tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91078122024-02-21T21:20:45.956-05:00Mike's AmericaWelcome to Mike's America, a view of news and opinion that has caught my attention. You're welcome to share your thoughts by commenting on posts.Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.comBlogger5887125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-36116411774098499882022-09-21T19:12:00.003-04:002022-09-21T21:05:05.605-04:0018 Year Old Teen Killed After Driver Uses Biden's "MAGA Extremism" as an Excuse to Run Him Over with His Car. Media Silent<p><b><i> Violence inspired by Democrats is widespread and rarely reported!</i></b>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Only 72 hours after a teen was purposely run over and killed- by a nutjob, who thought the teen was a "MAGA extremist", Biden is doubling down- urging people to "fight back" against MAGA. <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JackPosobiec</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RitaPanahi</a> <a href="https://t.co/GrfrLDI8s1">pic.twitter.com/GrfrLDI8s1</a></p>— Exit the Matrix (@No__Fear__) <a href="https://twitter.com/No__Fear__/status/1572650707442085888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Only 72 hours after a teen was purposely run over and killed- by a nutjob, who thought the teen was a "MAGA extremist", Biden is doubling down- urging people to "fight back" against MAGA. <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JackPosobiec</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RitaPanahi</a> <a href="https://t.co/GrfrLDI8s1">pic.twitter.com/GrfrLDI8s1</a></p>— Exit the Matrix (@No__Fear__) <a href="https://twitter.com/No__Fear__/status/1572650707442085888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Imagine if a white, 41-year-old MAGA Hat-Wearing Republican Activist chased down and ran over an 18-year-old with his car because he claimed the teen was part of a "Democrat Extremist Group"<br><br>The Media would cover it non-stop. So why do they ignore the murder of Cayler Ellingson?</p>— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1572623105234972673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Jail confirmed to me that Shannon Brandt, who reportedly confessed to killing a North Dakota teen because the 18yo victim was "part of a Republican extremist group," posted bond and is back on the streets.<br><br>Since his release, it appears Brandt started scrubbing his social media. <a href="https://t.co/HAIbprHPpP">pic.twitter.com/HAIbprHPpP</a></p>— Mia Cathell (@MiaCathell) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiaCathell/status/1572590769315414020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<b>Someone needs to do a web site to chronicle each and every conservative and Trump supporter who has been killed by violent leftists in the past two years. At least a half dozen I know of!</b>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-38786615247680425122022-09-04T16:40:00.005-04:002022-09-05T02:21:44.414-04:00Both Biden and Trump Visit Biden's Home Town. Compare the Crowds and the Enthusiasm<p><b><i> Does anyone seriously believe Biden got more votes than Trump?</i></b></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Donald Trump and Joe Biden Both held rallies in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania this week. <br /><br />Here is what they looked like back to back. <br /><br />Incredible. <a href="https://t.co/Xe7cWQzrQO">pic.twitter.com/Xe7cWQzrQO</a></p>— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1566230943693676544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<b>Pictures don't lie!</b><div><b><br /></b>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDab1TRIXvJqRlKoC0BZ2B378EmRsP3a82z07LdWvwv2Fygu_IUIGt4chp2r7Y-htv7_uadWvElWfRINt3Ls0w5FGzeVt3wupO9auVlXb-AGU_AizlE6gOXH5ap4jTFSV6QWIq21SI_9oB4FVGfxR8HLiTYOhxpzif6caRm-YvfM4XLUJhJA/s1080/Screenshot_20220904-031935.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="1080" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYDab1TRIXvJqRlKoC0BZ2B378EmRsP3a82z07LdWvwv2Fygu_IUIGt4chp2r7Y-htv7_uadWvElWfRINt3Ls0w5FGzeVt3wupO9auVlXb-AGU_AizlE6gOXH5ap4jTFSV6QWIq21SI_9oB4FVGfxR8HLiTYOhxpzif6caRm-YvfM4XLUJhJA/s320/Screenshot_20220904-031935.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-64859442915064245542022-08-15T17:56:00.002-04:002022-08-15T18:22:36.153-04:00Seized Mar a Lago Docs Leaked. Show Clear Evidence of Crimes<p><b><i> Will the FBI be investigating?</i></b></p><p>Documents from Trump's safe at Mar a Lago have leaked online. They are damning evidence of crimes which include illegal transactions with RUSSIA.</p><p>The information is so sensitive I have put it behind a wall to shield readers from the shocking truth about the subject involved:</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/06/29/21/59686521-10966153-image-m-42_1656536323585.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="634" height="619" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/06/29/21/59686521-10966153-image-m-42_1656536323585.jpg" width="634" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="goog_1439953337"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10966153/Hunter-Biden-spent-30k-prostitutes-FIVE-MONTHS-documents-reveal.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10966153/Hunter-Biden-spent-30k-prostitutes-FIVE-MONTHS-documents-reveal.html</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://raw-focus.news-mediahuis-tps.eu/prod-mh-ireland/d571de6a-f397-11ec-941f-0257d57b707f.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="620" height="777" src="https://raw-focus.news-mediahuis-tps.eu/prod-mh-ireland/d571de6a-f397-11ec-941f-0257d57b707f.jpg" width="620" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/15/09/34418592-8842709-In_some_of_the_images_Hunter_Biden_is_seen_with_a_crack_pipe_han-a-1_1602749569849.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="450" height="800" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/15/09/34418592-8842709-In_some_of_the_images_Hunter_Biden_is_seen_with_a_crack_pipe_han-a-1_1602749569849.jpg" width="450" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8842709/Joe-Bidens-son-crack-pipe-new-low-dirtiest-election-writes-TOM-LEONARD.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8842709/Joe-Bidens-son-crack-pipe-new-low-dirtiest-election-writes-TOM-LEONARD.html</a></div>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Just a little heads-up reminder that decency is on the ballot this coming midterm <a href="https://t.co/jhmtYrGE0j">pic.twitter.com/jhmtYrGE0j</a></p>— Amerigo Vespucci (@AVespucc1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AVespucc1/status/1546283272086474753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">NEW: Joe Biden apparently unwittingly financed Hunter’s participation in a Russia-linked escort ring, with Joe committing to send Hunter $100k as his son spent $30k+ on escorts (many with .RU emails) in late 2018 & early 2019.<a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DCExaminer</a> w/ <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewKerrNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewKerrNC</a><a href="https://t.co/wdVmeYvexY">https://t.co/wdVmeYvexY</a></p>— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1541406790725812225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407/">
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407/</a><div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/</a></div></div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-42069878027499040152022-07-11T22:24:00.006-04:002022-07-11T22:29:09.004-04:00New Polls: Voters Doubt Biden's Mental Fitness for Office. Dems Don't Want Biden to Run Again. Bottom Line: HE SUCKS!<p><b><i> By this time anyone who voted for Biden and hasn't recanted that vote should have their head examined!</i></b></p><p>Every day there's a new poll that shows Biden sinking lower and lower. Americans aren't as stupid as CNN anchors. They see the damage these frauds are doing to our country and they know Biden is the cause.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/Biden-Mental-Fitness-Poll.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="600" height="430" src="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/Biden-Mental-Fitness-Poll.jpg" width="752" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2022/07/2022June_FedImpactConcern-560x274.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="560" height="274" src="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2022/07/2022June_FedImpactConcern-560x274.png" width="560" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2022/07/2022June_BidenJob-1-560x296.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="560" height="296" src="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2022/07/2022June_BidenJob-1-560x296.png" width="560" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXaOZlrWIAAYSnG.png:large" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="640" height="800" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXaOZlrWIAAYSnG.png:large" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1546589393044979712/pu/img/NTYy7sHLkivZ2mm8.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1546589393044979712/pu/img/NTYy7sHLkivZ2mm8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&url=0PtC9M_0gbosiH000" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="580" height="405" src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&url=0PtC9M_0gbosiH000" width="580" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Who will be the last Dem to admit Biden was a mistake?</span></b></div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-43474854101123600022022-07-11T22:07:00.005-04:002022-07-11T22:07:52.441-04:00Biden Family has Taken MILLIONS from China. Same with Russia, Ukraine and More<p><b><i> It's in the Washington Post!</i></b></p><div class="grid-full-bleed" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div class="center pt-lg pt-lg-mod-ns grid-layout " style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; grid-template-columns: minmax(64px, 1fr) minmax(0px, 1200px) minmax(64px, 1fr); margin: 0px; padding: 40px 0px 0px; text-align: center; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div class="grid-center w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 1200px;"><h1 class="ml-auto mr-auto font--headline offblack headline mb-xs pb-xxs-ns" id="main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; font-size: 3.5rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px auto 8px; max-width: 1000px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company</h1></div><div class="grid-center w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 1200px;"><h2 class="ma-auto font--subhead font-light offblack subheadline mb-sm mb-md-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: auto auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">A Washington Post review confirms key details and offers new documentation of Biden family interactions with Chinese executives</h2></div><div class="grid-center w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 1200px;"><div class="flex print-byline print-mt-none justify-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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display: inline-block; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><span class="gray-darkest" data-qa="attribution-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">By </span><a class="gray-darkest hover-gray-dark decoration-gray-dark underline hover-none decoration-1 underline-offset-1" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/matt-viser/" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-ui-gray-dark); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Matt Viser</a></div><span class="font-xxxs gray-darkest" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 0.875rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">,<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </span></span></span></div><div class="dib items-center" data-qa="author-byline" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div class="dib font-xxs" data-cy="name-with-optional-link" data-qa="name-with-optional-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><a class="gray-darkest hover-gray-dark decoration-gray-dark underline hover-none decoration-1 underline-offset-1" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/tom-hamburger/" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-color: var(--color-ui-gray-dark); text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-underline-offset: 1px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Tom Hamburger</a></div><span class="font-xxxs gray-darkest" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The deal was years in the making, the culmination of forging contacts, hosting dinners, of flights to and from China. But on Aug. 2, 2017, signatures were quickly affixed, one from Hunter Biden, the other from a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Within days, a new Cathay Bank account was created. Within a week, millions of dollars started to change hands.</p></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Within a year, it would all begin to collapse.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">While many aspects of Hunter Biden’s financial arrangement with CEFC China Energy have been previously reported and were included in a Republican-led Senate report from 2020, a Washington Post review confirmed many of the key details and found additional documents showing Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">But the new documents — which include a signed copy of a $1 million legal retainer, emails related to the wire transfers, and $3.8 million in consulting fees that are confirmed in new bank records and agreements signed by Hunter Biden — illustrate the ways in which his family profited from relationships built over Joe Biden’s decades in public service.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><div class="hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 700px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="236" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: filter 0.1s ease 0s; width: 640px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="236" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BTYOJPFPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=440 400w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BTYOJPFPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=540 540w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BTYOJPFPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=691 691w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BTYOJPFPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=767 767w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BTYOJPFPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=916 916w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 975px; max-width: 1600px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;" width="600" /></div><figcaption class="ml-gutter mr-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden signed an agreement for a $1 million retainer to represent Patrick Ho, a CEFC official who would later be charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe leaders from Chad and Uganda. Verified emails, and new banking records, show that the money was transferred to an account linked to Hunter Biden. (Courtesy of Office of Sen. Charles Grassley)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden’s overseas work has been the subject of heightened scrutiny. He has been under <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hunter-biden-under-federal-investigation/2020/12/09/3b7361be-3a64-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_11" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">federal investigation as part of an inquiry into his taxes</a>, with witnesses called before a grand jury as recently as last month. Federal prosecutors had been attempting to determine if he failed to account for income from China-related deals, The Post has previously reported, although it is unclear whether that is still a focus. Republicans, meanwhile, have pointed to the Biden family’s business deals in China, along with Hunter Biden’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-gas-tycoon-and-the-vice-presidents-son-the-story-of-hunter-bidens-foray-in-ukraine/2019/09/28/1aadff70-dfd9-11e9-8fd3-d943b4ed57e0_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_11" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">past membership on the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma</a>, as potential conflicts of interest.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The CEFC deal became one of the most lucrative, if short-lived, foreign ventures Hunter Biden is known to have pursued. The Post review draws in part on an analysis of a copy said to be of the hard drive<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>of a laptop computer that Hunter Biden purportedly dropped off at a Delaware repair shop and never came to collect. The laptop was turned over to the FBI in December 2019, according to documents reviewed by The Post, and a copy of the drive was obtained by Rudy Giuliani and other advisers to then-President Donald Trump a few months before the 2020 election.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">After the New York Post began publishing reports on the contents of the laptop in October 2020, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Republican strategist Stephen K. Bannon for a copy of the data to review before the election, but the requests were rebuffed or ignored.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">In June 2021, a copy<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>was provided to The Post by Jack Maxey, an activist who received a copy from Giuliani in 2020, at a time when Maxey was working with Bannon and his “War Room” podcast.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The Post has explored the chain of custody, as well as the findings of forensic analyses of the data, in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">a separate story</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><span class="font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_16" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Here’s how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden’s laptop</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Biden aides and some former U.S. intelligence officials have voiced concern that the device may have been manipulated by Russia to interfere in the campaign. On Capitol Hill, Democrats have dismissed earlier reports about Hunter Biden’s work in China as lacking credibility or being part of a Russian disinformation campaign. The Post analysis included forensic work by two outside experts who assessed the authenticity of numerous emails related to the CEFC matter. In addition, The Post found that financial documents on the copy of Hunter Biden’s purported laptop match documents and information found in other records, including newly disclosed bank documents obtained by Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance and Judiciary committees.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><span class="font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-laptop-methodology/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_19" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">2 experts used email headers to determine veracity</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The potential energy projects Hunter Biden discussed with CEFC never came to fruition.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Nonetheless, accounts linked to Hunter Biden received $3.8 million in payments from CEFC through consulting contracts, according to bank records and joint agreements reviewed by The Post.