Below is my column in the New York Post on the testimony of Biden associate Rob Walker, who confirmed details on President Joe Biden meeting with Chinese figures as well as the use of the Biden name to generate millions in foreign payments. Yesterday, the House heard from Tony Bobulinski who confirmed that Biden was the “Big Guy” who was referenced as receiving ten percent from a Chinese deal. He also confirmed that, despite the President’s denials, he met with Joe Biden to discuss these dealings.
Here is the column:
“An interesting name.”
Those three words by Biden family associate Rob Walker could well be the epitaph for Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden.
Walker was explaining why Hunter was repeatedly pushed forward as the face of their pitches to the Chinese and other countries.
In his interview with House investigators, Walker struggled to protect President Biden while confirming critical aspects of earlier testimony from associates such as Devon Archer that they were selling the “Biden brand.”
That brand included Uncle James Biden, whom Walker described as “a snake.”
Walker and his associates had a letter to the Chinese come from Hunter because that is what he thought the Chinese expected.
He admitted that the Chinese were led to believe that they all worked for Hunter Biden.
After all, he “had an interesting last name that would probably get people in the door.”
That “interesting name” is how a Beltway bandit avoids saying “influence peddler.”
You are peddling the name — an effort that is reinforced when you repeatedly produce Joe Biden on speakerphone or he drops by lunches.
It’s also the same name dropped when Hunter wanted to make sure the Chinese paid up, as revealed in the infamous WhatsApp message:
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Yet whenever questions turned to the most incriminating messages, Walker shrugged.
When asked about a reference to “the big guy” receiving 10% of a deal (an apparent reference to Joe Biden), Walker declined to say who the big guy was.
When he was asked about Hunter’s repeated references to his father and calling his father “my chairman,” Walker insisted that “I don’t think that Hunter was healthy at the time.”
Likewise, when Hunter says his father “vetoed the deal” on a proposed SinoHawk deal structure, Walker again said Hunter was not well.
So Hunter was a legitimate businessman “with an interesting name” all the way up to the point that he made admissions on alleged influence peddling. He was then interesting but unhealthy.
Walker repeatedly emphasized that Joe Biden was not a direct part of these deals.
While that is a political defense, it is not a legal one.
As I have previously written, federal courts have long treated payments to family members as evidence of bribery and corruption.
Indeed, I was lead counsel in the last judicial impeachment trial in the Senate, when Democratic senators voted to convict a judge on payments and gifts going to the children of the judge.
Neither Hunter nor James Biden have demonstrated any particular skill beyond an absence of inhibition and an abundance of appetite.
What they have is “an interesting name,” and in Washington, that is enough.
Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
Nobody cares. Nothing’s ever going to happen. Another example of the Biden administration’s “Just Us” system.
First time in American political history that come to learn, I believe America has now the MOST CORRUPT POTUS. How can members of the U.S. Congress keep defending a corrupt person in the White House…This is very unprecedented and a BAD EXAMPLE of the American justice system.
Nikki Haley on Trump: “The problem now is he is not the same person he was in 2016. He is unhinged; he is more diminished than he was, just like Joe Biden’s more diminished than what he was. We have to see this for what it is. This is a fact: He is now saying things that don’t make sense.”
Warmonger Nikki is just so jealous it oozes out her pores.
She’s still right that he’s unhinged and more diminished than he was.
Halley is free to make that argument. and each of us can decide on our own.
Trump is somewhat more free with his language – not alot. Regardless, people have gotten used to it,
and used to the counter attacks like Halley’s
I would be happy to consider voting for Halley – she was a good governor. and a good UN ambassador.
But she has chosen a campaign platform that I will never support again – not from a republican not from a democrat.
I do not know if she really is the neocon she is running as, but so long as she owns that identity – I and many many others will not vote for her.
There is a small possibility that Halley will be Trump’s VP pick. Had she stayed out of this, or even just stayed out of the neocon orbit and moderated her attacks on Trump she nearly certainly would have been his VP choice.
