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Sunday, October 25, 2020

The Biden Inc. Scandal Deepens

Commenter Cassander posted a link to Andrea Widburg's article at AmThinker this morning. As it happens, I've been spending some time this morning listening to Dan Bongino interview Rudy Giuliani while reading Widburg's article (Forget the Hunter Biden sex tapes. The real news is much bigger than that.) and a companion piece. Here's Cassander's summary of the allegations we're hearing about. I hasten to add that Widburg, a lawyer, isn't prone to wild speculation. Moreover, what's been documented so far makes these new allegations all too probable:


First: China has long owned Biden thanks to its having compromising information about his family (and possibly about him too).

Second: Biden identified CIA assets in China. The back story is that, between 2010 and 2012, China executed or imprisoned 18 to 20 assets who had bravely worked with the CIA, destroying a critical intelligence network.

Third: [A dissent Chinese billionaire, Guo Wengui, controls 'outlets' which] have “millions of videos and photos” of people who have worked with the Chinese against their own countries, implying] that Guo managed to get into China’s “blackmail” database and can release that information.


As you can see from #3, these allegations come from Guo Wengui, a "dissident Chinese billionaire" and friend of Steve Bannon. As you can see, however, Widburg's title is a bit misleading. There's no "forget[ting] the Hunter Biden sex tapes." Because the sex blackmail is key to the whole thing. Here's Widburg's summary of Guo's background and the leadup to these allegations:


Guo was born in mainland China and gained his wealth doing construction work. Eventually, he ran into trouble, and the Chinese government accused him of corruption. (The reality, of course, is that anyone who has become wealthy in China was corrupt.)

Guo escaped with his wealth to America. He is a fervent enemy of the Chinese Communist Party and has made it his mission to bring it down. One of his friends is Steve Bannon, with whose help he founded GTV and GNews. ...

... on September 25, a Guo-affiliated YouTube station uploaded a Chinese-language video announcing that Guo and Bannon had sent “sent three hard disks of evidence” to both the Justice Department and Nancy Pelosi.

Three days later, Himalaya Global, a movement that Guo and Bannon started, published a tweet making the same announcement, only adding that the disks created a “big money and sex scandal.” ...

... Since then, revelations from the New York Post, Rudy Giuliani, Tony Bobulinski, and other anonymous sources have confirmed that Hunter’s hard drive had compromising financial information. Now, thanks to GTV’s videos and photos, it looks like Guo was also telling the truth about a sex scandal.

In other words, the allegations in the tweet about disks of evidence and financial and sex scandals appear true. That makes it possible, indeed probable, that the other allegation in the tweet is true: namely, that not only has the FBI had Hunter’s computers since December 2019, but also that both Nancy Pelosi and the DOJ have been sitting on the same information since September 28, 2020.


If Nancy Pelosi is sitting on those disks, all I can say is it must be a very uncomfortable place to be sitting right now. As for DoJ "sitting on the same information," Rudy addresses that in the interview with Bongino. What he has to say is actually encouraging, and I'll get to that further down. First ...

The other article I was reading while I published Cassander's comment is China’s Communist Party is backing the left’s revolution, seeking our downfall and subjugation. Having worked CI for over two decades, nothing I've been reading about the Bidens and the Red Chinese comes as a surprise. Certainly, if you read anything put out by Falun Gong (think, Epoch Times) you'll know that they take it for granted that many US politicians have been sexually compromised by their ethnic Chinese staffers. And of course, sex and money go hand in hand in these matters.


The many refugees from Russia 90 years ago were largely ignored by the intelligentsia of the time. They saw the refugees as supporters of the Czar with heavy Russian accents. The Chinese diaspora suffers from problems similar to the Russian refuges from communism. Many Chinese in the West understand all too well the tactics of the communists. ... 