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Biden received an additional $1 million retainer, issued as part of an agreement to represent Patrick Ho, a CEFC official who would later be charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe leaders from Chad and Uganda. That retainer agreement, in a newly uncovered document, contains the signatures of both Hunter Biden and Ho, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">who was later convicted and sentenced to three years in prison</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden, who has a law degree, was not accused of wrongdoing in that scheme and appeared to have little role representing Ho in the federal case. Ho, through his attorney in that case, declined to comment.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden and his attorney did not respond to numerous messages left over the past week. The White House declined to respond on the record but pointed to previous statements that Joe Biden “has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div class="hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 1000px;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="396" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: filter 0.1s ease 0s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="396" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7QVRX6FPOEI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=440 400w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7QVRX6FPOEI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=540 540w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7QVRX6FPOEI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=691 691w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7QVRX6FPOEI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=767 767w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/7QVRX6FPOEI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=916 916w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 1600px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div><figcaption class="ml-gutter mr-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Vice President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force Two in Beijing with his son Hunter Biden, right, and his granddaughter Finnegan Biden in December 2013. (Ng Han Guan/AP)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><h3 class=" pb-sm pt-md" data-qa="article-header" id="VE5WHUFQ7FDT7BEKETDYPLW6LM" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Postoni, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-Book, georgia, serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px 16px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Years of seeking business in China</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden’s relationship with CEFC took root during a time of financial strain and turmoil for his family, according to court filings and Hunter Biden’s accounts. The Bidens were reeling from the May 2015 death of Hunter’s older brother, Beau, and Hunter was struggling with drug use.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“I was in the throes of addiction,” Hunter wrote in a memoir published last year.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">During divorce proceedings with his wife Kathleen, a court filing in the case described “outstanding debts [that] are shocking and overwhelming,” with the couple carrying maxed-out credit cards, double mortgages on both properties they owned and a tax debt of $313,970. Three checks to their housekeeper had bounced, and they owed money to medical providers and therapists, according to a February 2017 filing in D.C. Superior Court.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">An intermediary from CEFC initially reached out to Hunter Biden in December 2015 to set up a meeting between the then-vice president’s son and Ye Jianming, the founder and chairman of the Chinese firm, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-laptop-methodology/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">verified emails</a> from a purported copy of the laptop hard drive reviewed by the outside experts for The Post.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Vuk Jeremic, a Serbian politician who had recently served as president of the U.N. General Assembly, wrote in an email to the younger Biden that he was hosting a small private dinner in Washington with Ye — whom he called “one of the 10 wealthiest Chinese businessmen” — and wanted Hunter to attend.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“He’s young and dynamic, with the top-level connections in his country,” Jeremic wrote in the Dec. 1, 2015, email.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden was unable to attend the dinner and Jeremic said in an email to The Post that while he knew both men, he was “not involved in their mutual introduction”<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>and found out from media reports that the two had eventually connected.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">CEFC, a massive oil and gas company founded in 2002, had financing from government development banks and ties to the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army, according to people who studied the firm. Ye’s official biography said he was once deputy secretary of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, an organization that a <a href="https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/annual_reports/annual_report_full_11.pdf" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">2011 U.S. congressional report called “a front” </a>for the People’s Liberation Army.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">While CEFC was ostensibly private, experts on the Chinese economy say it is unlikely that it operated independently of the government.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The Chinese Embassy declined to comment on CEFC ties to the Chinese government or Hunter Biden’s involvement with the firm.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Shortly after Joe Biden left the vice presidency, Hunter Biden and Ye met over dinner in Miami.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The two discussed business opportunities for CEFC in the United States, including a $40 million joint venture to produce liquefied natural gas in Louisiana, <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">according to a July 2019 New Yorker report</a> based on extensive interviews with Hunter Biden.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">That deal failed. But Ye was so pleased with his initial meeting with Hunter Biden that after dinner he sent a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter’s hotel room with a card thanking him for the conversation, according to the New Yorker.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">In divorce proceedings, Hunter’s wife would claim the diamond was worth $80,000. Hunter Biden told the New Yorker the value was closer to $10,000, that he gave the diamond to his associates, and that he doesn’t know what they did with it.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">In the summer of 2017, Hunter Biden received a request from Ye that would foreshadow subsequent problems for CEFC. Ye said that a top CEFC associate, Patrick Ho, might be under investigation by U.S. law enforcement and he asked Hunter Biden for help. Hunter Biden told the New Yorker that he agreed to represent Ho and to try to figure out if he was under scrutiny by law enforcement.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><div class="hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 700px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="403" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: filter 0.1s ease 0s; width: 640px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="403" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CBLBRXVPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=440 400w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CBLBRXVPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=540 540w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CBLBRXVPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=691 691w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CBLBRXVPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=767 767w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CBLBRXVPXYI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=916 916w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 975px; max-width: 1600px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;" width="600" /></div><figcaption class="ml-gutter mr-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden in August 2017 signed an agreement with Gongwen Dong, an executive at a Chinese energy conglomerate, to jointly pursue investments. The agreement, included with bank records provided to Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), stated that Hunter Biden would get a one-time retainer of $500,000 and would then receive a monthly stipend of $100,000, with his uncle James Biden getting $65,000 a month. (Courtesy of Office of Sen. Charles Grassley)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The execution of the bigger consulting<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>deal between Hunter Biden and CEFC occurred rapidly in early August 2017.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The contract, signed on Aug. 2, 2017, stated that Hunter Biden would get a one-time retainer of $500,000 and would then receive a monthly stipend of $100,000, with his uncle James Biden getting $65,000 a month.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">An unsigned copy of the agreement was found on the purported copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive. A signed copy was included with bank records provided to Grassley and reviewed by The Post. Under the 26-page agreement, they agreed to jointly pursue investments under a company named Hudson West III LLC.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The money began flowing almost immediately, with the first incoming wire of $5 million arriving on Aug. 8, 2017, according to documents found on the copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop and corroborated by identical bank statements that Grassley’s office obtained from Cathay Bank for an account jointly held by Hunter Biden and CEFC executives.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">After expenses and personnel costs,<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>the bulk of the money, about $4.8 million, was directed over a 14-month period, usually in increments of $165,000, to an account linked to Hunter Biden, the documents show. During that time period, about $1.4 million was transferred from Hunter’s account to the Lion Hall Group, the consulting firm that James Biden ran, according to other government records reviewed by The Post.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“No comment,” James Biden said when reached on his cellphone and asked about the CEFC deal.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div class="hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 1000px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 1000px;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="400" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: filter 0.1s ease 0s; width: 1000px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MENYSNDGX4I6TAV27T7P6IZOR4.jpg&w=440 400w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MENYSNDGX4I6TAV27T7P6IZOR4.jpg&w=540 540w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MENYSNDGX4I6TAV27T7P6IZOR4.jpg&w=691 691w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MENYSNDGX4I6TAV27T7P6IZOR4.jpg&w=767 767w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/MENYSNDGX4I6TAV27T7P6IZOR4.jpg&w=916 916w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 1600px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 1000px;" width="600" /></div><figcaption class="ml-gutter mr-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The House of Sweden in D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood, in 2018. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><h3 class=" pb-sm pt-md" data-qa="article-header" id="W2WHHQVQDNCGHA3SFBXABB3VPU" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Postoni, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-Book, georgia, serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px 16px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">More red flags</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">A few weeks after he went into business with the CEFC executives, in the fall of 2017, Hunter Biden requested changes to the fifth-floor office space he was renting at the House of Sweden, an airy building in Georgetown that is home to the Swedish Embassy and other offices.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">On Sept. 21, 2017, Hunter Biden wrote to a building manager requesting new office signage to reflect a new family enterprise and a new business relationship: “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC-US),” he wrote in emails to the property manager.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">He also requested keys for his new office mates: his father, Joe; his mother, Jill; his uncle James; and the Chinese executive, Gongwen Dong.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">As part of the request, he provided what he said was his father’s cellphone number, saying an office representative could use it to contact his new office mates.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden referred to Ye, the chairman of CEFC, as “my partner” and described Dong as the “Chairman Ye CEFC emissary.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The email exchanges that discuss Hunter Biden’s plan to open a Biden-CEFC office were included on the copy of his hard drive and were confirmed through public records released by the Swedish government to The Post. The contents of the records were <a href="https://www.dn.se/sverige/swedish-emails-reveal-new-facts-on-joe-biden-s-keys-to-hunter-s-office/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">first reported by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.</a></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“We are very excited and honored to welcome your new colleagues!” the manager wrote back to Hunter Biden.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body grid-tablet-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><div class="hide-for-print" data-qa="article-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><figure class="overflow-hidden relative hide-for-print center center mb-sm mb-md-ns ml-auto-ns mr-auto-ns" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-block: 0px; margin-inline: 0px; margin: 0px auto 24px; max-width: 700px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><div class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" height="258" style="box-sizing: border-box; filter: blur(0px); height: auto; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: filter 0.1s ease 0s; width: 640px;" width="600"><img alt="" class="w-100 mw-100 h-auto" decoding="async" height="258" sizes="(max-width: 440px) 440px,(max-width: 600px) 691px,(max-width: 768px) 691px,(min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 1023px) 960px,(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1299px) 530px,(min-width: 1300px) and (max-width: 1439px) 691px,(min-width: 1440px) 916px,440px" srcset="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LOGD7IFPZQI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=440 400w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LOGD7IFPZQI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=540 540w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LOGD7IFPZQI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=691 691w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LOGD7IFPZQI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=767 767w,https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/LOGD7IFPZQI6ZHN5BVDATVCMDQ.jpg&w=916 916w" style="background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-height: 975px; max-width: 1600px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;" width="600" /></div><figcaption class="ml-gutter mr-gutter mr-auto-ns ml-auto-ns font--subhead font-xxxs mt-xs left gray-dark" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 8px auto 0px; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden in the fall of 2017 sought changes to office space he was renting at the House of Sweden, a building in Georgetown that is home to the Swedish Embassy and other offices. According to emails included in a purported copy of his laptop, and in emails obtained from the Swedish government, Biden requested keys for his new officemates: his father, Joe; his mother, Jill; his uncle James; and the Chinese executive, Gongwen Dong. (Obtained by The Washington Post)</figcaption></figure></div></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Jeffrey Peck, the Biden Foundation board member most involved in details like setting up the office, said there was never any consideration of that location.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“I recall discussions about other possible spaces and the so-called House of Sweden was never on any lists,” Peck said. “There was never any thought — like zero thought or consideration — given to that building.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">A spokeswoman for the Swedish authority that oversees the property said that the four keys were made available, as requested, but that Hunter Biden never picked them up. The signboard on the door wasn’t changed, she said.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Around the time Hunter Biden was asking for changes to his office space, email exchanges with the property manager grew tense — with a reminder to Hunter Biden to stop violating office policies by bringing visitors in through a side entrance rather than signing them in at the front desk, where they go through metal detectors.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden responded angrily, saying that one was a homeless woman he could vouch for — and accused the office managers of racism because that woman is Black. He wrote that another guest was Lunden Roberts, a woman he described as “my youngest daughter’s basketball mentor.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Within a year, Roberts would have a baby that Hunter denied was his until she filed a paternity suit and DNA testing confirmed it was his. They settled the case in March 2020 and court documents show he is paying an undisclosed amount in child support.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Roberts’s lawyer, Clint Lancaster, said his client had worked for Biden at the time of the House of Sweden incident. He said Roberts was called to testify for several hours before a grand jury in Wilmington, Del., in mid-February, an indication that the federal investigation of Hunter Biden remains active. Lancaster declined to comment on the nature of her testimony. The Justice Department and the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><span class="font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><a data-qa="interstitial-link" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/hunter-biden-under-federal-investigation/2020/12/09/3b7361be-3a64-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_68" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden confirms he is under federal investigation</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">During the time the CEFC relationship was active, funds were being transferred from Hunter Biden to his uncle, records show. All told, nearly $1.4 million went from Hunter’s company to one controlled by James Biden, according to a 2020 report produced by Grassley and fellow Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. The transactions were identified as potential criminal activity, a designation meant to flag potential money laundering, political corruption or other financial crimes, according to a report from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at the Treasury Department that was reviewed by The Post.