassistance.gov.”
Biden did not offer any explanation or preliminary analysis of the causes of the catastrophe, both natural and man-made, even though much has already been exposed in the two weeks since the fire. Leading the entire capitalist political establishment, the US President presented the wildfire as a matter of fact and the government’s response to it as perfectly acceptable.
The devastating impact of the wildfire, driven by multiple climate change conditions such as drought and high winds from Hurricane Dora in the Pacific to the south of the island, ripped through West Maui on August 8 and 9. Although environmentalists had warned about the dangers of just such a fire, government emergency officials issued no warning, and residents had no time to evacuate before the fast-moving fire and extreme heat destroyed everything in its path.
Although FEMA authorities have said that survivors have been moved out of shelters and into hotels and homes, the Washington Post reported last Friday that many people without shelter are camping in tents nightly on the beaches or living in their cars. “Others,” the report continued, “are living in churches and golf clubs as they begin to think about what will come next.”
Meanwhile, the work of providing food is being done by church and charity groups. The Post reported, “Citizen Church Maui in Kahana has become a main hub to feed those displaced from the fire but also the many others who live along the coast but were far from the flames and have nowhere to eat.” The church is serving 3,000 meals per day.
In fact, the inability and refusal of the federal government to provide for the essential needs of the Maui disaster survivors was highlighted inadvertently by Governor Green, who spoke after Biden when he directed those who wish to support the residents of Maui to donate to the Red Cross.
As each day passes, those looking for missing relatives, including large numbers of children, are concluding that they have died. Governor Green told CBS “Face the Nation” on Sunday morning that just 27 of the 114 confirmed victims have been identified. The network reported on Monday that “Stories have started pouring in of children who were lost in the flames.”
In one instance, teenager Kenyero Fuentes was enjoying his last day of summer vacation when the fire hit his house. His adoptive mother, Luz Vargas, was working five miles from home when she and her husband tried to return to save their son, but they were blocked by traffic.
As CBS News reported, “When they were finally allowed to go to their house two days later, they found the body of their 14-year-old son, hugging the family’s dead dog. He was just days away from celebrating his 15th birthday.”
Biden’s trip to Maui was essentially an exercise in damage control. This was revealed in an interview by the Washington Post with Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, who strained to justify the inaction and lack of urgency from the White House.
“There are some times when a president promises support, but the Cabinet doesn’t really fully internalize the message,” Schatz said, adding, “And that’s not what’s happening here.”
Seeking to cover for Biden’s ineptitude and callousness, Schatz said, “[The president is] not the FEMA administrator so he’s not making [decisions] about when to open the road on West Maui or anything. His job is to tell the federal government to mobilize and mean it.”
Mark Levin Lists ‘Ruling Class Thugs Who Make Up the Cabal Trying to Imprison Trump’
On Monday, conservative commentator and Constitutional Scholar Mark Levin took to social media to list and expose some of “ruling class thugs” breaking and bending the law in their efforts to imprison Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump.
“And these are but a few of the ruling-class thugs who make up the cabal trying to imprison Trump,” Levin wrote in one post, introducing his list:
“Hunter Biden (GAMER LAWYER) should be in prison.”
“Joe Biden (GAMER LAWYER) should be in prison.”
“Hillary Clinton (GAMER LAWYER) should be in prison.”
“Jack Smith (GAMER LAWYER) should've been disbarred for his past unethical (and worse) abuses of prosecutorial power.”
“Eric Holder (GAMER LAWYER) was never held to account for arming the Mexican drug cartels.”
“James Comey (GAMER LAWYER) was never held to account for his efforts to sabotage the incoming Trump administration.”
“Nancy Pelosi attempted multiple coups against Trump, including two phony impeachments and the January 6 Stalinist committee.”
“In 2016, congressional Democrats objected to counting all the electors on the House floor in an attempt to overturn the presidential election and install Hillary.”
“The corrupt Democrat Party-media assisted these thugs every step of the way (Russia collusion and all the rest).”
