I usually want to keep a distance from rumors, but this one makes sense.
We've all heard various people--including Rudy Giuliani--saying that in the near future there would be more mainstream outlets coming out with more on the Biden Crime Family. The rumor over at FR is that the mainstream outlet will be the WSJ. Two commenters at FR explain why that rumor makes sense:
9. The biggest winner in this Hunter Biden hard drive scandal so far has been the New York Post. Everyone is citing the New York Post and it's all over the world.
The WSJ and the Post have the same owner so the Post could have given a copy of the hard drive to the WSJ too.
13. WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Fox Business show the Evening Edit dropped that there will be Biden corruption news soon regarding Romania. Yup, Romania. He did not elaborate.
Rudy mentioned Romania, among quite a few other countries, in the interview with Mark Levin.
15. I subscribe to the WSJ and was disappointed they have not said a peep about the Hunter Biden story. But Rupert Murdoch owns both the New York Post and Wall Street Journal so the Journal has ready access to the Post material through Murdoch. So, makes logical sense that the next major newspaper to next report on it would be the Journal. Going to be a lot harder for Twitter to defend blocking a story from the austere Journal where the “tabloid” stigma does not apply.
This thing has legs.
The debate commission has suddenly decided that "foreign policy" will be off the table for the next debate. I take that to mean that they'll try to shut Trump down if he brings up the Biden Crime Family--they'll claim, That's foreign policy! Can't go there!
That could be a tough line to hold. Of course Trump can respond, I'm not talking FP, just accusing Slow Joe of criminality.
UPDATE: Commenter EZ gave me a heads up about this a few hours ago, so I should probably mention it here. The details haven't been fully fleshed out, but the claim being made has to do with Hunter Biden receiving $3.5 million from Yelena Baturina, wife of the mayor of Moscow. Why, people have asked, would Baturina seemingly just give all that money to Hunter? The obvious answer is that she didn't just give it to him--it was payment for a service. Jack Posobiec believes he's found what that service was, and it's a service in big demand in our sanctions world: money laundering. The allegation is that the $3.5 million was the fee for laundering money to evade sanctions. The money involved amounted to $200 million in Devon Archer's firm. Now that makes sense:
BREAKING: Hunter Biden associate’s emails reveal details of deal with fmr Moscow mayors wife to launder funds into the US in avoidance of sanctions, Devon Archer claimed firm received $200M - @OANN
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 19, 2020
As it happens, Posobiec offers some documentation for that claim. Obviously we're not going to see an admission of money laundering in a document like the one below, but it does fit:
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 19, 2020
Minor quibble: while her husband's last name may be "Baturin," IIRC in Russian a female's last name has an English "a" added at the end, to make the feminine proper name.
ReplyDeleteHence, "Baturina" would be the correct spelling for the wife's last name.
However in this case, her FATHER’s last name was Baturin. She evidently did not adopt the surname of her husband, the late Yury Luzhkov, longtime mayor of Moscow and Putin nemesis.
DeleteAnd not sure what the quibble is. Her surname is in fact Baturina.
Delete1.75% seems fair enough.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/19/trump-campaign-manager-challenges-commission-for-changing-topics-of-final-debate/
Trump campaign is pushing back against Debate Commission changing debate topics. Specifically removing foreign policy.
If there is a lot of Biden involvement with Eastern Europe sooner or later something will turn up concerning Soros. I think he may be taking a keen interest in what Hunter and friends were stupid enough to put in writing. He has done a lot of dirty work there and hasn't been as punctilious about keeping his hands clean as he has in the U.S.
Tom S.
Fox etc. now say, the Debate Commission will cut off the mikes of Trump and Biden, during the two-minute response times allotted to each, to stop "interruptions" while one of them has the "floor".
DeleteMaybe DJT should make a nat'l TV announcement, that he won't play ball with a rigged debate format.
I can't see such an announcement not getting huge attn.
Would social media dare to block posts about such an announcement?
On what possible grounds?
Fleischer was just on Hannity, urging that debate moderators be stripped of almost all power.
DeleteRecall, I've been urging that debate moderators be stripped of all power.
The so-called “commission” that puts on the debates should be fired.
Delete"...Hunter and friends were stupid enough to put in writing."
DeleteThat's one thing I find fascinating about these e-mail/text exchanges. They just chatter away as if it is all ordinary and business as usual, like they were dealing in widget futures or something equally innocuous. It demonstrates the virtually non-existent moral training the the elite class is provided by all their private schools, grammar through advanced degrees. Older generations would at least had enough self-awareness to commit almost none of this to writing. There was a reason Capone could only be convicted of tax evasion. Not these bozos. If people think we are ruled now by the least worthy ruling class in history just wait 'til their progeny takes over (looking at you Chelsea).
sorry forgot to sign
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I suspected the $3.5 million was some sort of money laundering operation- either a fee or an investment in Burnham- most likely the fee for Biden's services.
