Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Said Joe on Saturday, “I have never spoken to my son about his various business dealings.” Is this credible?
With the revelation by an intel community “whistleblower” that President Donald Trump, in a congratulatory call to the new president of Ukraine, pushed him repeatedly to investigate the Joe Biden family connection to Ukrainian corruption, the cry “Impeach!” is being heard anew in the land.
But revisiting how this latest scandal came about, and how it has begun to unfold, it is a good bet that the principal casualty could be the former vice president. Consider:
In May 2016, Joe Biden, as Barack Obama’s designated point man on Ukraine, flew to Kiev to inform President Petro Poroshenko that a billion-dollar U.S. loan guarantee had been approved to enable Kiev to continue to service its mammoth debt.
But, said Biden, the aid was conditional. There was a quid pro quo.
If Poroshenko’s regime did not fire its chief prosecutor in six hours, Biden would fly home and Ukraine would get no loan guarantee. Ukraine capitulated instantly, said Joe, reveling in his pro-consul role.
Yet, left out of Biden’s drama about how he dropped the hammer on a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor was this detail.
The prosecutor had been investigating Burisma Holdings, the biggest gas company in Ukraine. And right after the U.S.-backed coup that ousted the pro-Russian government in Kiev, and after Joe Biden had been given the lead on foreign aid for Ukraine, Burisma had installed on its board, at $50,000 a month, Hunter Biden, the son of the vice president.
Joe Biden claims that, though he was point man in the battle on corruption in Ukraine, he was unaware his son was raking in hundreds of thousands from one of the companies being investigated.
Said Joe on Saturday, “I have never spoken to my son about his various business dealings.”
Is this credible?
Trump and Rudy Giuliani suspect not, and in that July 25 phone call, Trump urged President Volodymyr Zelensky to reopen the investigation of Hunter Biden and Burisma.
The media insist there is no story here and the real scandal is that Trump pressed Zelensky to reopen the investigation to target his strongest 2020 rival. Worse, say Trump’s accusers, would be if the president conditioned the transfer of $250 million in approved military aid to Kiev on the new regime’s acceding to his demands.
The questions raised are several:
Is it wrong to make military aid to a friendly nation conditional on that nation’s compliance with legitimate requests or demands of the United States? Is it illegitimate to ask a friendly government to look into what may be corrupt conduct by the son of a U.S. vice president?
Joe Biden has an even bigger problem: This issue has begun to dominate the news at an especially vulnerable moment for his campaign.
Biden’s stumbles and gaffes have already raised alarms among his followers and been seized upon by rivals such as Cory Booker, who has publicly suggested that the 76-year-old former vice president is losing it.
Biden’s lead in the polls also appears shakier with each month. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has just taken a narrow lead in a Des Moines Register poll and crusading against Beltway corruption is central to her campaign.
“Too many politicians in both parties have convinced themselves that playing the money-for-influence game is the only way to get things done,” Warren told her massive rally in New York City: “No more business as usual. Let’s attack the corruption head on.”
Soon, it will not only be Trump and Giuliani asking Biden questions abut Ukraine, Burisma and Hunter, but Democrats, too. Calls are rising for Biden’s son to be called to testify before congressional committees.
With Trump airing new charges daily, Biden will be asked to respond by his traveling press. The charges and the countercharges will become what the presidential campaign is all about. Bad news for Joe Biden.
Can he afford to spend weeks, perhaps months, answering for his son’s past schemes to enrich himself through connections to foreign regimes that seem less related to Hunter’s talents than his being the son of a former vice president and possible future president?
“Ukraine-gate” is the latest battle in the death struggle between the “deep state” and a president empowered by Middle America to go to Washington and break that deep state’s grip on the national destiny.
Another issue is raised here — the matter of whistleblowers listening in to or receiving readouts of presidential conversations with foreign leaders and having the power to decide for themselves whether the president is violating his oath and needs to be reported to Congress.
Eisenhower discussed coups in Iran and Guatemala and the use of nuclear weapons in Korea and the Taiwan Strait. JFK, through brother Bobby, cut a secret deal with Khrushchev to move U.S. missiles out of Turkey six months after the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba.
