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[That our news media have no desire to follow-up the Hunter Biden email revelations of Biden family corruption is a bigger untold story than anything else so far connected with this sordid affair.  And that includes the (non)response of the FBI and the 50 former intelligence officials' successful attempt to disseminate fake news about the provenance of the emails on Hunter's laptop (here).  As far as our lamestream media are concerned, the US is now officially a banana republic in how its citizens are fed 'information' that they are to believe.  And no one, not the Republicans nor Fox News, is making much beyond clucking their tongues at what appears to be a super-scandal stillborn.  gjr]

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  1. Walt Avatar

    BIDENNnnnn!!! You got SPLAIN’NNN ta’ DOOOOO!!!!
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-grilled-transition-oil-and-gas-pennsylvania-tv-interviews
    Carbon capture again? How much did “O”&co. Piss away on that malarkey?
    Nice try Joe, you have been caught on tape way to may times saying how you will end the oil industry.
    Wind and solar? Oh Yaaa…. That’s working out SO WELL here in Ca. How many states do you plan on paving over with solar panels? How many birds do you plan on killing?(a week)
    I know,, put them in the migratory flight paths of Canada geese. You can use the excuse to “feed the underclass”.

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  2. Walt Avatar

    Trump has just about bagged his limit on terrorists!!
    https://www.foxnews.com/world/al-qaedas-second-in-command-on-fbis-most-wanted-list-killed-in-afghanistan-reports
    And “O” and Biden brag about getting just one.

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  3. paul emery Avatar
    paul emery

    George
    You seem to be on an island in this issue (Bidens family). Not even Trumps own DOJ (Barr) nor the FBI take it seriously as you have noted. Have you considered that the whole thing just might be fake or bullshit to use a popular descripto? After all it has been propagated by Giuliani who is not exactly noted for his veracity.
    Since promoting that seems to be a waste of time, which is running out, what do you think Trumps next best tactic should be to turn this thing around? Later today I’ll provide a polling update to document how slim Trumps chances appear to be.

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  4. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Punchy… I think everyone here knows you’re full of crap.
    Maybe even you.

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  5. D Avatar

    WaltDuh is spinning out of control! Look at all the CAPS and !!!!!

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  6. D Avatar

    Donald Trump is currently being sued and investigated by numerous individuals and law enforcement agencies, and his lawyers have been able to successfully hold these lawsuits off while he’s president. But if Joe Biden wins in November, all of these cases will suddenly lurch forward, and the President will no longer have an excuse as to why he can’t be prosecuted. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s going to happen.
    Link – https://www.businessinsider.com/lawsuits-trump-will-face-when-he-leaves-office-2020-9#trump-faces-a-defamation-lawsuit-from-summer-zervos-a-contestant-on-the-apprentice-1

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  7. Walt Avatar

    That’s for YOU and EMERY.. Vision IMPAIRED.
    TROLL Dung.

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  8. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 10:29 – “Have you considered that the whole thing just might be fake or bullshit to use a popular descripto?”
    Yes, Paul – we all (conservatives) consider anything like this at first to be a possible fake.
    Left, right or center. Doesn’t matter.
    But there is the fact that the FBI does not consider it fake or they would have charged the computer repair guy.
    The question remains for Paul – have you ever considered that the whole Democrat-led pile of lies about Trump being in cahoots with Putin to overturn an American election is ‘bullshit’ (to use a popular expression)?

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  9. Walt Avatar

    It’s going to be tough for Dung with the power out.
    That Tesla “power Wall” won’t last the night.
    Better yet, we won’t see or smell any TROLL droppings for days!

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  10. Scott O Avatar

    Duh 10:48/10:49 – Those posts have nothing to do with the evidence against the Bidens.
    But we understand why you’d rather not go into that.
    Voted for Biden already?
    Hmmmm?
    You leftys sure know how to pick’em.

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  11. D Avatar

    “President Trump’s Twitter accessed by security expert who guessed password ‘maga2020!’”
    https://twitter.com/mshelton/status/1318303047647309824?s=20
    https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/dutch-hacker-trump-twitter-account-password/

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  12. D Avatar

    Sorry WaltDuh, Generac, not powerwall.

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  13. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Scott O | 25 October 2020 at 10:51 AM
    But there is the fact that the FBI does not consider it fake or they would have charged the computer repair guy.
    The question remains for Paul – have you ever considered that the whole Democrat-led pile of lies about Trump being in cahoots with Putin to overturn an American election is ‘bullshit’ (to use a popular expression)?

