An email Hunter Biden received in April 2015 from a Burisma executive discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden, which lies at the heart of a New York Post investigation, is unquestionably authentic, a cybersecurity expert told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Thursday.
The DCNF obtained a full copy of Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop from former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday. The DCNF provided Robert Graham, the founder of the cybersecurity firm Errata Security, with a copy of the email and its metadata for forensic analysis.
Graham, who has been cited as a cybersecurity expert in The Washington Post, the Associated Press, Wired, Engadget and other news and technology outlets, told the DCNF that he used a cryptographic signature found in the email’s metadata to validate that Vadym Pozharsky, an advisor to Burisma’s board of directors, emailed Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015.
In the email, Pozharsky thanked Hunter Biden for “inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.”
During the Obama years, I often would try to figure out what Obama (or a high-up in his administration) could possibly do to make the MSM turn on him. But I never could figure out what it would be, because they seemed all in, and willing to make excuses for any and all behavior.
But at least the MSM really did love Obama and think him a fabulous, intelligent, suave guy – one of them – who would implement the policies of which they approved and who also would make them feel very good about themselves for supporting him.
None of this is true of Biden. All that Biden offers is the continuation of the dominance by the left that began with the Obama years, many of the same people put in power, an open ruthlessness that was somewhat more hidden during Obama’s time, and the end of Trump.
Once you look at that list, though, you realize that it’s more than enough to make the press willing to debase themselves to an even greater degree than before. And this time they’ll do it for a deeply corrupt, cognitively challenged, and not especially intelligent old man of whom they’re probably ashamed.
A Justice Department official confirmed to journalist James Rosen of Sinclair Broadcasting Group that in 2019 the FBI “opened up a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden and his associates that is focused on allegations of money laundering and remains open and active today.”…
Bobulinski told Rosen he was interviewed by the FBI on October 23, 2020, for about five hours, with up to six agents present at one time. He made three cell phones available to the agents, who “carefully examined the digital evidence” contained on the phones.
So the FBI interview of Bobulinski was only recently, after Bobulinski had gone public with his role in the Hunter and Joe Biden story.
And I hope the interview was not merely for the purpose of Flynning Bobulinski at some future date, if you know what I mean. Because I would not put it past them.
So, what was the FBI doing with the laptop in the meantime? Perhaps Toobining themselves?
Whatever they were doing, they kept mighty mum about it, as President Trump was impeached by the Deomocrats for daring to suggest that the Ukrainians look into the Biden corruption allegations, and Joe Biden became the Democratic presidential nominee.
Perhaps the laptop was being saved as an insurance policy for Kamala.
You may have noticed more sarcasm than usual in this post. But so many events have transpired lately that have elicited in me a very bitter and cynical (and perhaps not all that funny) humor.
A number of people wondered if the video I featured yesterday of Joe Biden bloopers from a speech he made recently in Pennsylvania was authentic or whether it had been doctored to make him sound worse. I became curious, and decided to check, a process which is simple but time-consuming.
It also required me to listen to Biden’s entire speech in its official version. I’ve never listened to a speech by Biden that is that long – a little over twenty minutes. That may not be long for a typical political speech, but it’s certainly long for Biden these days.
The speech was easy to find in its official full-length form on Biden’s own YouTube account (here it is, although I’ll also post the full video later in this post), and the errors and slurrings Biden made are all too real. You can find some at minutes 18:20 to 18:38, 20:55 to 21:01, 25:44 to 25:50, 27:07 to 27:11, 31:23 to 31:28, 31:41 to 31:50, 34:07 to 34:10, 34:28 to 34:32, and 34:44 to 34:49. I think that some of those I’ve listed aren’t even included in the compilation video from yesterday.
But what’s worse is the content of the speech itself. Lie after lie after lie (doom-laden stuff about COVID and Trump, Trump called the military “losers”, Biden won’t ban fracking although he said many times that he would, Trump hasn’t delivered on any of his promises), and simplistic and formulaic solutions delivered in a shouting monotone for the most part. For someone who bills himself as the nice guy in the race, this speech has a surprisingly harsh animus.
First, though, I want to highlight two segments that weren’t on yesterday’s blooper video because they’re not bloopers. But I think they’re extremely revealing about what makes Joe run and what has always made him run.