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">When James and Sara Biden’s bank contacted them about the transactions, they would not provide supporting documentation to explain the activity and closed the account, according to records reviewed by The Post.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">James Biden did not respond to a detailed list of questions about the financial transactions.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Meanwhile, CEFC executives were concerned about Justice Department inquiries into officials tied to the company. As would become clear later in court records, federal investigators had obtained a foreign intelligence surveillance warrant on Ho and were monitoring his communications.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">On Sept. 18, 2017, Hunter Biden signed a two-page attorney engagement letter to represent Ho, with a $1 million retainer. The agreement specified that Hunter Biden was to provide “counsel to matters related to US law and advice pertaining to the hiring and legal analysis of any US Law Firm or Lawyer.” Ho signed the document four days later, on Sept. 22, 2017.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">A signed copy of the two-page agreement was contained on the purported copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop drive, stored as an attachment to an email that did not contain sufficient data to be verified by The Post’s outside experts. But the bank records obtained by Grassley show $1 million was eventually deposited into an account associated with Hunter Biden,<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>with a note describing the payment as “representation” of Ho.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">On Nov. 18, a few weeks after Hunter Biden signed the agreement to represent Ho, his client was arrested by two FBI agents at JFK Airport. He was read his Miranda rights at 2 p.m.; nine minutes later, he called James Biden, according to police records.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">James Biden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">told the New York Times in 2018</a> that he assumed Ho was looking for Hunter Biden, and he passed along contact information for his nephew.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Almost immediately after Ho’s arrest, according to verified emails, Edward Y. Kim, an attorney at Krieger Kim, was enlisted<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>to represent Ho. Kim and Ho declined requests for comment.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Ho had bribed leaders in Chad and Uganda, aiming to obtain oil permits for CEFC. They also said Ho had offered CEFC as a resource in helping Iran evade oil sanctions.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><h3 class=" pb-sm pt-md" data-qa="article-header" id="KA226N2RLFCQJCSEHWZ6N3FNJ4" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Postoni, BodoniSvtyTwoITCTT-Book, georgia, serif; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 24px 0px 16px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">The crash</div></h3></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Things fell apart quickly. Ho was in jail awaiting trial. Ye, the head of CEFC, had been detained in China in mid-February 2018 and hadn’t been heard from since. The reasons for the arrest were unclear, although <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cefc-probe/chinas-cefc-chairman-investigated-for-suspected-economic-crimes-source-idUSKCN1GD3O9" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(213, 213, 213); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1955a5; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);" target="_blank">Reuters reported that it was related to suspected economic crimes</a>.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Ye could not be reached for comment, and the Chinese Embassy declined to comment on Ye’s arrest.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">By March 2018, Hunter Biden’s uncle was seeking access to the $1 million retainer that Hunter was owed for the Ho representation. James Biden on March 21, 2018, wrote to CEFC officials with “wiring instructions,” providing the address and routing numbers for how to transfer to the account linked to Hunter Biden.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-full-bleed" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 1 / 4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“Received and will take care of this ASAP,” Mervyn Yan, one of the CEFC officials,<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"> </b>wrote back in a verified email.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">At 9:43 the next morning, the wire went through and was deposited in the account just as James Biden had instructed, with the routing number in his email matching the routing number received by the bank, according to bank records.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden began exchanging hostile messages with remaining executives, including Dong and Mervyn Yan. The two had questioned several of Hunter Biden’s business expenses, asking for receipts to back up the charges. Yan, in a verified email, wrote Hunter that some of the expenses for which he sought reimbursement did not appear related to the Chinese energy company’s business, including, he wrote, “house in Sweden.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden threatened to sue both Yan and Dong for balking at paying, claiming they had no right to question his expenses — and explaining that the House of Sweden was his D.C.-based office.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“I will bring suit in the Chancery Court in Delaware — which as you know is my home state and I am privileged to have worked with and know every judge in the chancery court,” he wrote on March 14, 2018.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“You cannot sue us for not paying incorrect expenses,” Dong wrote in response, according to a verified email.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Dong and Yan did not respond to requests for comment.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">JiaQi Bao, an assistant with whom Hunter Biden had worked closely on CEFC business, wrote in a March 26, 2018, email that the company was being dissolved and she would lose her job — but that Hunter Biden should “take whatever money you can take, as long as the money is available to claim.”</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">“Take as much as possible, or figure out a way to spend them for your own benefit,” she wrote.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Bao did not respond to numerous phone and email messages.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Over the next six months, nearly $1.4 million was transferred to Hunter Biden’s account, according to bank records.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">But troubles also loomed. Hunter Biden continued to battle addiction issues that created strains within his family, and his father began paying some of his bills. The younger Biden’s problems loomed large over his father’s decision to run for president, a campaign Joe Biden would announce formally in April 2019.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Hunter Biden’s personal battles would continue. But the business saga of CEFC would soon come to a close.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Yan signed a document on Nov. 2, 2018, dissolving Hudson West III LLC, the company that linked the Bidens to CEFC. Yan filed it with an office based in Dover, Del., less than an hour’s drive from the Biden family home.</p></div><div class="article-body grid-center grid-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; grid-column: 2 / 3; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 640px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast); width: 640px;"><p class="font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md" data-el="text" data-qa="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: var(--wpds-transitions-allFast);">Josh Dawsey, Alice Crites, Devlin Barrett and Roland Matifas contributed to this report.</i></p></div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-91849393890655926312022-07-03T20:47:00.004-04:002022-07-03T20:47:30.175-04:00The Left Wants to Educate Your Children in a Strip/Drag Club<p><b><i> We've moved from demands for tolerance to flat out indoctrination!</i></b></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This is the message the left wants to send to your chidren. If you object, you're a bigot.<br /><br />They must be stopped! <a href="https://t.co/sv1Rf0NgSq">https://t.co/sv1Rf0NgSq</a></p>— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesamerica/status/1543757761216913409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-26134922488083469002022-06-23T14:04:00.001-04:002022-06-23T14:04:04.867-04:00Biden's Polling Hits New Record Low. No Modern President Has Polled Worse.<p><b><i> The sad news is that we are all paying the price for Biden's failure. But the big question is how can the few bitter clingers who still support him continue to do so?</i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcNcJ3pKfvTIX-QborKjI4NtzjYc-_Ow1O-SLgiac8OCjn0kh9XgENXmhz-MADSDiXRCcvZaK-HbGmXH4Mz5Ig_CSJO5AwWKpyyYOT3Jm_7J9Ju6XE2vOkmjo0wJbGF8_5484iIZKwRUEfcTQlAjYh0pI_WSxS6nQnTU8yvkCC4NxPZM4paJ4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1081" data-original-width="1076" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcNcJ3pKfvTIX-QborKjI4NtzjYc-_Ow1O-SLgiac8OCjn0kh9XgENXmhz-MADSDiXRCcvZaK-HbGmXH4Mz5Ig_CSJO5AwWKpyyYOT3Jm_7J9Ju6XE2vOkmjo0wJbGF8_5484iIZKwRUEfcTQlAjYh0pI_WSxS6nQnTU8yvkCC4NxPZM4paJ4=w637-h640" width="637" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-39080119795324595892022-06-18T20:31:00.003-04:002022-06-18T20:31:44.236-04:00Bozo Biden Falls Off His Bike as America Crashes and Burns<p> He's destroying this country!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizoJYRn8KBppxP1Vc296qgx3_7JHWJP5_9VYkbfDA-H9IpA85Z-8ZcFLxlD-Ly9OurIArwj719G-d_TdpDRlXSLNkRUiHfg7XfqmUqAdveM7ID_8uVKBMB17OJuwJ0DeSQ7p_T6sTpHVXGnfrOEtSAq4gxyU0gmKFDmw0oD17SK3dvvmW2Hhk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="962" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEizoJYRn8KBppxP1Vc296qgx3_7JHWJP5_9VYkbfDA-H9IpA85Z-8ZcFLxlD-Ly9OurIArwj719G-d_TdpDRlXSLNkRUiHfg7XfqmUqAdveM7ID_8uVKBMB17OJuwJ0DeSQ7p_T6sTpHVXGnfrOEtSAq4gxyU0gmKFDmw0oD17SK3dvvmW2Hhk=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br />More at the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10929963/Biden-79-FALLS-bike-ride-near-Rehoboth-Beach-home.html">Daily Mail</a>!<p></p><p><b><i>At least it happened in front of a small number of his remaining supporters. They can now see first hand he's not up to the job!</i></b></p><p><br /></p>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-45344536365444774702022-06-08T13:54:00.003-04:002022-06-08T20:32:21.243-04:00Democrats Incite Assasination Attempt Against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh<i><b>Their rhetoric has "released the whirlwind" of violence that Senator Schumer threatened!</b></i>
<div><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div>Remember this?</div><div>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Chuck Schumer at a rally outside SCOTUS in 2020:<br /><br />“I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.” <a href="https://t.co/16dssoGX9s">pic.twitter.com/16dssoGX9s</a></p>— America Rising (@AmericaRising) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmericaRising/status/1534561726665998337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"You have released the whirlwind" <br /><br />"You will pay the price"<br /><br />"You wont know what hit you"<br /> -<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> <a href="https://t.co/gtgo8WR7ul">https://t.co/gtgo8WR7ul</a></p>— Andrew Wilkow (@WilkowMajority) <a href="https://twitter.com/WilkowMajority/status/1534564196595011584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
It's not just Schumer. EVERY Democrat has been out there enabling and justifying illegal activity, which includes protests outside Justice's homes. There is a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/11/protest-justice-home-illegal/">FEDERAL LAW </a>which prohibits exactly the activity that Democrats encouraged:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Jen Psaki on Tuesday refused to condemn the mob protests that have converged outside the six conservative Supreme Court justices' homes in the last week. <a href="https://t.co/4kB9NGDoYr">https://t.co/4kB9NGDoYr</a></p>— National Review (@NRO) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRO/status/1524261282509164544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2fI63-VMFvQ1xhQYcepCEQPouw8_lkQtO4F-HunGevSwlY_u89EngAMVO90VAVsv7dgWQtlAO4ZAm--vGbC_V_44Pu-1dGN8q3b7XLqi8VAemHYCy4BFi6NlkfhcD_TplADHk843obb1LvA0IuhvAvywfnYoEsogoShAp3B0rwQxbvADKlns" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="955" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2fI63-VMFvQ1xhQYcepCEQPouw8_lkQtO4F-HunGevSwlY_u89EngAMVO90VAVsv7dgWQtlAO4ZAm--vGbC_V_44Pu-1dGN8q3b7XLqi8VAemHYCy4BFi6NlkfhcD_TplADHk843obb1LvA0IuhvAvywfnYoEsogoShAp3B0rwQxbvADKlns=w640-h324" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The SAME LAW was used to lock up Trump supporters for more than a year without trial but NO DEMOCRAT has been charged for breaking it.</div><br />Now they are taking it to the next level:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAH2LsQPBh2J4RaO4Tkzt-GeyDaRzHdSa2SV63sEA3MRgdSxI9d0JL9LHvADL0ptZXGiyE98YSZVSVgCVL_Yux8pK01DkHeyBff-2J0AsridX1dpP9U4xu6ZaL5pOmGY5YG8a0HDE4LtWXY6Zh-O0nyfk6t2SGJpdV-Yz3cvHi9mg9rwh7Os/s1011/Screenshot%202022-06-08%20133134.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="1011" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDAH2LsQPBh2J4RaO4Tkzt-GeyDaRzHdSa2SV63sEA3MRgdSxI9d0JL9LHvADL0ptZXGiyE98YSZVSVgCVL_Yux8pK01DkHeyBff-2J0AsridX1dpP9U4xu6ZaL5pOmGY5YG8a0HDE4LtWXY6Zh-O0nyfk6t2SGJpdV-Yz3cvHi9mg9rwh7Os/w640-h310/Screenshot%202022-06-08%20133134.png" width="640" /></a></div>
This is happening across the country. Send a threatening email to an abortion clinic and the FBI will be at your door. But these crimes go largely unpunished without any evidence of a serious investigation:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Major media will downplay or ignore this. | New York pro-life pregnancy center allegedly 'firebombed' by left-wing group, investigation launched <a href="https://t.co/VpKDDEfIvr">https://t.co/VpKDDEfIvr</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoxNews?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FoxNews</a></p>— Dan Gainor (@dangainor) <a href="https://twitter.com/dangainor/status/1534279972671602692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<b> When will the Senate hold hearings to examine Senator Schumer's role in the violence? When will we see his communications with these violent groups? Will those hearings be televised in prime time so every American can see for themselves where the violence is coming from?</b></div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-75143018453679695782022-05-07T17:27:00.002-04:002022-05-07T17:27:28.215-04:00<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Friday, when thousands of people stood for hours in pouring rain waiting to hear President Trump in Pennsylvania, Biden only managed to entice several dozen at an inside speech in neighboring Ohio.<br><br>Tell me again how Biden won without cheating! <a href="https://t.co/8SQeXkcAOx">https://t.co/8SQeXkcAOx</a> <a href="https://t.co/7FsBo9PGAQ">pic.twitter.com/7FsBo9PGAQ</a></p>— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesamerica/status/1523051757475364864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-43484617455236701172022-05-04T13:15:00.002-04:002022-05-04T13:15:29.461-04:00How Many Dems Coordinated and Funded Attack on Supreme Court? <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Minutes after publication of Supreme Court leak a mob descended on the court. Many had preprinted signs. Who coordinated and funded this assault on the court? When will the investigation begin? Not just the leaker needs to be caught. Subpoena communications from Dems. <a href="https://t.co/HISy9KF0BD">https://t.co/HISy9KF0BD</a></p>— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesamerica/status/1521900397912276995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">After the draft Supreme Court opinion on abortion was leaked, fencing was put up around the Court to protect it. Hundreds of angry pro-abortion activists gathered at the fence & called the Justices “fascist scum.” Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/njhochman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@njhochman</a>: <a href="https://t.co/aKvHGEK1Uk">pic.twitter.com/aKvHGEK1Uk</a></p>— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1521350407322320896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Violence by these fascists is spreading across the country. Police are being attacked. When will the investigation begin? When will FBI manhunts arrest the suspects and hold them without trial?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">VIDEO THREAD: Last night in Los Angeles, LAPD faced off with a coalition of anti-fascists protesting the Supreme Court draft decision overturning Roe v Wade.<br><br>At one point, police attempted an arrest (unclear why) & crowd surrounded them, successfully de-arresting their comrade. <a href="https://t.co/AFggzG9ONp">pic.twitter.com/AFggzG9ONp</a></p>— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1521841644148080641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-90789498442795918012022-05-03T13:16:00.000-04:002022-05-03T13:16:02.967-04:00Prosecutor Ready to Unmask Dem's Trump Russia Disinformation<p> <b><i>Will the media that breathlessly reported these lies and the Trump haters who swallowed them whole now be held accountable for their disinformation?</i></b></p><p>From John Solomon's <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/durham-unmasks-alliance-between-media-democrat-dirt">Just the News</a>:</p><div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodearticletitle" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px;"><h1 class="js-quickedit-page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: AvenirNextProCondensed, "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span property="schema:name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Durham unmasks alliance between media, Democrat dirt diggers that triggered false Russia story</span></h1></div><div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodearticlebody" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px;"><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" property="schema:text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6c757d;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Court filings show plan to introduce evidence that Clinton campaign flooded media with "unverified derogatory information" on Trump.</p></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Just days after Hillary Clinton emissaries Christopher Steele and Michael Sussmann approached the FBI in September 2016 with dirt that would infuse the Russia collusion probe, the campaign's opposition research firm sent some of the same information to New York Times journalists.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"Gents good to see you yesterday," a Fusion GPS executive wrote the reporters. "Sounded like you might be interested in some of the attached russia-related material. these are internal, open source research drafts, as agreed, pls treat this as background/not for attribution. as you'll see it's all easily replicated anyway."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The invitation to further dirty up Donald Trump continued: "Can also send you a [name]/Toronto memo once i dig it out. I'm skipping over [name] and [company name]. believe your guys have done that up ... leave it to you to distribute internally, or not, as you see fit. don't believe sunny isles/hollywood or panama or toronto have been touched by brands xy or z. amazingly, don't think anyone has done up the trump tower poker ring story either. pretty vivid color there."