“The DA (GAMER LAWYER) in Manhattan is a lapdog for George Soros.”
“The DA (GAMER LAWYER) in Fulton County, GA, whose father was part of the violent Black Panther movement, is a Democrat hack.”
In a separate social media post of a video clip from Sunday’s “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Host Levin goes into detail, explaining the secret abuses of prosecutorial power, violations of civil rights and Justice Department rules, and false charges the thugs are employing against Trump.
Levin condemns the corruption of “All these secret trial activities going on” and being used to rig the outcome of Trump’s cases - such as stripping the former president of Attorney-Client Privilege and Executive Privilege”:
“Trial by secrecy, in a Democrat courtroom, with a Democrat judge, a Democrat prosecutor, a Democrat grand jury, Democrat future jury.”
In particular, Levin notes how a secret search warrant was granted to allow the government to seize all communications (including private communications) the former president had on Twitter:
“Now, why was that done in secret? The bogus argument: ‘Well, if he finds out that we’re looking at his Twitter account, he may flee the country.’
“Yeah, he’ll leave his family, he’ll leave Mar a Lago, he’ll leave it all. He’ll just flee the country. Now, how ridiculous is that?”
Levin goes on to explain how corrupt prosecutors are using irrelevant statutes, as well as inventing and piling on countless charges - because they want the juries to be able to find just a single one they can use to justify convicting Trump - the front-running candidate to be Republicans’ 2024 nominee for president.
COUNT THE PIG GAMER LAWYERS!
EVERY SINGLE ONE A BRIBES SUCKING SLUT FOR WALL STREET BANKSERS!
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK - OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren (GAMER LAWYER) and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption (ADD GAMER LAWYER KAMALA HARRIS (WANTS TO BE OWNED BY GEORGE SOROS) AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER, OWNED BY LARRY FINK OF BLACKROCK WHO OWNS A BIG PIECES OF THE ‘BIG GUY’ JOE, AND GEORGE SOROS’ RENT BOY GAMER LAWER TONY BLINKEN, GEORGE SOROS RENT BOY, AS WELL AS CON MAN ADAM SHIFF) AND HIS CORRUPTNESS BOB MENENDEZ STILL EVADING PRISON.
Chuck Schumer has also been in government since the 1980s and helped create the economy of today that makes it virtually impossible for people my age to build wealth and start a family. The man has literally done nothing but preside over America’s decline. OLIVIA MURRAY
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the American people did not care about Republican lawmakers’ investigations into President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
Schumer said, “Let’s compare it to the Republicans. We’re investing, there are investigating. All they seem to do is want to investigate this, that and the other thing. That doesn’t help the American people. The contrast of yesterday, a former president being indicted for trying to deny an election, and this president today talking about investing in America, that’s going to sink in. It’s our job to make sure it sinks in.”
Co-host Joe Scarborough said, “I mean, their investigations are so stupid I am embarrassed for them. They are talking to arms dealers and people that illegally smuggle oil to the Communist Chinese Party. They talk about tapes and the FBI Grassley gives up the game and says we don’t care if he’s guilty or not. I could go down the list.”
Schumer said, “These investigations don’t matter to the average American people. This is the right-wing, the hard right-wing talking to each other. Let them keep talking to each other. We’re talking to the American people.”
Six Obama administration officials used alias email addresses, including then-Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.
Whether connected to a government network or not, it is unusual for government officials to use an email alias. Not only is it peculiar, it raises questions about why Obama administration officials utilized aliases and whether government secrets were compromised.
