Michael Goodwin: GOP’s New Biz Probes May Burst Balloony Joe Biden’s Bubble
With China’s spy balloon The American heartland unmolested and GOP leaders simultaneously starting probes of his family’s corruption, Joe Biden is entering a new phase of his presidency. Worst-case scenario? All his chickens will be returning to the nest.
The spy balloon’s appearance and that of two additional objects shot down by the military oddly highlight the importance of the House probes. The possibility that Biden has been compromised by profiting from son Hunter’s lucrative foreign entanglements, especially with China, is drawing extra attention to how the president reacts to the Communist regime’s aggressive surveillance.
His weak-tea responses have raised even more suspicions. In fact, it’s fair to say he has done or said nothing that would allay concerns and everything to aggravate them.
It started with his administration’s bizarre radio silence as the balloon crossed over Alaska and entered mainland airspace. The White House only realized what it knew when a civilian saw it above Montana.
Later it emerged the president and his team played hush-hush because they didn’t want a dispute with China to get in the way of a Visit planned Tony Blinken, Secretary-of-State, is the one who was there.
You can file that one under appeasement. The visit was canceled only out of embarrassment, but it’s not clear if Blinken planned to condemn the balloon or simply pretend it didn’t happen. I’m betting on the former.
Who’s in charge here?
Worse yet, after the White House acknowledged that the balloon was there, officials allowed the balloon to continue its journey eastward for another four days. They also let the balloon mosey on eastward, no doubt sucking up valuable information. Finally, I got it down On Saturday, February 4, 2004, off the coast of South Carolina. Biden claimed credit for the shoot-down command on Wednesday. However, the military said it decided to wait until the order was over water in order to avoid civilian casualties.
Who’s in charge here? What did China gain from the four-day delay in its release?
It’s also instructive that among the White House’s first lines of defense was a claim from an anonymous source to favored media that similar balloons surveilled America during the Trump years. The White House’s former president and other top White House officials were interviewed. Insisted that the claim was falseThe Pentagon “clarified” It was deemed that the objects it had previously identified were balloons.
The lack of clarity — and honesty — led to expectations Biden would give the incident extended attention in last last Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. Analysts predicted that he would make it a point to emphasize the issue early, as a sign he was strong and in an effort to build bipartisan unity.
Instead, he waited to late into the evening before declaring that, without even mentioning the balloon. “if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.”
Really? Is it protecting America’s sovereignty to allow an adversary a full week of unhindered spying? It’s safe to say China will not return the favor.
In an interview with Telemundo two days later, Biden decided to take a different approach and insist that the incident was “not a major breach.”
Huh? It’s not true, even top Democrats. They join the Republicans in asking for more information.
The GOP’s probes into the Biden family businesses are directed at the incumbent. “big guy.” Rep. James Comer, Kentucky, is the head of Oversight Panel His vow was repeated to investigate the president’s role and whether it “occurred at the expense of American interests.”
Comer, Post op-ed, also drew a possible connection to the growing pile of classified documents turning up in Biden’s homes and offices, asking: “Did foreign business partners, through Hunter Biden, have access to these improperly stored documents?”
His demand that Hunter turn over records about the foreign deals was swiftly rejected by Hunter’s legal team. If Hunter does not reach a settlement, Hunter’s legal team will issue a subpoena and then a lengthy court battle.
The president, for his part, said that he was not concerned about the probes.
The media narrative
The following is an Interview with PBS anchor Judy Woodruff said he. “The public is not going to pay attention to that.”
He also stated that the country would like the GOP House act on public issues. “If the only thing they can do is make up things about my family, it’s not going to go very far.”
My first reaction was surprise at his attempt to bait the bear with false accusations against the GOP, despite the overwhelming evidence that the president was behind the schemes.
On second thought, I realized Biden’s answer wasn’t so much a challenge to Comer as it was a statement of faith that Big Media and Big Tech would shield him again, just as they did when The Post Breaking the laptop story 2020. Woodruff’s softball approach on PBS was typical.
Instead of asking questions about the evidence which implicates the president she briefly summarized the probes by saying that they were about “access” Before asking “How do you plan to deal with that?”
That’s a lap dog at work. Unfortunately, she’s like the vast bulk of the Washington press corps. Consumed with “optics” What is it? “plays,” They often sound like amateur campaign consultants when answering their questions.
Even though they admitted it late, consider thathttps://nypost.com/2023/02/08/aoc-falsely-claims-hunter-biden-laptop-is-half-fake/”>Hunter’s The laptop is authenticThe Washington Post, The New York Times and Washington Post have not yet taken the next step to pursue the many exchanges that mention the president.
The media has not shown much interest in Tony Bobulinski’s ex-family partner, who first revealed Joe’s secret. “big guy” in a China deal.
Woodruff types tend to downgrade Republican charges when they even vaguely refer to evidence. That way, they slyly echo Dems’ talking points that the allegations are just crazy conspiracy theories that prove the GOP can’t be trusted with power.
The result is that Comer, Rep. Jim Jordan and other GOP inquisitors will have to break through the Praetorian Guard to get the public’s attention. It can be done if they find enough evidence, but polls show it won’t be easy.
Many Americans turned off their TVs
While 72% of all respondents told Fox News last December it is important to investigate Hunter’s foreign businesses, only 39% think he committed a crime and 31% say he did something unethical but not illegal.
Similar results were seen for Joe Biden. 35% believed he had committed a crime and 27% thought he acted unethically, but not illegally.
But, only Democrats have more disparate numbers. Fox reported that only 11% of Hunter’s supporters believe Hunter committed an illegal act, while only 8% support Joe.
These numbers become more impressive when you consider the fact that most of those who work in tech and media are Democrats. Their duel affiliation is no secret to the White House, which helps explain the president’s confidence he and his family will beat the rap.
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