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The missive is one of hundreds of emails that Special Counsel John Durham has obtained between Clinton campaign operatives and journalists that spread "unverified derogatory information" about Donald Trump, spawning the false Russia collusion narrative shortly before Election Day 2016. They've now been made public in court filings.</p><article class="align-center" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div class="field field--name-field-media-file field--type-file field--label-visually_hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><div class="field__label visually-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; width: 1px;">File</div><div class="field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-04/gov.uscourts.dcd_.235638.97.0.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="far fa-file-pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> gov.uscourts.dcd_.235638.97.0.pdf</a></div></div></article><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Durham recently disclosed several communications with reporters in a filing designed to reject the Clinton campaign's claim that its Steele dossier and other research should be shielded from public view at an upcoming trial because it was covered by attorney client privilege.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Durham's argument is straightforward: Attorney-client privilege doesn't apply to materials the campaign distributed widely to third parties.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">But his filing also puts the traditional media on notice that when Sussmann's trial on a charge of lying to the FBI begins next month, the unholy alliance between traditional media reporters and the Democrat machine will be laid bare for the world to see.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">And it is clear prosecutors have a clear theory that much of the information spread and then reported by the news media was glaringly weak if not outright false. Durham's filings refer to the Clinton opposition research alternately as a "red herring," "unverified" "too obvious" to be true, or containing a "very weak link." In some cases, those were words used by the very researchers helping assemble the materials.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Yet the traditional media reported it and re-reported it for nearly two years before Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy to hijack the 2016 election.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"One of the famous fake news outlets likes to say, 'Democracy dies in darkness.' They're exactly right," former Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican House Intelligence Committee chairman who helped uravel the Russia collusion narrative, told Just the News. "They're the ones who have created the darkness, and democracy does die. 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The Clinton campaign and its opposition research team "triggered a sizeable outflow of unverified derogatory information into the media, the government, and the public," Durham wrote in one filing.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">In another he added: "The documents produced by Fusion GPS to date reflect hundreds of emails in which Fusion GPS employees shared raw, unverified, and uncorroborated information — including their own draft research and work product — with reporters. And they appear to have done so as part of a (largely successful) effort to trigger negative news stories about" Trump.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Durham said the flooding of the news media was so egregious that it obliterated any claim by the Clinton campaign that Fusion's work was attorney-client privileged work designed to advise on libel issues.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"One would expect contemporaneous emails and documents to reflect that Fusion GPS and/or its clients exercised some degree of caution and care before publicizing unverified or potentially inflammatory materials," but they did not, Durham noted.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The most recent Durham filing lays out several contacts Fusion GPS and the Clinton team had with news media, including The New York Times, ABC News and Slate magazine.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The first media contact noted by Durham dates to May 2016, well before the Steele dossier was crafted or the FBI contacted.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"On May 14, 2016, a Fusion GPS employee emailed a Slate reporter who would publish an article about the Russian Bank-1 allegations several months later," the court fling noted. "In the exchange and subsequent emails, the employee shared portions of research that Fusion GPS was conducting regarding a Trump advisor."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">By July, the campaign research team expanded its contacts, including to the Wall Street Journal, to which it "conveyed information Fusion GPS had gathered regarding, among other things, Trump Advisor-1, Russian Bank-1, and a purported board member of Russian Bank-1 who later would appear in the Fusion GPS white paper that the defendant provided to the FBI."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Some of Durham's newly released information shows how the Clinton campaign pointed reporters to elected officials who would confirm or react to the Russia information.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">For instance, the prosecutor noted that a Fusion GPS executive urged a reporter at the Wall Street Journal to "call [a named U.S. Representative] or [a named U.S. Senator]," stating, "I bet they are concerned about what [Trump Advisor-1] was doing other than giving a speech over 3 days in Moscow."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, told Just the News on Friday that Durham is showing just how closely the media, the Democratic establishment and some rogue elements in U.S intelligence worked together to perpetrate the false Russia story in 2016 — a pattern he said was repeated when the same forces falsely portrayed the Hunter Biden laptop as disinformation in 2020.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-71810704090440592172022-05-03T13:09:00.002-04:002022-05-03T13:09:58.838-04:00When Will Biden's "Disinformation" Czar Correct Dem's Lies?From Jonathon Turley in The Hill:
<div><br /></div><div><h1 class="page-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #263147; font-family: "Graphik Web", sans-serif; font-size: 54px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 54px; margin: 0px;">Biden’s ‘Mary Poppins of Disinformation’ the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech?</h1><section class="submitted-by | header__meta | text-transform-upper text-300 color-light-gray weight-semibold font-base" style="-webkit-box-pack: justify; background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 206, 215); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: flex; font-family: "Graphik Web", sans-serif; font-size: 0.7425rem; font-weight: 600; justify-content: space-between; padding: 20px 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><div class="submitted-by__time" style="box-sizing: border-box;">BY JONATHAN TURLEY, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 04/30/22 </div><div class="submitted-by__time" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; text-transform: none;">“You can just call me the Mary Poppins of disinformation.” That <a href="https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1362153807879303171" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">Twitter intro</a> to <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/29/biden-disinfo-czar-nina-jankowicz-ripped-over-tiktok/?utm_source=email_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">a TikTok parody</a> of the song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is now indelibly connected to Nina Jankowicz, the new head of the federal government’s announced Disinformation Governance Board. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">Given her record of <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/28/wh-pick-for-disinformation-board-spread-hunter-biden-laptop-lie/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">spreading disinformation</a> and <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/04/29/the-sweet-sound-of-censorship-the-biden-administration-seeks-the-perfect-pitch-for-disinformation-governance/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">advocating censorship</a>, Jankowicz hardly needed the musical-inspired persona. Yet, for the Biden administration, Jankowicz — like Mary Poppins — is “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXn3r5plloI" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">practically perfect in every way</a>” to keep track of whether we all “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXn3r5plloI" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">measure up</a>” in our public statements. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">It is still unclear from <a href="https://www.hstoday.us/federal-pages/dhs/dhs-standing-up-disinformation-governance-board-led-by-information-warfare-expert/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">the administration’s public statements</a> what authority the board will wield, but White House press secretary <span class="person-popover" data-nid="18821" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popover__link" href="https://thehill.com/people/jen-psaki/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-underline-offset: 0.3rem; z-index: auto;">Jen Psaki</a></span> <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/28/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-28-2022/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">described</a> the board as intended “to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;"><span class="person-popover" data-nid="5215" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popover__link" href="https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-underline-offset: 0.3rem; z-index: auto;">President Biden</a></span> already has established himself as arguably the most anti-free speech president since John Adams. <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2020/11/17/all-speech-is-not-equal-biden-taps-anti-free-speech-figure-for-transition-lead-on-media-agency/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">During his transition period</a>, Biden appointed outspoken advocates for censorship; as president, he has <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2021/07/17/the-lethality-of-free-speech-biden-denounces-big-tech-as-killing-people-by-not-censoring-speech/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">pushed social media companies to expand censorship</a>, while his administration has been <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/06/14/freedom-press-requires-defining-journalists-media-protections/7675765002/?gnt-cfr=1" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">criticized</a> for spying on journalists.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">Now, with <span class="person-popover" data-nid="20299" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popover__link" href="https://thehill.com/people/elon-musk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-underline-offset: 0.3rem; z-index: auto;">Elon Musk’s</a></span> purchase of Twitter and his pledge to restore free speech values to the platform, panic has set in among Democrats — including Jankowicz, who <a href="https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1518643449225953287" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">told National Public Radio</a>, “I shudder to think about if free speech absolutists were taking over more platforms, what that would look like for the marginalized communities.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">Jankowicz’s singing voice may be impressive, but her appointment is tone-deaf.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">She has been ridiculed for pushing the false “Russian disinformation” claim about the original reporting on <span class="person-popover" data-nid="28341" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popover__link" href="https://thehill.com/people/hunter-biden/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-underline-offset: 0.3rem; z-index: auto;">Hunter Biden’s</a></span> infamous laptop, stressing that “we should view it as a Trump campaign product.” She continued to spread that disinformation, including <a href="https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1319251093298302976" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">tweeting</a> a link to a news article that she said cast “yet more doubt on the provenance of the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story.” In <a href="https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1319257015651368960" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">another related tweet</a>, she added that “emails don’t need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign. Voters deserve that context, not a [fairy] tale about a laptop repair shop.” Conversely, she <a href="https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1291692143262814209" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">cited Christopher Steele</a>, author of the discredited “Steele dossier” during the 2016 presidential campaign, as a source on how to stop disinformation.</p><aside class="ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: var(--flow-space,1.49625rem); position: relative; text-transform: none; z-index: 3;"><div class="ad-unit__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0.5rem 0.625rem 0.5rem 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div data-path="/5678/nx.thehill/opinion/judiciary" data-slot="{"pos":"mr1_ab","is_companion":true,"is_oop":false,"refresh_on_resize":true,"size":[300,250],"sizes":[[[0,0],[[300,250]]]],"amp_multi_size":"300x250","lazyload":false,"wx_targeting":[],"module_refreshable":false,"fold":"mid"}" data-targeting="{"pos":"mr1_ab","fold":"mid","category":"judiciary","kw":"3472471-bidens-mary-poppins-of-disinformation-the-perfect-nanny-to-tidy-up-mess-of-free-speech", "hlmeta":"3472471 bidens mary poppins of disinformation the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech"}" data-unit="{"tag":"mr1_ab","tag_id":"mr1_ab","dfp_id":"5678","tag_name":"nx.thehill","ad_disabled":"0","facebook_only":"0"}" id="acm-ad-tag-mr1_ab-mr1_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0.625rem 2px 0px; outline: none;"></div></div></aside><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">An even more tone-deaf figure may be Homeland Security Secretary <span class="person-popover multiline" data-nid="29567" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: auto;"><a class="person-popover__link" href="https://thehill.com/people/alejandro-mayorkas/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-underline-offset: 0.3rem; z-index: auto;">Alejandro Mayorkas</a></span>, who appointed Jankowicz to her new role. Mayorkas seemingly follows that other Mary Poppins command — “I would like to make one thing clear: I never explain anything” — as he and President Biden have maintained one of the most disgraceful examples of disinformation: the accusation that U.S. border agents whipped migrants in Texas.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">The whipping story is a chilling example of real disinformation that can be devastating for individuals and destructive in politics. The story of white officers whipping Haitian migrants at the southern border was utterly irresistible and eagerly embraced by many media and political figures. It was based largely on a misleading photograph of a mounted border officer, despite an available video that clearly refuted the whipping claim. Even the image’s photographer <a href="https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/sep/24/what-we-know-about-images-border-patrol-and-haitia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">stated</a> at the time that the story was false and “nobody saw a Border Patrol agent whipping” anyone.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">Still, many in the media went into a familiar feeding frenzy, encouraged by key political figures. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) declared that the alleged whipping was just the latest example of “<a href="https://dailyuknews.com/us-news/vp-compares-images-of-border-protection-agents-trying-to-push-back-haitian-immigrants-to-slavery/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">white supremacist behavior</a>.” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said the incident was “<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/del-rio-maxine-waters-haitians-b1925970.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">worse than what we witnessed in slavery</a>” and decried that “the cowboys who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them.” Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) condemned the purported “<a href="https://twitter.com/senschumer/status/1440173960478429188?lang=en" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol — including the use of whips</a>.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">The verdict was in, and President Biden went on every network to announce it at the start of the investigation. He expressed disgust over watching what he termed the “horrible … outrageous” actions of the agents as they “strapped” migrants, and he declared, “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/09/24/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-covid-19-response-and-the-vaccination-program-8/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">I promise you, those people will pay</a>.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">For his part, Mayorkas — the official tasked with investigating the allegation — <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575644-dhs-misses-self-imposed-investigation-deadline-on-dispersal-of/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">said that</a> the alleged conduct of the agents “correctly and necessarily were met with our nation’s horror.” He then promised that his department would complete the investigation “with tremendous speed and with tremendous force … thoroughly, but very quickly. It will be completed in days, not weeks.”</p><aside class="ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: var(--flow-space,1.49625rem); position: relative; text-transform: none; z-index: 3;"><div class="ad-unit__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0.5rem 0.625rem 0.5rem 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div data-path="/5678/nx.thehill/opinion/judiciary" data-slot="{"pos":"mr2_ab","is_companion":true,"is_oop":false,"refresh_on_resize":true,"size":[300,250],"sizes":[[[0,0],[[300,250]]]],"amp_multi_size":"300x250","lazyload":false,"wx_targeting":[],"module_refreshable":false,"fold":"mid"}" data-targeting="{"pos":"mr2_ab","fold":"mid","category":"judiciary","kw":"3472471-bidens-mary-poppins-of-disinformation-the-perfect-nanny-to-tidy-up-mess-of-free-speech", "hlmeta":"3472471 bidens mary poppins of disinformation the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech"}" data-unit="{"tag":"mr2_ab","tag_id":"mr2_ab","dfp_id":"5678","tag_name":"nx.thehill","ad_disabled":"0","facebook_only":"0"}" id="acm-ad-tag-mr2_ab-mr2_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0.625rem 2px 0px; outline: none;"></div></div></aside><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">That was more than six months ago.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">As early declarations of Biden and others quickly fell apart, the White House went into uncharacteristic silence. The promised speedy investigation mysteriously dragged on. The facts supporting or disproving the whipping allegation were evident within 24 hours — but a finding that the agents never whipped any migrants would be embarrassing to Mayorkas and the president. Accordingly, rather than announcing a finding in a matter of days, the agents continue in limbo.