The odds of him choosing her as his running mate are approximately zero.
language foul
If someone removed all the doors and windows of your home so that bad guys could come in and rape, murder, and rob you and your family, then that same person stole your money, forced you into bankruptcy, and sent all your money to someone you don’t know 10,000 miles away so he can out locks on his house, would you say that person loved you or hated you?
Now think about what the Dems (and a few Republicans) in Washington are doing. Same thing at a national level. Then the idiots post a juvenile valentine on X accusing the guy who’s trying to stop all that from happening of not loving you. What morons!
Biometa, and Hunter Biden’s businesss association with the dozens of biolabs in Ukraine is also very interesting, but it seems Fauci has not been questioned on it and intel is zipping up that bag tight.
The Kremlin pointed out those biolabs were grabbing only genetic Russian DNA to work on their killer bioweapons.
At first the entire libturd MSM as usual, called it a crazy conspriacy theory, then war monger and Ukraine overthrow criminal Nuland testified “accidentally” she was worried sick the Russians would get a hold of the biolabs the USA was running in Ukraine.
Oops. Then the MSM and dimmy demtards had to stop lying and calling it a conspiracy theory.
So there are MANY YEARS and many items of Hunter getting paid off with his biz assocaites for, for instance Biolabs in Ukraine, that we still don’t have transparency and payment information on.
That’s why you hear 40 million from Ukraine as the real number, not just 5 million x2.
The very idea that joey or any demoncrat was “stopping corruption” in Ukraine as they grabbed every dollar for themselves they could is just hilarious on it’s face.
Blaze media’s Glen Beck did a long hour show on all the players and demoncrats intruding into Ukraine on the take and doing the dirty work – names and pics and two giant magnetic blackboards with dozens and dozens of demoncrat operatives. Most people know just a tiny spec of what has really been going on behind the scenes and the level of corruption is mind boggling.
Enjoy the demoncrats deep state plot with Ukrainians to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign.
And to think, back in 2001-2009 or so, you were pretty even-handed. Sure, you were a libertarian, but you played things pretty straight. How the mighty have fallen.
Ahem. The proper use of colons, rather amusingly done:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/when-to-use-colon-guide
Isn’t there a coralary to Godwin’s law about appeals to grammar ?
Interesting that when I throw out facts about trump I get all sorts of hate responses. Most of the responses just call me kindergarten names. Shows the intelligence of the crowd on this site I guess. But then a few throw out about how I lie but somehow neglect to ever show a post where I gave something not true. Just a bunch of yelling like their orange god.
But I do like those turdy comments brings back good memories of playing in recess at Kindergarten. And I hadn’t heard people talk like that until trump with his sub 80 IQ brought out all the others with sub 80 IQ that all think they are the smartest in the world.
Come on, someone must be able to find a quote that isn’t true. Or is this just like trumps claim of fraud, 60+ court cases where he did not put a single, not one, nada, zip evidence before a judge.
Can anyone, anyone please point to a statement I made that wasn’t true?
Bob: Hi! I’ve asked that same rhetorical question over and over again, and all I get in response is name-calling, accusations of being a paid troll, of needing psychiatric help, of really being Dennis McIntyre, of being a liar…..the list goes on. My favorite insult is that I have vaignal odor–that’s the depth to which they stoop in lieu of offering counter argument or actual facts. Trump fans (which is really what they are) are immune to the truth and immune to reality, partly because of the daily lies and disinformation pumped out by pro-Trump media they tune to for daily affirmation, that constantly accuses mainstream media of lying, and distorts the facts about Trump’s bad behavior, attacks people like E. Jean Carroll, Letitia James, Fani Willis and Jack Smith, lies about Trump having some perceived “right” to keep classified documents, to “declassify” them by mental telepathy, accusations of a “Biden Crime Family” despite not even one scintilla of evidence connecting Joe Biden to anything criminal, distortions of NY law about Trump’s fraudulent tax forms and loan documents, lies about E. Jean Carroll and endless lies about Trump’s alleged “accomplishments”, while ignoring and downplayng Biden’s actual accomplishments, of which there are many. You put out facts. They attack you. You ask for counter facts and get crickets. It’s stunning, really, that you can’t have a civil discourse in this country if it involves Trump without name-calling, but then, that’s what he does. He even insults former members of his administration–calling Nikki Haley “bird brain”.