Below is a list of six U.S officials who used an email alias within the Obama administration:
1) Lisa Jackson, 2013
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Friday, Sept. 7, 2012, at the Canadian Embassy in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Jackson used the “Richard Windsor” alias as the former EPA Administrator, according to the Washington Post:
Jackson, who left the agency earlier this year, used an e-mail account associated with the pseudonym Richard Windsor to take online training programs on subjects including ethics, whistleblowers and records preservation, said the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has been critical of the agency. CEI said Monday that it had obtained EPA records that covered certifications in 2010, 2011, and 2012 through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Republicans have pounced on Jackson’s use of the fake identity for her non-public e-mail account, saying that it might be part of an effort to skirt transparency and public records requirements. (As to the origin of the alias, Richard was the name of Jackson’s dog, and Windsor refers to East Windsor, N.J., Jackson’s former hometown).
2) Loretta Lynch, 2016
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, speaks during a Criminal Justice Summit September 13, 2016, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Lynch used the email alias “Elizabeth Carlisle” as Obama’s attorney general, the Federalist reported:
Lynch was caught conducting a secret meeting with Bill Clinton aboard a private plane on a tarmac in Phoenix last year as Clinton’s wife pursued the presidency and amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private, unsecured email server, which she illegally used during her tenure as secretary of State. Soon afterward, the former attorney general reportedly used a pseudonym to coordinate a narrative about the meeting with Department of Justice officials, Chuck Ross at The Daily Caller reports.
Also shortly after the private plane meeting, former FBI director James Comey announced that agency would not pursue a case against Clinton, despite admitting he had enough evidence to do so. A month later, Lynch announced the DOJ would not investigate the Clinton Foundation’s relationship with the State Department during Hillary’s tenure, despite the FBI’s recommendation to do so. The chain of events caused many to question Lynch’s motives, as it was also widely reported that Hillary planned to keep Lynch as attorney general had Clinton won the election.
3) Eric Holder, 2015
Holder used three separate alias email addresses after he took office in 2009 as the attorney general, the Los Angeles Times reported:
Holder’s previous aliases were Henry Yearwood and David Kendricks, Fallon confirmed. His current alias has not been released.
The alias “Henry Yearwood” is a combination of his mother’s maiden name and the first name of another family member, the Huffington Post reported. “David Kendricks” is a mashing of Temptations members David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, according to the Post.
President Barack Obama applauds outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder at the portrait unveiling ceremony at the Justice Department in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2015. (Photo credit should read YURI GRIPAS/AFP via Getty Images)
4) Barack Obama, 2016
Obama used an alias email address to communicate with his secretary of state, two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. None-for-profit Marco Polo unearthed his alias as “Obama725.” Politico reported:
The State Department has refused to make public that and other emails Clinton exchanged with Obama. Lawyers have cited the “presidential communications privilege,” a variation of executive privilege, in order to withhold the messages under the Freedom of Information Act.
The report doesn’t provide more details on the contents of that particular email exchange, but says it took place on June 28, 2012, and had the subject line: “Re: Congratulations.” It may refer to the Supreme Court’s ruling that day upholding a key portion of the Obamacare law.
It’s been known since last year that Obama and Clinton corresponded occasionally via her private account, but the White House has insisted Obama did not know she relied on it routinely and exclusively for official business.
5) Joe Biden, 2016
Joe Biden used aliases “Robert Peters,” “Robin Ware,” and “JRB Ware” for personal and professional use. In 2016, “Robert Peters” received an email about a scheduled call with the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian official who fired the prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings. The energy company was paying Hunter Biden $83,000 a month to sit on the board.
The House Oversight Committee argues that Joe Biden threatened to withhold U.S. aid to Ukraine in 2015 until the president of Ukraine fired prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who had jurisdiction for an investigation into the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
Hunter Biden’s laptop contained 27 emails linked to Joe Biden’s pseudonym email address, Marco Polo’s dossier cataloged.
Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appear onstage at the Vital Voices Global Partnership 2013 Global Leadership Awards gala at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (Cliff Owen/AP)
6) Hilary Clinton, 2016
Hillary Clinton used two alias email addresses “hdr22” and “hrod17,” uncovered by the infamous email scandal, Breitbart News reported:
Hillary Clinton set up a private email server, and a private email network for herself and her family and Abedin. Doing so could prevent her emails from being “accessible” to the federal government, not to mention Congress.
