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Re: Hunter goes after Trump
« Reply #251 on: March 31, 2021, 07:04:01 PM »
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/31/hunter-biden-lashes-out-trump-pushing-debunked-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=ChlOZGM94oZvZKdA49F3FeAO8BdZI8l5GKx3%2B9pqnIfseDvXh%2Fm5EQrxQUrACmI9&bt_user_id&bt_ts=1617221268651

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Hunter Biden lashes out at Trump for pushing 'debunked conspiracy theories'


FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, Hunter Biden arrives at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Hunter Biden says his service on the board of ... more >
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By Haris Alic - The Washington Times - Updated: 9:33 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, 2021
After having his private and professional life take center stage during the 2020 presidential election, Hunter Biden is set on getting even with the “vile man” he believes responsible — former President Donald Trump.

“He pushed debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China, even as his own children had pocketed millions in China and Russia and his former campaign manager sat in a jail cell for laundering millions more from Ukraine,” writes Mr. Biden, the younger son of President Biden, in his upcoming memoir “Beautiful Things.”

Within the book, the younger Mr. Biden sheds light on his life as a member of America’s new first family, as well as his decades-long battle with substance abuse.

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“I’ve bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles,” Mr. Biden writes. “‘I’ve been so desperate for a drink that I couldn’t make the one-block walk between a liquor store and my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a swig.”

The book, which is slated for publication early next month, is being pitched for its candidness. While excerpts reviewed by the Washington Times indicate Mr. Biden is forthcoming about his tribulations with drug abuse, little is said about his business dealings.

For decades, Mr. Biden has found himself in professional roles connected to his father’s political influence.

In 1996, at the age of 26 and fresh out of Yale Law School, Mr. Biden was hired as a senior vice president at MBNA Corp. The company at the time was one of the largest credit card distributors in the U.S. It was also the largest donor to then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden of Delaware.

The position raised eyebrows from ethics watchdogs as MBNA employees had just donated $63,000 to the senator’s re-election campaign in what appeared to be a coordinated manner to sidestep federal campaign finance regulations.

Mr. Biden remained on the company’s payroll as a consultant throughout the mid-2000s. The agreement, which was not unveiled until 2008, struck many as troublesome because Mr. Biden’s father was championing legislation to make bankruptcy reform harder, an outcome that proved profitable to credit card giants like MBNA.

Mr. Biden similarly engaged with politically-connected businesses during his father’s tenure as vice president. One of those dealings, with the Ukrainian natural-gas giant Burisma Holdings, became a central issue in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Mr. Biden joined Burisma’s board of directors in 2014, despite having no background in the energy industry or Eastern Europe. The appointment came shortly after the elder Mr. Biden got the task of leading the Obama administration’s policy towards Ukraine.

Although the exact nature of Mr. Biden’s relationship with the company has remained unclear, he was paid more than $1 million for his services over a few years.

Burisma, whose founder has been accused of corruption on multiple occasions, drew the attention of Mr. Trump’s reelection campaign early.

Mr. Trump, in particular, made much of the fact that in 2016 the elder Mr. Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, and even publicly bragged about doing so. The prosecutor at the time had an open investigation into Burisma, although many claim the probe was long dormant.

Both Bidens have denied any wrongdoing. In his memoir, the younger Mr. Biden attempts to sidestep the controversy, suggesting it’s only “remarkable for its epic banality.”

“I did nothing unethical, and have never been charged with wrongdoing,” he writes. “In our current political environment, I don’t believe it would make any difference if I took that seat or not. I’d be attacked anyway.”

Mr. Biden’s book also attempts to dismiss the scandal as nothing more than one part of a “vile mission” by Mr. Trump to hold onto the White House.

“Trump believed that if he could destroy me, and by extension my father, he could dispatch any candidate of decency from either party, all while diverting attention from his own corrupt behavior,” Mr. Biden writes.

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Re: Hunter goes after Trump
« Reply #252 on: March 31, 2021, 07:45:32 PM »
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/hunter-biden-actually-posted-biden-family-porn-pornhub-says-president-trump-vile-man-vile-mission/


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/mar/31/hunter-biden-lashes-out-trump-pushing-debunked-con/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&utm_term=newsalert&bt_ee=ChlOZGM94oZvZKdA49F3FeAO8BdZI8l5GKx3%2B9pqnIfseDvXh%2Fm5EQrxQUrACmI9&bt_user_id&bt_ts=1617221268651

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Hunter Biden lashes out at Trump for pushing 'debunked conspiracy theories'


FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, Hunter Biden arrives at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Hunter Biden says his service on the board of ... more >
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By Haris Alic - The Washington Times - Updated: 9:33 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, 2021
After having his private and professional life take center stage during the 2020 presidential election, Hunter Biden is set on getting even with the “vile man” he believes responsible — former President Donald Trump.