Yep. I think some day it’s going to be like a Sci Fi movie when the aliens leave and all the brain dead people wake up and say I did that?
The other thing I find interesting is do you really want to follow a leader that calls people the names he does? I mean really, he acts like a 5 year old. So even if you do believe his policies are good for the country, support someone else with the same policies but is more like an actual adult human being.
But hey, turdy face or what ever I keep getting called…it doesn’t get better than that. Maybe that’s why I’m so regular every morning?
Have you looked in the Whitehouse lately – That is where you will find the 5yr old.
As to your TDS – Republicans have nominated candidates with personalities that fit your demands for what a republican should be like.
You have hurled the same despicable insults at them too.
If you wanted Romney or McCaine of Dole or …. – you should have voted for them.
Many people like all the things you hate about Trump BECAUSE he can take all the schiff you throw at him and then he dishes it back twice as good.
If you do not want politics to be a sewer – quit throwing $hit.
Untile democrats quit claiming – as you just did, that everyone who disagreess with them is a hateful hating hater, util you quit claiming that everything you do not like is racism, mysogyny, homophobia or transphobia – you can expect to have $hit bombs lobbed at you.
Republicans Tried civility with the left – it did not work.
Change your tune or learn to live with the fact that it is YOU that people think is the hateful, hating hater.
dennis and gigi have a clear knack for copy-catting other commenters’ words, writing styles, and catchy phrases, even punctuation! (like a colon after a person’s name). we’ve noticed they didn’t do this last year, or even several months ago. Pretty soon it will be easy to convert their views to MAGA because they apparently are so IMPressionable!
NUTCHACHACHA, may we get rid of your welfare, public housing, forced busing, grade inflation, quotas, and affirmative action yet, comradette?
Gigi,
This post will mostly be about YOU.
That is not because I wish to attack you rather than your positions
But because your post is about you not anything meaningful.
Lets clarify.
“accusations of being a paid troll”
If you are a paid troll the standards of the left are abysmal.
Regardless, you constantly accuse Turley and many many others of exactly that. TYurn about is fair game.
“of needing psychiatric help”
Probably, but I have no interest in your mental health.
And again you lob similar attacks on others – in what world do you think you are the only one entitled to lob personal insults
I do not know you, and have no reason to care about you.
You are just words on a page.
Regardless, your mental health is not your major weakness it is your inability to think critically or to weigh probabilities.
You beleive things that are either false or highly improbable, and you reject things that are either true or very likely true.
“of really being Dennis McIntyre,”
Doubt it, While Dennis shows similar poor critical thinking – his critical thinking is atleast 1 std dev better than yours.
Way too many here wish to engage this stupid game of trying to decide who is posting under multiple names.
I do not understand the attack. whether from the left or right.
And I do not understand why anyone would want to diminish their impact.
“of being a liar”
That is what we call people who repeat the same falsehoods over and over years after they had even tiny credibilty.
I do not like calling anyone a liar, but the alternative is that you are severely cognatively impared – take your pick.
Again turn about is fair play – you are constantly accusing others of being liars with no basis to do so.
Pot meet Kettle.
“My favorite insult is that I have vaignal odor”
Do not recall anyone saying that, and I have read most of your posts.
That said there are many posters here that lob irrelevant insults without any basis.
A few of them are even on the right.
“that’s the depth to which they stoop in lieu of offering counter argument or actual facts.”
I have attcked you repeatedly with actual facts and arguments – you ignore them.
Frankly, you are a disappointment to me. Most of those on the left here are a massive disappointment.
I WANT good arguments from your.
We test ideas, principles facts, in the crucible of intellectual confrontation.
I am very good at identifying the flaws in my own arguments and fixing them.
But no one can see everything about their own arguments.
I am not sure that I am right about something solely because of my confidence in my own intellect.
The reverse is true – my confidence in my own intellect stems from the inability of the best of the best on the left to knock down my arguments.
You and Dennis are unfortunately not even close to the mediocrest of the left.
Debating you does not test my arguments.
“Trump fans (which is really what they are)”
Some people are fans. But Trump is over 50% in several polls – maybe 10-15% of the vote is Trump no matter what.
