Miranda Devine: The Democratic Litany of Hunter Biden’s Laptop Lies
So many lies were told at the House Oversight’s first committee hearing Wednesday into the corruption scandal involving Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop And the FBI’s cover-up with social media firms to rig 2020 elections in favor of Joe Biden.
Or, as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Tried to rebrand it: “Hunter Biden’s half-fake laptop.”
It’s a sign of desperation that more than two years after The Post published the first bombshell story from the laptop, Dems can’t get their stories straight on what the laptop really is.
Is it Hunter’s property, his “personal data” That was what Hunter claimed he lost when he became a crack addict, and his lawyers demanded that the Department of Justice investigate John Paul Mac Isaac.
Or is it? “so-called laptop,” as Hunter’s lawyers claimed in a backflip clarification the next day?
It’s hard to keep up.
It was easy to get started.
The Russian disinformation began with the laptop.
It was “all the earmarks of a Russian information operation,” asserted 51 former intelligence officials in a dishonest open letter five days after The Post published its Oct 14, 2020, bombshell about damaging emails from the laptop showing that, while he was vice president, Joe had met his son’s paymaster at Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company which paid Hunter $4 million over five years.
It was a “Russian plant” Joe told us in all sincerity in his final debate of the 2020 presidential race against Donald Trump, when, of course, he knew all along it was his son’s laptop.
It was “hacked material,” Twitter declared when it censored The Post’s scoop and locked our account for more than two weeks.
It was part a “hack-and-leak operation’’ by “state actors” Hunter Biden would be involved. “likely” In a pre-bunking operation, the FBI warned Twitter that the FBI would warn them about the possibility of appearing in October.
The FBI was aware that the laptop wasn’t authorized. “hacked” Or, “Russian plant” Because it had held the device since December 2019, when Mac Isaac gave it to two FBI agents. He was concerned that the contents of the Biden family’s payments from Russia, China, and Ukraine were a sensitive matter of national safety.
He was right to say that the stakes were high. It was crucial for an election.
The impressive blitzkrieg of lies mounted by Democrats Jamie Raskin, Daniel Goldman and AOC during Wednesday’s hearing showJust how high? the stakes remain for the president as the Republican-controlled House begins to unravel the deceptions.
Unfortunately for the liars the rest of media has finally admitted that the laptop wasn’t a “Russian plant” The Post’s stories are accurate and factual.
As we uncovered further damning evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his family’s international influence peddling scheme while he was vice president, the story became impossible to bury.
Elon Musk, a libertarian who bought Twitter, decided to release evidence through the so-called Twitter Files. This showed that the FBI had indeed been compromised. “pre-suaded” Twitter executives were coerced for weeks to view our story as Russian disinformation.
These new bombshells combined with revelations from whistleblowers that operatives inside the FBI’s Washington field office had deliberately buried the laptop, along with other derogatory material about Joe Biden before the 2020 election, including from Hunter’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski, who sat for a five-hour interview at FBI headquarters and handed over the contents of three devices which corroborated material on the laptop.
He was never called by the FBI again. His evidence was buried with Hunter’s laptop.
The cover-up, as with Watergate was even more extensive than the original corruption story.
James Comer (chair of Oversight Committee) set the stage on Wednesday, calling three former Twitter executives under oath to testify.
James Baker was the FBI’s top lawyer. He was involved in Russiagate, and was then parachuted into Twitter five months prior to the 2020 election as deputy general counsel. There was Twitter’s former policy director Vijaya Gadde and ex-chief censor Yoel Roth, who was Tweeting vulgarities is a common habit Conservatives were once critical of the Trump White House, describing it as Nazis.
Roth had made a sworn declaration in December 2020 about what he was told by the FBI during his weekly meetings before the 2020 election. “the intelligence community expected that individuals associated with political campaigns would be subject to hacking attacks and that material obtained through those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms . . . There were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden… likely in October.”
So the only option available to Democrats running cover for the president on the committee Wednesday was to try to rebrand the laptop and debunk The Post’s reporting. However, lying is the only way of debunking a true story. That is exactly what Daniel Goldman tried boldly to do.
“Right off the top, the very first paragraph of this so-called bombshell story is completely false,” he said, gesturing grandly at the giant blown up copy of the Post’s front page from Oct 14 2020 sitting on an easel behind Comer.
“The very first paragraph says Hunter Biden introduced his father to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company.
“That is false, 100 percent false”.
Comer interjected drily: “Is the gentleman sure about that?
Goldman: “Yes, in fact I am sure about that and . . . as the lead counsel in the first impeachment investigation, we proved that he was actually fired because he was not prosecuting corruption, not that he was fired because he was prosecuting corruption.”
Comer: “Corruption of the president’s son’s company?”
Goldman, flustered: “The fact that Joe Biden [had] Feuer. . . The prosecutor general of Ukraine, as he has not been charged with corruption. . . It has been repeatedly proven to be true. . .
“You should talk to the British authorities because they were the ones who were prosecuting Burisma and they could not get any cooperation from the Ukrainian prosecutor general so that’s why he was fired”.
There are so many lies.
Let’s break it down.
Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian general prosecutor, was active in investigating Burisma at the time that Biden fired him in March 2016. Shokin issued warrants for all property to be taken by Burisma on February 2, 2016. “movable and immovable property” Burisma belongs to Nikolay Zlochevsky (Russian-backed Ukrainian oligarch), and includes four large houses and two lots of land. “a Rolls-Royce Phantom car,” As reported by Interfax-Ukraine and other contemporaneous media.
Shokin was retired at the time his corrupt predecessor Vitaly Yarema allegedly took a $7 million bribe in 2014 to save Zlochevsky from a British investigation by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, much to the fury of the US state department.
Yarema was the prosecution general Goldman stated was fired at Shokin’s request, and not at the behest British authorities.
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko called Shokin to retirement in February 2015 to fulfill the US’s demand: Clean up corruption
Shokin was fired because he did that. Yuriy Lutsenko, a politician, was elected in Shokin’s place. All legal proceedings against Zlochevsky or Burisma were dropped.
Biden phoned Poroshenko to demand Shokin’s firing 10 days after the prosecutor had started seizing Zlochevsky’s property. Biden claimed that he threatened with $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantee if Shokin wasn’t fired.
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations (2018)
It is amazing how complicated it can be to deceive when we start out.
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