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">This month, it has been reported <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-border-whipping-hoax-is-an-indictment-of-joe-biden-and-the-legacy-media" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">that the agents were cleared</a> of criminal assault. Yet the White House has refused to apologize, and Mayorkas has refused to publicly state that the agents were cleared. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">Instead, the White House’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/05/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-5-2022/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">Psaki was confronted</a> recently by Ebony McMorris, of American Urban Radio Networks, who asked for the president’s response to the lack of punishment for “patrol agents that were seen whipping Haitian migrants.” Keep in mind there is no video showing agents whipping Haitians but, instead, a video showing the contrary. Yet some in the media are still demanding punishment, and the White House refuses to alter its original condemnation. </p><aside class="ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: var(--flow-space,1.49625rem); position: relative; text-transform: none; z-index: 3;"><div class="ad-unit__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0.5rem 0.625rem 0.5rem 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div data-path="/5678/nx.thehill/opinion/judiciary" data-slot="{"pos":"mr3_ab","is_companion":true,"is_oop":false,"refresh_on_resize":true,"size":[300,250],"sizes":[[[0,0],[[300,250]]]],"amp_multi_size":"300x250","lazyload":false,"wx_targeting":[],"module_refreshable":false,"fold":"mid"}" data-targeting="{"pos":"mr3_ab","fold":"mid","category":"judiciary","kw":"3472471-bidens-mary-poppins-of-disinformation-the-perfect-nanny-to-tidy-up-mess-of-free-speech", "hlmeta":"3472471 bidens mary poppins of disinformation the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech"}" data-unit="{"tag":"mr3_ab","tag_id":"mr3_ab","dfp_id":"5678","tag_name":"nx.thehill","ad_disabled":"0","facebook_only":"0"}" id="acm-ad-tag-mr3_ab-mr3_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0.625rem 2px 0px; outline: none;"></div></div></aside><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">What would the Mary Poppins of Disinformation call that?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">As Jankowicz sang in her video:</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Information laundering is really quite ferocious.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“It’s when a huckster takes some lies and makes them sound precocious.</em></p><div id="native-boap" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; margin-top: var(--flow-space,1.49625rem); text-transform: none;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“By saying them in Congress or a mainstream outlet so</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;"> “<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Disinformation’s origins are slightly less atrocious.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">The new Disinformation Governance Board head may have a theme song, but Jankowicz may be quickly losing her credibility. Psaki <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/28/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-28-2022/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">first admitted</a> she didn’t know who Jankowicz was — and then the following day <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/29/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-29-2022/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">offered a tepid defense</a> that she was someone with an extensive background, including testimony in both the British Parliament and Congress. (She failed to mention Jankowicz was advocating public and private censorship.) Psaki then <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/29/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-29-2022/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">stressed twice</a> that Jankowicz was selected by Mayorkas and Homeland Security. </p><aside class="thehill-promo-link" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 206, 215); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; display: inline-block; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; margin-top: 1.125rem; padding: 0.7425rem 1.125rem; text-transform: none;"><a class="thehill-promo-link__link" href="https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/3475315-national-science-foundation-innovation-anywhere-opportunity-everywhere/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a53c1; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">National Science Foundation: Innovation anywhere, opportunity everywhere</a><a class="thehill-promo-link__link" href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3475228-leaked-draft-opinion-overturning-roe-v-wade-shows-supreme-court-out-of-touch-with-america/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a53c1; display: block; font-size: 1.125rem; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.7; text-decoration-line: none; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">Leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade shows Supreme Court out of touch with America</a></aside><span style="color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; text-transform: none;"></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">For his part, Mayorkas said he was <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/04/29/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-april-29-2022/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">unaware of the past positions and statements</a> of an appointee he had just praised as uniquely qualified. </p><aside class="ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: var(--flow-space,1.49625rem); position: relative; text-transform: none; z-index: 3;"><div class="ad-unit__content" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0.5rem 0.625rem 0.5rem 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div data-path="/5678/nx.thehill/opinion/judiciary" data-slot="{"pos":"mr4_ab","is_companion":true,"is_oop":false,"refresh_on_resize":true,"size":[300,250],"sizes":[[[0,0],[[300,250]]]],"amp_multi_size":"300x250","lazyload":false,"wx_targeting":[],"module_refreshable":false,"fold":"mid"}" data-targeting="{"pos":"mr4_ab","fold":"mid","category":"judiciary","kw":"3472471-bidens-mary-poppins-of-disinformation-the-perfect-nanny-to-tidy-up-mess-of-free-speech", "hlmeta":"3472471 bidens mary poppins of disinformation the perfect nanny to tidy up mess of free speech"}" data-unit="{"tag":"mr4_ab","tag_id":"mr4_ab","dfp_id":"5678","tag_name":"nx.thehill","ad_disabled":"0","facebook_only":"0"}" id="acm-ad-tag-mr4_ab-mr4_ab" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0.625rem 2px 0px; outline: none;"></div></div></aside><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;">In Washington speak, that’s a signal that “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfGBskfthg" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank">wind’s in the east, mist comin’ in</a>” — and it may be time for her to umbrella out of here.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; font-size: 22.5px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 20px 0px 0px; text-transform: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. Follow him on Twitter </em><a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2c30; text-decoration-color: rgb(42, 83, 193); text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; text-underline-offset: 0.3rem;" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">@JonathanTurley</em></a><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</em></p></div><div class="submitted-by__time" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></div></section></div>
Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-85882207037773927412022-04-26T21:50:00.005-04:002022-04-26T21:50:38.791-04:00Twitter Meltdown as Dems Reveal Control of Social Media to Influence Elections<i><b>Once again, they accuse conservatives of doing exactly what they have done!<</i>/b>
How many times did they use social media to block stories critical of Biden?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Why is it that irony is so difficult for these lefties to understand? Twitter, Facebook and Google did everything they could to censor conservative speech and boost Democrat voices. And they did it exactly to influence the presidential election. Biden's mess is on their hands! <a href="https://t.co/B0rMpjfpTN">https://t.co/B0rMpjfpTN</a></p>— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesamerica/status/1519131373822435329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-13530363523706748262022-04-24T14:18:00.001-04:002022-04-24T14:18:29.318-04:00Massive Crowd for Trump in Ohio. Only a Handful for Biden in New Hampshire<i><b>Pictures tell the story the media doesn't want you to see!</b></i>
This is Delaware, Ohio. Where I served as an elected member of the Republican Central Committee years ago. On Saturday, the city hosted President Trump:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">INCREDIBLE crowd welcomes President Trump to Ohio! <a href="https://t.co/CLT0iFWrHV">pic.twitter.com/CLT0iFWrHV</a></p>— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1517999226986373120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Biden went to New Hampshire last week. There were almost as many protesters outside as Biden fans inside:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Most Popular President in US History Speaks to Paltry Crowd in New Hampshire (VIDEO) <a href="https://t.co/sn8KRUQiIR">https://t.co/sn8KRUQiIR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/US?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#US</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Uncategorized?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Uncategorized</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/World?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#World</a></p>— Watchman.Today 🍊 (@StaffEditorial) <a href="https://twitter.com/StaffEditorial/status/1516527465048379393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<b>Tell me again how Biden got more votes than Trump? </b>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-63878415035080176482022-04-13T19:21:00.002-04:002022-04-13T19:21:28.063-04:00New Polls Continue to Show Biden Cratering. Voters Blame DEMOCRATS for the Mess!<i><b>This is a Democrat caused disaster!</b></i>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joe Biden has a 33% approval rating according to the latest Quinnipiac poll. That’s awful. But the ethnic group with the lowest approval rating for him? Hispanics at 26%. Wow. His approval rating for 18-34 year old voters is 21%, lowest of any age group. (Pic via <a href="https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GiancarloSopo</a>) <a href="https://t.co/7DRuv3UDyA">pic.twitter.com/7DRuv3UDyA</a></p>— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1514366187051831296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Biden's approval among 18-to-34-year-olds is literally lower than Trump's was, in the same Quinnipiac poll in March 2018! Hard to overstate what a shocking failure this is for a Democratic administration. <a href="https://t.co/GbiTlyJgsZ">pic.twitter.com/GbiTlyJgsZ</a></p>— Will Stancil (@whstancil) <a href="https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1514331363247280133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Do you Approve or Disapprove of the Job President Biden is doing? (Quinnipiac Poll)<br><br>OVERALL: 33/54<br>Dems: 76/12<br>GOP: 3/94<br>Indie: 26/56 (-30)<br>Men: 29/59<br>Women: 37/50<br>White College: 52/42<br>White no College: 20/67<br>18-34: 21/58<br>White: 31/59<br>Black: 63/25<br>Hispanic: 26/54 (-28)</p>— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) <a href="https://twitter.com/IAPolls2022/status/1514316878843371525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">…and President Biden continues to get low marks on handling them. <a href="https://t.co/GBLjBFbgqv">pic.twitter.com/GBLjBFbgqv</a></p>— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNewsPoll/status/1513144442710110208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Americans are basing this on personal experience: two-thirds say higher prices have been difficult or even a hardship, and now forcing many to make cutbacks. <a href="https://t.co/9OaOOQIMlX">https://t.co/9OaOOQIMlX</a> <a href="https://t.co/BptFZse7gh">pic.twitter.com/BptFZse7gh</a></p>— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNewsPoll/status/1513142085020487684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">MORE: Americans are more likely to place a "great deal" or a "good amount" of blame for gas price increases on Democratic Party policies (52%) and Pres. Biden (51%) than on Republican Party policies (33%) and former Pres. Trump (24%). <a href="https://t.co/P97MBrj2je">https://t.co/P97MBrj2je</a></p>— ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1513142310275530764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<b>Biden and the Democrats are toast. In a fair election they will lose in record numbers. Will it be a fair election or will they cheat AGAIN?</b>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-49787186975533735852022-04-07T19:21:00.001-04:002022-04-07T19:21:11.685-04:00Investigator w. Hunter Biden's Laptop Describes Huge Cache of Hidden and Deleted Material. And FBI "Lost" This Evidence?<b>Think of the hundreds of thousands of black men in jail for drug offenses while Hunter walks free.
Not to mention the pedophile faction of the Democrat Party. Hunter's laptop has photos of underage girls!</b>
Daily Mail has story on <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10689445/Whistleblower-handed-Hunter-Bidens-laptop-congressmen-fled-Switzerland.html">more revelations</a> from Hunter's laptop.
<iframe allowfullscreen frameborder="0" width="698" height="573" scrolling="no" id="molvideoplayer" title="MailOnline Embed Player" src="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/embed/video/2648305.html"></iframe>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-69615809413315436452022-04-05T22:11:00.001-04:002022-04-05T22:11:49.307-04:00Obama Gives Biden Cold Shoulder at WH Event. Everyone Ignores Biden Who Walks Aimlessly<p><b><i> Time to bring in his nurse and put him to bed!</i></b>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A former president and the actual one posing as one. Totally ignored as others flock to Obama while Biden seemingly lost looks around and wonders…such is the state of the ‘leader of the free world’, we have none. <a href="https://t.co/oB66Le6jOM">pic.twitter.com/oB66Le6jOM</a></p>— Fernando Amandi Sr.🌐 (@FernandoAmandi) <a href="https://twitter.com/FernandoAmandi/status/1511485960785117191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not only is Biden completely ignored AGAIN, Biden tries to turn Obama around and Obama completely shrugs him off <a href="https://t.co/9DAQvv6HVW">pic.twitter.com/9DAQvv6HVW</a></p>— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) <a href="https://twitter.com/TommyPigott/status/1511448392790069253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The only person watching Biden was the Secret Service and a Military Aide (nurse?) Was the Secret Service protecting Biden or Obama?
It's stunning to see how fast Democrats have turned on Biden. Something big is coming and it's not just the 2022 midterm election.
Have you seen <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html">Biden's poll numbers</a> lately? Ghastly doesn't begin to describe them!
<b>What will Democrats do? If they force Biden out, or if he's indicted along with his son for <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-china-laptop/">taking money</a> from Russia, China and Ukraine then Dems are stuck with Kammy Harris who has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/kamala_harris_favorableunfavorable-6690.html">lower approval ratings than Biden</a>.</b>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-2801640318734700062022-03-31T20:47:00.004-04:002022-04-01T14:00:41.205-04:00Media That Blocked Damning Hunter Biden Laptop Information Now Admits It's VERIFIED! <p><b><i> Funny how they didn't do this basic reporting BEFORE the 2020 election!</i></b></p><p>So, after a year of saying it was "Russian disinformation" and refusing to report on it, the left wing media has changed it's tune. Hmmm.... something is up.</p><p><b>Remember what it was like just months ago? If you believed the information on the Hunter laptop was real you were a fool:</b>
</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">“It is so obviously disinformation...”<br /><br />“History will expose you all as fools.”<br /><br />“It’s unbelievable how stupid you think Americans are.”<br /><br />This rant from <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeNBC</a> Scarborough in 2020 about Hunter's laptop looks really, really embarrassing in hindsight. <a href="https://t.co/GbSln6EtAp">https://t.co/GbSln6EtAp</a></p>— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesamerica/status/1509302635978964992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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But suddenly it's all changed. It started with the New York Times and now the Washington Post. Followed by CNN, ABC and CBS:</b>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">A Post review of Hunter Biden’s deals with a Chinese energy company confirms key details and offers new documentation <a href="https://t.co/bJI401clhJ">https://t.co/bJI401clhJ</a></p>— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1509185932867551239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">CNN is no longer calling Hunter Biden’s laptop “Russian disinformation.” 👇 <a href="https://t.co/nLOtsZmfmF">pic.twitter.com/nLOtsZmfmF</a></p>— Captain Mainwaring (@AlleyMan4) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlleyMan4/status/1509199469937676291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<b>The New York Post was BANNED from social media for breaking this story. The NY Post did the work to verify the information on the laptop was real. All the Washington Post had to do was repeat the process. Which raises the question: WHY DIDN'T THE POST DO THIS BASIC REPORTING BEFORE THE ELECTION?</b>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Here’s how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden’s laptop <a href="https://t.co/71mj7i0EcI">https://t.co/71mj7i0EcI</a></p>— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href="https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1509191726002540544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">A federal investigation into the Biden family's foreign business dealings — and allegations that Biden family members profited by selling influence to Joe Biden — is "intensifying," ABC reports. <a href="https://t.co/OIU1GafJTn">pic.twitter.com/OIU1GafJTn</a></p>— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1509311419027791879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">CBS News reports on the Biden family corruption scandal — including a federal investigation into the Biden family's foreign business deals <a href="https://t.co/VBQCrb3rjY">pic.twitter.com/VBQCrb3rjY</a></p>— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1509306623566692352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 30, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><b>
All of this was available before the 2020 election. The work done by Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson has been out there. They HAVE the banking records. We can SEE the payments from China, Ukraine, Russia....
