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Wanting to get to the bottom of the Hunter Biden email
allegations is not akin to an endorsement of President Donald
Trump's reelection.
Just because you might think Joe Biden is better than Trump no
matter what, you still should want to know just how bad Biden is.
Biden doesn't want to address the claims that he allowed his son
to profit from his name and position, and so far he hasn't been
forced to.
But what we've seen to date looks very bad.
A laptop allegedly abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop is
in the hands of the FBI and is reportedly being held as evidence
in an unspecified money laundering scheme.
Emails allegedly recovered from the computer seem to indicate
Joe Biden was more actively involved in his son's foreign
business dealings during the former vice president's tenure than
he has previously stated. And he may have been poised to
financially benefit from Hunter's attempt at influence peddling.
A self-described former Hunter Biden business partner, Tony
Bobulinski, came forward last week to attest to the validity of
the emails and dropped a bombshell of his own.
Bobulinski claims the elder Biden was part of a scheme to
collude with a Chinese company to enrich the Biden family with
legally questionable deals. One of the emails refers to a 10%
kickback for the "Big Guy," who Bobulinski identifies as Joe
Biden.
Another email cautions participants in the scheme against using
Joe Biden's name in anything but face-to-face conversations.
Who knows if there's any truth here, or if it's just an
elaborate scam to discredit Biden before the election?
But we should be digging hard to find out. It's worth noting
that, unlike many of the allegations raised against Trump, these
assertions come with on-the-record sources and physical evidence
attached.
Neither Hunter nor the Biden campaign have denied the son's
ownership of the laptop, nor that he sent or received the emails
in question.
The story broke in the New York Post, and that newspaper, Fox
News and a few conservative publications continue to do follow
up reporting. Biden's defenders have defaulted to flimsy efforts
to discredit the report as a Russian scame, despite no evidence
to support the claim. Twitter and Facebook tried to block its
circulation.
Why wouldn't we want to know if a man who is days away from the
presidency is on the take?
It's not out of the question. A 2008 New York Times story
examining how Biden was able to buy a luxury beach home on a
senator's salary recirculated this week on social media. The
answer, according to the Times, was that wealthy supporters,
some with an interest in legislation before Biden's Senate
banking committee, "bought his old house for top dollar, sold
him four acres at cost and lent him $500,000 to build his new
home."
What? That doesn't sound like someone who will restore honor and
credibility to the Oval Office
The Hunter Biden charges deserve more shoe leather. If it’s a
fake, Biden’s name should be cleared. If it’s real, America
ought to know before it replaces one crook with another.
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan- finley/2020/10/24/finley-lets-find-out-if-biden-crook/3729859001/
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