A ROTTEN CHIP OF THE PUTRESCENT OLD BLOCK…

IT IS STILL ASTONISHING THAT JOE BIDEN REMAINS PRESIDENT, BUT NOT SURPRISING. THE DEMOCRAT BACKERS OF JOE BIDEN DO NOT WANT KAMALA HARRIS TO TAKE OVER THE REINS AS SHE IS MOST LIKELY TO PRESS THE NUCLEAR RED BUTTON IN AN ACCIDENTAL FIT OF LAUGHTER. 

IN ORDER TO IMPEACH JOE BIDEN OR REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE FOR SENILITY, THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE TO FIRST REMOVE KAMALA FROM THE VICE PRESIDENCY. THIS COULD PROVE HARDER THAN IT LOOKS: SHE SEEMS TO BE STUPID ENOUGH TO BE UNTOUCHABLE.

BUT JOKE ASIDE, THE CORRUPTION TRAIL BEHIND JOE BIDEN IS MIND-BOGGLING. THE PROBLEM NOW IS THAT JOE IS SENILE — AND CANNOT EVEN READ AN AUTOCUE, NOR A TELEPROMPTER. OR STAND ON HIS FEET WITHOUT FALLING ON HIS FACE, OR MOVE WITHOUT BEING CORRALLED BY STAFFERS. HE BELONGS TO AN ASYLUM FOR SPOON-FED DRIBBLING OLD MEN. WE’RE NOT FAR FROM THERE YET, OURSELVES.

 THE LATEST INFORMATION ON JOE’S CORRUPTION COMES FROM FOX NEWS PUNDITS WHO HAVE AN AXE TO GRIND IN REGARD TO THEIR FORMER FARE, DONALD TRUMP, HAVING BEEN BOOTED OUT BY DUBIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES — ONCE WE TALLY JOE’S CORRUPTION AND THE RELUCTANCE OF THE MAIN-STREAM-MEDIA TO TACKLE THIS ISSUE BEFORE THE 2020 ELECTIONS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMby7t0cs70

EVEN THE AMERICAN SENATE KNEW AS FAR BACK AS 2015, THAT THERE WERE CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS IN JOE BIDEN’S VICE PRESIDENCY. WE HAVE ALSO EXPOSED SOME OF THE BIDEN CROOKERY THAT HAPPENED IN UKRAINE, AS TOLD BY FORMER CROOKS THEMSELVES AND THE SACKED INVESTIGATOR WHO WAS GETTING TOO CLOSE TO HUNTER’S DEALINGS IN THAT COUNTRY.

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THE VICE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS WERE AWARE OF BUT IGNORED CONCERNS RELATING TO HUNTER BIDEN’S ROLE ON BURISMA’S BOARD. 

1. Introduction 
2. In early 2015, senior State Department official George Kent raised concerns to staff in the Office of the Vice President about Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. Kent testified that he never heard anything back from the vice president’s office, and although Kent advised that Hunter Biden should step down from Burisma’s board to avoid the perception of a potential conflict of interest, his recommendation was not followed. Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board continued to be an issue State Department officials had to manage when executing U.S. / Ukraine policy. More than a year after Kent reported his concerns to the vice president’s staff, he wrote to his superiors that Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board was “very awkward” to those on the front lines pushing anticorruption efforts in Ukraine on a daily basis.25 Kent testified that he felt the need to “prepar[e] everybody for ‘what about-ism,’ because we’re pushing what’s right … and we have to be prepared for people who are critics, are opponents, to say, ‘Well, what about? What about Hunter Biden?’” 26 Indeed, Kent testified further that he “would have advised any American not to get on the board of Zlochevsky’s company.” 27

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf

MEANWHILE, WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT HUNTER WAS NOT A NICE PERSON.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/19/if-we-break-review-hunter-biden-joe-kathleen

Lloyd Green

Sun 19 Jun 2022

If We Break review: Hunter Biden as horror husband and political problem

Kathleen Buhle’s memoir in answer to a similar confessional from the president’s son makes uncomfortable reading

Hunter Biden was a nasty husband. On top of his penchant for addiction and excess, verbal abuse littered his marriage to Kathleen Buhle. In her memoir, If We Break, Buhle recounts how the 46th president’s surviving son regularly taunted her for supposed intellectual shortcomings.

