BIDEN INC .: THE PRESIDENTIAL FAMILY ROUND-UP
15 Jul 2021 , 4:01 pm .
The Hunter-Joe duo has used the Executive to consolidate personal businesses (photo: Getty images)
Without a doubt, the year 2020 was one of the most turbulent for the United States, marked by the disastrous handling of the pandemic, anti-racist protests and an intense electoral campaign for the presidency. The commotion was so great that to avoid the reelection of Donald Trump it was decided to choose a lesser evil.
And it is that the campaign was marked by a supposed national unity that sought to rescue an American spirit that had been blurred during the last White House administration. That the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris formula symbolically embodies the confluence of "all" sectors of society made the criminal records of the Democratic candidates be ignored, these did not seem relevant because the objective was to remove Trump from the political scene and " back to normal".
However, once the fizz has passed, the records missed during the campaign are exposed. One of the forgotten files was that of corruption involving the current president and his family.
The allies in Congress, power groups and, above all, the media participated in that wash of Biden's face. One of the many other news that has been buried, according to Charles Lipson in an article published in Real Clear Politics , " has to do with some photographs taken in Joe Biden's office in 2014. In them appear the then vice president, his son Hunter and Carlos Slim, the richest man in Mexico (and in his day the richest in the world), as well as some of Slim's partners. "
But what went unnoticed was not the meeting itself between US officials and wealthy Mexican businessmen, but rather that the vice president brought his son to the meeting at the same time he was working on lucrative business deals with the same people. Although Biden denied being aware of his son's business, it was evidently a family business run by the Executive.
"Hunter had other meetings with Carlos Slim and associates in Mexico. These came after he flew there with his father on Air Force Two, just as he had flown to similar business meetings in China. When you arrive on Air Force Two When your father is the second most important official in the United States government, and when you bring your business partners to meet him, you send a clear signal to potential partners around the world "that you are connected to power. central, refers the expert in international relations and political economy.
What is remarkable about all this is that the press let the obvious nepotism of the Democrat pass during the 2020 elections and concentrated on pointing out any details about Trump, which were also worth mentioning, which shows the consensus of the corporate media.
BIDEN, THE "BIG GUY" FOR BUSINESS
The truth is that Hunter, recognized for having "no other marketable skills", was opened many doors in the world by traveling with his father. Some of these meetings were also organized on the White House grounds.
Everything seems to indicate that, beyond Hunter's use of his father's influence to seek benefits, Biden himself was already known as the "Great Guy", as his son describes him in secret notes, for his ability to do business . "That note set out how the profit of another business would be divided, with the 'Big Guy' as a silent partner. A partner in that business, Tony Bobulinski, has publicly stated that all the partners knew that the 'Big Guy' (or BG) it was Joe Biden, ”says Lipson.
It is worth noting that it was not just Hunter leveraging, but a family business where Joe Biden was at the helm and also made big profits.
The also professor of political science at the University of Chicago argues that, apart from the indecorous shenanigans and the dubious denials of the White House that Joe Biden had the slightest idea of these businesses, there are inescapable details that show the family plot:
"The first problem, which should be obvious by now, is that the Biden family has been enriched by all these political connections. In reality, they only have one connection: Joe Biden. Their prodigal son has no appreciable ability and raises more flags. red than a parade in Beijing. His only job is to monetize the power and influence of his father, "he details.
But it is not just about a son. Joe's two brothers, Jim and Frank, have been credibly accused of doing the same. This family business was dubbed "Biden Inc.," of which sordid connections were exposed in an extensive 2019 investigation.
"Throughout his decades in office, Real Clear Politics reports from Politico newspaper , Joe's middle-class family fortune has closely followed his political career."
The rise of Joe Biden's political career and, at the same time, the growth of his estate has been noted on several occasions.
Chain CNBC published in July 2019 a work entitled "How Joe Biden, who called himself 'the man poorest in Congress', became a billionaire." In it they affirm that by that time it was already impossible to allege poverty.
Since Biden left the vice presidency in 2017 - the journalistic note refers - his portfolio has grown fat. "He and his wife, Jill, made more than $ 15 million combined in 2017 and 2018," leading-edge inquiries into how the candidates amassed their wealth.
"Biden's riches come mostly from book deals and conference engagements. His sudden explosion of wealth could go against the 'humble man fighter for workers' image that he has offered voters for years."
In another article titled " How Joe Biden went from being a middle class to a millionaire " last May, they "take a look" at the president's financial documents.
Caroline Hallemann, its author, alleges that Biden is popularly known as middle class, but is actually a millionaire. Based on the public information forms - 2016, 2017 and 2018 state and federal tax returns and returns - Forbes estimated that he had a net worth of $ 9 million.
"Throughout his term, his salary went from $ 42,500 a year to $ 174,000 a year, according to historical Senate records. When he was elected Vice President, he got another raise, earning approximately $ 230,000 a year," he says Town & Country's director of digital news.
Likewise, he argues, life after the vice presidency has been quite lucrative for President Obama's former number two, since in November 2009 Joe Biden's net worth was less than $ 30,000, according to CBS.
