Joe Biden: The Manchurian Candidate
Back when I was a Democrat and the Lewinsky scandal broke, my recollection is that the media treated it as a plot to frame Bill Clinton. Then a rumor began about a certain incriminating blue dress.
I was never a big Clinton fan – although I voted for him, twice – but I initially didn’t believe the blue dress existed. It was such a cinematic detail. And yet it turned out that indeed, Monica Lewinsky had saved that dress, and it had Bill Clinton’s DNA on it.
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
The story of Hunter and Joe Biden and the Ukrainians and the Chinese and various other business people in various other countries is all that, and more. It also includes a media coverup. And now it includes a statement by one Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter Biden, who clarifies a few things for us.
I’ve often noticed that the British papers cover our news better than our papers do – a low bar, to be sure. But the Daily Mail has Bobulinski’s complete statement, which I reproduce in its entirety here because although it’s long, it’s important to read it to get the full picture:
My name is Tony Bobulinski.
The facts set forth below are true and accurate; they are not any form of domestic or foreign disinformation. Any suggestion to the contrary is false and offensive.
I am the recipient of the email published seven days ago by the New York Post which showed a copy to Hunter Biden and Rob Walker. That email is genuine.
This afternoon I received a request from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs and the Senate Committee on Finance requesting all documents relating to my business affairs with the Biden family as well as various foreign entities and individuals. I have extensive relevant records and communications and I intend to produce those items to both Committees in the immediate future.
I am the grandson of a 37 year Army Intelligence officer, the son of a 20+ year career Naval Officer and the brother of a 28 year career Naval Flight Officer. I myself served our country for 4 years and left the Navy as LT Bobulinski. I held a high level security clearance and was an instructor and then CTO for Naval Nuclear Power Training Command. I take great pride in the time my family and I served this country. I am also not a political person. What few campaign contributions I have made in my life were to Democrats.
If the media and big tech companies had done their jobs over the past several weeks I would be irrelevant in this story. Given my long standing service and devotion to this great country, I could no longer allow my family’s name to be associated or tied to Russian disinformation or implied lies and false narratives dominating the media right now.
After leaving the military I became an institutional investor investing extensively around the world and on every continent. I have traveled to over 50 countries. I believe, hands down, we live in the greatest country in the world.
What I am outlining is fact. I know it is fact because I lived it. I am the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family. I was brought into the company to be the CEO by James Gilliar and Hunter Biden. The reference to ‘the Big Guy’ in the much publicized May 13, 2017 email is in fact a reference to Joe Biden. The other ‘JB’ referenced in that email is Jim Biden, Joe’s brother.
Hunter Biden called his dad ‘the Big Guy’ or ‘my Chairman,’ and frequently referenced asking him for his sign-off or advice on various potential deals that we were discussing. I’ve seen Vice President Biden saying he never talked to Hunter about his business. I’ve seen firsthand that that’s not true, because it wasn’t just Hunter’s business, they said they were putting the Biden family name and its legacy on the line.
I realized the Chinese were not really focused on a healthy financial ROI. They were looking at this as a political or influence investment. Once I realized that Hunter wanted to use the company as his personal piggy bank by just taking money out of it as soon as it came from the Chinese, I took steps to prevent that from happening.
The Johnson Report connected some dots in a way that shocked me — it made me realize the Bidens had gone behind my back and gotten paid millions of dollars by the Chinese, even though they told me they hadn’t and wouldn’t do that to their partners.
I would ask the Biden family to address the American people and outline the facts so I can go back to being irrelevant — and so I am not put in a position to have to answer those questions for them.
I don’t have a political ax to grind; I just saw behind the Biden curtain and I grew concerned with what I saw. The Biden family aggressively leveraged the Biden family name to make millions of dollars from foreign entities even though some were from communist controlled China.
God Bless America!!!!
[NOTE: For anyone who doesn’t get the reference in the title of my post, it’s this.]
I will pray for Tony Bobulinski’s safety.
