The media coverup of Biden corruption Inc.

Miranda Divine:
The witness protection of Joe Biden by the media is starting to look like election interference.

Exhibit A: The Senate interim report released Wednesday detailing millions of dollars Joe Biden’s son Hunter received from corrupt foreign oligarchs and companies while his father was vice president.

Despite its obvious news value, the report immediately was pilloried by influential media outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post as “inconclusive” partisan echoing of Russian propaganda.

“Republican Inquiry Finds No ­Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden,” was the Times’ headline.

“GOP’s Hunter Biden report doesn’t back up Trump’s actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it,” said The Washington Post.

“GOP senators’ anti-Biden report repackages old claims” was another typical headline dismissing the ­report, this from Politico.

Yet there are new and damning allegations in the report about Hunter’s ability to leverage his father’s position as vice president into riches for himself and his friends.

The old allegations were damning enough, anyway, despite the fact they have been flushed down the memory hole. Take Hunter’s $50,000 monthly payment for sitting on the board of Ukrainian natural-gas firm Burisma Holdings, despite no relevant experience and a history of drug problems, at a time when his father was in charge of US policy toward Ukraine.

But here’s just one of the new revelations: Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer in 2014 from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, and a billionaire friend of Vladimir Putin.

Now that’s real Russian collusion.

Given the gravity of the allegations, you would think that the ­media pack following Joe Biden would have asked him a question yesterday about the report.

But reporters didn’t even though Biden took questions on three occasions during a visit to North Carolina, the most available he has been to the press since he retreated to his basement in March.

At 10 a.m. at the Wilmington airport in Delaware, Biden answered three questions: how he was preparing for next week’s debate; whether US relations with China will be a “zero-sum game” if he is elected; and was he “still vetting potential Supreme Court nominees?”

On the tarmac in Charlotte, NC, he was asked, “What gives you the sense that you can win?”

Seriously. Talk about softballs.

There were more questions at about 1:30 p.m., after he delivered a teleprompter speech:
What would he like to see for Historically Black Colleges and Universities?
What is he going do about the minimum wage?
What are his plans for “educational equity”?
Will small businesses get COVID relief?
How do you reimagine the Justice Department and its Civil Rights division after four years of Trump?

Finally, at Charlotte on the way home at about 6:30 p.m., Biden fielded more questions, about the Breonna Taylor ruling, Iran and what he thought about Supreme Court contender Amy Coney Barrett.

Nothing all day on Hunter Biden....
There is much including some of the stuff the media is trying to ignore.  My question for Biden is "Why is a Russian sending millions of dollars to his son?"  Why will the media not asking him this question?  Are they afraid the answer might not be helpful to their goal of defeating Trump?

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