"Former Vice President Joe Biden's financial transparency, or lack thereof, has become a hot topic in the final days of the 2020 campaign. While Eric Trump used a false claim about Biden's home ownership to raise questions About the candidate's finances, other critics are digging into Biden's tax returns, " USA Today reported in October last year.
It is hardly credible that the fortune of the current president of the United States has grown vertiginously since he left the vice presidency only with the sale of books and conferences.
WHY THE MEDIA SILENCE ABOUT THE HUNTER-SLIM MEETING?
Such silence about the meeting between the Mexican magnate and Hunter could be explained by the fact that Carlos Slim is the largest investor in the New York Times . "What is the Washington Post's excuse ?" Asks Lipson.
"The story about Hunter's business in Mexico, like the previous ones about the corruption of the Biden family, does not appear on their news pages. To paraphrase their self-indulgent slogans: history dies in the dark, unfit to print. To read it, you will have to consult the New York Post and the Daily Mail of Great Britain. This suppression of legitimate news is a scandal in itself, "he later sentenced.
It also argues that "monetizing political connections is common practice in Washington, where politicians and senior bureaucrats seamlessly pass their government posts onto K Street lobbyists. Gone are the days when retired members of Congress or presidential advisers would return home after their stint in government. "
It suggests that there is too much money to be tapped and both Republicans and Democrats have their "internal" wings of pressure groups, lawyers and think tanks, much to the chagrin of populists on both the left and the right. In that sense, Lipson reflects, the Bidens 'influence peddling is common practice, but obviously on a much smaller scale than the Clintons' industrial force operation.
The political scientist says the photos of Joe and Hunter with Carlos Slim demolish the myth that President Biden "knows absolutely" nothing about his son's business. "The more often Joe is seen meeting Hunter's business contacts, the less credible the president's 'I don't know anything' story sounds."
Daily Mail published exclusively: Joe Biden entertained Hunter's billionaire Mexican associates in the vice president's office in 2014 and even flew his son to Mexico City on Air Force 2 so Hunter could attend meetings on a deal. " gigantic".
With all this evidence it is difficult to deny, unless he alleges insanity, that the current president is not involved in his son's business. That is why the conclusions of the medium are obvious when it says:
"The revelations, exposed in photos and emails on Hunter's abandoned laptop, suggest that Joe's claim that he never discussed business with Hunter was false."
So far Biden's aides at the White House have yet to explain these photos and emails. We also know why the press has not pushed for answers. But this apathy is not only due to the tycoon's relationship with the press, it is also related to the consensus of the media corporations that carried the Democrat on their backs to the presidential chair in the Oval Room.
For example, during the 2020 campaign, Biden was rarely questioned about his family's businesses in Ukraine and China. And when the New York Post did, the social media giants blocked the story.
"Although Joe denied 'seeing no evil', he took Hunter with him on multiple official trips and continued to meet with his son's business associates at his request. Not once or twice, but repeatedly. These business meetings They gave Hunter huge benefits, including a huge investment from a Chinese state bank that Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan couldn't get. However, Hunter Biden got it, despite having no investment experience. "
Hunter's business effectiveness is not due to his cunning, the multimillion-dollar profits are related to the Executive's airplane travel and the direct involvement of his father. These details will never be revealed by the complacent press, which will also not ask probing questions that cause President Biden to go off script.
"Hunter's private correspondence tells a very different story than the White House version. Those emails describe the crucial importance of his family to his influence peddling," says Lipson, who also picks up from Yahoo News' Mairead McArdle, criticism for "signing a consulting contract with China's largest private energy company, which initially earned Hunter Biden $ 10 million a year 'just from introductions,' according to leaked emails."
In other cases, attempts have been made to disassociate Joe Biden from the businesses in which he has participated with his son by trivializing the matter, even referring to Hunter as the "controversial son" who gets into trouble and whose performance "does not it must tarnish the figure of his father. " Some networks refer only to addiction history and other domestic issues.
With this, it is clear the role that the media had in hiding Joe Biden's criminal record in the face of the elections where he was elected. Also, the fact that the White House is a stepping stone for business, corporate rights that can only be accessed if you belong to the Washington DC establishment.
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Hunter Biden's machinations in Ukraine were well known to anyone closely following events in Donbass. That 'The Big Guy' was a hustler was equally well known from his association with the credit industry. It was highly amusing as the 2020 campaign that Trump would resurrect the story already buried by the MSM given that that sort of 'influence' is SOP for Trump and his class in general. "Why is this a crime if 'everybody' is doing it?" Of course we would like to qualify who 'everybody' is...
It's only corruption when the other guy does it just as it's only 'tyranny' when the established ruling class(of whatever era) loses political power. And while residence in the White House is certainly a business opportunity what cost Trump the election because he prioritized such opportunism without properly attending to the affairs of imperialism, losing any tolerance his peers had for him. That's a mistake that Biden would never make. Like the shifty servant that he is he will only take with one hand. I don't think the MSM would have highlighted Trump's racist demagoguery if the purpose hadn't been to incentive the democratic base. Cause when you're the 'Lesser of Two Evils' you need all the help you can get.