The communists compromise people with money, sex and intimidation. Rooms in hotels open to foreigners in China are wired for video and sound. Sexpionage uses women to target and blackmail foreigners. Taiwanese businessmen routinely push a sofa against hotel doors to prevent waking up with a woman in their bed. Chinese immigrants must always worry about their relatives back in China. Chinese intelligence vacuums data from the cellphones and computers of foreign visitors. In the Muslim region of Xinjiang knives have QR codes tying them to the owner. Huge numbers of these Muslims have been sent to prison camps.

It is unlikely that Biden is the only high U.S. official compromised by the Chinese regime. Kamala Harris’s husband works for a firm that represents Chinese communist interests. Senator Diane Feinstein’s husband is also tied to China. The Chinese don’t buy Americans with bags of cash. They use law firm fees, consulting contracts or business deals.


You can count on it that the FBI has been watching these developments for a long time. You can also count on it that any FBI action has been strenuously resisted by the political establishment in DC--for many years. 

Which brings us to the Rudy/Bongino interview--and you'll see how well it fits in with all the above. 

Rudy says lots of interesting things. Here are two of them. This first segment I'll transcribe at some length just to give the total context. Bear in mind what I said yesterday. Yes, Rudy is a highly accomplished former prosecutor. He's doing investigating for Trump, but he's also serving as a publicist for Trump. So when he says that the FBI has done nothing--he doesn't know that. It happens to serve a narrative, a political narrative. When he says if he were the US Attorney he could have an indictment in a month, provided everything works out--that's braggadoccio that serves a political narrative. He can't possibly know what the FBI and DoJ are doing--not the full extent. So, when you get to the end of this excerpt, what's important is that the FBI vouches for Rudy and Rudy ends up vouching for the FBI. He says they have an ongoing money laundering case and he says he knows something about it. So they haven't just been sitting on things doing nothing, and he's probably known that all along. And at that point you'll see Rudy speaks in a bit more circumscribed way. Here we go:


So, when we came across that--Bernie Kerik and I--we were examining this. We went over the text messages first. I found this maybe three days ago [Hunter's text to Joe about the sex and crack stuff] and that's what motivated me to go take a look at the pictures. And I was shocked when I saw them. So, this is not my area of expertise, and in many ways it's not even Bernie's. So we called two very highly skilled former New York City detectives who did child endangerment cases as a career. And I showed it to them and I said, 'What are my obligations here? What do I hafta do?' And they said, 'Well, actually, since it's been given to the FBI, you don't hafta do anything. But, since the FBI has had it for almost a year, and since from every other aspect of the case there seems to have been no action taken, you should probably be safe and report it to the local police.'

Well, of course the 'local police' is in Delaware and he [Biden] owns Delaware, right, we thought, 'The heck with it!' Bernie and I don't get afraid to easily, so I called the Delaware police. I probably made them faint. I told them who I was and I told them what I wanted to come and deliver, what I considered the material that I had an obligation to deliver to them. And that they had an obligation to investigate. So we went down there on Monday morning. We brought with us the illustrations that we thought kinda laid this out. We also brought the entire hard drive--if they wanted it. And we showed it to them, did a presentation, they examined it. They asked for the hard drive and then they basically assured us that they were going to analyze it and investigate it. And then we learned a day later that they sent it up to the AG of Delaware, who's a politically elected official, Democrat, and ally of Senator Biden's and then she punted it to the FBI.

So, think about that, right? It made a circle. It's been with the FBI for ten months. They've taken no action, and they sent it back to the FBI. But something did happen. Early yesterday there was a leak [Leak? Or Statement?] from the FBI that the emails that we presented, the ones that Chris Wallace accused me of being 'unreliable'--I'm not happy about that--the FBI found to be accurate, valid, and connected to an ongoing money laundering case that they have going on. And I have some knowledge of that case. And then beyond the money laundering case, there are five cases here that, if I were US Attorney I could have this indictment--assuming the testimony works out the same way as the text messages and emails--could probably have the indictment in a month. And they're very serious cases. We know some of them. I mean, we know about Ukraine and we know about Hunter Biden was paid, total amount, in excess of ten million dollars in Ukraine. Including some money laundering payments that haven't been counted. I have the proof of that [description of fictitious loans that end up in Hunter Biden and John Kerry company.] [Continues.]