“He pushed debunked conspiracy theories about work I did in Ukraine and China, even as his own children had pocketed millions in China and Russia and his former campaign manager sat in a jail cell for laundering millions more from Ukraine,” writes Mr. Biden, the younger son of President Biden, in his upcoming memoir “Beautiful Things.”

Within the book, the younger Mr. Biden sheds light on his life as a member of America’s new first family, as well as his decades-long battle with substance abuse.

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“I’ve bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles,” Mr. Biden writes. “‘I’ve been so desperate for a drink that I couldn’t make the one-block walk between a liquor store and my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a swig.”

The book, which is slated for publication early next month, is being pitched for its candidness. While excerpts reviewed by the Washington Times indicate Mr. Biden is forthcoming about his tribulations with drug abuse, little is said about his business dealings.

For decades, Mr. Biden has found himself in professional roles connected to his father’s political influence.

In 1996, at the age of 26 and fresh out of Yale Law School, Mr. Biden was hired as a senior vice president at MBNA Corp. The company at the time was one of the largest credit card distributors in the U.S. It was also the largest donor to then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden of Delaware.

The position raised eyebrows from ethics watchdogs as MBNA employees had just donated $63,000 to the senator’s re-election campaign in what appeared to be a coordinated manner to sidestep federal campaign finance regulations.

Mr. Biden remained on the company’s payroll as a consultant throughout the mid-2000s. The agreement, which was not unveiled until 2008, struck many as troublesome because Mr. Biden’s father was championing legislation to make bankruptcy reform harder, an outcome that proved profitable to credit card giants like MBNA.

Mr. Biden similarly engaged with politically-connected businesses during his father’s tenure as vice president. One of those dealings, with the Ukrainian natural-gas giant Burisma Holdings, became a central issue in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Mr. Biden joined Burisma’s board of directors in 2014, despite having no background in the energy industry or Eastern Europe. The appointment came shortly after the elder Mr. Biden got the task of leading the Obama administration’s policy towards Ukraine.

Although the exact nature of Mr. Biden’s relationship with the company has remained unclear, he was paid more than $1 million for his services over a few years.

Burisma, whose founder has been accused of corruption on multiple occasions, drew the attention of Mr. Trump’s reelection campaign early.

Mr. Trump, in particular, made much of the fact that in 2016 the elder Mr. Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, and even publicly bragged about doing so. The prosecutor at the time had an open investigation into Burisma, although many claim the probe was long dormant.

Both Bidens have denied any wrongdoing. In his memoir, the younger Mr. Biden attempts to sidestep the controversy, suggesting it’s only “remarkable for its epic banality.”

“I did nothing unethical, and have never been charged with wrongdoing,” he writes. “In our current political environment, I don’t believe it would make any difference if I took that seat or not. I’d be attacked anyway.”

Mr. Biden’s book also attempts to dismiss the scandal as nothing more than one part of a “vile mission” by Mr. Trump to hold onto the White House.

“Trump believed that if he could destroy me, and by extension my father, he could dispatch any candidate of decency from either party, all while diverting attention from his own corrupt behavior,” Mr. Biden writes.



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Re: Big Guy Biden & Son (Hunter)
« Reply #255 on: April 05, 2021, 10:24:53 AM »
Or we can be relentless in spreading the word and look to destroy their residual credibility.

No one ever said keeping our Constitutional Republic would be easy.

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Chinese continue to pay off Hunter
« Reply #258 on: April 09, 2021, 04:32:54 PM »
https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-bidens-memoir-listed-1-best-seller-chinese-biographies-amazon-1567304

Biden book

a book Vanity Fair could love,

" Grounded and gritty and self-realized, Beautiful Things, out on Tuesday, is, at its core, as honest an account of addiction and grief as is possible to clearly see either of those two things."

" But he has bared the details of his yearslong struggle with alcohol and drugs, the tragic accident that took his mother and little sister, and the loss of his brother, Beau, to reveal an imperfect, haunting humanity."

