Caught red-handed much like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was four years ago, 77-year-old former Vice President and Democratic nominee Joe Biden can only insult the intelligence of reporters asking him about a Oct. 14 New York Post story. Post researchers reported about email uncovered from a discarded laptop computer found a Maryland computer repair shop attributed to Hunter Biden. In the damning emails they show Hunter’s email exchange with Burisma Holdings businessman Vadym Pozharskyi who expressed appreciation to Hunter for arranging a meeting with Joe Biden. Hunter cf course and his convicted felon business partner Devon Archer landed $83,000 a month jobs on the board of Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian energy company. No one from the Biden campaign disputes the authenticity of the emails, only working in overdrive to discredit the Post story.
Confronted yesterday by CBS reporter Bo Erickson, Biden bristled, calling the New York Post story a smear. Biden’s been given a pass by the entire U.S. media establishment and the one reporter that asks him a question of substance, Joe gets surly. If that doesn’t tell that there’s substance to the Post story, then nothing does. Once an elected official is caught red handed, they always blame it on a smear. But in case Joe hasn’t noticed, the one smeared in the 2020 presidential campaign is 74-year-old President Donald Trump who can’t catch a break from anyone in the mainstream press. Trump finds himself running against Democrats and the press with both hands tied behind his back. Despite enjoying a hefty margin the in polls, Biden’s campaign insists the race is much closer than it looks. Calling the New York Post story Russian disinformation doesn’t mean it’s not true.
Revelations four years ago from WikiLeaks indicated that Hillary had sabotaged Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) campaign with the help of the Democrat National Committee [DNC]’s former Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fl.). Those same WikiLeaks emails showed the Wasserman Schultz’a replacement, form Interim DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile gave debate questions in advance to Hillary. Brazile was fired by the DNC and CNN, where she was one of their Democrat pundits. No ever disputed the actual emails other than raising Russian intelligence as a possible source. Now the Biden campaign’s doing the exact same thing, calling the Post story Russian disinformation but not disputing the actual emails released. Voters should be very concerned about turning the presidency over to Joe Biden when he enriched himself and his 50-year-old son Hunter while serving as Vice President.
Biden’s overreaction to the CBS reporter speaks volumes about his guilt over meeting with a Burisma businessman to arrange Hunter and Archer’s lucrative jobs. News that the FBI’s looking into whether the source of the New York Post story was Russian disinformation attempts to discredit the story, when there are no denials from Hunter or the Joe Biden campaign. In another sign that Biden’s lying about the meeting with Poxharskyi, the campaign said that there’s no record of Joe ever meeting with the Burisma Holdings businessman. Having no record of the meeting in no way confirms that no meeting took place. Plenty of politicians meet with various people not on their official calendars. Yet the Biden campaign was quick to say there’s no record of any meeting. When it comes to the Ukraine, there’s a tsunami of documents to support the New York Post story.
Before anyone had email proof of Joe’s meetings with Pozharskyi, Hunter himself confessed on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Oct. 15, 2019 that it was probably not a good idea to take the Burisma Holdings job. In that same interview, Hunter admitted that without his father he would probably not have gotten the job. It’s obvious that Hunter had no background in energy to warrant a foreign entity to pay him $83,000 a month to serve on its board. It’s widely known that Hunter’s business partner Devon Archer was convicted in U.S. District Court in Lower Manhattan June 28, 2018 of defrauding the Sioux Indian tribe in a fraudulent development bond scandal. Hunter and Archer both worked on the Burisma Holding’s board. Joe admitted to the Council on Foreign Relations Jan. 23, 2018 that he got the Ukrainian chief prosecutor Viktor Shokin fired for investigating Burisma where Hunter worked..
All the talk about Russian disinformation or about Trump’s personal Atty. Rudy Giuliani being involved in the New York Post story tries to discredit the content. But just like the WikiLeaks emails release four years ago, the New York Post emails of Hunter and Pozharskyi were real, not in dispute by Hunter’s personal attorney or the Biden campaign. What the New York Post story shows is what everyone knows but is unwilling to cover that Joe used his position as Vice President to land Hunter and his business partners lucrative jobs on Burisma’s board. Whether that’s a smoking gun or a bombshell two weeks before the election is anyone’s guess. Judging by the corrupt nature of the U.S. media, they’re doing everything possible to save Joe from any negative fallout on his campaign. All the talk about Giuliani and now the FBI is designed to take the public’s eye off the ball.
About the Author
John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OolineColumnsit.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