The private network allowed Clinton, Abedin, and aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan to swap emails with the Clinton Foundation, various world leaders, and Doug Band’s global consulting firm Teneo Holdings, where Abedin also worked during her time at the State Department. This would have been problematic, considering Clinton’s 2009 ethics agreement, leaked on Cryptome, in which she vowed not to coordinate with the Clinton Foundation.
The FBI investigation began with one simple premise: that Hillary Clinton violated the Espionage Act of 1913 by allowing national defense information to be “lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed” through “gross negligence.” Clinton team emails have now ended up in the hands of Julian Assange — a man who lives sequestered in an Ecuadorian embassy — and in the hands of detectives in the Anthony Weiner sexting case.
As egregious as all these payments and shell game money transfers were, the scope and scale of Biden deal activities in China crosses a new threshold requiring urgent correction.
In creating a free and open system, the framers of the Constitution recognized that corrupting influence from foreign powers was a real threat. They were particularly concerned about a corruptible American president. In his famous Farewell Address of 1796, George Washington issued a stern warning against the poisonous influence of foreign governments on the affairs of the new United States of America. He said, "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
The Founders were idealists but also realists, and they recognized that people’s private ambitions and thirst for power or money were powerful motivators. They understood that the human condition was flawed, and that goodness of human nature could not be relied upon. So, they set up a system of checks and balances of power in the three branches of the legislative, the executive and the judiciary, and in a federal system of divided power between states and the federal government. They understood it was necessary to create these competing and redundant structures to guard against abuse of power and corruption. But they went even further.
The Constitution created two other safeguards against corruption in the impeachment powers of Article II, Section 4 and in the emoluments clause in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution. The latter prohibits any person holding a government office from accepting any present, emolument, office, or title from any foreign state without congressional consent. With these safeguards, the Founders believed they had created a governmental system better than any prior to forestall domestic public vice and the corruption that would come from foreign influence. Still, Washington’s Farewell Address of 1797 framed the issue in ways that are as relevant today as they were 227 years ago, when he wrote:
The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave… to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury… So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.
The standard for impeachment as expressed in the Constitution is conviction of Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
President Joe Biden’s questionable activities go back to his first year as Vice President in 2009 and continued throughout his eight years serving in the two-term Obama administration, punctuated with son Hunter being paid $1 million a year as a board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014. That role continued for more than four years, with a large $10 million dollar payoff from Burisma coming to Hunter and Joe Biden after the latter blackmailed Ukraine by threatening the withholding of $1 billion in U.S. aid unless prosecutor general Victor Shokin was fired from the corruption investigation of Burisma in March of 2016 -- an investigation that would have exposed fraud, including questionable payments to Hunter Biden. FBI documents refer to the two $5 million payments to Hunter and Joe Biden as a 'bribe' paid by Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky.
The case for impeaching President Joe Biden goes beyond bribery and emolument high crimes related to Ukraine. In 2014, Hunter Biden introduced his father, then Vice President, to Kazakhstan oligarch Kenes Rakishev at a dinner. Records and testimony obtained by James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee show that at that time of introducing Rakishev to Vice President Biden, Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer were working on a deal involving Burisma, on whose board they both served, and a Chinese company that would have been based in Kazakhstan. To facilitate the deal and his relationship with Archer and the Bidens, Rakishev wired $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca -- a shell company created by Devon and Hunter -- the exact amount needed to fund Hunter's sportscar purchase the next day.
Another mysterious payment to the Bidens came during that same year. Shortly after Joe Biden was introduced to Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina at a dinner meeting in February 2014, $3.5 million was wired to Rosemont Seneca by Baturina.
These kinds of payments to the Bidens coming from oligarchs from Ukraine and other countries are way beyond a level where impeachment and removal from office is justified. Also, the means of transferring and distributing funds follows the pattern of international criminal enterprises. The Bidens were involved with the creation of some twenty shell companies for the purpose of concealing money transfers from foreign nationals and then distributing those transferred funds to as many as nine different Biden family members.