"The book operates on a Biden-esque strategy of underpromise, over-deliver, as we’ve seen with the administration so far. There was little fanfare leading up to its publication. To date, Hunter has taped just three interviews for the book’s publicity, none done in print. The work is mostly speaking for itself. As Hunter writes, it is a love story, after all. A twisted one. One that certainly does serve him, and allows him to redefine himself, make some money, and become the artist he always wanted to be. But it’s one we can all, in some way, see ourselves or our families or our hearts in at the same time.

Amazing how libs can turn this selfish disgusting human criminal into an intersesting honest self actualized ? hero.

Some lib assholes in Hollywood must have already paid him the rights




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Manchurian Joe and Chinese penetration of EV/batteries
« Reply #265 on: May 19, 2021, 04:24:41 AM »
Manchurian Joe!

https://www.breitbart.com/.../biden-in-michigan-ignores.../

'Most notably, the Obama-Biden administration approved the acquisition of the Michigan-based electric battery company A123 Systems in 2013 after previously being rewarded with American taxpayer dollars worth $12.5 million to develop lithium ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid EVs.

'Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, had particular ties to such Chinese acquisitions of American EV companies, Mansour notes:

"Consider, for example, China’s controversial acquisition of the Michigan-based electric battery company A123 Systems. In 2008, the company was awarded a $12.5 million grant sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop lithium ion battery technology for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. But now this American taxpayer-funded research is owned by China, thanks to the Obama-Biden administration’s approval of the company’s sale in 2013.

"In 2016, China purchased the electric vehicle company Fisker Automotive, after U.S. taxpayers had spent $193 million funding the company’s electric vehicle research. Fisker was based in Biden’s home state of Delaware, and it benefitted from a “fog of politically connected investors and lobbyists,” according to the Washington Post. The Obama-Biden administration approved China’s purchase of Fisker, again despite all the money American taxpayers spent funding the company’s research.

"In 2015, the private equity firm of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, partnered with a Chinese military contractor to acquire Henniges Automotive, another Michigan-based company. Henniges created dual-use military technology that China’s communist regime wanted. Despite all the red-flags that this sensitive technology would end up in the hands of China’s military, the Obama-Biden administration approved the company’s sale.

"Specifically, in 2008, Biden’s Department of Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm — then, the Governor of Michigan — approved a $10 million taxpayer-funded grant to A123 Systems and praised the move. In 2013, the Obama-Biden administration approved the Wanxiang Group’s acquisition of A123 Systems.

"A database compiled by Public Citizen reveals hundreds of cases where the Obama-Biden administration approved Chinese acquisitions of American companies — many in the auto and batteries industry."


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Big Guy Biden delivers
« Reply #267 on: May 29, 2021, 01:55:15 PM »







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two times I saw MSM
including CNN mentioned the disgusting sleaze of the phony art money laundering bribery scheme

and both times
one time they end the segment with this has happened before "when relatives cash in "

such as Billy beer
and lastly to put the cherry on top at the end when Ivanka got 10 patents from China
  so somehow even with this they have to drag trumps name into it.

the other time the Obama ethics guy ends the talk with this sets a bad precedent :
  and can one imagine  a president like trump doing this ?

well jack off , trump did not do it.
 or his family
if anything his family , the massively angry TDS niece made money off of criticizing him



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WSJ: Ethics through secrecy
« Reply #276 on: July 12, 2021, 08:21:49 AM »

Hunter Biden’s Secret Art Sale
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As President Biden’s son Hunter prepares for an art exhibition this fall that could include selling his paintings at prices up to $500,000, the White House is reportedly working with his attorney on a strategy to avoid ethical compromises. Here it is: Keep everything secret. Yes, for real, that’s the plan.

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The New York gallery hosting the sale, media reports say, will refuse “suspicious” offers, including those over list price. The names of the buyers and bidders will be kept confidential, even from Hunter. As the paintings sell, apparently hundreds of thousands of dollars will simply appear in his bank account, and neither he nor the public will know where it came from.

You don’t feel reassured? Sources in the art world say the prices being floated—from $75,000 to $500,000, depending on the piece—are seriously high, especially for an unknown painter doing a first sale. So the question is who might be quietly trying to funnel money to President Biden’s son.


The art sale is a bad idea, full stop. But at least transparency would let bids be scrutinized in real time, preferably before a sale is final. Instead the White House is proposing opacity, even as its press aides brag that President Biden “has established the highest ethical standards of any administration in American history.”

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Would the promised confidentiality be kept? Whispers about who bought what are inevitable. A Russian oligarch could have a proxy purchase a $500,000 painting for the purpose of leaking the information to hurt President Biden’s credibility. Why take this risk?