So, we've learned something, we've received some confirmation. Now, Rudy offers an overview of 


Rudy: All that stuff about Joe Biden not knowing about Hunter's foreign business? Which I think we disproved [] that's total crap. Hunter doesn't do a damn thing without talking to Joe. And there's no doubt that, all over the years, Hunter's been kicking money back to Joe and taking care of Joe's expenses. Which explains why Joe [] has five homes. [] I don't think he's an investment expert.

Bongino: [] Is there a possibility that this from the start was a Chinese operation to get dirt on the Bidens, knowing that he'd run for president? [] Nothing to do with business and everything to do with dirtying up the Bidens.

Rudy: Two things. The Chinese are dumb and like to give away billions of dollars. The Chinese are, among other things, very intelligent, and they know what they're doing, and they figure it was a good investment in the vice president, since he got a lot of discretion over the islands, the tariffs, and he sold us out like crazy [describes the effect of the Biden Betrayal on US jobs, etc. and how much Joe Biden made]. They figured, that's over, but they had to have another hold on this weak man, so they came up with this deal and the idiot becomes a 10% partner. [Continues]


Listen to it all here. The first part is about polling, quite interesting, but the Rudy part starts around 37:00. And a note on RICO. RICO is where Rudy made his name, and especially organized crime. He likes to compare the Bidens to the Gambinos, and that works well for public consumption. But the mere fact of criminals sharing the take doesn't magically transform a case into a RICO. There's a lot more going on, but that's not Rudy's concern. Understand that and take it for what it's worth. The point is, it looks like it's all developing, and possibly in tandem with other things.


31 comments:

  1. It's a good thing that popcorn is as cheap as it is...I've been gong through a lot of it.

    The larger point is, just like the ducks on the pond, there's a lot of paddling going on that we can't see....until it breaks the surface.

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  2. Afraid the FBI @ this point is totally compromised by their actions over the last four years (in reality it’s goes back longer than that).

    FWIW - Just hearsay I know, but a lovely lady who is a neighbor up the street is a French immigrant & retired from the FBI: she says in all her time with the Bureau she never heard one nice thing said about Republicans/Republican Party. She said the rank & file always considered them “stupid”.

    And she goes back a few years; she was a young girl living thru the German occupation during WWII.

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    1. Why even repeat such nonsense? Everyone remembers the txt messages from the day after Trump won in 2016. IG Horowitz cited them--agents commuting and texting each other, gloating and saying they couldn't wait to get to the office.

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    2. I don't expect SAs to say nice things or disparaging things regarding politics one way or another. I expect them to do the job they signed up for, were trained to do, took an oath to do, and are paid to do—and to do so in an entirely apolitical manner. I have more reason than probably 99% of the population to be sceptical of the FBI, but despite its frequent and glaring headline-grabbing dysfunction—which seems most often associated with upper management—I think most agents try to do just that. At least the ones who aren't kneeling to terrorists.

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    3. "And she goes back a few years; she was a young girl living thru the German occupation during WWII."

      Don't know one way or the other, but the above sentence would indicate she retire circa 1980, if not earlier. Her formative years in the FBI would have been 1950's? I read somewhere once that J. Edgar and the Republicans had a rift for a number of years over Joe McCarthy trying to steal FBI CI thunder. Maybe that time-frame is what she was reminiscing about, or not.

      To be honest I myself don't have a great deal of respect for Republican politicians, as a Party or individually. They can't brag about anything beyond only being half the problem. In regards to where the Republic is at they are either complicit or have been asleep at the wheel.
      Tom S.

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    4. Young girl usually means a teenager. She’d have to be well into her 90s now.