As egregious as all these payments and shell game money transfers were, the scope and scale of Biden deal activities in China crosses a new threshold requiring urgent correction.
China engages in unrestricted warfare against the United States, something that the Founders could hardly fathom. Blackmail was not then a term in wide usage, having first been coined in Scotland in the 17th century. Today blackmail is one of the chief tools in China’s massive elite capture program in the United States, giving them control over many in government in the United States -- with the top elite family in the U.S. being Joe Biden’s family. Preliminary records assembled in 2021 and 2022 by investigative journalists without subpoena power or access to bank records show that the Chinese elite have paid some $31 million to the Biden family. For the Chinese, these payments were and are about control and blackmail, which may explain why Biden more than any other U.S. president has pursued policies that have weakened the United States and helped China.
Bring on impeachment and let the hearings on the Bidens’ involvement in China begin.
Scott Powell is senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger-China. His timeless book, Rediscovering America, was #1 new release in history for eight straight weeks (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599). Reach him at scottp@discovery.org
When Hunter Biden was driving 172 miles an hour while smoking crack on the way to meet prostitutes in Las Vegas, the son of a future president was driving a Porsche 911.
Devon Archer, Hunter’s closest partner, told the House Oversight Committee that the car had been paid for by an oligarch from Kazakhstan. “I believe it was a Fisker first and then a Porsche.”
Kenes Rakishev, the banker for Kazakhstan’s dictator and a close associate of Ramzan Kadyrov, Putin’s ruthless Chechen warlord, had allegedly bought Hunter the sports car after a meeting with Joe and Hunter at Cafe Milano: an exclusive D.C. eatery that the Washington Post had described as “Washington’s ultimate place to see and be seen.”
The Fisker Karma was more than just another sports car. The electric luxury vehicle was a social statement that had been backed by a $529 million loan to the Europeans behind it.
Vice President Joe Biden, told local politicians, union members, and Fisker executives in Wilmington, Delaware in 2009 that Fisker would be bringing green jobs for everyone..
Joe Biden cited “a real commitment by this Administration” and “loans from the Department of Energy” that would help “America’s auto industry reclaim its top position in the global market. Of the total loan, $359 million is going to revive manufacturing at the Boxwood Plant.”
The then vice president made no mention of Hunter’s business interests, Fisker’s backing by Al Gore’s venture capital fund or that the $170 million remainder of the loan would be going to build Fisker’s ‘Karma’ cars in Finland.
“We’re not in the business of failing; we’re in the business of winning. So we make the right decision for the business,” Fisker said. “That’s why we went to Finland.”
Hunter Biden was not in the business of failing either: it just seemed to happen anyway. Armed with his father’s backing and that of local Delaware officials, he was working to transform the state’s rust belt infrastructure, like the old GM plant that Fisker was promising to take over, into green energy ventures that would cash in on the massive redistribution of taxpayer money through the $90 billion allocated for green energy companies in Obama’s ‘Recovery Act’.
Emails went back and forth between Hunter Biden, Delaware’s governor and the head of the state’s office of economic development who described a green energy project touted by Hunter as coming from the “vice president’s office”. The line between Joe Biden and his son’s business ventures, which is at the heart of the House Oversight Committee, seemed barely there.
After Fisker’s loan had been secured, Wayne Kimmel, Hunter’s childhood friend and a venture capitalist, who along with Hunter had cosponsored an inaugural breakfast to celebrate his dad’s new job, emailed Hunter to ask for an introduction to Chris Heinz, John Kerry’s stepson and a co-founder of Hunter’s Rosemont Seneca firm, to discuss Fisker.
“Its our fund that’s in the deal,” Hunter replied.
And what made the deal work was $529 million in taxpayer money. The Delaware launch, attended by Joe Biden, was ultimately going to benefit Hunter Biden’s company.