Amid booze-soaked benders and drug-fueled rages, Biden called his wife “goddam dumb”, the “dumbest person” he had met. “Get away from me, you idiot,” he purportedly thundered.

Buhle discovered text messages that showed she wasn’t alone in suffering such tirades.

“He was mean at times, and strangely tender, with dozens of women,” Buhle writes. “I was struck by the number of them who clearly thought they could save him.”

Buhle attended a Catholic high school then graduated from St Mary’s University in San Antonio with a degree in psychology. Biden pocketed degrees from Georgetown University and Harvard Law School, but declined to look too deeply into the mirror. Socio-economic disadvantage is not to blame for his penchant for crack, prostitutes and self-pity. Buhle writes that she once told him: “Hunt … a kid from a middle-class family does not have a ballroom.” He also had a “tuxedo hanging in his closet – a tuxedo he used fairly regularly”.

The conservative muckraker Peter Schweizer has shredded the Bidens for their business dealings. Yearning for catharsis as much as for score-settling, Buhle says she knows nothing of her former husband’s financial escapades.

“I liked the nice things,” she admits. “I didn’t want to think about the cost at which they were coming.

Otherwise, she has plenty to share. Subtitled “A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction and Healing”, her book is a dagger.

The couple met in 1992, as members of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. They married the next year and had three daughters. For Hunter, alcoholism and tax problems surfaced in the early 2000s. Later, the US navy expelled him for using cocaine. In 2017, he and Buhle divorced.

If We Break is easy reading, published in time for Father’s Day. It leaves you wondering how and why Joe Biden pursued the presidency in 2020 when all this family drama was percolating away. Hunter’s laptop, a computer he once owned that Republicans claim is full of incriminating material, debuted before election day. It is still producing stories. If We Break may shock but it does not surprise.

Buhle demonstrates better judgment than her ex-husband, who published his own memoir last year. She knew when to walk away. He had difficulty letting go. More important, she understood that not that all broken things can be repaired.

Buhle possesses an awareness of self and circumstances her ex-husband evidently lacks. For example, in 2015, just minutes after Beau Biden, his brother, was buried, Hunter contemplated running for elected office as Beau once did, becoming attorney general of Delaware. Buhle’s reaction was short and to the point.

“What are you talking about? You’ve only been sober a few days … This is insane. Please don’t mention anything to the girls.”

Hunter did blab – in Beautiful Things, his self-reverential confessional.

“I underestimated how much the wreckage of my past and all that I put my family through still weighed on Kathleen,” he wrote.

Think self-absolution and exhibitionism, rather than contrition, in an episode that preceded a fling with his late brother’s wife.

“He said it was his duty to take care of Hallie and her kids,” Buhle writes. When she learned of their affair, all she could muster was: “Oh my God.” She says she didn’t cry. At that moment, she writes, she “knew in some way that he couldn’t hurt [her] any more”.

For what it’s worth, the Old Testament obligates the brother of a childless man to marry the widow. But Beau had two kids and anyway, religious duty was most likely not on Hunter’s mind. In 2018, according to emails harvested from that laptop, Hunter insisted Hallie test for HIV.

Joe Biden makes only rare appearances in If We Break. Buhle depicts him as a loving father and kind father-in-law. He greeted her when they first met by putting “his hands on [her] cheeks and look[ing] me in the eyes, his nose almost touching my own”. Then a senator, Biden told her: “Honey, my boy tells me he loves you, so that means I love you too. Understand? I love you.”

At the time, she was pregnant. Buhle also writes that Biden introduced her “as his daughter everywhere we went” and that the family saw the future president as “the sun around which we all revolved”.

A lot revolves around Hunter. A federal criminal investigation proceeds. Taxes are only part of his worries.

For his father, in terms of political pressures, inflation is on the rampage, approval numbers circle the drain. Democratic cognoscenti harbor serious doubts about the president’s capacity to govern. David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s senior strategist, casts Biden’s age as a major liability. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declines to say if she will back a reelection bid.

Yet Biden was the only Democrat capable of unseating Trump. The bench is neither wide nor deep.

Count Katherine Buhle’s memoir as another addition to the canon of opposition research on the Bidens, should Joe Biden run for re-election. Buhle shouldn’t expect a thank you note from Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell, but she has earned one.

