{"id":582394,"date":"2021-07-04T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T23:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=582394"},"modified":"2021-07-04T19:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T23:05:41","slug":"the-3-biden-scandals-youre-not-hearing-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-3-biden-scandals-youre-not-hearing-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The 3 Biden Scandals You\u2019re Not Hearing About"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fthe-3-biden-scandals-youre-not-hearing-about%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=582394&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7236B9D0-0716-497C-A82A-CD7AD6D1045A-scaled-e1625439528402.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Although President Joe Biden has been known to angrily confront reporters for what he considers overly harsh questions, the legacy media have taken it remarkably easy on the president and his family. While the media have circled hungrily around every potential charge facing Allen Weisselberg and remain focused on the Trump family, they have ignored multiple scandals facing Joe Biden, his son, and his brother. Here are just a few:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> Joe Biden reportedly met with Hunter Biden\u2019s business partners<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Emails and photographs retrieved from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop appear to show that then-Vice President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bombshell-email-shows-joe-biden-allegedly-met-with-top-executive-at-ukrainian-gas-company-burisma-report\">met repeatedly with<\/a> his son\u2019s business associates, raising issues of influence peddling.<\/p>\n<p>A photograph <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/30\/laptop-shows-joe-biden-was-with-hunter-and-his-mexican-biz-meetings\/\">shows<\/a>&nbsp;the then-sitting vice president meeting with Hunter and two business associates, Carlos Slim and Jeff Cooper, on November 19, 2015. The New York Post\u2019s Miranda Divine <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/01\/hunter-biden-used-joes-vp-perks-to-pursue-deal-with-carlos-slim\/\">reports<\/a> that Hunter had spent much of that year pursuing Slim to invest in a number of business options, including Cooper\u2019s online gambling platform, Ocho Gaming.<\/p>\n<p>This would be at least the second meeting Biden allegedly attended with his son\u2019s foreign business connections while vice president. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bombshell-email-shows-joe-biden-allegedly-met-with-top-executive-at-ukrainian-gas-company-burisma-report\">The Daily Wire\u2019s<\/a> Ryan Saavedra&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-met-with-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-associates-while-he-was-vice-president-reports\">reported<\/a>, \u201cJoe Biden reportedly met his son\u2019s business associates from Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan at a dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 16, 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s campaign officially denied the Burisma-linked meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8838939\/Joe-Biden-met-son-Hunters-Ukrainian-energy-contacts.html\">saying<\/a>, \u201cWe have reviewed Joe Biden\u2019s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.\u201d The Washington Post, citing a White House official with knowledge of Biden\u2019s schedule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/07\/hunter-bidens-laptop-april-16-2015-dinner\/\">reported<\/a> in June that the vice president dropped by to speak with Alex Karloutsos, a long-time friend who was at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Although the White House has yet to comment on the latest allegations, the media seem content with their silence. While legacy media outlets offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=donald+trump+jr+meeting+russian&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;ei=xTbfYM3JDP6F9PwPo86y6AU&amp;oq=donald+trump+jr+meeting+russian&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANKBAhBGABQhc0BWIXNAWDSzwFoAHAAeACAAXaIAXaSAQMwLjGYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiNwOrL38TxAhX-Ap0JHSOnDF0Q4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5\">endless coverage<\/a> of Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-reasons-donald-trump-jrs-meeting-russian-lawyer-aaron-bandler\">Trump Tower meeting<\/a>, they have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=joe+biden+met+with+hunter+biden%27s+business+associates&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;ei=GTffYL7qGLSE9PwPorSToAY&amp;oq=joe+biden+met+with+hunter+biden%27s+business+associates&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6BwguEEMQkwI6BQguEJECOgQILhBDOgQIABBDOggILhCxAxCDAToLCC4QsQMQxwEQowI6CAguEMcBEKMCOgcILhCxAxBDOgoILhCxAxCDARBDOgUIABCRAjoKCC4QsQMQQxCTAjoICAAQsQMQgwE6BQgAELEDOgoIABCRAhBGEPsBOgIIADoECAAQCjoFCC4QsQM6AgguOgoILhDHARCvARBDOgsILhCxAxCRAhCTAjoICAAQsQMQkQI6DQgAELEDEJECEEYQ-wE6BwgAELEDEEM6BwgAEEYQ-wE6CwgAELEDEMcDEJECSgQIQRgAULZYWPSvAWDOsAFoAHAAeACAAYUBiAGPMpIBBTU0LjE4mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpesABAQ&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj-2v3z38TxAhU0Ap0JHSLaBGQQ4dUDCA0&amp;uact=5\">virtually ignored<\/a> Joe Biden\u2019s reported personal meetings with his son\u2019s business partners \u2014 although such meetings are arguably more significant: Biden allegedly attended these meetings personally, and he did so after, not before, he had been elected into public office.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong> The scandals plaguing First Brother \u2018Fast Jimmy\u2019 Biden<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It\u2019s become a national tradition for Democratic presidents to have shady brothers, from Billy Carter to Roger Clinton to Ted Kennedy. But each of those figures caused their siblings far greater media embarrassment with fewer scandals than first brother James Biden. The 46th president\u2019s younger brother has raised the practice of grift to a fine art.<\/p>\n<p>After taking over a global investing firm in 2006, Jim Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/08\/02\/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407\/\">told<\/a> the company brass, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about investors. We\u2019ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden.