Here's that aforementioned <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462">NBC News report </a>on the exciting adventures of Hunter Biden.

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		Biden made $5.8 million, more than half his total earnings from 2013 to 2018, from two deals with Chinese business interests.
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	There's little new in the details themselves, but they're a helpful reminder that the Biden crime family is in hock to the Peeps in a big way.

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		A review of the personal and corporate emails on Biden’s hard drive yield little information about any business he conducted on behalf of Hudson West III, and his autobiography doesn’t discuss his Chinese business dealings in any detail.&nbsp;
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	Which is itself revealing.


	What are you doing to get paid millions of dollars that you (or more likely your Chinese partners who have more self-control) aren't putting in writing?

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		In 2018, Chinese prosecutors accused Ye Jianming of “economic crimes,” including alleged fraud and bribery, and detained him for questioning. He hasn’t been seen in public since.

	
		A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington told NBC News, “We are not familiar with the case you mentioned, and I’m afraid we can’t offer information on this.”

	
		According to the Republican Senate report, Hudson West III, CEFC and another firm were involved in certain transactions that were&nbsp;“among those identified as potential efforts to layer funds.”

	
		The U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network describes the layering of funds as “separating the illegally obtained money from its criminal source by layering it through a series of financial transactions, which makes it difficult to trace the money back to its original source.”

	
		But the report doesn’t say whether or not Hunter Biden was personally involved in any transactions that were suggested to involve “layering.”

	
		Biden also appears to have done work for one of Ye’s business associates. Patrick Ho was convicted in U.S. federal court of bribing top officials in Chad and Uganda in pursuit of oil deals in those countries starting in September 2014. A jury found that Ho, while working for CEFC, bribed or attempted to bribe officials as much as $2 million. He was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 and then expelled from the U.S. at the end of his prison term.&nbsp;
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	The underlying question is what was Hunter Biden and the larger clan doing to make all that money from these guys?


	It's implausible that Hunter Biden, an unstable crackhead with no self-control, was getting paid a fortune for any skill other than his political connections. If Joe Biden had been a retired Senate member, it's unlikely that Hunter would have gotten this kind of payday.


	There's no scenario in which this was anything except an attempt to use Joe Biden's crackhead son for his political connections. And those connections all go through Joe.

Hunter Biden Made Most of His Money From China

Here's that aforementioned NBC News report on the exciting adventures of Hunter Biden.


	
		Biden made $5.8 million, more than half his total earnings

Hunter Biden Made Most of His Money From China

First the New York Times and the Washington Post, now NBC News.


	Before we dig into the details of the NBC News report, let me note that it is once again a mainstream media news report digging into a story that the media denied so vocally in 2020 that it was censored across social media platforms as disinformation.


	<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/analysis-hunter-bidens-hard-drive-shows-firm-took-11-million-2013-2018-rcna29462">Now suddenly</a>.

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		NBC News obtained&nbsp;a copy of Biden’s laptop hard drive&nbsp;from a representative of Rudy Giuliani and examined Biden’s business dealings from 2013 to 2018 based on the information available on the hard drive and the scope of the documents released by the Senate.
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	NBC News' experts all have unflattering things to say about Hunter Biden.

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		Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence, said there is a national security risk when foreign powers like China see an opportunity to get close to someone like Biden. “It’s all about access and influence, and if you can compromise someone with both access and influence, that’s even better,” said Figliuzzi, now an NBC News contributor. “Better still if that target has already compromised himself.”

	
		NBC&nbsp;News&nbsp;analyst Chuck Rosenberg, a former Justice Department official, said that Biden’s paying what he owes&nbsp;could&nbsp;even be seen as an admission of criminal violations. Not paying taxes for many years, rather than one or two, Rosenberg said, helps establish intent, which can otherwise be a struggle for prosecutors in white-collar cases.

	
		Paying the bill, Rosenberg said, might help Biden if he faced sentencing and “mitigate some of the damage, but it doesn’t undo the crime. That would be like returning money to a bank that you robbed. You still robbed the bank.”
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	It's almost as if Hunter Biden is a Republican.


	NBC News is the latest in a series of mainstream media outlets to run extensive pieces digging into the laptop materials. Why?&nbsp;


	In 2020, the Hunter Biden stuff was opposition research against a candidate the media opposes. Now, it's opposition research against a candidate some in the media would like to see step down after his first term.


	Joe Biden keeps talking about running again. It's no coincidence that the media got interested in Hunter Biden's laptop as part of an emerging consensus that Joe Biden shouldn't run again.


	As<a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/democrat-plan-stop-joe-biden-daniel-greenfield/"> I wrote in</a>,&nbsp;The Democrat Plan to Stop Joe Biden, "Biden’s son is the leverage. During the election, Democrats and their media feverishly suppressed any coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop only to now revive the story. In recent weeks and months, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Washington Post&nbsp;have legitimized the laptop."

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		"Democrats and the media are best served with Schrödinger's Hunter, not indicted or exculpated, but the subject of an ongoing investigation that can be used as leverage on his father, that holds out possible consequences for the son without severely damaging Joe’s election chances.&nbsp;

	
		They would like Joe Biden to say that he’ll be stepping down after one term and for the Hunter Biden investigation to go away with a slap on the wrist."&nbsp;
</blockquote>

The Mainstream Media is Suddenly Very Interested in Opposition Research on Hunter Biden

First the New York Times and the Washington Post, now NBC News.