Who deputized bureaucratic whistleblowers to pass judgment on such conversations and tattle to Congress if they were offended?
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Old Joe is a democrat and inspite of being at the trough for 50 years is as pure as new fallen snow. Yep, and I have some beachfront for sale in Florida.
I have trouble with the word never in his quote. That seems unbelievable that they never discussed business dealings with his dad. Particularly some that are a big deal.
Joe set him up. Hunter is too stupid and methed up to even know what time of day it is. How did he get himself on a board of directors after a coup in a foreign country. Old Daddy scumbag Joe set him up ….
every company needs a coke head with an anal fixation on its board.
This is all to get Biden out of the race.
The socialist/satanist want this Country now, not four or eight years from now.
The trans/climate change/reparation crowd see their seeds coming to fruit, and everyone else will see it for the lie that it is.
Better question Pat:
Who gives a fuck what yesterday’s edition of communist-conspirator Kabuki theater?
It’s not the mainstream that keeps whatever remains of conservatives in the dark.
It’s softball articles like this one, written by paid writers like this one, that keep you in the dark.
Biden and son Hunter are a given. What happened to the investigations, as promised by Trump and Barr, into Clinton, Comey, Lynch, Mueller, Weissmann, Strzok, Page, Rosenstein, the FISA judges, etc etc? These demons were attempting a coup, after all.
Academic question, I realize. The answer is: Not a damn thing. Everyone will walk.
Barr’s fault. He isn’t doing his job because he is deep state, same as Wray. I have a feeling that if Trump were to bring in a no-namer who knew what he was doing, he would never be confirmed by the Senate for fear of uncovering the Senate cabal’s felonious activities as well.
Trump is stuck and can only do what he himself can do. No prosecutions for Email gate, Russia-Gate, Biden-Ukraine gate Epstien-Gate will ever be forthcoming because Barr and Wray are on the other side. Justice is totally dead in this country now as we use to know it We are totally F’d and things will only get much worse from here.
It’s worse!
http://libertyandjusticeunited.org/AdditionalDocuments/EverythingSecretReport-FBI-Part-1.pdf
http://libertyandjusticeunited.org/AdditionalDocuments/EverythingSecretReport-FBI-Part-2.pdf
Biden is a lot of things, but he cannot be completely stupid. After watching the Clintons pay for play scheme make them hundreds of millions, it stands to reason that he would try to get a piece of the action for his own family, even if it involves his cocaine snorting disgraced son.
Biden at this point seems to have a brain made out of swiss cheese and I don’t see that he will be the one to challenge Trump in the end even without this Ukraine scandal.
Can’t really accept testimony from a guy who appears senile either. That is surely an Ace in the hole for Plugs.
Senile or fake senile?
You must be talking about Mueller, the old Boston fixer and keeper of FBI-DOJ secrets.
Worse than Hoover!
You are right. Biden only has 4-5 good hours a day in him at best, and then he gets unfocused or snappish. He simply doesn’t have enough gas in the tank to make it through what will be a grueling campaign.
It’s great watching Democrats go after Trump and then find themselves in trouble. I don’t like people who try their best to bring the country down.
Creepy Old Joe is done and has been for quite a while. Someone needs to tell him to back out gracefully, but being a swamp creature, he will stay until the bitter end.
In politics, there are no accidents. Most likely “they” have run out of use of this old white man and are tossing him aside. For maximum humiliation of the people, which is the name of the game, in 2020 you’re going to get a Trump/Pence vs Warren/Buttplug Pete
Biden will actually split the Clinton vote early on. So the Clinton machine will ditch him before Super Tuesday if not much earlier.
In that Warren is drawing crowds, Clinton will be forced to expedite her entry . But that splits the Biden/Clinton wing in half.
So Clinton may have to Campaign after Super Tuesday even though Texas and California have moved up their dates to Super Tuesday.
Not only is Joe set to get a thrashing, but whatever remains of Obama’s legacy is in for a little damage, too. This all happened on his watch.