• Finley: Let's find out if Biden is a crook

    From Marty Weber@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 7 06:33:42 2021
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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.

    Twitter: @NolanFinleyDN

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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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