	Before we dig into the details of the NBC News report, let me note that it is once again

The Mainstream Media is Suddenly Very Interested in Opposition Research on Hunter Biden

The difference between disinformation and information is often a matter of perspective.&nbsp;


	Disinformation is an Orwellian term which seeks to delegitimize opposing or different points of view by treating them as a "fundamental crisis of democracy". The Disinformation Governance Board, an illegitimate and disturbing institution, and even contemplating such a thing was an offense against the First Amendment.


	And, appropriately enough, what brought the Disinformation Governance Board down was exactly information of the sort that it would like to get rid of.


	Critics made Nina Jankowicz, her personality, her videos and her views, an issue. And they did so successfully enough that the board will get reset.


	It will, like every movie monster and slasher movie villain, be back. Anything else is unthinkable.


	Ever since Dems embraced the notion of a&nbsp;disinformation crisis after losing the 2016 presidential election, the concept has become crucial to their war on free speech and efforts to monopolize online narrative spaces.


	But&nbsp;&nbsp;Nina Jankowicz likely won't be a part of it.

The Disinformation Board was Brought Down by Information

The difference between disinformation and information is often a matter of perspective.&nbsp;


	Disinformation is an Orwellian term which seeks to

The Disinformation Board was Brought Down by Information

Elon Musk threatening to hold off on a purchase of Twitter because of spam is an interesting argument. Granted there are legal disclosure issues, but we've known that Twitter is bots for a very long time.


	The "bot" argument often comes up, It's also mostly meaningless.

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		Half of Joe Biden's Twitter Followers Are Fake, Audit Reveals - Newsweek
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	Like his real-life followers.&nbsp;


	But Twitter really is just a bunch of bots. Much like Amazon reviewers. The problem really took off when influencers came into being. A new wave of sophisticated campaigns were initially used to swell follower accounts in a crude way, but then became machines distributing messages and ideas on a massive scale.


	Much of this isn't even political.


	Whether you're selling one side or another of a war, or dishwasher detergent or a brand of cosmetics, you need followers to bolster your influence and spread your message.


	The bot armies routinely follow popular accounts and interact with them to create the illusion of legitimacy. The folks replying to everything with canned remarks or animated gifs may be real, but they may also be bots.


	That means most popular accounts have a high ratio of bot followers, it means that any popular trend with have bots attach to it, and it means that any company doing Twitter marketing is likely going to make us of bots to amplify its message.


	Basically, bots are to Twitter what spam is to email. It's an inescapable reality.&nbsp;

Twitter is a Bunch of Bots

Elon Musk threatening to hold off on a purchase of Twitter because of spam is an interesting argument. Granted there are legal disclosure issues, but we've

Twitter is a Bunch of Bots

This may not be the incredibly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-frustrated-constantly-explaining-things-to-trump-fiona-hill-2022-5?op=1&amp;scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4">damaging argument</a> that Fiona Hill thought it would be.


	Hill, the British NSC adviser on Russia, a leftist currently at Brookings, keeps trying to bash Trump and praise the Democrats, but this isn't having quite the intended effect. Hill tries to explain away the obvious problem of why Putin invaded Ukraine under Obama and Biden, but not Trump.&nbsp;


	Apparently, he didn't like having to explain things and did like easy surrenders and predictable weakness.

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		Russian President Vladimir Putin often became frustrated with President Donald Trump over his lack of knowledge on geopolitical issues, Fiona Hill said, adding that this played into Moscow's decision on the timing of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

	
		One of the reasons Putin invaded Ukraine with President Joe Biden in the White House was that he expected the US to "sue for peace" and thought it would be better to deal with Biden than trying to negotiate with someone like Trump, whom the Russian leader had "to explain everything to all the time,"

	
		"He thought that somebody like Biden — who's a transatlanticist, who knows all about NATO, who actually knows where Ukraine is, and actually knows something about the history, and is very steeped in international affairs — would be the right person to engage with," Hill said.

	
		"You could see that he got frustrated many times with President Trump because he had to keep explaining things, and Putin doesn't like to do that," Hill said, adding: "Even though he loves to be able to spin his own version of events, he wants to have predictability in the person that he's engaging with."
</blockquote>


	Again, not the compelling pro-Biden argument that Hill thought it would be.


	Seems like maybe we need someone in the White House whom Putin doesn't want to have to deal with rather than the predictable fellow who will surrender on cue.


	Mind you, this does inconveniently rub up against the whole, "Putin wants Trump in the White House" conspiracy theory that's been at the heart of every Dem attack from the Steele dossier to the Mueller investigation.

Fiona Hill: Putin Invaded Ukraine Under Biden, Because He's "Predictable", Would Surrender

This may not be the incredibly damaging argument that Fiona Hill thought it would be.


	Hill, the British NSC adviser on Russia, a leftist currently at

Fiona Hill: Putin Invaded Ukraine Under Biden, Because He's "Predictable", Would Surrender

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