The Federalist:
Hunter Biden has recently garnered much national media attention in recent weeks related to several scandals causing problems for the 2020 presidential campaign of former vice president Joe Biden, his father. Most recently, that includes him apparently taking a bribe from a Chinese businessman.
The story is detailed in a long, comprehensive article from The New Yorker laying out Hunter’s myriad poor life choices as his father runs for president. At one point in the article, when discussing Hunter’s divorce proceedings, author Adam Entous wrote of “a large diamond” that Hunter acquired from the Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming as the foreign businessman attempted to connect with prominent American political figures.
According to The New Yorker, the diamond was received from Ye in Miami after President Barack Obama was out of office. The Bidens, however, still wielded considerable political power as Joe contemplated a run for the White House and Hunter sat on the board of the World Food Program USA.
Entous wrote that Hunter gifted Ye a bottle of Scotch worth thousands of dollars one evening and offered to use his political leverage in the United States to promote business opportunities in liquefied natural gas for Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy. Hunter also reportedly sought a generous donation from Ye to the World Food Program.
Later that night, Hunter received a 2.8-carat diamond sent from Ye to his hotel room, The New Yorker reported. The diamond’s estimate, according to a court motion from Hunter’s former wife, Kathleen, is worth $80,000, but The New Yorker reports that Hunter has stated it is worth around $10,000.
Hunter is the poster child for political corruption and son of a Tourettes-addled, grinning imbecile with the mental agility of a small soap dish!
Can you imagine what would happen if the Left was able to find anything anywhere near this in one of Trump’s children’s past dealings with any foreign nation or national?
it is the classical ‘shiny object’
there’s bigger, darker corruptions in this family- his getting the billion plus dollars from the chainese, and then his father, acting as US VP, had the top prosecutor for the ukraine fired, to prevent him from investigating his son, his drug taking, his lying, and his philandering. These things were kept hidden during grandpa joe’s tenure as VP, making him suseptable to blackmail, which I’m sure was used.
yeah- a diamond, and after his father is out of office.
They want to downplay and dismiss this and hope it takes everything else with it.
I’m sorry, was that the New Yorker? GTFO!
Sounds like they’re going for someone more radical as the nominee.
Sorry Joe, No honer among scum.
Bet he had to do a lot more than a Lewinsky for that rock.
Hunter Biden reeks so bad that even the “New Yaaker” couldn’t ignore the stench. Of course, they wouldn’t be running with this story if it was about the wastrel son of one of their more favored candidates. Is this article is a backhanded endorsement for Kalamity Harris?
It could be that even after all the gaffes, the attacks from the hard left, position switching and all around boobery the stake through the heart of Biden’s campaign will be thrown by his son.
Biden is a dead man walking. Harris is the nominee.
Imagine if the New Yorker had devoted a fraction of this energy towards investigating Obozo back in 2008. It might have spared us 8 years of tyranny.
@Lazlo….
Mooch for their lose.
ED357, In the days of ‘post judging one not by the color of their skin’ it has to be one of the fantastic four: Mooch, Fauxcahauntus, Abrams or Harris, and one of the other three or an emasculated boy like Buttjudge as VP
Apparently, Hunter doesn’t hunt with a gun but with a graft collecting sponge!
There’s a preemptive media push to offer image rehabilitation despite him never rehabilitating from anything.
He’s undercome a seemingly surmountable lack of obstacles to be a complete and utter fucking scumbag. Ongoing drug addict, adulterer, child abandoning conduit for a corruptocracy.
But noble in the effort and he’s kind of sensitive about it so back off ye of glass houses.