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. JOHN BINDER
Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty. PATRICIA McCARTHY
We all know what a doddering old fool the current occupant of the Oval Office is, so there's no need to document his latest gaffes. Let's examine instead four of his nominees, starting with Secretary of State Tony Blinken and his connection with George Soros.
A PARTIAL LIST OF THE PARASITE LAWYERS DESTROYING AMERICA AND FILLING THEIR POCKETS DOING IT
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation (TWO GAMER LAWYERS ASSOCIATED WITH GEORGE SOROS) (WHAT ABOUT THE CHINA BIDEN PENN CENTER?) and the Obama (TWO GAMER LAWYERS ASSOCIATED WITH GEORGE SOROS)) book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family (FOUR GAMER LAWYERS - JOE, HUNTER, JAMES, FRANK, ASSOCIATED WITH 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 AND HER LAWYER HUSBAND AND THE BANKSTERS’ RENT BOY, LAWYER CHUCK SCHUMER). AND LYING LAWYER ADAM SHIFF AND TONY BLINKEN ASSOCIATED WITH GEORGE SOROS). BRIAN C JOONDEPH
How Democrats Get Filthy Rich
Plaintiffs in Google settlement get $95 each, lawyers pocket $35 million
What happened: A bunch of Democratic lawyers are getting rich after settling a class action lawsuit against Google.
• The plaintiffs in the case, Illinois residents who can prove Google violated their privacy rights between 2015 and 2022, will receive about $95 each.
• Their lawyers will receive $35 million in fees.
Why it matters: The lawyers who worked on the Google case are Democratic donors, obviously. Lawyers love Democrats because Democrats favor policies that inevitably require the involvement of lots of highly compensated lawyers.
• Lawyers and law firms donated $254 million to Democrats during the 2020 election cycle, more than four times the amount they gave Republicans. That's a quarter of a billion dollars.
By the numbers: Collectively, the named attorneys have contributed thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and committees over the years, and $500 to Mitt Romney in 2012, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
• Tina Wolfson, Adhoot & Wolfson — donated more than $13,000 to Democratic candidates since 2016.
• Theodore Maya, Adhoot & Wolfson — donated to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
• Frank Hedin, Hedin Hall LLP — donated more than $11,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2020, including $2,800 to Joe Biden's presidential campaign.
• Scott Bursor, Bursor & Fischer — donated more than $12,000 to Democratic candidates since 2011.
• Katrina Carroll and Kyle Shamberg, Lynch Carpenter LLP — each gave $2,900 to Sen. John Fetterman (D., Pa.) in August 2022, after his stroke.
Bottom line: Lawyers are the worst. If you like them and think they should have more money, vote for Democrats.
Published under: Democratic Donors , Democratic Party , Democrats , Illinois , Lawsuit
White House To Showcase Democratic Megadonor Reid Hoffman’s AI Startup
The White House on Friday will showcase an artificial intelligence firm founded by Jeffrey Epstein associate Reid Hoffman, giving a high-profile boost to the Democratic megadonor’s tech startup.
Hoffman’s co-founder at Inflection AI will attend a White House summit alongside executives from Google, Microsoft, and other AI companies to announce an initiative to promote the development of artificial intelligence while "manag[ing] the risks" posed by the technology.
The summit provides a major boost to Inflection AI, which Hoffman founded last year with former Google executive Mustafa Suleyman. Other companies represented at the summit have been in business for years. OpenAI, which operates ChatGPT, was founded in 2015. Inflection AI, which recently raised $1.3 billion in funding, launched its chatbot in May.
Inflection AI’s White House access is perhaps a testament to Hoffman’s extensive support for Democrats. Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, contributed over $700,000 to the Biden campaign and the Biden Victory Fund in April, according to campaign finance records. He also gave $41,300 to the Democratic National Committee. That’s in addition to the tens of millions of dollars Hoffman has given to other Democratic groups over the years.
The White House will partner with Hoffman’s firm even as the billionaire has been at the center of multiple high-profile scandals. Hoffman hosted a dinner with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 and visited his home in New York City in 2015. Hoffman has said he regrets the meetings and has apologized for helping repair Epstein’s reputation.
In 2017, Hoffman funded a technology startup that created fake social media personas in order to dissuade conservatives from voting in a special Senate election in Alabama. Vulnerability to political disinformation has been a concern about AI as the technology develops. President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Security Agency warned last week that artificial intelligence technology poses a threat to next year's presidential election.
Hoffman’s involvement in the AI startup may also raise conflict of interest concerns. Hoffman serves on the Defense Innovation Board, which advises the Pentagon on the application of new technologies for military use. The board has focused heavily on AI and has issued recommendations for the Pentagon to embrace the technology.
There is also cause for concern that Inflection AI’s technology is lagging behind its competitors. A Washington Free Beacon analysis of the Inflection AI chatbot found that it inaccurately denied that Hoffman had a relationship with Epstein.