According to the managing editor of NPR (funded, like the equally biased PBS Newshour by taxpayers), this egregious scandal is unworthy of coverage (“a waste of time”). Richard Grenell has just posted a tweet correctly labelling this as activism, and many are calling for the defunding of NPR which, like most of the MSM, can no longer even pretend to be engaging in legitimate journalism. Leftists mean to win in less than two weeks by any means fair or more likely foul, and it is obvious that their goal is the subversion of every institution in our beleaguered republic.
Obama, not Biden, is the Manchurian President.
Biden just happens to be the Manchurian Candidate du jour.
The problem with this garbage is that it distracts and redirects attention from Obama’s even bigger scandal, albeit of which Biden (and many others) were a part.
The question therefore is: how big a “firewall” will be erected between this scandal and the BIG, BIG-GUY’S Scandal.
An even bigger problem is that NOBODY (sorry, make that half the country) cares that Biden is the Manchurian Candidate.
Fractal Rabbit:
Yes.
If he ever thought he could go back to obscurity, I think he needs to forget about the idea. I’d say he might need to go into the witness protection program, but unfortunately that’s run by the FBI, which I believe has proven itself in collusion with all of this.
Re: Manchurian Candidate (film)…
Joe Biden is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life!
The corruption of the Biden Crime Family is staggering. Millions of dollars paid to the VP for official acts and point shaving. Yeah, he’s a total stooge for China.
I hope tonight that Trump gets the word out effectively and calls the Big Guy on the carpet. I also hope people get this story. The fact that it is being covered up – after 3 years of the fake Russia story – is really beyond the pale.
The Big Guy is going to the Big House. If he loses.
Biden is the new Benedict Arnold. He sold out his country.
Neo,
WitSec, the Witness Security, or Witness Protection Program is run by the US Marshals, who interestingly enough, seem to be on Trump’s side as they have been they agency rescuing the large groups of children (human trafficking victims) lately.
I’ve heard that missing and exploited children is FBI purview and it’s strange to me that the Marshals are handling it. It almost gives some credence to the more outlandish things we’ve heard about the Deep State and trafficking.
One of the biggest questions I’ve had during this bizarre campaign is why, of all people, the Democrats anointed Biden as their candidate. As Neo has pointed out, Biden was nothing more than a corrupt mediocrity in his best days and those days are long past. But now it seems clear that the reason he was chosen is because he is a fading corrupt mediocrity.
I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but it seems that the hatred directed at Trump, not only from Democrats but the GOP establishment and much of corporate America, stems from the fact that he is seen as a threat to the lucrative trade with China. I think much of the elite has made the calculation that China is replacing the US as the world’s biggest economic power and they want to be in a position to take advantage of that. If American workers are sold out in the process, so be it. Biden is already bought and paid for and will do whatever China asks to keep the gravy train rolling.
I also think this is one of the reasons they wanted to get rid of Sanders because one of the few things he had in common with Trump was the belief that trade with China was undercutting the American working class. I used to believe that trade with China would gradually lead to a political change in China but now, as many have pointed out, it seems to be working the other way around.
According to the managing editor of NPR (funded, like the equally biased PBS Newshour by taxpayers), this egregious scandal is unworthy of coverage (“a waste of time”).
Glenn Reynolds’ description of the media – ‘garbage people paid to lie for the Democratic Party’ – seems apt here.
Because he signed off with “God bless America!”, they’ll simply label him as a Trumper stooge and an unreliable source.
Story discredited. Next.
The Big Guy is going to the Big House. If he loses.
Cornhead: I grant that he should, but why do you think he will, if he loses?
The same could have been said of Hillary for her treasonous server in a bathroom closet. She lost and is still drinking Chardonnay in the lap of luxury.
Then there’s the Barr/Durham Russiagate scandal. Even if Trump wins, I doubt anything comes of that.
And forget anything, anywhere, anyhow ever touching Obama.