    Nahhh……Punch believes what he’s told to believe. The very definition of useful idiot.
    (PS: Punch wonders why there haven’t been any prosecutions….too stupid to know that the swamp and its denizens will do anything to return to the status quo. Running the clock is just the first tool in the toolbox. Vacant open ended “when did you stop beating your wife” question to following in…..3….2….1…..)

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  14. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 1029am – I guess you didn’t hear 1) DNI Ratcliffe announce that the intelligence community (including the FBI and CIA) could not connect the emails to Russian influence, or 2) that other recipients of copies of the emails have stepped forward with their evidence, or 3) that witnesses to the Bidens’ participation have now gone public, or 4) that the Bidens have not denied ownership of the laptop, nor its chain of custody, or 5) that the Bidens have not denied the authenticity of the (now several copies of the two tranches) of emails.
    Nor have you paid much attention to the way the leading lights of your corrupt profession, the one held in the lowest public esteem, has not only failed to pursue the veracity of this story, but have actively launched a partisan cover-up operation of historic proportions.
    I wonder how you came to remain so insular to all the country’s happenings, and why you continue to consume only outlets that are part of this conspiracy of censors. (I use ‘conspiracy’ since there is plenty of evidence of that as shown in, say, the Tucker Carlson broadcasts of video catalogs full of examples of radical leftwing correspondents on different outlets all using identical descriptors and phraseology to characterize their party-line assessments of this and other stories. Their coordinated destruction of the Fourth Estate is something to behold, especially for those of us who are students of journalism and have taught its practitioners at the graduate level.)

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  15. D Avatar

    Sorry George, nothing to see there, but keep trying out there in Desperation City!
    “A month before the 2016 presidential election, WikiLeaks released hacked emails from John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
    Last week, The New York Post published an article featuring emails from a laptop purportedly owned by Hunter Biden, son of the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden. The emails, about business dealings in Ukraine, have not been independently verified.
    So how did cable news treat these two caches, which were both aimed at Democratic candidates during the heights of their presidential campaigns?
    The answer: Fox News is giving more airtime to the unverified Hunter Biden emails than it did to the hacked emails from Podesta in 2016, according to an analysis from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation.”
    Link – https://news.yahoo.com/fox-news-covering-hunter-biden-151900615.html

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  16. George Rebane Avatar

    re D 1109am – This comment is an excellent illustration of the ever-enlarging Great Divide. Another reason dialogue between the two sides has become futile is that each has their own definition of and criteria for the verification of evidence. In short, this piles on to my standing assertion that not only can each side have its own opinions, but also its own unique facts, history, values, ethics, mores, … . For example –
    https://www.theepochtimes.com/sharyl-attkisson-special-interests-behind-dangerous-social-media-fact-checks_3551125.html
    This is valuable knowledge, especially for those still seeking to convince the other side of their errors – an enterprise that has proven to be as profitable as relieving oneself over the weather-side gunwale.

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  17. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 25 October 2020 at 11:09 AM
    …according to an analysis from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation.”

    Speaking of urine soaked chair and furiously waving T-Rex arms desperation…….The Atlantic Council? Really?
    One of those slick well funded marketing firms for Big Government and Corporate Multinationals?
    (D)ugsKKKi….you should really figure out who you want to support …….Big Energy, Pharma, Transport, Tech….you know Atlantic Council patrons or not you addled old “rebel” you!

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  18. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    GR 1102am
    Punchy is having too much fund doing the electoral equivalent of pulling the wings off flies. In his mind at least, he’s sure he’s rubbing the noses of GOP partisans into the gloom of election month. Just like last year except this time… it won’t turn out the same way.
    Voter supression it would be called, if it was the other way around.

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  19. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: Gregory | 25 October 2020 at 11:24 AM
    Punchy is having too much fund doing the electoral equivalent of pulling the wings off flies. In his mind at least, he’s sure he’s rubbing the noses of GOP partisans into the gloom of election month. Just like last year except this time… it won’t turn out the same way.

