Nothing gets accomplished by going into Hunter Biden’s drug abuse, his questionable guns, his sex toys, his intimate relationships with strippers and high-end prostitutes. And that seems to be the point to me.
Despite the extreme embarrassment for a sitting commander in chief, the center-left media has been oddly cautious about covering the handgun trial. Why? Ironically, I think it’s because it helps to separate Hunter, a troubled, addicted, hypersexual boy, from the corruption of his father and the Democratic establishment, the same establishment that is waging a relentless legal war against Biden’s Republican opponents in this year’s presidential election.
Al Capone was never formally convicted of murder or mayhem, he was arrested for tax evasion. I wonder if something similar is happening with Hunter Biden. This week, our famous president’s son went on trial for lying about his drug abuse habits when filling out paperwork to get a handgun license.
Is this satisfaction enough for my former colleagues? New York PostThat seemed to be the implicit message conveyed by much of the mainstream media coverage of Hunter’s gun trial — his exposure of foreign influence tactics has led to him facing censorship by major tech companies, accusations of spreading Russian disinformation, and scorn from much of the mainstream media. Look, the rule of law has been proven. No one is above the law, not even the drug-addicted crown prince. The system works.
Sorry, I won’t buy it.
The purpose of taxing Al Capone was to get violent criminals off the streets and limit the damage they were doing to public order. But simply jailing Hunter Biden for lying on his gun declarations (if it happens, and it is a big if) won’t be enough to redeem the nation or protect us from similar elite misconduct in the future. It won’t hold him accountable for the full extent of his influence play. It won’t illuminate the connections between Big Tech, security agencies, and corporate media that covered up that play just weeks before the 2020 election that really mattered. And it will allow the establishment to protect Hunter’s father by sacrificing his son.
Falsifying handgun declarations is a serious crime, and Hunter should of course pay legal penalties if he is in fact guilty, but that and his ongoing tax issues are of less public or political concern than his obvious abuse of power.
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To briefly summarize the final string of misconduct, emails on Hunter’s laptop revealed that in 2015, Hunter arranged a meeting between his father, who was then vice president and Obama’s Ukraine chief, and an executive at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that was paying Hunter $83,000 a month. post It also emerged that Hunter had made secret deals with companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, reserving 10 percent of the profits for a figure he called “the big shot.” One of Hunter’s partners, a former Democratic-leaning intelligence officer, claims the “buyer” was none other than Hunter’s father.
This whole operation was premised on Hunter’s family ties to a very powerful man named Joe Biden, who was involved in the relevant communications (under his real name in the meetings with Burisma and as “the big shot” in the China deal). There is no need to go into detail about what happened after this incident. postAccording to the expose, Facebook reduced distribution of the article while it waited for a “fact check” (which it never did for many anti-Trump articles that turned out to be fake), while Twitter banned the article outright, including from sharing in private messages, and suspended his account. postAmerica’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper, founded by Alexander Hamilton. Most of the mainstream media welcomed the censorship, and the Deep State gave it legitimacy in the form of a statement signed by 50 former senior intelligence officials. They claim, without any evidence whatsoever, postThe article amounts to “Russian information operations.”
As the trial unfolds, let us not lose sight of the real issue: the shameless influence tactics of the Biden family, likely involving Joe Biden, and the alliance of Big Tech, the Deep State, corporations and the media that removed their corruption from public scrutiny and democratic debate ahead of a presidential election. In some ways, the people who provided cover for the censorship — Silicon Valley executives, 50 former spies and their mainstream media secretaries — are far more culpable than Hunter Biden.