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  3. re Biden passing CIA names to China

    3-4 years ago I was reading that China got these names from Clinton's home server, and that she had TS information on there and was selling to the Chinese who could hack her server at will...

    Now it's Biden providing the names... wouldn't that mean that someone in IC would have passed the names to him?

    If so, hopefully Brennan could be tied in to that somehow...that would make my day.

    Frank

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  4. I mentioned this elsewhere but since its sort of on topic....

    The Chinese are collecting petabytes of data everywhere they can get it, not just from high govt. officials, though I am sure those are good scores.

    1-they never know who might go bigtime, so every TikTok video, every whatsapp chat, you name it. its all stored just in case.

    2-the company I work for is pretty candid when traveling to China for business (not much for me lately, obviously) that if you find yourself in some potentially compromising situation, you should assume its being recorded. Even a drunken tirade at a bar. They have a VERY thorough apparatus for industrial espionage as well, and will not bat an eye to go after some lackey at a co. like mine if it meant getting financial or trade secret data with the lackey bent over a barrel.

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    1. I believe if you travel to China with any electronic device the data on it will be collected.

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    2. When we traveled China for three weeks in 1986 as guests of the HSBC, our (then) PRC guide and his or her minder were with us during the day and usually through dinner. We did not have electronic devices with us. However my DH’s friends, the Brit consul and his wife in Beijing, had to play classical music very loudly while we listened to a bootlegged BBC report that Reagan was bombing Libya. Their lovely residence was bugged. We’d come for quiet drinks. Got quite a lot more.

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  5. "I was reading that China got these names from Clinton's home server, and that she had TS information on there and was selling to the Chinese who could hack her server at will..."

    Stories like this are why actual conspiracies get dismissed as "conspiracy theories". I can't even begin to imagine a circumstance where the SoS or anybody in that orbit, or even at State, would have access to a Santa list of CIA assets anywhere.

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    1. she wouldn't need to - No need to think she had a list of names on her fridge - she would be privy to communication that, if compromised, could have put the CCP on the scent and helped them to track down those assets.

      I find it far more credible that the assets were betrayed by HRC's criminal negligence than by Biden. This makes the refusal to investigate her - to even attempt to understand the extent of damage caused by her conduct - a huge scandal in its own right.

      Widberg is my favorite writer on AT. I can readily believe that he and many others are compromised to some extent, but I need a lot more to believe that he betrayed those assets.

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    2. Being a rube boomer so far in the hinterland that Fly-Over-Country looks like the suburbs I don't know if Frank's comment is true or not. On the other hand it seems just about anyone in the upper levels of the Obama admin could waltz into the IC and get communications data on just about anyone they wanted without a whiff of justification, so the rules of compartmentalization or "need to know", which once upon a time were rather stringent and inflexible, seem to have been rather, shall we say, malleable. Concerning our government my threshold for suspension of disbelief dropped to shoelace level over the last 20 years.
      Tom S.

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  6. In my imagination, Biden wins...the crap hits the fan...even Democrats want to impeach Biden, but will need the R's help.
    And, waiting in the wings to take over is Kamala Harris, Obama's favorite candidate.
    What will the R's do?

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  7. The ChiComs have perfected the art of boiling frogs and eating them.

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  8. This blog is expanding my worldview, constantly.

    Just when I get over my last shock, another one comes along I need to adjust too.

    I’m sure Hunter was video’d in China, as blackmail material by the government.

    The mention of every foreigner hotel is bugged is so 1984 and expands my worldview.

    Agree with Mark on any smart phones / computers that go through Chinese customs gets copied, and sometimes even bugged / viruses.

    US customs, which I dislike and Last I heard, can request access to electronics in custom without a search warrant since the person has not been officially admitted to the US.

    Interesting the timing of the arrest of Bannon by SDNY charged on Wengui‘s yacht right before the release of the information from Hunter Bidens laptop.

