I was debating whether to post this story or wait to use it in next week’s BidenWatch, but the fact that so many tech giants are so intent on censoring has forced my hand:
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.
An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.
The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.
The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner.
Other material extracted from the computer includes a raunchy, 12-minute video that appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction problems, smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit images.
The customer who brought in the water-damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or retrieved it or a hard drive on which its contents were stored, according to the shop owner, who said he tried repeatedly to contact the client.
The shop owner couldn’t positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden, but said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named after Hunter’s late brother and former Delaware attorney general.
Photos of a Delaware federal subpoena given to The Post show that both the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI in December, after the shop’s owner says he alerted the feds to their existence.
Good job by Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge of reporting on the story for the New York Post.
Absolutely no one is surprised that Joe Biden lied about this contact when asked. Now we just have proof of it.
You wouldn’t think a story that merely confirms what people already knew about Biden’s lies would have been the tripwire for Internet media giants to abandon even the pretense of objectivity, but you’d be wrong.
This is what happens when I try to post our story exposing Biden family graft. pic.twitter.com/7pwxUoNgTX
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) October 14, 2020
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted Wednesday evening that his platform’s handling of a New York Post article about the Bidens and Burisma “was not great,” after Twitter began blocking users from sharing the article and locking the accounts of those that did.
“Our communication around our actions on the@nypost article was not great,” Dorsey stated. “And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable.”
It’s not your communication that was the problem. It was the action itself.
Everyone knows you did it because you want Biden to win and Trump to lose. pic.twitter.com/8CrI31PQBD
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) October 15, 2020
Twitter even briefly suspended the account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (who, thanks to that, I’m now following):
🚨🚨🚨 Twitter suspends @PressSec's personal account over the FORBIDDEN @NyPost story on Biden-Ukraine. And Trump just tweeted about the story too… #NYPostBidenUkraineGATE https://t.co/y3ZK3VhC5d
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) October 14, 2020
I’ve heard that Facebook was also blocking the posts, but I just now posted it (and the story below) successfully.
Other Twitter condemnation was swift:
But it was ok to use Trump's tax returns that were illegally obtained and the post that on Twitter? Liked and reposted a gazillion times. pic.twitter.com/BX0Pb3aChZ
— Old Whig 🇺🇲🇸🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪🇦🇹 (@aClassicLiberal) October 15, 2020
If Joe Biden was actually up 14 points nationwide do we really think this NY Post story would be getting so aggressively censored?
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 14, 2020
Blocking real news about Hunter ans Joe Biden’s corruption for ANY reason is UNACCEPTABLE *and* a donation in kind to the Biden campaign.
Congrats you helped Biden lose the election!
— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) October 14, 2020
YOU SHOULD NOT BE INTERFERING IN ELECTIONS ON BEHALF OF YOUR PREFERRED CANDIDATE PERIOD.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) October 15, 2020
No amount of “great” communicating would make suppressing a newspaper article acceptable, especially since Twitter was for two years an open sewer of misinformation about Trump-Russia collusion. https://t.co/9EqRjCagfV
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 15, 2020
Congrats to twitter on its Streisand Effect award!!! 👏 👏 👏 pic.twitter.com/xQXqIDqwFT
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 15, 2020
How did Joe Biden respond to the new evidence? He didn’t. He called a lid (i.e., retired for the day) after the news broke.
Today, Part 2 dropped: “Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm.”
Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show.
One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture.
Biden was identified as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,” an apparent reference to the former Shanghai-based conglomerate CEFC China Energy Co.
His pay was pegged at “850” and the email also noted that “Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate.”
In addition, the email outlined a “provisional agreement” under which 80 percent of the “equity,” or shares in the new company, would be split equally among four people whose initials correspond to the sender and three recipients, with “H” apparently referring to Biden.
The deal also listed “10 Jim” and “10 held by H for the big guy?”
Neither Jim nor the “big guy” was identified further.
The email’s author, James Gilliar of the international consulting firm J2cR, also noted, “I am happy to raise any detail with Zang if there is [sic] shortfalls ?”
“Zang” is an apparent reference to Zang Jian Jun, the former executive director of CEFC China.
The email is contained in a trove of data that the owner of a computer repair shop in Delaware said was recovered from a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off in April 2019 and never retrieved.
The computer was seized by the FBI, and a copy of its contents made by the shop owner shared with The Post this week by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Another email — sent by Biden as part of an Aug. 2, 2017, chain — involved a deal he struck with the since-vanished chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, for half-ownership of a holding company that was expected to provide Biden with more than $10 million a year.
