Hunter Biden’s alleged wayward laptop encapsulates a number of truly grave issues of importance for which there is no precedent in the history of the United States. It provides evidence—admittedly prima facie, but extraordinarily detailed and convincing—that his father, due to stand as the Democratic Party candidate for the United States’ next president in just 13 days—could quite properly be charged with high crimes and misdemeanors.
And, unlike the case of Donald Trump and the Ukraine impeachment flight of fancy he faced, there’s possibly real and voluminous evidence to back up such a charge against Joe Biden.
- Establishing that the laptop’s hard drive is actually Hunter Biden’s and the contents are genuine. His supporters have significantly not yet even denied this, and the revelations of some of its contents have already gone a long way to establishing beyond any reasonable doubt that the laptop and hard drive are the real thing.
- Establishing that Hunter Biden traded on his father’s name to corruptly grant access and influence to foreign individuals and organizations that damaged the interests of the United States
- Establishing that Joe Biden—contrary to his repeated public denials of any knowledge of Hunter’s business activities—was fully aware of Hunter’s activities, actively collaborated with them, and profited from them at his own insistence.
- Confirming that Joe Biden was, in fact, the “big guy” referred to in many of the emails on the hard drive, and was cut in to a major part of the payoffs, amounting to millions of dollars. And, of course, establishing that he, while acting as Vice President of the United States, subordinated the interests of his country to those of foreign organizations and countries for direct personal financial gain.
- Establishing whether Biden was aided and abetted in these alleged crimes by others, especially those high in the Obama administration, either directly or via obstruction of justice. For example, questioning why organizations such as the FBI—which was allegedly made aware of the hard drive and its contents as early as December 2019—apparently did nothing to investigate further, and certainly decided not to take any action. Investigation of aiding and abetting would need to be fully open-ended and even question the role of President Obama.
- Questioning the role of major social media organizations such as Twitter and Facebook, which openly intervened, without any coherent rationale or explanation, to censor and block any dissemination via social media of the New York Post article that broke the news of the exposure of the alleged Hunter Biden laptop and its contents.
When the Trump administration defended President Trump from charges of collusion with foreign powers against the interests of the United States, it repeatedly made a point of saying that the responsibility lay entirely with a very small group of rogue leaders. It said 99 percent of the FBI’s employees were entirely blameless.
Perhaps that was true of the FBI. But it’s certainly not true of the U.S. media today. With a tiny number of exceptions, such as the New York Post and Fox News, the media has been totally complicit with Twitter and Facebook in suppressing any examination of the astounding details emerging from the alleged Hunter Biden laptop.
Even before the outing of said laptop, there was ample evidence that Hunter Biden had amassed a small fortune by “consulting” though he had no specialized knowledge of the topics he was allegedly advising on. There was also the evidence, openly and publicly on video bragged about by his father, that Joe Biden had forced the Ukraine government to fire a prosecutor, who it turned out had been investigating the Ukrainian company of which Hunter Biden was a board member. His high-profile audience giggled approvingly at the boast.
These are major sins of omission by the media, but there’s worse: its sins of commission. The overwhelming majority of the mainstream media has reacted to the revelations from the laptop by studiously ignoring the entire issue. Joe Biden has been interviewed at length since the laptop issue became public by various senior media professionals, and innumerable times in passing, without the topic even being brought up.
Ignoring the issue entirely, as the mainstream media has done for several days, is even worse than if a partisan media had attempted to provide reasoned explanations and justifications for the group or individual they supported.
When almost the entire U.S. media, hitherto famous for its independence and total dedication to exposing the sins of the powerful, acts as a supine, slavish, and sycophantic unit, when it acts directly against the most fundamental values of its profession, we need to really begin to worry about the future of Western civilization.
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