John Hinderaker, writing at powerlineblog.com, has put out a typically excellent commentary/analysis, detailing what he thinks (as do I) who Joe Biden’s presidential pardon really was for.
Please use the above link and read it all. But here is the key segment:
Hunter Biden was a drug-addled nonentity who was barely capable of functioning at an adult level. Indeed, that ultimately became his defense. And yet the press dutifully talked about Hunter’s overseas business interests and deals, and whether Joe was involved in them, or had knowledge of them.
But what business interests were those? Hunter had nothing to do with any company that manufactured products or sold services–other than the services of his father. His only business was selling access to Joe to foreigners who assumed, rightly or wrongly, that Joe, as Vice President, had significant influence.
The most notorious instance was Burisma, the Ukrainian natural gas company that paid Hunter $1 million a year to be on its board of directors, even though Hunter knew nothing about natural gas and did not speak Ukrainian, the language in which board meetings were conducted. Not to mention the fact that most board members receive nominal compensation.
But Burisma knew what it was doing. When the company came under attack in the U.S. for being corrupt, which it evidently was, it swung into action. Burisma’s top-drawer lobbyists at Blue Star Strategies were able to get the company a meeting at the top level of the U.S. State Department within a week, having told State that “Hunter Biden [is] a board member.”
All of Hunter’s “business” dealings were of that sort–influence peddling, in short. And the influence was Joe’s.
The House Oversight Committee traced more than $20 million that came from foreign sources and went into Biden family bank accounts. The Bidens engaged in a shell game, moving cash from one account to another to cover up the trail. Nevertheless, banks filed numerous “suspicious activity reports” on the Bidens’ cash transfers. Foreign cash wound up in, among other places, an account belonging to one of Biden’s granddaughters. What services do you suppose she provided to a foreign power? Have any reporters asked Joe whether he was aware of his granddaughter’s foreign “business transactions”? I don’t suppose so.
Joe Biden may be the most blatantly corrupt politician in American history. He certainly is a contender.
The transparency of this supposed Hunter Biden pardon; the fact that it was, in reality, a pardon for Joe Biden – and his family – is obvious. And it reeks to high heaven.
My next post, which actually is a repost of something I wrote a year ago, goes into more detail about this. Please read it.
