The Biden administration has repeatedly told the public
that Hunter’s lucrative consulting business doesn’t matter
unless it is directly connected to his father. That’s true.
Moreover, they add, that connection is not just unproven, it
cannot be proved because it didn’t exist. That’s false, although
the mainstream media has repeated it faithfully. But even the
most feckless are finding it increasingly difficult to sustain
this awkward lip-syncing with the White House press office.
 Actually, the Biden grifting operation extends well beyond Hunter to
include multiple family members. It always centered on Joe’s
public position and the political access it ensured, first as the sitting vice president and then as a
prospective Democratic nominee after Hillary Clinton’s
defeat.
The Purpose of the Biden Family Enterprise
The clearest indication of the enterprise’s corrupt purpose
is its construction of an opaque web of nearly thirty LLCs to
hide the distribution of profits from the operation. There is no legitimate business purpose for this tangled
web of pass-through entities. The only purpose is to hide the
sources and distribution of this outside money. That should be
obvious even to the Washington Post, though
it doesn’t seem to be. They might want to pay attention to
another painful fact: all this money was paid for services that
have never been disclosed to the public. You don’t have to be
Sherlock Holmes to know the purpose. My dear Watson, all the
clues point to political access.
* * *
That access hinged on Joe Biden’s political position. His family (and especially Hunter) went to great lengths to
hide any direct, criminal connection and, it appears, to pay
taxes on all the proceeds.
Proving a criminal connection to Joe Biden is a difficult,
complex task — and it has not yet been done.
The IRS and DoJ Obstructed an Honest
Investigation
The main reason is hasn’t been proved, we now know,
is that official investigations were deliberately blocked by
higher-level officials at the IRS and, most likely, the
Department of Justice. In private meetings at the Internal
Revenue Service, those officials acknowledged that there were
sufficient legal grounds to pursue those connections to Joe
Biden, which emerged from the IRS investigation of Hunter. Then,
for reasons that have not been explained, the same higher-level
officials reversed themselves and prevented any investigation
that would touch on Joe Biden himself.
 We need to know the names of people who blocked that
inquiry. We need to know if anyone higher up the chain of
command ordered this cover-up or if they simply did it
themselves to curry favor. We need all that testimony under
oath.
And we need to know who disclosed to Hunter and his
lawyer that some of Hunter’s documents were about to be searched
and some of his associates interviewed. Miraculously, those
documents disappeared before the search and the associates were
nowhere to be found. Another avenue of inquiry had been
successfully blocked.
How do we know all this? Not from any investigation by the
somnolent mainstream media. They only pull their Woodward and
Bernstein act for presidents they hate. They run a protection
racket for the others.
Not from any testimony by Attorney
General Merrick Garland. Not from the US Attorney for Delaware,
who told a meeting of IRS agents one thing and then Congress
another.
We know it only from testimony, given under oath, by
two experienced, politically-neutral IRS agents. They spent
years investigating Hunter Biden and reported multiple cases of
political interference by higher-level officials whenever the
investigation touched on his father. Such interference was
unprecedented, they said, and would not have happened in any
normal IRS investigation. We need to know who interfered and
why. And we need that testimony under oath, not that the Biden
DoJ will pursue the threads.
While Joe Stays Mum, His Press Office Changes Its
Story
Amid inconsistent and contradictory excuses from the White
House press office and DoJ, the president himself has been
silent. He and his press spokesman have tried to stand on Joe’s
old, firm denial of any connection to Hunter Biden’s business
operations. Those old denials went further. He repeatedly said
he had no knowledge of Hunter’s business activities (or those of
his brother and other family members) and never benefited from
them. White House press spokesman, Karine Jean-Pierre, repeated
those assertions… until this week.
 Then KJP changed her story slightly while pretending she had
not changed nothing. Her latest defense of the president is that
he did not participate in any of Hunter’s
business operations. That’s obviously different from have “no
knowledge” of them. When she was pressed to clarify, she
refused. Talk with the DoJ, she said, or with Hunter’s lawyers.
The last time we saw this kind of obfuscation and revision of
previous statements from the White House press spokesman, was
from Ron Ziegler, who did it for Richard Nixon. At least Ziegler
acknowledged that his previous, false statements were
“inoperative.” The current White House spokesperson won’t even
say that.