Here’s the first:
And here’s another:
In front of many phrases, he also has a repetitive vocal tic that’s new to me: “Look!” And it’s not the only repetitive phrase he uses. The whole speech has a robotic air, as though he’s memorized some time-worn phrases that he is reciting with what feels like the correct and appropriate affect but is somehow off.
It’s really rather frightening to watch the whole thing, more so than watching the short excerpts. As one person in the chat there said, “Sounds like a senile angry old man.”
Here’s the speech in its entirety. As I said, you can find some bloopers at minutes 18:20 to 18:38, 20:55 to 21:01, 25:44 to 25:50, 27:07 to 27:11, 31:23 to 31:28, 31:41 to 31:50, 34:07 to 34:10, 34:28 to 34:32, and 34:44 to 34:49:
Can this be what America wants? I guess we’ll find out – I was going to say “soon enough,” but of course there may be quite a delay post-Election Day. But I cannot imagine that a single person watching Joe Biden actually thinks he’s a competent person who can accomplish any part of what he says he can. The votes for Biden are votes against Trump and/or for the leftist agenda, period.
[NOTE: By the way, in that first clip Biden says “I’d only be the second guy in this century, in the last century, that in fact didn’t go to an ivy league school.” That’s rather nonsensical; it’s unclear which century he’s talking about. If he’s talking about the 21st Century, there have only been a total of three presidents so far. So he would only be the second of the three; big deal. But he’s not even right about that. George W. Bush went to Yale, an ivy league school. Obama had two years at Occidental, not ivy league, and then finished up at Columbia which is ivy league. So, would Obama be the one predecessor in the 21st Century who didn’t go to an ivy league school? Does half and half count? And what about Trump? Two years at Fordham, not ivy league, and then finishing up two years at the University of Pennsylvania which is ivy league. Just like Obama. So Biden would either be the first who didn’t go to an ivy league school (who didn’t graduate from one, anyway) or he would be the third out of four, depending on how he defines it.
But even that is being too kind to Biden, because what does “in this century, in the last century” mean? Those are two different centuries – 21st and 20th. So, if Biden’s talking about the 20th Century too, a whole slew of 20th Century presidents didn’t go to ivy league schools. George H. W Bush did (Yale). But Bill Clinton went to non-ivy Georgetown (although he later went to Yale Law School). Reagan did not (Eureka College), Carter did not (he went to the Naval Academy), Gerald Ford did not (U. of Michigan), Nixon did not (Whittier College), LBJ did not (Southwest Texas State Teacher’s College), JFK did (Harvard), Eisenhower did not (West Point), and Truman was the last president who did not graduate from college at all. FDR was ivy league (Harvard), Hoover went to non-ivy Stanford, Coolidge came close to ivy with Amherst but no cigar, Harding went to Ohio Central College, Wilson was an ivy graduate from Princeton, Taft was another Yalie, and Teddy Roosevelt had gone to Harvard. So there you have it.]
Of course, this is not new. After all, the media protected Obama for eight years, and has targeted Trump for over four.
But still, what’s going on regarding the Hunter Biden story seems in some difficult-to-define way to be worse. Maybe it’s that Joe is so obviously incompetent, corrupt, and mendacious, and that if the left wins this election they have plans to achieve one-party rule, and that the MSM not only seems fine with it but seems to be actively promoting it in a way that cannot be denied because it’s right out in the open for all to see. Maybe it’s the cooperation of the powerful social media forces in the coverup, as well as agencies many of us used to trust (for the most part, anyway, and perhaps wrongly) such as the FBI. Maybe it’s the enormity of the media blackout and the loneliness of Fox and especially Tucker Carlson.
Or maybe it’s the fact that at least half of Americans don’t seem to care, or actively promote this news blackout because they think it will help quash the nefarious Trump.
I also wonder just how much pressure is being brought to bear on the MSM (not that they need much pressure to be leftist toadies) by what they see as the incoming Biden/Harris administration (perhaps this much). If the left wins, they will wield unprecedented power: the executive, the agencies, perhaps Congress, the Court if the stacking plans go through, the media, social media, entertainment, sports, academia, many religious groups, corporations. Have I forgotten anyone?
Added [former assistant FBI director] Swecker, who also served as a federal prosecutor: “It’s strange how in this election there is no curiosity whatsoever about foreign influence on a potential president of the United States, especially from this country’s greatest threat — China.”
Nope, not so strange. Easy to understand.
(3) Glenn Greenwald resigns because Hunter Biden stories are being censored by the media site he founded:
Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.
The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.
The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.