None of this is to cast aspersions on Hunter’s artistic talents. One critic characterized his work as having “a hotel art aesthetic,” and another called it “generic post zombie formalism illustration.” But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and Hunter’s paintings look pretty good next to our stick figures. If some collector wants to hang an original Hunter Biden after his father leaves the Oval Office, fine.

But Joe Biden has public obligations, and Hunter spoke at the Democratic National Convention to urge voters to put his father in the White House. He also has that Burisma baggage. Hunter can keep on painting, but for at least the next four years the best advice his father could give his son would be to do it for the art’s sake, not for the money.

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Re: Big Guy Biden & Son (Hunter)
« Reply #277 on: July 12, 2021, 10:02:44 AM »
".None of this is to cast aspersions on Hunter’s artistic talents. "

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Re: Big Guy Biden & Son (Hunter)
« Reply #279 on: July 21, 2021, 05:53:24 AM »
****https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/shades-clinton-joe-biden-used-private-email-send-government?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter***

I am thinking that unknown mysterious buyers of Hunter pseudo art
  are not buying his crap
  for nothing
 bribing Hunter repeatedly is because the bribes pay off
  and are successful


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Re: Big Guy Biden & Son (Hunter)
« Reply #280 on: July 21, 2021, 04:59:10 PM »
Of course, that's how you launder the influence peddling.

I've seen on a smaller scale with a corrupted Police Detective and his human trafficker sponsor.



****https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/shades-clinton-joe-biden-used-private-email-send-government?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter***

I am thinking that unknown mysterious buyers of Hunter pseudo art
  are not buying his crap
  for nothing
 bribing Hunter repeatedly is because the bribes pay off
  and are successful

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NYT Bret Stephens, An "Ethically Challenged Presidency"
« Reply #285 on: October 08, 2021, 11:57:01 AM »
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/05/opinion/biden-ethics-son.html

Could someone with guest access or login codes post further details?

He's not just dumb or senile, he is corrupt.

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« Reply #286 on: October 08, 2021, 02:05:10 PM »
There should be little doubt that President Biden was not being truthful when, days after the Taliban’s victory, he told ABC News that his senior military advisers had not urged him to keep some 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. The president’s claim was flatly contradicted last week in sworn testimony from Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., the head of U.S. Central Command.

During the generals’ testimony, the White House press secretary, Jen Psaki, sought to defend her boss by pointing to a line in Biden’s interview in which he appeared to suggest that the military’s advice “was split.”

Another whopper. What split? As The Times’s Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and David Sanger reported in April, right after Lloyd Austin was sworn in as secretary of defense in January, he and his top generals “were in lock step in recommending that about 3,000 to 4,500 troops stay in Afghanistan.” Asked whether there were top military advisers who argued otherwise, Psaki evaded the question.

Biden’s dissembling, regarding the worst-executed major foreign policy decision in years, would be a scandal in any presidency. It’s worse coming from the man who campaigned for office by insisting that he stood “for honor and telling the truth.”

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A week earlier, Politico’s Ben Schreckinger published a scrupulously reported book on the Biden family. It makes a compelling case that some of the most explosive emails from Hunter Biden’s purported laptop were entirely genuine — a claim that Schreckinger confirmed with multiple sources, including a Swedish government agency, and that was never explicitly denied by Hunter himself.

That includes a 2017 email in which one of Hunter’s potential business partners proposed a “provisional agreement” with the now-defunct company CEFC China Energy to share equity percentages in a new venture, with “10 Jim” and “10 held by H for the big guy?” Jim Biden is the president’s brother. “The big guy,” according to Tony Bobulinski, a recipient of the email, is Hunter’s father.

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This does not mean the president received, or even expected to receive, money from this supposed venture, or even knew about it.

But it provides good reason to believe that the news media gave far too much credence to his assertion that the leaked emails were “a Russian plant,” as he put it in his second debate with Donald Trump. It makes it more difficult to ignore Bobulinski’s claim that he met with Joe, Jim and Hunter Biden in May 2017 to discuss the overall terms of the deal. And it is worth asking whether the president may have been willing to make himself useful to his family, even if he didn’t profit personally or directly from their deals.

“The Bidens pride themselves on integrity, and are fond of pledging ‘my word as a Biden’ when they really mean something,” Schreckinger writes. “The evidence marshaled in the closing weeks of the campaign built on a picture in which Joe’s relatives trade regularly on their connections to him, while the separation between their private dealings and his public duties is not as far and wide as he has claimed.”