    Gloom? Why gloom…..? Trump…whether he connects on a Hail Mary or not got three Supreme Court justices and (as you pointed out repeatedly, oversaw the appointment of hundreds far less ideological judges through the system than would have been appointed under a Hillary Clinton administration.) rolled back oodles of useless artery clogging regulations (Hi Steve…!) that if re-implemented will rapidly choke back the fabulous green economy that Joey Fingers has promised but won’t be able to deliver. This all in an environment of tighter non-discretionary spending!
    Gloom…..the next four years are going to be awesome from Schadenfreude standpoint!

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  20. D Avatar

    Sorry George, what don’t you understand about information being “unverified”?
    Get back to us when you have actionable intelligence of some import, otherwise it is just some ‘Swiftboat, pissin’ in the wind’last minute electioneering – or, a more accurate analogy might be ‘tossing spaghetti against the wall’.

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  21. Walt Avatar

    “Generac”,, we shall see. If so,, GREAT! TROLL thumping is a fun passtime.

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  22. Walt Avatar

    Only a proggy protectionist is still going with the “unverified” line of crap. Plenty of verification, and none from “unnamed” sources. Better get on the ball Dung,(or Dung Ball ) But that’s why you look like a real idiot here, because you listen to the proggy press.

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  23. D Avatar

    She probably got paid to delete the tweets, or was it the NDA?
    “The “Wrecking Ball” singer spills tea about Donald Trump’s children and claims she has receipts
    Singer Aubrey O’Day has apparently had enough of the Trump family’s lying while out on the campaign trail.
    The former Danity Kane member took to Twitter to post, and subsequently delete, about how Donald Trump, Jr. secretly dislikes his father and youngest brother, Barron, according to Refinery29.
    O’Day apparently watched President Donald Trump criticize Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The “Wrecking Ball” singer decided to put the Trump family’s contradictions on blast.
    Refinery29, a media outlet tailored to young women, obtained a screenshot of O’Day’s now-deleted tweets and reported that one post included the following message:
    “Since trump has now lowered this debate to trashing family.
    – don jr HATES his father.
    -ivanka is a lesbian on the low.
    -eric f**ked miss universe on the apprentice board room table while with his now-wife. #Debates2020.”
    The post included a gif with the message “I have the receipts.”
    She would go on to tweet about Don Jr.’s disdain for Barron, Trump’s youngest child with First Lady Melania Trump, his third wife.
    “And while we are at it.. I have texts of don jr telling me what a little shit asshole barron is.” O’Day wrote in a second tweet. “That they were on the private jet and barron didn’t like his food so he threw the plate across the plane at the attendant. NONE of these people are INNOCENT of being assholes & liars!”
    O’Day has had close dealings with Donald Jr. years before.
    She appeared as a contestant on the fifth season of ABC’s The Celebrity Apprentice in 2012, in which Don Jr. played an advisor role. During the taping, the two allegedly had an affair.
    READ MORE: Twitter suspends Donald Trump Jr.’s account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation
    In 2013, O’Day released a song titled “DJT” that discussed having an affair with a married man. The man ultimately stayed with his wife. Since the title could be an acronym for Donald Trump, Jr., rumors of the affair began to surface.
    According to People Magazine, O’Day admitted to the affair on an episode of MTV’s Ex on the Beach in 2019, calling him her “soulmate.”
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/aubrey-o-day-alleged-trump-152813641.html

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  24. fish Avatar
    fish

    Posted by: D | 25 October 2020 at 11:43 AM
    ….or, a more accurate analogy might be ‘tossing spaghetti against the wall’.

    Something that I imagine you, or those who are paid to clean up after you are well acquainted.

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  25. Walt Avatar

    Well well.. Even NPR may be in hot water for the news blackout.
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/25/rep-gosar-defund-npr-failing-report-news-hunter-biden-scandal/
    “Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) reacted to tax-payer funded National Public Radio’s (NPR) announcement that it won’t “waste time” reporting on the growing scandal centered on Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s dealing with Communist China during the former’s time as vice president.
    ““It’s time to defund @NPR,” Gosart tweeted. “This is appalling. #DefundNPR,” Gosar wrote on Twitter.”
    DAMN Dung,, news you didn’t get.🤣👍🤦‍♂️
    “Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Monday said that Hunter Biden’s laptop “is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”
    Senate Republicans are investigating Hunter Biden’s emails which reveal that he allegedly introduced his father, the former vice president, to a top executive at Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings in 2015, among other allegations.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/10/25/rep-gosar-defund-npr-failing-report-news-hunter-biden-scandal/

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  26. D Avatar

    DNI Ratshit only said no Rooskie disinfo, did not verify anything about the mystery laptop.
    As Trumpski says, I meet a lot of people, shake a lot of hands, have photos taken with a lot of people – but I don’t really know them.