</b><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">2day I gave another speech w Senator Johnson w records showing Hunter Biden & James Biden received hundreds of thousands of $$$ from companies linked to the communist Chinese Government, follow the money! <a href="https://t.co/Qyyz68cLWW">pic.twitter.com/Qyyz68cLWW</a></p>— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1508940731922231297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<b>Joe Biden is corrupt. He and his family took MILLIONS from America's enemies. The Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians and how many more. Want to talk about Biden being a TRAITOR?</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>QUESTION: </b>The Washington Post goes into great detail to describe how they authenticated the information on Hunter's laptop. But why did they wait 18 months to do this? Tony Bobulinski was one of the people who were included in Hunter's email chain and an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10254295/What-Big-Guy-Joe-Biden-said-Hunters-business-partner-Tony-Bobulinski-discreet-hotel-meeting.html">in person witness to meetings with Joe Biden</a> at which these corrupt deals were discussed. Bobulinski was available to be interviewed before the 2020 election and none of these news organizations except the NY Post did so.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The coverup by media before the election was DELIBERATE. They KNEW this wasn't Russian disinformation and they LIED to the American people to influence a presidential election. Isn't that a crime?</b><br /><b> </b> <p></p><div><b><br /></b></div></div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-61670241702718223692022-03-28T19:39:00.000-04:002022-03-28T19:39:12.817-04:00Biden Sinks to New Low in NBC Poll. Real Clear Average: Trump Most Popular U.S. Politician<p><b><i> The only way Dems win next time is to cheat!</i></b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/bidens-job-approval-falls-lowest-level-presidency-war-inflation-fears-rcna21679">Latest NBC Poll</a></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkP6VUSdDyTVKYN2gQV6JBT3e04qLJa2TscdqJX2LMEQ1zRWxipvi88egIjbcF6p9hjaj1ng_yAUeSMCJn9-GuYra8w91i65sDfjBEqQ6SqerVoXHK4ehvaguUGFQ63ZfmWS-vP6-Dbli7KCOn7_2yx2UdpfdRlN9OaHSL8n48D27e7db62os" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="1169" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkP6VUSdDyTVKYN2gQV6JBT3e04qLJa2TscdqJX2LMEQ1zRWxipvi88egIjbcF6p9hjaj1ng_yAUeSMCJn9-GuYra8w91i65sDfjBEqQ6SqerVoXHK4ehvaguUGFQ63ZfmWS-vP6-Dbli7KCOn7_2yx2UdpfdRlN9OaHSL8n48D27e7db62os=w512-h640" width="512" /></a></i></b></div><b><i><br /><br /></i></b><p></p><p><b>Then there is this:</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin-Bp-Xu9GcKULFYL4Pi6wMKKzS0b-CcXPj8t27JN2MPeurE7JpRTnjcOa2Gyh_H6pLI7OCEfvnVioIiOoadXN07L1kioS9MI8DRj6n99XAxhmfJi70ekhC1AgWDSKz0-UEOybOw0y1mr0HxkPbLYsmhB0PMxmR4CdGwJ7IIEjziBwUHqitJk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="477" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEin-Bp-Xu9GcKULFYL4Pi6wMKKzS0b-CcXPj8t27JN2MPeurE7JpRTnjcOa2Gyh_H6pLI7OCEfvnVioIiOoadXN07L1kioS9MI8DRj6n99XAxhmfJi70ekhC1AgWDSKz0-UEOybOw0y1mr0HxkPbLYsmhB0PMxmR4CdGwJ7IIEjziBwUHqitJk=w400-h253" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-15052882649266978922022-03-24T22:21:00.001-04:002022-03-24T22:23:31.359-04:00New Biden Poll: Public Has No Confidence in Ability to Lead Foreign Affairs<b>Or anything else!<i></i></b>
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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More than half of Americans believe President Biden has been too weak in his response to Russia over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and only about a quarter of Americans have confidence in his ability to handle a crisis, according to a new poll released Thursday.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall, 56% believe the president has not reacted forcefully enough to the Kremlin invasion launched on Feb. 24, while 36% say he has handled it “about right,” and just 6% think he has been “too tough,” <a href="https://apnorc.org/projects/americans-dont-think-biden-is-being-tough-enough-on-russia/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to an Associated Press/NORC survey</a>. </p><p style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">APNORC.org</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Medical staff carry a body to an ambulance." class="wp-image-21643368" height="683" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 3px 0px 0px, rgb(198, 8, 0) 0px 7px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 734px; will-change: background-position;" width="1024" /></a><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Medical staff carry a body to an ambulance after Russian shelling in Kharkiv.</figcaption><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oleksandr Lapshyn/REUTERS</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-15.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="A children walks in front of a damaged school in the city of Zhytomyr." class="wp-image-21642997" height="653" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-15.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-15.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1535 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-15.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-15.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 3px 0px 0px, rgb(198, 8, 0) 0px 7px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 734px; will-change: background-position;" width="1024" /></a><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A child walks in front of a damaged school in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.</figcaption><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By contrast, only 10% disapprove of the economic sanctions and just 13% object to the banning of oil imports. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Americans’ overall disapproval of Biden in the AP-NORC poll stands at 56%, up one percentage point from February’s poll, which was taken prior to the start of the Russian invasion. The president’s approval rating slipped to 43% from 44% the previous month.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A higher percentage of Americans disapprove of his handling of foreign policy (57%), as well as the economy (65%), though more than half (53%) approve of Biden’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Poll." class="wp-image-21643070" height="919" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-03.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 3px 0px 0px, rgb(198, 8, 0) 0px 7px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 734px; will-change: background-position;" width="1024" /></a><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seventy-four percent say they have “hardly any” or “only some” confidence in President Biden’s ability to handle a crisis.</figcaption><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">APNORC.org</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Joe Biden." class="wp-image-21643031" height="682" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1535 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 3px 0px 0px, rgb(198, 8, 0) 0px 7px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 734px; will-change: background-position;" width="1024" /></a><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only 26% say they have a “great deal” of trust in President Biden’s ability to handle a crisis.</figcaption><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/AFP via Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall, more than two-thirds of Americans (68%) believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, a sentiment shared by 93% of Republicans, 80% of independents and 43% of Democrats. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The poll was released as <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/biden-arrives-at-nato-hq-in-brussels-for-ukraine-war-summits/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Biden traveled to Brussels</a> to meet with NATO leaders to discuss imposing more sanctions on Russia and to determine how to respond in case Vladimir Putin unleashes his chemical or nuclear arsenal on Ukraine. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David Stoddard, a retired Border Patrol agent in Sierra Vista, Ariz., summed up his feelings about Biden succinctly: “He’s scared.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-05.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Poll." class="wp-image-21642982" height="820" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-05.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-05.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-05.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-05.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 3px 0px 0px, rgb(198, 8, 0) 0px 7px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 734px; will-change: background-position;" width="1024" /></a><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A majority of Americans approve of US sanctions against Russia.</figcaption><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">APNORC.org</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-10.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Vladimir Putin." class="wp-image-21643190" height="718" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-10.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-10.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1535 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-10.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-10.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 3px 0px 0px, rgb(198, 8, 0) 0px 7px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 734px; will-change: background-position;" width="1024" /></a><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Seventy percent of Americans support an embargo on Russian energy imports.</figcaption><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS</span></figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“He’s scared of Putin. He’s scared of (China’s) Xi (Jinping). He’s scared of everything,” Stoddard, 76, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-biden-europe-nato-eedb46ae4df798dc2cc4df15e6a3b847" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told the Associated Press</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He would prefer the leadership of former President Donald Trump. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The 45th president would tell Putin that he “may have a red button, but the United States’ red button is even bigger,” he said.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Poll." class="wp-image-21643114" height="764" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 3px 0px 0px, rgb(198, 8, 0) 0px 7px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 734px; will-change: background-position;" width="1024" /></a><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More than two-thirds of Americans believe the US is headed in the wrong direction.</figcaption><figcaption style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="credit" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">APNORC.org</span></figcaption></figure><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stoddard believes Biden could do more to tighten sanctions on Russia and suggested that the president take <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/08/poland-offers-to-supply-ukraine-with-jets-only-to-be-shot-down-by-us/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Poland up on its offer to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine</a>. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The poll also showed that backing for the US playing a “major role” in the Ukraine-Russia conflict has increased to 40% from 26% last month.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the same time, 47% of Americans are “extremely” or “very” concerned that the US will be drawn into a war with Russia, while 38% are “somewhat” concerned and 15% are “not very” or “not concerned at all.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Poll." class="wp-image-21643086" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=998" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1996 1996w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1497 1497w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=998 998w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=499 499w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-04.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.17; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">APNORC.org</span></figcaption></figure><figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-style-default" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-09.jpg?quality=90&strip=all" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures next to U.S. President Joe Biden." class="wp-image-21643459" height="706" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-09.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-09.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-09.jpg?quality=90&strip=all 1024w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/biden-russia-tough-poll-09.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=512 512w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; 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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More important number to always look at: Biden’s approval among independents is at 27 percent <a href="https://t.co/8QQCLBRm5U">https://t.co/8QQCLBRm5U</a></p>— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1506447041706270720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-19361747964699408032022-03-18T20:04:00.002-04:002022-03-18T20:04:46.906-04:00Should Environmental Groups Who Took Money from Russia to Block U.S. Energy Production Give the Money Back?<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;">A shell corporation with ties to a Russian state oil interest “donated” $23 million to an environmental bundler which passed the funds to The Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the League of Conservation Voters according to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"> </span><a href="https://www.biggreenradicals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Klein_Report_12-2015.pdf" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">a new report</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"> by the Environmental Policy Alliance.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The NRDC, The Sierra Club, and the League of Conversation Voters accepted donations of $13.5, $15, and $18.1 million from <a href="http://www.seachange.org/" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the Sea Change Foundation</a>. The Sea Change Foundation got $23 million from the shell corporation Klein Ltd, which “only exists on paper.” Klein Ltd has deep ties to Russian energy investment groups like Firebird New Russia Fund and Vimpelcom Ltd. Klein Ltd is incorporated in the Bahamas and thus doesn’t have to disclose its donors.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The report shows that high-level Russian oil and political interests fund and support American environmental groups which then launch attacks on the U.S. natural gas and oil industry. These attacks lead to new regulations and restrictions on American oil, which reduces the amount of international competition for Russian produces.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">Much of the money is spent lobbying against the development of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for natural gas and oil in the United States. Fracking allowed the U.S. to pass Russia and become <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-10/u-s-ousts-russia-as-world-s-top-oil-gas-producer-in-bp-report" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the largest oil and natural gas producer in the world in 2015</a> which lowered the global price of oil. Low oil prices have <a href="http://globalriskinsights.com/2015/09/falling-oil-prices-hurt-russia-more-than-sanctions/" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">greatly harming Russia’s economy</a> and hurt the Russian government.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The Environmental Policy Alliance created a YouTube video entitled “From Russia With Love” shown below to articulate their case.</p><div id="outbrainPlaceholder" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"></div><div class="readmore" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"><span style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">WATCH:</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;"></p><div class="mb-6 relative" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding-bottom: 540px; position: relative;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uPpySSWvdvo?feature=oembed" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 540px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 960px;" width="500"></iframe></div><p></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The two founders of the shell corporation both held directorship positions in a group owned by Leonid Reiman, the Russian minister of telecommunications and longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The shell corporation has other ties to the Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The report is a follow up to a Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works report <a href="http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/6ce8dd13-e4ab-4b31-9485-6d2b8a6f6b00/chainofenvironmentalcommand.pdf" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-text-opacity: 1; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">released in 2014</a>. The Senate report also identifies foreign billionaires who secretly donate large sums of money to environmental groups.</p><div class="piano-newsletter" id="piano-newsletter" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px;"><div class="tp-container-inner" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 351px; width: 960px;"><iframe allow="payment" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" id="offer_d1dff69da469c9392330-0" name="offer_d1dff69da469c9392330-0" scrolling="no" src="https://buy.tinypass.com/checkout/template/cacheableShow?aid=2SUjiFgnKP&templateId=OTKNCQOEIXFA&offerId=fakeOfferId&experienceId=EXWKP4FOM02Z&iframeId=offer_d1dff69da469c9392330-0&displayMode=inline&pianoIdUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fid.tinypass.com%2Fid%2F&widget=template&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 351px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: middle; width: 960px;" title="offer_d1dff69da469c9392330-0"></iframe></div></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59, 130, 246, 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Spectral, serif; font-size: 28px; letter-spacing: -0.7px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The Senate report concludes that the Sea Change Foundation relies on funding from undisclosed donors and has funneled tens of millions of dollars to prominent environmental groups which controlled strive to control both policy and politics.</p>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-12304243298715219642022-03-18T20:01:00.000-04:002022-03-18T20:01:04.146-04:00First They Said There Was No Election Fraud. Now They're Admitting Fraud but Say So What!<b>The 2020 election was stolen!</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">In each one of these states the story is the same. 1. Claims there was no fraud. 2. There was fraud but not widespread. 3. Fraud was widespread but there's nothing we can do about it.<br /><br />Meanwhile, anyone who discloses fraud will be censored or threatened with deplatforming. <a href="https://t.co/yRaPW6xqh8">https://t.co/yRaPW6xqh8</a></p>— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesamerica/status/1504960152293752837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2022</a></blockquote><p> </p><div class="layout--wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="layout layout--onecol" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; padding-bottom: 1rem;"><div class="layout__region layout__region--content" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 1300px;"><div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodearticletitle" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="js-quickedit-page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: AvenirNextProCondensed, "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; font-size: 2.5rem; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span property="schema:name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ballot Bombshells: 20 episodes exposing fraud, illegalities and irregularities in 2020 election</span></h1></div><div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodearticlebody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" property="schema:text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6c757d;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Illegal rule changes, ballot harvesting, Iranian voter hack are among the many now-confirmed serious irregularities, putting the lie to the "perfect election" narrative.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="layout--wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="layout layout--twocol-section layout--twocol-section--75-25" 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22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">After the 2020 election ended with Joe Biden declared the winner, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-results-security-chris-krebs-60-minutes-2020-11-29/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">federal cybersecurity agency declared it was a perfectly secure vot</a>e. Months later, federal prosecutors admitted two Iranian nationals hacked into a state’s database and stole the identities of 100,000 voters in an effort to influence the election.</p><div class="ad__300x250 ad__align" data-from-builderid="7a044e4" data-from-iterationid="999681" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; justify-content: center; min-height: 333.333px;"><div id="div-gpt-ad-inContent1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Likewise, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/wisconsin-governor-680k-election-probe-outrageous-79722999" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers declared it was “outrageous”</a> to think his state’s 2020 election needed to be investigated. Now, two separate courts have concluded that state election regulators illegally changed rules, allowing tens of thousands to cast ballots in an unlawful manner.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">And that probe Evers so stubbornly resisted just provided evidence of fraudulent vote-collecting operations that exploited vulnerable residents in nursing homes.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Georgia’s elections chief similarly expresses confidence to this day in his state’s declaration that Joe Biden won in 2020, but he now admits the state’s largest county ran a vote counting operation so dysfunctional that the state may take over the county. He also has launched a probe into potential illegal harvesting of ballots that he says may result in prosecutions.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">And Arizona, one of the first states to move to no-excuse mail-in voting years ago, has now begun an urgent effort to return to traditional in-person voting with paper ballots after investigations called into question more than 50,000 ballots cast in November 2020 and tens of thousands more verification signatures.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">For more than a year, Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have decried what they call the “Big Lie” that America’s 2020 election was flawed or stolen. But almost weekly now, revelations are emerging that the election was, in fact, marred by illegalities, irregularities and mismanagement like former President Donald Trump has argued, leaving a nation increasingly doubting the reliability of its election system.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">A <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/more-voters-believe-trump-was-%20legitimately-elected-biden-poll" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">recent poll found that 40% of Americans</a> no longer believe in the legitimacy of the winner of either of the last two presidential elections, a stunning number for a country globally held as the gold standard for constitutional republics built on democracy.</p><div class="ad__300x250 ad__align" data-from-builderid="7a044e4" data-from-iterationid="999681" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; justify-content: center; min-height: 333.333px;"><div id="div-gpt-ad-inContent2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"We have a lot of work to do," former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell told Just the News on Wednesday. "And so I never sugarcoat this, because there's substantial voter dissatisfaction with the the lack of security of our ballots. And they are very concerned that folks who are voting are folks who are not eligible to vote. And so you can't have a system where illegal ballots negate the casting of legal ballots."</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">The 2020 election results almost certainly won’t be reversed, no matter how widespread the calls for decertification grow. But the opportunity to take the many failures of the last election seriously to improve Americans’ confidence in voting in the 2022 and 2024 elections<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"> looms large</span>, experts told Just the News.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"We need to make sure our voting rolls are clean," Wisconsin State Rep. Janel Brandtjen told Just the News. She oversees the Assembly committee on election integrity and blasted Democratic Gov. Tony Evers for vetoing legislation designed to fix many problems identified in the Dairy State.