The media cover-up of Biden family corruption

 Washington Examiner:

Powerful people will do what they can get away with. When it comes to President Joe Biden and his family, that's a lot.

The latest demonstration: The establishment media in the United States has continued to whitewash all news related to Hunter Biden’s now-infamous laptop.

Late last week, the Daily Mail (London) published the most explosive revelations yet from communications recovered from the laptop of Joe Biden’s son. Yet, a quick web search indicates that except for openly conservative American outlets, no major American media organization has reported a word of the new revelations.

The new information isn’t just esoterica. It goes to the very heart of the controversy that led to the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump. It also raises serious questions about the current president’s integrity and his independence from foreign influence. There can be no doubt that if the same information had emerged about a Republican president and his son, the story would be dominating the news 24 hours a day. Instead, the media continues to protect the Bidens, acting more as the family’s own press agents than as independent servants of the public’s need to know.

According to the Daily Mail, which published actual screenshots of the messages involved, then-Vice President Joe Biden actually met with some of Hunter Biden’s shady business associates from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. There are even photos that appear to be from the dinner in question at Café Milano in Georgetown. One associate, Vadym Pozharskyi, was an executive of the Burisma energy company whose board Hunter Biden sat and which Trump so controversially risked his whole administration.

This news directly contradicts multiple claims by Joe Biden and his team that the current president had “never spoken” to Hunter Biden “about his overseas business dealings.” Again, Joe Biden’s claims have been quite definitive — but now they appear to be lies. Worse, Hunter Biden obviously was so aware that his father’s involvement with his foreign dealings was ethically problematic that he invented a cover story for dinner.

“The reason for the dinner is ostensibly to discuss food security,” Hunter Biden wrote to one invitee. “Dad will be there but keep that btw us for now.”

Likewise, the media’s original hesitancy to cover the laptop story was ostensibly because reporters questioned the laptop’s authenticity. Still, the real reason was to protect the Democratic nominee and thus defeat Trump.

From the earliest days after the story broke last fall, all logic insisted the laptop and its contents truly were Hunter Biden’s and were not forged. Yet, Twitter banned the original reporting from its platform, and almost every establishment media outlet did logical gymnastics to assert, without a shred of evidence, that the whole thing was “Russian disinformation.” The “disinformation” claim was such a self-evident falsehood as to amount to major media malpractice.

All along, the key question was not whether Hunter Biden engaged in sleazy business practices — of course, he did — but whether his father aided his efforts or even profited from them. When one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, Tony Bobulinski, provided a largely credible account last October of Joe Biden’s involvement on at least one other occasion, most legacy media outlets (the Wall Street Journal excepted) rushed to discredit Bobulinski actively rather than viewing the story through a neutral lens.

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The mainstream media appears to be as corrupt as the Bidens.  They are part of the coverup of corruption on a grand scale by the Biden family.  They are so desperate to defeat Donald Trump that they can't handle the truth about Biden.   BTW, the DOJ appears to be just as corrupt as the mainstream media when it comes to the Bidens' monetizing of his office.  They waste years pushing the Russian collusion hoax while ignoring evidence of Biden corruption right under their nose.