Here’s a dozen times Joe Biden played a role in son Hunter’s business dealings

Quote:President Biden and the White House have repeatedly denied that he and Hunter Biden ever discussed the first son’s controversial overseas business dealings — yet there are at least a dozen times when Joe Biden had to know what his son was doing.

1. Joe “recommends”
The latest example emerged Wednesday, when it was revealed that Hunter Biden got his dad to write a recommendation letter to Brown University for the son of a powerful Chinese business associate, Jonathan Li.

“Jonathan, Hunter asked me to send you a copy of the recommendation letter that he asked his father to write on behalf of Christopher for Brown University,” Hunter Biden’s then-business partner, Eric Schwerin, wrote to Li on Feb. 18, 2017, in an email first revealed by Fox News.

Schwerin told Li the “original” was being shipped by FedEx to university president Christina Paxson “directly at Brown.”

Li is the CEO of the Chinese investment firm BHR Partners and in 2013 established a subsidiary — Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., known as BHR — where Hunter Biden was a founding board member and held a 10% equity share through a company called Skaneateles LLC.

After the White House refused to say whether the first son remained a part-owner after resigning from the board in 2019, Hunter Biden’s lawyer finally told the New York Times that Hunter “no longer holds any interest, ­directly or indirectly, in either BHR or Skaneateles.”

2. The other kid, too
Hunter Biden also arranged for his dad to write a letter to Georgetown University — Hunter’s alma mater — on behalf of Li’s daughter, but neither child got into the elite institutions, The Post understands.

During Wednesday’s White House briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki said, “I have no confirmation of any recommendation letter the president wrote — when he was a private citizen, by the way, and not serving in public ­office.”

3. Joe’s “hopes”
Hunter Biden acknowledged in a 2019 New Yorker magazine article that he and his dad once discussed Hunter’s job on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, which paid him as much as $83,333 a month when Joe Biden was vice president under President Barack ­Obama.

“Dad said, ‘I hope you know what you are doing,’ and I said, ‘I do,’ ” he recalled.

4. Air Force 2 trip
 In December 2013, Hunter and his daughter Finnegan Biden traveled to China on Air Force Two with then-Vice President Joe Biden during an official, six-day trip to Asia. Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other officials — and was also introduced to Li by his son in the lobby of the hotel where the American delegation was staying.

Afterward, Hunter Biden sat with Li for what both sides claimed was a social meeting, with Hunter Biden telling The New Yorker, “How do I go to Beijing, halfway around the world, and not see them for a cup of ­coffee?”

5. Half his salary?
In a 2019 text message to his daughter Naomi, Hunter Biden bitterly wrote, “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years.” He added, “It’s ­really hard. But don’t worry, ­unlike Pop [Joe], I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

Meanwhile, White House chief of staff Ron Klain was revealed this week to have hit up Hunter Biden for help raising $20,000 for the foundation that maintains the vice president’s official residence.

6. Meet the partners
As vice president, Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer in April 2014, around the same time that Archer joined the Burisma board and shortly before Hunter Biden did so, according to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

A photo that surfaced more than five years later reportedly shows Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Archer posing with golf clubs on a course in the Hamptons in August 2014.

In February, Archer was sentenced to one year and one day in prison in an unrelated bond fraud scheme that targeted the impoverished Oglala Sioux tribe of American Indians.

7. Meet the Ukrainians
Vadym Pozharskyi, a Burisma exec and adviser to its board, sent Hunter Biden an April 17, 2015, email that said, “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

8. Meet the Kazakhs
One day earlier, Joe Biden attended a dinner at Washington, DC’s Cafe Milano with some of his son’s business associates from Ukraine, Russia and ­Kazakhstan.

An unverified photo apparently shows the Bidens posing between two of the guests who attended that night, Kazakhstani banking oligarch Kenes “Kenges” Rakishev and Karim Massimov, a former prime minister of Kazakhstan.

In January, Massimov was arrested in a plot to overthrow the former Soviet republic’s government, following his ouster as head of its counterintelligence and anti-terrorism agency.

9. Meet Bobulinski
 Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski revealed in October 2020 that he spoke with Joe Biden in May 2017 after being introduced by Hunter, who reportedly described Bobulinski as “the one who’s helping us with the business we’re doing with the Chinese.”

According to Bobulinski — who has identified Joe Biden as “the big guy” with a 10 percent share in a planned deal with CEFC China Energy — the former vice president told him, “Keep an eye on my son and brother and look out for my family.”
Bobulinksi also said he later asked Joe’s brother James Biden about the possibility that Joe would run for president in 2020. “He looks at me and kind of chuckles and says, ‘Plausible deniability,’ ” Bobulinski said.