Pi, Inflection AI's chatbot, repeatedly denied that Hoffman had ever met Epstein and suggested that reports about their meetings were "based on false information." The chatbot praised Hoffman "for his philanthropy and his commitment to social justice."
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
Published under: AI , Democratic Donors , Jeffrey Epstein , Reid Hoffman , White House
Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty. PATRICIA McCARTHY
Hunter Biden spoke during the Democratic National Convention, declaring that his father would be an “honest” president.
Report: Book Reveals Biden Family Corruption, ‘We’ve Got People All Around the World Who Want to Invest in Joe Biden’
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A new book released Monday indicates Biden family corruption schemes sought to enrich son Hunter and brother Jim Biden while Joe Biden was the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Author of The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power, Ben Schreckinger, was told by one of Jim’s former business partners, “Jim’s job is to ensure the lifestyle is good for the family.” The method of doing so reportedly entailed Hunter and Jim acquiring a hedge fund, Paradigm Global Advisors, which was founded and run by cocaine addict James Park.
“Jim and Hunter offered to buy the firm out for $21 million,” an offer inspired by Joe Biden’s plan to run for the Democrat “presidential nomination, and his son’s work for a Washington lobbying firm would be a problem.” Hunter was at that time employed at a lobbying firm that would present a conflict of interest for Joe Biden’s campaign.
“Hunter would have his new job, CEO of Paradigm, with a starting salary of $1.2 million,” Schreckinger wrote in the New York Post. “His experience in the financial sector amounted to a few years on the payroll of a credit-card issuer.”
President Joe Biden hugs his son Hunter Biden after being sworn in as U.S. president during his inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The position as a hedge fund manager reportedly enabled the Biden family to “tap the global demand for business partnerships with the relatives of a powerful American official,” Joe Biden.
In order to capitalize on the hedge fund with cash to make profitable acquisitions, Jim reportedly told one of his partners, Anthony Lotito, that he should not worry over raising money.
“Don’t worry about investors,” Jim reportedly told Lotito. “We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.”
“We’ve got investors lined up in a line of 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company,” Jim reportedly added.
The report also suggested that while Joe Biden was “preparing to announce his second White House bid,” Jim and Hunter were purportedly seeking to hire a team member who had more financial experience to offset their lack of financial knowledge.
Jim and Hunter soon hired Chuck Provini, who revealed “Jim and Hunter recruited him in part for political reasons. They wanted a non-Biden face atop the troubled firm.”
In Jim and Hunter’s offer to Provini, the two said Provini’s acceptance of the role would play a key part in keeping Joe Biden out of the headlines. “Joe Biden needs to distance himself from this,” Jim and Hunter told Provini, “Would you consider the job?”
Then-Vice President Joe Biden with his brother, Jim Biden, who was accused of defrauding a Tennessee businessman in a lawsuit filed in July 2019. (Christina Jamison/NBC NewsWire)
In order to convince Provini to take the job, Jim and Hunter apparently attempted to sweeten the pot, telling Provini they will help him find investments from highly sought-after union pension funds.
“I was told because of his relationships with the unions that they felt as though it would be favorably looked upon to invest in the fund,” Provini explained. “They knew nothing about the hedge-fund business.”
Despite Jim and Hunter’s attempts, the hedge fund was unable to acquire profitable companies or raise capital to do so. Notwithstanding the failings, the report also notes, “Hunter and Jim did seek to enlist the family’s political allies as investors in Paradigm. Under their ownership, the firm became entangled in legal disputes and financial scandals before quietly winding down.”
The hedge fund’s inability to show a track record of success reportedly did not stop “unsophisticated” investors from dropping by the fund’s headquarters to drop off small investment checks for the firm to deposit.
Book author Ben Schreckinger recounts what Provini said about the incident:
He recalled one week where a succession of firefighters paraded into the office over the course of a few days and asked to speak with him. They would offer explanations like, “We’re friends of Joe, and we want to invest in the fund.”
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The executive learned that there was a firefighters’ convention in town, and Jim had been working the room. “Jim told people they could invest in our hedge fund and that would help Joe,” the executive recalled.
Because of legal restrictions on who can invest in hedge funds, and because Paradigm, like most similar firms, insisted that clients fork over minimum investments in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, there was nothing he could do with the checks.
The hedge fund was still unsuccessful, despite the appearances Joe Biden helped create to encourage investments, for example, by sending firefighters who wanted to invest, literally into the firm. Ultimately, “Paradigm’s executives searched in vain to find an overseas bank or other foreign buyer to take the business off their hands, including in the banking haven of Switzerland.”
In the end, no entity would buy the fund from the Biden family, ending the hedge fund’s hopes of success.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø
IMAGES OF JOE BIDEN’S MANSIONS:
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