Federal criminal investigation Hunter Biden focuses on his business dealings (Update: DOJ appoints special counsel) (6 Viewers)

[SaintForLife]

Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden’s work in Ukraine.

Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden’s investment firm in early 2014.

“Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor,” it said in providing background on the businesswoman.

The report described her involvement with Biden as “a financial relationship,” but declined to delve deeper into why the wire transfer was made.

The probe also found that Baturina sent 11 wires transfers between May and December 2015 to a bank account belonging to BAK USA, a tech startup that filed for bankruptcy in March 2019.

Nine of those 11 wire transfers were first sent to Rosemont Seneca Partners, the investment firm founded by Biden and Chris Heinz, stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, before being transferred to BAK USA.

Hunter Biden received $3.5M wire transfer from Russian billionaire: Senate report

Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the richest woman in Russia and the widow of Yury Luzhkov, the former mayor of Moscow, Senate Republicans revealed in their r…

nypost.com

We all know their is massive corruption on both sides of the aisle. Here is an alleged allegation against Hunter Biden who was allegedly enriching himself because his Dad was Vice President.

 

[cuddlemonkey]

It shows that Hunter was selling influence to his Dad. "10% for the Big guy" was for Biden according to Tony Bobulinski.

The biggest part of the whole story is the media, big tech, the Democrats and the intelligence community working together to suppress/discredit the story to help Biden get elected.

Is there any proof that Joe Biden got 10% of anything or is it possible that his drug-addicted son was talking out of his arse to enrich himself without Joe's knowledge?

 

[J-DONK]

Is there any proof that Joe Biden got 10% of anything or is it possible that his drug-addicted son was talking out of his arse to enrich himself without Joe's knowledge?

That's the problem with the whole story. The answer is no. The only thing you can investigate at all is the squelching of the laptop story. No one cares about Hunter Biden outside of Republicans.

There are better topics to cover. David Frum was on MSNBC, and gave a great list: Afghanistan, Southern Border, Covid

 

[FullMonte]

That's the problem with the whole story. The answer is no. The only thing you can investigate at all is the squelching of the laptop story. No one cares about Hunter Biden outside of Republicans.

There are better topics to cover. David Frum was on MSNBC, and gave a great list: Afghanistan, Southern Border, Covid

That ONE problem with that story. Another big problem with it….the “10% for the big guy” email was sent in May 2017. Even if we assume Joe Biden is “the big guy,” what position did he hold in the government in May 2017?

 

[SamAndreas]

I don't regard the Hunter Biden lap top story as being real.

Even if it was at one point real, it has clearly been contaminated by years of right wing manipulation of the files.

That latest CBS report makes that clear. They say they have looked at a copy which was "pristine." That implies that there are other copies being circulated which are not "pristine."

The right wing will use that "pristine" report to bolster the details in the less "pristine" copies like as if they are all the same.

It's too much to sort out at home so into the dumpster it goes. Misguided Trash!

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

The biggest part of the whole story is the media, big tech, the Democrats and the intelligence community working together to suppress/discredit the story to help Biden get elected.

 

[FullMonte]

The biggest part of the whole story is the media, big tech, the Democrats and the intelligence community working together to suppress/discredit the story to help Biden get elected.

Fair. So you also agree, I assume, that James Comey announcing the reopening of the Hillary Clinton investigation 2 weeks before the 2016 election was the DOJ/FBI working to get Trump elected, right?

 

[SaintForLife]

How did this huge conspiracy happen? No, seriously, who was pulling the strings? How did they get all these disparate media corporations and tech corporations to play ball? How did whoever get everyone to play along?

Hint: they didn’t. Media and tech are in competition with each other. If one of them had anything credible they would have broken the story in a NY minute. Do you think that FOX, the WSJ, any number of conservative sources conspired to elect Biden? And the Trump FBI also conspired to elect Biden? Do you know how crazy this sounds?

The “laptop” discredited itself. It was/is a collection of files that have been heavily manipulated AFTER the store guy gave it to the FBI. We don’t know exactly what is on the original, at all. Nobody does, except the FBI.

Heavily manipulated?