Why did the Biden White House change its story? Probably
because they know of forthcoming testimony from one of
Hunter’s business associates, who says Hunter put Joe on the speakerphone during
multiple conversations about these business/political-influence
operations. That’s just the sort of direct connection senior
officials at the IRS and DoJ blocked, according to the IRS
whistleblowers. The response of Democrats on the House committee
that heard that public testimony is worth noting. They never
attempted to refute it. They brought up lots of unrelated topics
and then said, “unproven.” That response is best characterized
as, “Hey, look, there’s a squirrel over there.”
The House Needs to Continue Its Investigations; the DoJ
Won't
Meanwhile, the Republican-led House continues these
investigations, aided by Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson in the
Senate. We can expect more dominoes to fall, and we can expect
continued obstruction by the White House and the senior
bureaucrats who answer to the president. The stakes are high:
Joe Biden’s presidency and his prospects for reelection (or
staying in the race).
The Scandal's Implications Beyond Joe and Hunter
Besides the impact on Joe Biden and his family,
there are other implications worth considering.
① One is the politicized role of high-level officials in the
gargantuan, federal bureaucracy. They want to protect their own political positions, which
means protecting their patrons, and they often want to advance
their own partisan views. We need those officials to testify under oath — not in the
circus hearings Congress conducts, but in private sessions
before the committee’s legal counsel. All that testimony
should be made public.
② Another implication is that America’s central government is now so large, its budgets so
enormous, its regulations so extensive that political insiders
have huge financial incentives to intervene for anyone who
wants to buy political influence. The folks who want to purchase that political influence are not
confined to American citizens, or American corporations. We know
that from Hunter Biden‘s operations, which centered on the
countries where his father, the vice president, was charged with
leading the Obama administration‘s foreign policy. Why wasn’t
Hunter Biden charged under the Foreign Agents Registration Act,
as Trump aides such as Paul Manafort were? Oh, what a mystery.
(Hint: the answer is political bias and favoritism at the
DoJ.)
This influence-peddling — sometimes legal,
sometimes not — is truly bipartisan, even if prosecution for it
is not. We see it when politicians leave office and remain in
Washington as high-priced lobbyists. Not too long ago, they
retired to their home districts. The lucre from lobbying today
is too rich to do that anymore.
Examples? After the
Trump administration ended, the former president’s son-in-law,
Jared Kushner, reaped huge rewards from the Middle East
countries where he had been involved in diplomatic negotiations.
The Clinton family wins the gold prize. Using non-profit
foundations, which were going full-steam ahead when Hillary was
secretary of state, they organized this grifting and
influence-peddling on an industrial scale. If the donations to
those foundations were simply for good works, they would have
continued well after Hillary left the State Department and lost
her run for president. In fact, those donations fell off a
cliff. Any guesses why?
③ As the Biden scandals unfold, the public is rightly concerned about two standards of
justice, one for political insiders, another for ordinary
citizens. The public is right.
 That problem goes beyond anyone administration. The bigger the
central government, the more regulations it imposes, the more
resources it controls, then the more it pays to buy influence in
the White House and the bureaucracies. That influence-purchasing
has become a permanent fact of life in Washington.
The Biden Family Came Within a few House Seats of a
Complete Coverup
It could be argued that Hunter Biden was simply
less adept at hiding any potential illegality. Perhaps. But it
is also worth noting that that he and his father were less than
a dozen House seats short of a successful cover up. There is zero chance House Democrats would have investigated
the corruption. We know that from their behavior in recent
hearings. There is zero chance Biden’s Department of Justice or senior
officials at the IRS would have pursued a corruption
investigation, despite the mountain of evidence. Their goal was to block it.
We know that from the whistleblowers’ testimony and the
unprecedented sweetheart deal they tried to strike with
Hunter.
The Bidens came so close. But now all the levees built by
the Washington establishment cannot stop the flood of
evidence about the Biden family business. That business had
only one product: selling political influence. The waters
keep rising, and the flood is approaching the front door of
the White House.
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yawn...wake me when Captain Obvious and his crew decide to do something besides bitch.
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