The MSM will cover this – with a pillow, until it stops moving. ( HT: Iowahawk)
This is big! Direct evidence that the “Big Guy” or “My Chairman” not only knew about, but was profiting from, Hunter’s business deals. Of course, this won’t matter to dedicated Progressives. Undecideds? Only if they get the story and understand it. Which is why the MSM will suppress it.
Reality always wins in the end. Unfortunately, “the end” can sometimes take a looooooooong time in coming. In this instance, the reality is the status quo that has governed U.S. and world affairs since the end of the Cold War, and in some ways since the end of WWII, is no longer working for many if not most people.
That calls for a new status quo but the establishmentarians who have greatly benefited from it have no interest in even acknowledging the need for change, let alone actually changing anything. That’s why Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee and not someone like Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, or even someone like Cory Booker or Amy Klobuchar.
But the need for change isn’t going to go away, though having a President sliding downhill toward dementia might distract the public for a while.
Mike
“I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but it seems that the hatred directed at Trump, not only from Democrats but the GOP establishment and much of corporate America, stems from the fact that he is seen as a threat to the lucrative trade with China.”
*DING DING DING* We have a winner! Tell him what he’s won, Johnny!
Mike
huxley:
As you pointed out what a parcel of rouges in a nation. Obama and the Biden clan.
Just substitute Chinese for English
“…..
What force or guile could not subdue
Through many wor-like ages
Is rocked now by the coward few
For hireling traitor’s wages
The English steel we could disdain
Secure in valour’s station
But English gold has been oor bane
Such a parcel o’ rogues in a nation
O would or I had seen the day
That treason thus would sell us
My old grey heid had lain in clay
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace
But pith and power till my last hour
I’ll mak’ this declaration
We are bought and sold for English gold
Such a parcel o’ rogues in a nation”
https://www.metrolyrics.com/parcel-o-rogues-lyrics-burns-robert.html
https://youtu.be/tTrn_wRfG0w
“I’ve often noticed that the British papers cover our news better than our papers do – a low bar, to be sure.”
I 100% agree. I tell people when I want to know what is going on in the United States I read the British papers. I find the Spectator the best with the Daily Mail next until they went full Trump Derangement Syndrome about 2 months ago. The Guardian was good until Trump got elected. So the NYT and Post are best used to start charcoal fires and line the bottom of birdcages.
Barry is correct that Obama was the true Manchurian candidate. He has done great harm to the country and still is. We can thank our lucky stars that as president he was very indolent thus doesn’t drive matters like Trump does. The Affordable Care Act was driven by Pelosi, Stoyer and Reid. He just went out on the stump and read the teleprompter.
But he politicized and weaponized the Federal government against his foes with scandals we all know about. Hillary was set up to monetize it. But all their plans were foiled when Trump won. The irony all of it is that a 2016 Biden would have beaten Trump like a drum. He would have kept Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. More than likely he would have taken North Carolina too.
All this happened because a supine, compliant media would not hold Obama to account. If they had really exposed his administration with the fast and furious scandal he may not have tried his other stunts.
So for Tony, after this election he will sink back into obscurity as the press will move on to the next shiny thing. For all those who saw the Pixar film “Up” the media is like the pack of dogs when someone shouts “squirrel”. I actually think it was a smart move to dump everything now so he can go back to living his life. A few will remember but not many and if he lives in the flyover country then it will be okay. Only hard core totalitarians hold a grudge.
It’s not just the Bidens (of course).
The scandal is far bigger than that (of course). Scandals are generally always going to be bigger, but the “rule of thumb” (Nixon’s Law”? “Biden’s Law”?) postulates that the more successful the cover-up, the bigger the scandal.
This particular cover-up, along with Hillary Clinton’s trashy attempts and Obamagate have been successfully covered up for ages (even when they’ve been “uncovered”, they’ve been covered up (e.g., not reported, dismissed, lied about, denied, ignored, etc.)