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">"At this point, there is no downside to cheating in Wisconsin, when you have a governor that's shutting down a lot of the things that we've thought in the past as Republicans and Democrats that would make a fair and transparent election," she added.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Here are 20 of the most important revelations uncovered by Just the News over the last 15 months of reporting, complete with substantiating evidence and links"</p><ol style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">A Foreign Intrusion</span>. Federal authorities have confirmed that <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/new-federal-indictment-further-erodes-narrative-immaculate-2020-election" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">two Iranian nationals successfully hacked into a state computer election system</a>, stole 100,000 voter registrations and used the data to carry out a cyber-intimidation campaign that targeted GOP members of Congress, Trump campaign officials and Democratic voters in the November 2020 election in one of the largest foreign intrusions in U.S. election history. The defendants "were part of a coordinated conspiracy in which Iranian hackers sought to undermine faith and confidence in the U.S. presidential election," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams declared in an indictment.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Alleged Bribery</span>. The former state Supreme Court justice appointed by the Wisconsin Legislature to investigate the 2020 election concluded that millions of dollars in donations to election administrators in five Democrat-heavy municipalities from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life violated state anti-bribery laws and corrupted election practices by turning public election authorities into liberal get-out-the-vote activists. “The Zuckerberg-funded CTCL/ Zuckerberg 5 scheme would prove to be an effective way to accomplish the partisan effort to 'turnout' their desired voters and it was done with the active support of the very people and the governmental institution (WEC) that were supposed to be guarding the Wisconsin elections administrative process from the partisan activities they facilitated,” Justice Michael Gableman wrote.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Illegal ballot harvesting in Wisconsin</span>. Gableman also exposed an extensive vote collection operation, known as ballot harvesting, in nursing homes in which third-party activists illegally collected the ballots of vulnerable residents, some of whom lacked the mental or physical capacity to vote or were forbidden from voting by guardianship agreements. State election regulators “unlawfully directed the municipal clerks not to send out the legally required special voting deputies to nursing homes, resulting in many nursing homes’ registered residents voting at 100% rates and many ineligible residents voting, despite a guardianship order or incapacity,” Gableman wrote in his explosive report.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Ballot harvesting probe in the Peach State</span>. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has announced he has <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-opens-investigation-possible-illegal-%20ballot-harvesting-2020" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">opened a criminal investigation into allegations that liberal activists engaged in illegal ballot harvesting</a>, collecting ballots from voters and delivering them in violation of state law. Raffensperger said he is planning to issue subpoenas to identify a whistleblower who admitted he engaged in the operation, and there could be prosecutions. The True the Vote election integrity group says in a formal state complaint that the man, identified as John Doe, admitted his role and identified nonprofits who funded it at $10 per ballot delivered. The watchdog group also claims it has assembled cell phone location records pinpointing the alleged harvesting by as many as 240 activists. </li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Bad voter signatures?</span> A <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/maricopa-countys-200k-mail-ballots-mismatched-signatures-not-cured-2020" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">review of Maricopa County's mail-in ballots</a> in Arizona's 2020 presidential election estimated that more than 200,000 ballots with signatures that did not match voter files were counted without being reviewed, more than eight times the number the county acknowledged.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">50,000 Arizona ballots called into question. </span>An extensive <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/arizona-audit-flags-thousands-suspect-%20ballots-kicking-issue-states" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">audit by Arizona’s Senate</a> officially called into question more than 50,000 ballots cast in the 2020 election, including voters who cast ballots from residences they had left. The tally in question is nearly five times the margin of Joe Biden’s victory in the state.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Illegal ballot drop boxes</span>. A Wisconsin <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/wisconsin-judge-rules-absentee-ballot-drop-boxes-illegal-election" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">judge has ruled the widespread use of ballot drop boxes in 2020 was unlawful</a>, and the <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-leaves-place-ban-ballot-box-use-april-election" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">state Supreme Court let that ruling stand</a>. That means drop boxes can’t be used in future elections starting in April. It also means that tens of thousands of ballots in the 2020 election were cast unlawfully.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Foreign voters found on Texas rolls</span>. An <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/texas-election-audit-identifies-nearly-12000-foreigners-suspected" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">audit of Texas voter rolls</a> identified nearly 12,000 noncitizens suspected of illegally registering to vote and nearly 600 cases in which ballots may have been cast in the name of a dead resident or by a voter who may also have voted in another state. Officials are now in the process of removing the foreign voters and deciding whether prosecutions are warranted.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Foreign voters found on Georgia rolls. </span>An <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-elections-chief-finds-more-2000-suspected-foreigners-states-voter" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">audit</a> by Georgia’s Secretary of State has identified more than 2,000 suspected foreigners who tried to register to vote in the state, though none reached the point of casting ballots. Raffensperger says prosecutions may be forthcoming.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Unconstitutional mail-in voting</span>. The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has concluded the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pennsylvania-voting-donald-trump-tom-wolf-31b4e7d0b16a996c63079c8aa3c3b121" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">state law that opened the door to no-excuse mail-in voting in 2020 was unconstitutional</a> and that mail-in voting can only be enacted by a constitutional amendment. “A constitutional amendment must be presented to the people and adopted into our fundamental law before legislation authorizing no-excuse mail-in voting can be placed upon our statute books,” the court ruled. About 2.5 million voted by mail in Pennsylvania in 2020, votes now called into question by the ruling.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">More noncitizen voters</span>. The Gableman investigation in Wisconsin also found noncitizens had made it onto the state voters rolls in violation of state law. The Wisconsin Election Commission failed “to record non-citizens in the WisVote voter database, thereby permitting non-citizens to vote, even though Wisconsin law requires citizenship to vote — all in violation of the Help America Vote Act,” the investigator wrote.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Ballot chain of custody issues</span>. The Georgia Secretary of State's office has opened an investigation into the handling of drop box ballots last November in one of the state's Democratic strongholds following a <a href="https://georgiastarnews.com/4300-absentee-ballot-votes-counted-in-dekalb-county-2020-election-violated-chain-of-custody-rule.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">media report</a> that there were problems with chain of custody documentation in DeKalb County.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Fulton County irregularities</span>. Georgia’s handpicked election monitor for Fulton County, the state’s largest voting district, <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ga-investigators-election-day-notes-reveal-%20chaotic-unsecured-ballot" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">documented two dozen pages of mismanagement and irregularities</a> during vote counting in Atlanta in November 2020, including double-scanning of ballots, insecure transport of ballots and violations of voter privacy. The revelations prompted the <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-secretary-state-says-he-wants-%20fulton-county-elections-taken-over" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">state to take steps to possibly put Fulton County in receivership</a>, empowering state officials to run the elections. Most of Fulton County's election officials have left their jobs.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Errant vote counting.</span> Georgia Gov. Brian <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/george-governor-orders-probe-sloppy-%20november-2020-vote-counts-fulton" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">Kemp referred the audited November 2020 election results</a> in Fulton County to the State Election Board after multiple reviews found three dozen significant problems with absentee ballot counting, including duplicate tallies, math errors and transposed data. Kemp’s referral calls into question hundreds of ballots in the official count.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Dirty voter rolls</span>. Michigan’s official state auditor has found that Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson failed to adhere to state election law by properly updating and reconciling Michigan’s qualified voter roll. This oversight, according to the audit, increased the risk of ineligible voters casting ballots.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Illegal exemptions from voter ID.</span> The <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/state-election-integrity-reform-year-after-%20disputed-2020-presidential" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> ruled as many as 200,000 voters were allowed to illegally skip voter ID for absentee ballots by claiming they were indefinitely confined by COVID when there was no such legal authority to do so. Biden beat Trump by about 20,000 votes in the state.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Uneven enforcement of election laws.</span> The <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/wisconsin-election-audit-details-numerous-problems-2020-election-process" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau</a> identified more than 30 problems with the administration of elections in 2020, including unlawful orders and uneven enforcement of the law and urged lawmakers to make sweeping improvements.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">More illegal harvesting.</span> <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-ballot-harvesting-probe-casts-fresh-light-past-democrat-efforts" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">In Arizona, a half dozen people have already been indicted on charges of illegal harvesting</a> in a probe by Attorney General Mark Brnovich that shows signs of expanding. It comes after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Democrats' arguments and concluded Arizona’s ban on harvesting was constitutional.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Voter fraud in Michigan</span>. <a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/states/three-charged-alleged-election-fraud-2020-election" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">Michigan charged three women</a> in connection with voter fraud schemes, including efforts to cast ballots on behalf of non-consenting nursing home residents.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Still more nursing home fraud</span>. In Wisconsin, <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/narrative-perfect-clean-2020-election-eroding-wisconsin-becomes-ground" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;">Racine County Sheriff </a> Christopher Schmaling announced his investigators have secured evidence that eight out of 42 residents at a local nursing home had been recorded as casting absentee ballots that their families said was not possible because the residents didn't possess the cognitive ability to vote.</li></ol><div class="ad__300x250 ad__align" data-from-builderid="7a044e4" data-from-iterationid="999681" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; justify-content: center; min-height: 333.333px;"><div id="div-gpt-ad-inContent3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Here is a required reading list for anyone interested in the above issues:</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">The Gableman Report</span></p><article class="align-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; float: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px;"><div class="field field--name-field-media-file field--type-file field--label-visually_hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><div class="field__label visually-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; width: 1px;">File</div><div class="field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-03/GablemanReport.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="far fa-file-pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> GablemanReport.pdf</a></div></div></article><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Iranian Hackers Indictment</span></p><article class="align-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; float: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px;"><div class="field field--name-field-media-file field--type-file field--label-visually_hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><div class="field__label visually-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; width: 1px;">File</div><div class="field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-03/IranianHackerVoterDatabaseIndictment.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="far fa-file-pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> IranianHackerVoterDatabaseIndictment.pdf</a></div></div></article><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Pennsylvania court ruling striking down mail-in voter law</span></p><article class="align-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; float: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px;"><div class="field field--name-field-media-file field--type-file field--label-visually_hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><div class="field__label visually-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; width: 1px;">File</div><div class="field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-03/PennsylvaniMailinLawUnConstotutionalRuling.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="far fa-file-pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> PennsylvaniMailinLawUnConstotutionalRuling.pdf</a></div></div></article><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Georgia state memo on irregularities in Fulton County vote counting</span></p><article class="align-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; float: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px;"><div class="field field--name-field-media-file field--type-file field--label-visually_hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center;"><div class="field__label visually-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px; overflow-wrap: normal; overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; width: 1px;">File</div><div class="field__item" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-03/FultonCountyIrregularitiesMemo.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2594c6; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span class="far fa-file-pdf" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free"; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span> FultonCountyIrregularitiesMemo.pdf</a></div></div></article><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; 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</div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9107812.post-37650399564315825572022-03-17T23:20:00.007-04:002022-03-18T14:20:08.489-04:00Now That Hunter Biden's Laptop Containing Evidence of Biden Corruption Verified by NY Times, Will Media Now Apologize for Lying?<i><b>And when will Biden be impeached for taking money from America's enemies INCLUDING RUSSIA?</b></i><div><b><i><br /></i></b>
Remember when the same media who played the Trump Russia hoax for years said that the evidence of Biden family corruption found on Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation" and refused to cover the story? Big Tech shut down the New York Post social media and refused to allow the story to reach America's voters weeks before the 2020 election. Later polling showed <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/24/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media/">one in six Biden voters</a> would not have voted for Biden had they known the truth. Big Tech and left wing media corrupted the 2020 election.</div><div>
<br />The media claimed all mention of the story was "Russian disinformation." The same people who repeated the Big Lie that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election trotted out the tactic again. They cited a letter by 50 intelligence experts who said it MIGHT be Russian disinformation but offered no evidence to support the claim. Talk about unsubstantiated. But unsubstantiated is exactly what the media said when Trump raised the issue.</div><div>
<br />The sheer arrogance of the media is so evident in the exchanges below. Christianne Amanpour telling Trump spokesperson that she "deals in facts" yet it was clear she never investigated the veracity of the laptop. She just repeated the lies she was told. And good OLD Leslie Stahl from Sixty Minutes clearly didn't investigate either. None of them did.</div><div>
<br />Now the New York Times admits the information on the laptop was real. Where are the apologies and corrections? Same place as the corrections for the Trump Russia lie!</div><div>
<br />Here's a sample:
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</div><div><br /></div><div>New York Post editorial:</div><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First, the New York Times decides more than a year later that Hunter Biden’s business woes are worthy of a story. Then, deep in the piece, in passing, it notes<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> that Hunter’s laptop is legitimate</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” the Times writes. “Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Authenticated!!! You don’t say. You mean, when a newspaper actually does reporting on a topic and doesn’t just try to whitewash coverage for Joe Biden, it discovers it’s <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">actually true</em>?</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But wait, it doesn’t end there. In October 2020, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-laptop.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cast doubt that there was a meeting between Joe Biden and an official from Burisma</a>, the Ukrainian gas company for which Hunter was a board member. “A Biden campaign spokesman said Mr. Biden’s official schedules did not show a meeting between the two men,” the Times wrote, acting as a perfect stenographer.</p></div><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet in the latest report, published Wednesday night, the Times said the meeting likely <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">did</em> happen. Biden had attended the dinner in question. Funny how this works when you don’t just take someone’s word for it.</p><aside class="single__inline-module alignright" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #585858; display: inline-block; float: right; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25rem 0px 1.25rem 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="inline-module inline-module--related-post" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 13.375rem;"><div class="inline-module__inner" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 1.25rem 1.875rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="inline-module__heading widget-heading widget-heading--underline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4375rem; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 0.73; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline; width: max-content;">SEE ALSO</h2><div class="story story--i-flex story--i-flex-none-lg" style="align-items: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-wrap: nowrap; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="story__image" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 0px 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="inline-module--related-post__link" href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-confirmed-in-new-york-times-report/" rel="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="-1" target="_self"><img alt="Federal prosecutors have looked into Hunter Biden's email exchanges with his former business associates." class="attachment-nyp_large_video size-nyp_large_video" height="260" loading="lazy" sizes="(min-width: 600px) 389px, 300px" src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/newspress-collage-21555340-1647501238591.png?w=389" srcset="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/newspress-collage-21555340-1647501238591.png?w=778 778w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/newspress-collage-21555340-1647501238591.png?w=584 583w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/newspress-collage-21555340-1647501238591.png?w=389 389w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/newspress-collage-21555340-1647501238591.png?w=195 194w, https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/newspress-collage-21555340-1647501238591.png 1024w" style="animation: 5s ease 0s infinite normal none running gradient; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1) 20%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) 60%, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)); background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: 600%; border: 0px; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 7px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 174px; will-change: background-position;" width="389" /></a></div><a class="inline-module--related-post__link" href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/17/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-confirmed-in-new-york-times-report/" rel="" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><h3 class="postid-21555340 story__headline headline headline--xs inline-module--related-post__headline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop confirmed in New York Times report</h3></a></div></div></div></aside><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the heat of the presidential race of 2020, the Times never missed a chance to cast doubt on the laptop, saying the information was “purported” and quoting a letter from former Democratic officials who claimed — with no evidence — that it was Russian disinformation. As recently as September 2021, the Times called the laptop “unsubstantiated” in a news story.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Why was it unsubstantiated? Because of willful ignorance and the Times’ curious lack of curiosity. Hunter’s business partner Tony Bobulinski came forward immediately after The Post’s reports and confirmed that the emails bearing his name were legitimate. The Bidens didn’t even deny it was true! They just deflected, with the media’s help, saying it was a dirty trick or not a story. Mostly, the press just ignored it.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">Christianne Amanpour: "I'm a reporter. I deal in facts." She never investigated!</b></p></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Now that the NYT admitted what was clear from the start -- the Biden archive is real and corporate media outlets, CIA and Big Tech lied to say it was "Russian disinformation" -- look at what the media did to see why they are so justifiably hated. Watch:<a href="https://t.co/YNJ0SVErJh">pic.twitter.com/YNJ0SVErJh</a></p>— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1504500577245536265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Ditto Leslie Stahl</b>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">TRUMP: "What can't be verified?"<br /><br />STAHL: "The laptop!"<br /><br />TRUMP: "Why do you say that?"<br /><br />STAHL: "Because it can't be verified."<br /> <a href="https://t.co/siPKRELmPV">pic.twitter.com/siPKRELmPV</a></p>— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1504503829412388872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
That's just as pathetic as the interview where <a href="https://twitter.com/breeadail/status/1492766893895294976">she told Trump</a> that no one spied on his campaign. It's all proven now but no word of correction from Lyin' Leslie!
