It it incontrovertibly true that Joe Biden’s family – not just hunter but a good number of others – have benefited very hand$$$omely from his tenure in politics.
But what about Joe Biden directly?
Before you answer, read these excerpts from Mary Kay Linge and Jon Levine’s article for the New York Post – one of the few mainstream media venues actually looking into the Biden family’s financial twists and turns:
President Joe Biden’s role as “the brand” for son Hunter’s lucrative international influence-peddling may have benefited him directly, according to mounting evidence from the first son’s abandoned laptop.
Newly revealed bank records released by the House Oversight Committee show that the president’s family and allies hauled in a staggering $20 million from foreign sources in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and China, some of whom met personally with Biden while he served as vice president.
“Joe Biden has been a public official for five decades yet has lived lavishly,” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Post. “As Hunter Biden was sealing deals with Russian, Kazakhstani, and Ukrainian oligarchs, then-Vice President Biden dined with them in DC. This reeks of corruption.”
At least nine Biden family members allegedly got payouts from the huge pool of cash — for no discernible business reason, investigators have said.
The probe has uncovered no direct payments to the president himself, but emails from Hunter’s left-behind laptop hint that his father may have shared in the bounty, say congressional Republicans and former Biden associates.
“It’s vacations, cell phones, money to pay taxes,” a former Biden family business partner told The Post. “This is Joe Biden’s brother and sister and his children and grandchildren taking care of him.
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard,” he groused to daughter Naomi in a January 2019 text message that took direct aim at “Pop” — Joe Biden.
“But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary,” Hunter snarked.
Can you even begin to imagine what the ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times. etc. etc. etc. would have done with this if it were Trump?
It is a measure of how far downward mainstream media have spiraled that, collectively, there is next to nothing from any of them about this….but tons about Donald Trump being indicted for daring to say that he believes he won the 2020 election – while Hillary Clinton, the queen of above-the-law status, has never been attacked, let alone indicted, for repeatedly saying her loss in 2016 was illegitimate (her word, not mine).
(And that, of course, is before we get to the CLinton bought-and-paid-for Steele dossier, which would be front and center of the Trump indictments if he were the one who produced it.)
Are the walls closing in on the Biden crime family? If we had a serious journalistic media, those walls would have already closed in and collapsed on him and his family. So the answer is no. Not yet. As much as there already is, there will have to be a lot more before they collectively gulp and seriously report about Biden et al.
I wonder if it will ever happen.
