Here’s a simple fact: Hunter Biden had to be pardoned — and the two reasons are Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.
As Joe clearly explains in his document announcing the pardon both of the charges that Hunter was convicted would never — ever — have gone to trial if he wasn’t a Biden. It would not have happened. People who wrongly answer a question on their firearms form don’t go trial, and they don’t get convicted. People who have already paid their back taxes — plus interest and penalties — don’t go to criminal court afterward.
For example, Roger Stone owed more than Hunter, $2 Million in back taxes, and all that happened was a lawsuit to get him to pay it back. Which he did. Nobody came after Roger Stone again, after he had paid the bill, with criminal charges. That doesn’t happen.
Then there’s all the Burisma bullshit that the GOP is still — still — hopped up about. Do you think they were going to give up on that? Do you think they’d would just put that away?
Fuck no.
They’re going to keep beating that dead horse forever. It’s bigger to them than Benghazi. They’ll never let it go. And Kash Patel will be at front of that lynch mob with his pitchfork and torch demanding blood for a fucking bullshit conspiracy that was concocted by a Russian agent.
They won’t let it go.
A little about Kash Patel.
- “The Patel Paradox can be stated as follows: the only reason to nominate someone like Patel to run the FBI is to commit impeachable abuses of power. Trump makes no secret that this is, in fact, his purpose. Patel is similarly explicit on the point.”–Benjamin Wittes
- Roger Parloff offers a glimpse of Kash Patel from a witness in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
- “To understand the full scope of the damage Mr. Patel could inflict, you have to understand how unique, powerful and dangerous the F.B.I. can be — and why a Patel directorship would likely corrupt and bend the institution for decades, even if he only served a few years.”–Garrett Graff
Kash wrote a book called “Gangster Government” where he list 60 members of the government who he would prosecute. From John Brennan to Brad Raffensberger, James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Peter Stzok he will be trying to “clean house” and send every ENEMY of Trump to prison, or sue them into submission.
If Biden or Harris had won the election that ridiculous nonsense wouldn’t happen — but they didn’t win and now it very likely will happen.
Far from reaching for “unity” this will be like the Salen Witch Trials injected with hi-voltage McCarthyism. It’s gonna be a bloodbath.
He’s going to go after the Intelligence Community for warning that Hunter’s Laptop could have potentially been Russian Disinformation. He’s not going to pay any attention to the fact that they could still be correct about that, or why they said it.
It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.
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Such an operation would be consistent consistent with some of the key methods Russia has used in its now multiyear operaion to interfere in our democracy – the hacking (via cyber operations) and the dumping of accurate information or the distribution of inaccurate information. Russia did both of these during the 2016 presidential election — judgement shared by the US Intelligence Community, the investigation into Russian activities by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the entirety (All Democrats and Republicans) on the current Senate Intelligence Committee.
Such an operation is consistent with several data points. The Russians, according to several media reports and cyber-security experts, targeted Burisma late last year for cyber collection and gained access to it’s emails. And Ukrainian politician and businessman Adriy Derkach, identified and sanctioned by the US Treasury Department for being a 10-year Russia agent interfering with the 2020 election, passed materials on Burisma and Hunter Biden to Giuliani.
The GRU had hacked Burisma’s email system, which meant that the emails on Hunter’s laptop could have been tampered with and falsified. When the Washington Post did a forensic analysis of the emails they were unable to verify most of them weren’t legitimate due to missing metadata.
Maxey had alerted The Washington Post to this issue in advance, saying that others had accessed the data to examine its contents and make copies of files. But the lack of what experts call a “clean chain of custody” undermined Green’s and Williams’s ability to determine the authenticity of most of the drive’s contents.
“The drive is a mess,” Green said.
He compared the portable drive he received from The Post to a crime scene in which detectives arrive to find Big Mac wrappers carelessly left behind by police officers who were there before them, contaminating the evidence.
That assessment was echoed by Williams.
“From a forensics standpoint, it’s a disaster,” Williams said. (The Post is paying Williams for the professional services he provided. Green declined payment.)
But both Green and Williams agreed on the authenticity of the emails that carried cryptographic signatures, though there was variation in which emails Green and Williams were able to verify using their forensic tools. The most reliable cryptographic signatures, they said, came from leading technology companies such as Google, which alone accounted for more than 16,000 of the verified emails.
Neither expert reported finding evidence that individual emails or other files had been manipulated by hackers, but neither was able to rule out that possibility.
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Both Green and Williams said the Burisma emails they verified cryptographically were likely to be authentic, but they cautioned that if the company was hacked, it would be possible to fake cryptographic signatures — something much less likely to happen with Google.
If they were hacked….
Yeah, they were hacked. That was the point. That was exactly the problem.
There’s also the fact that the Russia Secret Police and FSB had gained access to Hunter’s Laptop according to Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas. So they could have easily created a duplicate of it’s contents.
Lev Parnas states here in a letter to James Comer that he and Giuliani were told a story by a Burisma businessman named Vitoli Prusch[sp?] who claimed that during a meeting between Hunter Biden and the Khazaksan minister of foreign affairs, he became extremely intoxicated [ed. with alcohol and drugs] and incapacitated. While he was out Russian FSB agents, Russian Secret Police and [Burisma CEO] Zlochevsky's team copied the contents of his Laptop which was then compromised and manipulated by Russian Intelligence.
