{"id":516183,"date":"2022-11-26T02:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/probing-biden-family-corruption-is-gops-duty-to-democracy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T02:26:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T23:26:31","slug":"probing-biden-family-corruption-is-gops-duty-to-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/probing-biden-family-corruption-is-gops-duty-to-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Probing Biden family corruption is GOP&#8217;s duty to democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbed95e4a4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bbed95e4a4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/probing-biden-family-corruption-is-gops-duty-to-democracy\/#%E2%80%9CProbing_Biden_family_corruption_is_GOPs_duty_to_democracy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Probing Biden family corruption is GOP&#8217;s duty to democracy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CProbing_Biden_family_corruption_is_GOPs_duty_to_democracy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Probing Biden family corruption is GOP&#8217;s duty to democracy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>As a tactical concern, the House GOP\u2019s decision to open an investigation into Biden family corruption is questionable. It promises limited political return. It would serve Republicans, and the country, far better if the House focused on a hyper-politicized Justice Department that targets the political opposition, labels concerned parents \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d and ignores violence aimed at pregnancy centers, for starters.<\/p>\n<p>None of that, however, means there isn\u2019t sufficient circumstantial evidence suggesting President Joe Biden not only lied about knowing his son was favor-trading on the family name with corrupt autocracies but that he was a beneficiary of those business dealings. Indeed, precedent says we Republicans have a duty to \u201cdemocracy\u201d to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Greg Sargent over at The Washington Post warns: \u201cIf Republicans can obliterate the distinction between congressional investigations done in good faith and ones that weaponize the process in bad faith, they win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You see, only Democrats can launch investigations in \u201cgood faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pathological partisanship can lead to cosmic shamelessness. And you almost have to admire the chutzpah. These are the very same people who spent years championing one of the most unethical investigations in American history.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-1.jpg?w=770\" alt=\"Republicans have a duty to investigate Hunter Biden's business deals and President Biden's potential involvement.\" class=\"wp-image-24791877\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1540 1540w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1154 1155w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=770 770w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=385 385w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-44-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><figcaption>Republicans have a duty to investigate Hunter Biden\u2019s business deals and President Biden\u2019s potential involvement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We now know that Russia \u201ccollusion\u201d hysteria was predicated on partisan opposition research and disinformation meant to delegitimize the 2016 election. There was a grand total of zero indictments related to 2016 election \u201ccollusion.\u201d So rickety was the evidence that guardians of our sacred norms never even tried to impeach former President Donald Trump over this alleged sedition.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll spare you the slew of blown one-source anonymous \u201cscoops\u201d spread by major <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> organizations in concert with the FBI and Democratic Party. Sargent highlighted them all.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s remember, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, virtually the entire left-wing media complex regurgitated the risible claims of former intelligence officials \u2014 including known liars James Cl<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>er and John Brennan \u2014 that the entire kerfuffle was just Russian \u201cdisinformation.\u201d Sargent dismissed the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> as a \u201cfake scandal\u201d and worked to discredit the story.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"909\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-41.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The media and intelligence community initially called The Post's reporting into Hunter Biden's laptop &quot;disinformation.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-24791878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-41.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The media and intelligence community initially called The Post\u2019s reporting into Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop \u201cdisinformation.\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Hunter story always had far more journalistic substantiation than the histrionic and fallacious Russia-collusion investigations that Sargent and his paper peddled for five years.<\/p>\n<p>Post reporters had interviewed the owner of the Delaware computer shop where Hunter had abandoned his computer. They had Hunter\u2019s signature on a receipt. They had on-the-record sources with intimate knowledge of his interactions. They had Tony Bobulinski, one of two former business partners of Hunter Biden who contend that \u201cthe big guy\u201d was Joe.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s certainly possible that the computer shop owner and Bobulinski \u2014 a Navy veteran and former chief <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> officer at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command who made campaign contributions to progressives like Ro Khanna \u2014 were part of an elaborate fascistic cabal spreading \u201cdisinformation.\u201d But now, Congress can put them under oath.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/tony-bobulinski-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski claimed President Biden was &quot;the big guy&quot; who was supposed to get a cut in a deal.\" class=\"wp-image-24791876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/tony-bobulinski-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/tony-bobulinski-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/tony-bobulinski-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Hunter Biden\u2019s former business partner Tony Bobulinski claimed President Biden was \u201cthe big guy\u201d who was supposed to get a cut in a deal.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Tom Brenner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Later, emails implicating the president as a participant in Hunter\u2019s schemes were authenticated by forensic specialists. Yet virtually the entire censorious journalistic establishment, with the help of tech giants, limited the story\u2019s exposure to help their preferred candidate win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracy,\u201d indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the issue of the president claiming he knew nothing about Hunter\u2019s leveraging of the family name for influence-peddling and never personally \u201cprofited off\u201d any of his son\u2019s schemes. What did the president think Hunter was doing when he hitched a ride to secure deals with the Chicoms on Air Force Two in 2013? Does Joe not remember that two Obama administration officials raised concerns about Hunter\u2019s relationship with the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/burisma-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Emails from Hunter Biden's laptop show that Hunter facilitated a meeting between a Burisma executive and his father.\" class=\"wp-image-24791981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/burisma-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/burisma-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/burisma-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Emails from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop show that Hunter facilitated a meeting between a Burisma executive and his father.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Pavlo Gonchar\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When finally asked about his son, Biden claimed the \u201cvast majority of the intelligence people have come out and said there\u2019s no basis at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His buddies lied \u2014 just like they had during the Russia collusion hysteria. This week, only two years late, CBS News again confirmed that the Hunter Biden emails were all genuine \u2014 just like everyone knew they were. Now we have authenticated emails showing an executive from Burisma thanking Hunter for facilitating a meeting with Joe. <\/p>\n<p>If Joe were a Republican, Adam Schiff would not only have opened an investigation but would have claimed to be in possession of irrefutable proof that the 2020 election had been bought by the Chinese. Sargent would be churning out one hyperbolic piece after the next. We would all be watching another thermonuclear meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, nearly every congressional investigation in history is to one extent or another undertaken in \u201cbad faith,\u201d and that\u2019s fine. One of the most beneficial roles of political parties is that they will hold the opposition accountable.<\/p>\n<p>But Sargent, and other advocates of one-party rule, only see legitimacy in their objectives, which is one of the numerous reasons their claim to be democracy\u2019s defenders is so laughable.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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