Breitbart: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign sent a scathing letter to New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet for running an op-ed by author and Breitbart senior contributor Peter Schweizer, which laid out the former vice president’s pattern of corruption and calling for the federal government to investigate his dealings in both China and Ukraine.
The Biden campaign sent its letter to Baquet Wednesday, expressing outrage for printing “a baseless conspiracy theory” and calling Schweizer, author of the book Secret Empires, a “right wing polemicist.” While half of Schweizer’s op-ed in the Times addressed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s China ties, the Biden campaign did not seem to take issue with that particular coverage.
In the op-ed, Schweizer wrote:
In December 2013, Joe and Hunter Biden flew aboard Air Force Two to China; less than two weeks after the trip, Hunter’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, which he founded with two other businessmen in June 2013, finalized a deal to open a fund, BHR Partners, whose largest shareholder is the government-run Bank of China, even though he had scant background in private equity.(Representatives of the fund claim that the timing of the deal and the Bidens’ trip to China was coincidental). Thus far, the firm has invested about $2.1 billion, according to its website.
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With the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, Joe Biden became point person in Ukraine as well. That same year, Hunter Biden landed a board position with the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings. Despite having no background in energy or Ukraine, the vice president’s son was paid as much as $50,000 a month, according to financial records. (He left the board in early 2019).
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The Bidens are hardly alone. President Trump’s transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, and her husband, Senator Mitch McConnell, are being accused of having profited from their commercial ties to Beijing. In 2004, the two had a net worth of about $3.1 million, according to public disclosures. Three years later, the range was $3.1 million to $12.7 million. The next year, their net worth rocketed to $7.3 million to $33.1 million.
The Biden campaign responded to the bombshell op-ed in protest, calling the paper either “blind” or deceptively sensationalist: MORE
Also from Breitbart:
Nolte: Ukraine Fallout Turns Tough Guy Joe Biden into Big Crybaby.
Because he has no good answers for why his ne’er-do-well son Hunter was paid a sweet $50,000 a month — a month! — by a Ukrainian energy company, former-tough guy Joe Biden is going the full-crybaby to kill the story.
So, uhm, what happened to the badass who took on Corn Pop? What happened to the tough guy who was going to beat President Trump like a drum? What happened to the sunglasses and swagger?
I’ll tell you what happened…
Joe Biden got old. And I don’t mean number-wise. While Clint Eastwood is still knocking them out of the park at age 89, Joe Biden’s eye is exploding, his dentures are falling out, and now he’s ranting and raving at the refs because he’s losing the game. [link above]
Now everybody
have You heard
If Joe’s in the game
then a Stroke’s the word
Joe’s brain and dentures can’t pronounce ‘polemicist’….
I’ve got a hunch.
Cornpop gonna be humpin’ him EVERY night at the Atlanta pen! 😮 😮 😮
Typical leftist. If you can’t bullshit them, bully them, or lie enough to compel them, throw a fit.
I shudder to think about this moron having access to the Nuclear Launch Codes.
Joe, remember those good old days when you could lock a reporter in a closet for daring to intrude on your fundraiser, and the rest of the media would laugh and say the guy deserved it? Times are tough now, aren’t they?
If his son makes a sizable donation, with his hard earned money, to the Current Clinton Cause, I’m sure this will all just go away within hours of the check clearing.
Right-wing polemicist. Hmm, so now I’m a DEPLORABLE, PEASANT, RIGHT-WING POLEMICIST, FLYOVER GUY!
DPRWPFG
Like “Russian interference”
Are you saying it’s a lie? Then call it a lie. Prove it a lie. Out the filthy liars as liars (and polemicists… and Russians).
If it’s true, Americans don’t care about the politics of who proved it.
(Oh, yes, “Americans” do — but Americans don’t.)
Joe tries so hard to be a tough-guy. SCRANTON tough guy. His Corn Pop fiction didn’t go anywhere, so he dropped the Ukraine prosecutor tale on listeners, not realizing (as a lawyer) he was incriminating himself on video.
Willysgoatsgruff – I seriously doubt “polemicist” is in Joe’s active vocabulary.
Someone likely told him to use that word to make himself sound intelligent.