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Tonight on the Bidens…
The choir of panic in the background singing, “Russian disinformation! Disinformation! Disinformation!” is trying to drown out what Rob Long should be developing as a new sitcom, “All in the Biden Family.”
Highlights from Ebony Bowden, Tamar Lapin, and Bruce Golding in the New York Post:
A failed Hunter Biden business venture — which an ex-partner said involved Joe Biden — targeted “key domestic contacts” including Gov. Cuomo for potential projects across the country, documents reveal.
A May 15, 2017, memo naming potential contacts was sent by Joe Biden’s brother Jim to his nephew and three other men who all formed a limited liability company to partner with another firm on “global and/or domestic” projects involving “infrastructure, energy, financial services and other strategic sectors,” the documents show.
The other company was backed by a since-vanished Chinese energy tycoon and was to “be primarily responsible for arranging financing and execution” of the projects, according to the documents released by Tony Bobulinksi, who was CEO of the joint venture.
Then there is some dry stuff about matching up with different government initiatives that represent lucrative opportunities, mentioning Democratic governors, EU officials, heads of foreign states, and then there is this gem:
In response to the memos, Hunter Biden e-mailed the other partners the next day and expressed concern “that these lists of contacts and strengths are going to come back to haunt us.”
Hunter Biden suggested the lists “could easily serve . . . as the foundation for the divvying up of territory both geographically and commercially” by their partner in the joint venture.
“I may be paranoid but having worked in. [sic] The lobbying industry for years these attempts to create focus at the outset always and I mean always ended in disaster,” the e-mail says. [emphasis mine]
“We should be thinking what we want to focus on and not who knows who as direction for focus in my opinion.”
The memos and e-mails are among more than 900 documents Bobulinski made public this week and outline plans for a company called Oneida Holdings to provide consulting services to a company called Hudson West IV.
The documents show Hudson West IV was controlled by Ye Jianming, then chair of CEFC China Energy Co., and “Director Zang,” an apparent reference to CEFC’s executive director, Zang Jian Jun.
Ye disappeared after being taken into custody by Chinese authorities in early 2018, and CEFC, which was China’s largest private energy company, went bankrupt this year, according to reports.
Alas, the China side of the deal collapsed spectacularly leaving little in the way of a smoking gun with jury proof quid pro quo, but there are a few thousand more emails to sift through. I’m thinking Putin’s guys would have written even juicier and provided a tantalizing prospect of meat at the end rather than a case of conspiratus interruptus.
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Because all of the US is waiting with bated breath on the opinion of a Marxist Indian who came to the US, didn’t get it, and moved on to Australia. Opinion noted.
And then there is Biden bragging that he has assembled the
“Most Extensive Inclusive Voter Fraud Organization… in History”
https://rumble.com/vatuxx-biden-says-hes-created-the-most-extensive-inclusive-fraud-organization…-i.html?mref=23gga&mc=8uxj1
…but until there is proof of illegality…and brazen public admissions of wrongdoing do not count…
Zafar, is a marxist? Is this true? Or just assumed. But if so, that explains it all. I thought he was just being deliberately obtuse.
I thought I remembered him identifying as such, while expressing curiosity for other viewpoints. If not, I retract and apologize for the adjective.
Well, nevermind then.
I think everyone but the MSM has a copy of the hard drive by now. The Daily Caller’s turn at the piñata.
I saw sources saying that the FBI agent in charge of the laptop had an extensive career in child porn cases, but now FOX is finding that the laptop seizure was connected to a money laundering investigation. I’m sure that Hunter is pleased to hear that that porn thing might have been a red herring.
The New York Times is fiercely protecting its reputation for bathetic corruption, covering the Hunter Biden laptop story as a pure exercise in disinformation.They are right, of course, but the disinformation campaign, as with Russiagate and 1619, is theirs.
Has any paragraph in journalistic history ever so thoroughly ignored the story at hand to cite facts not relevant? If a NYT editor’s house were burning down, they would be discussing how the Pew Center for the Study of Embers concludes this was a fake smoke alarm siren warning, and continue to play Mao’s Little Red Audiobook on his iPhone as his roof collapses on him.
I wonder what losses Biden charged against his income.
I understand they have problems holding onto laptops. That might run to a little money.
The campaign has hired a new spokesman.
I agree, though to be honest it’s more like an HBO show, because, man, it’s pretty complicated — all of those shell companies and LLCs and “of counsel” jobs and consulting gigs. Right now, for NR, I’m thinking of the Biden/Harris administration as, basically, the old show “Dynasty,” with Kamala Harris playing the Joan Collins role of the evil schemer who wants the big job, and Dr. Jill Biden, PhD, playing Krystle, the kind and kinda slow wife. Joe plays, essentially, an ottoman.
Joe would make a very convincing ottoman, but an empty one. Thanks for coming out to play.
Okay, that got me. Thanks for the laugh, Rob.
It sounds like when Democrats “wrote books” sometimes with just one word on a page, and lobbyists bought them by the truckload.
So now Joe gets to be POTUS, AND king of the Ottoman Empire?
Sultan and Caliph.