For months Team Biden corralled lawyers and public relations experts to confront a day they hoped would never arrive. Their worst fears are now a reality. When Republicans officially won control of the House, they signaled their first order of business would be an investigation of the president.
More than four months ago top White House officials huddled in the Roosevelt Room to prepare for this scenario. Richard Sauber, former Biden campaign attorney, spearheaded the effort to build a war room to deal with expected GOP subpoenas and data requests, reports CNN.
Sauber had been appointed Veterans Administration general council by the president in 2021. Now his business card reads: special counsel to the president. Sauber has experience with the Hunter Biden scandal. He squelched original reports about damaging information on Hunter's laptop.
Sauber was the least surprised when House Republicans made clear their plans to focus on linking President Biden to the foreign business dealings of his son, Hunter. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky), slated to chair the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee next year, fired the opening shot.
Comer alleged the president "misused his public positions to further his financial interests." He backed up his claims with a trove of evidence recovered from Hunter's laptop and from documents that show the president participated in meetings and phone calls about his son's foreign business dealings.
The pro-Biden media cabal already had its marching orders. After two years of calling the Biden laptop Russian disinformation, CBS pivoted this month and claimed forensic experts had verified the device belonged to Hunter. CBS pirouetted on November 22 after Comer's announcement.
The news outlet was the last holdout of laptop deniers. Their reversal followed flip-flops from NBC, ABC, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Politico. Every single one of these Democratic Party propaganda organizations spent more than year debunking the veracity of the laptop.
The New York Post broke the story three weeks before the 2020 president election about the laptop and printed reports detailing the contents on the device. Social media, led by Twitter and Facebook, censored the story under a flimsy pretense that the information on the laptop was unauthenticated.
The Post went to great lengths to verify the laptop belonged to Hunter and published details of its authentication process. It didn't matter. This was a coordinated social and news media blackout to preserve Biden's chances for election. The White House orchestrated the censorship.
In those days, Biden spokespersons repeatedly called the laptop Russian disinformation. It cajoled a bevy of former government intelligence leaders to support the specious charge. The scandal was embalmed and buried to protect Joe Biden. The censorship was part of a massive coverup.
So why did the media have a change of heart about the laptop?
These not-so-clever media moguls decided to confirm the laptop verification in anticipation of the upcoming House hearings. Now the cabal can claim emails, photos and other information on the laptop is old news. There is nothing more to see. Disinformation and distraction are favorite media ploys.
The Associated Press recently issued a dispatch that likely will be the media blueprint throughout the hearings. "Joe Biden has said he's never spoken to his son about his foreign business and nothing the Republicans have put forth suggests otherwise," the AP wrote mimicking the White House.
A blindfolded media just cannot see the connection between former Vice President Biden and his son flying on Air Force Two to China. After the trip, Hunter landed a sweetheart multi-billion dollar deal with a Chinese owned energy firm. Only the naive believe the two never talked about the deal.
The Washington Post reported that entities controlled by Hunter Biden and this Uncle Jim Biden reaped $4.8 billion over 14 months from the Chinese government controlled firm. No wonder the Treasury Department issued at least 150 Suspicious Activity Reports related to Biden family transactions.
There are emails on Hunter's laptop from Ukrainian and other foreign clients thanking Hunter for arranging meetings with his father. There are photos from dinners and meetings which link the president to Hunter's partners. One email specifies how to divvy up the funds with the "Big Guy."
There is enough evidence on the laptop to prove Biden knew of his son's foreign business dealings. An honest, unbiased media would have already connected the dots back to the president. However, expect the unscrupulous cabal to ignore the hearings and to smear every Republican on the committee.
Democrats are laughably lecturing the nation about the Republicans lack of seriousness because they want to investigate the president. Democrats spent four years probing and impeaching President Trump, including flogging a Russian collusion narrative that was not verified by anyone except Hillary Clinton.
There is imminently more evidence about Biden's knowledge and participation in Hunter's deals than there was about Russia collusion. Democrats can squeal all they want, but the GOP is just using the political strategy perfected by Democrats. Why can't the GOP play by Democrats' rules?
Democrats employed every polarizing precedent they could dream up to destroy the Trump presidency. In politics, payback is inevitable. Is this sort of gamesmanship good for America? Of course, not. But Democrats ceded the high moral ground six years ago, therefore, their protests ring hollow.
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