Karnal wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 5:00pm:



Silly bollocks from a silly paki arse bandit.


Adam Creighton
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
Adam Creighton is an award-winning journalist with a special interest in tax and financial policy. He was a Journalist in Residence at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business in 2019. He’s written for The Economist and The Wall Street Journal from London and Washington DC, and authored book chapters on superannuation for Oxford University Press. He started his career at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. He holds a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from the University of New South Wales, and Master of Philosophy in Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.

“I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Joe Biden said on the campaign trail in 2019. “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China,” Joe Biden said in 2020 in his pre-election debate with Donald Trump.

No wonder White House spokeswoman Karine Jean Pierre last month changed the form of words she had been using to dismiss questions about the Biden family finances: shifting from “never knowing anything about his son’s business” to “never in business with his son”.

This year’s evidence of influence peddling and potentially even bribery come on top of evidence in Hunter Biden’s infamous “laptop from hell”, which was left in a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019, before being handed to the New York Post a year later.

Far from being Russian “disinformation”, as intelligence experts and Joe Biden himself alleged, it provided an extraordinary trove of correspondence that suggested Joe Biden himself had benefited from his son’s business dealings.

“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,” Hunter wrote to his daughter.

Another email from a business colleague to Hunter flagged a proposed business deal with CEFC China Energy would set aside 10 per cent of the gains for “the big guy”, a term found 41 times on the laptop.

For all the mounting evidence, Democrats remain adamant that unless bank records emerge that show direct deposits of funds from foreigners into Joe Biden’s bank account no wrongdoing, let alone anything criminal, has occurred.

Influence peddling is unseemly, regardless of whether Hunter Biden ultimately broke the law. Picture: AFP
Influence peddling is unseemly, regardless of whether Hunter Biden ultimately broke the law. Picture: AFP
Regardless, the idea the First Family wasn’t selling their influence for profit, including when Joe Biden was vice-president, now appears absurd, especially given not even Democrats can point to any discernible service Hunter or the broader family were providing to justify such huge payments over many years.

Influence peddling is unseemly, regardless of whether Hunter Biden ultimately broke the law by ignoring a requirement to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which a separate US Justice Department investigation into him may yet find. But if the foreign money influenced US foreign policy, such as US support for the war in Ukraine, the Bidens could be at the centre of one of the biggest political scandals ever.

Max Abrahms, a professor of political science at Boston’s Northeastern University who has a special interest in the relationship between foreign policy, bribery and corruption, has been studying the evidence surrounding Joe Biden’s behaviour in 2016 and since for more than a year.

“There isn’t any doubt in my mind that (Shokin) was fired because of Burisma links, and the reason I say that is because the Biden family was being paid millions of dollars from Burisma,” he tells The Australian in an interview, suggesting the Ukrainian government had “kompromat” (damaging information) on the president.

“I’m not saying that Joe wouldn’t support the war, but what I am saying is that I don’t believe that Joe Biden has complete freedom of movement if he wanted to dramatically pull back American support for Ukraine,” he explains, explosively.

To be sure, Joe Biden in 2018 himself bragged that he was practically solely responsible for Shokin’s sacking. “I said, you’re not getting the billion (dollars). I’m leaving here in six hours, if the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money,” Biden said at a speech at the Council of Foreign Relations.

Donald Trump’s hunch is looking better by the month. Since Trump’s phone call prompted Nancy Pelosi to launch impeachment proceedings in late 2019, a deluge of articles in US media to discredit Shokin emerged, claiming he was not in fact investigating Burisma at the time of his sacking.

In a new twist, earlier this month a video interview emerged from early 2020 between French journalist Olivier Berruyer and the reclusive Shokin, 71, in which the Ukrainian insists he was pursuing Burisma, pointing out that two weeks before he was removed from office he had seized the assets of the ­Burisma founder.

“The depiction of these investigations as ‘dormant’ has nothing to do with the reality of the facts,” Shokin says in the video. “I understand very well that the US has one of the best intelligence services in the world and, of course, the investigation into Burisma was closely monitored, not only by legal means, but also illegal.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/weight-of-evidence-against-joe-biden-a...

Frank wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 5:17pm:


Adam Creighton is doing exactly what he was paid to do, dear boy: campaign for Rupert. You have no dirt on Biden. Talking to his one remaining son on speakerphone is not grounds for corruption, it's just dumb.

Trying to catch Biden out on the line that he never ever spoke to his son's business partners is hysterical amateur theatrics. Good show.

Joe Biden never ever profited from his son's business dealings. We know this because, as Wombat below has kindly pointed out, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability spent four months combing through Joe Biden's income, tax and bank records. They released their report last month: nothing.

Now, this does not rule out Sleepy Joe, 80, changing his lifelong behaviour as an elected public official with nearly 60 years in the game and a reputation as being totally straight. 

