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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2021, 12:49:49 PM »
Hunter Biden called Asians ‘yellow’ in text exchange with cousin
By Samuel Chamberlain
June 16, 2021

First son Hunter Biden used the racial slur “yellow” to refer to Asian women in a January 2019 text message to cousin Caroline Biden about getting fixed up with someone, according to a new report.

The Jan. 26, 2019, conversation was preserved on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and was first reported by DailyMail.com.

In a screenshot posted by the outlet, Caroline — the daughter of President Biden’s brother James — suggests setting Hunter up with one of her friends.

“Do you want foreign or domestic,” she asks at one point before adding: “I can’t give you f—ing Asian sorry. I’m not doing it.”

The next two messages from Hunter read: “Domesticated foreigner” and “Is fine.” The next message reads: “No yellow.”

This is not the first time the younger Biden’s text messages have revealed instances of racist language. Last week, it was revealed that Hunter Biden had repeatedly called his white attorney, George Mesires, the n-word.

During one conversation in December 2018, a month before the chat with Caroline, Hunter Biden asked Mesires, “How much money do I owe you” before adding, “Becaause [sic] n—a you better not be charging me Hennessy rates.” The revelation caused an uproar among conservative media outlets, but was completely ignored by the mainstream press.

The publication of Hunter’s message referring to Asians as “yellow” comes amid a surge in physical attacks against Asian Americans. Two more assaults were reported in Manhattan last week and are being investigated as suspected hate crimes. Last month, President Biden signed a measure aiming to fast-track investigation of coronavirus-related hate crimes into law.

However, Hunter’s father has his own history of using racially charged language toward South Asian people, remarking in 2006 that “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

Meanwhile, Caroline Biden has her own troubled past. In December of last year, she received no jail time after pleading guilty to DUI in Pennsylvania.

Caroline Biden also pleaded guilty in New York to petit larceny in 2018 after using a stolen credit card to purchase more than $110,000 worth of goods at an upscale Greenwich Village pharmacy. In 2013, she was arrested after allegedly taking a swing at NYPD officers who were called to her Tribeca apartment amid a dispute over unpaid rent.

The content of the message suggests that it took place after Hunter Biden ended his relationship with Hallie Biden, the widow of his older brother, Beau. Page Six broke the news of their breakup in April 2019, but it is unclear when the split actually took place.

The exchange between Hunter and his cousin also took place months after he fathered a daughter out of wedlock with Lunden Roberts, whom the younger Biden described in a September 2017 email as a “basketball mentor” to his daughter Maisy as well as Sasha Obama.

Caroline Biden could not immediately be reached for comment.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/16/hunter-biden-called-asians-yellow-in-text-exchange-with-cousin/

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2021, 01:36:04 PM »
Like the over $3M Hunter received from a Russian lady?  If we had real journalists in this country they would be all over it.

This issue is unproven. It is based on a September 26, 2020. Facebook post and Trump's accusation during his first debate on September 29, 2020. According to Hunter's attorney, Hunter was neither the founder nor held an interest in Rosemont Seneca Thornton, LLC the company that received a wire  transfer of $3.5 mil from Russia via Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2021, 01:59:30 PM »
Has anyone discredited Bobulinski?
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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #28 on: June 30, 2021, 02:14:36 PM »
Has anyone discredited Bobulinski?

Not a discredit but definitely a question mark. So far, much of what Bobulinski has said remains unverified.

Bobulinski provided some of his records to outlets like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Both reported that they do not show Joe Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings or took money from the Chinese company.

The Associated Press, for example, reported that it could not independently verify Bobulinki’s claims.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #29 on: June 30, 2021, 05:09:50 PM »
Not a discredit but definitely a question mark. So far, much of what Bobulinski has said remains unverified.

Bobulinski provided some of his records to outlets like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Both reported that they do not show Joe Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings or took money from the Chinese company.

The Associated Press, for example, reported that it could not independently verify Bobulinki’s claims.



Only because the will to verify is nil.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2021, 05:54:35 PM »
Your yard is littered with TDS.