Remember: it’s not a scandal as long as it’s not being reported (as long as it’s being “smothered by a pillow”—see above)
The following (H/T/ Powerline blog) demonstrates why the Biden Scandal has been covered up until now and why it will have to—NECESSARILY—continue to be covered up. (Hint: other “heavy hitters” are involved. Lots of ’em.)
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/the-biden-influence-empire-is-unraveling.php
But never fear: the usual suspects are going to find some excellent distractions, as well, as they remind us just how much of America is left to burn….
“I hope tonight that Trump gets the word out effectively and calls the Big Guy on the carpet.”
I may watch just to see if they cut off his mic if he mentions the laptop and emails. Would not be surprised in the least if that happens.
Neo,
Ask yourself if your highstrung tire squealing friend, even if knowing about this, and even if believing it to be true in substance and implications, would care. Would she care about the danger of electing a disloyal and compromised executive, or just consider any harm to be the acceptable price of the war against the deplorables?
(Given the fact that so many progressives are at open and fundamental ideological odds with the idea of diffused power constitutional government itself, why would we who do not know her, expect that she/they would?)
By the way, can you restate the exact context of your conversational encounter? Have you had direct contact with her or indirect feedback through others since? Any apology for the behavior, for example?
And what do you as a family therapist with at least some practical knowledge of psychology and character, make of her as a psychologically mature, stable, and moral, being? Do you judge her as generally trustworthy in all other respects?
Of course you mentioned that this [anonymous] person has always been highly emotional and ardently left. Would you say that that sums up any character analysis you might be able to offer and that you decline to interpret or speculate further?
I have never seen anything like what you described, except with that semi-intoxicated social worker semi-cousin I mentioned. And no, I would not describe him as fundamentally stable or reliable at a deep level, though superficially he appears to be.
Reading all the comments before my post they all are spot on. But to answer Harper’s question “why Biden” it was due to a miscalculation on the Democratic National Committee. They thought that it would be Harris (who is an Obama surrogate) but she is just so unlikeable and phony she couldn’t take off and Gabbard just took her record apart. Then they thought it would be Bloomberg but Warren did the same as Gabbard did. Looking at the remaining field it was littered with people that could win in NYC, Portland, Austin and Chicago but no where else. Sanders was going to win and they were looking down the barrel of down ballot wipeout of historic proportions like the Labour just suffered in England. So they manipulated the field to allow Biden to win on Super Tuesday. They bought off Sanders (who never is interested in really getting anything done) and then put Kamala in place to take over after Joe wins.
But they never anticipated that all the monetizing and corruption would come out before the election and now they are stuck. The establishment will fight tooth and nail but barring fraud Trump will win.
Barry Meislin:
There is after all “a lot of ruin in a nation.” How much is a lot?
“A Lot of Ruin in a Nation” American Spectator 10/6/2016
https://spectator.org/a-lot-of-ruin-in-a-nation/
Nothing to see, move along. Russia! Russia!
“Hunter Biden Cashed In to Fuel His Drug and Sex Habits
– Ordinary Joe has an extraordinarily dirty son.”
American Spectator 10/17/2019
https://spectator.org/hunter-biden-cashed-in-to-fuel-his-drug-and-sex-habits/
Trump’s policy regarding the China “angle” (see above comments) has indeed generated no little anxiety amongst some (many?) of those for whom China is the goose (duck?) that has laid—and keeps laying (and was intended to keep on laying)—those glorious golden eggs.
One excellent example: Michael Bloomberg’s interest in getting out the Florida vote. Who else but Trump could have inspired Michael Bloomberg—yes, he of Big Gulp fame—to become so civically-minded?
https://nypost.com/2020/09/22/bloomberg-pays-fines-for-32k-florida-felons-so-they-can-vote/
A quote from the great Anti-Gulper himself (in the article above):
“The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy and no American should be denied that right. Working together with the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, we are determined to end disenfranchisement and the discrimination that has always driven it.”!!!!!!! [emphasis added]
What he neglected to say, of course, was “for the right candidate” (which should be inserted right after “The right to vote”); on the other hand, he probably knew that that was perfectly understood.