Ye, who had ties to the Chinese military and intelligence service, hasn’t been seen since being taken into custody by Chinese authorities in early 2018, and CEFC went bankrupt earlier this year, according to reports.
Biden wrote that Ye had sweetened the terms of an earlier, three-year consulting contract with CEFC that was to pay him $10 million annually “for introductions alone.”
“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote.
“Consulting fees is one piece of our income stream but the reason this proposal by the chairman was so much more interesting to me and my family is that we would also be partners inn [sic] the equity and profits of the JV’s [joint venture’s] investments.”
A photo dated Aug. 1, 2017, shows a handwritten flowchart of the ownership of “Hudson West” split 50/50 between two entities ultimately controlled by Hunter Biden and someone identified as “Chairman.”
According to a report on Biden’s overseas business dealings released last month by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a company called Hudson West III opened a line of credit in September 2017.
Credit cards issued against the account were used by Hunter, his uncle James Biden and James’ wife, Sara Biden, to purchase more than $100,000 “worth of extravagant items, including airline tickets and multiple items at Apple Inc. stores, pharmacies, hotels and restaurants,” the report said.
The company has since been dissolved, and Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco PC, was one of two owners, according to the report.
Biden’s email was sent to Gongwen Dong, whom The Wall Street Journal in October 2018 tied to the purchase by Ye-linked companies of two luxury Manhattan apartments that cost a total on $83 million.
Dong, who owns a sprawling mansion in Great Neck, LI, has been identified in reports as CFO of the Kam Fei Group, an investment firm based in Hong Kong.
The documents obtained by The Post also include an “Attorney Engagement Letter” executed in September 2017 in which one of Ye’s top lieutenants, former Hong Kong government official Chi Ping Patrick Ho, agreed to pay Biden a $1 million retainer for “Counsel to matters related to US law and advice pertaining to the hiring and legal analysis of any US Law Firm or Lawyer.”
In December 2018, a Manhattan federal jury convicted Ho in two schemes to pay $3 million in bribes to high-ranking government officials in Africa for oil rights in Chad and lucrative business deals in Uganda.
Ho served a three-year prison sentence and was deported to Hong Kong in June.
As of this writing, Twitter hasn’t suppressed the second link…yet.
I am given to understand that more stories on the email trove are to come.
Tags: 2020 Presidential Race, Burisma, Chi Ping Patrick Ho, China, Democrats, Emma-Jo Morris, Foreign Policy, Gabrielle Fonrouge, Gongwen Dong, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Kayleigh McEnany, Media Watch, New York Post, Rudy Giuliani, Twitter, Ukraine, Vadym Pozharskyi, Ye Jianming, Zang Jian Jun
Who brought the lap top to the store, and why? Who got the FBI interested in it, and why? Who at FBI had it in custody? Who gave the material to the NYP, and why? Who released, supposedly LEO-custody evidence to a media organization, and why?
As you say, everyone knew this long ago. So this is not the news. This is an information operation. By whom, and why?
The news here is who (not at the NYP) fronted the “news” and why?
The story is about Hunter Biden peddling influence as the son of the sitting VPOTUS. It’s about corruption at the highest levels of US govt. It’s about Joe Biden LYING about his sons business contacts.
It’s about Chinese and Ukraine and Russian influence on our elected leaders FOR MONEY.
You’re insane if you think the story is about anything else.
how this information came to light – an “abandoned” laptop left by someone who “might have been hunter biden” – is fishy. but one observes that twitter/facebook and all the rest of the news/entertainment/social media monopoly/collusion are not interested in this irregularity at all, they simply want the story gone and vanished. these people don’t want a republican democracy where informed citizens make decisions, they want a dictatorship with themselves in charge telling everyone what to believe. they’ll have to be dealt with.
It says right in the article. The shop owner copied the contents of the hard drive prior to turning it over to the FBI, and gave a copy to Giuliani. Of course it’s an info op. It’s an election year, and this is what campaigns do, don’t be naive. The Democrats would do the same thing in a microsecond if they had dirt on Don Jr that could hurt Trump. The only difference is, the big tech firms would not censor it then.
A better question is, why was the FBI quietly sitting on this and apparently doing nothing about it for a year and a half? I mean we all know the answer, I’d just like to see it exposed and made public.
My understanding is
Someone, most likely Hunter Biden, brought three water damaged laptops to computer repair shop. The order for the work states that property left over 90 days will be considered abandoned. Only one laptop was salvagable. It had a sticker on it labeled property of Beau Biden Foundation.
After 90 days when the computer had not been retrieved, the repair shop guy looks at the contents of the laptop and sees stuff that concerns him. He notifies the FBI and a few Republicans in Congress. He also makes a copy of the hard drive for himself.