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All this would be bad enough if it were just history. But what are we to make of Hunter’s recent venture as a visual artist — a field in which he has no formal training and no commercial track record?

In case you missed this: A SoHo gallerist intends to sell 15 of Hunter’s works at prices of up to $500,000 apiece. To safeguard the propriety of these transactions, the White House has issued “ethics guidelines” that are supposed to keep things aboveboard by hiding the identity of the buyers from both Hunter and the White House. And it falls to the gallerist — that is, the person who stands to gain from the commissions — to police the guidelines by rejecting suspiciously lucrative offers.

It screams of a scam. “The Treasury Department warned last year that the anonymity of high-value art transactions could make the market attractive to those engaging in illegal financial activities or people subject to U.S. sanctions,” The Times’s Zolan Kanno-Youngs reported in July.

In another report of dubious activities, Mattathias Schwartz wrote in Business Insider about emails that indicated that in 2015, while his dad was vice president, Hunter was allegedly exploring a $2 million-plus “success fees” deal with two Democratic donors to help recover Libyan assets that had been frozen as a result of U.S. sanctions. The effort came to nothing — Hunter’s reputation for hard living didn’t help — but at least one of the donors was attracted to Hunter’s offer because he is “son of #2 who has Libya file.”

“When it comes to opening doors in Washington,” Schwartz notes, “the illusion of access can be as valuable as hard currency.”

Some readers may be inclined to dismiss this as merely an indictment of a troubled son. They might ask themselves what conclusions they would draw if this were about, say, Eric Trump. Some readers will also think it isn’t the president’s job to police his adult son. But it is his job to ensure that Hunter and other relatives don’t profit by trading on his position in government.

That would be corruption. The president will have to do better than give us his “word as a Biden” that he’ll put an end to it.

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Re: Big Guy Biden & Son (Hunter)
« Reply #287 on: October 08, 2021, 05:22:43 PM »
Thank you!  That is a pretty hard hitting column for NYT to publish.

Too bad they only run basic facts like this in the opinion section.
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Moisha Mana
« Reply #293 on: November 01, 2021, 11:52:37 AM »
just another Jewish person whose real religion is Democratic Party
  worship

too bad he won't go back to Israel and leave us alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishe_Mana

oh, the self righteous Jews ...........

yes there is a civil war among American Jews (I am sure the fight and bicker in Israel too though ).

my mother said once many yrs ago :

"there is an old saying , put 100 Jews in a room , and you will get 100 different opinions"


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Re: Big Guy Biden & Son (Hunter)
« Reply #296 on: November 24, 2021, 09:42:21 AM »
and were on their way to the estate of David Rubenstein, the co-founder and chairman of the private equity firm The Carlyle Group, the report said.

Although the president has spent vacations and Thanksgiving on the island for decades — 46 years, to be exact — beginning when he was just a junior senator from Delaware, he does not own a house there. Biden and family have previously stayed at the homes of Democratic supporters Rubenstein and Louis Susman, ambassador to the United Kingdom under former president Barack Obama.

Joining Biden for the holiday are his son, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen, daughter Ashley Biden, and several of their grandchildren, according to the White House. They are scheduled to return on Sunday, the White House said.

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Thanksgiving with the Bidens
« Reply #297 on: November 24, 2021, 02:45:44 PM »
"Joining Biden for the holiday are his son, Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen, daughter Ashley Biden, and several of their grandchildren... "

I wonder if Project Veritas will be there to bug it.  Or if SNL has sense of humor enough to do a skit on it.

A weekend of Joe, Hunter and the journal writer Ashley.  Missing would be the grandchild living with the prostitute and the late brother's wife that Hunter used to sleep with.

I could see there being some awkward moments of conversation in between the "inappropriate showers with Dad" and being "hyper sexualized" at home so young.

"Hunter, how's business?"
"Bought any Cobalt monopolies lately son?"

"You ought to know Dad, you're the Big Guy."

Ashley:  "Come on Dad, get your clothes off, it's time to go swimming."

No mention that President Jill will be there.  What could go wrong.


