President Joe Biden, 80, shows his ire with Fox News White House pool reporter Peter Doocy. Doocy asked Biden about Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner who testified in Rep. James Comer’s (R-Ky) House Oversight Committee that Biden was present on numerous speakerphone calls with his 53-year-old son. Archer and Hunter were appointed, through Joe’s influence while Vice President in 2009, to the board of corrupt energy company Burisma Holdings. At the time, Biden headed Obama’s anti-corruption task force, while landing Hunter and Devon lucrative jobs earning them millions on Burisma’s board. Joe was videotaped telling the Council on Foreign Rerlations that he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid if then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko refused to fire the lead prosecutor investigating Burisma for corruption.
Biden’s business history with Ukraine and other foreign governments, including Russia and China, is off limits to the Democrat-controlled press, looking to spare him embarrassment of shady business practices. Biden denies that he had anything to do with Hunter’s overseas business dealings, netting the Biden family millions, including Joe Biden in a series of shell corporations and camouflaged accounts, neatly hidden from public view. Bringing up Archer was off-limits to Biden because it raises the specter that he’s have to answer for the lies he told the public about his ignorance of Hunter’s business dealings. Comer and House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) have been collecting testimony and data on Biden’s business dealings with his son Hunter and brother, Jim Biden. Every time Biden’s asked a question about his ties to son Hunter, he denies he knows anything.
Doocy pressed Biden on Devon Archer because he just finished testifying under oath in Comer’s Oversight Committee that Biden was on numerous phone calls with Hunter’s business dealings. Archer told Comer he wasn’t certain that they were business calls, saying people talked about the weather and other things. Whether anyone believes that or not, Biden got surly with Doocy. “There’s thia testimony where one of your son’s former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business,” Doocy told Biden. “I never talked business with anybody,” Biden shot back. “And I knew you’d have a lousy question,” Biden said, rudely putting Doocy on the defensive. What makes it a lousy question,” Doocy asked Biden. “Because it’s not true,” Biden answered, the same way he’s answered since question arose in the 2020 campaign.
Republicans on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are committed to getting to the bottom of Hunter’s overseas business dealings netting the Biden family millions. Joe continues to deny any involvement but Hunter admitted he would not have gotten the job at Burisma without his father’s help. So, when it comes to Joe responding defensively to Doocy’s questions, the liberal press makes no attempt to clarify what factually happened over the years that left Hunter and Joe’s 74-year-old brother Jim embroiled in overseas business deals netting the Biden family millions. Democrats and the press look to get Biden off the hook. Archer described the phone calls as “generally about the weather and, you know, what it’s like in Norway or Paris or wherever he may be,” Archer told Comer’s committee. Joe’s presence on the speakerphone gave Hunter clout with foreign governments.
Biden has been heard on an open mike in the past calling Doocy a “stupid son-of-a-bitch,” crudely deriding the only White House pool reporter questioning anything. Unlike Trump that received a daily vitriol from the press, White House pool reporters keep the conversation on the light side with Joe. Making it impossible for Trump but a breeze for Biden exposes the extreme prejudice by the liberal press against any GOP president. News organizations are supposed to be apolitical but in realty push a Democrat agenda. Questions about Biden’s son Hunter have been strictly off limits since Social Networks and the liberal press called the Hunter laptop story Russian disinformation, showing how easily duped the public. Only recently has the liberal press admitted that the Hunter laptop story was not Russian disinformation but an egregious exposure into Biden family corruption.
Democrats continue the same playbook as 2020, where Biden was kept away from the public because of concerns about his propensity toward gaffes. When it comes to 2024 things won’t be any different with Vice President Kamala Harris painting the GOP as a racist, White nationalist party, demanding that voters step up to fight racist GOP practices. GOP candidates haven’t figured out what to do to stop the Democrat narrative about a racist Republican Party. Biden can’t take any criticism, especially when it comes to his management of the economy and foreign policy. Biden has had a good month watching Wall Street rally against summer lows. With recent economic data about Bank liquidity, Wall Street could easily switch gears, selling off again, casting a pall on the White House. Biden, with the help of the Democrat-controlled press, refuses to deal with the destructive Ukraine proxy war.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
