In one corner of my desk, there are a bunch of press clips, notes, and documents. They go back to last October and are part of the outrageous information contained in a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden.
Normally I would have already thrown away the papers or stored them. But I had them on hand because I knew the day would come when they would be needed again.
Friday was that day.
In a television interview, Hunter effectively conceded for the first time that the laptop was his, opening the door to a new round of control over his foreign business scams and influence peddling. This time, the door must remain open until America achieves the truth.
Thanks to the hard work of The Post last fall, it was obvious that the laptop was from Hunter. But as Democrats and their media spokesmen tried to hide the truth, emails revealing suspicious behavior by the man who is now president have never been fully examined and explained.
That shutdown must end.
So far, all we’ve gotten is lies, like when Joe Biden called the laptop “a Russian plant” during a presidential debate. He had help inventing this claim, with 50 former intelligence leaders, including the hateful John Brennan, saying the content smelled of Russian misinformation.
It was a whistle for Big Media, which tried to discredit stories about shocking content. Even when Tony Bobulinski, a former decorated naval officer, came forward to say he was the CEO of a deal with the Biden family and Chinese energy officials, he spoke with Joe Biden about the deal and that Joe had to get a 10% secret. cut, Big Media looked away.
This was the second whistle of a dog, this one for Big Tech, with Facebook and Twitter quickly blocking reports from The Post during the run.
The performance was a national embarrassment and a gross success that helped Biden win the election. What success became clearer in a poll where 45% of its voters said they didn’t know about Hunter’s business and 9.4% said they wouldn’t have voted for Biden if they had known.
Weeks later, in December, Hunter admitted he was the subject of a Department of Justice criminal investigation, in part because the FBI also had the contents of the laptop. How convenient the information is to be kept until after the election.
Still, the intentional ignorance of the media continues. Last Thursday, in an NPR review of Hunter’s new book, “Beautiful Things,” Ron Elving, editor of NPR, falsely claimed that “the history of the laptop was discredited by American intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations “. He later made a stuffed mouth correction, but no real journalist was able to make that mistake.
But karma is a fun thing and Hunter’s comments on CBS during a book tour again put the laptop back into play. While I’m not naive enough to assume that the New York Times, CNN, and Twitter will suddenly become something other than left-wing, they no longer have the monopoly of information that many Americans receive.
Also, as president, Biden cannot hide as easily as last year. Press conferences offer journalists the opportunity to ask him directly about his role in the Hunter agreements.
In addition, press secretary Jen Psaki holds almost daily briefings, where journalists have time to raise complicated issues. All of these events are televised, so just asking clear, fact-based questions about the president’s behavior alerts viewers to problems and bets.
If Biden or Psaki don’t give credible answers, Americans will know they are hiding something important.
Although Hunter has not yet been right about his father’s role, the responsibility has passed to his father. Joe Biden has long been answering questions about how his family, including brothers Jim and Frank, managed to earn tens of millions of dollars in contracts and connections to Joe’s government power.
The short answer is that they were selling accesses and that foreign governments and oligarchs were happy to buy at exorbitant prices. The best-known scam, Hunter, who gets $ 4 million from Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company, despite knowing nothing about energy or Ukraine, sums up the family business model.
The most vital open-ended questions include Bobulinsky’s claims about China. He worked with Hunter and Jim Biden, along with two other investors, to form a joint venture with the energy conglomerate, whose owners were close with the Chinese Communist Party.
The plan was for the Americans to use Joe’s contacts to reach agreements with governments around the world for the Chinese to buy infrastructure projects and operate them. The Chinese would put all the money in, and in every deal, the Americans would get a cut. Many millions of dollars were imagined trading hands.
One of the laptop emails said Hunter would keep 10 percent of the partnership for “the big one.”
Bobulinski told me that Joe Biden was “the big one,” one of the phrases Hunter used to refer to his father. Another colleague, James Gilliar, told Bobulinski by text, “Don’t mention that Joe is involved, only when you’re face to face, I know you know, but they’re paranoid.”
Bobulinski told me he met with Joe, Jim and Hunter to talk about the “family business” in 2017 and in a second conversation the next day, Joe told him to “watch over my family.” When Bobulinski asked Jim Biden why the family wasn’t worried about exposing Joe’s role, he said Jim laughed and said, “Plausible negativity.”
The joint venture collapsed, but Senate investigators revealed that Hunter, Jim, and fifth partner Robb Walker received $ 11 million from the Chinese in the months that followed.
Did Joe Biden get any of that money, directly or indirectly? Remember reports Hunter once said that his father asks for half of his income.
Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Whose committee investigated Bidens’ connections to China, believes the money the family earned creates the risk that China may “blackmail” the president.
These are serious concerns, but too many media don’t even care. It depends on the few honest journalists left to find the facts.
It’s a shame for the stars
Major League Baseball’s decision to move the game from the Atlanta stars to protest Georgia’s new voting law demonstrates a statement often attributed to Mark Twain: a lie can reach half the world while the truth still put on his boots.
The lie is that Georgia law seeks to suppress participation. The truth, as Gov. Brian Kemp says, is that it “makes it easier to vote and cheat.”
Perhaps this is the problem: those on the left do not care if it is easier to vote. They just want to ease the trap.
Wow, are you interested in doing this?
Marcus Cederqvist, former executive director of the city’s Electoral Board, makes a big point in writing: “If you require people to present a DNI to prove their identity when the vote is racist, not the ‘vaccine passports’ proposed by the Democrats would be more so? “