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The Search for Robert L. Peters: He Goes By Various Names…The Question is Why

Below is my column on the search for the true identity of Robert L. Peters, the name Republicans believe was used by then Vice President Joe Biden in emails that contradict his past claims on the influence peddling scandal.

Here is the column:

He is a man with many names. “Celtic.” “The Big Guy.” According to congressional investigators, most citizens know him as “President Biden.”

Aliases are tricky things. They are sometimes innocent or essential like the code name that the Secret Service gives you as part of your protection like “Celtic.”

Then there are nicknames that are preferred to your given name. Take the Big Lebowski. He did not like being called Mr. Lebowski and preferred “Dude” but he was flexible: “I’m The Dude. So, that’s what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or, uh, Duder, or El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.”

It appears that President Biden also preferred on occasion not to be called “Mr. Biden.” The question is why and whether Mr. Peters is more Big Lebowski or Big Guy.

People apparently were told to avoid directly referring to President Biden. In one email, Biden associate James Gilliar explained the rules to Tony Bobulinski, then a business partner of Hunter’s, and not to speak of the former veep’s connection to any transactions: “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u [sic] are face to face, I know u [sic] know that but they are paranoid.”

So it was not “Mr. Biden” who would receive a planned 10 percent cut on a deal with a Chinese energy firm. It was “the Big Guy,” who also was to receive benefits like office space from foreign sources.

Recently, an FBI document showed that a trusted source relayed an allegation of bribery where a Ukrainian businessman said that he was told not to send money directly to “the Big Guy” but used a complex series of accounts to transfer the funds.

The question is whether “Robert L. Peters” used in various emails was in fact Joe Biden.

House investigators want to find out, but the Administration does not seem eager to resolve the question.

The earlier email using the alleged alias is from 2016. It holds particular significance for House investigators because it cc’d Hunter Biden about Ukraine.  In the now widely accepted influence peddling operation, the object of the influence was Biden.

We now know that the President lied for years in denying knowledge or conversations about his son’s foreign dealings.

Even the Washington Post now admits that the President lied when he said that Hunter made no money in China.

However, these emails may show the quid in the quid pro quo. Biden is accused of sending official information on these countries to his influence peddling son.

The nothing-to-see-here crowd is dismissing the allegation while resisting any further confirmation of these emails. (Notably, many of them insist that the false claims of Russian collusion against Trump were established by the fact that his campaign chair, Paul Manafort, gave polling data to a Russian client).

Yet, there are 27 emails linked to Joe Biden’s alleged “Robert L. Peters” alias including one sent  from John Flynn, a former senior adviser to Joe Biden, with the White House “@ovp.eop.gov” domain name.

For his part, Peters uses “@pci.gov” domain name on a government network, which includes the Executive Office of the President.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) has pushed the National Archives to share unredacted copies of these emails and has said that the House has not received the evidence. If so, it is not clear why the Archives would redact names from these emails or other information. If that matter comes to a head, the House is likely to win in court. However, efforts to obstruct such efforts could soon be one of the subjects of an impeachment inquiry.

It is also not clear why Joe Biden will not simply make this information and his financial records available to resolve any lingering questions over his past conduct and ongoing denials.

It is not likely to happen. Joe Biden has not taken well to reporters using his aliases. When a reporter who asked him about being “the Big Guy,” President Biden was irate and asked “Why’d you ask such a dumb question?”

If the answer was not clear before, it was clear after that response.

It appears that other Obama Administration officials used such aliases. The question is whether Mr. Peters was doing something that Mr. Biden did not want to be associated with.  He was not the “brand” being sold by Hunter, but he may have been a conduit to deliver on that brand.

The House is unlikely to tolerate further delays in answering these questions. One thing is clear. For a fictitious figure, Mr. Peters has a growing number of people eager to make his acquaintance.

This column was posted on Fox.com

229 thoughts on “The Search for Robert L. Peters: He Goes By Various Names…The Question is Why”

  2. Mr. Peters is a debilitated old man incapable of going to the john on his own. He is going to move on to the next dimension any day. He is very fragile and has no business being up and about. He should be resting and kept as comfortable as possible.

    Liberal fanatics are responsible for this sad, dangerous affair. They have known as long as the rest of us that he wasn’t capable, and now, ta da, here comes Kamala. Dear G-D, have mercy on these United States.

  3. Funny how everyone forgets Ol Joe as VP had a boss, say his name, President Obama. Where was Obama in all these global criminal shenanigans? Unaware of them?