They – just like you are immune to anything. That is present on all sides. It is not unique to Trump.
“are immune to the truth and immune to reality”
Some are. Again also true of the left. And absolutely True of you.
Pot meet kettle.
“partly because of the daily lies and disinformation pumped out by pro-Trump media they tune to for daily affirmation,”
This is an amazing claim – given the MASSIVE disinformation propagated constantly by you and the left.
” that constantly accuses mainstream media of lying, and distorts the facts about Trump’s bad behavior”
Because they do.
“attacks people like E. Jean Carroll”
Carroll is nuts. It is not impossible that she is telling the truth, but it is less likely than that Covid came from the wet markets in Wuhan.
Regardless, we do not convict people of anything based on 30 year oold claims from people ith serious credibility problems and no evidence of anykind.
We do not do that – because if we did – you could convict anyone of anything.
“Letitia James”
James ran for office on a platform of “Get Trump”
She chose to play with the big dogs. She does not need your or anyone else’s protection.
But she can expect to have to prove her case – she has not.
She brought a garbage case and has succeeded at proving nothing more than that NYC courts are star chambers.
“Fani Willis”
Willis also chose to play with the big dogs, She does not need your or anyone else’s protection.
She started with no case, not because of here OWN corruption, she is going to spend the next couple of years fighting off jail.
Aparently there were problems similar to this but smaller with the Fulton County DA before.
She ran on an anticorruption platform – now she has black democrats in Fulton County pissed at her – She LIED.
Regardless, people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Willis invited this on herself – quite stupidly. As do most of those who go after Trump.
I do not care if you go after Trump. But you MUST know that if you do you are going to have to conduct yourself with perfection – because massive resources will go into putting your life under a microscope.
There is no exception tot he rule of law that allows you to engage in corruption, because you are accusing someone else of corruption.
“Jack Smith”
Jack Smith is a light weight with an abysmal pretrump track record.
He is doing abysmally in FL, and despite having every possible advantage in DC he is actually doing worse.
Those of you on the left want the trial before the election. The legal realities of due process are that is not possible.
The Hunter Biden case – which is far simpler, has been drug out for years, and you think Smith can get to a courtroom like lightning with a piss poor case ? If all the stars aligned – he was unlikely to get this to a court room before the election – but his own efforts have increased Trump’s ability to delay.
“lies about Trump having some perceived “right” to keep classified documents”
Please actually read JW V NARA – That is LITERALLY what Judge ABJ – Says in the holding.
Ex President Bill Clinton had classified tapes in his sock drawer. ABJ ruled that Neither NARA nor the courts had ANY authority to retreive them. That should have been the end of this back in 2021.
“to “declassify” them by mental telepathy”
Presidents can not declassify by mental telepathy.
But absolutely any act involving a classified document that would be improper for an ordinary person, would be an act that declassifies by a president. Johnson accidentally disclosed the existance of the SR-71 in a press conference – only it was not the SR-71, it was the RS-71, but since the president called it the SR-71 – that became the name forever. Regardless it was HIGHLY classified.
Reagan deliberately revealed the entire Stealth program to the USSR in a press conference.
Obama disclosed nuclear secrets in a press conference.
Every president has declassified things merely by revealing them or moving them to an insecure location.
This is not a Trump thing. It is the constitutional power of the president.
“accusations of a “Biden Crime Family” despite not even one scintilla of evidence connecting Joe Biden to anything criminal”
Seriously ? The first revalations of the “biden Crime family” were in the NYT in 2015 and planted by Hillary in a successful effort to get Biden to sit on the bench on 2016. Trump did not make up claims that Biden was corrupt. The Biden family corruption goes back long before Trump descended the escallator.
“distortions of NY law about Trump’s fraudulent tax forms and loan documents”
No distortions – Fraud is deception that causes actual harm to others.
The social contract – which gives government its legitimacy – does not empire government to make laws willing nilly as it pleases.
If the NY law that James is using actually means what she claims – then it is unconstitutional.
Regardless this is a dead bang loser. People are not stupid. They do not want government confiscating their wealth because someone claims they lied. If you have ever owned a home or a car and sold it, you have with certainty violated the same law you claim Trump did.
