Posted on 09/01/2022 3:23:49 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
First son Hunter Biden helped to arrange a dinner at the Chinese Embassy in Washington for a client of his now-defunct investment company — by working with a top Beijing diplomatic official he met at a January 2011 luncheon hosted by his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to correspondence obtained by The Post and Fox News Digital.
Hunter and Eric Schwerin, his former business associate at Rosemont Seneca Partners, assisted Marvin Lang — the managing director of Guardian Realty in Maryland — in setting up the dinner with Deng Hongbo, the embassy’s deputy chief of mission, on April 28, 2011.
The dinner was later publicized on China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs website.
The idea for the dinner arose in emails exchanged by Schwerin, Lang and Hunter Biden in December 2010.
Lang, a major Democratic donor, contacted the then-vice president’s son to thank him for a lunch meeting and to say he was “excited” to establish a “long relationship” with Rosemont.
On Jan. 12, 2011, following an exchange of messages among the three, Hunter Biden emailed Schwerin to say: “Marvin wants to know where we are in on finding space for the dinner — Chinese embassy is his #1 choice.”
Seven days later, Schwerin contacted Lang and cc’d Hunter Biden in an email to notify him that Hunter Biden had had a lunch with the “number three official” at the Chinese Embassy and the contact would be “helpful” in setting up the dinner for Guardian Realty, which describes itself as a “fully integrated real estate investment company” on its website.
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Gee, if we only had proof, maybe the FBI/DOJ might open an investigation . . .
Wake me if anything comes of this.
And the FBI helped cover it all up so they could rip off America
Hunter: Hey, I didn’t know which of you guys liked canned La Choy and which liked frozen P.F. Chang so I had them heat up a whole lot of the slop you like over in China. As they say once it’s over the teeth and past the gums it all tastes the same down your throat.
Chinese military at Joe Biden’s Inauguration
Hd Institute Chairman at Joe Biden’s Inauguration on January 20, 2021.
Source: Dr. Al Khalafalla
PHOTO: Chinese Military-Linked HDI Chairman Attended Joe Biden’s Inauguration
By Andrew White, December 27, 2021 at 7:50am
Hd Institute Chairman at Joe Biden’s Inauguration on January 20, 2021. Source: Dr. Al Khalafalla
PHOTO: Chinese Military-Linked HDI Chairman Attended Joe Biden’s Inauguration
By Andrew White, December 27, 2021 at 7:50am
The Chinese military-linked Chairman Dr. Al Khalafalla attended the exclusive inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. National File has learned that Dr. Al Khalafalla, Chairman of the Epstein and Chinese military-linked Humpty Dumpty Institute, attended the highly exclusive inauguration of Joe Biden, as revealed in a tweet posted by Khalafalla four days after the event with the caption “New era …”
Traditionally, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies (JCCIC) would distribute 200,000 tickets for the official ceremonies at the Capitol and provide ticket bundles to members of Congress to distribute out to others. For the 59th Inaugural Ceremonies, invitations members of Congress were limited to themselves and one guest.
The excuse for such a limited attendance was partially blamed on COVID-19, as well as the January 6 riot that resulted in extremely heightened security at and around the Capitol.
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With the Biden administration being ushered in through tens of thousands of National Guard troops, officials at the time urged Americans to stay away from Washington D.C. and watch the ceremony remotely.
Pic..National Guard troops look on during the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
To substitute for the lack of hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic American voters, nearly 200,000 little American flags were placed in the National Mall instead.
As National File previously reported, members of Congress are now distancing themselves from the organization currently chaired by Khalafalla after National File had reported on the HDI’s ties to the Communist Chinese back in November.
Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis claimed to have submitted his resignation from the HDI after learning of their links to the CCP and Chinese military. “I agreed to work with your organization to educate people on religious persecutions taking place throughout the world and to be an advocate for freedom,” Bilirakis wrote in a letter the HDI. “So, you can imagine my alarm and distress when I learned about recent revelations of HDI’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party.”