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  27. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    #DefundNPR
    Has a nice ring to it.
    My wife and I often listen to NPR, and we were talking about it yesterday. My wife likes it more tha I do, and it rubs her the wrong way less often than her having to listen to Limbaugh or Sullivan because I have it on the radio… but NPR’s damned news slant gets to her, too. Every hour of listening will have climate indoctrination and diversity/CRT indoctrination… everal times.
    Now, defunding NPR doesn’t mean I want it to go away… it just needs to stand on its own two feet. I recall an on air begfest 20 years ago where the talking head responded to a Libertarian (not me) decrying the lack of coverage, and the head beggar made a comment along the lines of “maybe if you paid up, we’d cover you fairly”… from then on, I’ve proudly not responded to begging from them.
    #DefundNPR … Damn, I like the sound of that.

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  28. Walt Avatar

    Does that mean KVMR will have to buy it’s own supply of D cell batteries? ( My old CB radio had a better reach)

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  29. Walt Avatar

    Keep going Dung, the more you play the “unverified” card, the more of an idiot you become.
    Plenty of evidence to the contrary of your “F”ed stance.
    has been posted here. It’s not our problem you refused to read it.

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  30. Walt Avatar

    Here Dung ,,, this will help you catch up.
    https://www.breitbart.com/tag/hunter-biden/

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  31. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    A bit off the Biden Corruption Clan and Hunter screwing his sister-in-law thread, but did you know last week after Biden’s debate with Mr. President that the numbero uno trending search item was…….drumroll please………was…….”What was the top search on Google over a 24-hour period yesterday? “How can I change my vote?”” Lol. Basically, you can’t Vote early and often
    WHY YOU SHOULDN’T VOTE EARLY [WITH COMMENT BY PAUL]
    What was the top search on Google over a 24-hour period yesterday? “How can I change my vote?”
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/why-you-shouldnt-vote-early.php

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  32. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Fish @ 12:27 pm
    On any given Sunday, the one whom is at the highest risk for COVID-19 mortality (due to gross….er….morbid obesity) comes waddling out of the swamp gas.

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  33. Walt Avatar

    All HELLLlllll…. Kinda shoots your “uncorroborated” line of crap to sh*t.
    ” “The vice president is lying again,” he said. “Check out page 78 of our report, where we show a company, a Chinese company, CEFC, transferred about $5 million to businesses controlled by Hunter Biden, $5 million. So, no, he’s lying. He’s lying about the fact that he said he never spoke to his son Hunter about his overseas business connections, flew over to China, had a handshake with Jonathan Li, who ended up being a business partner in Bohai Harvest RST, which was that investment firm.”
    “We documented Amos Hochstein talked to the vice president about the glaring conflict of interest in Ukraine. The vice president then talked to Hunter to arrange a meeting with Amos Hochstein. So, the vice president has been caught in repeated lies over Biden Inc. about his family’s businesses.””
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/25/sen-ron-johnson-the-vice-president-has-been-caught-in-repeated-lies-over-biden-inc-about-his-familys-businesses/
    Did you read it TROLLS? Or is your attention span WAY to short?

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  34. Walt Avatar

    That’s how you do it.
    Vote for ME,, so I can bend you over and take MORE of your money.
    Start with Jeffy and Dung! I’m sure they will be happy to empty their checkbook in the name of Marxism.
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-raising-taxes-top-priority-trump-election-wall-street

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  35. D Avatar

    Posted by: WaltDuh | 25 October 2020 at 12:25 PM
    Breitbart has many articles on Hunter. So Impressed! How about the one about dual use technology transfer to China? Was it legal?

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  36. Walt Avatar

    Oh… Where he didn’t register as a foreign agent?
    Yup, your in the Emery camp of “corruption is just fine”

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  37. Walt Avatar

    You in a habit of making excuses for crime? Oh.. Wait…

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  38. D Avatar

    Walduh, what part of gaming the system don’t you get? Trump bragged about just that thing when he said he works the system to his advantage for tax purposes, and whatever else in foreign lands.
    More ‘wish’ sandwiches. Good thing you don’t run a food truck.