Despite the money he's put away from giving speeches and selling books and the guaranteed pension he'll get as prez, he might think, no. Where's the fun in that?

Sleepy Joe might decide that what he really wants for the last few years of his life is millions of dollars stashed away in offshore bank accounts. Sure, he'll never be able to buy a luxury yacht or be allowed to walk around with a Rolex (too flashy), but the temptation of having millions of dollars hidden in his attic might just be too much to bear, so we can't rule it out.

But do you know? Until then, we only have the truth: Sleepy Joe's clean. His son Hunter, a grown-up, does his own thing, smoking crack, doing deals, and trying to get by as the black sheep of the family. Unlike other Dear Leaders you don't like mentioning, Hunter's never been employed by his dad. He's totally free to own laptops, get high-paying overseas jobs, and broker deals in America, Chi-na, or wherever he likes.

Americans are like that, you see. They like doing deals and making money. You'll find your Dear Leader's kids are no different, they just normally make their money through dad, which is how he likes it.

Now, Hunter is guilty of smoking crack, being chucked out of the navy, and being busted for having a crack pipe. When the media ramped up and all the crazies started trolling him, Hunter went and got himself a gun. All legit, he applied for a license.

Problem is, the license has all these boxes you have to tick. Are you mad? No. Are you a DV perp? No. Are you a criminal? No. Are you a junkie?

Hunter just went down the list ticking no. And because of that - the laptop, the media, all the hysteria, the Republicans complained about the box he ticked on his gun form. GUILTY.

So Hunter's now a criminal, and he's back in court. He did a deal with the DA, but the Republicans complained again and the judge got tough.

So that's that. This is everything. How do we know? Again, Wombat referred us to the congressional report. Yes, there are exiled Russians and Ukrainian prosecutors Sleepy Joe pissed off as VP who are making all kinds of claims - "the big guy", "dumber than my dog", etc.

But none of these claims were proven where it matters - in Hunter and Sleepy Joe's bank, tax and business records which a Congressional Committee of politically desperate Republicans spent four months scouring, along with a former hotshot prosecutor of white collar crime. 

So either the Bidens are smarter than Putin and can make their billions magically disappear, or things are just as they appear: Joe's a cleanskin, Hunter's got his "issues". Being targeted as enemy number one can't help those issues, I guess, so Joe feels for the kid, taking his calls and trying to help him stay positive. He blames himself.

Hunter may feel the same way at times, hence the calls with the business partners, shooting the breeze. Joe never made a cent from those calls, and judging by Hunter's bank account, neither did we. How do we know?

Wombat said. He directed us to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

Wombat's honest, you see. He has integrity.

You?

Frank wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 5:25pm:


I know. Just Tucker, fired from Fox for you-know-what, and Peter Schweizer, of Hillary and Uranium One fame - a plot he admits he misfired.

Both are paid political "consultants", who put their name to various plots they cook up and spruik. Strangely, Tucker used to hit Hunter up for favours and act all chummy.

Quote:


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/19/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-geor...

Ah, the good old days. You'd never read or hear about this in the Australian or Fox News, eh?

How's that integrity, old boy? Is that what you call it when you publicly crucify an old family friend for ratings?

Or is it when you need an excuse to hold back releasing the laptop from hell story?

Karnal wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 7:40pm:


That's a lot of paki hinty-hinty gibberish just for 10 rupees and a banana.
Have two.

Frank wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 7:58pm:


Arse banditry, gibberish, have two. You're on a roll tonight, old boy.

Infinitely preferable to your cut-and-paste jobs from the political consultants.

Of course, we're all still waiting for Wombat's whistleblower who was about to release bank statements with payments from Joe any day now, you'll see, BREAKING...

That was back in June, I think. The Committee already had Sleepy Joe's bank statements, so it really would have been curious. They might have caught Sleepy Joe Biden recording his payments incorrectly.

That, as we all know, is a serious crime and most devious. That's just the example of the kind of high crime and misdemeanour we need to impeach Sleepy Joe on once and for all. Can you imagine?

Recording false statements on your business records. Incorrigible.

The Republicans would be ropeable, as you'd expect.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/2024-republicans-trump-indictment/in...

Karnal wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 8:25pm:

I am not validating any of your moronic, gweggy turdy Bbwianesque hysterics, arse bandit.

Mothra the frightbat is measured and considerate compared you lady boys.

Karnal wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 9:09pm:



Paki Granuiad bollocks, of course. 

Wepowtedly.


It takes a paki arse fetishist or a Macedonian content farmer turd - what IS the diff?? - to peddle innuendo like that.

If you are getting paid I can see some explanation - you are selling your souls. If you are not getting paid then you are sacrificing your souls for shite.