Investigations into the highly questionable foreign business dealings of Hunter Biden and the role his father played in them when he was vice president, have recently been the topic of discussion of many of the online “conservative” sites to which I subscribe. While I have accumulated about 20 pages of notes on this subject, I shall be as succinct as possible in revealing the most relevant facts. To the mainstream media and “liberals” in general, of course, these facts in no way suggest that Joe was an utterly corrupt vice president who sought to profit from his position by selling his influence abroad. You be the judge.
In the House Oversight Committee’s recent investigation into Hunter’s foreign dealings, three sources seem preeminently significant. One is Devon Archer, a partner in Hunter’s investment firm who worked closely with him upon his inclusion on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, from 2013 to 2018. The second is an FBI document citing the testimony of an anonymous yet supposedly trusted informant familiar with Burisma’s dealings, who had been feeding the FBI for several years. The third is Hunter’s so-called laptop, whose contents the N.Y. Post revealed just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
Hunter Biden had no expertise whatsoever in the energy sector, yet was paid millions by energy companies in both the Ukraine and China for his input. What, one is inclined to ask, was his appeal? Understanding that these facts suggest Hunter was merely selling access to his father whose status as vice president might prove eminently profitable, Joe has repeatedly denied having anything whatsoever to do with his son’s business dealings, indeed to have never even discussed them with him. But what do the facts suggest?
In his testimony before the House Committee, Devon Archer has admitted that vice president Biden was on a speaker phone sharing in his son’s communications with his business associates at Burisma and elsewhere at least 20 times over a 10 year period. But, he says, these exchanges were always casual, i.e. discussions of the weather, etc., and had nothing to do with business. Oddly, however, Archer also suggests Hunter’s last name was clearly the reason for Burisma’s interest in him, and Hunter admitted as much in his autobiography, “Beautiful Things,” where he said his last name was “gold” in his dealings with that company.
Oddly, as revealed by the FBI’s anonymous Ukrainian/American informant, the head of Burisma, Mykola Zlochevsky, said in a 2016 statement that Hunter Biden was not particularly bright, indeed was dumber than his dog. And yet he apparently paid both Hunter and his dad approximately 5 million dollars for their services. Gee, I wonder what his company had to gain. Access to Joe’s musings on the weather, perhaps?
In an attempt to defend Joe against the charge that as Obama’s vice president he had sold his soul to the devil, Democratic Representative Dan Golman recently insisted that Hunter had merely sold “the illusion of access to his father.” Yes, the executives at Burisma paid one they considered dumb as a dog millions of dollars but never really got anything substantial in return!
According to Miranda Devine of the N.Y. Post, Hunter organized 2 dinners in 2015/16 enabling his dad to meet his foreign business associates. Indeed the visitors log from the Obama White House indicates Joe met at least 14 times with them throughout his vice presidency. It is a known fact that Burisma was intent on expanding its dealings in the U.S., but never, ever, ever, apparently, were such subjects discussed in these various interactions!
Throughout the years in question, the Ukraine’s Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, was investigating Burisma for possibly corrupt business practices. A 2015 Email exchanged between Burisma and Hunter indicated his “ultimate purpose” as a member of that company’s board was to terminate this investigation. Shokin was indeed removed from his position, a development which Joe proudly claimed to have influenced. But while Republicans have declared this to be an obvious example of a corrupt vice president using his power to enrich himself and his family, Democrats maintain Shokin was fired because he was not nearly vigorous enough in his investigation. Joe, we are asked to believe, supported his removal in an attempt to expose the corruption of the very company for which his own son was working. Really?
The bizarre manner in which Hunter’s laptop became public knowledge is not presently our concern. Nor is the fact that it revealed him to be addicted to drugs, prostitutes, etc.. But among its contents was Hunter’s admission that “the big guy” was in fact involved in his business dealings. When the N.Y. Post broke the story just weeks before the 2020 election, the FBI initially confirmed its legitimacy to Twitter. Upon second thought, however, it decided to remain mute on the subject and indeed supported the notion that Russian disinformation was most likely responsible for such nonsense. As a result, most social media outlets banned any mention of Hunter’s laptop as the election approached. Clearly this decision had a significant impact on the 2020 result. Yet recently the FBI’s very own Laura Denlow admitted that her superiors knew the laptop story was legit even as they chose to ignore it, just as, according to Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, they tried to keep the document containing the incriminating evidence supplied by their anonymous informant from the House Oversight Committee, even though it would seem directly related to its recent investigation.
None of the above proves unequivocally that Biden abused his authority when he was Obama’s vice president. But the circumstantial evidence is substantial. All of my “liberal” friends react with condescending smirks when I introduce this issue because it has barely been covered in the mainstream media where it is generally dismissed as just so much “misinformation.” But there is not a doubt in the world that if the family in question were named Trump, that very same media would have relentlessly, viciously, scornfully investigated every last iota of evidence incriminating to the 45th President. An unbiased media, Reason suggests, is essential to the well-being of every Democracy. Ironically, those who see the world through the lens of their Bias rather than in the light of Reason, have created a culture utterly antipathetic to the free exchange of ideas, a culture which is inherently intolerant of all dissenting points of view. That the architects of this Hegemony constantly accuse their opponents of being a threat to Democracy, is absurd beyond belief.
When I tell my Canadian “friends” that I would have voted for Trump in 2020 due to the incomparable stupidity of many of Biden’s policies, they shake their heads in derision. Policies apparently don’t matter. Substance doesn’t matter. Trump is an irredeemable monster. It is the sort of rhetoric our media spews on a daily basis. Hence the impossibility in contemporary North America of having anything approaching a rational discussion of our political differences! Hence the increasing tendency of our “liberals” to endorse a “cancel culture” which is illiberal to its very core!
The Humanist architects of Democracy assumed a voting public capable of distinguishing irrational blather and hateful bigotry from genuinely progressive viewpoints. The notion of an “enlightened” Elite entitled to impose its will by flagrantly editing the truth and “cancelling” its opposition, is the very opposite of Democratic!
But while the “legacy” media’s selective approach to the truth is repulsive, the corruption of institutions such as the FBI is even more so. Its 2020 suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story as well as its reluctance to supply the House Oversight Committee with a document integral to its investigation of the Biden family finances, suggests a bias trending towards Totalitarianism. Ironically, those simpletons perfectly comfortable with such dishonesty, never cease accusing “conservatives” of undermining the principles of Democracy! Yes, here in the “progressive” West, supporting an honest, open, rational approach to the Truth is now deemed to be a form of subversion.