I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. 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 bitch, he got fired.
Joe Biden to Council on Foreign Relations (January 2018)
Legacy media remained oddly incurious after Tony Bobulinski detailed Biden grift on Fox News, an unclassified FD-1023 form alleged the Bidens “coerced” Burisma’s CEO to pay millions, and two IRS whistleblowers testified that the DOJ was protecting Hunter and Joe Biden. That changed Wednesday, when a judge’s curiosity outed the truth. To wit, CBS News now has over twenty “plea deal” stories on its web site.
Judge Noreika’s refusal of Hunter Biden’s plea deal could do what Judge Sirica’s refusal of the Watergate burglars’ plea deal did to President Nixon; that is, force a deeper probe that uncovers President Biden’s guilt. New spin from the White House suggests they fear the truth will out before November 2024. It (the changing Biden narrative) won’t work now that so many under-oath revelations are entering the public record. For example…
Candidate Biden declared in August 2019, “First of all, I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their business, period.” Spokesgal Jen Psaki echoed this in July 2021, “The president does not discuss business dealings with family members.” An odd family dynamic, but they stuck to the story.
Then, in July 2023, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “I’ve been asked this question a million times. The answer remains the same. The president was never in business with his son.” That was tacit admission they talked and new spin to rebut what the House Oversight Committee had uncovered; a WhatsApp message from Hunter to a Chinese business associate:
“I’m sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”
Last Sunday, the New York Times’ Peter Baker told MSNBC that candidate Biden was able to “frame [Hunter’s business] successfully in 2020” as a story of his son overcoming addiction. New information makes “that narrative harder to make” because the question for President Biden is now “whether or not he himself had something to do with his wayward son’s business dealings.” The press corps finally smells a money trail.
In October 2020, candidate Biden snarked to Fox News, “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China.” It was a false claim, now undeniable after Hunter Biden confessed to Judge Noreika that he’d earned $664,000 from a company “associated with a Chinese energy company called CEFC.” That’s right, under oath on Wednesday, Hunter wholly contradicted Joe’s claim his “son had not made money in China.”
By June 2023, Hunter’s lawyer, Chris Clark, knew this truth could out: “Any verifiable actions of my client, in the midst of a horrible addiction, are solely his own and have no connection to anyone in his family.” Expecting his plea deal to shield Hunter’s “actions” and Joe’s “connection” from being verified under oath, Clark was visibly upset as Judge Norieka unraveled his scheme. Suddenly, cries of “Biden crime family” are no longer GOP hyperbole.
Like father like son is an old saying because it is so often true. Hunter’s threat (“you will regret not following my direction”) echoed Joe’s threat (“you’re not getting the money”) because it’s the shakedown language of thugs, not men who will “restore honor and decency to the White House” (candidate Biden on November 2, 2020).
The only way out of this national crisis – bad actors in the DOJ, FBI, IRS, and White House – is through an impeachment inquiry or independent counsel. It is obvious the office of Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss acted to shield the “Big Guy” from investigators. How’d he hear Bobulinski’s public comments and offer to testify, and not depose Hunter’s business partner under oath? The stench is vast.
Devon Archer, Hunter’s business partner, is supposed to testify in the House Monday. Republicans think he will confirm the “Big Guy” was present at any one of the following:
- March 2012 lunch with Columbian Juan Esteban Orduz
- March 2012 meeting with Colombian Andrés Pastrana Arango at Joe’s official residence
- December 2013 introduction to Hunter’s Chinese business partner, Jonathan Li
- February 2014 meeting with Hunter’s Mexican business associates in the West Wing
- June 2014 meeting with Central American Manuel Estrella
- April 2015 dinner with Ukrainian Vadym Pozharskyi (Burisma)
- October 2015 video conference with Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire
- 24 speaker phone conversations with Hunter’s business associates
That’s a lot of smoke to just assume this president “never discussed business” or “was never in business” or “never made money from China” – and lots of polls show voters smell a rat. 77% believe Hunter did not pay taxes to hide his income. 69% think Joe knew of his son’s business dealings. 59% think the evidence on Hunter’s laptop is real, and 51% think he committed crimes for which he should be imprisoned.
A president’s pay-to-play scheme is bigger than ill-gained cash. The Journal’s Holman Jenkins recently wrote of these events as Vladimir Putin might have seen them: (1) Hunter’s Burisma deal, (2) Trump’s impeachment for asking about Hunter’s Burisma deal, and (3) Russia being framed for evidence of grift on Hunter’s laptop. Joe Biden and his party made America look mighty small to an adversary.
Let’s hope Mr. Archer exposes Don Corleone Joe Biden for the self-serving grifter he sure looks to be.
