{"id":1930136,"date":"2023-05-13T04:13:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T08:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-argues-biden-family-enrichment-scheme-exonerates-biden\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T04:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T08:13:26","slug":"ny-times-argues-biden-family-enrichment-scheme-exonerates-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-argues-biden-family-enrichment-scheme-exonerates-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times Argues Biden Family Enrichment Scheme Exonerates Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-times-argues-biden-family-enrichment-scheme-exonerates-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930136&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> Real Clear Politics founder Tom Bevan was so astounded by this New York Times headline that he experienced a &#8216;holy [bleep]&#8217; moment. Literally. We wrote about the House Oversight Committee\u00a0unveiling new evidence &#8212; and raising new questions &#8212; about the Biden family&#8217;s wide-ranging enrichment scheme, featuring serious allegations of influence peddling. Based on bank records, it appears as though at least nine members of the family received payments totaling approximately $10 million from foreign sources, which were routed through various banks and LLC&#8217;s, a labyrinth Republicans say was designed to make the money difficult to track. \u00a0We also noted in our previous analysis that President Biden has made demonstrably false statements about his family&#8217;s foreign business dealings, including provably inaccurate denials of basic facts supported by evidence. \u00a0The New York Times evidently listened to what Oversight Committee members presented yesterday and concluded that the real story was an exoneration of Biden (language warning):<\/p>\n<p>      Here&#8217;s a succinct, partial reminder what Chairman James Comer and his colleagues laid out:<\/p>\n<p>Many payments were routed from foreign companies to the Biden family\u2019s business associates\u2019 companies which then doled out payments to the Bidens in incremental payments\u00a0to different bank accounts in an alleged attempt to hide the source of the funds&#8230;Much of the money came from Chinese nationals and companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.\u00a0Multiple Biden family members received money after it passed through an associate\u2019s account.\u00a0Comer said of the countries the Biden family was influence peddling in, China is \u201cthe most reputable.\u201d The committee revealed Wednesday that records suggest the Biden family and its associates\u2019 business dealings in Romania \u201cbear clear indication of a scheme to peddle influence\u201d from 2015 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate a point I made yesterday, I&#8217;m not equipped to know whether any of this constitutes criminal activity. Given the ability of the DOJ to bootstrap any number of shady global transactions and relationships into charges against politically-connected people connected to the opposite party in recent years, I wouldn&#8217;t be shocked if there could be some criminal liability in this. But that&#8217;s not my area of expertise, nor is it my decision to make &#8212; even if the whole thing looks deeply suspicious and appalling, and reeks of influence-purchasing corruption. Let&#8217;s say this evidence does point to unlawful behavior. Would the public have confidence that the Biden DOJ &#8212; which is currently being accused by a whistleblower of improperly mishandling a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden &#8212; will snap into action to pursue accountability?\u00a0Fat chance, many people would reply, especially if the &#8216;news&#8217; media is either studiously avoiding the story, or openly fortifying pro-Biden spin. It&#8217;s both astonishing and indicative of the collapse in media trust that America&#8217;s supposed paper of record had all of this rotten-smelling information placed in front of its nose and decided to prominently declare that it somehow amounts to a vindication of the president. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Recommended      What Caused CNN&#8217;s CEO to Summon the Network&#8217;s Media Reporter to His Office  Matt Vespa            Is there smoking gun proof of personal corruption or bribe-taking by the president himself? \u00a0No, or at least not yet. \u00a0Do the new details look better for the Biden family than what we previously knew? \u00a0As someone might say, c&#8217;mon man. \u00a0One might think that enterprising journalists would look at the lengths to which these payments were disguised and hidden and consider that a red flag worth pursuing. \u00a0Add to the mix some glaring questions about why all these people with the last name &#8216;Biden&#8217; saw cash shoveled at them (in exchange for what, exactly?) through foreign nationals and entities &#8212; alongside Biden&#8217;s debunked, categorical denials &#8212; and that seems like a strong basis for a potentially explosive story. \u00a0Let&#8217;s see more evidence, please. \u00a0Perhaps some people at the Times and elsewhere are now digging away, eager to unearth additional information (are Pulitzers awarded for hurting Democrats?), but the publication&#8217;s opening effort is embarrassing partisan propaganda. \u00a0On that subject, here&#8217;s another glimpse into the 2020 laptop\/&#8221;disinformation&#8221; operation by the Biden campaign:<\/p>\n<p>      Hunter Biden\u00a0laptop letter\u00a0signers embraced\u00a0Politico\u2019s\u00a0headline alleging the emails belonging to\u00a0President Joe Biden\u2019s son\u00a0were \u201cRussian disinfo\u201d while the letter\u2019s co-author and main organizer said the outlet did a \u201cnice job&#8221; with its story. The 51 ex-intelligence officials quickly signed the October 2020 laptop letter, which was published on Oct. 19 and aimed to give Joe Biden a &#8220;talking point&#8221; to use at the debate with President Donald Trump. The letter contributed to the baseless narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation \u2014 a narrative happily seized upon by Biden&#8217;s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers.