Hunter Biden
December 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Joe Biden changed his mind over the Thanksgiving holiday, according to Karine Jean-Pierre, and decided to pardon his son Hunter despite his many promises not to do so. Biden explained his reversal by claiming that Hunter’s prosecution was politically motivated–by Biden’s own DOJ, apparently. It isn’t easy to bring the White House press corps to life, but Biden’s about-face triggered lots of uncomfortable questions for Jean-Pierre, aboard Air Force One
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December 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
If you think President Biden is the leader of a crime family and everything he says is a a lie, father pardoning son despite numerous vows he would never do so comes as something other than a surprise. When Joe pardoned Hunter yesterday, however, he prefaced it with a laughable statement. The White House has posted the text of the statement and the pardon here. Biden actually includes this proposition
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August 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Ken Vogel reports in the New York Times that “Hunter Biden Sought State Department Help for Ukrainian Company.” Subhead: “After President Biden dropped his re-election bid, his administration released records showing that while he was vice president, his son solicited U.S. government assistance.” The New York Post has an accessible account of Vogel’s story by Victor Nava in “Hunter Biden asked US embassy in Italy for help landing Burisma deal
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July 17, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I have been holding out hope that “Doctor” Jill and Hunter the Convicted Felon can convince Slow Joe to hang in there until November. And that still may happen: Lady MacBiden is strong-willed. But Karine Jean-Pierre said today that Biden has tested positive for covid, and is “self-isolating” in Delaware. In what might possibly be a coincidence, Biden now says that he would drop out of the race if “doctors
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July 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
President Biden needs pictured directions for his entrances and exits at public appearances. Someone on his staff leaked an example to Alex Thompson/Axios that we drew on in “Walk this way.” As Biden has sought to turn his campaign into an in-your face exercise in fake populism with a little help from the Biden brain trust, I thought the old Aerosmith song would make for a perfect campaign theme. As
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July 8, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Scott and Steve have expressed confidence that the Democrats will force Joe Biden off the ticket–it’s only a matter of time. That may well prove to be true; at even money, that is how I would bet. But it isn’t yet a done deal. Biden insists that he is in the race for keeps, and challenges anyone who doesn’t like it to run against him. Of course, no such course
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June 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine recalls in her June 12 New York Post column: The last time Joe Biden met Donald Trump on a debate stage, he lied that his son Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation, “a Russian plant” and “a bunch of garbage.” Taking account of the evidence introduced in the Hunter Biden gun case, Devine itemizes the ways in which Biden’s laptop has been authenticated. Not a
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June 14, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Fox News has contacted all the members of the Deep State 51 — the former senior intelligence officials who disparaged the New York Post’s 2020 reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop as bearing “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” So they said in an open letter or public statement that Natasha Bertrand duly read out for Politico (Bertrand has now moved on to CNN). Natasha, you should have
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June 13, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Last night I was on Seth Leibsohn’s excellent Phoenix radio show for a full three segments. That gave us time to cover a number of subjects: my forecast for the 2024 presidential race; the trumped-up prosecutions of Trump; how financial incentives account for support for liberalism; why the Democrats are so devoted to illegal immigration; do Democrats hate America?; will the criminals who firebombed my organization’s office be caught?; how
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June 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hunter Biden had essentially no defense to the felony gun charges of which we was convicted today. To the extent he had one, it was represented by the presence of Jill Biden sitting in court behind him. Hunter had only the Biden defense: I am Biden. Hear me roar. Don’t screw with me. It has proved a strong and malleable defense, but it came up short today. Given the brevity
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June 7, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Students of ancient history may recall the disinformation that greeted the revelations of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. The New York Post confirmed and reported them, yet they were routinely dismissed on patently fraudulent grounds. The government has now introduced the laptop as evidence in Hunter Biden’s gun trial and the FBI has vouched for its authenticity. What is to be said? KanekoaTheGreat comments
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May 27, 2024 — Scott Johnson
We closely covered the New York Post stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. Anyone who took a close look at the story could see a self-authenticating element in it and, indeed, every piece of additional reporting that followed up on the Post’s reporting corroborated it. With a little help from the Deep State 51, the laptop was dismissed as Russian disinformation,
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May 25, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hunter Biden’s laptop presents as a case study of the cooperation among the mainstream media — I would give pride of place to Natasha Bertrand and Politico, but they had a lot of company — the Democratic Party, and the deep state in the service of Our Democracy™, or Their Democracy. This week the Biden Department of Justice vouched for the authenticity of the laptop in its prosecution of Chairman
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April 13, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Abbe Lowell is the attorney for Hunter Biden in the criminal proceedings that have been brought against him. I’ve observed a time or two before that Lowell will say approximately anything on Biden’s behalf in return for his compensation in the cases. Judge Maryellen Noreika asked the question that crushed the sweetheart plea deal arranged for Hunter. She says as much about Lowell as I do above in denying his
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April 2, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hunter Biden moved to dismiss the criminal tax charges pending against Hunter Biden in federal court (the Central District of California). Indeed, Biden attorney Abbe Lowell filed eight motions to dismiss the charges. Judge Mark Scarsi — a Trump appointee — denied the motions in an order that is accessible online here. Judge Scarsi writes at page 33: As the Court stated at the hearing, Defendant filed his motion without
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February 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson
New York Post columnist Miranda Devine literally wrote the book on The Laptop From Hell. Subtitle: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide. Whenever she updates the continuing saga of Hunter Biden, attention must be paid. Today the reader’s attention is rewarded with low comedy: Hunter has been making all of his 16 lawyers in cases across the country go through this charade of
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January 11, 2024 — Scott Johnson
Hunter Biden showed up in the audience at the House Oversight Committee hearing on his ostentatious defiance of the committee’s subpoena. He faces a committee resolution that would hold him in contempt of Congress. However, he rests secure in the knowledge that he enjoys the protection of the Biden Department of Justice. Otherwise he might be in trouble, like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro in days of old. Sitting in
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