10. Getting an office
 Emails show that in September 2017, Hunter Biden asked for a new sign and additional keys to an office he was renting in Washington, DC’s House of Sweden office building, which is home to the Swedish Embassy.

The sign was to say, “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC-US)” and the keys were for his father, stepmother Jill Biden, uncle James Biden and a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong.


The building manager wrote back, “We are very excited and honored to welcome your new colleagues!” but a spokeswoman for the Swedish agency that oversees the property told the Washington Post that the sign was never changed and the keys were not picked up.

11. Meet the Mexicans
In 2015, then-Vice President Joe Biden hosted a group of his son’s Mexican business associates at the vice president’s official residence and posed for a photo with Hunter Biden and a group of possible business partners, including Mexican billionaires Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco.

12. Quid but no quo?
In 2016, emails indicate that Hunter Biden messaged Velasco’s son from Air Force Two, which was en route to Mexico for an official visit. Hunter complained to the younger Velasco that he hadn’t received reciprocal business favors after “I have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the F’ing White House and the Vice President’s house and the inauguration.”

Biden Inc. Rolls on as Sister Cashes in on 'Big Guy's' Political Career

Quote:As the noose continues to tighten around Hunter Biden’s neck and evidence continues to mount that “The Big Guy” was indeed involved up to his lyin’ eyeballs in his grifter son’s nefarious business dealings, Joe’s younger sister, Valerie Biden Owens, is set to launch her own money-grabbing endeavor. Shocked? Please.

Moreover, little sister’s blatant effort to cash in on big brother’s political career is in direct conflict with a statement last January from — ironically as hell — White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who is also raising ethical questions about her reported deal to leave the White House and become the shiny new hood ornament of MSNBC. While we’re talking about it, “Circle Back” said in January:

It’s the White House’s policy that the President’s name should not be used in connection with any commercial activities to suggest or in any way — in any way they could reasonably be understood to imply his endorsement or support.

Nonetheless, as reported by Fox News, Owens will kick off a book tour Thursday night in Washington, D.C., prior to the release of her memoir — Growing Up Biden: A Memoir, by Valerie Biden (sans Owens) — next Tuesday, which I’ll go out on a (safe) limb and bet will only add to Joe’s growing list of self-inflicted woes.

Here are a few promotional snippets, via Amazon (emphasis, mine):

A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, Joe Biden’s younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager. Valerie, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, writes of the role of family, faith, and fate in shaping her life, and the power of empathy and kindness in the face of turmoil and division.

Growing Up Biden details Valerie’s decades-long professional career in politics, and the central role she played in her brother’s life as an insightful adviser, an ever-loyal advocate and best friend.

As noted by Fox, Owens served as Biden’s national campaign chair during his second presidential campaign in 2007 and 2008. While it doesn’t appear she was paid directly, the Democrat consulting firm Joe Slade White & Company, where she served as an “Executive Vice President,” raked in over $2.5 million from the campaign and the “Citizens for Biden” committee between March 2007 and October 2008.

Then, of course, we have Owens’s daughters.

Valerie J. Owens, who goes by “Missy,” worked on her uncle’s campaign to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. But that was just the beginning. Via Fox:

Missy would go on to score multiple high-level positions during the Obama-Biden administration. She served as the deputy chief of staff in the Energy Department between Feb. 2009 and June 2011, according to her LinkedIn page.

She then served a year as the chief of staff to the deputy Commerce secretary for a year. Owens then worked at Coca-Cola in its government relations department for a decade, including while the company was reportedly lobbying against a bill cracking down on the use of Uyghur forced labor in China.

Two months ago, General Motors hired her to a senior position in the company’s regulatory affairs department.

And Owen’s other daughter, Casey? Again, via Fox:

Casey also got a job in the Obama-Biden administration, serving as a special assistant to the senior coordinator for China at the Treasury Department for over two years.

Her LinkedIn says she “managed a range of workstreams essential to the execution of the US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue – one of the largest bilateral foreign economic policy initiatives of the Obama Administration.”

She would later work up the corporate ladder at Starbucks, where she is now a vice president.

Finally, and this is just perfect, Valerie’s husband, John Owens — “Jack” — has also cashed in, compliments of the Biden family “business.” In 2014, as noted by Fox, he requested help from none other than Hunter, saying in an email he needed a Chinese business license “secured very quickly” so he could expand his telemedicine company into China.

Owens also told Hunter Biden he would be “most appreciative of any help,” which led to Hunter sending an email to some of his business partners with close China ties, in which he wrote “Is there a way we can help him expedite this? Time is of the essence here.”