\u201d Politico reported, citing a company executive, \u201cJames Biden made it clear he viewed the fund as a way to take money from rich foreigners who could not legally give money to his older brother or his campaign account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No other presidential sibling tried to leverage their brother to cash-in on Americans suffering from the wasting disease of cancer. When Jim Biden sought to invest in Integrate Oral Care in November 2018, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/09\/26\/joe-biden-brother-cancer-initiative-investment-pitch-001675\">reports<\/a> that Jim allegedly told the company he could get his brother\u2019s Biden Cancer Initiative to promote the oral rinse that Integrate sells for use by cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI was reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/james-biden-health-care-ventures-123159\">investigating<\/a> another health care company tied to Jim Biden, Americore Health, LLC, as of March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>James Biden has had similar luck throughout his charmed business life. Shortly after Joe Biden\u2019s election to the Senate, Jim Biden\u2019s Seasons Change night club received bank loans the terms of which could be described as unusually positive. Seven months after he became executive vice president of the fairly new entrant into homebuilding, the New Jersey-based Hillstone International, Hillstone won a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2012\/10\/23\/crony-capitalism-joe-bidens-brother\/\">$1.5 billion<\/a> contract from the Obama administration to build housing in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>While the media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/potential-for-bribery-media-silent-about-hunter-bidens-anonymous-art-sales\">presented<\/a> the business deals of President Donald Trump\u2019s children as an impeachable violation of the Constitution\u2019s emoluments clause, they have hardly reported the name of Jim Biden, much less his virtually confessed lifelong history of profiting off his brother\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><strong> Nepotism in the Biden administration<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Biden administration is also a family affair when it comes to appointments. High-level Biden appointees secured the hiring of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-aides-relatives-jobs\/2021\/06\/17\/ab504a22-cea4-11eb-8cd2-4e95230cfac2_story.html\">numerous family members<\/a>, according to The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>The little-known Biden aide Steve Ricchetti serves as a prime example, with three of his children serving in the executive branch. Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2021\/06\/14\/the-ricchetti-administration-493243\">reported<\/a> on June 14 that \u201c<strong>J.J. RICCHETTI&nbsp;<\/strong>will be a special assistant in the office of legislative affairs. He joins his sister,&nbsp;<strong>SHANNON RICCHETTI<\/strong>, who is a deputy associate director for the White House social secretary, and one of his brothers,&nbsp;<strong>DANIEL RICCHETTI<\/strong>, who is a senior advisor in the office of the under secretary of State for arms control and international security, in the Biden administration.\u201d (Emphases in original.)<\/p>\n<p>The problem? J.J.\u2019s record of \u201caccomplishment consists primarily of graduating from college \u2014 last year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/biden-nepotism-pledge-ethics\/2021\/06\/25\/9f70d070-d50f-11eb-9f29-e9e6c9e843c6_story.html\">wrote<\/a> Walter M. Shaub Jr. in The Washington Post. Thanks to apparent family favoritism, \u201cThe Treasury Department will lack the ideas and experiences that someone with a different background (and probably better qualifications) would have brought to the job. In years to come, the nation may miss out on that individual\u2019s contributions as yet another Ricchetti heir follows a predestined trajectory through the halls of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richetti has company. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has three relatives \u201cserving\u201d in the Biden administration: brother Tom Sullivan is the State Department\u2019s deputy chief of staff for policy; sister-in-law Rose Baumann Sullivan, Tom\u2019s wife, is HHS acting assistant secretary for legislation; and Jake\u2019s wife, Maggie Goodlande, serves as a counsel to Attorney General Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n<p>The Donilon family also struck gold during the Biden years. Biden senior adviser Mike Donilon\u2019s niece, Sarah, is special assistant in the National Security Council\u2019s Asia directorate (and the daughter of <em>another <\/em>Biden administration official, Presidential Personnel Office Director Cathy Russell). Mike Donilon\u2019s brother, Tom, reportedly turned down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kctv5.com\/tom-donilon-no-longer-in-the-running-to-be-bidens-cia-director\/article_aa717850-16e8-51d6-945e-5698b8a60568.html\">consideration<\/a> to become CIA Director, remaining instead at the think tank of BlackRock Inc. \u2014 which is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/blackrock-emerges-as-wall-street-player-in-biden-administration-11606841207\">deeply embedded<\/a> in the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden appointed Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s wife, Evan Ryan, as White House Cabinet secretary, which helps coordinate the various federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesperson Jen Psaki\u2019s sister, Stephanie Psaki, has been hired as an HHS senior adviser on human rights and gender equity inside the department\u2019s Office of Global Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s senior adviser, Anita Dunn, is married to Bob Bauer, who co-chairs the presidential commission on packing the Supreme Court and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-people-behind-joe-bidens-fact-check-team-have-a-history-of-lying-to-the-american-people\">runs an aggressive online \u201cfact-checking\u201d effort<\/a> called Building Back Together, which is tied to the Biden White House.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the abundant scent of nepotism, the media have largely ignored the story or dismissed it by engaging in <em>whataboutism<\/em>. The Washington Post reported merely that ethicists found it \u201cdisappointing that Biden didn\u2019t shift even further from the practices of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency, which they thought reeked of nepotism and cronyism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These underreported Biden administration scandals share a common thread: President Joe Biden seems to give his family, his cronies, and their families advantages that the average American would never see. That\u2019s a story worth reporting.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although President Joe Biden has been known to angrily confront reporters for what he considers overly harsh questions, the legacy media have taken it remarkably easy on the president and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891887,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}