<b>They all did it. So many lies. Not one word of it was true and none of them cared to investigate before they passed on the lie!</b>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We're told reporters get the facts. Yet not a single one of these clowns ever bothered to investigate this story. They just read what they were told to read by the Biden campaign. This was election interference worse than anything the Russians ever did! <a href="https://t.co/p3x2eVYaGo">https://t.co/p3x2eVYaGo</a></p>— mikesamerica (@mikesamerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikesamerica/status/1504885043906420740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-biden-laptop?s=w">Glenn Greenwald Substack:</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="post-header" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><h1 class="post-title long unpublished" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; 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width: 509.6px;">President Joe Biden embraces his son Hunter Biden (L) on stage after delivering remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020. (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">One of the most successful disinformation campaigns</strong> in modern American electoral history occurred in the weeks prior to the 2020 presidential election. On October 14, 2020 — less than three weeks before Americans were set to vote — the nation's oldest newspaper, <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The New York Post</em>, began <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">publishing a series</a> of <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">reports about the business dealings of the Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden</a> and his son, Hunter, in countries in which Biden, as Vice President, wielded considerable influence (including Ukraine and China) and would again if elected president.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The backlash against this reporting was immediate and intense, leading to suppression of the story by U.S. corporate media outlets and censorship of the story by leading <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/house-amazon-facebook-apple-google-have-monopoly-power-should-be-split/" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">Silicon Valley monopolies</a>. The disinformation campaign against this reporting was led by the CIA's all-but-official spokesperson Natasha Bertrand (then of <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Politico</em>, now with CNN), whose <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">article on October 19</a> appeared under this headline: “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.”</p><div class="captioned-image-container" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><figure style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; 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width: 509.6px;">Natasha Bertrand, <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Politico</em>, Oct. 19, 2020</figcaption></figure></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">These "former intel officials" did not actually say that the “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo." Indeed, they stressed <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">in their letter</a> the opposite: namely, that they had <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">no evidence</em> to suggest the emails were falsified or that Russia had anything to do them, but, instead, they had merely intuited this "suspicion" based on their experience:</p><blockquote style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: 4px solid var(--background_pop); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: 1em 0px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;"><strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement</strong> -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.</p></blockquote><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">But a media that was overwhelmingly desperate to ensure Trump's defeat had no time for facts or annoying details such as what these former officials actually said or whether it was in fact true. They had an election to manipulate. As a result, that these emails were "Russian disinformation” — meaning that they were fake and that Russia manufactured them — became an article of faith among the U.S.'s <a href="https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-9069-e26b21c283a9.html" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">justifiably despised</a> class of media employees.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Very few even included the crucial caveat that the intelligence officials themselves stressed: namely, that they had no evidence at all to corroborate this claim. Instead, as I noted last September, “<a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1440402740409110528" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">virtually every media outlet</a> — CNN, NBC News, PBS, <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Huffington Post</em>, <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1440315750082748419" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">The Intercept</a></em>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1440314701896814597" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">too many others to count</a> — began completely ignoring the substance of the reporting and instead spread the lie over and over that these documents were the by-product of Russian disinformation.” <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Huffington Post </em>even <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hunter-biden-intel-officials-russia_n_5f8e6cd5c5b62dbe71c5b963" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">published a must-be-seen-to-be-believed campaign ad</a> for Joe Biden, masquerading as “reporting,” that spread this lie that the emails were "Russian disinformation.”</p><div class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{"videoId":"3GCkBYx117c","startTime":null,"endTime":null}" id="youtube2-3GCkBYx117c" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; height: 0px; margin: 1.6em 0px; padding-top: 409.5px; position: relative; width: 728px;"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" gesture="media" height="409" loading="lazy" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3GCkBYx117c?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: #f7f7f7; display: block; height: 409.5px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 728px;" width="728"></iframe></div><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">This disinformation campaign about the Biden emails was then used by Big Tech to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cross-a-line-far-more-dangerous-than-what-they-censor/" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">justify brute censorship of any reporting</a> on or discussion of this story: easily the most severe case of pre-election censorship in modern American political history. Twitter locked <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The New York Post</em>'s Twitter account for close to two weeks due to its refusal to obey Twitter's orders to delete any reference to its reporting. The social media site also blocked any and all references to the reporting by all users; Twitter users were barred even from linking to the story in private chats with one another. Facebook, through its spokesman, the life-long DNC operative Andy Stone, <a href="https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">announced</a> that they would algorithmically suppress discussion of the reporting to ensure it did not spread, pending a “fact check[] by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners” which, needless to say, never came — precisely because the archive was indisputably authentic.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The archive's authenticity, as I documented in <a href="https://rumble.com/vmteq5-new-proof-emerges-about-the-hunter-biden-laptop-a-definitive-account-of-the.html" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">a video report from September</a>, was clear from the start. Indeed, as I described in that report, I staked my career on its authenticity when I demanded that <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Intercept</em> publish my analysis of these revelations, <a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept?s=w" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">and then resigned</a> when its vehemently anti-Trump editors <a href="https://taibbi.substack.com/p/glenn-greenwald-on-his-resignation?s=r" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">censored any discussion of those emails</a> precisely because it was indisputable that the archive was authentic (<em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Intercept</em>'s former <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">New York Times</em> reporter James Risen was given the green light by these same editors to spread and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/trump-presidency-summary/" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">endorse the CIA's lie</a>, as he insisted that laptop should be ignored because “a group of former intelligence officials issued a letter saying that the Giuliani laptop story has the<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;"> classic trademarks </a>of Russian disinformation.") I knew the archive was real because all the relevant journalistic metrics that one evaluates to verify large archives of this type — including the Snowden archive and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/03/brazil-glenn-greenwald-investigation-outcry-bar-association-journalists" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">the Brazil archive</a> which I used to report a series of investigative exposés — left no doubt that it was genuine (that includes documented verification from third parties who were included in the email chains and who showed that the emails they had in their possession matched the ones in the archive word-for-word).</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Any residual doubts that the Biden archive was genuine — and there should have been none — were shattered when a reporter from <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Politico</em>, Ben Schreckinger, <a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/new-proof-emerges-of-the-biden-family?s=w" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">published a book last September</a>, entitled "The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power," in which <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1440313872334798856?lang=en" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">his new reporting proved</a> that the key emails on which <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The New York Post</em> relied were entirely authentic. Among other things, Schreckinger interviewed several people included in the email chains who provided confirmation that the emails in their possession matched the ones in <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">the Post</em>'s archive word for word. He also obtained documents from the Swedish government that were identical to key documents in the archive. His own outlet, <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Politico</em>, was one of the few to even acknowledge his book. While ignoring the fact that they were the first to spread the lie that the emails were "Russian disinformation,” <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Politico</em> editors — under the headline “Double Trouble for Biden”— <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/09/21/double-trouble-for-biden-494411" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">admitted</a> that the book “finds evidence that some of the purported Hunter Biden<strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </strong>laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.”</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The vital revelations in Schreckinger's book were almost completely ignored by the very same corporate media outlets that published the CIA's now-debunked lies. They just pretended it never happened. Grappling with it would have forced them to acknowledge a fact quite devastating to whatever remaining credibility they have: namely, that they all ratified and spread a coordinated disinformation campaign in order to elect Joe Biden and defeat Donald Trump. With strength in numbers, and knowing that they speak only to and for liberals who are happy if they lie to help Democrats, they all joined hands in an implicit vow of silence and simply ignored the new proof in Schreckinger's book that, in the days leading up to the 2020 election, they all endorsed a disinformation campaign.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">It will now be much harder to avoid confronting the reality of what they did, though it is highly likely that they will continue to do so. This morning, <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The New York Times</em> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">published an article</a> about the broad, ongoing FBI criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's international business and tax activities. Prior to the election, <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">the</em> <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Times</em>, to their credit, was one of the few to apply skepticism to the CIA's pre-election lie, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-laptop.html" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">noting on October 22</a> that “no concrete evidence has emerged that the laptop contains Russian disinformation.” Because the activities of Hunter Biden now under FBI investigation directly pertain to the emails first revealed by <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Post</em>, the reporters needed to rely upon the laptop's archive to amplify and inform their reporting. That, in turn, required <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The New York Times</em> to verify the authenticity of this laptop and its origins — exactly what, according to their reporters, they successfully did:</p><blockquote style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-left: 4px solid var(--background_pop); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; margin: 1em 0px;"><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em 1em;">People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity. <strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-laptop.html" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;" title="">laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop</a>. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.</strong></p></blockquote><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">That this cache of emails was authentic was clear from the start. Any doubts were obliterated by publication of Schreckinger's book six months ago. Now the Paper of Record itself explicitly states not only that the emails “were authenticated” but also that the original story from <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The Post</em> about how they obtained these materials — they “come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop”<strong style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;"> </strong>— “appears” to be true.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">What this means is that, in the crucial days leading up to the 2020 presidential election, most of the corporate media spread an absolute lie about <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The New York Post</em>'s reporting in order to mislead and manipulate the American electorate. It means that Big Tech monopolies, along with Twitter, censored this story based on a lie from “the intelligence community.” It means that Facebook's promise from its DNC operative that it would suppress discussion of the reporting in order to conduct a "fact-check” of these documents was a fraud because if an honest one had been conducted, it would have proven that Facebook’s censorship decree was based on a lie. It means that millions of Americans were denied the ability to hear about reporting on the candidate leading all polls to become the next president, and instead were subjected to a barrage of lies about the provenance (<em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Russia did it</em>) and authenticity (<em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">disinformation!</em>) of these documents.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">The objections to noting all of this today are drearily predictable. Reporting on Hunter Biden is irrelevant since he was not himself a candidate (what made the reporting relevant was what it revealed about the involvement of <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">Joe Biden</em> in these deals). Given the war in Ukraine, now is not the time to discuss all of this (despite the fact that they are usually ignored, there are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/16/yemen-war-biden-us-support-saudi-arabia/" rel="" style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; color: #1a1a1a;">always horrific wars being waged</a> even if the victims are not as sympathetic as European Ukrainians and the perpetrators are the film's Good Guys and not the Bad Guys). The real reason most liberals and their media allies do not want to hear about any of this is because they believe that the means they used (deliberately lying to the public with CIA disinformation) are justified by their noble ends (defeating Trump).</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Spectral, serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 19px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Whatever else is true, both the CIA/media disinformation campaign in the weeks before the 2020 election and the resulting regime of brute censorship imposed by Big Tech are of historic significance. Democrats and their new allies in the establishment wing of the Republican Party may be more excited by war in Ukraine than the subversion of their own election by the unholy trinity of the intelligence community, the corporate press, and Big Tech. But today's admission by <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0;">The New York Times</em> that this archive and the emails in it were real all along proves that a gigantic fraud was perpetrated by the country's most powerful institutions. What matters far more than the interest level of various partisan factions is the core truths about U.S. democracy revealed by this tawdry spectacle.</p><div><br /></div><div>AUTHENTICATED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES. HUNTER BIDEN:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE85C0aQz7sJkY32jlwX3Apyrrt8JlezV___ccJL-4BrltFKM5vhj9FuYgg77qBIr2nYKBi33E46QozsCmW1MrioG0jIiehkxrqWf1O4uJ6XvTLEHYciGGg99KnnGFC2kBZmXIyEV10Ll9vDf6WOJfqCMpOgikPPQV59Us-H8a6yIRXstzulI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1127" data-original-width="634" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgE85C0aQz7sJkY32jlwX3Apyrrt8JlezV___ccJL-4BrltFKM5vhj9FuYgg77qBIr2nYKBi33E46QozsCmW1MrioG0jIiehkxrqWf1O4uJ6XvTLEHYciGGg99KnnGFC2kBZmXIyEV10Ll9vDf6WOJfqCMpOgikPPQV59Us-H8a6yIRXstzulI=w360-h640" width="360" /></a></div><br /><b>P.S. Secret Service said it <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/secret-service-says-it-doesnt-have-hunter-biden-emails">"lost" key records</a> showing their protection of Hunter during his trips to collect the cash for Joe. Just like Lois Lerner's lost hard drive at IRS. Amazing how no one in the media seems to care. Imagine if it was Trump!</b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Mike's Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01262938295909490454noreply@blogger.com1