Let’s be clear: I’m not suggesting any or all of the above was illegal — nor am I suggesting it wasn’t.

But to believe “The Big Guy” was oblivious to any of it is beyond ridiculous. As I wrote in an earlier article:

While I appreciate the White House’s desperate spin in a frantic effort to protect Apple Sauce Brains from his likely up-to-eyeballs involvement with his grifter son’s nefarious business dealings, this one isn’t complicated. But it does require the willing suspension of disbelief to buy.

Biden’s simultaneous claims that he and Hunter have never discussed the latter’s business dealings and that Joe himself has “never taken a foreign penny,” AND his insistence that his grifter son has never been involved in “unethical behavior” and “never broke the law” are virtually mutually exclusive claims. And they are both complete crocks of bullcrap.

Meanwhile, from Jen Psaki to Joe’s little sister, the Biden political cash register continues to KA-CHING!

As for the Hunter & Joe Show, real popcorn time is about to begin.

Despite RWT's dogged efforts to divert any fault to Biden*'s insane EOs and policies impacting the cost of gasoline, the reality is as President.....Biden* OWNS it. It is happening on his watch and that ends the debate.

And Biden* owns the continuing COVID deaths in the USA on his watch.

And the horrific southern border breach by illegal aliens. And the mega inflation ramping up the price of food, lumber, cars, travel, etc. And the soaring crime rate. And the sudden interest in his son Hunter amassing huge paydays due to his VP Daddy.

All the Big Guy’s Bag Men

Quote:Joe Biden makes up for lacking the gift of gab in his grift of graft.

He may call a “salon” a “saloon” and describe his wife as the former vice president. But the Joe Biden who fails in letters passes numbers summa *** laude.

“The least wealthy [Obama] administration figure is Vice President Joe Biden,” CBS News reported in 2009, “whose net worth is estimated at just $27,012.” Times change, and so did Middle Class Joe’s net worth, which now hovers around $8 million, according to Forbes.

But Forbes possibly missed some of the president’s fortune.

We know from the emails contained on the computer of Hunter Biden, the Pablo Picasso of the family, that he paid his father’s phone bills and allowed his father access to his Wells Fargo account for over a decade. His business partner bankrolled thousands of dollars in construction at Biden’s Delaware home. This week, we belatedly discover the involvement of Hunter, at the solicitation of Ron Klain who urged him to “keep it low key” to avoid “bad PR,” in a scheme to raise money for his father’s residence as vice president.

This ranks as the small stuff for Biden, Inc.

Biden, Inc., grabbed at least $31 million from the Chinese. The feds arrested one of the shady figures paying seven figures to Hunter Biden, Hong Kong businessman Patrick Ho, for money laundering and bribery in an unrelated case (Ho was convicted and served time). One group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party gave $65,000 a month to the president’s brother, James, atop $100,000 a month and a $500,000 retainer to Hunter. Biden’s son, boasting experience with crack pipes but not oil pipelines, somehow made $1 million a year from Burisma in Ukraine.

“It’s really hard,” Hunter wrote his daughter Naomi about the burdens of him serving as the clan’s breadwinner. “But don’t worry, unlike Pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”

Spiro Agnew fell for taking 5 percent. Joe Biden snatching 50 percent, and not from petty government construction projects but allegedly for matters of geopolitical concern in China, Ukraine, and beyond would make Agnew look like a piker.

And for every quid, there comes a quo.

“I said, ‘I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars,’ ” Biden boasted of his threats to Ukraine’s leaders to withhold aid over a prosecutor who, coincidence of coincidences, investigated Burisma. “I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in’ — I think it was about six hours — I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a ***** — he got fired.”

One can foresee Joe Biden leaving office the same ignominious way that his next-state neighbor Mr. Agnew did. The greedy corruption stands as the obvious reason for this. The other reason involves Joe Biden, a person whose ascension to the presidency stemmed entirely from political expedience (i.e., the best guy to beat Trump). The moment he looks like a liability — and one assumes it comes this November — marks the moment his removal from office goes from conservative pipe dream to a possibility that even some Democrats consider.

Biden’s fall from the presidency, if it comes, then stems from the same force — political expediency — that brought him there in the first place.

Given that his vice president hails not only from the larger, more liberal wing of the party but boasts the diverse lineage lacking in the president, one could envision some D(EI)s rationalizing the jettisoning of the president as a move in service to their identity-politics ideology.

