Having no discernible skills pays well, as does offering no good or service to your customers. If that sounds odd, let me add a caveat: If you’re a Biden.
The family of President Joe Biden has managed to rake in millions upon millions of dollars, a lot of which comes from foreign companies and governments, without registering as a foreign agent or seemingly providing literally anything in return. That’s a pretty sweet deal.
Weirdly, this “perfectly legal” activity is something none of them want to talk about. If I were having millions thrown at me for some magical reason I’d want everyone to know why, if only more rich people out there could get in on the action and throw even more money my way. If I, for example, provided some service that was worth millions to people I’ve never met, who don’t even speak the same language I do or work in an industry I know literally nothing about, I’d welcome every media inquiry as free advertising. Especially when, as a requirement to get the money, I have to do absolutely nothing.
The Biden family business model appears to be about as complex as winning the Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes, only more lucrative.
Normally, when a politician who brags about being “the poorest Member of Congress” buys an estate built by the du Pont family, it raises some questions – especially when the salary of that politician was all he had as income, and a career in politics is not guaranteed to last – it raises some questions. But Joe did that and more. He now owns several mansions in Delaware, including a more than 6,500 square foot estate in wealthy Greenville and a $2.7 million oceanfront mansion in Rehoboth Beach. This is not to mention the estimated $20,000 per month Joe paid to rent a 12,000 square foot mansion in McLean, Virginia, after leaving the vice-presidency.
He sure had access to a lot of money for a “poor public servant,” didn’t he?
That should raise a few questions, just as how his degenerate kids and brother, who couldn’t hold real jobs, managed to parlay a complete lack of skills, ability and knowledge into more money than the typical American family will see over generations from any number of disconnected overseas industries.
Attached to the Biden name, however, those questions are not asked.
Am I saying the Biden family is the most corrupt in all of politics? It sure seems that way. But they aren’t the most corrupt entity in politics – that title is reserved for the media willingly ignoring even the prospect of Biden’s corruption.
It’s one thing to suspect corruption, it’s another entirely to ignore even the possibility. That is what journalists are engaged in right now.
They’ll insist there is no evidence of corruption, pay-for-play or any type of influence peddling. It’s amazing what you can’t find when you don’t look for it, isn’t it? And that’s exactly what they’re doing – refusing to look.
The three broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, and NBC – did not bother to mention the allegation the President received $5 million from Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian oil company that paid his son a fortune. Sure, it’s just an allegation, but there was not an allegation against Donald Trump that didn’t warrant stopping all the presses and breathlessly repeating, at least until it was proven false, at which point it would be ignored. The more anonymous the sources the better!
These people, with “speak truth to power” tramp stamp tattoos and walls full of “awards” that make participation ribbons seem genuine and important, have deemed even the possibility of Biden corruption to be unworthy of inquiry.
Normally, something this juicy would be an award and fame-bait in and of itself…if these allegations were against a Republican. But there is no interest among the press pass crowd. You’d think, if they didn’t believe it, they’d work hard to disprove each and every charge of corruption, if only to make Republicans look bad. That they aren’t, that they’ve chosen to pretend the allegations don’t exist should serve as a testament to the fact that they not only smell the smoke, but at least feel the heat from the fire.
They are afraid of what they might uncover if they looked, even casually, into this web of lies. That tells you something, doesn’t it?
Washington, DC, is a small town, at least in the political world. Nothing being alleged now is new to people who’ve been around a while, they’ve heard the stories. No Biden is impressive – hell, there isn’t even a mid-level college that would hire his wife as a teacher, she got stuck with a community college – and yet, with the exception of the granddaughter Joe and the gang refuse to acknowledge (quite the family man, isn’t he?), they’re swimming in money from no good or service provided. The only thing more corrupt than that is the lack of interest in it from the people whose job it’s supposed to be to hold public officials accountable.
Next time a “journalist” frets about the lack of trust in the media, remind them that it is a self-inflicted, and well-deserved wound.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.