Please read the whole thing. Greewald is not a Trump fan, but he does believe in attempting to get at the truth regarding candidates of either party. Big pressure is being brought to bear to stop that.
And the pressure’s not just on Greenwald, of course. It’s almost certainly everywhere.
(4) This story isn’t specifically relevant to the Hunter&Joe Biden story, but it’s relevant to the media lies and propaganda machine against Trump: “anonymous” really was a nobody, but the Times peddled him as a bigshot insider anyway, because it had huge anti-Trump propaganda value.
The French Catholic Church responded to the attack saying that “Christians must not become symbols to be slaughtered.”
The attack took place amid an atmosphere of growing hatred and incitement against France in the Muslim world. Demonstrators in Muslim countries have been staging angry protests over the recent clampdown on Islamist organizations by French authorities following a teacher’s beheading. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused French President Emmanuel Macron of “Islamophobia” for comments following the beheading in Paris. Erdogan was joined in condemnation by Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, and other Muslim leaders.
So, if Islamist terrorists murder random people, and the government cracks down on the organizations that foster that sort of thing, that’s a phobia? Hardly. But the terrorist world and the countries that support it have found it very effective to cry “Phobia!! Bigotry!!” and thus to play on Westerners’ kindness, tolerance, and feelings of guilt.
I will add that the French Catholic Church can say that Catholics “must not” become symbols to be slaughtered, but what is the Church prepared to do about it? I doubt the terrorists are taking orders from the Church.
Way back in March of 2020 it was already clear that the Democrats saw the COVID crisis as a wonderful opportunity to ruin Trump’s election chances. I’ve written about that already in this post.
At first, I think the fear of COVID was very real, and the hype was a reflection of that fear. But many months ago the actual statistics were far more reassuring and remain so. However, you wouldn’t know that if you read the MSM or listen to the Democrats, who are still riding the “Trump killed 200,000 people!!” horse for all it’s worth, just a few days before the election.
The continuation of COVID doom talk long past the time when it seemed appropriate had three main purposes for the Democrats. The first was to continue to demonize Trump and thus to hurt him politically. I consider that mission to have been accomplished – and if the talk from my Democrat friends is any evidence, it has been. For them Trump is to blame and almost solely to blame, and he’s not only killing people but the stupid freedom-loving folks who refuse to wear masks are killing people too, and shame on them all. When I have tried to make a few points to counter some of these ideas, I am met with disbelief and even sometimes fury.
The second purpose of COVID – and I believe it’s one that the left also discovered some time last spring – was to change the voting rules to facilitate fraud under the guise of protecting people from COVID. In this case, mission accomplished as well.
The third was to have an excuse for controlling people. And that control and isolation and disruption has, in turn, made many people more unstable and more angry at Trump or at life in general, reactions that also benefit the Democrats. I think the emotional effects of lockdowns may not have been fully foreseen by the Democrats, but at a certain point they perceived that it was happening and they realized it would help them politically and needed to be continued.
Prior to COVID, Trump’s re-election seemed nearly assured, despite the 4-year negative drumbeat of the MSM. But COVID and then continuing COVID propaganda changed all that. I make no predictions about next Tuesday (and beyond, because the election may remain in doubt long after next Tuesday). But I do know that the Democrats got a great windfall with COVID, and they have mounted a vicious and cynical campaign to keep the fear and blame going nonstop at least until Tuesday, when they hope to reap major benefits.
This time the supposed provocation was the police killing of a 27-year-old black man named Walter Wallace, who was apparently armed with a knife and coming towards the police, The family says they had called for an ambulance because he was having mental health problems. The police say they got a call “about a man screaming and saying that he was armed with a knife.” The family may have wanted an ambulance, but in a situation so unsafe, ambulance workers are not going to be the first ones to interact with the person. Then:
In video filmed by a bystander and posted on social media, officers yell for Wallace to drop a knife. In the video, Wallace’s mother and at least one man follow Wallace, trying to get him to listen to officers, as he briskly walks across the street and between cars.
Wallace advanced toward the officers, who then fired several times, said police spokesperson Officer Tanya Little. Wallace’s mother screams and throws something at an officer after her son is shot and falls to the ground.
A terrible and tragic situation. And now Philadelphia is falling prey to looters who are using this incident opportunistically.
Walter Wallace, the mentally ill Philadelphia man whose death sparked riots in cities across the US, had a long history of violent run-ins with the law — and was a newlywed about to have his ninth child, according to reports.