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  39. Walt Avatar

    Poor Dung. Can’t tell the diff. between legally working the system and corruption.
    Funny, the IRS has yet to find any improprieties.
    You lose again.
    Speaking of “working the system,, Ever figure out how to add?
    Still contracting without a licence?

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  40. Walt Avatar

    See Dung? Biden can actually tell the truth now and then.
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-voter-fraud-organization-video-gaffe
    “”We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics,” Biden said in the video.”
    Gotta love the admission of guilt.

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  41. Walt Avatar

    Poor Dung.. Not keeping up with the facts?
    And “O”&Co. allowed it. Like Clinton giving missile tech to China… Yup, you Commie bastards love selling out your own homeland.
    ““You’re exactly right, Maria, and this is a big part, I think, of the missed story. This is not just a story about Hunter Biden and the family getting wealthy. It’s about Hunter Biden participating in Chinese efforts to acquire western technology. In particular, for example, there’s a company called Henniges out of Michigan that produces dual-use technologies that they have both military and civilian application, and they are anti-vibration technologies. Hunter Biden’s Chinese-funded investment firm partnered with AVIC, which is the largest military contractor in China, and they, together, acquired Henniges, this dual-use technology company in Michigan. It has clear military application.”
    “That deal had to be approved by CFIUS,” he continued. “We know in the emails we’ve now obtained that they were involved in getting approval meaning Hunter Biden’s firm. We now know that once it was approved, they actually had a celebration of this technology transfer at the U.S. embassy with Chinese executives, with the participation of Hunter Biden’s partners, and it was a celebration and the man that was there Ambassador Max Baucus, former Senator from Montana is a long time Biden family friend. So let’s be clear this is not just about the Biden family becoming wealthy from these foreign partners. It’s about the Biden family participating in the transfer of U.S. technologies to China and getting paid for participating in that.”
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/10/25/schweizer-hunter-biden-participated-in-chinese-efforts-to-acquire-western-technology/

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  42. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    If a FBI case number and the DNI saying no rancid russian dressing does not convince the TDS set Trolls and the Dark Lord of Liberal Lament Land nothing will –
    Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who said his staff reviewed and independently authenticated the purported emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop, told “Sunday Morning Futures” that “they’re as real as real can be.”
    “We have the eyewitness, Mr. [Tony] Bobulinski, who said these are authentic, these are real,” Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said.
    Bobulinski, who was listed as the recipient of an email published by the New York Post that appeared to detail a business arrangement involving a Chinese company and members of the Biden family, confirmed last week that the email is “genuine” and provided more information regarding the Bidens’ role in the deal.
    The email includes a note that “Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate.” A proposed equity split references “20” for “H” and “10 held by H for the big guy?” with no further details.
    “The reference to ‘the Big Guy’ in the much publicized May 13, 2017 email is in fact a reference to Joe Biden,” Bobulinski said in a statement to Fox News.
    Bobulinski said he is the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings, which he explained “was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family.” He said he was brought on as CEO by Hunter Biden and James Gilliar, who was listed as the sender of the email.
    Bobulinski went on to say he does not believe Joe Biden’s past claim that he and Hunter did not discuss his son Hunter’s business, claiming that Hunter “frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals.”
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-jim-jordan-on-reviewing-and-authenticating-purported-hunter-biden-emails
    😉

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  43. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    The Blue Mob Brownshirts doin’ their thing.
    People in New York throw projectiles at driving participants of the #JewsforTrump caravan below.
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1320441746556284928

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  44. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Coming soon to a theater near you.
    “A woman confronts #antifa tonight as they blast loud music in a residential area. “This is all going on Twitter, make this bitch famous,” they respond. They call her “Karen” & shout “white privilege.” #PortlandRiots”
    https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1320234485200216064

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “It’s an all-out fight. Antifa militants broke through the police barricade to attack Trump supporters and pro-police demonstrators.”
    https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1320433750954577925
    Every time I run into this kind of thing I can just see our local elfin gadfly running around with a camera. Gotta catch that oooh-so-sexy shot of a Trump supporter getting kicked by a dozen mostly peaceful protestors.

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  46. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Do tell, i heard a troll say its fairy dust. But for whom? –
    https://www.oann.com/hunter-bidens-former-business-partner-meets-with-fbi/
    😉

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