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Re: Big Guy Biden & Son (Hunter) "More money than God"
« Reply #299 on: November 28, 2021, 05:59:53 AM »
https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/chinese-titan-lavished-hunter-biden-with-3-carat-gem-offer-of-30-million

‘More money than God:’ Chinese titan lavished Hunter Biden with 3-carat gem, offer of $30 million
By Miranda Devine
November 28, 2021 6:12am  Updated
Ye Jianming, former chairman of the Shanghai-based CEFC China Energy conglomerate in an undated photo. A Senate committee is investigating a bombshell cache of alleged Hunter Biden documents acquired by a Delaware computer repairman.
Ye Jianming, former chairman of the Shanghai-based CEFC China Energy conglomerate in an undated photo. A Senate committee is investigating a bombshell cache of alleged Hunter Biden documents acquired by a Delaware computer repairman.
The Biden family offered their services to a huge, Chinese-government-linked energy consortium to expand its business around the world. How do we know? Because of hundreds of emails documenting the deal found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, left in a Delaware repair shop in April 2019. In her new book, “Laptop from Hell,” New York Post columnist Miranda Devine tells the tale:

James Gilliar, a wiry, 56-year-old British ex-SAS officer, got to know Ye Jianming, the 40-year-old chairman of CEFC, when they were both working in the Czech Republic.

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CEFC was a Chinese conglomerate, one of the largest energy companies in the world.

Ye’s task at was to spend $1.5 billion as quickly as possible to ensure the Czech Republic would become China’s “Gateway to the European Union,” a priority of President Xi.

To that end, Ye bought everything from a football team and a brewery to an airline, before being named “special economic advisor” to Czech President Milos Zeman.

Now he was looking for an influential partner to help with acquisitions in other locations around the world that had strategic significance for the Chinese state.

Gilliar had an idea who could help: The Biden family.

Gilliar connected with Hunter Biden through trusted Biden family friend Rob Walker, a former Clinton administration official whose wife, Betsy Massey Walker, had been Jill Biden’s assistant when she was Second Lady.

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Miranda Devine’s book Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.

Gilliar emailed Walker in February 2015 to praise Hunter’s appearance in Beijing at a board meeting of the fledgling investment fund Hunter had founded with John Kerry’s son, called BHR.

“Hunter was great,” Gilliar wrote to Walker. “True sheikh of Washington.”

He emailed Hunter a few weeks later: “It has been made clear to me that CEFC wish to engage in further business relations with our group.”

Gilliar knew CEFC was the capitalist arm of President Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative to spread China’s influence — and debt traps — across the world. No Chinese company executed its goals more ardently than CEFC and its young chairman, who was dubbed the “Belt and Road billionaire” in the press.

Chairman Ye had built his provincial energy company into a Fortune 500 colossus virtually overnight, an achievement described by Chinese news agency Caixin as “another great enigma in the miraculous world of Chinese business.” He enjoyed the support of President Xi and was former deputy secretary general of the government’s propaganda arm, the China Association for International Friendly Contacts.

In a rare interview with Caixin at CEFC’s palatial marble headquarters in Shanghai’s upscale French Concession District, Ye is portrayed as a “hermit king” sitting on a golden chair in “a room that resembles a miniature Great Hall of the People.”

Uniformed staff members wearing earpieces glide by. “Most of them were young women wearing smart clothes and bright faces.”

Ye’s face was “as expressionless as a stone statue. Amidst the gilded surroundings, his canvas shoes had an eye-catching plainness. .

“In his public activities as a private entrepreneur, Ye Jianming is al- ways walking alongside important foreign political figures. He has been photographed with world leaders such as Israeli President Peres, Turkish President Erdogan, Chadian President Déby, and European Commission President Juncker. He has met with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and the Prime Minister of Bulgaria held a feast to welcome him.”

In the winter of 2015, Chairman Ye and CEFC Executive Director Jianjun Zang, a.k.a. “Director Zang,” flew to Washington, DC. A meeting with Ye was scheduled in Hunter’s diary for December 7, 2015, in a week that was a swirl of back-to-back Christmas parties hosted by Joe and Jill at the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory.

One of his former associates, who spoke on condition of anonymity, believes that Hunter brought Chairman Ye to meet Joe at one of those parties. There is no indication of any such meeting on the laptop, but Hunter had a pattern of introducing business associates to Joe when they came to DC.

After a frustrating experience in another Chinese deal as a minority partner in private equity firm BHR, in which the payday would not come until the end of the fund’s life, Hunter and his uncle Jim Biden wanted more control of the CEFC partnership and a regular income stream.

Enter Tony Bobulinski. The naval officer turned wealthy institutional investor came highly recommended by Gilliar to build what they planned would be a world-class investment firm, called SinoHawk, named after Hunter’s late brother Beau’s favorite animal, the hawk.

Tony Bobulinski, former business parter of Hunter Biden.
Tony Bobulinski, former business partner of Hunter Biden.
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In December 2015, Gilliar tells Bobulinski he needs help structuring a Chinese joint venture for “one of the most prominent families in the United States.”

