Allegations against Biden and his family are too credible to wipe away with ‘father’s love’ sob story

Ana Navarro whipped out the tiny violins on ABC’s “The View” this week, declaring that the Biden corruption scandal “is a narrative of a father’s love, and Joe Biden has by no means and can by no means surrender on his son Hunter . . .

“That’s a part of his coronary heart.”

The “View” co-host was merely echoing the spin from the White Home to get out from beneath the most recent avalanche of damning proof concerning the Biden household grift machine throughout Joe’s vice presidency: Trustworthy Joe is responsible of nothing greater than loving his wayward son.

The New York Occasions’ Nick Kristof echoed the sentiment in a cringeworthy piece titled “The Actual Lesson From the Hunter Biden Saga: It isn’t about presidential corruption however a decided mother or father battling his son’s dependancy with unconditional love.”

However the allegations in opposition to the president and his household are too credible to be wiped away by a secondhand sob story.

Each defendant has a hard-luck story and it’s a little bit a lot from a household that has been the epitome of privilege for many years after they don’t even attempt to present a proof. 

Nor will Biden’s on-brand defiance fly this time.

The optics of his son and Joe’s brother Jim Biden — who nonetheless is beneath federal investigation — on the White Home in bow ties for a state dinner final week was so in-your-face that even the Occasions raised an eyebrow.

It was simply two days after Hunter’s sweetheart plea deal, and Legal professional Common Merrick Garland was preposterously in attendance. 

Very humorous, Joe!

One other ruse to downplay the ballooning allegations was evident when the president joked final week throughout a gathering with the Indian prime minister that he had “bought loads of state secrets and techniques.”

What, me, fear?

That’s why he laughs in re­porters’ faces after they dare to shout a snatched query as he hurries by.

However the questions maintain coming, nonetheless.

“President Biden, how concerned have been you in your son’s Chinese language shakedown textual content message?” he was requested as he emerged from the White Home Wednesday morning. 

The query from Publish journalist Steven Nelson was a couple of Whats­App message, subpoenaed by the FBI from Hunter’s iCloud, that IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley had given to the Home Methods and Means Committee as a part of his damning testimony about DOJ ­interference within the five-year tax investigation into Hunter.

Within the July 30, 2017, message launched final Friday, Hunter threatens a Chinese language enterprise associate who owes his household cash that his father “and each particular person he is aware of” will retaliate except their instructions are obeyed: “I’m sitting right here with my father, and we wish to perceive why the dedication made has not been fulfilled.” 

Images on Hunter’s deserted laptop computer place him at his father’s Delaware property that Sunday.

So reporters have been asking the White Home if Hunter was telling the reality; was his father within the room when he was shaking down an government from Chinese language power firm CEFC who would switch $5.1 million to him over the following 9 days? 

It shouldn’t be a tough query to reply, by hook or by crook, however deflection, indignation and anger have been the one response. 

At first, Biden responded to Nelson with derisive laughter, however the reporter stored pestering: “Had been you sitting there? Had been you concerned?”

Biden: “No, I wasn’t.”

Nelson pressed: “Had been you?”

Biden leaned in and barked “No!” in a telling outburst.

However Biden bullying reporters won’t make the proof disappear — and it results in the president.

Shapley, the IRS agent in control of the felony investigation of Hunter in Delaware, advised CBS Tuesday night that DOJ obstruction served to guard Joe from publicity. 

Blocked by the DOJ

“There have been sure investigative steps we weren’t allowed to take that might have led us to President Biden,” Shapley mentioned.

Shapley has testified that his workforce was blocked by the DOJ from asking questions on Joe or different members of the family who acquired cash from Hunter.

They weren’t allowed to ask concerning the “massive man” or “dad,” have been refused search warrants and denied entry to Hunter’s laptop computer, which the FBI had authenticated by February 2020 as real and untainted and having “seemingly contained proof of tax crimes.”

Ultimately, Shapley’s workforce of 12 elite felony investigators was faraway from the case earlier than Hunter’s sweetheart deal.

Defending Joe has been the hallmark of the DOJ, FBI and maybe the CIA over each the Trump and Biden administrations, throughout which period damning info has flooded in from quite a lot of sources alleging a overseas bribery scheme.

For instance, in January 2020, the FBI was supplied bank-account particulars and different proof of alleged bribery associated to the Biden household from a girl in Ukraine who had labored for the corrupt power firm Burisma that paid Hunter $1 million a 12 months to sit down on its board.

She is the widow of the previous enterprise associate of Burisma proprietor Mykola Zlochevsky.

The truth that her identify got here to the FBI through Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s then-attorney, shouldn’t have dominated out her claims, however Giuliani’s lawyer Bob Costello says she nonetheless is ready at hand over her proof, regardless of pretend reviews that she has died.

The truth is, Costello says that two assistant US attorneys minimize off a Ukrainian-American witness they have been interviewing in Florida in September 2020 when he “volunteered that he had spoken to [the woman. They] mentioned ‘we don’t need to speak about her.’ ”

The prosecutors have been extra serious about asking questions on Giuliani’s alleged overseas lobbying violations, an investigation that led to an FBI raid in April 2021 on the previous mayor’s house in New York however by no means resulted in expenses.

The case was closed in November 2022 and his seized units have been returned. 

Informant was ignored

Simply as occurred to former federal prosecutor Bud Cummins, who reported bribery allegations involving Joe Biden and overseas nationals to the DOJ in October 2018, the informant turned the hunted. 

Cummins came upon final 12 months that in December 2019 federal prosecutors had secretly obtained knowledge from his iPhone, however he says they didn’t examine the allegations he dropped at them.

Cummins’ report was simply one in all many acquired by the DOJ between 2016 and 2020 about Biden household influence-peddling abroad. 

Israeli professor-turned-fugitive Gal Luft supplied detailed info to 6 FBI and DOJ officers about funds to Biden members of the family by CEFC throughout a gathering in Brussels on March 28 and 29, 2019. However the one seen motion was when he was arrested on foreign-lobbying and gun-running expenses in Cypress earlier this 12 months.

All this info appears to have fallen into the identical black gap because the proof concerning the CEFC deal that Hunter’s former enterprise associate Tony Bobulinski gave to the FBI earlier than the 2020 election.

The fabric Bobulinski handed over, together with Whats­App messages, paperwork and emails, bolstered proof the FBI had authenticated nearly a 12 months earlier from Hunter’s laptop computer. Now we all know that recent proof uncovered by Shapley and his IRS workforce additional corroborates Bobulinksi’s story.

The jigsaw puzzle put itself collectively. However the lack of curiosity in relation to Joe Biden is par for the course.