Giuliani was told that the laptop had embarrassing photos, but there was no evidence of financial crimes on it. Parnas states that It was only later that the idea of "finding" proof of financial crimes was introduced. He doesn’t give the exact date that the copying took place although it seems to be early in 2019.
So yeah, Russian Disinformation.
Most importantly Hunter himself in testimony to the GOP House completely defanged the biggest allegation against him and Joe Biden. He explained the mysterious “10 for H to hold for the Big Guy?” email.
Q "20, TB." Is that Tony Bobulinski?
A Yes.
Q "10, Jim," is that your uncle?
A Yes.
Q And then "10 held by H," which would be you, "for the big guy," which presumably is your dad, correct?
Mr. Goldman. Question mark, correct?
Q Question mark.
A Question mark. Not only question mark, but all I know this is, is that, number one, there's only one agreement that includes Tony Bobulinski, that is executed, that is signed by me. There's only one message that I had as it relates to any involvement that I had with Tony Bobulinski, James Gilliar, my uncle, and Rob Walker, and it did not involve my dad.
There's an executed agreement in which I got 20 percent, Jim got 20 percent, Rob got 20 percent, Tony got 20 percent, and James Gilliar got 20 percent. Nothing to do with Joe Biden.
And the only agreement that was drafted before that had 50-50, and I was -- I was the one 50. I was 50, and Mr. Ye was the other 50.
And the only company that ever existed that had any involvement with Mr. Ye that was ever an actual operating company was the company Hudson West Three, in which I owned 50 percent, and Mr. Ye owned 50 percent.
So this idea that because James Gilliar goes out and he says to Tony, You guys have seen the communications of Tony. You have the communications of Tony.
I told Tony literally weeks after I met him that he was out of his mind, that he was going around, trying to promote the idea that my dad was somehow going to be involved in this. And that's why I never did business with Tony. And that's why Tony is a bitter, bitter man that did not get in on a deal that he wanted to get in on, because I thought that he was both incompetent and an idiot. And he's proved himself to be so by the complete misstatements that he's made.
The email was sent to Hunter by one of his partners Gilliar, and he was proposing sharing 10% of the proceeds with Joe because, at the time, he was out of office and there was nothing illegal or problematic about doing that. Even though it wasn’t illegal — Hunter still said “NO” and it didn’t happen.
Q If that's the case, though, why is Gilliar drafting something like that?
A Because I think that it was just as Rob Walker said. I think that it was pie in the sky. Like Joe Biden's out of the office. Maybe we'll be able to get him involved. Remember, again, is that Joe Biden, for first time in 48 years, is not an elected official and is not seeking office. And so James is probably, like, wow, wouldn't be great if a former Vice President could be in our business together?
And I say you're out of your mind. My dad knows less about doing cross-border blah, blah, blah, than he does about -- I mean, it's just ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous.
And so I shut it down, and the evidence of me shutting it down is the actual things you have as evidence. Remember that. The agreement, the executed agreement, the executed agreement to create a company that was never operated, that's what happened. That's the evidence you have. You have the evidence of the executed agreement between Hudson West Three, me, and Mr. Ye. You have that.
Nothing to do with my dad, zero.
So the emails prove nothing. The laptop, even with its questionable provenance, proves nothing.
This is a dry hole. There’s no conspiracy or crime here. Burisma’s CEO was NOT under investigation and Joe having the prosecutor Shokin fired did not help or protect Hunter as a member of Burisma’s board in any way. In fact, a new prosecutor could have very well started an investigation of Burisma if they wished. Joe’s action didn’t take that possibility off the table.
This is nonsense. Trump was impeached over trying to make this fake investigation happen.
Kash Patel is going to try to do it yet another time.
Being pardoned means that Hunter can't invoke his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination -- because he can't be incriminated anymore. So he might be called to testify again, but he can handle that — he's done it before. Other than that, they can't touch him.
Hunter became a drug addict to ease the pain of his brother dying of brain cancer. Joe didn’t run for President in 2016 because of that. He likely bought that gun to kill himself. His sister-in-law threw it away to keep him from killing himself with it. These people know that he’s vulnerable to being self-destructive in response to trauma. They want to destroy him — push him until he kills himself — and have that be what destroys Joe.
Hunter needed to be pardoned to save his life.
If you feel that Biden “lied” — well, I may disagree but you are now in good company with Scott Jennings.
Let’s recall that Trump pardoned his co-conspirators Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos and Roger Stone — nearly all of whom lied under oath about being in contact with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Trump used the promise of his pardons to get them to continue to LIE UNDER OATH and without getting any of them to flip he was able to hamstring the Mueller investigation. It’s not that they didn’t find anything — it was that Trump used his pardon power to deny Mueller a good witness.
Just remember, Michael Cohen did flip and finally told the truth — Bill Barr and Trump had him thrown into solitary confinement — because he was writing a book — and he was the one person who lied to the FBI who didn’t get a pardon.
Because, eventually, he told the truth.
Trump pardoned racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and he pardoned Dinesh D’souza who was convicted of campaign finance violations — who then went on to produce a fraudulent documentary (“2000 Mules”) about voter fraud that his producers had to pull from distribution and apologize for because it was built on a pack of lies.
Biden did not issue this pardon to protect himself the way that Trump did — he did it to protect his son from a crazed snipe hunt.