Ah, China. There’s an extraordinary analysis by David Goldman (Spengler), made even more so by his appreciation and respect of that country; but who knows? He’s just pricking at the surface (despite the article’s long length) of a very big and complex subject, and in spite of his expertise he’s also essentially looking from the outside in:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/david-goldman-china-empire
H/T Powerline blog
Well the parcel of rouges just got larger:
‘The list, included Harris, D-Calif.; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; former Virginia Gov. Terry McCauliffe, among others.’
October 22, 2020
Email Sent by Joe Biden’s Brother Names Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Other Top Democrats as “Key Domestic Contacts” for Lobbying for Chinese Energy Firm
ace.mu.nu
Re: the blue dress, when Clinton denied it I believed him, because he is a lawyer and I expected that, if it were true, he would not flatly lie the way he did, but he would carefully word something that sounded like denial but wasn’t.
And indeed there were legal consequences for that lie later.
In retrospect naive of me I guess. A close friend of mine said at the time, what we were all thinking:
“90% of the country assumes he did it and forgave him already”. (Trump has something similar going on.)
And there was that too, why did he even lie? He never lost any support over it when it came out. Why not just admit it and let the media explain it away like everything else? Why was that incident the time he chose to publicly lie?
I’d (once again) recommend scrolling down Lee Smith’s twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC
E.g.:
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1319305653123506179
One might prefer to think they’re rouged rogues…but that couldn’t be right simply because NOTHING shames them. NOTHING embarrasses them. NOTHING makes them blush (which could be an evolutionary trait since otherwise they’d be blushing most all of the time).
Oh, they might apologize on occasion; but one might be forgiven if the feeling was that such apologies, few and far between as they are, flow ONLY from political considerations.
Indeed, they are a party WITHOUT an OODA Loop.
(On the other hand, who needs an OODA Loop when you have the Mainstream Corrupt Media at your back and in your sails?)
“Why…publicly lie?”
Quite obviously, to protect US.
(He’s such a great guy, a caring guy, that’s what they all say…. even if Tara Reade doesn’t seem to agree)
Just now saw it reported that Trump is having Tony Bobulinsky as his guest at the debate tonight. Leave it to Trump… let the MSM try to ignore it now. I may have to watch after all.
To add to the conspiracy theory: isn’t it interesting Obama suddenly came out of hibernation right as the Biden Briefcase story was exploding? Could it be he realized these ‘troubles’ might get too close to him?
Unfortunately, whoever in the FBI covered this up may have accomplished the mission. With early voting, and mail in voting, it may be too late to have an effect. We keep saying that “someone must pay”, although we know it is unlikely.
The corruption of the political class is sickening. Their arrogance is infuriating. They just assume that the Chumps will either remain ignorant, or else acquiesce.
No need to discuss the media, those foul creatures, who ignore the evidence even after it becomes nearly indisputable, if that will benefit their chosen ones.
DNW:
I have never seen anything like what you described,
The current social contagion in my universe is a spate of FB contacts posting “All the Trump voters should just unfriend me RIGHT NOW!!!”
Maybe it’s just me, but every time I read one of those I can hear in my head the trembling, sputtering hysterical fury.
Of course, none of those people actually know more than a handful of people who might vote R (and I’m not telling), so mostly it’s just virtue signaling and a look-at-me ploy. I’m not going to unfriend them, but I’ll certainly take them less seriously than before,.
Oldflyer:
We are not the Chumps. We are the Oppressed.
I just hope and pray Trump will not lose his temper or be hyperverbose tonight, his las opportunity to inform Chumps. He must make the anti-Biden case clearly and succinctly, like a good lawyer would..
Didn’t you know Barr was stringing us along all those months about the Durham report being released “in the Fall”? And Durham has been doing the same. If Biden wins, all of Durham’s supposedly forthcoming indictments will be non-prosecuted by the DOJ.