\u00a0The\u00a0Politico\u00a0report\u00a0about the letter\u00a0was published Oct. 19 and titled \u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.\u201d While several letter writers and signers have since tried to distinguish the nuance of their document from the headline that gave Biden a critical boost in shutting down questions about the salacious contents of his son&#8217;s abandoned laptop, a new report by the GOP-led\u00a0Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government\u00a0revealed that certain intelligence officials were content with adopting the narrative&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Contemporaneous documents show that some of the signatories adopted\u00a0Politico\u2019s\u00a0framing that the laptop was Russian disinformation,&#8221; the Republican-led report said. The report added, &#8220;Notwithstanding these recent protestations, there is no evidence that the statement\u2019s signers attempted to correct\u00a0Politico\u2019s\u00a0misleading headline.&#8221; In a newly unearthed email, Thomas Fingar, a former deputy director of national intelligence for analysis who signed the letter, shared a link to the \u201cPolitico\u00a0story\u201d in an Oct. 20 email to his colleagues at Stanford University the day after it was published. Fingar told them, \u201cThe letter conveys our judgment that the Hunter Biden emails story published by the\u00a0NY Post\u00a0and\u00a0seemingly endorsed by Trump\u2019s Director of National Intelligence\u00a0is actually Russian disinformation.\u201d Fingar recently apparently tried to rewrite his own history during a February interview with the\u00a0Washington Post, gliding past the then-unknown fact that he himself embraced the \u201cRussian disinfo\u201d framing by\u00a0Politico.<\/p>\n<p>      The laptop was not &#8216;Russian disinformation.&#8217; It was real. The Biden campaign reached out to allied former intelligence officials and effectively asked them to leverage their prestige and expertise to furnish their candidate with a &#8220;talking point&#8221; to dismiss the scandal. These officials obliged, with the ringleaders keeping the campaign posted on their efforts to get their incorrect conclusions hyped in the media. This was an easy task, of course, as most of the media was primed to crush and bury the Biden-endangering story. \u00a0When the press framed the story exactly the way Team Biden wanted it framed, Biden cited it in a nationally-televised debate, which was the whole point of the operation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only when it became clear that the laptop was authentic and the initial reporting into it was justified &#8212; safely after the election, of course &#8212; did some of the signatories start running around talking about the nuances of the letter they&#8217;d endorsed. \u00a0Nuance was not the purpose of the letter. \u00a0And the letter served its purpose. \u00a0Here we are, once again, with most of the &#8216;news&#8217; media averting their eyes from a problematic story about the Bidens &#8212; if not running active interference on their behalf. \u00a0Imagine that. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Real Clear Politics founder Tom Bevan was so astounded by this New York Times headline that he experienced a &#8216;holy [bleep]&#8217; moment. Literally. We wrote about the House Oversight Committee\u00a0unveiling new evidence &#8212; and raising new questions &#8212; about the Biden family&#8217;s wide-ranging enrichment scheme, featuring serious allegations of influence peddling. Based on bank records, it appears as though at least nine members of the family received payments totaling approximately $10 million from foreign sources, which were routed through various banks and LLC&#8217;s, a labyrinth Republicans say was designed to make the money difficult to track. \u00a0We also noted in our previous analysis that President Biden has made demonstrably false statements about his family&#8217;s foreign business dealings, including provably inaccurate denials of basic facts supported by evidence. \u00a0The New York Times evidently listened to what Oversight Committee members presented yesterday and concluded that the real story was an exoneration of Biden (language warning):<\/p>\n<p>      Here&#8217;s a succinct, partial reminder what Chairman James Comer and his colleagues laid out:<\/p>\n<p>Many payments were routed from foreign companies to the Biden family\u2019s business associates\u2019 companies which then doled out payments to the Bidens in incremental payments\u00a0to different bank accounts in an alleged attempt to hide the source of the funds&#8230;Much of the money came from Chinese nationals and companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.\u00a0Multiple Biden family members received money after it passed through an associate\u2019s account.\u00a0Comer said of the countries the Biden family was influence peddling in, China is \u201cthe most reputable.\u201d The committee revealed Wednesday that records suggest the Biden family and its associates\u2019 business dealings in Romania \u201cbear clear indication of a scheme to peddle influence\u201d from 2015 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>To reiterate a point I made yesterday, I&#8217;m not equipped to know whether any of this constitutes criminal activity. Given the ability of the DOJ to bootstrap any number of shady global transactions and relationships into charges against politically-connected people connected to the opposite party in recent years, I wouldn&#8217;t be shocked if there could be some criminal liability in this. But that&#8217;s not my area of expertise, nor is it my decision to make &#8212; even if the whole thing looks deeply suspicious and appalling, and reeks of influence-purchasing corruption. Let&#8217;s say this evidence does point to unlawful behavior. Would the public have confidence that the Biden DOJ &#8212; which is currently being accused by a whistleblower of improperly mishandling a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden &#8212; will snap into action to pursue accountability?