“lies about E. Jean Carroll”
Back to Carroll again – we do not know what actually happened almost 30 years ago – that is why we have statues of limitations.
Nor can we find out what happened 30 years ago. Had Carroll made he claim immediately after the alleged event – the data and time and place would be estableshed. Carroll could have been examined and evidence gathered proving or disproving her claim. People at Bergdorfs could have been questioned to see if ANYTHING could be corroborated. Normally claims like Carrolls get dismissed at summary judgement.
Why ? First because of statute of limitations and then on due process grounds. When you can not provide the where and the when – you have denied the defendant the ability to disprove the claim. Trump can not prove where he was every minute of every day for 3-4 years.
No one can.
You are free to beleive Carroll if you wish – though she is not credible.
You are not free to use govenrment to confiscate the property of others without allowing them the right to defend themselves. Carrrols inability to provide evidence – even as little as a specific allegation deprives the defendant of due process and the ability to defend themselves.
“and endless lies about Trump’s alleged “accomplishments””
Trump’s accomplishements are a matter of record.
People are currently comparing Trump’s performance as president with Biden’s and Finding Trump a significantly better president.
That is not me, that is an enormous percent of the electorate. What is surprising is that despite the near universal view that Trump was a better president, There are still SOME peoplew who will vote for Biden.
“while ignoring and downplayng Biden’s actual accomplishments, of which there are many.”
While I have argued this with you frequently and compellingly – beyond that – supermajorities of the electorate see Biden as a failure.
And they are right. You have lost this one.
” You put out facts. They attack you.”
Because you don’t put out facts. On nearly all issues of consequence 70% of the electorate things Trump was a better president than Biden.
You can not fool all the people all the time.
“You ask for counter facts and get crickets. ”
YOur arguments have been factually and logically shredded many many times by me and others.
I am sorry that someone insulted your hygeine. I am not at all sorry that you are repeatedly called a liar – because you are.
“It’s stunning, really, that you can’t have a civil discourse in this country if it involves Trump without name-calling, but then, that’s what he does.”
Again long before Trump went down the escalator the left has been unable to have civil discourse.
Every republican presidential candidate in my lifetime has been called a nazi or hitler.
Arguments fromt he left are almost entirely insults and appeals to emotion – with lots of lies added in for good measure.
“He even insults former members of his administration–calling Nikki Haley “bird brain”.”
Politics is not bean bag. Trump does the same things Democrats do all the time, and have for decades – he is just better at it.
It is inappropriate. When those of you on the left stop the insults and appeals to emotion – then I will get upset with Trump for the same.
I think you mean when you barf out irrelevant personal attacks from your horrendous Trump Derangement Syndrome people respond in kind.
Bob once you got to the part where you said Trump has an IQ of 80 I realized that you have nothing of value to lend to the conversation. Only a witless person who is completely stoned could make such a stupid comment. You completely destroyed your own argument and you didn’t even realize that you were doing it. Be silly somewhere else like Buzzfeed where you’ll be more greatly appreciated.
Good call Bob. zero content, 100% ad hominem. After eating your foot earlier this afternoon and ran away from your own comment.,
“Can anyone, anyone please point to a statement I made that wasn’t true?”
Bob, that was done many times. Virtually everything you say is a lie or out of context. I took your last list and answered your first statement, proving you are not to be trusted. I am still waiting for your rebuttal.
The following statement shows how ill-equipped you are to discuss anything of importance. My reply follows.
“You’re right, having a prez that has 20 failed business”
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If you knew anything, you would question the number 20, not because 20 failures are bad, but because it would be fantastic for any businessman with the number of businesses Trump has or had. Half of all companies fail within the first five years, and 70% fail within ten years. Trump has had over 500 businesses.
You have the intellect of a Toad.
“Interesting that when I throw out facts about trump”
When ?
I am hard pressed to think of when you have presented a fact about anything.
Your credibility is so poor that if you said the sun will rise – I would have to check to be sure.
People disagreeing with you is not hate.
But yes, many of us hate liars. Is there something wrong with that ?