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Victor Davis Hanson: The Biden Clan's Con Is Coming To An End
American Greatness ^ | 08/25/2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/25/2023 8:48:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden—and ultimately Joe Biden himself.

As Vice President, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.

So what is the Congress to do now—un-impeach and exonerate an innocent impeached Donald Trump, and instead impeach a guilty Biden for essentially the same allegations?

After all, the Left redefined the impeachment bar in 2019 as leveraging foreign aid to Ukraine to benefit one’s political career.

And that is exactly what Joe Biden did to ensure his son could continue to raise millions for the Biden family with foreign governments, while being shielded from political consequences.

An impeached Trump also was accused of using the power of government to go after his likely 2020 presidential rival by suggesting that Joe Biden and his family were corrupt, and should be investigated by Ukrainian officials for fraud and bribery.

Despite Joe Biden’s denials, Trump was right: there was plenty of evidence to link Ukrainian unwarranted payoffs going into Biden family coffers.

So Trump in 2019 had good reasons to ensure that none of the Bidens were still burrowed deeply into the Ukrainian payoff machine.

In contrast, Joe Biden had far less grounds to unleash the full powers of government against his probable 2024 rival ex-president Trump.

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith is not charging Trump with bribery of the Biden sort. He does not allege that Trump gave special foreign policy preferences for those foreigners who paid his family for such services.

Instead, Smith argues that Trump unlawfully took out classified presidential papers—although Joe Biden did nearly the same.

Biden kept quiet about his vast removal of classified documents for over a decade. Not until Trump was being investigated did Biden suddenly notify the government of his illegal removals.

In contrast, a combative and boisterous Trump fought openly and constantly with federal archivists over which of his papers at his Mar-a-Lago estate were truly classified.

Prosecutorial leaks floated all sorts of unproven nefarious agendas that had prompted Trump’s disputes over his presidential papers.

But no one to this day has seriously asked why senator and then Vice President Biden secretly and weirdly removed and kept such sensitive material for years.

Recent reports allege that Hunter Biden may have been treated with kid gloves by prosecutors, partly because Hunter’s lawyers had threatened otherwise to call Joe Biden to the stand as a favorable witness.

Government prosecutors under pressure from the White House apparently balked at the nightmare of a befuddled president of the United States testifying under oath about the supposed innocence of the very guilty Hunter Biden.

In truth, the former drug addict Hunter has played lots of such strange games with his own family.

In his laptop communications, Hunter whined that no one in the family appreciated his hard work at family grifting.

He sounded petulant that his father forced him to fork over half his income to the Joe and Jill Biden household.

At time of universal scrutiny of Hunter, the last thing any sane first son might do would be to hawk his own childish paintings at exorbitant prices to those wishing to buy influence with his father the president.

In effect, Hunter was almost daring the White House to stop his blatant grifting artistry.

Instead, the Bidens moved Hunter into the White House, apparently to keep him under closer watch.

Hunter is still out of control. He could take the family down with him unless President Biden continues to shield him from prosecution.

Ironically, the double standard used by Biden and the media to hound Trump has only raised new questions of fairness.

Why had the Biden family—with its far greater legal exposure—never faced such serial indictments?

A Republican House of Representatives had ended prior Democratic protection given the Bidens.

And the Ukraine war has again turned attention to the Biden-Burisma connection and Hunter’s shaking down of Ukrainian officials.

Finally, Joe Biden can no longer work a full day. He mutters. He stumbles. He serially lies.

He hijacks solemn occasions commemorating national tragedies by trying to one up the grieving with his own self-absorbed stories—most of them irrelevant and narcissistic half-truths.

If a cognitively and criminally challenged Biden cannot finish his term, we will finally learn the full story of 15 years of Biden family corruption.

The Bidens will lose the only impediment—Joe Biden’s political machinations—left in the way of an honest, full-blown felony investigation into what is likely the most corrupt presidential family in American history.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; bribery; congame; hunterbiden

1 posted on 08/25/2023 8:48:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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The House GOP (Kevin) are introducing a lot of delays.

Hunter hasn’t been asked one question I’m over Five years.

When they asked Joe about the Investigation, he said, “Good Luck in your Senior Year.”

All this stuff is old because the GOP has locked arms to protect the Biden Crime Family. Let’s see them do something.


2 posted on 08/25/2023 8:53:24 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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4 posted on 08/25/2023 8:59:43 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: SeekAndFind

Not likely.


5 posted on 08/25/2023 9:06:21 AM PDT by facedown (uite)
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To: SeekAndFind

Obama will soon orchestrate the removal of Kamala Harris and install Biden’s replacement.


7 posted on 08/25/2023 10:01:15 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: G Larry

Hillary... ? or his Husband Michael Obama?


8 posted on 08/25/2023 10:02:22 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (utilize leverage at every opportunity.)
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To: MIA_eccl1212
Susan Rice.

Michael is too comfortable in her luxury.

Hillary is too Hillary...

9 posted on 08/25/2023 10:04:31 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Crackpipe Dome Scandal.

-PJ

10 posted on 08/25/2023 10:14:10 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: G Larry

Good guess but probably not enough name recognition to actually win in a primary challenge from Newscombe and RFK...

I like how you think though...
I will be surprised if we make it TO an election... my guess is that China and Iran will move aggressively in an effort to drive us out of our (more or less) safe, typical and legitimate playing election schema.

I expect things to go kinetic before the election.
As a bare minimum Auntie Fahhh will riot in all blue cities and states to avert attention from their operations to steal the election.

I think they might go kinetic to try and retain power via chaos.


11 posted on 08/25/2023 10:14:12 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (utilize leverage at every opportunity.)
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To: AnthonySoprano

GOP is part of that family.


12 posted on 08/25/2023 10:14:50 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (utilize leverage at every opportunity.)
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To: SeekAndFind

At the time of the first impeachment in 2019, nobody expected Biden to be the 2020 nominee. He was doing very poorly in the polls.


13 posted on 08/25/2023 10:27:06 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: MIA_eccl1212
My larger fear is that "kinetic" could easily mean nuclear war.

Either through miscalculations in Ukraine or Taiwan.

Also, remember Susan Rice name recognition is unimportant when the Dems have all of their vote fraud machinery in place.....And established consequence for denying election results.

14 posted on 08/25/2023 10:30:57 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: G Larry

I would anticipate that fear you have... as being a likelihood over 60 percent likely.


15 posted on 08/25/2023 10:54:06 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (utilize leverage at every opportunity.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nah, it ain’t over.

Biden is like a critter taken over by a crypt keeper wasp larvae. They need him for now.

Biden still serves a purpose, gives the evil doers cover and keeps their hands clean.


16 posted on 08/25/2023 11:08:25 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: SeekAndFind
Yeah, right.

Still waiting for the Clintons to be arrested.

17 posted on 08/25/2023 11:27:29 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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Wouldn’t be surprised if the Rat machinery assists in a Biden impeachment.


18 posted on 08/25/2023 11:27:41 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Verginius Rufus

two words set off the alarm bells

burisma
crowdstrike


19 posted on 08/25/2023 11:52:22 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: AnthonySoprano

Sounds like the Biden boss and capo are ripe for Leavenworth lavender boy club.


20 posted on 08/25/2023 2:22:05 PM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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