\u00a0Fat chance, many people would reply, especially if the &#8216;news&#8217; media is either studiously avoiding the story, or openly fortifying pro-Biden spin. It&#8217;s both astonishing and indicative of the collapse in media trust that America&#8217;s supposed paper of record had all of this rotten-smelling information placed in front of its nose and decided to prominently declare that it somehow amounts to a vindication of the president. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Recommended      What Caused CNN&#8217;s CEO to Summon the Network&#8217;s Media Reporter to His Office  Matt Vespa            Is there smoking gun proof of personal corruption or bribe-taking by the president himself? \u00a0No, or at least not yet. \u00a0Do the new details look better for the Biden family than what we previously knew? \u00a0As someone might say, c&#8217;mon man. \u00a0One might think that enterprising journalists would look at the lengths to which these payments were disguised and hidden and consider that a red flag worth pursuing. \u00a0Add to the mix some glaring questions about why all these people with the last name &#8216;Biden&#8217; saw cash shoveled at them (in exchange for what, exactly?) through foreign nationals and entities &#8212; alongside Biden&#8217;s debunked, categorical denials &#8212; and that seems like a strong basis for a potentially explosive story. \u00a0Let&#8217;s see more evidence, please. \u00a0Perhaps some people at the Times and elsewhere are now digging away, eager to unearth additional information (are Pulitzers awarded for hurting Democrats?), but the publication&#8217;s opening effort is embarrassing partisan propaganda. \u00a0On that subject, here&#8217;s another glimpse into the 2020 laptop\/&#8221;disinformation&#8221; operation by the Biden campaign:<\/p>\n<p>      Hunter Biden\u00a0laptop letter\u00a0signers embraced\u00a0Politico\u2019s\u00a0headline alleging the emails belonging to\u00a0President Joe Biden\u2019s son\u00a0were \u201cRussian disinfo\u201d while the letter\u2019s co-author and main organizer said the outlet did a \u201cnice job&#8221; with its story. The 51 ex-intelligence officials quickly signed the October 2020 laptop letter, which was published on Oct. 19 and aimed to give Joe Biden a &#8220;talking point&#8221; to use at the debate with President Donald Trump. The letter contributed to the baseless narrative that the Hunter Biden laptop stories were nothing but a product of Russian disinformation \u2014 a narrative happily seized upon by Biden&#8217;s 2020 campaign and spread by some of the laptop letter signers.\u00a0The\u00a0Politico\u00a0report\u00a0about the letter\u00a0was published Oct. 19 and titled \u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.\u201d While several letter writers and signers have since tried to distinguish the nuance of their document from the headline that gave Biden a critical boost in shutting down questions about the salacious contents of his son&#8217;s abandoned laptop, a new report by the GOP-led\u00a0Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government\u00a0revealed that certain intelligence officials were content with adopting the narrative&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Contemporaneous documents show that some of the signatories adopted\u00a0Politico\u2019s\u00a0framing that the laptop was Russian disinformation,&#8221; the Republican-led report said. The report added, &#8220;Notwithstanding these recent protestations, there is no evidence that the statement\u2019s signers attempted to correct\u00a0Politico\u2019s\u00a0misleading headline.&#8221; In a newly unearthed email, Thomas Fingar, a former deputy director of national intelligence for analysis who signed the letter, shared a link to the \u201cPolitico\u00a0story\u201d in an Oct. 20 email to his colleagues at Stanford University the day after it was published. Fingar told them, \u201cThe letter conveys our judgment that the Hunter Biden emails story published by the\u00a0NY Post\u00a0and\u00a0seemingly endorsed by Trump\u2019s Director of National Intelligence\u00a0is actually Russian disinformation.\u201d Fingar recently apparently tried to rewrite his own history during a February interview with the\u00a0Washington Post, gliding past the then-unknown fact that he himself embraced the \u201cRussian disinfo\u201d framing by\u00a0Politico.<\/p>\n<p>      The laptop was not &#8216;Russian disinformation.&#8217; It was real. The Biden campaign reached out to allied former intelligence officials and effectively asked them to leverage their prestige and expertise to furnish their candidate with a &#8220;talking point&#8221; to dismiss the scandal. These officials obliged, with the ringleaders keeping the campaign posted on their efforts to get their incorrect conclusions hyped in the media. This was an easy task, of course, as most of the media was primed to crush and bury the Biden-endangering story. \u00a0When the press framed the story exactly the way Team Biden wanted it framed, Biden cited it in a nationally-televised debate, which was the whole point of the operation. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only when it became clear that the laptop was authentic and the initial reporting into it was justified &#8212; safely after the election, of course &#8212; did some of the signatories start running around talking about the nuances of the letter they&#8217;d endorsed. \u00a0Nuance was not the purpose of the letter. \u00a0And the letter served its purpose. \u00a0Here we are, once again, with most of the &#8216;news&#8217; media averting their eyes from a problematic story about the Bidens &#8212; if not running active interference on their behalf. \u00a0Imagine that. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Clear Politics founder Tom Bevan was so astounded by this New York Times headline that he experienced a &#8216;holy [bleep]&#8217; moment. Literally. We wrote about the House Oversight Committee\u00a0unveiling new evidence &#8212; and raising new questions &#8212; about the Biden family&#8217;s wide-ranging enrichment scheme, featuring serious allegations of influence peddling. 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