Copy of what's believed to be Hunter Biden's laptop data turned over by repair shop to FBI showed no tampering, analysis says

The laptop and its alleged contents will be a key part of the investigation into the Biden family that House Republicans plan to take up in January.

www.cbsnews.com

We've been over this multiple times, but I'm not surprised you still deny the Hunter Biden story was censored/surpressed. That's your thing.

Zuckerberg tells Rogan Facebook suppressed Hunter Biden laptop story after FBI warning

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told popular podcaster Joe Rogan that Facebook did limit stories on the news feed related to the New York Post story about President Biden’s son Hunter Biden and …

thehill.com

Jack Dorsey says blocking Post’s Hunter Biden story was ‘total mistake’ — but won’t say who made it

Twitter doesn’t have a “censoring department” that blocked The Post from tweeting last fall, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday — but he wouldn’t reveal who was responsible for the blunder. At a congres…

nypost.com

Twitter refuses to unlock New York Post account unless Hunter Biden posts deleted

Twitter "has refused" to give the New York Post access to its account unless it deletes 6 tweets.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[MT15]

Honestly, SFL, can you not tell the difference between what was turned over to the FBI by the repair shop and the collection of files that the Post wrote its story about?

Do you not realize they are completely different?

What the Post had and quoted and published was heavily manipulated after the FBI had taken control of the actual laptop. It was in no way an accurate representation of the actual laptop.

And seriously - you will claim these two FBI agents who made exactly one political donation in their lives in 2020 were willing to conspire illegally for democrats? LOL. Guess what? I never made any political donations in my life either until 2020, but I could recognize how dangerous Trump was and how he needed to be defeated to save our country.

When the FBI warned about the Post version of the “laptop” they were being factual. It came from Rudy Giuliani who was over in Ukraine cavorting with actual people associated with Russian intelligence. It contained a LOT of material that wasn’t on the actual laptop. Know how they knew that? Because they had the actual laptop in their possession, not some compilation of random files and pictures that were added later.

You can post this crap all day long. It only proves to me that the FBI did their job. They were protecting us from foreign influence.

 

[coldseat]

Heavily manipulated?

Copy of what's believed to be Hunter Biden's laptop data turned over by repair shop to FBI showed no tampering, analysis says

The laptop and its alleged contents will be a key part of the investigation into the Biden family that House Republicans plan to take up in January.

www.cbsnews.com

We've been over this multiple times, but I'm not surprised you still deny the Hunter Biden story was censored/surpressed. That's your thing.

Zuckerberg tells Rogan Facebook suppressed Hunter Biden laptop story after FBI warning

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week told popular podcaster Joe Rogan that Facebook did limit stories on the news feed related to the New York Post story about President Biden’s son Hunter Biden and …

thehill.com

Jack Dorsey says blocking Post’s Hunter Biden story was ‘total mistake’ — but won’t say who made it

Twitter doesn’t have a “censoring department” that blocked The Post from tweeting last fall, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday — but he wouldn’t reveal who was responsible for the blunder. At a congres…

nypost.com

Twitter refuses to unlock New York Post account unless Hunter Biden posts deleted

Twitter "has refused" to give the New York Post access to its account unless it deletes 6 tweets.

www.foxbusiness.com

This is the only statement in that CBS article that matters.

After two years of scrutiny, the laptop has produced mountains of material about Hunter Biden's personal struggles, and his foreign business ventures in Ukraine and with China. It has not produced direct evidence President Biden benefited from his son's business dealings.

Also, why does Herridge call it the:

Biden family businesses.

??? There is no "Biden family business" and as stated above, no evidence of linking Joe Biden to his son's business dealings. Extreme bias much!

She's trying to sell and insinuate something that she has no evidence off, but it clearly works with you and others predisposed to believe what she is selling.

You need to learn to read beyond the fluff that you want to believe is so devious. All of these people you constantly quote and try to push as "objective investigators" all have the same problem. They aren't.

 

[FullMonte]

See…here’s where I am with this whole story. From SFLs article:

Republican lawmakers noted one particular May 2017 email that promises to be at the core of their congressional probe.

The email, with the subject line, "Expectations," outlines a "provisional agreement" for "equity" in a deal with a Chinese energy company.