Related – Getting ready for Election 2020:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/worst-yet-come-retailers-fortify-stores-election-chaos-nears
@huxley:
Re: Manchurian Candidate (film)…
Joe Biden is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life!
_______
I thought that was Hillary Clinton.
Eeyore:
You say po-tay-to
I say po-tah-to…
Well say what you will, but Joe is now closer to a vegetative state, although they said Hillary was often pickled in 2016.
“I thought…”
Only when she’s in Sarajevo.
It was all that incoming fire, a combat zone almost, probably, uh, ….. “At this point what difference does it make.”
–“Manchurian Candidate” (1962) clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWgnt50g4k
Gregory Harper,
Re: “One of the biggest questions I’ve had during this bizarre campaign is why, of all people, the Democrats anointed Biden as their candidate.”
Add to ‘I am Sparticus’ explanation om’s comment @ 3:53.
I suspect that lineup of corrupt snakes may have been the other deciding factor.
Geoffrey, Gregory — because they could. And because better alternatives with the positive “Obama” halo effect Biden has were absent, and because the stock of Dem leadership talent is slim, as the primaries showed us.
DNW:
You asked about my squealing tire friend —
Actually, although she is indeed very emotional and intense, she has a very stable life: long-term marriage, children and grandchildren she loves and gets along with and who seem to reciprocate. Good sense of humor, really a very pleasant person all around, at least in my experience. She does fly off the handle quite easily around politics, though.
And strangely enough, to my intense surprise, this morning I got a message of apology from her (that’s something like a month after the fact). I absolutely did not expect that at all. What seems to have sparked it was that some fact I had stated about the Floyd case, which she had accused me of lying about, was substantiated by something she read recently in the NY Times, of all places!
The Manchurian Candidate?
I wonder how Senator “Wetstart” McCain would have been positioning during this
controversial “turning point”.
DailyMail brits have this stiff upper lip when it comes to checking the facts. Comes from spying on royals and princesses, most likely. High competition there.
Trump is a good showman. It’s partially why I upgraded him from Trum and added his p back in.
“What seems to have sparked it was that some fact I had stated about the Floyd case, which she had accused me of lying about, was substantiated by something she read recently in the NY Times, of all places!”
One of the biggest unacknowledged issues in today’s politics is that a great many Democrats/liberals are mindless followers of whatever they read in the mainstream media. Conservatives can have their own media bubble, of course, but there’s actually a decent amount of intellectual and political diversity between Fox News, talk radio, the blogosphere, and now the social media and podcast folks. And it’s virtually impossible to consume conservative media without getting at least SOME exposure to what the other side is saying.
But the mainstream media is operationally and ideologically monolithic and goes out of its way to avoid covering certain stories beneficial to the Right. It produces people like your friend who think they’re well-informed but are actually quite ignorant about many things, which is a fragile mental and emotional condition.
Mike
Neo:
It speaks well of your character and that your friend seems to value your friendship above politics. Patience and grace may overcome indoctrination.
Kudos to Neo’s friend for being open-minded enough to actually listen to something contrary to her prior beliefs, but Mike is onto something here:
“(the MSM monolith) produces people like your friend who think they’re well-informed but are actually quite ignorant about many things, which is a fragile mental and emotional condition.” – MBunge
Case in point (although there are certainly others):
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2020/10/23/online-liberals-once-again-show-their-ignorance-on-the-issue-of-immigration-after-trumps-coyote-comment-n2578675
Ben Rhodes was wrong on many (well, all) policies, and something of an ethically challenged person, but he was spot on correct about many journalists when he derided them as young and ignorant enough to imbibe whatever Snake Oil Obama chose to sell them.
https://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/why-a-liberal-journalist-brought-the-house-down-on-obama-fabulist-ben-rhodes/
As for the old and experienced, well, they are just being duplicitous.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/10/22/trump-turns-the-tables-on-60-minutes/