How the fuck is this TDS

Bum mused what would happen if Trumps kids did what Hunter is alleged to have done

I answered his question and provided him examples

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2021, 06:02:29 PM »
Not a discredit but definitely a question mark. So far, much of what Bobulinski has said remains unverified.

Bobulinski provided some of his records to outlets like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Both reported that they do not show Joe Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings or took money from the Chinese company.

The Associated Press, for example, reported that it could not independently verify Bobulinki’s claims.


He’ signed an affidavit...all they need to do call the investigation

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2021, 06:06:24 PM »

Only because the will to verify is nil.

Since it behooves the folks who support what he claims to do the verifying, it isn't clear to me what you mean. He made the statements, it is up to him and anyone who agrees with him to validate them.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #33 on: June 30, 2021, 06:08:40 PM »
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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #34 on: June 30, 2021, 07:03:16 PM »
How the fuck is this TDS

Bum mused what would happen if Trumps kids did what Hunter is alleged to have done

I answered his question and provided him examples

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Up to your neck in TDS, piece of shit.
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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #35 on: June 30, 2021, 08:03:53 PM »
Not a discredit but definitely a question mark. So far, much of what Bobulinski has said remains unverified.

Bobulinski provided some of his records to outlets like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. Both reported that they do not show Joe Biden had business dealings with SinoHawk Holdings or took money from the Chinese company.

The Associated Press, for example, reported that it could not independently verify Bobulinki’s claims.


Didn't have business dealings, but he also claimed he didn't know anything about them.

But from today...uh oh?

https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/laptop-shows-joe-biden-was-with-hunter-and-his-mexican-biz-meetings/

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At some point the Biden White House will have to confront evidence of the president’s involvement in his son Hunter’s shady overseas business dealings.

Joe Biden insists he never knew a thing about Hunter’s lucrative deals in countries where he wielded influence as vice president.

But evidence abounds on Hunter’s abandoned laptop of Joe’s involvement.

For instance, Joe invited Hunter’s foreign associates to breakfast meetings at his vice-presidential residence and to his office in the White House, the laptop shows. He took his son on Air Force Two to countries where Hunter was doing deals, and on at least one occasion, included one of Hunter’s business partners on the trip.
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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #36 on: June 30, 2021, 08:36:25 PM »
This issue is unproven. It is based on a September 26, 2020. Facebook post and Trump's accusation during his first debate on September 29, 2020. According to Hunter's attorney, Hunter was neither the founder nor held an interest in Rosemont Seneca Thornton, LLC the company that received a wire  transfer of $3.5 mil from Russia via Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.

Be careful when plagirizing garbage on the internet. 

Hunter Biden Received a $3.5 Million Payment From Ex-Moscow Mayor's Wife, Republican Report Says
BY JASON LEMON ON 9/23/20

Anew report from Senate Republicans alleges that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million payment from the wealthy wife of Moscow's former mayor, amid a slew of other financial transactions and entanglements that federal government officials warned presented conflicts of interest as the former vice president spearheaded the Obama administration's Ukraine policy.

Democrats have dismissed the Republican report, which was released Wednesday, as playing up Russian misinformation, and the 87-page document did not demonstrate that Hunter Biden's financial entanglements impacted U.S. policy. But it emphasized that government officials flagged concerns about potential conflicts of interest and that the former vice president's son's financial interests with foreign governments "accelerated" during the administration of former President Barack Obama.

"Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow," the Republican report, which was the result of an investigation led by GOP Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, explained as one of its "key findings."

Baturina, a billionaire, was previously married to Yuri Luzhkov, who served as mayor of Moscow but was fired for alleged corruption in 2010. The report details how Biden's business received a $3.5 million payment from Baturina in February 2014, which was described to be for "consultancy" work. In 2015, Biden also received several payments of several hundred thousand dollars from Baturina, several of which were listed as part of a "loan agreement."

https://www.newsweek.com/hunter-biden-received-35-million-payment-ex-moscow-mayors-wife-republican-report-says-1533834

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #37 on: June 30, 2021, 08:37:15 PM »
Has anyone discredited Bobulinski?

Of course not. 

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #38 on: July 01, 2021, 01:16:40 AM »
Didn't have business dealings, but he also claimed he didn't know anything about them.

