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Every political scandal has three phases.
1. Vigorous denials
2. Partial denials
3. Everyone knew it was true all along so what’s the big deal anyway?
The New York Times seems to be rapidly accelerating toward phase 3.
President Biden met with and spoke to his son Hunter’s international business associates on a number of occasions over a decade as Hunter Biden sought to drum up consulting deals, including while his father was vice president, his former business partner told Congress on Monday.
However, in nearly five hours of closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee, Devon Archer, the former partner, asserted that the elder Mr. Biden was not party to any of his son’s business deals and that Hunter Biden had tried to sell the illusion that he was providing access to his powerful father when he was not, according to Democrats on the panel.
It’s not an illusion… if he was providing access.
When he repeatedly got his father on the phone to talk to his business partners, that was access. The New York Times is trying to argue that Joe Biden was too stupid to understand why his son kept putting him on the phone with foreign businessmen.
“Hi son, what’s up.”
“Hey dad, just wanted to introduce you to two new members of my crack lacrosse team. This is Li from China, Pavel from Ukraine and Osama from Afghanistan.”
“Great to meet you guys, so how’s the weather?”
But Democrats said that Mr. Archer had described the conversations in which the elder Mr. Biden participated as short and casual — about topics like the weather — and his interactions as little more than stopping by a dinner or a hotel for a brief handshake or a few pleasantries over the phone.
“The witness was very, very consistent that none of those conversations ever had to do with any business dealings or transactions,” said Representative Dan Goldman, Democrat of New York and a member of the Oversight Committee who participated in the interview. “They were purely what he called ‘casual conversation.’”
The only people the New York Times thinks are dumber than Joe Biden are its own readers.
Hunter’s business, Devon Archer testified, was being able to deliver access to his father. And then his father phoned, walked over or otherwise held ‘casual conversations’ to demonstrate that Hunter could deliver him. Hunter negotiated the deals and, as we’ve seen already, he did so in his father’s name.
But let’s hit Phase 3.
“It has long been known that the elder Mr. Biden at times interacted with his son’s business partners.”
Isn’t that a great throwaway line toward the end? What’s the big deal? We knew all along that Joe Biden lied. Everyone does it. It proves nothing. And we’ll treat anything else you prove in the same exact way.
For example, they know how to talk about quid pro quos in such a way that they can deny they were talking about quid pro quos.
Similarly for every illegal thing they do.
Not that I’m an expert, just happened to notice that numerous times.
Did not Jim Biden mention to Bobalinski the importance of “plausible deniability”?
Thanks Sid!!!!!
Where do leprechauns hid their gold?
Where does Biden hide his?
Impeachment for self dealing are conducted not as criminal trials. There is no presumption of innocence, no right of executive secrecy.
The accused is required to demonstrate innocence.
Which is why I expect a negotiated resignation. And have, since Inauguration.
Joe’s involvement obviously was to demonstrate to Hunter’s “investors” that Hunter had his father’s backing. It is no accident that Joe kept appearing at Hunter’s meetings to “show the flag” or that Hunter would call him to discuss the weather in the midst of Hunter’s meetings to demonstrate he could reach Joe at any time by telephone. And, as a former, longtime, federal employee in D.C. I can assure readers that access IS influence. This is all so breathtakingly corrupt. I’m still waiting in vain for the first Dem member of Congress to say that he or she sees anything wrong with it.
Whatever moral high ground the left may once have had, it was long ago blown out of the water. Like Lenin said–“There are no morals in politics. There is only expedience.”
It’s like a kidnapper offering proof of life before the ransom is paid.
As always the New York Slimes defends Americas #1 Worst Presidents as it also covered up for Stalin, Hitler Castro and the Viet Cong and is behind the 1619 Project This leftists rag should be on everybody’s Boycott List
It would have seemed RUDE not to????
If everyone knew, how come the slimes never reported it, instead of joe’s lies?
The New York Slimes has been covering up for years since at least 1932 when they covered up for Stalin then Later Hitler and the Viet Cong as well as Castro and are hiding the truth from us