  5. JRB Ware?
    Appropriate, Joseph Robinette (better) Beware, Corn Pop is on the war path…

  6. I really, really hope that the Professor’s optimism is founded and that we can resolve some of these things via government. It is clear that everything that has transpired since 2016 is pure (or earlier if one cares to dig deep, but most don’t), unadulterated, boosheet. I do not share his optimism. That people are being arrested now for what Al Gore did with abandon and all of the federal tools at his disposal way back when – it isn’t very far to arresting people that voted the ‘wrong’ way. We may not get to that extreme, I pray we don’t, but that is the mentality, and when there is threat of covid mandates coming back years later when there is literally zero – zip, zilch, nada threat – just in time for an upcoming national election – sh*t. Laws are, ‘what we want them to be so that we get our way’, to the dems and to their sheep. My brother thinks, having drunk the progressive Kool-aid, that somehow, he is an open and fair minded independent even though all that he shares with me is regurgitated, leftist, propaganda from notably and confirmed leftist sources. Anyone that doesn’t think woke or modern leftism aren’t the worst kind of fundamentalism, replete with all of the challenges of a hopeful deprogramming, is lucky to live in a bubble of privilege I can only imagine (like my brother. The day of reckoning will be an absolute soul jarring shock to him and similar). Joe Biden was hand selected, and he is the most corrupt and inexcusable POTUS this country has ever had. Expect more and a deepening of this if dems get power next time.

    1. I read you “brother.” But their not really leftists (the left/right thing has become way to confused). They’re what the — surprisingly clear minded — Neo-Marxist psychoanalyst Erich Fromm (huge in the mid 20th century) called passive-authoritarians. Passive-authoritarians come from all political persuasions. After all, authoritarianism is the essence of politics and the hallmark of any bureaucrat of substance.

        1. You don’t have to keep correcting yourself. We have our canonical input buffer processing turned on, so we know what you mean 😉

  7. Peter Doocy should yell his name out loud when he walks by and see if he responds.

  8. OT, does anyone else think that Vivek looked and sounded like a petulant child last night? Maybe it is my age but to me he looked untried, untested and immature. All I could think while he was trying to dominate the conversation was…shut up will ya. He gave some shots but they were jabs while he was hit with some crushing body shots. He will be gone soon, unless Trump hangs on and picks him as his mini-me running mate. That is about right for Trump, pick the one guy you can control.

    1. @Hullbobby

      I think all of them sound like petulant children, the Trump people being the worst. Would love for anyone to show me how this country or the West in general isn’t royally ******.

    2. ” to me he looked untried, untested and immature. “

      He’s smart but not experienced. In my eyes, he didn’t do himself any favors.

    3. Hullbobby

      Interesting. I’ll have to go watch it again. I thought Ramaswamy was being ganged up on a lot, and being interrupted and talked over a good bit. I can only recall one time he got to speak his full time without someone interjecting. I don’t know that he handled it well, but I’m not sure I would have either.

      To me, Mike Pence was the worst actor. He wouldn’t shut up once he started. At one point I was hoping they would just turn off his mic, and frankly, thats what i think should happen to all rules breakers. I am also sick of his fake sincerity and drama queen way of talking. If it takes you 5 minutes to say what could have been said in 30 seconds, because you pause for dramatic effect, too bad. I like the guy and his politics, but he is a swamp creature for sure.

      Christy is definitely the best debator. Unfortunately he is also the biggest a$$wipe.

      Scott is not ready for the big stage, but probably the best human being up there.

      Idk what its gonna take for Desantis to stop preaching or Nikki to stop screeching.

    4. HullBobby,
      Did not watch it.
      But Ramaswamy, like Trump, is an outsider when it comes to politics. The swamp will do what the swamp does with outsiders.
      All the others have going for them is they have worked, seen, or know enough of how the swamp works.
      From what I have seen DeSantis has stepped on rakes so far in his campaign. I really thought he could of rode on his success as the FL governor.
      I am in wait and see mode before even starting to formulate an analysis.
      Watching the COVID scare 2.0, the economy, the war in the Ukraine, de-dollarization, what Pop Corn and the DNC does is currently more pressing to me at this point in time.
      Invest in chickens and PMs.

    5. It is very funny that after making “the kids should pass a civics test to vote” his thing, Vivek immediately got the easiest possible question about us history — which came first, the revolution or the constitution — wrong.

      I wonder what Trump’s nickname for him will be: Ramasmarmy? Rama-lama-ding-dong?

      1. You can try a couple of questions

        What is woman?

        Should there be a limit on how late an abortion should be legal?

        Which came first. The right to keep and bear arms or the Constitution?

