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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  1. Sisyphus Member
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    philo (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment): …but until there’s proof of illegality…

    How cute. That’s so 2015.

    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.

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  2. Sisyphus Member
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    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…

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  3. Flicker Coolidge
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    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    philo (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment): …but until there’s proof of illegality…

    How cute. That’s so 2015.

    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.

    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.

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  4. Sisyphus Member
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    Flicker (View Comment):

    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    philo (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment): …but until there’s proof of illegality…

    How cute. That’s so 2015.

    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.

    Zafar, is a marxist? Is this true? Or just assumed. But is 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.

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  5. Flicker Coolidge
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    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    Flicker (View Comment):

    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    philo (View Comment):

    Zafar (View Comment): …but until there’s proof of illegality…

    How cute. That’s so 2015.

    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.

    Zafar, is a marxist? Is this true? Or just assumed. But is 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.

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  6. Sisyphus Member
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    I think everyone but the MSM has a copy of the hard drive by now. The Daily Caller’s turn at the piñata.

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  7. Sisyphus Member
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    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.

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  8. Sisyphus Member
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    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.

    The answer: Fox News is giving more airtime to the unverified Hunter Biden emails than it did to the hacked emails from Mr. Podesta in 2016, according to an analysis from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation.

    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.

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    cdor (View Comment):
    In 2019 Federal return he earned $4,580,000 (line 1) and paid $9250 (line 20). Isn’t that how the NY Times would describe it if this were Trump returns?

    I wonder what losses Biden charged against his income.

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  10. Sisyphus Member
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    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    cdor (View Comment):
    In 2019 Federal return he earned $4,580,000 (line 1) and paid $9250 (line 20). Isn’t that how the NY Times would describe it if this were Trump returns?

    I wonder what losses Biden charged against his income.

    I understand they have problems holding onto laptops. That might run to a little money.

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  11. Percival Thatcher
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    Sisyphus (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    cdor (View Comment):
    In 2019 Federal return he earned $4,580,000 (line 1) and paid $9250 (line 20). Isn’t that how the NY Times would describe it if this were Trump returns?

    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.

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  12. Rob Long Contributor
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    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.

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  13. Sisyphus Member
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    Rob Long (View Comment):

    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.

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  14. Arahant Member
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    Rob Long (View Comment):
    Joe plays, essentially, an ottoman.

    Okay, that got me. Thanks for the laugh, Rob.

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  15. kedavis Coolidge
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    Percival (View Comment):

    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    This in a great post and the Hunter timeline in the comments. I’ve been trying to square two memories and had started a post but will ask the question here.

    I remember Biden being laughed at in 2008 because he was at the bottom of a list of Congressmen’s net worth. The jab was that he was too stupid to play the corruption game, after all he’d been in Congress for 40 years and hadn’t made out like a bandit. Then during this campaign a lot of talk was about the Biden family cashing in on Joe’s name and full of corruption. I thought that maybe Obama had taught Joe something but it’s clear that stuff has been going on since the 1990s. Maybe Joe didn’t want to keep a layer between him and the graft. Did I remember 2008 correctly? His net worth did jump tremendously after leaving the Vice Presidency, right?

    He supposedly made something like $11M (IIRC) giving speeches. I’ve heard him speak. I wouldn’t characterize him as being spellbinding. I doubt you could get $11M worth of information out of Joe if you held him up by his ankles and shook him ’til Christmas. I can think of a couple of ways to launder money with a setup like that. A proper investigator can probably think of a few more.

    It sounds like when Democrats “wrote books” sometimes with just one word on a page, and lobbyists bought them by the truckload.

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  16. kedavis Coolidge
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Rob Long (View Comment):
    Joe plays, essentially, an ottoman.

    Okay, that got me. Thanks for the laugh, Rob.

    So now Joe gets to be POTUS, AND king of the Ottoman Empire?

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  17. Arahant Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):
    So now Joe gets to be POTUS, AND king of the Ottoman Empire?

    Sultan and Caliph.

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