But from today...uh oh?

https://nypost.com/2021/06/30/laptop-shows-joe-biden-was-with-hunter-and-his-mexican-biz-meetings/

It will be interesting to see where this issue goes.

It is true that on basic anti-nepotism grounds, Joe Biden is far from an ideal candidate. He certainly falls short of the standard set by several modern presidents.

But Trump himself stands out from his predecessors as particularly bad on the corruption front. Not only does he still own and profit from businesses involved in dealings with foreign nationals, he has several adult children and in-laws who have business careers that are enmeshed with his political fortunes.

The whole Hunter Biden situation, from top to bottom, reeks of the kind of cozy cronyism that makes a lot of people detest establishment politics and explains the appeal of the idea of a rich businessman who can’t be bought swooping in to drain the swamp.

Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who was no more qualified than Hunter for any public sector position, instead got a role as a White House senior staffer. Her husband, Jared Kushner, also is totally unqualified for government work and also had a job as a White House senior staffer. Their father intervened to get them security clearances.

Ivanka Trump was involved in policymaking in a way that’s simply unheard of for a presidential child, especially one with zero prior experience in politics and government:

  • She has overseen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants.
  • She represented the United States at the G20 summit.
  • She was involved in shaping the 2017 tax cut that stands as her father’s main legislative achievement.
  • She was even involved at a high level in a search for a new World Bank president.

While not qualified for any of these roles, she’s also managed to repeatedly break the law in public service. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington once documented a 48-hour period in early October during which she violated the Hatch Act eight times. She then violated it 11 more times by October 20.

There's much more shady business reeking of nepotism, conflicts of interest and fraud that went on during Trump's time in the White House and before. Neither Ivanka nor her husband have great history's in their business dealings.

When it comes to politics, almost politician or wannabe politician is completely free of scandal and when you extend it to their families....Well, it jest gets murkier and murkier.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #39 on: July 01, 2021, 06:26:09 AM »
It will be interesting to see where this issue goes.

It is true that on basic anti-nepotism grounds, Joe Biden is far from an ideal candidate. He certainly falls short of the standard set by several modern presidents.

But Trump himself stands out from his predecessors as particularly bad on the corruption front. Not only does he still own and profit from businesses involved in dealings with foreign nationals, he has several adult children and in-laws who have business careers that are enmeshed with his political fortunes.

The whole Hunter Biden situation, from top to bottom, reeks of the kind of cozy cronyism that makes a lot of people detest establishment politics and explains the appeal of the idea of a rich businessman who can’t be bought swooping in to drain the swamp.

Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who was no more qualified than Hunter for any public sector position, instead got a role as a White House senior staffer. Her husband, Jared Kushner, also is totally unqualified for government work and also had a job as a White House senior staffer. Their father intervened to get them security clearances.

Ivanka Trump was involved in policymaking in a way that’s simply unheard of for a presidential child, especially one with zero prior experience in politics and government:

  • She has overseen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants.
  • She represented the United States at the G20 summit.
  • She was involved in shaping the 2017 tax cut that stands as her father’s main legislative achievement.
  • She was even involved at a high level in a search for a new World Bank president.

While not qualified for any of these roles, she’s also managed to repeatedly break the law in public service. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington once documented a 48-hour period in early October during which she violated the Hatch Act eight times. She then violated it 11 more times by October 20.

There's much more shady business reeking of nepotism, conflicts of interest and fraud that went on during Trump's time in the White House and before. Neither Ivanka nor her husband have great history's in their business dealings.

When it comes to politics, almost politician or wannabe politician is completely free of scandal and when you extend it to their families....Well, it jest gets murkier and murkier.

1.  We were not discussing Trump, so I have zero idea why you copy/pasted an entire article that tries to say "yeah, but Trump" as a response.

2. Even so, it's attempting to draw a false equivalency between the children.  And the Hatch act?  LOL.  Read up on it. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/14/politics/marcia-fudge-hatch-act-violation/index.html

The crux of the Hunter Biden story is that he may have peddled influence when his Dad was VP, and it's possible Biden benefitted financially. It started with Biden denying knowledge of anything Hunter was doing.  Then an eye witness (Bobulinski) claimed that's untrue.....now the laptop shows it's untrue......you should know that's how these things develop.  This should all be concerning, regardless of one's political affiliation.