ReplyDeleteIf the $200 million is true, then you are talking about long prison sentences for money laundering- there is no way such an investment would have been legal in 2014.
I read a report that Trump on a conference call today where he invited journalists to listen in said the WSJ would have an important story about Biden corruption.
ReplyDeleteI vote Trump just takes a bullhorn to the next debate.
ReplyDeleteBetting the term(s) "declined prosecution" and / or "without finding any substantive wrongdoing" are at the end of this election porn rainbow.
LOL! I made the suggestion about 20 minutes ago over at Althouse's blog.
DeleteLaura Ingraham's show tonight had some snippets of emails showing Hunter's business partners bragging about getting Baturina accounts with JPM which allowed her to bypass sanctions. They knew exactly what they were doing, and Hunter was the one who brought Baturina to the table.
ReplyDeleteThese are not "alleged emails", but actual emails released with authorization from a now imprisoned business partner of Hunter. But I would not be surprised if this continues to be ignored by much of the mainstream press. They have been so deliberately obtuse when it comes to Biden corruption.
No doubt that's part of why Trump said "Got 'em cold!"
DeleteThe guy is saying that Hunter was "cc'd" a lot on emails; didn't have much strategic vision/business acumen. Hunter's main role appears to have been as "rainmaker" who hooked up his crooked partners with rich clients, using his contacts no doubt derived from his father's connections around the world, and, in part, in consideration of access Hunter might be able to provide willing clients.
DeleteHis resume should read: "a well-balanced individual: rainmaker & bagman."
So funny that Natalya Veselnitskya (Trump Tower Russian Lawyer) talked about Magitsky Act and the McCain pushed Global Magitsky expansion. Maybe she was delivering dirt ahead of schedule for 2020.
DeleteSounds like a stretch:
ReplyDeletePaul Sperry
@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Senate looking into poss a spiteful Hunter Biden abandoned laptop to sabotage father's WH bid. Laptop dropped off days before Joe announced 4/2019. Damning photos+docs placed on desktop. Hunter griped used by Pop, forced into rehab,disrespected by Biden spox Bedingfield
>> https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1318386351054651392 <<
OTOH, doing something like that is straight out of le Carre's "A Perfect Spy" -- "Pym" sabotages his own father's political campaign by leaking embarrassing criminality of his own father on the even of Parliamentary elections. He does it not because he hates his father, but rather because he can. It's just his nature.
sorry for this but its just to funny. Jeffery Toobin Toobout.
ReplyDeleteIngraham's interview with Matthew Tyrmand who in possession of Bevan Cooney's emails.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1318507255327850496
"The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed plans to vote on subpoenas to compel the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook to testify on allegations of anti-conservative bias after some panel Republicans expressed reservation about the maneuver"
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with these senators? Last week they seemed to finally be ready to do something, and now they pass.
They had several years to do something, and finally Titter and Facebook did something so egregious that it seemed the senate was forced to act, and then they flake.
Frank
Somebody's check cleared.
DeleteTom S.
Wow, postponed plans, even after such hype about those plans on Fox etc.
DeleteAs if they're betting DJT will lose, or that Sil. Valley will anyway still dictate terms.
Sorry, forgot the link:
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/politico/status/1318346199053832197
Frank
Ben Sasse? Cornyn?
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for adding your name, Frank. Everyone seems to be Anonymous these days.
Bevan Cooney, who ended up in prison for a fraudulant American Indian tribe bond deal that included his then-partner Devon Archer and Hunter Biden, whose name was used in connection with the deal, is the one who angrily gave access to his emails to Peter Schweizer and reporter Matthew Tyrmand. His emails provide verification for much that is in Hunter’s hard drive.
ReplyDeleteCooney in 2019 reached out to Breitbart’s Peter Schweizer, claiming he was the “fall guy” for the fraud scheme, according to the outlet. He indicated that Archer and Biden dodged responsibility, Breitbart continued.
From prison, Cooney later provided Schweizer with written authorization, his email account name and his password to retrieve the emails detailed in the mentioned story, Breitbart reported.
“He authorized, in writing, the publication of these emails— notable because it is the first time a close associate has publicly confirmed Hunter’s trading on his father’s influence,” the outlet continued.
More here: https://heavy.com/news/bevan-cooney/
Devan Archer’s conviction, set aside by the trial judge, has recently been reinstated by an appellate court. He is due for sentencing.