If Barack Obama or Donald Trump looked guilty as sin of an impeachable offense, then Barack Obama or Donald Trump nevertheless remains in office because of his deep, deep support. Joe Biden does not enjoy such devotion, so the ground underneath his feet likely proves more precarious than it looks. This does not mean he leaves office waving peace signs on the top step heading into a helicopter on the South Lawn. It just means that dismissing such a scenario as the product of a fever dream now seems itself like the product of a fever dream.

Biden’s fall from the presidency, if it comes, then stems from the same force — political expediency — that brought him there in the first place. Certainly the ethics of the matter does not persuade the same unethical people who initially dismissed this corruption scandal as “Russian disinformation” and banned discussion of it on social media. Once Biden starts to imperil their positions, projects, and causes, then one foresees their treatment of the president as a human Chernobyl to run away from as far as possible.

The analysis of this corruption scandal, even from the conservative press, fixates on the halfway clever use of family members to hold the loot as though this technicality makes it merely unethical rather than illegal. As one email infamously put it: “10 held by H for the big guy?” But such dealings — strange how “emoluments clause” disappeared from the political vernacular about as fast as it appeared — do not require a change in law to prosecute.

A bag man, even if a member of your family, is still a bag man.

Media Matters Complains That CBS Allowed Catherine Herridge To Report On ‘Fake, Republican-driven scandal’ Over Hunter’s Laptop

Quote:Media Matters for America, a radical leftist fringe organization founded and run by David Brock, who used to be a conservative, seems unusually upset with CBS News for allowing what they point out as “a former Fox News reporter” to report a story on the Hunter Biden laptop. Media Matters is throwing a hissy fit because of Fox News Derangement Syndrome (FNDS) to take the focus off the fact that the Washington Post, Politico, and the New York Times, after lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop being a story of Russian disinformation, were finally given the go ahead by their masters to admit that the emails found on Hunter’s laptop are authentic.

Could it be that the Great Reset cabal has finally had enough of Joe Biden and they want him gone? Is that why the Fake News outlets are finally coming clean even though they more than likely knew the emails were real all along? I mean, what’s changed since the time they tried to debunk the claim as Russian disinformation other than Biden is now in office?

Media Matters took to social media to throw a tantrum about CBS reporter Catherine Herridge promoting a “fake, Republican-driven scandal” concerning the emails. They tried to use a typical leftist ploy by saying that the scandal shouldn’t be taken seriously because the timeline is from when Joe Biden “wasn’t even in office.”

Leftist organizations always forget that the Internet is forever. Here’s something that Media Matters posted on its website complaining about things that happened before Donald Trump was elected to office. This was found on a page they dedicated to Donald Trump:

Before he was elected president in the 2016 election, Donald Trump had weekly platforms on CNBC’s Squawk Box and Fox News’ Fox & Friends, where he gave political commentary and pushed the birther conspiracy theory. Since he became president, Media Matters and other media organizations have documented thousands of his lies and attacks on the press. Most of his press conference questions and interview appearances are given to sympathetic conservative media organizations such as Fox News and the One America News Network, and he has demonstrated a symbiotic relationship with Fox in which he and the network feed off each other’s comments.

It appears the organization has been whining about Fox for years, so it’s only logical that they would complain about a CBS journalist who used to work at Fox. #EyeRoll

Should conservatives say the same thing about Media Matters since Brock used to be a hitman for Republicans?

Herridge is one of the few investigative journalists left out there that I will read every time she posts a story. She is a fine example of what journalism used to be and should be, who does her level best to get the story right, unlike many of her colleagues in journalism and the exact opposite of Democrat hitmen organizations like Media Matters.

Is Media Matters still pushing the Russian disinformation theory? Is that what’s going on?

According to Media Matters’ Eric Kleefeld:

On Thursday, CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge vividly illustrated how to be a mouthpiece for fake Republican outrage and contribute to the fabrication of a political scandal, all while missing obvious indicators of just how baseless the latest accusations against President Joe Biden’s family have been.

In a news segment on CBS Mornings, Herridge highlighted the ongoing attempts by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to investigate business dealings by President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and the president’s brother James. Previously, Herridge helped to promote Grassley’s efforts during the 2020 election to smear the Bidens in relation to Hunter’s business ventures during his father’s time in office as vice president. (Herridge actually exaggerated those allegations further, going beyond the statements that even Senate Republicans were willing to make at the time.)

Here is a CBS piece on Herridge’s story.

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With the damning information found in the emails, along with federal investigations on the Bidens, and the knowledge that the Biden crime family was involved in shady deals with the communist Chinese government for very lucrative sums of money, is that not worth reporting on the story? Media Matters thinks it’s not.