We’ve gone from a president falsely accused of being entangled with a hostile foreign power to a president whose family has been financially entangled with a hostile foreign power.
The same people who assured us, constantly, that the walls were about to close in on Donald Trump in the Russia investigation have endorsed, promoted, and defended Joe Biden, a man whose family business involves taking money from shady foreign actors.
The latest revelation is a shocking alleged WhatsApp message from Hunter Biden to one Henry Zhao, an employee with the Chinese firm CEFC Infrastructure Investment, threatening him to pay up or face the music because Hunter was “sitting here with my father.” Hunter helpfully explained, “I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”Zhao, who is suspected of being a Chinese Communist Party official [PF comment: at that level he’s almost certainly a member of the CCP], and everyone told of the message at CEFC presumably understood what Hunter was getting at — this is exactly how politics and business are conducted in much of the world.Within days of the call, CEFC sent $100,000 to Hunter Biden’s firm, Owasco PC, and shortly thereafter $5 million to another Hunter entity, Hudson West III, which he had set up with Chinese associates.
Not bad work if you can get it.In keeping with Biden family practice, Hunter then spread the wealth around. Owasco transferred $1.4 million to the consulting firm of Joe Biden’s brother, James, in nearly two dozen wire transactions over the course of about a year.The latest revelation brings home how the Russia-collusion obsessives have been wrong twice: wrong to believe that Trump’s campaign was coordinating with Russian taskmasters, and wrong to dismiss the concerns about the Biden influence-peddling business.
Thanks, in large part, to the priorities of the media and the bias and incompetence of the FBI, the country spent years obsessed with something that didn’t exist and now has spent years, more or less, ignoring something that does exist. [emphasis added]
Put another way, a wisp of smoke in the collusion controversy was presumed to signal a raging inferno, whereas the Canadian-wildfire-level smoke from sleazy Biden family dealings is presumed to be incidental or illusory.
We’ve gone from an investigation that began for no good reason and despite the evidence to an investigation that, according to the IRS whistleblowers, has been pursued by officials doing everything to minimize it and look past potential evidence of wrongdoing.
You’d think, just as a matter of the law of averages, that federal authorities would manage to produce one properly predicated and conducted investigation of a major national figure and those around him. Instead, it’s either too hot or too cold, too hostile or too forgiving.
Of course, there’s much we still need to know about the matter: Was Joe actually at Hunter’s side, or was Hunter making it up? How much did Joe know about all of this? Did he get a cut, directly or indirectly?
What we do know, though, is alarming enough. Imagine if Don Jr. was shaking down a Russian businessman by invoking his father’s name, indeed his physical presence, via text. If Russiagate special counsel Robert Mueller had found such a text, it would have been the crown jewel of his report, and it would have set off a firestorm — indeed, the business arrangement alone might have been the occasion for an impeachment inquiry.
Now, Trump’s enemies had all sorts of reasons to oppose him and want him out of office, apart from their dark suspicions that he was beholden to Vladimir Putin.
But after all their focus on Russia and alarm over its financial tentacles reaching to the highest levels of the U.S. government, they threw themselves into the arms of a politician whose family’s livelihood — and perhaps his own — depends on the flow of foreign money in a fact pattern more alarming than anything that ever emerged in the years of investigation of Trump.
And, hilariously enough, they’ve called it “norms.”
Thanks, in large part, to the priorities of the media and the bias and incompetence of the FBI, the country spent years obsessed with something that didn’t exist and now has spent years, more or less, ignoring something that does exist. [emphasis added]
Put another way, a wisp of smoke in the collusion controversy was presumed to signal a raging inferno, whereas the Canadian-wildfire-level smoke from sleazy Biden family dealings is presumed to be incidental or illusory.
We’ve gone from an investigation that began for no good reason and despite the evidence to an investigation that, according to the IRS whistleblowers, has been pursued by officials doing everything to minimize it and look past potential evidence of wrongdoing.
You’d think, just as a matter of the law of averages, that federal authorities would manage to produce one properly predicated and conducted investigation of a major national figure and those around him. Instead, it’s either too hot or too cold, too hostile or too forgiving.
Of course, there’s much we still need to know about the matter: Was Joe actually at Hunter’s side, or was Hunter making it up? How much did Joe know about all of this? Did he get a cut, directly or indirectly?
What we do know, though, is alarming enough. Imagine if Don Jr. was shaking down a Russian businessman by invoking his father’s name, indeed his physical presence, via text. If Russiagate special counsel Robert Mueller had found such a text, it would have been the crown jewel of his report, and it would have set off a firestorm — indeed, the business arrangement alone might have been the occasion for an impeachment inquiry.
Now, Trump’s enemies had all sorts of reasons to oppose him and want him out of office, apart from their dark suspicions that he was beholden to Vladimir Putin.
But after all their focus on Russia and alarm over its financial tentacles reaching to the highest levels of the U.S. government, they threw themselves into the arms of a politician whose family’s livelihood — and perhaps his own — depends on the flow of foreign money in a fact pattern more alarming than anything that ever emerged in the years of investigation of Trump.
And, hilariously enough, they’ve called it “norms.”