“Hunter… sincere thanks for any and all help provided concerning Fisker, particularly intro to Wayne. Also, congrats to all on the finalization of the Boxwood Plant transfer, announced on Monday,” Barry Yerger, a financial mover and shaker recently appointed by Joe Biden to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, wrote.
While the Fisker disaster unfolded, there was no mention of the Biden role in the company.
Fisker was supposed to build “affordable” electric cars in Delaware that would cost $40,000. Instead it built the ‘Karmas’ in Finland. They cost six figures, were too heavy, the hybrid’s gas mileage was no better than some regular cars and the tires wore out in a year.
But Hunter wanted one anyway, perhaps to drive or to show off to prospective investors.
By 2012, the target date, $193 million of the loan had been spent on the ‘Karma’ and other projects, and nothing was happening in Delaware. In 2013, the only option, the local media warned was “Chinese billionaires” preparing for Fisker’s bankruptcy auction. One of those Chinese billionaires would win the auction despite his company, which promised to make the electric cars, being created a few months beforehand with no office address or phone number, after rigging the auction and “cheating taxpayers out of millions of dollars”.
A few months after a Kazakh oligarch allegedly bought Hunter a Fisker Karma, it was already breaking down. Meanwhile Joe Biden was meeting with a different set of foreign executives.
Joe Biden invited two executives from Wanxiang, a Chinese automotive company that would gobble up Fisker, to the White House. A few days later one of the executives promised to help get Hunter’s Fisker Karma fixed.
“Last Friday when we visited D.C., I heard that your Fisker is out of order and could not get serviced. Sorry,” the Chinese executive wrote. “It would be our honor to get your Fisker fixed… I would like to give you a call to see what we could do as next step.”
The Chinese executive mentioned, “It would be our great honor to welcome you to visit Fisker or Wanxiang at any time.”
Did the Chinese executive hear about Fisker and the state of Hunter’s car from him or his dad? The executive’s phrasing suggests that he had heard about it from someone other than Hunter.
The head of Delaware’s economic development office claimed that Hunter Biden had offered to “to link the governor with Chinese investors interested in acquiring the auto plant.” But nothing happened. Wanxiang never built any cars there, but instead sold it off to a private developer.
No cars would be built on the auto plant. Instead taxpayers were left not only with over $100 million in losses, but local taxpayers were also on the hook for its $400,000 power bill.
The green energy disaster was not the only one that came from Obama’s corrupt Recovery Act.
Sun Edison, a solar panel company, became the biggest green energy bankruptcy, benefiting from as much as $1.5 billion in government grants and subsidies. In an email, Devon Archer mentioned to Hunter that he was planning to meet with Sun Edison “in the next few weeks and qualify if there’s opportunity”. The Biden administration appointed Jigar Shah, Sun Edison’s founder, to head the loan office at the Department of Energy distributing green energy grants.
There is no shortage of opportunities and expenses. The story of Fisker suggests that Joe Biden’s abuse of his office to help Hunter’s economic interests may go as far back as 2009. Not long after Joe became vice president, Hunter was benefiting from the connection.
Americans lost over $100 million on Fisker, but thanks to the services of a Kazakh oligarch and some Chinese automotive executives, Hunter Biden got a $142,000 lemon.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
President Joe Biden’s questionable activities go back to his first year as Vice President in 2009 and continued throughout his eight years serving in the two-term Obama administration, punctuated with son Hunter being paid $1 million a year as a board member of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014. That role continued for more than four years, with a large $10 million dollar payoff from Burisma coming to Hunter and Joe Biden after the latter blackmailed Ukraine by threatening the withholding of $1 billion in U.S. aid unless prosecutor general Victor Shokin was fired from the corruption investigation of Burisma in March of 2016 -- an investigation that would have exposed fraud, including questionable payments to Hunter Biden. FBI documents refer to the two $5 million payments to Hunter and Joe Biden as a 'bribe' paid by Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky.
