The timing of the latest indictment of Hunter Biden has many conservatives scratching their heads.
Why now, when, according to Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” host, Maria Bartiromo, the Department of Justice has “been sitting on this [information] for a long time”? And why, given the “web of corruption” the Republican-led House has uncovered about the Biden family business deals, wasn’t Joe Biden included in the indictment?
They are questions the left is desperately trying to dismiss as a “conspiracy theory,” but according to Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), “the timing is suspect.”
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“I’m just wondering if the timing of this indictment on Hunter Biden is partly cover-up because the DOJ had this information,” Bartiromo told Donalds. “They’ve been sitting on this for a long time, but they decided to indict Hunter Biden the weekend before was supposed to go under oath in a closed-door testimony.”
“I totally agree the timing is suspect,” Donalds replied.
“Let’s take a step back,” he explained. “His attorney, Abby Lowell, says, oh, the only reason he got indicted is because his haas name is Biden. No, Abby, the only reason it took so long is because his last name is Biden and because House Republicans uncovered this web of corruption surrounding Joe Biden that implicates Hunter and James Biden.”
“So that is the reason why it’s taken so long for this to occur,” he added.
“Well,” Bartiromo noted, “you could also argue that if his name wasn’t Biden, he wouldn’t have been able to generate all those millions of dollars that James Comer said that he did.”
As BizPac Review reported, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, made a similar argument during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday, and Tapper openly mocked him for it.
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“We think this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Comer told Tapper of the Biden family’s alleged crimes. “We think there’s many more crimes. and my concern is that [Special Counsel David] Weiss may have indicted Hunter Biden to protect him from having to be deposed in the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.”
With smug contempt, Tapper dutifully came to the defense of President Biden’s DOJ.
“Ah, yes! Yes!” he snarked, feigning an epiphany. “He indicted him to protect him. Yes! The classic rubric. He indicted him to protect him. I got it!”
In an opinion piece published Sunday in the New York Post, Miranda Devine stated, “Joe Biden was omitted from Hunter’s new indictment by design.”
“The reason the president has gone unmentioned after a five-year investigation into Hunter’s role in the family influence-peddling racket is that the DOJ, like most of the media, corruptly protected him,” she wrote.
According to Devine, “Protecting Joe Biden is a longstanding whole-of-government enterprise.”
She pointed to “IRS Special Agent Ziegler’s most recent update to Congress last week”:
One intriguing reference was to Gal Luft, the fugitive former Israel Defense Forces colonel who, like Hunter Biden and his uncle Jim Biden, was in business with the China-controlled energy company CEFC.
In May, Luft skipped bail in Cyprus while awaiting extradition to the US on gun-running charges and, ironically enough, violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act over his work with CEFC, charges that magically have avoided Hunter and Jim.
Luft remains on the lam in an undisclosed location, claiming the charges against him are a political frame up to protect the Bidens.
In any case, Ziegler last week confirmed the accuracy of the information Luft volunteered to the FBI in a March 2019 interview in Brussels about CEFC paying the Bidens in exchange for their FBI connections and use of the Biden name to promote China’s Belt and Road Initiative around the world.
“So, the FBI knew all this in March 2019,” Devine wrote. “And nine months later they would take possession of Hunter’s laptop, which further corroborated what Luft had told them.”
Devine continued:
Luft claims his main purpose for going to Brussels was to warn the FBI that they had a mole in their ranks that he considered to be a “national security concern” — but he says there was no follow-up.
This FBI mole, dubbed “One Eye” by the Chinese, had leaked classified information to Hunter from four sealed indictments in the Southern District of New York that named Hunter’s CEFC partners, Luft told prosecutors.
Hunter then tipped off CEFC. That section of Luft’s interview also has been redacted from the 302 provided to Congress by Ziegler.
Luft told the House impeachment inquiry this year that the tipoff to CEFC executives came on the same day that Hunter sent WhatsApp messages to CEFC’s Kevin Dong and Raymond Zhao in which he referred to a “highly confidential and time sensitive” matter and demanded immediate payment of millions of dollars, while claiming his father was in the room with him.
“The messages triggered a $5 million transfer from a CEFC-linked company in China to an account linked to Hunter,” according to Devine. “Bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee show that at least $40,000 of that $5 million was routed to Joe Biden’s personal account, via his brother Jim Biden, who recorded it as repayment of a ‘loan.'”
And then there’s the curious case of CEFC executive Patrick Ho:
A few hours after Hunter sent his WhatsApp messages, CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was staying in a hotel in Manhattan, received an urgent call from CEFC president Chan Chauto in Shanghai, who told him to “get out of the US and come back [to China] immediately,” according to Luft, who speaks regularly to Ho.
The next day, Ho flew to Shanghai where he was told by CEFC chairman Ye Jianming that there was a sealed warrant for his arrest in New York and he should stay out of the US until “I make the problem go away.”
At the end of August 2017, CEFC’s Kevin Dong sent Ho a draft of an attorney agreement to retain Hunter Biden as his attorney for a fee of $1 million.
According to Ho, Hunter and Jim Biden mysteriously arrived in Hong Kong six weeks later, on Nov. 1, 2017, and said they wanted to meet him.
“When Ho went to their hotel, the Grand Hyatt next door to CEFC’s offices in Wan Chai, Hunter asked him to provide them with two new iPhones. They then informed Ho that there was no warrant for his arrest in the US and he could safely return,” Devine reported. “On November 17, 2017, Ho flew into JFK airport and was promptly arrested.”
According to Luft, the morning that Ho was hooked up, Hunter was at Chairman Ye’s Central Park West penthouse, waiting for Ho and enjoying breakfast.
“Ho’s relationship with the Bidens never was mentioned in his trial and, to this day, Ho has never been questioned about the identity of the FBI mole,” Devine stated. “As with all things Biden, the incuriosity is chilling.”
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Melissa Fine is the former executive editor of Casino Player, Strictly Slots, and Poker
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1 fan. Melissa currently lives with her dog and two cats in a tiny town in the Sierra
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