Two of Hunter's former business partners, including Tony Bobulinski, who received the email, have told CBS News that "10 held by H for the big guy?" is shorthand for 10% held by Hunter for his father.

So, what I’m supposed to get out of this is that in May 2017, a Chinese energy company decided to give citizen Joe Biden millions of dollars for his ability to influence…what? He wasn’t a member of the government any more, and while he had contacts, there were better avenues to spend money on if they wanted government influence. It’s not like that is all that hard to buy.

 

[FullMonte]

Honestly, SFL, can you not tell the difference between what was turned over to the FBI by the repair shop and the collection of files that the Post wrote its story about?

Do you not realize they are completely different?

Come on...if they were different, the article would say something like: "Della Rocca said he considers it "clean" because it predates versions that were widely circulated by Republican operatives to attack then-candidate Joe Biden before the 2020 presidential election," or "Some other versions of the laptop data circulated later appeared to have had data added after April 2019, a sign they could have been tampered with, according to reports in other media outlets."

But...the article doesn't say that, now, does it?

 

[MT15]

This is the only statement in that CBS article that matters.



Also, why does Herridge call it the:



??? There is no "Biden family business" and as stated above, no evidence of linking Joe Biden to his son's business dealings. Extreme bias much!

She's trying to sell and insinuate something that she has no evidence off, but it clearly works with you and others predisposed to believe what she is selling.

You need to learn to read beyond the fluff that you want to believe is so devious. All of these people you constantly quote and try to push as "objective investigators" all have the same problem. They aren't.

Herridge is one of the worst. CBS should get rid of her and send her back to Fox where that stuff is considered normal.

 

[MT15]

This is a really good thread about the FACTS about the laptop, etc.





…



Theres more worth reading if you go to the thread.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Hunter Biden’s friend and lawyer Kevin Morris was blunt in laying out his thoughts at a strategy session last September on an expected onslaught of investigations by House Republicans: It was crucial, Morris suggested, for Hunter Biden’s camp to be more aggressive.


Morris, at the meeting in his California home, described defamation lawsuits the team could pursue against the presidential son’s critics, including Fox News, Eric Trump and Rudy Giuliani.

He outlined extensive research on two potential witnesses against Hunter Biden — a spurned business partner named Tony Bobulinski and a computer repairman named John Paul Mac Isaac.

At one point, Hunter Biden himself happened to call into the meeting, connecting briefly by video to add his own thoughts.

“They feel that there is a whole counternarrative missing because of the whole Hunter-hater narrative out there,” said liberal activist David Brock, who attended the meeting.

“What we really got into was more the meat of it, the meat of what a response would look like.” Brock was planning for a new group, Facts First USA, focused on fighting the looming House GOP investigations.


The meeting was a glimpse into a sprawling infrastructure that is rapidly, almost frantically, assembling to combat Republicans’ plans to turn Hunter Biden into a major news story when the GOP takes over the House next year.

The risk for Hunter Biden, and possibly for President Biden as well, is that this hodgepodge of efforts is not fully coordinating and does not share a unified approach, according to people involved in the effort who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal dynamics……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/10/hunter-biden-plans-defense/

 

[MT15]

Interesting thread about the “laptop”. The entire computer repair story is possibly made up, and if so, I would think House Rs will just quietly drop the whole story.



There is a thread. Essentially she is saying that the original laptop was left at a doctor’s office, where somebody made a copy before it was returned. And the copy was given directly to Stone and Bannon, who added all the child porn stuff and other things in order to make it more sensational. At some point Rudy also added in some stuff.

 

[nolaspe]

Interesting thread about the “laptop”. The entire computer repair story is possibly made up, and if so, I would think House Rs will just quietly drop the whole story.



There is a thread. Essentially she is saying that the original laptop was left at a doctor’s office, where somebody made a copy before it was returned. And the copy was given directly to Stone and Bannon, who added all the child porn stuff and other things in order to make it more sensational. At some point Rudy also added in some stuff.

This nonsense is still a thing?

 

[zztop]

This nonsense is still a thing?

yep. This laptop is going to be their new butteremails

 

[UriUT]

yep. This laptop is going to be their new butteremails

Come on!!!! "Buttery males".