If the establishment media did its job, here are questions reporters would be asking Joe Biden about his family’s rampant overseas profiteering:
Why did you take your son Hunter on Air Force Two to China in 2013, just before he inked a deal worth up to $1.5 billion for the business venture he joined?
Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer had been engaged in an increasingly complicated web of financial ties with Chinese entities, many of them owned or controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, since at least 2010. Your son had no official diplomatic reason to accompany you on the trip, which involved apparently uncomfortable negotiations of yours with Chinese leaders. He arranged a “photo-op” with you and one of his main business contacts during the trip. How could you possibly not see his presence there, obviously pursuing business deals or the “social” niceties that attend such deals, as compromising to your own diplomatic position vis-a-vis the Chinese government, whose direct financial subsidiaries already were entangled with your son’s various enterprises? You already had met (off the books) at the White House with Chinese Communist Party officials, who secured access directly through Hunter’s intervention in 2011 — a delegation led by a man whose business with Hunter and Archer would be advanced by the 2013 Air Force Two trip.
Why did you meet in the White House with Archer, the felonious partner in most of your son’s foreign business dealings, including those in China, two months after you became the Obama administration’s point man on Ukrainian policy, two days after Archer became a board member for the Burisma energy company, and the same day Burisma made more than $100,000 in payments to the firm of Archer and your son? This meeting came one week before you met with Ukraine’s prime minister and less than a month before Hunter joined Burisma’s board despite having no relevant experience?
How could you not be concerned about the compromising position in which this visit put you and American diplomacy toward Ukraine? Note: Even Christopher Heinz, the stepson of then-Secretary of State John Kerry and the frequent business partner of Archer and your son, formally separated himself from the Burisma entanglement because it so obviously looked like a conflict of interest on the very day Hunter joined the board. How could you, as vice president, have lower standards than Heinz, an outside businessman? And how can that timeline — all those elements — be entirely coincidental while you claim you had no knowledge of your son’s business dealings even as the media began immediately asking the State Department about the potential conflict of interest?
When your own aide, Amos Hochstein, warned you in 2015 that Hunter’s position on Burisma’s board risked undermining United States policy in Ukraine, why did you not recuse yourself as the administration’s point man on diplomacy with that nation?
Did you not even care that U.S. diplomats there were saying that Hunter’s activities were “very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine?”
When your son, your brother, and your sister-in-law spent year after year trading on your name in sometimes sketchy international business deals in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, and Iraq, to such an extent that Politico labeled the profiteering as “Biden Inc.,” how and why did you not ask them to cease and desist?
As the Intercept reported in 2019, “Biden has been taking political hits over of the intersection of his family’s financial dealings and his own political career for some four decades. Yet he has done nothing publicly to inoculate himself from the charge that his career is corruptly enriching his family.” Why not?
Please note that all these questions, and numerous other similar ones that could be asked, are based on facts established completely independently from the news of the laptop apparently belonging to Hunter Biden.
The emails from that laptop, whose authenticity looks better every day, suggest that the Democratic nominee himself was at least more directly aware of, perhaps involved with, and potentially benefited from some of Hunter’s dealings. Yet with or without those emails, the questions above raise serious reasons to worry that Biden could be compromised, at least emotionally, by the ways he directly and indirectly abetted his son’s dodgy activities.
Until Biden became the Democratic nominee, defeating media darlings Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, the establishment media thought all this was quite important. Now, that same media insists the new emails can’t be real, no matter how closely they comport with what is already known and no matter how many sources crop up verifying their essentials.
The media willfully ignores the reality that this story isn’t about a wastrel son. It’s about the damage Joe Biden allowed his family to do to the credibility of U.S. foreign policy.