“It is particularly abhorrent to me to be associated with an organization that has ties to a government widely known to actively support infanticide, engage in forced sterilization, exploit slave labor, and persecute religious minorities and political dissidents,” Bilirakis added.
The HDI is proudly partnered with the Taihe Institute, a Beijing headquartered “think tank” headed by several high-level party members and Chinese military officials. The obscure and suspicious organization claims to have “research centers” in the United States.
Members of Congress and Trump’s former Chief of Staff have distanced themselves from the Humpty Dumpty Institute – SEE WHY
One could find it particularly alarming that the Chairman of an organization so deeply involved with global elites, Chinese military officials, and CCP members, had attended the exclusive and limited inauguration of the President of the United States, given that he had previously attended a Chinese military-styled ceremony that involved him, along with other HDI and CCP members, bestowing a decorative basket of flowers before a tall statue of Mao Zedong at what appears to be the birthplace of communist Chinese dictator in the Shaoshan, Hunan Province of China.
In the video, HDI Chairman Khalafalla can be observed with Taihe Institute Chairman Binge Ping, former HDI Director and current Taihe Fellow Ruby ‘Yuyun’ Wang, HDI Director Joseph Merante, and several CCP and PLA members. The same HDI and Taihe Institute leaders have also been photographed in a closed door meeting alongside Congressional Democrat Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Hank Johnson.
Democrat members of Congress, HDI and Taihe Institute leadership during a closed door meeting. Source: HDI Director Al Khalafalla (Twitter)
To add, HDI worked with the Taihe Institute on their first annual Taihe Civilizations Forum held in August 2017. HDI leadership was present for all of Taihe Institute’s forums, except the one held in 2021. The forums appear to host discussions surrounding United Nations-style typical global elite talking points, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
In 2018 the Taihe Institute released a bizarre promotional video for their forum that year which talked questions like: “What kind of individual rights can we grant to human-like robots in the future?,” “Will artificial intelligence replace human labor?,” “Will human thought be captured in the future?,” “What does it mean to be human in the future?,” and “Can I live forever?”
Biden’s inauguration was notoriously limited in size and scope. National File is unable to confirm how the HDI Chairman was provided with a ticket to the ceremony. However, Khalafalla has frequently boasted what appears to be his tightly knit relationship with Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, the current chair of the sham January 6 Committee and House Homeland Security Committee in recent months.
Readers can learn more about Rep. Thompson and Khalafalla at National File.
XI and then VP JOE....(BFF, as long as the checks to the Biden Crime Family clear)
All these illegal Chinese deals and the selling of America started with Bill and Hillary. Remember Wen Ho Lee ?
In This Photo: Jerry Brown, Antonio Villaraigosa, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Xi Jinping Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (2nd L), California Gov. Jerry Brown (2nd R), Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) and DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg (2nd Row, R) attend the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns NBA basketball game at Staples Center on February 17, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Xi wrapped up his five-day visit to the U.S. by attending the Lakers game. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Feb. 16, 2012 - Source: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images North America)
And then again, maybe they wouldn’t. /S
Facebook, Twitter Put Restrictions on New York Post’s Disputed Hunter Biden ‘Smoking Gun’ Story
By Todd Spangler, Variety.com
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UPDATED: Facebook and Twitter took action Wednesday to limit distribution of a New York Post story citing emails purportedly revealing evidence of influence-peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter — a disputed allegation that has never been corroborated. The paper claimed the emails were supplied by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, after being copied from a laptop that had been abandoned in a computer-repair shop.
According to the Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his father, then VP in the Obama administration, to a top exec at Ukrainian energy company Burisma after Hunter joined the company’s board. The insinuation is that Hunter successfully influenced his father to pressure Ukraine government officials “into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company,” per the Post.
The Biden campaign said in a statement that, after reviewing the then-VP’s official schedules from the time, no such meeting between Biden and the Ukrainian executive ever took place. The Democratic presidential candidate’s reps reiterated assertions that Biden engaged in no wrongdoing in carrying out U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine.
