RIP Huntergate Oct 20, 2020 - Oct 23, 2020

[wildchild]

Trump campaign organized a press conference earlier Thursday at which Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s former business partner in a failed Chinese investment venture, stood awkwardly in a tight-fitting suit and tie and alleged that Joe Biden knew details about the enterprise.

Bobulinski took a page from Trump and his associates: At a press conference, the president once displayed piles of manila folders filled with papers he said included corporate documents proving he had relinquished control of his companies to his children, but he refused to allow reporters to inspect them. In a recent video, Rudy Giuliani sat at a desk strewn with folders that he asserted contained damning evidence about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Bobulinski did something similar: He showed reporters three old cell phones with purportedly incriminating information that he claimed he would hand over to the authorities, but he didn't let reporters access them.

His next stop was the Nashville debate hall, where he was an invited guest of the president of the United States. This was all announced with great fanfare by the Trump campaign and accompanied by breathless coverage on Fox News and in The New York Post, the only two large news outlets to run with the story.

But so far the Bobulinski allegations seem like bubkes. At 10:47, minutes after the debate ended, the Wall Street Journal, part of the same media empire as Fox News and the Post, reported, “Text messages and emails related to the venture that were provided to the Journal by Mr. Bobulinski, mainly from the spring and summer of 2017, don’t show either Hunter Biden or James Biden” — the former vice president’s brother — “discussing a role for Joe Biden in the venture.”

Even if Bobulinski is telling the truth, that Joe Biden knew about the China enterprise, it’s not clear what the scandal is — he was a private citizen at the time and not yet running for president. Trump has elevated an unsubstantiated assertion that Biden had knowledge about his son’s legal and failed business venture to a “crime” for which he “should be in jail.” To put in context how absurd this allegation is, one of the first things George W. Bush did after he left the White House was deliver a paid speech in China. Somehow he remains at large.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/23/hunter-biden-wins-the-debate-431558

just checking in. How did that Michael Avennati thing work out for you? It was a slam dunk you claimed.

 

[exGOPer]

just checking in. How did that Michael Avennati thing work out for you? It was a slam dunk you claimed.

Pretty good, Stormy got a good payout and Cohen went to jail - not to forget Trump was indicted as well and will face charges in 2021.

 

[wildchild]

Pretty good, Stormy got a good payout and Cohen went to jail - not to forget Trump was indicted as well and will face charges in 2021.

LOL, well DBPhoenix at least you have a half decent sense of humor. I see you forgot the part where he is now a convicted felon where you thought he would be the dem candidate.

 

[ids]

He would be a better candidate than Dems have now.

 

[DTB2]

According to a new NBC News story, Ken Dilanian and Tom Winter, who cover national security and corruption for the network, respectively

I'm sure they were actively following the Biden scandal all along. They just couldn't find anything to report. Par for the course.

 

[Cuddles]

One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden's son and business in China.

The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm" called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.

The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen's profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.

One of the original posters of the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen does not exist.

Despite the document's questionable authorship and anonymous sourcing, its claims that Hunter Biden has a problematic connection to the Communist Party of China have been used by people who oppose the Chinese government, as well as by far-right influencers, to baselessly accuse candidate Joe Biden of being beholden to the Chinese government.

How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge

 

[exGOPer]

I'm sure they were actively following the Biden scandal all along. They just couldn't find anything to report. Par for the course.

You mean the scandal that even Fox News refused to cover initially because the source was Ghouliani who won't give the hard drive copies to anyone to authenticate?

 

[DTB2]

You mean the scandal that even Fox News refused to cover initially because the source was Ghouliani who won't give the hard drive copies to anyone to authenticate?

No, I mean that the FBI has an investigation open into Biden money laundering. They must have missed reporting on that, maybe they were at a journalism continuing ed course over at the Community College.

 

[exGOPer]

No, I mean that the FBI has an investigation open into Biden money laundering. They must have missed reporting on that, maybe they were at a journalism continuing ed course over at the Community College.

Where can I read about this FBI announcement?

 

[Wallet]

Where can I read about this FBI announcement?

Try Google search. It’s all over the internet.