And, as further evidence is provided for this story, Twitter and Facebook's unprecedented behavior of squashing this story when it broke looks worse and worse.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #40 on: July 01, 2021, 01:47:47 PM »
1.  We were not discussing Trump, so I have zero idea why you copy/pasted an entire article that tries to say "yeah, but Trump" as a response.

2. Even so, it's attempting to draw a false equivalency between the children.  And the Hatch act?  LOL.  Read up on it. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/14/politics/marcia-fudge-hatch-act-violation/index.html

The crux of the Hunter Biden story is that he may have peddled influence when his Dad was VP, and it's possible Biden benefitted financially. It started with Biden denying knowledge of anything Hunter was doing.  Then an eye witness (Bobulinski) claimed that's untrue.....now the laptop shows it's untrue......you should know that's how these things develop.  This should all be concerning, regardless of one's political affiliation.

And, as further evidence is provided for this story, Twitter and Facebook's unprecedented behavior of squashing this story when it broke looks worse and worse.

What you mean to say is you want everyone to turn a blind eye to Trump's use of nepotism to set up a possible dictatorship and future dynasty. I'm not excusing Biden's favoritism towards his son while holding the office of Vice President. I do question why some folks think this is worse than Trump appointing his family to high level, high security positions in the administration without normal procedural congressional approval. Trump's administration was an example of nepotism to the extreme, which for some reason some folks choose or wish to ignore. 

So, I followed the link you posted about an incidence of a single violation of the Hatch Act by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge, who was nominated by Biden and approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs by a vote of 17–7 on February 4, 2021. How does this compare to Ivanka's numerous violations of the Hatch Act? Ivanka was not appointed to her position nor was it approved by congress. She was handed the responsibility by her father, which in effect makes him responsible for her actions while holding that position.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #41 on: July 01, 2021, 02:16:51 PM »
What you mean to say is you want everyone to turn a blind eye to Trump's use of nepotism to set up a possible dictatorship and future dynasty. I'm not excusing Biden's favoritism towards his son while holding the office of Vice President. I do question why some folks think this is worse than Trump appointing his family to high level, high security positions in the administration without normal procedural congressional approval. Trump's administration was an example of nepotism to the extreme, which for some reason some folks choose or wish to ignore. 

So, I followed the link you posted about an incidence of a single violation of the Hatch Act by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge, who was nominated by Biden and approved by the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs by a vote of 17–7 on February 4, 2021. How does this compare to Ivanka's numerous violations of the Hatch Act? Ivanka was not appointed to her position nor was it approved by congress. She was handed the responsibility by her father, which in effect makes him responsible for her actions while holding that position.

No, I am not saying that at all.  I am not talking about Trump, or any equivalency.  I can argue things on the basis of their own merit.

We are talking about the distinct possibility that the Vice President of the United States had his influence sold for money while in office.  That is far beyond hiring a relative for an advisory position for which people may deem them unqualified.

If you want to go the Hatch route, the point is that the Hatch Act hasn't been updated to handle modern social media examples, so it's totally subjective, and the penalties aren't criminal.  In other words, it means zero, and still has NOTHING to do with Hunter Biden's laptop or role in peddling influence.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #43 on: July 02, 2021, 11:16:46 AM »
Up to your neck in TDS, piece of shit.

fuck off

you just proved you're a hack

Bum specifically asked Can you imagine what would happen if one of Trump's kids did even one of these things?

I provided him specific examples so that he would have no need to "imagine"

You obviously can't deal with reality so you fall back on your tired and bogus TDS mantra


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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #44 on: July 02, 2021, 11:53:43 AM »
fuck off

you just proved you're a hack

Bum specifically asked Can you imagine what would happen if one of Trump's kids did even one of these things?

I provided him specific examples so that he would have no need to "imagine"

You obviously can't deal with reality so you fall back on your tired and bogus TDS mantra

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/images-from-hunter-bidens-laptop-call-into-question-joe-bidens-denial-of-talking-business-with-son

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #45 on: July 02, 2021, 12:02:11 PM »
These folks are all crumbs...Bidens and Trumps.