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    1. @Ray

      In the mid-1990s my firm asked me to move to the Hong Kong office. My wife and I went out on a due diligence trip to look at the office and investigate housing and schools.

      While we were there I ran into an American expat in the hotel lobby. We got to talking and I asked him how he liked working in Hong Kong.

      He told me that business was booming with commensurate financial rewards, but that there were some serious risk factors and drawbacks. Perhaps you already knew this. :-)

      I won't go through them all (there were quite a number) but will mention one. In addition to constant surveillance, he said that working in China is really tough on marriages. He said a middle aged American businessman couldn't travel in China without being targeted and propositioned by a very attractive Chinese woman. He said that sex was readily on offer but that the one night stand was only the beginning. He said that there would be escalating pressure to stay with the Chinese woman, leading to inevitable marital difficulties and financial complications. He suggested that none of this was accidental. Was the State behind this? He told me that, all things considered, working in China simply wasn't worth it.

      We elected to decline the offer to move to Hong Kong.

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    2. I traveled to China once. My party was advised that our data should be safe if we could keep our devices on our person the whole time. But all bets are off if you turn on blue tooth, use your cell phone, or attempt to access the hotel WiFi.

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    3. I also remember reading several years ago, back when Hillary's server was still a thing, that she traveled to some unfriendly country (I forget which country) and her party was instructed to put their cell phones into a secure box on the plane to prevent the host country from snooping - of course, she declined and used her phone anyway.

      Frank

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    4. @Cassander

      Agree with you on the inevitable marital difficulties. That happened to at least one of my wife's friends and I think a former boss of mine. One wife, Chinese, would accompany her non Chinese husband on every single trip he made.

      My wife, born in Taiwan, hears rumors of a couple of company owners she knows, or worked for, had a 2nd wife in China. While the original wife was in the US or Taiwan raising a family.

      Another family friend, PhD Engineer, White, in semiconductors, had stories of going to China with the women being super aggressive.

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  9. How many FBI agents ha e been compromised with sex?

    Same question for Senators and Representatives.

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    1. For the record, I never was. Others can argue over the reasons.

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  10. I want to point out something that I'v not seen picked up on yet:

    When Bannon was recently indicted for the wall fraud thing, reports were that he was arrested on his billionaire Chinese benefactors yacht. Conservatives across the spectrum had a go at him for being a grifter.

    In light of recent developments, we should become more wary of our own cancel culture. Additionally, since we now realize has has valuable goods on the Deep State, it stands to reason that the SDNY indicting him is politically motivated, and that Barr still does not have a grip on that office.

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    1. I was one of them and, yes, I've become more wary. Or at least I'll try to be.

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  11. I believe more FBI agents are corrupt, than not.

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    1. Anything else you wanna pull outta your wazoo tonight?

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    2. Good grief. The favorite meme right now on internet forums is “Hannity was wrong. ALL FBI agents are corrupt”, blah, blah, blah. Notions like this become epidemic on the internet and are always stated as fact. How do those who claim this support their claim?

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  12. These are interesting:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/blockbuster-report-reveals-how-biden-family-was-compromised-china

    https://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/4057/That-Sick-Glimmer-of-Recognition.aspx

    Tom S.

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  13. FLASH TRAFFIC:

    "Sean Davis
    @seanmdav

    According to a source familiar with the planning, Bobulinski will play recordings of Biden family operatives begging him to stay quiet and claiming Bobulinski's revelations will "bury" the reputations of everyone involved in Hunter's overseas deals.
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    Sean Davis
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    BREAKING: Tucker Carlson's show tomorrow night will be devoted entirely to an interview with Tony Bobulinksi, the Biden family insider-turned-whistleblower whose explosive e-mails show that Joe Biden himself was deeply involved in Hunter's foreign business dealings."

    >> https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1320817394101735429 <<

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  14. CNN Apologizes for Very Detailed Breaking News Report on Bobulinksi Suicide. Blames Timeline Confusion.

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