The emails cited in the Post’s article have not been verified by other news organizations. Two former Biden advisers told Politico they had never heard of the Burisma exec named in the New York Post story, and one of them, Michael Carpenter, called the story “a Russian disinformation operation.”
Facebook on Wednesday identified the Post story as potential misinformation and said it was limiting distribution of the article on its platform. Andy Stone, Facebook’s policy communications director, said in a tweet that the Post story was “eligible to be fact checked by Facebook’s third-party fact checking partners” and that “In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.” Stone later tweeted that the review was “part of our standard process to reduce the spread of misinformation.”
Twitter disabled the Post’s original tweets linking to two Hunter Biden stories. In addition, Twitter on Wednesday blocked users from tweeting the Post story, with an error message saying, “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially harmful.”
According to a Twitter spokesperson, the company determined that the New York Post story violated the social media company’s hacked material policy, which bans “the use of our services to directly distribute content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in physical harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.”
Later Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted, “Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable.”
Dorsey retweeted a thread from the Twitter Safety team that tried to explain the actions taken against two Post articles. First, according to Twitter Safety, the images in the articles include “personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules.” In addition, the articles violated Twitter’s hacked material policy and “We don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.” The Twitter Safety team added that commentary on and discussion about hacked materials is OK and that its policy “only covers links to or images of hacked material themselves.”
Of course, the irony about the two social networks attempting to restrict the distribution of the Post’s Hunter Biden story is that the moves likely have drawn even more attention to it.
On Twitter, President Trump complained about the platforms’ stifling of the Post piece. “So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @NYPost. It is only the beginning for them. There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician. REPEAL SECTION 230!!!” Trump was referring to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields internet companies from legal liability for user-posted content on their services. In May, Trump issued an executive order seeking to rescind Section 230 protections for social networks if they “censor” speech.
In an editorial, the New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, lashed out at Facebook and Twitter’s decisions to curb distribution of the story.
“Censor first, ask questions later: It’s an outrageous attitude for two of the most powerful platforms in the United States to take,” the Post editorial said. “Facebook and Twitter are not media platforms. They’re propaganda machines.”
The paper also accused Stone, who joined Facebook in 2014, of “wear[ing] his own bias on his sleeve,” noting that the PR exec says in his Twitter bio that he previously worked for Democrats including former Sen. Barbara Boxer and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
In the Hunter Biden story, the Post said the emails it reported were part of “massive trove” of data on a laptop that was left at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019. The FBI seized MacBook Pro after the shop’s owner alerted the agency to it. The newspaper said it was unable to confirm the laptop actually belonged to Hunter Biden.
According to the Post, the computer shop owner had first made a copy of the data on the laptop — and later handed that over to Giuliani lawyer Robert Costello. Ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon (who has been indicted by federal prosecutors on fraud charges) informed the Post about existence of the laptop data “in late September.” On Sunday, per the Post, Giuliani provided the newspaper with a copy of the data.
Regarding Twitter’s citation of its hacked material policy in blocking tweets of the story, the Post in its editorial said, “Our story explains where the info came from, and a Senate committee now confirms it also received the files from the same source.” The Post also complained that neither Facebook or Twitter restricted the New York Times’ series of exposés on Donald Trump’s tax returns; the Times has asserted that the information “was legally obtained by reporters” but it has not revealed its sources so as to not “jeopardize” them.
A rep for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign said in a statement to Politico that the New York Post never inquired about “critical elements of the story.” Specifically, the Post “never raised that Rudy Giuliani — whose discredited conspiracy theories and alliance with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely reported — claimed to have such materials,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said.
“Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as ‘not legitimate’ and political by a GOP colleague, have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing,” Bates said.
In September, a report issued by two Senate Republican committees found no evidence that Biden engaged in wrongdoing related to his son’s business dealings. However, the report also said, “The Obama administration knew that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine,” claiming that Hunter’s business ties in Ukraine put State Department officials in an “awkward” position because of the appearance of a conflict of interest.
between shallow political whores like Hunter Biden on one side, and the CCP on the other side, the poor chump in the middle would be lucky to escape with $1 to his name.
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