Why do any of you follow any of them?

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #46 on: July 02, 2021, 12:39:40 PM »
No, I am not saying that at all.  I am not talking about Trump, or any equivalency.  I can argue things on the basis of their own merit.

We are talking about the distinct possibility that the Vice President of the United States had his influence sold for money while in office.  That is far beyond hiring a relative for an advisory position for which people may deem them unqualified.

If you want to go the Hatch route, the point is that the Hatch Act hasn't been updated to handle modern social media examples, so it's totally subjective, and the penalties aren't criminal.  In other words, it means zero, and still has NOTHING to do with Hunter Biden's laptop or role in peddling influence.

Okay, got it.

So let's discuss the photo shown on Fox of Joe Biden with Carlos Slim and others including Hunter Biden in the background. On it's face, it looks suspicious especially if you are looking for a business connection between Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Carlos Slim. On the other hand according the Fox News article, "The photos are the type you'd expect to see adorning the walls inside any influential politician’s home: the elected official flanked by one of his sons and a few billionaires inside a smartly decorated room." Unless there is a recording of what was discussed at that breakfast, there is nothing to say it was a business meeting and if it was, what exactly was discussed.

The article went on to say that Joe Biden claimed during his campaign that he never discussed any overseas business dealings with the son. It seems possible that this was an inaccurate statement or that it has been misinterpreted. I cannot imagine and a father and adult son, no matter who they are, don't talk about their business dealings. Given that, it still doesn't prove the there was influence peddling going on.

Much is made of photos of politicians including Trump taken with dubious people. One time Trump said that he didn't remember a certain photo because he was constantly being photographed with various people who he had little or no connection to. Politicians thrive on being in the media and are therefore more accommodating to request from folks to be photographed with them.

It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. This is true. Whether those words tell an accurate story or not is another thing altogether.

If some irregularity can be proved between Joe Biden as Vice President and later President, his son and influence peddling, there will be something of value to discuss. As it stands these stories and accusations are based on innuendo. Unless I am mistaken, in the U.S. people are innocent until proved guilty. A photo and a few comments on Hunter's laptops are not much proof of anything untoward having taken place. 

 

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #47 on: July 02, 2021, 02:19:29 PM »
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UPDATED 1:59 PM PT – Friday, July 2, 2021

New images have surfaced on Hunter Biden’s laptop, calling into question Joe Biden’s claims during his 2020 presidential campaign that he did not discuss international business with his son. Photos published on Thursday appear to show Joe and Hunter Biden with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim among other executives during a meeting in Washington, D.C.

The photos are believed to have been taken in 2015 when the elder Biden was vice president. The laptop also contains emails that further confirm the meeting took place.

President Trump attempted to draw attention to Hunter’s laptop during his campaign, but was dismissed by mainstream media as a fringe theory.

In an April interview, Hunter claimed there could be “a laptop out there that was stolen from me.” “It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the…that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me,” he said.

Critics have cast doubt on Joe Biden’s claims, accusing both him and his son of a conflict of interest.

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #48 on: July 02, 2021, 07:22:34 PM »
fuck off

you just proved you're a hack

Bum specifically asked Can you imagine what would happen if one of Trump's kids did even one of these things?

I provided him specific examples so that he would have no need to "imagine"

You obviously can't deal with reality so you fall back on your tired and bogus TDS mantra
Fuck yourself. You just proved farther your obsession with everything Trump, cumbucket.
Liar!!!!Filt!!!!

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Re: Hunter Biden
« Reply #49 on: July 07, 2021, 11:58:37 AM »
Byron York's Daily Memo: The future of Hunter Biden’s laptop
by Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent |
 | July 07, 2021

THE FUTURE OF HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP. Many -- actually, most -- big press and social media organizations have ignored and even suppressed news that has come from Hunter Biden's laptop. They started the censorship just before the 2020 election, when Biden's father Joe was on the presidential ballot and vulnerable to negative news, and they're still censoring today.

But in the past few weeks there has been a stream of stories, in the New York Post and a few other outlets, based on information contained in the Biden laptop. The stories are significant and suggest, but do not prove, shady financial dealings in the Biden family. The question is whether some media organizations will finally admit there is news on the laptop.