The FBI comes to the shop for a forensic exam, then a few weeks later siezes the laptop. No reaction from the Congress folks.
After months with no word back from the FBI the repair guy, concerned for his safety, makes a copy of the hard drive for Guilianni. Guilianni gives a copy to the NY Post.
I find this scenario entirely plausible. Plus it would take an enormous effort to fabricate photos and emails published. It’s not credible they are faked.
“it would take an enormous effort to fabricate photos and emails”
not anymore …
“I find this scenario entirely plausible”
… but yeah, it’s entirely plausible, and the news/entertainment/social media monopoly/collusion reaction to it indicates they are terrified it’s true.
Here’s a WTF. The FBI had this evidence, in their hands, during the impeachment proceedings. Puts the whole theater into a different light …
[…] IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PRESS NO LONGER HAS ANY REPUTATION LEFT TO SQUANDER: Hunter Biden’s Smoking Guns. “You wouldn’t think a story that merely confirms what people already knew about Biden’s lies […]
Q: Who brought the lap top to the store, and why?
A: Unknown person, possibly Hunter Biden but store owner could not confirm (as stated in the story. You probably should have read it.)
Q: Who got the FBI interested in it, and why?
Store owner held it for 90 days then examined hard drive. (Standard. More pedophiles have been caught by Best Buy Geek Squad than any other method.) When he found evidence of possible illegality (bribery) he turned it over to the FBI after mirroring the HD.
Who at FBI had it in custody?
Unclear. Indications are USA for Delaware.
Who gave the material to the NYP, and why?
Store owner (legal owner of the information based on contract) first contacted the FBI. When no indication of FBI action, contacted Rep. Mike Lee. When no contact back, contacted Guliani (method unclear). Guliani gave the information to the NYP as well as many ‘right wing’ media types. (PJ Media appears to have a full copy of the hard drive.)
Who released, supposedly LEO-custody evidence to a media organization, and why?
If the evidence is NOT being used in a criminal case (which the USA Delaware apparently never opened) no reason not to. Why? Clear evidence of corruption on the part of the Biden campaign.
This is an information operation. By whom, and why?
By the Trump campaign to get the word out that Biden is insanely corrupt.
The news here is who (not at the NYP) fronted the “news” and why?”
Not really. The news here is that Biden is now clearly tied to Burisma and the firing of the prosecutor to keep his son from spending time in a Ukrainian prison.
Welcome to BattleSwarm, John Ringo! I think we were both in the premier issue of Jim Baden’s Universe…
There is a tell in this thread about how badly Twitter jumped the shark. What is it?
Jake Tapper calling the Streisand Effect. JAKE TAPPER.
Twitter is in big trouble if the Tapper rat is jumping this ship.
[…] IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PRESS NO LONGER HAS ANY REPUTATION LEFT TO SQUANDER: Hunter Biden’s Smoking Guns. “You wouldn’t think a story that merely confirms what people already knew about Biden’s lies […]
[…] chosen. We ALL know what to do […]
According to the demonrats theory and practice, and they hold most of the resources of power beginning with the Deep State Swamp that leaves very little outside its purview, we live in a feudal society.
The Bidens are a noble family.
There’s one set of rules for them.
And another, very different, set of rules for the rest of us.
Their rules are not to be questioned.
Their actions are not to be looked at.
They govern by the grace of their Gods “Social Justice” and “Bullsh!tsectionality”
You can’t question the Gods and you can’t question those appointed by the Gods to lord over us and tell us what to do, when to do it and how to do it.
They know better.
And they know what’s good for the rest of us.
“Social Justice” and ”Bullsh!tsectionality” can’t be wrong.
And consequently our lefto-pukes feudal lords can’t be wrong either.
It’s “science” and the “science” is settled because we have “consensus” among the “scientist”, you see?
So shut the f#ck up and obey!!
Everything will be fine.
Amen.
This is a disgrace. The Biden family has been corrupt for years. How does a career politician become so wealthy on a government salary for his whole life. Lets face it the money was going to the Biden family members so to cover up that China Joe was not evolved. Why if true was the FBI holding back this info on Hunters computer.
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“we live in a feudal society”
not quite.
“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world—only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat.” Rabbi Yosef, Israel’s Shas Party
ever wondered at the breathtaking arrogance of the “elite”? where it comes from, what drives it generation after generation, where it’s going? ever wonder about all these “global elites”, these “international financiers”, this “deep state”? ever wonder why the corruption of our nation proceeds ever onward, limitlessly funded, irrationally defended, never willingly rescinded? ever ask yourself – “who are these people?”