Wallace’s family members, including his father, who witnessed the shooting, are “never going to be the same again,” Fitzhugh said. “They actually sat and watched their son literally get murdered,” he told NBC.
Certainly not “murdered” if a person is wielding a knife. More:
Police had been called to his home dozens of times in recent months, including twice Monday before they returned a third time when he was shot, sources told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Since May, police had received 31 calls about the address — including reports of someone with a weapon as well as assaults, sources told the paper.
Why wasn’t this guy in custody already? Possibly in some mental health facility?
Wallace had also been in and out of court for nearly a decade, with convictions for crimes including resisting arrest and robbery, the paper said.
He had been arrested in March after he allegedly threatened his child’s mother over the phone, saying, “I’ll shoot you and that house up,” NBC said.
In 2019, he was charged with resisting arrest by “kicking the windows and door panels of a police patrol car.”
In 2016, during a robbery, he allegedly grabbed a woman by the neck and held what she believed to be a gun to her head, NBC said, citing court records. He was sentenced to 11 to 23 months behind bars, WPVI said.
His mother had a protective order against him in 2013 which he allegedly violated when he “threw water in her face and punched her in the face” and “threatened to return and shoot” her, the reports said, again citing court records.
That same year, he pleaded guilty to assault and resisting arrest after punching a police officer in the face, WPVI said. That same year, a judge also ordered a psychiatric evaluation along with mental health treatment, the reports said.
The aspiring rapper’s music also heavily featured guns and rhymes about shooting people, including police, the station noted.
That’s quite a history. And quite different from what the earlier article I quoted – which is from NBC Philadelphia and very lengthy and detailed – would lead us to believe. That NBC article mentions none of Wallace’s violent history, and a reader would tend to think that the fatal incident was sparked by some isolated breakdown in an otherwise peaceful but troubled person.
But actually Wallace had a lengthy rap sheet and a long and repeated history of violence against family as well as other criminal activity. I wouldn’t doubt that he may also have been mentally ill, but whatever previous evaluation and treatment he got in 2013 don’t seem to have done any good, which is no surprise.
This case follows the same pattern as so many others that have been used as propaganda by BLM. What are police supposed to do in such situations, work magic? They can’t fix the complex problems being exhibited here. They can only defend themselves and others, if threatened – and if BLM has its way, even that avenue will be closed.
If Biden and the left win next Tuesday, as the polls predict, there won’t be any need for a civil war on the part of the left. But here’s what’s planned if there’s a Trump victory (which is automatically defined as “stealing the election”):
ShutDown D.C. anticipates that 10,000 protesters from a motley assortment of affinity groups will converge at Black Lives Matter Plaza to engage in “civil resistance” if President Trump tries to “steal the election.” A “Flying Bike Squad” is “coming together as a rapid response team,” according to organizers. If it’s anything like the skateboard squads and soup can squads who’ve used everyday items as weapons to beat Trump supporters, look for more blood to spill in the name of “peaceful protest.” Mass disruptions are planned at train stations and airports, on highways and in residential neighborhoods for at least the first full week after Election Day.
“We’ll keep it going until Trump concedes,” ShutDown D.C. threatens in its outline of a “No More Business As Usual” blockade across the country. “We could be in the streets throughout the fall and into the winter — maybe as lots of rolling waves of action or possibly as a few major tsunamis! In other parts of the country, as vote counts conclude, our focus will turn from protecting the vote counts to themselves being ungovernable.”
Here’s what has me especially concerned: The “deep state” Trump-haters are openly gearing up to do everything they can from inside the federal government to assist the resistance. ShutDown D.C. is conducting online training this week with public employees in the nation’s capital to undermine election integrity and the day-to-day work of the Trump administration. A protest guide lists the following subversive federal worker groups as key partners: Takoma Park Mobilization, Alt National Park Service, Alt Ed, AltFDA, Alternative NOAA, Alt U.S. Forest Service, AltEPA and BadHombreLands National Park Service.
What to make of this? As I already stated, they don’t seem to be planning much of anything if Biden wins – which is very telling, actually. And I don’t doubt that if Trump manages to pull out a win, this sort of disruption is what they intend. I’m not the least bit naive about the goals of this crew, which is to tear down the entire structure of the US and replace it with some leftist/anarchist/racialist chaos and horror. They have already done plenty of damage.