The most important thing to remember is that the Hunter Biden laptop story is not about Hunter Biden. It's about Joe Biden, President of the United States. So with that in mind, look at some of the recent stories:

The New York Post columnist Miranda Devine recently wrote that Hunter Biden functioned as a "family breadwinner" while his father was in public office, both in the Senate and as vice president. Examining documents from the laptop, Devine reported that there is evidence Hunter Biden paid for the upkeep of his father's house in Wilmington while his father was vice president.

"The bills [that Hunter Biden paid in June 2010] included $2,600 to contractor Earle Downing for a 'stone retaining wall' at Joe's Wilmington estate," Devine wrote, "$1,475 to painter Ronald Peacock to paint the 'back wall and columns' of the house, and $1,239 to builder Mike Christopher for repairs to the air conditioning at the cottage of Joe's late mother, Jean 'Mom-Mom' Biden, which was on his property and which he would later rent to the Secret Service for $2,200 a month."

Other documents on the laptop suggest the commingling of finances between Hunter Biden and his father. In 2018, when Hunter Biden had trouble with one of his Wells Fargo bank accounts, he wrote that, "My dad has been using most lines on this account which I've through the gracious offerings of Eric [business partner Eric Schwerin] have paid for the past 11 years."

It was not a financial burden that Hunter Biden bore willingly. On the laptop, Devine found Biden often complained "that he is supporting the whole family and doesn't get the respect he feels he deserves," Devine, whose book, Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, is coming out in the fall, told me in an email exchange. "There is this 2019 text message to his daughter, Naomi, in which he claims he had to give half his salary to his father: 'I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years...It's really hard. But don't worry, unlike Pop, I won't make you give me half your salary.'"

Now remember this. For years, Joe Biden was known as the poorest man in the U.S. Senate. It was a label he himself welcomed, claiming it showed how ethically clean he was. "I entered as one of the poorest men in Congress, left as one of the poorest men in government, in Congress, and as vice president," Biden said during his presidential campaign in 2019. What Devine has discovered suggests that while Biden bragged about his lack of money -- in other words, claiming to be free of the financial corruption common in politics -- he was relying on his influence-peddling son to pay some of his bills.

Speaking of influence peddling, Devine also reported recently that Hunter Biden "used the perks of the vice presidency -- parties, meetings with Joe Biden and flights on Air Force Two -- to pursue business deals with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim while his father was in office." To illustrate the story, Devine published a 2015 photo of Slim, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and other men with whom Hunter Biden was pursuing business, at the vice president's residence in November 2015.

Of course, the tales of chasing business with Slim and others are on top of what is known about Hunter Biden’s lucrative activities involving Ukraine -- remember Burisma? -- and China while his father was vice president.

On the weird side, the Washington Free Beacon's Chuck Ross recently reported that Hunter Biden "consulted for a Nigerian-American businessman who tried to buy gold from a wanted Congolese warlord known as 'The Terminator,' according to emails from Biden's abandoned laptop." According to Ross, Biden arranged meetings for the businessman with ambassadors from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia -- deals he put together in partnership with Mike Axelrod, who is the son of top Obama advisor David Axelrod. The Nigerian-American businessman was also "appointed to serve on President Obama's international trade advisor board in September 2010," Ross wrote.

Remember a key fact here: Joe Biden has said repeatedly that he never knew about his son's business dealings. If what Devine is reporting is correct, Biden made those claims after having financially benefited from his son's business dealings and after having been a part of some of his son's business events. Again: The Hunter Biden laptop story is not about Hunter Biden. It's about Joe Biden.

And yet, even though the elder Biden is President of the United States, the laptop news blackout continues at all those media and social media sites. Will that ever change? Devine is optimistic. "I think the steady accumulation of evidence should reach a tipping point beyond which no self-respecting journalist can keep ignoring it," she said via email. "But until the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. start taking it seriously, the White House won't address it. The point is that this is not a story about Hunter Biden, private citizen with a former drug problem. It involved the president and his claim he knew nothing about Hunter's business dealings."

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