Biden's Defenders Grasp for Straws, Claim Trump Is Worse

Newsflash!

Just ahead of entirely likely Hunter Biden Contempt of Congress filings for defying subpoenas to testify before House Oversight and Judiciary committees regarding potential foreign influence peddling on behalf of his pops and other family members, a banner headline New York Times article informs us “Trump Received Millions from Foreign Governments as President, Report Finds.”

A hyperventilating first paragraph leaves no doubt that as Republicans engage in an impeachment inquiry into whether the Bidens may have pocketed a few millions of bucks from unsavory foreign business deals when Joe was vice president — perhaps even since then — hey, Trump is just as bad. Probably even worse.

The article informs us that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a 156-page report called “White House For Sale” revealing that Donald J. Trump’s businesses received at least $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his presidency, thereby “engaging in the kind of conduct the G.O.P. is grasping to pin on President Biden.”

Then the biggest shocker: China made the largest total payment — $5.5 million — which included millions of dollars from China’s Embassy in the United States, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Hainan Airlines Holding Company.

Saudi Arabia was reportedly the second-largest spender, shelling out more than $615,000 at the Trump World Tower and Trump International Hotel.

You aren’t alone if perhaps wondering why the fact that all sorts of foreign visitors pay money to stay in top quality Trump hotels is newsworthy. Wouldn’t it be worse if some stayed there for free?

The newsworthiness becomes even more perplexing when, as the article later admits, the Chinese bank mentioned in the report had signed a 20-year lease in 2008, nearly a decade before Trump took office, and that profit revenues from foreign officials staying at Trump properties during his presidency were voluntarily returned to the Federal Treasury Department.

Whereas, according to Bloomberg, most presidents see spikes in their net worth following their presidency, Trump’s net worth dropped by about $700 million during that period while also entirely donating his $400,000 public salary.

In addition to COVID-19 travel restriction impacts on Trump's line of resorts and hotels, his “brand” has also since suffered patronage losses from Democrat impeachment attempts and PGA of America’s decision against hosting its annual tournament at his golf club.

In contrast, Joe Biden and his family may have enormously profited selling his name brand during and following his vice presidency.

No one has yet explained why — other than hopes of gaining political influence — any entities, foreign or domestic, would pay Hunter Biden, Jim Biden and other family members millions of dollars for unidentified services through at least 20 shell companies created with no stated business purposes.

Evidence of such gratuitous grift abounds in son Hunter's laptop from hell; more than 150 Treasury Department Suspicious Activity Reports; sworn statements by eyewitness whistleblowers; numerous recorded communications; and bank records showing nearly $20 million in payments directed to Biden family members and associates from countries including Ukraine, China, Russia, Kazakhstan and Mexico.

Joe’s repeated claims of ignorance regarding knowledge about Hunter’s dubious deals defies all charitable defenses.

Front and center, the impeachment inquiry will certainly look into then-Vice President Biden's public braggadocio about threatening to withhold $1 billion in authorized Ukraine aid unless they fired the prosecutor of Burisma, a corrupt energy company that was paying son Hunter a hefty salary as a no-show board member.

As revealed in a FD-1023 form, Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky told a trustworthy FBI confidential human source that he was "pushed to pay" $5 million each to Joe and Hunter Biden.

Zlochevsky reportedly recorded 15 voice conversations with Hunter and two with Joe as an “insurance policy,” money he allegedly said would be paid through a complex network of transfers that would require 10 years for U.S. authorities to unwind.

Then there’s that July 30, 2017, WhatsApp message shakedown of Henry Zhao, a Chinese executive with CEFC, another questionable energy company with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Hunter threatened: "I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled."

Records revealed to the House Ways and Means Committee show that the following month Hunter's Owasco P.C. firm received nearly $5 million in a series of CEFC payments.

Questions also remain regarding what services were rendered to CEFC warranting a 10% purported cut for the "big guy," aka Joe Biden, as famously revealed by Hunter's former partner Tony Bobulinski.

More than a million dollars in CEFC payments were reportedly distributed to Biden family members out of $3 million CEFC wired to Rob Walker, a Biden family associate, fewer than two months after Joe left office as vice president in 2017.

Bank records reveal that on Sept. 3, 2017, Joe personally received a $40,000 “loan repayment” check from an account of his brother James and sister-in-law Sara Biden out of $150,000 Hunter had wired to the couple on Aug. 28 from a CEFC-affiliated firm.

Meanwhile, as Democrats insist that there’s really no evidence of wrongdoing to see here — Donald Trump is obviously cashing in on dirty laundry of a different kind … requiring international visitors to pay costs for those clean sheets and towels his international hotels provide.