The plan is to “build an investment firm like Goldman Sachs,” he writes in a WhatsApp message, transcripts of which were obtained separate from the laptop.

“The family is the Biden family,” Gilliar will soon disclose. Joe, who has announced that he will not run for president in 2016, will be actively involved once he leaves office, and the Bidens expect billions of dollars of projects to flow through the company, Gilliar says.

He lets Bobulinski in on the last piece of the puzzle in March 2016: the Bidens’ Chinese partner is CEFC, which has “more money than God,” he writes. “This is the capital arm of one belt one road.”

At about this time, Bobulinski is introduced to Rob Walker, who tells him he is “a proxy for Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and the Bidens around the world.”

Finally, in February 2017, Gilliar sends Bobulinski a WhatsApp message saying he wants to introduce him to his “partner.”

“Who is your partner?” asks Bobulinski.

“Hunter Biden,” replies Gilliar.

Bobulinski is leery. “I understand you want me to . . . help drive things in the US, but Hunter is [already] here.”

Gilliar: “Money there, intent there . . . skill sets missing . . . We need to create the best deal platform in history, and they haven’t got a clue.” Bobulinski doesn’t like the fact Hunter “was kicked out of US Navy for cocaine use.”

“But he’s super smart,” says Gilliar. “Just a lot of under achievers around them using their name. Has a few demons but u are used to those, right?”

Bobulinski asks: “Is he the decision maker or the Chinese?”

Gilliar: “New platform. Best discuss face to face but I’m the driver.”

Later, Bobulinski asks: “Ok who is putting up the $10MM [million]?”

Gilliar: “Joint vehicle — half us and then equally split — money is already in. Discuss more face to face.”

Ye Jianming, chairman of Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, gives Hunter Biden a 3.16 carat diamond estimated to be worth $80,000
Ye Jianming, chairman of Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC, gave Hunter Biden a 3.16-carat diamond estimated to be worth $80,000.
Three weeks after his father left office, in 2017, Hunter flew to Miami with Gilliar and Walker to meet Chairman Ye, who was there for the Miami International Boat Show.

New York Post front cover Nov. 28, 2021.
They booked into the $700 a night beachfront Nobu Hotel on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, and scheduled lunch with the Chinese for Thursday in a private room set for 10 at the Bourbon Steak restaurant in the ritzy JW Marriott Turnberry Resort & Spa, where Ye was staying with his entourage.

But Hunter flew home the day before the lunch. He already had met with Ye, over a private dinner on the Tuesday night, at which the CEFC chairman made him an offer too good to refuse: $10 million a year, for a minimum of three years, for “introductions alone,” as Hunter would later assert in an imperious email to CEFC executives.

Ye sealed the new alliance with a rich gift — a 3.16 carat diamond worth $80,000. Photographs of the stunning stone appear on Hunter’s laptop along with a grading report that lists it as a “round brilliant” of Grade F with prime “VS2” clarity and “excellent” cut.

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Photos of the A 3.16-carat diamond were found on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The gift could not have come at a better time. Hunter was in the middle of an ugly divorce from Kathleen, and his office manager, Joan Peugh, had just sent him the latest in a series of overdue bills, a tax collection notice from the District of Columbia for $47,226.78.

Hunter would tell the New Yorker’s Adam Entous that he had flown to Miami to meet Chairman Ye purely for charitable purposes, hoping to secure a donation to World Food Program USA, the nonprofit on whose board he served and which he had used before as a cover for his foreign business activities.

Hunter said it was just chance that the altruistic encounter “turned to business opportunities” and claimed to be surprised when Ye gave him the diamond. He didn’t mention the happy coincidence that his business partners Gilliar and Walker were with him in Miami to clinch a business deal with CEFC.

Aug 2 2017 email from Hunter Biden to CEFC associates Gongwen “Kevin” Dong and Mervyn Yan demanding more money
An Aug. 2, 2017 email from Hunter Biden to CEFC associates Gongwen “Kevin” Dong and Mervyn Yan demanding more money.
Robert Hunter
But the diamond was just an appetizer.

Nine days after Hunter’s meeting in Miami with Ye, $3 million is wired into an account for Rob Walker’s company, Robinson Walker LLC, from State Energy HK Limited, a Shanghai-based company linked to CEFC, according to the Chuck Grassley-Ron Johnson inquiry.

On March 1, another $3 million is wired to Robinson Walker by the same company. Both transactions are flagged by the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement network in a “suspicious activity report,” filed with the Senate committees as “Confidential Document 16.”