• If We Break: A Memoir of Marriage Addiction and Healing is published in the US by Crown Publishing

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MEANWHILE, SOME JOURNALISTS EXPOSE THE ROTTEN DEAL OF THE DOJ....

https://www.aei.org/podcast/wth-is-going-on-with-the-hunter-biden-whistleblower-peter-schweizer-explains/

WTH is Going On with the Hunter Biden Whistleblower? Peter Schweizer Explains

By Danielle Pletka | Marc A. Thiessen

June 28, 2023

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If you thought the Trump indictment capped the pattern of White House prosecutions, well, you’d be wrong (though see the WTH joint op-ed on how to end the prosecutorial death loop). Now, Hunter Biden has been indicted on misdemeanor charges of tax evasion – news that was decried as a “sweetheart deal.” But a former IRS investigator and FBI officials who came forward to Congress present a government cover-up, from the DOJ disallowing a 2018 investigation into Hunter Biden, to limitations on actually collecting information. And of course, this story has deep roots in 2009, when Joe Biden became Vice President of the United States. At that moment, Hunter set up his “international financial business.”The facts are muddled (no thanks to US institutions charged with un-muddling them) but there remain clear questions that must be answered: from whom did the Bidens receive money, and what was it for?

Peter Schweizer is the president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior editor at Breitbart News. He is the former William J. Casey Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His most recent book is Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win.

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MEANWHILE, THE GUARDIAN SUPPORTS JOE BIDEN..... THE GUARDIAN, THAT KEEPER OF SOME JOURNALISM MUCK, DOES A DEMOLITION OF PETER SCHWEIZER, BECAUSE OF HIS INVESTIGATION OF HUNTER BIDEN… FROM THE “RIGHT WING” VIEWPOINT.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/29/bidens-american-muckrackers-red-handed-book-review

Lloyd Green

Sat 29 Jan 2022 

American muckrakers: Peter Schweizer, James O’Keefe and a rightwing full court press

The author of Clinton Cash takes aim at the Bidens, the founder of Project Veritas stakes a claim for legitimacy. The results are murky – but offer a map for political battles to come

he official investigation of Hunter Biden’s dealings in China and elsewhere rests in the hands of David Weiss, a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor in Delaware, and the US justice department under Joe Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland. Politically speaking, we now have Red-Handed by Peter Schweizer, who would very much like to help us digest the business past of the 46th president’s troublesome son.

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Schweizer’s works include Clinton Cash, a compendium of opposition research that helped shape the presidential election in 2016. These days, he is president of the Government Accountability Institute, a think tank funded by the Mercer family, part of the rightwing ecosystem.

ebekah Mercer chairs the GAI board, a position previously held by Steve Bannon, whom Donald Trump pardoned of fraud charges but who is now under indictment for contempt of Congress. Mercer is also a founding investor in Parler, a rightwing alternative to Twitter and communications vehicle for Trump’s faithful in the run-up to the 6 January insurrection.

The Mercers are mainstays of Breitbart News and once funded James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas – of which, more later. Via Cambridge Analytica, the Mercers helped hijack Brexit. Not surprisingly, Nigel Farage counts the Mercers as allies.

If Republicans recapture the House in November, as expected, most see investigations of Hunter Biden and his father an inevitable sequel. Schweizer has published a roadmap, from sources including Secret Service travel logs, materials from former business associates and that infamous laptop.

Schweizer argues that the rich and powerful have grown too cozy with China, at the expense of their own country. His central contention is that the Biden family garnered approximately $31m from individuals with direct ties to Chinese intelligence.

Hunter Biden has denied wrongdoing. In 2020, Politifact said Schweizer’s claims about Joe Biden did “not add up to a picture” of his “being corrupt or pursuing policies contrary to the national interest”.

Schweizer, however, fires shots across the political spectrum. John Boehner, a Republican speaker of the House, and Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to two Republican presidents, are in his sights. So are the Bushes. Chuck Schumer, Mark Warner, Chris Coons and Joe Manchin, all Democratic senators, are praised. 

Schweizer lambasts Silicon Valley for enabling China’s rise and turning a blind eye to human rights abuses. Elon Musk and Bill Gates are criticized, Wall Street (prominently Goldman Sachs, Blackstone and Black Rock), the National Basketball Association and academe too. Yale University receives particular attention.

Not surprisingly, Schweizer does not consider links to China enjoyed by Trump and his most ardent followers. He ignores, for example, tax records that show Trump International Hotels Management paid more than $188,000 in China while pursuing licensing deals between 2013 and 2015, and maintained a bank account there.