But I also wonder if they are exaggerating about the number of demonstrators and insider government forces they have who will actually go through with this. I also wonder what the plans of the Trump administration are, because they certainly must have them. The leftists feel they’re in a win/win situation, anyway, because if Trump were to clamp down hard and demonstrators were to get hurt, that would be used to scream “tyrant” at Trump.
A real tyrant, of course, would simply fire on the demonstrators and/or imprison them all and throw away the key. I doubt that sort of thing will ever happen, and the demonstrators probably would agree. They count on the consequences for their actions being relatively mild.
We also know that Trump-hating government employees have already done a lot to harm Trump, and should assume that they would have no hesitation to continue the practice, since virtually no one has been punished. Note this article published in Vanity Fair in February of 2017, twelve days after Trump’s inauguration:
One Justice Department employee told the Post, “You’re going to see the bureaucrats using time to their advantage,” and added that “people here will resist and push back against orders they find unconscionable,” by whistle-blowing, leaking to the press, and lodging internal complaints. Others are staying in contact with officials appointed by President Obama to learn more about how they can undermine Trump’s agenda and attending workshops on how to effectively engage in civil disobedience, the Post reports.
That Vanity Fair article is entitled “An Anti-Trump Resistance Movement is Growing Within the U.S. Government.” Another excerpt, to give you the flavor of it:
When asked how the opposition emerging at this stage compares to past administrations, Tom Malinowski, who served as Obama’s assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, sarcastically told the Post, “Is it unusual?… There’s nothing unusual about the entire national security bureaucracy of the United States feeling like their commander in chief is a threat to U.S. national security. That happens all the time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry about.”
Again, remember the date, and understand that Trump had done virtually nothing at that point. And yet people – one of them in this case being a former Obama administration official going on the record – had no hesitation saying that “the entire national security bureaucracy of the United States” feels that Trump is “a threat to U.S. national security.” He doesn’t feel he needs to illustrate why they might feel this; apparently, it’s self-evident why the entire national security bureaucracy feels threatened (and of course it’s ironic that, as time has gone on, Trump has greatly increased our security rather than the opposite).
So, was it their jobs that were actually threatened? Specifically, were they afraid of a shake-up by General Flynn?
I contend that the latter was a big motive for their fear. Flynn had been sworn in as National Security Advisor on January 22. He has been described many times as intending to streamline and improve the security bureaus, and was also very much hated by the Obama administration that had fired him. The bureaus went to work on Flynn, and we know the rest – forced to resign by February 13, twelve days after the Vanity Fair piece was published. And for the next four years these bureaucracies have been dedicated to the attempt to destroy Trump.
So why wouldn’t it all continue in escalated form for a second term, if Trump gets one? And avoiding this is actually one of the suggestions that has been explicit in the Biden campaign, the basic message being: vote for our team and get rid of Trump and all the turmoil will stop.
I wonder how many people voting for Biden realize the revolutionary leftist nature of the Democratic Party at this point. I know quite a few people who are only focused on hating Trump, and voting for the Democrats they think they know – who are not the Democrats of today.
But understand they’re not just talking about packing the Supreme Court, they’re talking about packing the whole federal judiciary, that’s why Biden is saying the “court system.”
From Jonathan Turley, one of the few honest Democrats (or at this point, perhaps ex-Democrat – or maybe he was always a libertarian):
What this commission [proposed by Joe Biden] seems designed to do is to give a form of enablement to Vice President Biden and the Democrats. But what is also worrisome is that when you look at what they’re saying, they’re saying if Judge Barrett is confirmed … that will give them license to tear apart one of the most important institutions in the country. It’s like kids saying, “Step over this [line] and if you do, I have a right to fight you.”
Actually, no. It’s not like kids; that’s trivializing it, although I don’t think Turley meant to minimize it. It’s not childish, though. It’s tyrannical. And ACB doesn’t matter; it’s not about her or about approving her. It’s about anything the right will do that gives them any power at this point. The left has decided that the right cannot have even temporary power anymore.
No, it’s not childish. The proper analogy is to Hugo Chavez of Venezuela – and I recently wrote about why that is so.
Bickford’s was a New England chain that’s mainly defunct now, but the pancake was the only thing I ever used to eat there. It’s one of those puffy things, and is great for brunch or just about anything else. Very easy to make, too, although I let the final “broil” setting go a little too long and it got a tiny bit burnt.
But still very yummy. I should have taken a photo, but I didn’t even think of it till now.
