The line from a “third-rate burglary” to the Oval Office took a long time and a great deal of investigative work to unravel. The first clue was White House official E. Howard Hunt’s name in the address books of two of the burglars. The line between Hunter Biden’s laptop and the alleged network of corruption and cronyism that Ira Levin dubs “the Biden crime family” is far more direct.
If it’s taking longer to unravel, that’s mostly because so many people want it stay tightly ravelled. Not least the legacy media, who spent two years furiously denouncing the material on the laptop as “Russian disinformation”. Now, they’re quietly admitting that it’s all genuine — and the unravelling is slowly but surely getting underway.
If the grand jury in Delaware investigating Hunter Biden’s business ventures does its job properly, it will be pulling on the threads that lead to the president, and already there are signs that is happening.
Regardless of the extraordinary statement last week by White House chief of staff Ron Klain, that the president is confident his son has done nothing wrong, and that the inquiry has nothing to do with Joe Biden or anyone else in the White House, publicly available evidence says otherwise.It is not just the emails and other material on
Hunter’s abandoned laptop that point to Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s multimillion-dollar global influence-peddling schemes when he was vice president.
There is also the six-hour interview Hunter’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski gave to the FBI last year, along with a trove of documents, emails and encrypted messages.
One of the most potentially damning emails on the laptop details how payments from a CCP-linked Chinese company would be cut: a raft of Biden family members and associates are named, and, finally, 10% “held by H [Hunter] for the big guy”.
Just who is the Big Guy?
Bobulinski has publicly named Joe Biden as the “Big Guy” […] Now the identity of the Big Guy has become a topic for the Delaware probe […]
The pressure on [US Attorney David Weiss] is immense, as the four-year investigation into the president’s son and his business partners, including his uncle James Biden, Joe’s younger brother, threatens to become an election issue in November.
In shades of Nixon’s barefaced “I am not a crook” statement, the White House has absurdly stated that Joe Biden stands by his assertion that Hunter never received any money from China, or that Biden knew anything about Hunter’s overseas business deal.
First, there are the Treasury Department documents presented by Republican Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley, along with bank statements on Hunter’s laptop showing millions of dollars paid by CEFC to Hunter and his business partners.
Then there is evidence, from Bobulinski and from the laptop, that Joe met Hunter’s foreign business partners on multiple occasions while he was vice president.
In addition, there is evidence on the laptop that Hunter and his father had commingled finances and shared bank accounts, and also that Hunter paid some of Joe’s household bills, including a monthly phone bill and maintenance and renovations on one of his Delaware properties.
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Millions of dollars were wired from Chinese company CEFC to Hunter and Jim Biden and their partners, during the last two years of the Obama presidency. The group were using Biden’s name and vice-presidential clout to advance the interests of Communist China. The now-defunct CEFC was an arm of Xi Xinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, the program of debt-diplomacy in a de facto Chinese communist world empire.
The Biden name was the door-opener for CEFC in countries across the Middle East and Asia.
But how involved was the “Big Guy”? Nixon could at least truthfully deny prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in (Nixon was taped, a week after, demanding to know, “Who was the asshole that did that?”).
Can Joe Biden claim the same ignorance of his family’s intricate financial dealings?
In emails on the laptop, Hunter complains about paying some of his father’s expenses.
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” Hunter Biden griped to daughter Naomi in January 2019, referring to his father. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
The laptop did not contain evidence of such money transfers, but noted certain expenses listed as “JRB Bills” — the president’s initials. They included thousands of dollars in home repairs.
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Not unlike former Australian PM Julia Gillard, it all comes down to plausible deniability. Sure, as a lawyer, she filed the paperwork for her then-lover, a union boss, to set up a shonky slush fund. But she didn’t know it was a shonky slush fund (she says). When the union boss paid for renovations to her house with ill-gotten money, she didn’t know it was ill-gotten money (she says).
Will the American public buy similar denials from Joe Biden? Democratic political consultant Doug Schoen has his doubts.
If Joe Biden is found to have profited from Hunter’s business deals or used his position as vice president to benefit his family, Schoen [writes], “what is now likely a red wave election could turn into a massive blowout that is more substantial than anything seen in recent history.”
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