The questions an honest media would ask Joe Biden

Published October 23, 2020 7:20pm ET



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.

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