Likewise, Schweizer looks away from Ted Cruz. The Texas senator’s wife is a banker at Goldman. The Cruzes hold direct investments of between $15,000 and $50,000 in the Goldman Sachs China Equity Fund Class P, a mutual fund with positions in Alibaba and Tencent – companies firmly in Schweizer’s sights.

Then again, the Mercers are Cruz donors. In 2016, Cruz’s presidential campaign was a Cambridge Analytica client.

Schweizer calls for a US lobbying ban on companies linked to the Chinese military and Chinese intelligence, and their exclusion from US stock exchanges. He also demands the press pursue big tech involvement with China.

As models for how to resist the Chinese, he holds out Peter Thiel and his company Palantir. Thiel, a rightwing megadonor, gained notoriety when he wrote in 2009 that women and minorities had mucked up democratic capitalism. A Palantir employee planted the concept of data harvesting with Cambridge Analytica. 

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As for China’s territorial ambitions? In another book, Trump was quoted by the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin. If the Chinese were to invade Taiwan, he told a senator, “there isn’t a fucking thing we can do”.

It seems unlikely the US could be capable of decoupling its economy from China while avoiding clashes. China’s opacity with regard to Covid does not instill confidence. 

IN REGARD TO COVID WE CANNOT CARRY ON HERE, WITHOUT READING:

THEN GUARDIAN CONTINUES:

Schweizer’s book does at least deliver food for thought.

‘Free speech for me …’

If Red-Handed is an amalgam of more than 1,100 footnotes, facts, arguments and innuendos, American Muckraker by James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, is a 288-page exercise in self-reverence.

“The American Muckraker understands that the path to truth involves suffering and sacrifice,” O’Keefe writes. OK. Elsewhere, he compares his plight to that of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Alabama in the late 1950s, as it worked for “equality”. Really. He also repeatedly refers to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian dissident.

What does O’Keefe do for a living? Mostly, he makes sting videos targeting Democrats and progressives. Targets have included Planned Parenthood and a teachers’ union.

Practically speaking, American Muckraker is O’Keefe’s attempt to bolster his claim of being a journalist while re-defining what the media actually is in an era of cold civil war. On that note, he recounts a conversation with Brian Karem after the Playboy White House reporter had a dust-up with a Trump loyalist, Sebastian Gorka.

“I’m on the same team as you,” said O’Keefe. “I respect you guys.”

Really? Project Veritas counts the Donald J Trump Foundation among past donors and Erik Prince, former head of the Blackwater private security company and brother of Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, was involved in its sting operations against Trump adversaries. O’Keefe makes clear he is not keen on a shedding a light on those who fund his work.

He does have a genuine grievance. In early November 2021, the FBI raided his apartment, handcuffed him in his underwear and seized two phones. He was not arrested.

Reportedly, the feds swooped in connection with the disappearance and unauthorized publication of a diary kept by Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter. Project Veritas never wrote anything on the topic and handed the document over. The justice department had placed the first amendment and O’Keefe’s civil liberties in its crosshairs, notwithstanding a court-ordered warrant.

But that is only part of the story. In 2020, O’Keefe sued the New York Times for libel in connection with its coverage of videos concerning alleged voter fraud in Minnesota. A New York judge refused to dismiss the suit and O’Keefe has obtained an injunction that bars the paper from publishing documents written by a Project Veritas lawyer.

O’Keefe’s mantra might be: “Free speech for me – but not for thee.”

Despite the efforts of Richard Nixon in the case of the Pentagon Papers, prior restraint remains anathema to a free press – as Donald Trump’s late brother, Robert, learned when he failed to block publication of a niece’s tell-all.

Nonetheless, Trump allies are urging the supreme court to reconsider protections afforded to the media under US libel law. Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch have indicated they are willing. The fact that the decision in question was rendered by a unanimous court a half-century ago means little. American Muckraker is a book for such troubled times.

• Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win is published in the US by Harper. American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century is published by Post Hill Press

YES, TROUBLED TIMES INDEED: THE BIDENS ARE CORRUPT TO THE EYEBALLS, BUT NOTHING MUCH WILL HAPPEN AS THE MSM PROTECTS JOE BIDEN TO THE HILT — UNLESS.…

FREE JULIAN ASSANGE NOW...........////////////////////