Using the document as a source, the Grassley-Johnson report of Nov. 18, 2020, says: “At the time of the transfers, State Energy HK Limited was affiliated with CEFC China Energy, which was under the leadership of Ye Jianming. In the past, State Energy HK Limited transferred funds to at least one company associated with Hunter Biden’s business associate, Gongwen Dong . . .

Hunter Biden emailed best wishes from the ‘entire’ family in $10M Chinese tycoon ask
“These transactions are a direct link between Walker and the communist Chinese government and, because of his close association with Hunter Biden, yet another tie between Hunter Biden’s financial arrange- ments and the communist Chinese government.”

The Senate report concludes it is “unclear what the true purpose is behind these transactions [$6 million from CEFC] and who the ultimate beneficiary is.”

We know from the laptop that Hunter received regular payments from Robinson Walker. One document lists $56,603.74 from Robinson Walker as income for Rosemont Seneca Advisors, between June and December 2017.

Rob Walker paid at least $511,000 to Hunter’s firm Owasco in 2017, according to an email from Hunter’s tax accountant, Bill Morgan.

Walker tells Bobulinski his role in CEFC is “being a surrogate for H [Hunter] or Jim when gauging opportunities, i.e. digging around in Texas on high speed rail with some of my republican friends . . . or hitting new countries and contacts abroad where things are lukewarm, but not hot enough for H to close or too odd for H to be present . . .”

Aug 3 2018 Hunter in bed Palms Casino Resort Vegas
An Aug. 3, 2018 photo of Hunter Biden in bed at Palms Casino Resort Vegas was found on his laptop.
On March 5, 2017, Page Six breaks the news that Hunter and his brother’s widow Hallie are an item.

When Hunter doesn’t show up for a scheduled meeting three days later in New York, Gilliar tells Bobulinski it doesn’t matter: “In brand he’s imperative but right now he’s not essential for adding input to business.”

It is at this point that Gilliar explains to Bobulinski that the Chinese involved in CEFC are “intelligence so they understand the value added” of the Biden name.

Bobulinski remains troubled by Hunter’s scandals, and Gilliar, who is in Australia with Director Zang looking for acquisitions, is worried he might pull out. So, he arranges for him to meet Hunter the following month at the Chateau Marmont, in Bobulinski’s hometown of L.A.

They meet by the hotel pool in April and speak for two hours while Hunter chain-smokes. Bobulinski finds him respectful and polite. Hunter boasts that he has his father’s ear and can bypass his advisers.

Hunter tells Bobulinski how the joint venture vehicle should be structured and expresses caution about US laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which prohibits businesses paying bribes to foreign officials. He appears to conflate that law with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a 1938 antispying law that requires anyone acting as a lobbyist for a foreign power to register with the US government as a foreign agent.

“No matter what, it will need to be a US company at some level in order for us to make bids on federal and state funded projects,” Hunter writes later.

“Also, we don’t want to have to register as foreign agents under the FCPA which is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know.

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“Regardless we should have a . . . company called CEFC America, and ownership should be 50 me 50 them. We then cut up our 50 [percent] in a separate entity between the 4 of us.”

Hunter seems focused, but Bobulinski is puzzled about Uncle Jim’s frequent meddling in CEFC business.

For instance, in April 2017, Jim pulls strings at New York’s elite Horace Mann School to get Director Zang’s daughter Rouqi fast-tracked for entry, although she ends up enrolling in another school.

Jim also writes a letter on behalf of CEFC to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo requesting a meeting. “We intend to discuss potential projects and investments in New York.” He lists the other attendees as Hunter, Chairman Ye, Director Zang, and an unnamed “Member of the Royal Family of Luxembourg.”

“What is the deal w Jim Biden as he wasn’t part of the discussion but now seems a focal point?” Bobulinski asks Gilliar. “What role does Jim see himself playing?”

“Consultant is what he’s offered as [far as] I know,” Gilliar replies. “He [Hunter] brought in Jim simply to leverage getting more equity for himself and family in the final hour, that is evident.”

In another WhatsApp message, Gilliar tells Bobulinski: “With H [Hunter’s] demons, could be good to have a backup, he [Jim] strengthens our USP [unique selling point] to Chinese as it looks like a truly family business, and I like the dude.”

With the deal progressing, Hunter tells Bobulinski it’s time for the next step.

“I want Dad to meet you,” he says.

Excerpted with permission from “Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide” (Post Hill Press), out Tuesday.

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