  9. I think anonymous is one of George Soros’ Super-Bots — paid to visit websites and sow dissension. I will ignore his nonsense henceforth.

    1. I think you may be right. It’s hard to imagine someone would willingly take the total beatdown he gets every time he pokes his head up, without some other forces at work. If you can’t be shamed or humiliated, you probably aint real (i look around at modern liberals and cant believe i just said that lol).

      1. Then again, I met two different young ladies on an arrangement site who told me about a guy they met who wanted to pay them to kick him in the balls. One of them took him up on it. Maybe this Anonymous guy is that type??? He seems to enjoy the “humiliating kick in the crotch”—The Police

  10. Well, it’s pretty clear by now that any tax records released by Joe Biden are fraudulent; did he account for his 10% as ‘the Big Guy” or for the funds received by his relatives (there are limits to gifts) or his offshore accounts? So, Trump didn’t want his tax returns to become public because why should he want them to? Even if he had nothing to hide, which he didn’t, it really wasn’t anyone’s business. Conversely, Biden has been accused of selling out America for cash; don’t you think we should follow this corrupt trail to its bitter end?

      1. All politics aside, Biden is a disgusting human being and anyone that defends him for any reason at this juncture is just as repugnant and should be eradicated from society. Clear enough? Cheers!

  13. When Mr. Turley says “the House is unlikely to tolerate further delays,” I think he has reckoned without Kevin McCarthy’s ability to do absolutely nothing except post insipid video clips on social media ad infinitum.

    2. “I knowe on whiche syde my breade is buttred.”

      – John Heywood, 1546
      ___________________

      You reference the Deep Deep State “Swamp” denizen and duplicitous fraud, Kevin “The Bumpkin From Bakersfield” McCarthy, who knows on which side his bread is buttered.

  14. ..poor ‘Anonymous..’ trying to come up with new angles to spin away The Truth that is emerging re: the Biden Crime Family corruption…..

  16. “I’m the only one on the state who isn’t bought and paid for.”
    Vivek Ramaswamy

    Ouch!

    That would include President Peters as well of course.

      1. Definitely the pick of that litter. imo.

        *my main concerns with Vivek, so far, are: a.) if ‘Republicans’ are so corrupted, and I believe by and large they are, then why does Vivek identify as one? and b.) can’t tell if Vivek is running for President .. . or Trump’s running mate.

  17. If you knew what you were talking about, you would know that the DOJ and the Biden administration contacted NARA and requested the redactions

    1. Well, if the Biden DoJ, or other gov. agencies, do not/did not request the redactions who does?

      *NARA has no authority to do that.

  18. Joel from Woodstock, a former Republican, came to the Fulton County Jail this morning to deliver a message to Trump:
    “I want to see the sociopath who tried to steal my vote in 2020 go to prison.”

    1. Please tell Joel from Woodstock to Wake Up & give up the distorted spin that anyone tried to steal anything..!! Looking for Your Votes in the milieu of contested votes that existed then is no different than what Al Gore did.. out of roughly 200K contested votes (that we know of, as reported .. the odds that at least 5% – 10% were Trump’s is beyond a fair guess in a state that was split 50/50 with slight favour towards Trump all night….

      1. Al Gore acted legally by filing a court motion. Had Trump only acted legally, he wouldn’t have been indicted.

        1. I “effing” hate trump, but WTF, he did too lawfully contest the election results you simpleton! Try not to let his obnoxious bloviating — which is always and everywhere — get in the way of your brain. His several legal challenges were as lawful as any by Gore two decades ago. And please, lets not forget the shrill rantings of that blood-soaked-lizard person and her tribe, post 2016. Shake your head dude. Get the cobwebs out.

      1. The Trump cult are the first ones to change topic when it’s something they don’t want to hear….. BUT…..BUT…… HUNTER….And Turley uses that MO to perfection.

      2. Libs (the heirs of the bolsheviks, not their plantation workers) are laser focused on getting up someone’s ass, or pedophilia, or raping, or homosexuality, or cutting off gentials…why is that?

        What is the connection between economic and sexual perversions?

    2. Dear ‘Devil Went Down To’ ..pity that you can’t poke your head up above the deceitful propaganda spin and see the LIGHT that the one who deserves to go to prison here is ‘The Big Guy’ for playing the American people for probably decades as the Don of The Crime Family…………. all those millions under the table while smiling for the cameras….

    3. O, u mean like that bastion of liberal virtue, “America’s Father” William, ‘not me’ Cosby? Whoops. That’s right. He’s out now. He got out.

  20. Joe Biden did not lie about talking to Hunter about his overseas business, it was Robert L.Peters who talked to Hunter about his business.

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